Where There's Poverty, There's Pride (1957)

Set in mid-1950s Athens, the film marks the directorial debut of the Greek actor, writer, and director, Michalis Nikolopoulos. Pivoting around a poor Athenian neighbourhood, the movie depicts the agonies, the hardships, the sorrows, and the joys of a handful of impecunious citizens, whose vivid stories become intertwined against the backdrop of the bustling metropolis.