Movies 1998

A reserved English writer travelling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

The contrast between two brothers of different generations and the results in their relationships.

The few survivors of a deserted city, sometime in the near future, are left with no water or food but somehow manage to survive. In a hospital, a lonely scientist, Foteini, is helping a patient with amnesia to recover. She also meets an actor named Aias (Ajax) - who often visits his sick sister - and becomes romantically involved with him. Foteini is swept away by love; Aias, however, is unprepared for such strong emotions. Their separation brings Foteini to the house of the amnesiac, and he takes care of her, up to the moment that she discovers a photo of hers among his things. In the meantime, Aias brings his sister back home from the hospital. While it is getting darker, with clouds gathering in the sky, Foteini and Aias wander the city and meet in the rain.

Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.

A communist woman and a soldier are ostracized for falling in love after the Greek civil war.

After 30 years of service, an honourable family man retires and falls in love with another woman. A deep instinct for life pushes them towards a passion like those of their youth.

This Greek-Bulgarian-Cypriot co-production depicts the plight of Albanian illegals in Athens and its Piraeus port. Greek intellectual Christos (Akis Sakellariou) unintentionally falls in with a streetwise group of manipulative Albanian scam artists, including Victor (Armando Dauti) Omer (Laert Vasili) and Fuad (Muzafer Et' Hem Zifla). Minus papers, they are nevertheless successfully able to get by in Greece. Eventually, Christos takes a trip to the Albanian village where the duo grew up amid murderous blood feuds. Shown at the 1997 Thessaloniki Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Trapped in a dead-end relationship, a man seeks solace in regular one-night stands, triggering his wife's intense erotic fantasies. However, loneliness is hard to bear. Will he realise his mistake?

Alexandros wants to open a bar in a district town so he travels to Romania to find young girls to work for him.The bar has unprecedented success but then something happens.

In order to secure money for the production of his first film, a young man asks help from a film producer. The producer, however, was involved with pornographic films.

Three men head towards a turning point in their lives.

A young writer takes to edit the autobiography of a popular folk singer then, however, falls victim to intrigues and accused of kidnapping her daughter.

When a friend of his dies, an isolated writer decides to abandon his solitude and look into the reasons for the loss of his friend. This decision will force him to face the people around him and finally achieve redemption.

Simon "The Saint" Templar (Val Kilmer), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.

A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends.

To foil a terrorist plot, FBI agent Sean Archer assumes the identity of the criminal Castor Troy who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.

An obese attorney is cursed by a gypsy to rapidly and uncontrollably lose weight.

A 6 y.o. Inuit boy runs off a snowy roof in Copenhagen and dies. Smilla, a half Inuit who lives in the building and knows the boy, looks into it. What makes an acrophobic boy run up on the roof? The clues take her to Greenland.

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.

Fleeing robbers stumble into a staked-out bar in New Orleans.

A young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America.

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.