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Niki is a resistance fighter living in a nightmarish dictatorship in Athens, 1972, and Lefteris is her son, who will be forced sooner or later to cut the thread that binds them together.
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End of an Era
In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.
Human Watch
Odysseas Akribos is a watchmaker and wants his life to roll like clock. However, the death of his partner and his children's comrades, Angelos and Katia, will deconstructed him. He will try to put his old life in order starting with his co-operative, Electra.
If I Were Rich
Michalis and Filippos work in a garage and dream of the good life. One day, they decide to take the car of a businessman, Aristeidis, who is away in Paris for a few days. At a night club, they bump into Mitsi, Mr. Aristeidis’ daughter, and Michalis pretends to be the rich businessman. The girl, although she suspects the truth right away, likes them and invites them over to her house.
Imagining Argentina
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
Lieutenant Natassa
The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian war, she met Orestis . With the German invasion, Orestis, who was an officer in the Greek army, left for the Middle East. She followed him and accompanied him back to occupied Greece on a mission. She was arrested, interrogated and tortured and was finally sentenced to execution.
Maiden's Cheek
A young lean teacher is hired as a philologist at a private girls' school and is confronted with the spoiled girls. A beautiful schoolgirl, Liza Papastavrou, is constantly harassing the newcomer and he undertakes to comply with it. Lisa tries to avenge the professor with a few mischief..
The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Ilias dresses himself in a police uniform as part of a complex burglary plot. Unfortunately for him, the impostor officer is called to assist in the investigation of a real crime. The other officers involved in this case treat him as a colleague, and he is forced to play along in hopes that his cover is not blown.
Social Decay
A poor university student, Ntinos Vristhenis, has abandoned his studies due to financial difficulties and is searching for a job. He is hired as an actor in a troupe, where he meets and falls in love with the leading actress. When she yields to a businessman who promises her a bright future, Nikos, feeling disappointed, leaves the theater. Poverty forces him to join the proletariat and become a tobacco worker in order to make ends meet.
The Mediterranean In Flames
A volunteer from a World War II-era Greek resistance group agrees to seduce a German officer in order to gain secrets
Grave of the Vampire
A vampire awakens from a long sleep to attack a couple making love in a graveyard. He then rapes the woman, who later gives birth to his son. The newborn infant will only drink blood from his mother's breast.
A Rich Without Money
A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money .
Hands Up, Hitler
Two friends (Thanasis Vengos and Vasilis Diamantopoulos) meet after many years and recollect the tragi-comic events they went through during the German occupation.
Lysistrata
Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.
Thanasis, Take Your Gun
A wretch jobber tries to find the money to build the house promised to groom, to repay the truck he drives and help a poor girl, who has been eviction, find somewhere to stay.
What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.
Ο Άνθρωπος που Έσπαγε Πλάκα
Lambros Konstantaras performs a wealthy gossip that has never worked, and all he has to do is make fun and jokes to others. But when he suddenly finds himself in the street, he realizes that life is not just fun and is forced to look for a job. In the end, it turns out he had not lost his fortune as it was an idea his father had invented shortly before he died to be
The Last Note
The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
Yes, But...
A young man pushed beyond his endurance remembers his life on the roof of a tall building. He's there to commit suicide.
A Woman in the Resistance
1940. Anna stay alone, her husband her brother her father leave for the war with the Italians. The attack of the Germans will give a hard blow to her family. She will continue to fight, approaching the German commander of the area.
Youth of Athens
A rich widower impregnates a poor young woman and dumps her. Her brother, member of a resistance group during the Occupation, tries to mend things up.
Erotic Symphony
The Peace and Betty are twins and look like as two drops of water but their characters are completely different. Betty is open and jovial man while peace is closed off and timid. Their music professor Roda visitors to their island home and proposes to the Peace who are virtuoso piano to follow a series of concerts in Paris. Initially HESITATES but when Betty will announce that he will marry with Petro, with which peace is also in love, will change their minds and accept the proposal of Roda.
Bedlam My Love
An old couple reviews their lives together, from the first time they met and got married since the present, through good and bad moments...
Marriage Adventures
Helena (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) returns to Greece after studying in Paris and on the ship home she meets Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos). An attraction develops between them and after a while Dinos asks for her hand in marriage. Helena though cannot accept his proposal because she is pregnant.
Niki is a resistance fighter living in a nightmarish dictatorship in Athens, 1972, and Lefteris is her son, who will be forced sooner or later to cut the thread that binds them together.
Thread
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Thread Starring Sofia Kokkali, Vangelis Loukissas, Daphné Patakia, Giorgos Karpathakis, and more. If you liked Thread then you may also like: Καλώς Ήλθε το Δολλάριο, End of an Era, Εθελοντής στον Έρωτα, Human Watch, If I Were Rich and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
Καλώς Ήλθε το Δολλάριο
Philip (Giorgos Constantinou), a shy and dignified accountant and English teacher, lives with his mother (Zoli Garbi) and his two siblings in the same house. His and his mother's meager income, just enough to support them all. His younger brother (Alekos Tzanetakos) remains unemployed and lazy rather out of conscience, while his older brother, Kimon (Orpheus Zachos), dreams of being re-elected prefect and refuses, although a qualified accountant, to work, considering the positions demeaning and irrelevant offered to him. His tragic financial situation will be further burdened by their imminent forced move to another house. It is also the first color Greek film, edited entirely in Greece. It is based on the play "The 6th American Fleet" by Alek Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos, who also wrote the screenplay, while Sakellarios directed the film.