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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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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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Joy and Tears (1970)
Plot Summary:
A carefree young man, Alekos, son of shipowner Venier, meets a poor girl, Christina, who makes the clown in a small circus. Christina does not tell Aleko the truth about her work, and when an unexpected episode forces her to return to the circus, Alekos begins to seek her everywhere and quickly finds her. She proposes to marry her and take her to London to meet her father. But Alekos is already engaged with a rich girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 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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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
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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
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Our Love (1968)
Plot Summary:
An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
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Teenage Tupelo (1995)
Plot Summary:
In Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1962, a poor, young, single mother is impregnated by a womanizing has-been singer. Her mother tries to force her to give the child away but our heroine isn't sure. As she tries to solve her problems she receives assistance from unlikely quarters: a lesbian gang and the feminist/nudist/stripper/adult film star they idolize.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: semi autobiographical, independent film
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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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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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The Blue Beads from Greece (1967)
Plot Summary:
A feud develops between a taverna with bouzoukia and a club next door that plays modern music.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 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
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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
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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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Something Hot (1964)
Plot Summary:
During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large estate. Dinos though, does not accept because even though he is actually a womanizer he acts as a shy and modest man around people. Everyone there will meet a group of musicians and one of them will fall in love with the daughter of the strict manager of the company Dinos works for who is accompanied by Dinos. At some point, everyone goes to Athens where things get more complicated untill everyone finds his perfect match. In the end Rena gets her inheritance and all together they perform a musical play in a grand theater.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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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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Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Pirates of Penzance (1980)
Plot Summary:
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of the same name that also starred Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline. Those who remember that film, which had the benefit of retakes and editing, a lavish production budget, and the spaciousness of a Hollywood studio, may find this video less polished. On its own terms, it is nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags:
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Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Plot Summary:
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, freeze frame, campy
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Blue Hawaii (1961)
Plot Summary:
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, stylized, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, psychotronic, retro
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Beach Ball (1965)
Plot Summary:
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
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Summer Holiday (1963)
Plot Summary:
1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If it succeeds, they will be put in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three young British ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway, who hides the fact that she's a famous American pop star on the run, chased by the media and her parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, slang
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It's a Bikini World (1967)
Plot Summary:
Male chauvinist Mike attempts to get an intelligent burgeoning feminist Delilah into his harem. When she resists, Mike then poses as his brother Herbert, but in the process falls in love with Delilah.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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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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The Band (1970)
Plot Summary:
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, stylized, exciting, feel good, realistic