Movies by Stavros Xenidis

The Happy Beginning

The Happy Beginning

Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their way.

Spend the first of the month

Spend the first of the month

Loafing and Camouflage

Loafing and Camouflage

The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly ...

The Beauty of Athens

The Beauty of Athens

A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inheritance.So he tries to trick a poor devil into getting married with her.

Δολλάρια και όνειρα

Δολλάρια και όνειρα

To locate the heir of $500,000, an affluent Greek-American places an announcement in the newspaper, and hundreds of potential plutocrats start flocking to the city. Will he ever find the lucky one? Is love more important than money?

Ο Άνθρωπος που Έσπαγε Πλάκα

Ο Άνθρωπος που Έσπαγε Πλάκα

Lambros Konstantaras performs a wealthy gossip that has never worked, and all he has to do is make fun and jokes to others. But when he suddenly finds himself in the street, he realizes that life is not just fun and is forced to look for a job. In the end, it turns out he had not lost his fortune as it was an idea his father had invented shortly before he died to be

Underwater Papanikolis

Underwater Papanikolis

Εξωτικές Βιταμίνες

Εξωτικές Βιταμίνες

A middle-aged womaniser takes in his distant cousin, who has fled from an arranged marriage, and she decides to use a potent love potion to seduce the unattainable object of her desire. Can a dash of exotic vitamins help her succeed?

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband

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 divorce even a few hours later..

An Italian in Greece

An Italian in Greece

Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any woman he desires falls head over heels for a beautiful Italian student; however, she is a hard nut to crack. Will he manage to impress her?

Honeymoon

Honeymoon

Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in t...

Laos and Kolonaki

Laos and Kolonaki

A milkman has his shop at the affluent Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki and is in love with an aristocratic girl.

Manto Mavrogenous

Manto Mavrogenous

In Vienna 1820, the Manto Mavrogenous encounters a group of Greek students and talk of revolution to be made. Returning to Greece uncle of the initiates at Friendly Society. Madonna sells its dowry and equip their ships and army to help the revolution. Meet the founder of the Friendly Society, Dimitrios Ypsilanti, and builds relationships with him but encounters the objections of the political leaders of the struggle and particularly of Ioannis Kolettis who fears the two young people like to be the first king of the new nation. To break up t...

My Daughter, the Socialist

My Daughter, the Socialist

Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.

Εισπράκτωρ 007

Εισπράκτωρ 007

An honest employee saves some valuable documents when a fire breaks out in the factory where he works, at the risk of his life. But the secrets hidden in these documents are capable of destroying the relationship between his two bosses.

I Loved an Armchair

I Loved an Armchair

Years ago, Grigoris was forced to sell four velvet armchairs to the junk dealer. After the death of his aunt, he was informed that her entire legacy, which was a box of jewelry, was hidden in one of those four armchairs. In the meantime, the armchairs had been sold to other people, and so a desperate quest for the right armchair begins, resulting in many and sometimes grotesque adventures.

Modern Cinderella

Modern Cinderella

Katerina, a poor girl, finds a job as a secretary and falls in love with her boss on a trip to Rome.

Ένας τρελός τρελός αεροπειρατής

Ένας τρελός τρελός αεροπειρατής

Two apartments of an apartment building with common balcony, living two same-sex couples. At one resident Stephen with Fanny and the other Myrto with Tatiana. But other things show and others are as well in the apartments live two married couples. Stephen with Myrto and Fanis with Tatiana, who keep hidden their marriages, because women working as hostesses in an airline that does not allow their marriage...

Father, Behave Yourself!

Father, Behave Yourself!

Antonis is a wealthy peasant who finds out that his son spends money and time partying instead of studying. He decides to visit him and restore him to track but instead of achieving his purpose, he falls into the trap of sweet life too.

Mania

Mania

It is on Ascension Day that Zoe, a brilliant computer analyst, visits the National Park in the center of Athens with her daughter, Katerina. That afternoon in the park, Zoe experiences an overwhelming array of instinctive compulsions and transforms into an ancient Maenad in ecstatic frenzy, even capable of murder. Instincts and animals get loose and panic takes over.