Movies: Kostas Baladimas

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....

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 ...

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him...

Three short stories satirizing the Greece of “Change” in early 80's. A take-off on the police dramas of Giannis Maris; a satire of the films of the New Greek Cinema; and a satire of the “fustanella (Greek kilt)” films as well....

Captain Andreas, a widower master learns that the planned departure postponed and the crew discovers hidden in the ship's refrigerator a girl, Marina. The company and the kind of behavior makes him take her with him to his home in Poros, which is hom...

A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it....

The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to the attention of the State. A discreet surveillance begins. A ...

CIA team in Greece tries to capture a major drug dealer....

Two rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek homeland....

A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there and try in every way to escape from poverty and destitution. A handsome released youth, Ricos (Alekos Alexandrakis), is trying to make money, at the sa...

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....

A talented young musician, Petros Apostolou, arrives in Athens and soon manages to record his first album. The success comes along with the love of young Anna, the niece of the director of the recording company, Mr. Theoharis. Despite her uncle's obj...

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Set on a lush Greek island, the story concerns a sister and brother, who return home after years abroad. Falling under the island's erotic spell, the girl and boy discover that their love goes beyond filial......

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene a...

A young woman who lost her husband five years ago to a naval tragedy in the seas of Indochina does not say to lose her hope. He always lives with the remembrance of his form and with the certainty that he will once come back alive and she will reasse...

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A rich family find their holiday island home invaded by a pair of criminals who've just escaped from the local jail....

The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks and Bulgarians. A story stick to the facts for the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks. Pavlos Melas is the symbol of the struggle for the independen...