Movies: Manos Katrakis

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A quartet of short stories about Greece during the various occupations during World War 2...

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in...

Dimitris Dalikis was the owner of a bank abroad. However, he went bankrupt and returned to Greece with only a few securities left. With the stock market crash, he lost those too, leaving him literally "broke." He was on the verge of suicide when he m...

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A young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed to save money for his last years....

After many years of working at sea, Andreas returns to his island in order to clear his dead father's name and settle his debts by taking back his family's boat. Yannis is the powerful man on the island and the one responsible for his father's death....

Athens, 1964. A police reporter, Nikos Avgeris, has the journalistic mission to cover a suspected car crash that killed a senior state official. His investigation reveals that the victim was responsible for the financial control of a large building o...

The honest laborer falls into disfavour and is undermined by his factory's son because they both love the daughter of the factory owner without suspecting the secret that unites them....

A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by V...

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Targeted for her beauty and pilloried by members of her own village, a poor and orphaned young woman flees from her humble but hostile birthplace to seek refuge in the bosom of the hectic city of Athens. Can love put an end to her ordeals?...

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Marinos Kontaras, a pirate in the Aegean, falls in love and abducts beautiful Lemonia....

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One of filmmaker and expatriate writer Adonis Kyrou's best-known quotes translates roughly as "I urge you: Learn to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." The same could be said of Kyrou's own directorial work in Greece before the advent of...

Captain Alexis Komninos manages to escape from the Germans, with the help of the abbot Prudence arrives in Middle East headquarters in Cairo. Assumes office and connected to the beautiful Maria, from which does not hide that he is married. Meanwhile,...

A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because of debts, he gets tangled up in smuggling. His morals are tested and he tries to find a way out....

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