Movies: Dimos Starenios

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000....

After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship called the Golden Fleece. Once Tintin and the captain arrive in Istanbul, where the ship is anchored, they meet Mr. Karabine, a businessman who stubbor...

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated....

Accused of stabbing his nightclub singer mistress to death, unscrupulous dockhand Christos is on the run. But he swears he's innocent. Could the harbour bum be telling the truth?...

Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret agents (Michel Piccoli and Mario Adorf) are bringing the innocent ...

Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patr...

Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings....

Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disappointment, so all the money he buys a ticket to Australia. But while the young man is waiting for de...

1940. Anna stay alone, her husband her brother her father leave for the war with the Italians. The attack of the Germans will give a hard blow to her family. She will continue to fight, approaching the German commander of the area....

Marios was the abuser convicted. The day he is released from prison meets Danae, which he grants a villa and a luxury car with the assertion that performs the last wish of the deceased husband, for whose account was fraud....

Returning to Athens after the end of the World War II, Captain Nikolas finds out what happened to his family from a neighbor....

A postwar melodrama of jealousy and rage....

Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works as a b...

The Last Mission (Greek: Teleftaia apostoli) is a 1950 Greek drama film directed by Nikos Tsiforos. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival....

Under the scorching sun of the rugged Greek countryside, the young star-crossed lovers, Aggelos and Irini, dare to dream of a better future in dazzling but faceless Athens. Amid fear and prejudice, the couple has planned everything down to the last d...

The daughter of a wealthy shipowner is kidnapped by a ruthless gang and her father terrorized....

A freighter leaves the one she loves and goes to Germany to raise money to get married. When she returns she finds her married to another. The same night she goes to ask her the word and the money she sent her for so long, her husband is murdered and...

Poor and unappreciated writer besieged by producer of cinema to give consent for turning a book into a movie....

A newlywed man who has just completed his national service, Alekos Stathakis, is trying to get over his class' misery, but doesn't have the necessary "equipment". He conceives an ambitious plan and submits it to a great concrete factory. He seems to ...

Lampros, a successful journalist and his wife, Christina, who also writes in a magazine, have been constantly confused. In each of these battles, nostalgia refers to Stephanos, a youth of love. One night Lambros meets Stephanos, who after many years ...