Stelios Lionakis

The Children of the Swallow (1987)

A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that be ...

The madness goes on ... schools (1987)

Nana with her mother come from Thessaloniki to settle in Athens. The mother and daughter relationship is completely liberated from social taboos. Nana written at Athens High School, but from day one faces the bad faith of the classmate. All classmates are ...

Kamikazi, agapi mou (1983)

Stathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music. They are three crazy siblings. One of them, Stathis, doesn't seem capable to keep a job and when he loses his girlfriend, his mother decides to give him what he lo ...

Ζητείται δράκος (1983)

The Gigolo of Athens (1982)

A zigolo falls victim to a well-intentioned plan that aims to incriminate him for killing a foreign agent. ...

Educate Yourself My Son (1981)

The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family. ...

The Wicked World of Thanasis (1979)

The film presents seven short stories of everyday madness: parking in Athens. Thanasis, the soccer referee. Thanasis, the projectionist at a porn theater. Thanasis, the extra in a pasta commercial. Thanasis, the hospital director. Thanasis, the undertaker. ...

The Iron Gate (1978)

In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the most of the adventurism inspired in them by the post-war era and trying to make a life for themselves against the backdrop of the post-dictatorship conserv ...

The Hunters (1977)

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. ...

The Terrorist (1975)

With the end of the dictatorship, three friends create a Humanitarian Movement to save Greece. In order to raise money, they kidnap a wealthy businessman and threaten to kill him if he does not give them the money they need. Things get complicated when the ...

Evidence (1975)

A documentary presenting people and events connected with the most important political developments from the student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic in 1973 until the first year of democratic rule after the dictatorship collapsed in 1974. ...

The Travelling Players (1975)

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging "Golfo the Shepherdess". As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the count ...

My Love Ua Ua (1974)

A writer is going through a serious crisis, since neither his career nor his marriage are going well. His talent, and friends, seem to have abandoned him. The only one standing by his side is a girl from Africa, who has come to Greece to study, and, in ord ...

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi? (1971)

A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too ...

Lieutenant Natassa (1970)

The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian war, she ...

My Sister Deserves a Beating (1966)

A mad man, Spyros, wants to marry Marianna, his lively sister. He wants to give her a dowry apartment, but his money is not enough for that. So he has to ask for a loan from his boss. The boss refuses to serve him but as soon as he knows Marianna, he chang ...

Bouzouki Strumming (1966)

One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and two bouzouki musicians happen to pass by. They listen, enchanted by his limpid voice, and suggest that he becomes a member of their orchestra. Thus, the newly ...

The Nets of Shame (1965)

The poor fishermen of a small village in the Evros region are trying to set up a cooperative so that they can resist the relentless exploitation of the merchants who buy their catch for a pittance. Leading the effort is an educated young man, Stefanos, who ...