The best Despo Diamantidou’s drama movies

Despo Diamantidou

Despo Diamantidou

13/07/1916- 18/02/2004
Today we present the best Despo Diamantidou’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Despo Diamantidou’s movies.
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Never on Sunday

Never on Sunday
7.3/10
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

The Red Lanterns

The Red Lanterns
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/12/1963
  • Character: Madam Pari
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.

Madalena

Madalena
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/10/1960
  • Character: Giokari
Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.

Anna's Summer

Anna's Summer
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/08/2001
A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.

O loustrakos

O loustrakos
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1962
  • Character: Maria's mother
The small loustrakos Vasilis Maras alongside the school of fine on the streets of Athens to make money. The mother finds injustice in prison for the murder of Demetrias. With the persistence of the king, however, and the help of a lawyer, the Karelia, the mother of leaving prison.

A Matter of Dignity

A Matter of Dignity
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/02/1958
  • Character: Katy
During one of her parents many parties, Chloe learns they're bankrupt. She's being courted by Niko, a wealthy Greek American, so she decides to charm him. He's quickly captivated. That night, she also meets the masculine Galanos and sparks fly. Niko proposes, Chloe accepts, Galanos tries to change her mind. Her father wants to disclose their finances to Niko, her mother argues against it as a matter of dignity. The family's long-time servant must care for her son, who's had an accident. She's has not been paid in months, reminds Chloe to send money, and waits in her village as hospital bills mount. The servant comes back to Athens, confronts Chloe's mother, and a crisis ensues.

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband

And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/06/1965
  • Character: Bebeka
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..

I Stefania

I Stefania
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/03/1966
  • Character: Woman Guard
18 year old Stefania is brought to a juvenile reformatory for young prostitutes. The institution is actually a prison, and one of the worst and most squalid of its kind. It's a real hell. Two dozens of ragged girls are crammed into a dormitory, locked by a thick iron door, two in each bed. Meals and work is carried out in other sections of the building, separated by iron bars. A young doctor shall investigate the newcomer. When they meet, they immediately recognize each other. It is Giorgos, the doctor that treated Stefania's mother a couple of years ago, and then had a little flirt with Stefania. He has been thinking of her ever since. He immediately falls in love with her, and wants to help her. Stefania is thinking about any possibility to get out from the prison. She flirts with the ugly yard guard Armandos, and with the truck driver coming with foodstuff, but in vain...

Something For Everyone

Something For Everyone
7/10
An opportunistic young man working as a servant to a European countess uses his sexual talents to better his station in life.

Queen of Clubs

Queen of Clubs
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/06/1966
  • Character: Marianthi
A model (Elena Nathanail) is on vacation with her sailor husband (Thodoros Roumpanis), and she falls in love with an employee (Spyros Fokas) who works in the hotel where they are staying. She confesses her feelings to her husband, and he abandons her. The young woman hooks up with with the employee, who goes with her to Athens. There, their passion – and her crisis - will reach their peak.

A Dream of Passion

A Dream of Passion
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/05/1978
  • Character: Maria
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.

Το Ραντεβού της Κυριακής

Το Ραντεβού της Κυριακής
4.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/07/1960
  • Character: Afroditi

Προδομένη αγάπη

Προδομένη αγάπη
5.5/10

Ο Χάρος Βγήκε Παγανιά

Ο Χάρος Βγήκε Παγανιά
4.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/11/2003
Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family's house in Greece

The Ruthless

The Ruthless
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 12/06/1965
  • Character: Roza
After his release from prison, Stathis visits a private investigator, Othonas, whom he had assigned many years ago to find his mother, who has been missing from the time of the German Occupation. When he meets Othonas, however, they quarrel because the detective hadn’t worked seriously enough on the case. Afterwards, Stathis takes control of his old gang again and sets up a few new scams, selling dreams and hopes to simple people. He soon realizes that he has lost his old love, Vana, who, while he was in prison, had become involved with his second-in- command, Michalis. Nevertheless, his bitterness is softened by Stella, Vana’s sister, who works at the Red Cross. He falls for her, and she responds in kind.

Το κορίτσι της Κυριακής

Το κορίτσι της Κυριακής
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/10/1964

To Korítsi me ta Paramýthia

To Korítsi me ta Paramýthia
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/01/1956

Αμαρυλλίς

Αμαρυλλίς
6.3/10

Hard Goodbyes: My Father

Hard Goodbyes: My Father
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/12/2002
  • Character: Grandmother
Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On the eve of his departure for a long business trip he promises his son that he'll be back in time to watch the moon landing on TV together, but he is killed in a car accident. While Elias' mother and his elder brother deal with the loss in their own way, Elias refuses to accept his father's death. He creates an imaginary world, in which his father is alive. He shares fictitious stories with his friends, he sends letters to his grandmother on behalf of his father and he dreams of places like he did with him. Elias' mother and his godfather, who do everything to bring him back to reality, take him to a summer house. On the night of the moon landing Elias meets his father in his own way and comes to terms with his loss.

Η Δούκισσα της Πλακεντίας

Η Δούκισσα της Πλακεντίας
6.5/10

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