Up, Down and Sideways

Up, Down and Sideways

Up, Down and Sideways

Share

Up, Down and Sideways

1992

1h 48m

3.9(10 votes)

Comedy

Overview

A prosperous widow with a gay son falls for a young gym instructor in Athens.

Links & Resources

Social & External

Production Companies

Cast & Crew

17 members

Acting

Irene Papas

Μαρία

Irene Papas

Acting

Στράτος Τζώρτζογλου

Σταύρος

Στράτος Τζώρτζογλου

Acting

Πάνος Μιχαλόπουλος

Ανέστης

Πάνος Μιχαλόπουλος

Acting

Ελένη Γερασιμίδου

Βαρβάρα

Ελένη Γερασιμίδου

Acting

Έλντα Πανοπούλου

Ντόρα

Έλντα Πανοπούλου

Acting

Αντώνης Ζαχαράτος

Unknown Role

No Image

Acting

Τάκης Ζαχαράτος

Unknown Role

Τάκης Ζαχαράτος

Acting

Χρήστος Ευθυμίου

Λάμπρου

Χρήστος Ευθυμίου

Acting

Γιάννης Ζουγανέλης

Μπιλ (Ταξιτζής)

Γιάννης Ζουγανέλης

Acting

Γιώργος Παρτσαλάκης

Unknown Role

Γιώργος Παρτσαλάκης

Acting

Γιάννης Μπέζος

Unknown Role

Γιάννης Μπέζος

Acting

Ακίνδυνος Γκίκας

Unknown Role

No Image

Acting

Στέλιος Μάινας

Unknown Role

Στέλιος Μάινας

Acting

Μαρία Κανελλοπούλου

Κατίνα

Μαρία Κανελλοπούλου

Acting

Αλέκος Ζαρταλούδης

Unknown Role

Αλέκος Ζαρταλούδης

Acting

Τζέσυ Παπουτσή

Unknown Role

Τζέσυ Παπουτσή

Acting

John Modinos

Μαέστρος

No Image

Similar Movies

Bad Johnson

Bad Johnson

With women practically throwing themselves at him, Rich can’t control himself. But he continually blames his penis, which seems to have a mind of its own. After ruining yet another promising relationship with Jamie, Rich has finally had enough and wishes his penis would just leave him alone. The next morning, Rich wakes up to find his wish has come true and his johnson is no longer on his body.

Safe Sex

Safe Sex

A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.

Widows' Peak

Widows' Peak

Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader

Dollars and Dreams

Dollars and Dreams

To locate the heir of $500,000, an affluent Greek-American places an announcement in the newspaper, and hundreds of potential plutocrats start flocking to the city. Will he ever find the lucky one? Is love more important than money?

Bad, Cold, and Cantankerous

Bad, Cold, and Cantankerous

Financially hard-pressed, a good-hearted coffee-shop owner asks his twin brother and famous actor for a loan; but, when he faints and collapses on stage, it's up to him to save the day, and his sibling's reputation. Is he up for the task?

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

The Summer with Carmen

The Summer with Carmen

While having a day-long swim at Athens’ queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas’ feature debut.

The Princess's Little Boy

The Princess's Little Boy

Stavros has a cafe with his brother years and are the only ones in the family who care to get by. He is in love with Mary, which, however, not turning to look at him. Mary comes from an ...

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker

Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.

The Beauty of Athens

The Beauty of Athens

A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inheritance.So he tries to trick a poor devil into getting married with her.

In My Life

In My Life

Shirley is a woman who wants to be in control of everything. Working as a librarian in a public school, a firm "Sshhh!" from her makes the students tremble in fear. But in her family, her unwarranted intervention in the lives of her children and their families keeps her emotionally detached from them. Realizing that she has lost the command she once had, she goes to New York to reunite with Mark, her estranged gay son who is now suffering from colon cancer. But Shirley doesn't know this, and living with Mark in New York comes with a cost. She has to live with her son's lover, Noel, who is an illegal immigrant. Everything is going right until circumstances force Shirley to go back to the Philippines. Now that she's back with her family, she realizes that something is wrong: she is not happy.

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece

After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship called the Golden Fleece. Once Tintin and the captain arrive in Istanbul, where the ship is anchored, they meet Mr. Karabine, a businessman who stubbornly insists on buying it even though it is in a dilapidated state.

Maiden's Cheek

Maiden's Cheek

Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.

Me, Myself and I

Me, Myself and I

Yangos Aggelis (Lambros Konstantaras), director of a factory, is the type of classical friend. He is only interested in himself while he is engaged for five years with Eleni (Beata Asimakopoulou) whom she does not say married. At the same time he is sexually attached to his czech secretary, Lilly, whom he wants to marry with an impoverished employee in order to have his hand. When she learns that Mrs. Papageorgiou (Miranda Myrat), the widow of the factory owner, intends to remarry, she does not hesitate to apply. However, his excessive selfishness and irresponsible attitude lead him to complete isolation, as everyone leaves him.

Kolonaki Conduct Zero

Kolonaki Conduct Zero

When an open-hearted folk man, a butcher of the profession, buys an apartment to stay with his family in a block of flats in a lush neighborhood, the tenants are colluding in order to get him away. The only defenders are the concierge and a general who will think of a clever way to correct the situation.

Loafing and Camouflage

Loafing and Camouflage

A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.

Malibu Express

Malibu Express

In this erotic spy tale private eye Cody Abilene teams up with the Contessa Luciana and policewoman Beverly McAfee to infiltrate a mansion and discover who is sending computer secrets to the Russians.

The Driver

The Driver

A poor taxi driver works hard in order to pay off his car and to marry his fiancee.

Papatrechas

Papatrechas

Polydoros Lagos is a janitor in an ordinary Athens' block in the 1960s who's struggling to serve as many of the building's residents as possible in order to save some money to help his six sisters (and his aunt) get married, since this is the only way he can finally get married too.

The Treasure of the Beatitude

The Treasure of the Beatitude

Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her rickety house.

Recommended Movies

Back to School

Back to School

Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.

You Should Meet My Son!

You Should Meet My Son!

A comedy about a conservative Southern mom who discovers that her only son is gay. Determined that he won’t go through life alone and miserable, she sets out to find him the perfect husband!

American Dreamer

American Dreamer

In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.

The Ritz

The Ritz

To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place where he can't be found. Unfortunately for Gaetano, the place turns out to be a gay bathhouse.

Big Business

Big Business

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.

Heavyweights

Heavyweights

Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel comfortable with their extra pounds. But when tyrannical fitness guru Tony buys the camp, he puts the kids on a cruel regimen that goes too far. Sick of the endless weeks of "all work and no play," the kids stage a coup and reclaim their summer of fun.

Adult World

Adult World

Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.

Personal Services

Personal Services

Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become the madam of a brothel and earn her financial freedom: she opens a house of spanking to fabulous reviews.

Yours, Mine and Ours

Yours, Mine and Ours

When a widower with ten children marries a widow with eight, can the twenty of them ever come together as one big happy family?

The Distinguished Gentleman

The Distinguished Gentleman

A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.

Adventures in Public School

Adventures in Public School

A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.

El Sinvergüenza

El Sinvergüenza

Married man hires a surrogate to pose as the father of the four children he has had with his mistress.

Keeping Mum

Keeping Mum

A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.

Sudden Fear

Sudden Fear

Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?

Fortress

Fortress

In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.

Pain & Gain

Pain & Gain

Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.

Brain Donors

Brain Donors

Three manic idiots—a lawyer, a cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.

Life of the Party

Life of the Party

When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna – now Dee Rock – embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.

Daddy Day Care

Daddy Day Care

Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.

In & Out

In & Out

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.