Despo Diamantidou

The Devil Turned Holy Mother (2003)

Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. ...

Skipper Straad (2003)

A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes ...

Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2002)

Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On ...

Anna's Summer (2001)

A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece. ...

Acropol (1996)

1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ...

Varieté (1985)

An actor's troupe puts up a variety show. ...

The Cabaret Girl (1979)

A Dream of Passion (1978)

Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spo ...

Love and Death (1975)

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon. ...

Nicky's World (1974)

A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma of repossession and property without destroying its heritage. ...

The Werewolf of Washington (1973)

After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the Presiden ...

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)

A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals. ...

Made For Each Other (1971)

An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship. ...

The Horsemen (1971)

In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his village, especially his father. After losing his leg below the knee, Uraz, to regain his honor, must learn ...

Promise at Dawn (1970)

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in. ...

Something for Everyone (1970)

In post-war Austria, an opportunistic young man begins working as a footman to a widowed countess and uses his sexual talents to better his station in life. ...

Short break (1966)

Yannis meets and falls in love with the leading actress of a play, Emma. She convinces him to propose one of his plays to the theater director. The director agrees to stage it, but in a more commercial version. Yannis feels guilty because he has allowed hi ...

Queen of Clubs (1966)

A model (Elena Nathanail) is on vacation with her sailor husband (Thodoros Roumpanis), and she falls in love with an employee (Spyros Fokas) who works in the hotel where they are staying. She confesses her feelings to her husband, and he abandons her. The ...

Stefania (1966)

18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a ...

No, Mr. Johnson. (1965)

A tomato juice seller of a major American company arrives in Greece to promote his company's product. ...

Make Me A Woman (1965)

A proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds out that her daughter is in love with him, she marries her off to his friend, and now, the knives have the final say. Can reason prevail? ...

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband (1965)

When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divor ...

The Ruthless (1965)

After his release from prison, Stathis visits a private investigator, Othonas, whom he had assigned many years ago to find his mother, who has been missing from the time of the German Occupation. When he meets Othonas, however, they quarrel because the det ...

The Punk Of Fokionos Negri (1965)

A ruthless young man puts on eye the estate of a girl and after he is presented as in love with her, he is trying to convince her to give him all the money she has ...

The despised (1965)

Wedding like... Greek (1964)

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 marr ...

The Sunday girl (1964)

Topkapi (1964)

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum. ...

The Red Lanterns (1963)

The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor. ...

Lazy like a dog (1963)

A lazy and wasteful slacker who enjoys living off his hard-working brother reluctantly accepts to work as a debt collector. Now, he is in love, and for once in his life, he is good at something. Can the boss' daughter straighten him out? ...

my father and i (1963)

A bankrupt cosmopolitan arrives with his daughter in Lagonisi, with the aim of finding a rich groom to guarantee financially. ...

Betrayed love (1962)

Anna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, where she will spend a year with another aunt. When she returns to Athens, her aunt will try to marry her off ...

Loustrakos (1962)

The small loustrakos Vasilis Maras alongside the school of fine on the streets of Athens to make money. The mother finds injustice in prison for the murder of Demetrias. With the persistence of the king, however, and the help of a lawyer, the Karelia, the ...

Ποτέ Δε Σε Ξέχασα (1962)

Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday (1962)

A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her. Against all logic, he refuses to turn her in to the police. Is there a future between them? ...

Death Will Return (1961)

Adapted from Nikos Foskolos' theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza's niece and her fiancé, Norton's physician, and the hot ...

Alice in the Navy (1961)

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the ship's captain; her father! ...

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys (1960)

Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruelly and forces her to escape from home. Alexia finds herself in an isolated area by chance, where she is dis ...

Madalena (1960)

Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival ...

For You My Love (1960)

Maroula comes from Syros, established in Athens, to work as a servant in a wealthy home, but the hostess takes her off. So he is forced to seek refuge in the house of three poor musicians whom he met on board: Flax, Tramp and Maneta. She thinks to return t ...

Sunday's Date (1960)

Anthoula has lost her mother and her father is swept away by his new love, Martha, and moves away from Anthoula to live in Aphrodite's house. Aphrodite pushes Anthoula into the arms of her son Thanos, with her sights set on her fortune. But Alekos, who tru ...

Never on Sunday (1960)

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

Amaryllis (1959)

A Matter of Dignity (1958)

A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances. ...

The Fairy Tale Girl (1956)

A young girl, who lives in a poor neighborhood with her little brother, falls in love with a rich young man. ...

The Duchess of Plakendia (1956)

After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834. ...

The Girl of the Neighbourhood (1954)

Spyros, an honest young man from a poor neighborhood, owns a small coffee shop. His only friends are the shoe shiner Tsichlas and the drunkard Barba-Stamos. One day, he decides that the time has come to ask for Pitsa's hand in marriage. The poor neighborho ...

Thanasakis, the Politician (1954)

The young daughter (Anna Synodinou) of a well-off family comes back from Switzerland after completing her studies, married to a young scientist, Thanasakis (Byron Pallis), who comes back to Greece determined to serve his country as a politician. With the f ...

Youth of Athens (1949)

A rich widower impregnates a poor young woman and dumps her. Her brother, member of a resistance group during the Occupation, tries to mend things up. ...