The Abductors(1972)

Travel Express(el)

Margarita is on her way to taking a holiday on a Greek island. When she misses the boat, she finds herself traveling much further away.

Never on Sunday(el)

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

Allou to oneiro, ki allou to thavma(el)

Kokovios and his close friend Nikolakis engage in various odd jobs with the hope that they will eventually find success. The kind-hearted Kokovios helps an elderly woman take her paralyzed daughter, Vasso, to Tinos, where the Virgin Mary always performs miracles. On their return to Piraeus, he learns that his father has died and so he becomes the heir to the family business. As he is no longer penniless, he confidently asks for Vasso's hand in marriage, and she agrees. A typical Greek comedy with naive heroes and excessive optimism.

Horafa family(el)

The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt the 14th located in his mother's belly.

Pictures from Piraeus(en)

A travelogue from Greece, showing sites in Piraeus and Athens.

Prophet Elias(el)

Two young men embark on a woeful trek to the nearest kiosk to get some beverages.

Wet Asphalt(de)

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.

Neigungsehe(de)

Bouvard et Pécuchet(fr)

Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.

Intimate Strangers(en)

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

Time of Miracles(sh)

September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.

Earth Days Pass By(sh)

A profoundly empathetic, unpretentious and droll account of a how a swarthy, Hemingway-like sailor upends the droning routines of a nursing home when he checks himself in. Though his subtle interactions with the other residents – including his cantankerous roommate who obviously harbours resentment towards his family for putting him out to seed – the sailor gently whisks up an atmosphere of hope and happiness and allows the movie to deliver its beautifully simple message: that life should be savoured until the bitter end.

Amador(es)

After killing his girl friend, Ana, Amador (a dark and strange man) joins his family (which he can't stand) in Torremolinos, where he gets involved in the assassination of a foreigner woman. It is also in Torremolinos, where Amador meets Laura, a woman who falls in love with him...

Love Me(tr)

Across a language barrier, a Turkish groom-to-be on an engagement party in Kyiv meets a Ukrainian that represents the 'other woman' for a marriage there.

The Yarn Princess(en)

Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She has to prove in a court of law that she is capable of taking care of her family.

Coat Fitting(el)

The dull life of a retired tailor completely changes when a filmmaker comes to make a documentary about him.

Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches(ru)

A young boy grapples with first love and his ambitions as a drummer during an eventful summer holiday.