The best Orestis Makris’s movies

Orestis Makris

Orestis Makris

30/09/1898- 30/01/1975
We present our ranking of the best Orestis Makris’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Orestis Makris.
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The Counterfeit Coin

The Counterfeit Coin
8.6/10
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.

The Auntie from Chicago

The Auntie from Chicago
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/1957
  • Character: Harilaos Bardas
Disciplined, stern, and above all, old-fashioned, Charilaos Bardas--a retired general and one of the last old-school Athenian gentlemen--rules his family with an iron fist. With three daughters of marrying age, the good-hearted but autocratic paterfamilias has his work cut out for him; however, the timely arrival of Charilaos' widowed sister--the open-minded Greek expatriate in Chicago, Calliope Pappas--will soon bring about change and innovation. So, without delay, the resourceful problem-solver concocts an unusual but infallible plan to speed things up a bit, and before long, the first blissful niece walks down the aisle with her hand-picked husband. But, with such a clever strategy, will the good auntie from Chicago still remain single?

One Street Organ, One Life

One Street Organ, One Life
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/11/1958
  • Character: Kosmas
An organ grinder (Orestis Makris) loses his wife from complications during birth. Distraught by her death, he refuses to take care of the baby and gives it to a family (Lavrentis Dianellos and Nitsa Tsaganea) to raise. The child (Jenny Karezi) is raised comfortably, and her natural father is too embarrassed to meet her - until she falls in love with a poor musician (Petros Fysoun), and her foster parents refuse to accept their relationship.

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys

Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/1960
  • Character: Ceasar
Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruelly and forces her to escape from home. Alexia finds herself in an isolated area by chance, where she is discovered by seven brothers who live together in a nearby house. The seven bachelors put her up and treat her like a member of their own family.

Mrs. Midwife

Mrs. Midwife
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/09/1961
  • Character: Lykourgos Bekos
The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.

Έξω οι Κλέφτες!

Έξω οι Κλέφτες!
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/01/1961
  • Character: Timoleon Adamantas
When the general manager who possesses 70% of the shares of a steelworks learns that he is sick and has to go abroad to be cured, he hands his shares to Timoleon Adamantas (Orestis Makris), his brother, a teacher, with whom he hasn’t spoken for almost 30 years. Timoleon, being an honest and goodhearted man, aided by his brother’s secretary, Margarita (Martha Karagianni), with whom his son Andreas is in love, finds out a number of great administrative irregularities. Immediately, he throws out his brother’s number one assistant, Kleftodimos (Dionysis Papagiannopoulos) and Margarita as well and puts everything in order.

Maiden's Cheek

Maiden's Cheek
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/11/1959
  • Character: gym master Mr. Gikas
A young lean teacher is hired as a philologist at a private girls' school and is confronted with the spoiled girls. A beautiful schoolgirl, Liza Papastavrou, is constantly harassing the newcomer and he undertakes to comply with it. Lisa tries to avenge the professor with a few mischief..

Οικογένεια Παπαδοπούλου

Οικογένεια Παπαδοπούλου
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1960
  • Character: Nikos Karydoglou
Young Alexis Vranas (Stefanos Linaios) returns to Athens form studying abroad and starts working for a major company. There, he will meet and fall in love with a secretary, Varvara Papadopoulos (Kakia Analyti).

Stournara 288

Stournara 288
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/01/1959
  • Character: Babis
Through the narration of a tenant of a block of flats on 288 Stournara street, we watch the everyday stories of people living in the city, their problems, their comic situations and their love affairs.

Ο Γρουσούζης

Ο Γρουσούζης
7.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/11/1952
  • Character: Agathoklis
Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the surprise of everyone, decides to adopt it.

Tis Nýchtas ta Kamómata

Tis Nýchtas ta Kamómata
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1957
  • Character: Sotiris

Ο Αριστείδης και τα Κορίτσια του

Ο Αριστείδης και τα Κορίτσια του
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/05/1964

The Drunkard

The Drunkard
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/01/1950
  • Character: Haralabos Lardis
After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When his daughter falls in love with a rich young man, he tries in vain to hide his passion from the young man's family...

Ο Καλός Μας Άγγελος

Ο Καλός Μας Άγγελος
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 02/03/1961
  • Character: Diamadis Narlis

Με Πόνο και με Δάκρυα

Με Πόνο και με Δάκρυα
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/11/1965
  • Character: Vasilis
Alekos serves as captain of LOC in the area of Trikala. He loves Maria, which she keeps her relationship hidden from hers. When her father discovers it, he sends her to a monastery. Alekos is looking for her but can not find her. He leaves for the war, where after an injury he will lose his memory ...

Arpagi tis Persefonis

Arpagi tis Persefonis
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/10/1956

Ζητιάνος Μιας Αγάπης

Ζητιάνος Μιας Αγάπης
4.4/10
A pop singer with a good heart and a lot of achievements, Manos, tenderly loves an orphan anthopolida, Annoula, which works several years in the center singing Manos, in order to finish high school. When he decides to leave Daisy's mistress and marry Anna, the girl's natural father, who was missing seventeen years in Canada, intervenes and claims her. He tries to redeem her stepfather and mistress, Mr Spyros, who, however, refuses. Anna is following her natural father in Thessaloniki. Mr. Spiros is in danger of dying from his fortune, and Manos gets sick by losing his voice. But everything is corrected by the return of the girl and the revelation that her father suddenly remembered it because she intended to put in the money her mother left.

Ο Πόνος του Μπεκρή

Ο Πόνος του Μπεκρή
4.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1966
  • Character: Thanos Logothetis

Τι κι αν γεννήθηκα φτωχός

Τι κι αν γεννήθηκα φτωχός
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1967
  • Character: Stamatis Vagenas

O Thymios takane thalassa

O Thymios takane thalassa
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/06/1959
  • Character: Vrasidas Moralis
The Thimios leaves the village, the Vlachokerasia along with wife and children to come to the capital for a job. In the train station saves from suicide Liza, Brigadier daughter. In begging, however, occur to her father as Dr. Beliris, fiance Lisa. He will accept and confusion just getting started.

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