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1) Mamma mia!
Language
English
Formats
Description
20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Georgia came to Greece to follow a man. Cast aside, she finds herself alone and adrift in this foreign land. Eventually, her passion for history leads her to a job as a tour guide. But Georgia is bored, and has lost her 'kefi' (Greek for mojo) to boot. When Poupi replaces her regular driver at the last minute, Georgia thinks that her luck has just hit rock bottom. Thankfully, Georgia's latest batch of tourists is a more lively bunch than she's anticipated,...
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Odysseus left Troy it took him ten years to get back to his home in Ithaca. Steve and Rob have only six days on their odyssey in. On the way, they argue about tragedy and comedy, astronomy and biology, myth, history, democracy, and the meaning of life! Featuring locations such as: Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Ancient Agora of Athens, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, the unique island of Hydra, the Caves of Diros, and more.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the role that won her Broadway’s acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it’s never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she’s back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Greek
Description
Spanning the years 1919-1949, begins with refugees from Odessa settling on a piece of land that was promised to them on Greece's misty northern plains. The foundling Eleni falls in love with her adoptive brother Alexis, but is forced to marry his widowed father. Eleni flees with Alexi to the nearby port of Thessaloniki. As the unrest of the 1930s pits fascism against leftism, Alexis, departs for America and leaves Elenis behind to bear the brunt of...
6) Rembetiko
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Greek
Description
Describes the turbulent 40 years in popular singer Marika Ninou's life. Born in Smyrna, Turkey in 1917, she was deported to Greece when she was 7-years-old. Her parents begins a career as musician and singer in a nightclub. Ninou watches her father murder her mother, runs away from home, has a baby, and comes back to the nightclub to sing.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells; catch up with their lives on the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Most of the family struggles with individual business ventures from running a guest house, attempting to get published, starting a beauty salon, and opening a zoo.
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Roger Daltrey, lead singer of the band "The Who," stars in Shakespeare's shortest play, a farce about two pairs of twins involved in an elaborate series of mistaken identities, word for words as written by William Shakespeare.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1941, on a remote Greek island, an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943, however, after Italy surrenders to the Allies and changes sides in the war, Captain Corelli must defend the Greek island against a German invasion.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie premiered, you're invited back to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new musical sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna, she'll need to take risks. The film's original cast returns, with new additions including Lily James as a young Donna, Andy Garcia and Oscar winner Cher.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story that takes place in 1939 about one man's attempt to save himself and his family when the Nazis occupy Greece and they are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. Each boxing match this middleweight champ fights sends the loser to the gas chamber, and he wonders how he can continue to save himself, his family, and his sanity.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
16) 300
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw....
18) A touch of spice
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
Greek
Description
Fanis, a forty-year-old astrophysics professor, journeys back to his childhood home. In affectionate, uplifting scenes, it portrays Fanis' relationship with his beloved grandfather, the pain he suffered from being thrown out of Turkey at an early age, and the difficulties his family faced as they adjusted to life in Greece.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A team of Allied military specialists are recruited for a dangerous but imperative mission: to infiltrate a Nazi-occupied fortress in Greece and disable two long-range field guns so that 2,000 trapped British soldiers may be rescued. Faced with an unforgiving sea voyage, hazardous terrain, and the possibility of a traitor among them, the team must overcome the impossible without losing their own lives.
20) Monday
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two Americans living in Athens have a weekend fling one summer and decide to see if their relationship can last.
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