Greek Films 1999
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- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsCharlotte RamplingAlan BatesTushka BergenAbandoned by her lover, the aristocratic Madame Lubov Ranevskaya returns to Russia, only to see her fragrant cherry orchard in full bloom: a painful reminder of her dire economic state and the imminent foreclosure of the enviable property.
- DirectorAlexis KardarasStarsAntonis KafetzopoulosMania PapadimitriouYannis BostantzoglouA cheated woman, an old love of her, the husband and his lover get involved in bank robberies.
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsVicky HarrisValeria HristodoulidouPaschalis TsarouhasVera, Elsa, a man, and the great love that unites them. They grew up together but didn't get very far. Leaving behind a desolate world full of traps, they begin a hallucinogenic journey of tenderness and violence.
- DirectorCosta NatsisStarsJacques BonnafféElisabeth DepardieuJean-Pierre LéaudA French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released from prison after five years in prison. As he tries to adjust to life on the outside, he accidentally meets a Parisian taxi-driver who commits suicide right before his eyes. Without a pause he takes the dead cabbie's place behind the wheel and starts making the rounds of the city, transporting passengers (Jean-Pierre Léaud plays the role of a client who recites Cavafy throughout the entire ride). He feels the air of freedom, a lord of Paris and master of himself, up to the moment that he meets young Anies, and his life falls into new paths.
- DirectorDimitris AthanitisStarsKostas KazanasLena KitsopoulouDimitris AlexandrisAn actor decides to put together a theater company, in order to realize his dream. An audition takes place, the actors are selected, the rehearsals begin. Soon, stage and reality start to merge for the young actors. The only one who is still living in a dream, is the director and protagonist of the play.
- DirectorThanasis SkroubelosStarsFilippos LazarisOlga PolitouHristos TsagasA young professional killer from the former Soviet Union, Aliosha, is assigned to perform a hit in Athens. He comes to Greece to kill Lampros but is accidentally arrested at a police roadblock. A Greek singer from Russia, Elena, searches for her lost son. Although she saw Aliosha the moment he was stepping out of Lampros' office, when called to identify him she covers for him with her silence. Aliosha's patrons, afraid of being exposed, decide to eliminate him, while the police are constantly watching him, since the head of the investigation never believed in his innocence.
- DirectorOlga MaleaStarsNatalia DragoumiLeda MatsaggouNatalia StylianouThree sisters in search of romance. Aimilia is a stockbroker who tends to scare most men away. Student Elena has a string of failed relationships. Laoura is a gym instructor who has her own problems with her married lover.
- DirectorPanos H. KoutrasStarsGiannis AngelakisChristos MantakasMyriam VourouAround the year 2000, a terrible incident shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how? But no one can give an answer.
- DirectorNik TriantafyllidisStarsMichail MarmarinosIeroklis MichaelidisMirto AlikakiA scriptwriter, who wastes his talent in a soap opera, is entangled in a surreal adventure with the criminal underworld.
- DirectorVasilis VafeasStarsKostas VoutsasNikos PoursanidisEleftheria VidakiA divorced philanderer who gets to see his fifteen-year-old son every Saturday fails to understand that money doesn't buy love, and that his boy needs a father. Can he see the error of his ways or will it have to wait until next Saturday?
- DirectorKaterina Philippou-CurtisStarsSergios AlexopoulosRobert ColemanDavid de VilliersPsychological drama of Greek-English production, in which an employee of the British Embassy, Liz, meets a hospitalized patient covered in burns. He tells her a strange story about five teenagers who met years ago on an island and whose youthful pranks caused someone's death. Their meeting at the scene of the tragedy, twenty-five years later, brings back the traumatic experiences of the past. To redeem themselves, they decide to sacrifice that which is most valuable to them - their lives. One of them, Nanta, cuts his throat with glass, while the painter, Tim, hangs himself from an interior staircase. Following the suicide of the third, Jonathan, the rest of the group, Stewart and Christian, decide to set fire to the house and burn with the bodies of their friends. Liz, deeply affected by the narration, realizes with horror that the injured man is Stewart, who after completing the story, and Liz's departure, takes his own life. However, he is not the only survivor. Christian, who was also rescued by an islander, decides to give himself up to justice. Some years later, he is released from prison, having experienced the "freedom of prison" as atonement for everyone's sins.
- DirectorCostas KapakasStarsGeorges CorrafaceAgeliki SpiliopoulouAnny LoulouWith the sweet taste of love's first kiss in his mouth, an engineer takes a trip down memory lane after receiving an invitation from an old friend. Thirty years after that innocent peck on the lips, fate reunites two estranged soulmates.
- DirectorDimos AvdeliodisStarsAngeliki MalantiAngelos PantelarasTakis AgorisIn early-1960s Chios, the sudden death of a forest ranger forces the local agronomist to appoint his successor. But, none of the available field guards accepts the position due to the bad reputation of the village.
- DirectorStamatis TsarouchasStarsLakis KomninosGiannis KasdaglisVangelis MourikisKastoria, at the turn of the century. Greeks, Turks, Jews and other nationalities live together under the rule of the Ottoman empire, amid the despair and the confusion brought about by the 1897 war between Greece and Turkey.
- DirectorDimitris StavrakasStarsDimitris AlexandrisYorgos HalarisManos VakousisA new teacher comes by transfer to an elementary school in Athens. He will distinguish a student which can't read, write or do arithmetic, and will help to discover some other talents he has, and will give him an incentive to try to learn.
- DirectorNicos PerakisStarsMaria GeorgiadouSmaragda DiamandidouSofi ZanninouA woman's company, with women of high society of a small greek town is doing everything to have sex with the first male they can find.
- DirectorPanos KarkanevatosStarsYorgos KaramihosFenia PapadodimaLena KitsopoulouNicolas is a shepherd. He is around twenty years old, thin and spirited. Constantina is eighteen years old. Constantina fell in love with Nikolas the very first time she saw him with his lyre at the bull sacrifice ritual. She entered the whirlpool of ecstasy and became his lover. Their relationship was clearly physical, all other things were setting them apart. Constantina decides that they should break up. "We come from different places and head in different directions", she says. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she does not tell Nikolas...
- DirectorThanasis PapathanasiouMichalis ReppasStarsMina AdamakiAlexandros AntonopoulosKostas GrekasA 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.
- DirectorAngelos FrantzisStarsStratis VouyoucasEktoras KoliasKorina PateliDespite the soccer World Cup fever during the summer of 1998, a group of young people insist on rehearsing for a theatrical performance. The process they are getting into will form the identity of the play itself, but will also force the actors to face their own personal problems and anxieties.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsNikos KourisAthina MaximouZoe NalbantiOn the brink of the new millennium, a young aspiring singer leaves Athens for the seedy nightclubs of the rough Greek province, bent on getting her big break amid milky-white cigarette smokes, decayed divas--and ultimately--broken hopes.
- DirectorJohn TatoulisStarsLakis LazopoulosZoe CaridesJohn BluthalA woman, obsessed with tracking down the man who she claims killed her husband, targets her eldest grandson as her instrument of revenge.