George Foundas Movies

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

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

The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.

The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and...

A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.

The inhabitants of Praxos, a mountain village in an occupied country, organize their own resistance to the oppressor. Faced with reprisals, they...

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...

A police constable tries to find blood during the night for his wife to be born. When he finally finds a blood donor, he will have to deal with a...

Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a...

A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because...

On an island in the Aegean, a young girl, when he learns of the authoritarian father that is illegitimate, he tries to commit suicide by falling from...

Greece's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957.

Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she...

A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic...

A poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in an accident at the construction site, his oldest...