Manousos Manousakis (Greek: Μανούσος Μανουσάκης; 14 January 1950 – 20 November 2024) was a Greek director, producer and writer. His paternal family is from Avdou Heraklion. He studied at the London Film School. He was married to Maria, and together they had two children. He was a nephew of Irene Papas and first cousin of Aias Manthopoulos. Manousos Manousakis died in Athens on 20 November 2024, at the age of 74
Who can forget the sore look of the gypsy. The mismatched love of a young architect with great ambitions and a beautiful gypsy just under twenty. A love that from birth carries, almost insurmountable obstacles, as it comes in complete contrast both with the "properly" environment of Antonis and with the marginal, but tightly closed to its own rules, world of Erato.
Release Date1997-10-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count34
Vote Count4
May 1895. Our story begins when the family of George Pavlides engages their 12-year-old son, Miltos, with the 9-year-old daughter of Michalis Nikolaidis, Ifigenia. The attacks of fanatical Turks will force the two families to flee their homeland. The two youngsters will meet again in Istanbul 11 years later. Unaware of the family relationship that binds them, they instantly fall in love. The two lovers try to live their love, while being dragged by the whirlwind of historical events of the time.
Release Date2019-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count59
Vote Count3
Release Date2002-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count39
Vote Count2
Release Date2003-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count31
Vote Count2
Release Date1998-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count31
Vote Count5
Release Date1999-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count33
Vote Count1
Release Date2000-10-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count34
Vote Count2
A wealthy member of the upper classes and his three sons withdraw to a country villa where they spend their days in complete idleness, having everything done for them by their young and beautiful maid. They surrender to the pleasure of sleep, while idleness permeates the tiny world of these living dead, with the exception of the woman who is the sole representative of positive values, will-power and action. Finally, the youngest son will try to break free.
Release Date1978-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count13
Release Date2000-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count34
A crime drama with six independent stories. A selected group of General Police officers undertakes the resolution of important cases of special interest, addressing problems that concern today's Greek society. The main characters often move in between “black" and "white" and fall prey to their passions, in a complex situation where victims and perpetrators face circumstances above their limits.
Release Date2024-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
Release Date1996-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count19
Vote Count2
As a coincidental event unites a publisher and a hospital manager, sinister revelations entangle the couple with the aspiration of an editor-in-chief. Will he unearth the truth? After all, almost everybody has a skeleton in the closet.
Release Date1987-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date2004-10-01
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
Release Date1991-09-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count20
Release Date2001-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count33
Vote Count2
Release Date2006-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count30
Vote Count1
Combining Greek popular tradition and magic realist irrationalism, it tells the story of a 17-year-old youth who runs away from his village to find The Enchantress, a beautiful fairy feared by all. Travelling through an enchanted world of ghosts, spirits, imps and fairies, he leans what true love and passion really are.
Release Date1985-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date2005-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count31
Vote Count1
The life of 2 young villagers in the era of the german trubs,changes dramatically.
Release Date2021-11-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
An abstract tale of a society that exploits everyone and everything. A closed societal system is run by a class of rulers composed of priests, elders, politicians, bankers, and military men. All these people prostitute themselves in order to exercise power with the same ease that they drink their coffee.
Release Date1977-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date2021-10-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
Release Date1988-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Release Date1995-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count28
Vote Count2
The story tells the story of 50-year-old Skeva. When she learns that her son, who has barricaded himself in order to raise money to propose to his beloved Rinio, is ill, Skevo disguises himself as a man and becomes a guard in the sports (ships that were in quarantine due to cholera) in order to save him.
Release Date2021-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
During World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in love with a Jewish, Estrea, something completely forbidden. Can they and their families overcome all the obstacles, along with racial discriminations and hardship? The story mainly takes place in an ouzeria, in which Tsitsanis works, one of the greatest Greek composer, librettist and singer in the 20th century.
Release Date2015-12-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count21
A surreal, anarchic and plotless movie about a man who tries to take up his dead father's business, taking aim against contemporary Greek reality. Banned by the Greek dictatorship.
Release Date1973-09-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Two years after the establishment of the junta of the colonels, a resistance fighter leaves for Sweden. After 14 years of exile, the return to Greece is painful. His girlfriend has been married, while his friends have completely changed.
Release Date1983-10-07
Vote Count1
