Mihalis Giannatos

Elias of the 16th Precinct follows three friends – Elias, Thomas and Vangelis – who face considerable financial hurdles with their debts rivalling the size of Everest. They decide the only solution is to snatch money from Vangelis’ boss, Labros ; a cafeteria owner, pawnbroker and fence. While Thomas will attempt the breaking and entering, Elias will be disguised as a police officer – for security reasons, of course. Hilarity ensues as this comedy of errors sends their plan spiralling off in a totally different direction.

An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.

O governo israelense envia uma missão secreta de retaliação para matar onze pessoas ao redor do mundo depois que terroristas palestinos assassinam onze atletas israelenses nas Olimpíadas de Munique em 1972.

A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.

Two Greek refugees fall in love, but their relationship is devastated by dictatorship and war.

Fanis (Markos Osse) é um garoto grego que vive em Istambul, na Turquia. Seu avô, Vassilis (Tassos Bandis), é um filósofo culinário que o ensina que tanto a comida quanto a vida precisam de um pouco de sal para ganhar sabor. Ao crescer Fanis (Georges Corraface) se torna um astrofísico, que usa seus dotes de culinária para temperar as vidas das pessoas que o cercam. Ao completar 35 anos ele decide deixar Atenas e retornar a Istambul, para reencontrar seu avô e também seu primeiro amor.

A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.

The classic comedy, Alekos Sakellarios, Christos Giannakopoulos, "Ilias the 16th", which was performed in the summer of 2002 at the theater "Minoa" entitled "Markos ... Elias of the 16th". During a robbery, the little sculptor Elias makes the tsiliador disguised as a policeman. But then he is forced, once in a while, to investigate a robbery himself ...

Makis , a man with difficulties in the stock market, falls for Roula , who is the mistress of a big tycoon , which Makis has invested in. Makis becomes witness to an assassination gone wrong. The police are after him thinking he is the shooter but the real assassin is after Makis to recruit him to his terrorist beliefs. The only comfort Makis can find is Roula who follows him on his deadly adventure.

A Christian boy and a Muslim girl fall in a forbidden love in the town of Komotini. They decide to escape together, but the Turkish consul has another opinion.

A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.

Essa adaptação do romance de Louis de Bernier ambienta-se em uma ilha grega durante a Segunda Guerra. Quando a Grécia é invadida, soldados italianos chegam à pequena e tranqüila Ilha de Cefalônia. Um destes invasores é o capitão Antonio Corelli (Nicholas Cage), que no início não quer saber muito dos moradores. Os moradores, por sua vez, também não vão com a cara dos soldados. Mas ele acaba se hospedando na casa do médico da vila e, aos poucos, torna-se amigo de Pelagia (Penélope Cruz), a filha do dono da casa. Quando o namorado dela vai lutar no continente, a atração entre Pelagia e Antonio cresce. Agora, envolvido com os moradores da ilha, Antonio questiona suas razões de estar na guerra. E com Mussolini se rendendo aos Aliados, a guerra toma novo rumo e ameaça o romance entre os dois.

A man sees a poster of an old movie that he claims to have acted in

Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), um famoso escritor se prepara para deixar a casa que sempre viveu. Ao arrumar seus pertences, encontra uma carta de sua mulher, Ana (Isabelle Renauld), sobre um dia de verão há 30 anos. Assim, ele começa estranha viagem, onde o passado e o presente se misturam. Enquanto reavalia a sua vida, Alexandre passa por uma nova experiência, ao ajudar um garoto albanês a cruzar a fronteira.

On 29 January 1993 eighty prisoners escaped from an Athens prison. Well, in actual fact one convict escaped, a guy named Vassilis, for his beloved in Amalliada, but in his hurry he forgot the prison door open and little by little another seventy-nine got out... The film follows the eleven who made it down to the Peloponnese... with them an old musician who has a map he bought from a Greek in America for $2500 with the lost treasure of General Hursit Pasha.

Um cineasta grego, exilado nos Estados Unidos, retorna à sua cidade natal para uma emocionante jornada. Da Albânia à Macedônia, de Bucareste a Constança (Romênia), do Danúbio a Belgrado e, finalmente, a Sarajevo. No caminho, ele encontra sua própria história, o passado dos Bálcãs, as mulheres que ele pode amar. Ele espera recuperar com essas imagens esquecidas a inocência do primeiro olhar...

This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".

An extreme passion that overturns the balance and changes the life course of a woman. Anna is a successful journalist with impeccable image and perfectly organized life. However, it has reached a borderline where nothing fills it anymore. One night, during a reportage, he will accidentally encounter a strange, mysterious and dangerous stranger, who goes through transit from Greece. Between them a relationship will be exciting, but also nightmarish ...

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.

An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.

Road movie sobre duas crianças em busca de seu pai que é suposto estar a a viver na Alemanha. A obsessão deles por esta figura do pai vai levá-los para as fronteiras entre a infância ea adolescência.

Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to take up the occupation of his ancestors as a beekeeper. Over the course of his road trip he visits the sites and friends of his childhood, hoping to gather the pollen of his past, but instead meets and becomes obsessed with a young hitchhiker who represents the empty hedonism of the present.

Neste drama orientado para adolescentes, uma jovem é forçada a frequentar uma escola elegante de acabamento no Mediterrâneo. Ela explora sua raiva rebelando-se contra o cruel e doente diretor. Quando ela descobre que ele estava secretamente fotografando-os nus e lucrando com as fotos, ela reúne as outras garotas e se vinga.

Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.

Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored in the port of Chania in protecting Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Rosa Bonaparte, accompanied by twelve girls off at a deserted beach with all the equipment of a Marseille brothel. Installed in a wing of a huge, ruined former Town Hall, where the officers of the allied fleet meet and entertain in the evenings surrounded by undercover agents, military connectors, and speculators : an East-West mosaic of languages, costumes and intrigue ...

Um estranho, encontrado por uma mulher e seu filho na praia, revela-se um ser de outra dimensão.

Um velho comunista retorna à Grécia depois de 32 anos na União Soviética. No entanto, as coisas não correm bem como ele estava à espera.

Remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos."

Stathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music. They are three crazy siblings. One of them, Stathis, doesn't seem capable to keep a job and when he loses his girlfriend, his mother decides to give him what he loves the most, a motorcycle!

Três presos de uma prisão escapam e apreendem o museu arqueológico de uma cidade da província pouco antes de sua inauguração oficial, ameaçando destruir as estátuas se suas demandas não forem atendidas. O museu está cercado pela polícia e um fim violento parece inevitável. Somente o curador do museu compartilha a angústia dos condenados em fuga (e também está naturalmente preocupado com o destino das estátuas). As pessoas da cidade, no entanto, são completamente alheias e indiferentes aos eventos que ocorrem.

A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to deal with them.

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.

Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.

Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the guys and jobber of Piraeus, and the strict surveillance of the police, who closed the once in prison. He will try to sell the alleged Byzantine icons that makes a fellow prisoner, but will be arrested. It will be released as there were images of value, and will be informed that the mother of the same (Mary Metaxa) alerted the police to remove him from the unlawful activity.

Seven short stories of everyday madness starring Thanasis Vengos.

Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.

Billy Hayes (Brad Davis), um estudante americano, ao visitar a Turquia decide traficar alguns pacotes de haxixe, prendendo-os debaixo de suas roupas. Seu plano acaba não dando certo e ele é preso, com sua vida se transformando em um pesadelo a partir de então, pois é brutalmente espancado e jogado em uma imunda prisão. Quando espera ser libertado é levado a um novo julgamento com efeito retroativo, que o condena a uma longa pena.

Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.

The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One, the Metaxas regime is depicted as a circus, where Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is a clown trying to conceal a young colleague’s subversive action. In Part Two, we see Thanasis suffer because of his honesty and kindness, in a country where the system’s irrationality is clearly evident.

A Naive man from the countryside, affected by the famous Italian cine star Lado Bouzanka and his ladiesman ways, travels to Athens in order to act in a similar way with women, after having sold all his land and ready to spend a lot. He stays with his cousin, a crazy deluded artist and his sexy models. His many attempts with every single girl he meets, are being interrupted by several incidents.

The adventures of a photographer, who undertook to take a photographs of exiled dictator from South America and eventually found chased without knowing why.

Thanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time and the clocks have become obsessed after running nonstop in an effort to nourish their relatives. The 'philosopher' brother dies and leaves another four mouths under his protection. The day is divided between the shop, his sister and his niece to marry, and his beloved, who works in a supermarket, while the economic situation and their obligations do not allow them to marry.

In this color comedy Thanasis trying for years to leave illegally for America to make his life because due to financial can not pay fares, but always something was wrong and left behind. His friend, Nikiforos, advises him to stay in Greece, to work and to look to find the namesake of Thanasis, who helps around the world.

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.

Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises herself as a boy named Pipis. As such, she meets a poor fisherman, Lefteris, and helps him on his way to Ioannina.