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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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Me... and my bird (1982)
Plot Summary:
A photo reporter, shortly before leaving for a job in Cyprus, becomes unwittingly the recipient of a golden owl, who stole a gang from the archaeological museum, who are following him in order to take the owl back.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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He's a Mad Mad Veggos (1965)
Plot Summary:
When Thanassis leaves the orphanage tries to do various jobs but with no consolidates. A private detective manages to find his father who is rich. Thanasis will move into his luxurious house but there will come other problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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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My friend Lefterakis (1963)
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
Plot tags:
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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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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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Mermaids for Love (1968)
Plot Summary:
Petros, a race car driver and son of a construction mogul, hears about an island with promising business opportunities. He tells his father, they have to buy land there but Flora, a night club owner also learns about it and arrives at the island before him. Their competition disturbs the peaceful lives of the island's residents. Marina, the daughter of the local restaurant owner falls in love with Petros while Flora charms the men of the island and especially Nicolas, causing his fiance's jealousy. She on the other hand falls for Iasonas, the son of the island's Lady who worries about the outcome of these events.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 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
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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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The Fat Spy (1966)
Plot Summary:
A mostly-deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, is off the coast of Florida. The island gets some visitors in the form of a teenage boy band, "the Wild Ones", and their gang of swimsuit-clad young people, who head there in a crowded powerboat ostensibly for a scavenger hunt. However, they spend about half their screen time crooning to each other, or dancing on the beach. The island's owner, Wellington recruits his blonde daughter, Junior , to remove the teenagers from the island. Junior is eager to see her love interest, rotund toupee-wearing botanist Irving . However, Irving is more interested in flowers and his bicycle than in the amorous Junior. Wellington asks Irving to spy on the teenagers, which he does by donning a sweatshirt that reads "Fink University", and "getting their trust" by joining them in dancing the Turtle.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Bonus (2001)
Plot Summary:
Pandelis is a garbageman who is anxiously waiting to retire and receive his well-earned superannuation payout. His wife and mother-in-law are also awaiting the super payout, but they have different ideas as to how the money should be spent. The usually submissive and calm Pandelis suddenly decides to react... Philippides does a sterling job as the long-suffering Pandelis and his vicissitudes leave one with a warm feeling. Unlikely though the scenario may seem, one wishes it to be true, thus giving hope for the many Pandelides out there who find themselves contemplating life in their middle years with regret and disappointment.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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Can It Be Love (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tim and David want to have fun during vacation so they join a private detective agency. Their first job is to find a delta girl who has inherited a fortune. But the job seems easier than it turned out to be... Written by Volker Boehm.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, independent film, detective
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The Baldheaded Agent and the Land of Destruction Mission (1969)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop takes to find and restore a rich girl who ran away from home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, slapstick comedy, hilarious, funny, eurospy
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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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Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean (2005)
Plot Summary:
A group of Greek solders, who serve their military service in Kos, is sent to guard the skerry of Pitta. Everything looked normal until a Turkish boat disembarks 4 castaways on Pitta.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: intercultural, inter cultural
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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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Two Tickets to Greece (2022)
Plot Summary:
As teenagers, Blandine and Magalie were inseparable. Years passed and they lost sight of each other. As their paths cross again, they decide to take the trip together that they have always dreamed of. Direction Greece, its sun, its islands but also its galleys because the two former best friends now have a very different approach to holidays... and to life!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Greece, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Hot Resort (1985)
Plot Summary:
Young guys on the make get a job at a resort hotel in the Caribbean.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slasher, independent film, teen sex comedy, teen comedy, cult film
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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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The Kings of Mykonos (2010)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to the highly successful Australian comedy THE WOG BOY - starring Nick Giannopoulous and Vince Colosimo as best mates Steve and Frank. The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2 picks up a few years after the original and things aren't going so well for the 'Wog Boy'; he's lost his true love (a '69 Valiant Pacer) and all his assets because he trusted Tony the Yugoslav. Steve's best mate Frank has lost touch with the ladies after a messy divorce. But fortue, as ever, favours the 'Wog' when Steve discovers that he has inherited a beach worth millions on the resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he never met.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, Greece
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic
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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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Hot Pursuit (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he is not quite sure where they are, and meets smugglers, crazy captains and murderers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, road movie, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, exciting, semi serious, funny, romantic