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Plot Summary:
Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend Lefterakis Tsampardis, Theo will welcome him with surprise and terror.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
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Caveman (2023)
Plot Summary:
Robert Müller has wanted to be a comedian since he was a kid, but he's only made it as a car salesman so far. This is about to change when he takes part in an open-mic show. He puts the program together with his imaginary friend, the stone-age Caveman. Then his girlfriend Claudia breaks up with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
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The Bait (1964)
Plot Summary:
Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
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Throbs at the Desk (1963)
Plot Summary:
Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the honeymoon she begins to yearn school and her classmates and she returns to it without saying anything to her husband. Soon, her husband begins to suspect her because of her frequent absences from home and her secret meetings with the professor seem to confirm his suspicions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min
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Marriage... Greek Style (1964)
Plot Summary:
Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how hard marriage is.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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The Wise Guy (1962)
Plot Summary:
Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Teddy Boy My Love (1965)
Plot Summary:
Two young lovers are discovering that the widowed parents keep hidden bond and plan to marry soon Life, salesman dream and consumer goods of our civilization, will enter the life Asimaki, a benevolent and middle-aged widower chromatopoli, having neglected himself caring about life and rehabilitation of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min
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Balkanisateur (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Greece, Bulgaria, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Eftyhos... trellathika! (1961)
Plot Summary:
Charilaos Maraziotis (Nikos Stavridis) is a shopkeeper who owes the whole market and is in danger of going to jail, both because of his creditors and because of IKA and the tax administration. Iro is his secretary and fiancee, because she is poor, decides to make a rich marriage with an arrangement. The mid-person is Antigone, who wants to get Charilaos to marry her half-sister, Ismene, who is in love with her peer-to-peer Thanos. Iro and Ismene, who have learned about Charilaos' plans, conspire to prevent unwanted developments. Charilaos is forced to portray the madman and closes himself in a freak. His lenders, once informed that they are crazy, change their attitude towards them, they are promised and relieved of their debts, thus escaping the prison and marrying Iro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mad
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct (2008)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
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Let the Women Wait! (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three guys related from marrying three sisters (Batzanakides) meet in Northern Greece at Lake Volvi. The two of them (Panos and Michalis) have as have as destination the Thasos Island whilst the third guy (Antonis) comes to see what is happening with other two falling behind. Panos was struck with the view of a beautiful accompanied girl during the route. Antonis will fall in love too (with the one of the two nurses of Panos) Two old ladies (Sultana and Arhontoula) sitting nearby will act as DJ using a CD player offering very good popular music that suits to the evolution of the movie. Antonis will go to Porto Carras Hotel at Halkidiki with the two nurses for casino playing and will use the number that fails for Panos and Michalis. The movie turns into a study on how men perceive marriage and the impact economics have on their life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: non fiction, hilarious, road movie
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Gefsi apo... Ellada! (1980)
Plot Summary:
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 138 min
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Woe to young people (1961)
Plot Summary:
Two rich old friends, Andreas and Agisilaos are in love with young Rita. Andreas believes that youth and not money drive the word. He sells his soul to the devil, becomes young and flirts Rita. However, in the end it is Agisilaos that wins, as both the girl and her mother, chose him because he is rich. The film ends as Andreas wakes up to discover that he is old and nothing from what he dreamed has happened. He understands that youth alone is not enough and decides to give a dowry to lovely Rita so that she can marry the one she loves.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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My Daughter, the Socialist (1966)
Plot Summary:
Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
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Viva Rena (1967)
Plot Summary:
Rena and her brother Stratakis trying to establish themselves as singers in Athens without fail successfully, unlike their cousin, Pepita NTU peaks that has become famous singer in Italy. A efolplistis, Lambros Fokas, who had met the Pepita few years ago, pays as much as to sing at a party that is preparing. The Pepita refuses the invitation, and then the agent of the owner proposes Rena after the looks amazing.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 82 min
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Lysistrata (1972)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Poisonous Women (1993)
Plot Summary:
It is a story of a normal, everyday Greek family that each member turns out to be wacko or gets wacko by the other members. The father is the stoic figure that accepts everything. The mother has a middle age crisis and takes advantage of her husbands inability. The older brother is a doctor of psychology and has everything under control (or believe so) and the younger brother does nothing with his life acclaiming that he is a filmmaker.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: hilarious, neurotic, sex comedy
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O roz gatos (1985)
Plot Summary:
Panos and Archimedes (Panos Michalopoulos and Sotiris Moustakas) are colleagues (teachers) and roommates. The first is a new modern, and the second is more conservative. Panos will attempt to dynamically put Archimedes in life. The second will develop a dual personality. The day is reserved professor, and the night reveler and flirtatious. When his sister would abducted, Archimedes will enter the clinic in order to overcome the problem.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The King of Gaffes (1962)
Plot Summary:
A very clever detective is on a mission to find a shipowner's daughter, having as a sole research element a mole on the girl's buttock.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: detective
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Apollo Goes on Holiday (1968)
Plot Summary:
Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
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And the Wife Shall Revere Her Husband (1965)
Plot Summary:
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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My Best Friend (2001)
Plot Summary:
My Best Friend is the outrageous story of two men, friends since childhood, who have spent their lives tormenting one another. It is only when Constantinos discovers Alekos in bed with his wife that their friendship and their respective marriages finally collapse into a death spiral of sex, deceit and irrepressible humor. As events unfold another deception, one concealed by both men's wives, opens the door to incredible erotic intrigue. Antonis Kafetzopoulos delivers a virtuoso performance in this surrealistic comedy about lies, friendship, love and deadlock.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sex comedy, romantic comedy
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Oi 900 tis Marinas (1961)
Plot Summary:
In a countryside village, a veteran politician, Damalas, and a young attorney, Ntinos, son of the village doctor, are rivals in the upcoming elections. Main controller of the political dispute is the all-powerful president of the village, Spyros Dalengos, who affects 900 of the inhabitants. The power acquired by those 900 people is the only dowry of his daughter Marina, who is in love with Ntinos. He has fallen for her to, but his conscience doesn't allow him to accept the unrighteous deal offered by Dalengios, who, after that, decides to support Damalas. However, Marina secretly changes the ballots handed out by her father's men, granting victory to her beloved, who goes straight to ask her to marry him, certain that he won thanks to his own abilities and effort.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Living Dangerously (1987)
Plot Summary:
A gifted electrician, Michalis Karamanos works for OTE - Greek Telecommunications Organization and it seems that he is the only one who hasn't been completely absorbed by the corrupt and all-devouring system. Acting as a member of the revolutionary organization Constitutional Struggle, which is fighting against the unpopular policy of the government, he connects the computer of the director of OTE to an explosive device. He threatens to destroy the telecommunications of the country if he is not allowed to broadcast on television his revolutionary message during the broadcast of an important football game. The Authorities, thinking that he has gone crazy, try to bring him around using his old friends from the army, whom they pick up one by one as intermediaries. This is a situation comedy with excellent, mature plot development, plenty of suspense as well as masterful criticism of socio-political reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece, West Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Safe Sex (1999)
Plot Summary:
A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. We see several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way as the film progresses.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: hilarious, sexual, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, anthology, hot
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Honey and the Pig (2005)
Plot Summary:
Manos (Christos Loulis) seems to have problems with his love life. He leaves the capital and coercive girlfriend to be close to his only relatives in the province. There, apart from his uncle (Paul Chaikalis) - that is looking frantically for donuts with honey - and beloved aunt (Bright Baxevani), he will meet Xenia (Fay Xila), an old friend who now works in the funeral home. With the help of the clever and cute pink piggy Marikaki he will try to reveal a old secret on the whole village and break out the lies that prevent redemptive truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sweet
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Happy Easter (1984)
Plot Summary:
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle (Jean-Paul Belmondo) drops his wife Sophie (Marie Laforet) off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie (Sophie Marceau), who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, sex comedy, light, erotic, surprise ending
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Loaf and Camouflage (1984)
Plot Summary:
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult film
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Oscar (1967)
Plot Summary:
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sincere, entertaining, funny, realistic, not serious, surprise ending
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Any Wednesday (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More complications arise when the executive's wife shows up with plans to redecorate the apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, witty, sex comedy
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Don't Drink the Water (1994)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious