Origin 6 - Greek
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1. The Christmas Tango (2011)
102 min | Drama, Romance
At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.
Director: Nikos Koutelidakis | Stars: Giannis Bezos, Giannis Stankoglou, Antinoos Albanis, Vicky Papadopoulou
Votes: 3,772
2. Little England (2013)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Romance
An epic tale of lost love and a beautiful story of the love between sisters, set in the Greek island of Andros at the beginning of the 20th century.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Penelope Tsilika, Sofia Kokkali, Aneza Papadopoulou, Andreas Konstantinou
Votes: 7,761
3. A Touch of Spice (2003)
108 min | Drama
A Greek boy grows up to become a talented cook after political turmoil forces his family to leave Turkey.
Director: Tassos Boulmetis | Stars: Georges Corraface, Ieroklis Michaelidis, Renia Louizidou, Tamer Karadagli
Votes: 14,897
4. What If... (2012)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance
Under the Athenian night sky, before the silent threat of an imminent socio-economic crisis, a young man goes for a stroll and meets the love of his life. Does fate govern one's existence? What would have happened if he stayed in, instead?
Director: Christopher Papakaliatis | Stars: Christopher Papakaliatis, Marina Kalogirou, Giorgos Konstadinou, Maro Kodou
Votes: 8,410
5. Brides (2004)
128 min | Drama, Romance
Set in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Damian Lewis, Victoria Haralabidou, Andréa Ferréol, Evi Saoulidou
Votes: 5,006
6. Roza of Smyrna (2016)
97 min | Drama, Romance
During the volatile 1987 Aegean crisis, a collector sets out to the memory-laden coast of Asia Minor and unearths a haunting mystery dating back to the Great Fire of Smyrna. Can a blood sacrifice appease decades of pain and suffering?
Director: George Kordellas | Stars: Tasos Nousias, Lida Protopsalti, Evgenia Dimitropoulou, Yilmaz Gruda
Votes: 2,071
7. Psyhi vathia (2009)
142 min | Drama, War
Near the end of the Greek Civil War two brothers find themselves in opposite sides.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Giorgos Symeonidis, Victoria Haralabidou, Kostas Kleftogiannis
Votes: 2,598
8. The Last Note (2017)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, History, War
The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters and Communists by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Andreas Konstantinou, André Hennicke, Melia Kreiling, Tasos Dimas
Votes: 3,332
9. Cloudy Sunday (2015)
116 min | Drama, Music, War
During the tumultuous 1943, against the backdrop of a German-occupied Thessaloniki, two star-crossed lovers struggle to surmount prejudice and fear, as the brutalities against the town's persecuted Jewish community escalate.
Director: Manousos Manousakis | Stars: Andreas Konstantinou, Vasiliki Troufakou, Adrian Frieling, Gerasimos Skiadaressis
Votes: 1,977
10. Kazantzakis (2017)
120 min | Biography
Biographical film of the life of the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis.
Director: Yannis Smaragdis | Stars: Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Marina Kalogirou, Thodoris Atheridis, Nikos Kardonis
Votes: 1,971
11. 1968 (I) (2018)
93 min | History, Sport
A.E.K., the well-known Greek basketball team founded in 1924 by refugees from Constantinople, after 44 years, beats SLAVIA of Prague and wins the European Cup.
Directors: Tasos Boulmetis, Tassos Boulmetis | Stars: Alexis Agrafiadis, Alexandros Amerikanos, Pepi Amerikanou, Antonis Antoniou
Votes: 1,552
12. Mythopathy (2016)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
From the day the first love worries appear in Stavros, his desire to tell stories in his own, subversive way ignites.
Director: Tassos Boulmetis | Stars: Yiannis Niarros, Themis Panou, Maria Kallimani, Taxiarhis Hanos
Votes: 1,203
13. Pente lepta akoma (2006)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Tasos dies in a car accident, but he is given five more minutes of life to use them as he wishes.
Director: Giannis Xanthopoulos | Stars: Vassilis Haralambopoulos, Panayiota Vlanti, Fanis Mouratidis, Dimitris Piatas
Votes: 2,402
14. It's a Long Road (1998)
118 min | Drama
Three men head towards a turning point in their lives.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Thanasis Vengos, Giorgos Armenis, Dimitris Katalifos, Kostas Kazanas
Votes: 2,468
15. Stone Years (1985)
142 min | Drama, History, Romance
A young couple fight for their love and freedom.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Themis Bazaka, Dimitris Katalifos, Maria Martika, Eirini Inglesi
Votes: 868
16. Worlds Apart (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
In modern Greece, while socioeconomic turmoil ravages Southern Europe, three distinct stories unfold, each representing a different generation of Greeks in love with a foreigner, each story coming together in the end to form a whole.
Director: Christopher Papakaliatis | Stars: J.K. Simmons, Maria Kavoyianni, Andrea Osvárt, Christopher Papakaliatis
Votes: 9,211
17. God Loves Caviar (2012)
TV-14 | 101 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The Greek pirate who turned businessman, Ioannis Varvakis, made his fortune selling caviar in Russia and all over the world. Varvakis strives all his life for freedom for himself and then for his country.
Director: Yannis Smaragdis | Stars: Sebastian Koch, Evgeniy Stychkin, Juan Diego Botto, Olga Sutulova
Votes: 3,145
18. Strella (2009)
111 min | Drama
Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young transsexual sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with Yorgos.
Director: Panos H. Koutras | Stars: Mina Orfanou, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Argyris Kavidas
Votes: 4,309
19. Xenia (2014)
Unrated | 134 min | Drama, Romance
Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.
Director: Panos H. Koutras | Stars: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Giannis Stankoglou, Marisha Triantafyllidou
Votes: 4,346 | Gross: $0.00M
20. Spirtokouto (2003)
80 min | Drama
During an unbearably hot Athenian summer, a cramped flat becomes a hellish urban battlefield for an ornamental paterfamilias and his family. Now, ugly truths and deleterious words become weapons in a dirty war. Can they emerge unscathed?
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Errikos Litsis, Eleni Kokkidou, Costas Xikominos, Giannis Voulgarakis
Votes: 3,819
21. I psyhi sto stoma (2006)
117 min | Drama
Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money.
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Errikos Litsis, Vangelis Mourikis, Maria Kehayioglou, Giannis Voulgarakis
Votes: 1,708
22. I horodia tou Haritona (2005)
135 min | Comedy, Music
The flirtatious headmaster of a school in a small town prepares his pupils for the Choir Olympics. The arrival of the new army commander in town upsets the headmaster, as they both fall in love with the same woman.
Director: Grigoris Karantinakis | Stars: Georges Corraface, Akilas Karazisis, Maria Nafpliotou, Christos Stergioglou
Votes: 447
23. Perfect Strangers (2016)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Seven friends meet up for dinner on a full moon Friday night and deep secrets will come to the surface, shaking their lives and threatening their relationships.
Director: Thodoris Atheridis | Stars: Thodoris Atheridis, Smaragda Karydi, Alkis Kourkoulos, Maria Nafpliotou
Votes: 2,161
24. Afti i nyhta menei (2000)
112 min | Drama, Music, Romance
On the brink of the new millennium, a young aspiring singer leaves Athens for the seedy nightclubs of the rough Greek province, bent on getting her big break amid milky-white cigarette smokes, decayed divas--and ultimately--broken hopes.
Director: Nikos Panayotopoulos | Stars: Nikos Kouris, Athina Maximou, Zoe Nalbanti, Kostas Markopoulos
Votes: 1,429
25. The Other Me (2016)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.
Director: Sotiris Tsafoulias | Stars: Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Dimitris Katalifos, Manos Vakousis, Ioanna Kolliopoulou
Votes: 12,693
26. Peppermint (1999)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
With the sweet taste of love's first kiss in his mouth, an engineer takes a trip down memory lane after receiving an invitation from an old friend. Thirty years after that innocent peck on the lips, fate reunites two estranged soulmates.
Director: Costas Kapakas | Stars: Georges Corraface, Ageliki Spiliopoulou, Anny Loulou, Alexandros Mylonas
Votes: 997
27. Uranya (2006)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of young boys must decide whether to buy a TV set to watch the launch of Apollo 11 or visit Uranya to learn about the secrets of love.
Director: Costas Kapakas | Stars: Aris Tsapis, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Dimitris Piatas, Manolis Mavromatakis
Votes: 1,435
28. Afstiros katallilo (2008)
110 min | Comedy
Two young Greek filmmakers seeking financing for their film "The End of the Passion" and end up with "Panourgias" a former porn-king of the 70s. He agrees to shoot the film but he also has another secret plan.
Directors: Thanasis Papathanasiou, Michalis Reppas | Stars: Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Penelope Pitsouli, Dimitris Tzoumakis
Votes: 2,166
29. To klama vgike ap' ton Paradeiso (2001)
110 min | Comedy, Musical
It is a parody, which mimics with a sweet and nostalgic mood the whole spectrum of the old Greek cinema of the 60's.
Directors: Thanasis Papathanasiou, Michalis Reppas | Stars: Anna Panagiotopoulou, Mirka Papakonstantinou, Tasos Halkias, Maria Kavoyianni
Votes: 3,276
30. Safe Sex (1999)
100 min | Comedy
A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. We see several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way as the film progresses.
Directors: Thanasis Papathanasiou, Michalis Reppas | Stars: Mina Adamaki, Alexandros Antonopoulos, Kostas Grekas, Vaso Goulielmaki
Votes: 3,838
31. Bank Bang (2008)
97 min | Comedy, Crime
Two brothers, Mihalis and Nondas are working in a mortuary trying to make money, since Nondas owes a great amount of money to the Greek Mob and has to repay it; so he proposes to Mihalis ... See full summary »
Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos | Stars: Vassilis Haralambopoulos, Dimitris Imellos, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Michalis Iatropoulos
Votes: 1,538
32. Eftihia (2019)
123 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who escaped the burning of Smyrna and journeyed to Athens, Greece, where she became a major figure in Greek popular music and the beloved lyricist of the country.
Director: Angelos Frantzis | Stars: Karyofyllia Karabeti, Katia Goulioni, Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Thanos Tokakis
Votes: 5,478
33. Cheap Smokes (2000)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
As the lights flicker on a warm August night amid vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he has just met. The perfect strangers stroll around the city's quiet night streets, changed by the unforgettable journey.
Director: Renos Haralambidis | Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Anna-Maria Papaharalambous, Michalis Iatropoulos, Kostas Tsakonas
Votes: 3,924
34. Tsiou... (2005)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
An ex drug addict tells his hilarious adventure on his way to find heroin, mid August, in Athens.
Director: Makis Papadimitratos | Stars: Alexandros Parisis, Makis Papadimitratos, Anastasis Kolovos, Jenny Theona
Votes: 2,449
35. Oi gennaioi tis Samothrakis (2003)
85 min | Comedy
During the blood-soaked Turkish invasion in Cyprus in 1974, a company of soldiers end up in the sun-kissed island of Samothrace in the northern Aegean Sea, against the backdrop of the violent and terrible events that shatter the country.
Director: Stamatis Tsarouchas | Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Costas Santas, Dimitris Piatas, Stavros Nikolaidis
Votes: 641
36. Straight Story (2006)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This film is about an upside down world, where being homosexual is considered "normal" and heterosexual is considered "not normal".
Directors: Vladimiros Kyriakidis, Efi Mouriki | Stars: Hristos Hatzipanagiotis, Vladimiros Kyriakidis, Anthem Moss, Kanellina Menouti
Votes: 3,093
37. Honey and the Pig (2005)
86 min | Comedy
Manos returns to his hometown where he finds his children love and starts a chain of events that leads to the uncovering of a dark secret.
Director: Olga Malea | Stars: Christos Loulis, Fay Xyla, Vladimiros Kyriakidis, Haris Mavroudis
Votes: 562
38. Back Door (2000)
105 min | Drama
An Athens youth has adulthood thrust upon him after he loses his father.
Director: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos | Stars: Konstandinos Papadimitriou, Alexandriani Sikelianou, Haris Sozos, Ieroklis Michaelidis
Votes: 547
39. O orgasmos tis ageladas (1996)
90 min | Comedy
A cow's eye-opening climax inspires two young women to break all taboos and chase their dreams beyond the narrow confines of their families and village.
Director: Olga Malea | Stars: Irini Balta, Natalia Stylianou, Eleni Gerasimidou, Katerina Didaskalou
Votes: 422
40. Rizoto (2000)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two mothers/wives devise a solution to the downsides of marriage.
Director: Olga Malea | Stars: Anna Mascha, Dimitra Matsouka, Kleon Gregoriadis, Constantine Markoulakis
Votes: 421
41. Sose me (2001)
100 min | Drama
A young woman is trapped by the mistakes she has made in her life and struggles to free herself from their stranglehold. Despite her efforts to gain lost time she doesn't make it and asks the man she once loved to save her.
Director: Stratos Tzitzis | Stars: Maria Zorba, Alekos Sissovitis, Vassiliki Deliou, Yorgos Karamihos
Votes: 315
42. Adults in the Room (2019)
124 min | Drama, History
Greece in 2015: the economy is in tatters and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. A new government rebels against the EU's iron-fisted rule and inspires millions of Europeans. Based on the political memoirs of Yanis Varoufakis.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Ulrich Tukur, Daan Schuurmans
Votes: 6,211
43. Valkanizater (1997)
97 min | Comedy
Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.
Director: Sotiris Goritsas | Stars: Gerasimos Skiadaressis, Stelios Mainas, Katharina Zapatka, Giota Festa
Votes: 904
44. As perimenoun oi gynaikes! (1998)
87 min | Comedy
Two men travel to Thassos, where their families are on vacation. On the way, however, various unexpected and comic events happen to them.
Director: Stavros Tsiolis | Stars: Giannis Zouganelis, Argyris Bakirtzis, Sakis Boulas, Angeliki Iliadi
Votes: 2,708
45. The King (2002)
130 min | Drama
A former drug addict gets a new lease of life in his grandfather's dilapidated rural house, only to face the unwritten laws of the close-knit community. Now, all that's needed is a catalyst. Who can stop the advent of hell on New Paradise?
Director: Nikos Grammatikos | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Marilita Lambropoulou, Minas Hatzisavvas, Babis Giotopoulos
Votes: 2,563
46. Glykia symmoria (1983)
154 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A band of handsome Athenian pariahs waiting for a miracle have a fateful encounter with the ever-present state instead. And as the law's suffocating stranglehold tightens around them, the shotguns have the final say.
Director: Nikos Nikolaidis | Stars: Despina Tomazani, Dora Masklavanou, Takis Moshos, Takis Spyridakis
Votes: 1,706
47. O hamenos ta pairnei ola (2002)
121 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A cynical man, along with a 19 year old musician, a former lover, an alcoholic client of a bar and a black strip club dancer are involved with anarchist mood in a dangerous game with drugs godfathers of the night, cops and media.
Director: Nikos Nikolaidis | Stars: Giannis Angelakas, Jenny Kitseli, Ifigenia Asteriadi, Simeon Nikolaidis
Votes: 1,428
48. Rembetiko (1983)
110 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
Director: Costas Ferris | Stars: Sotiria Leonardou, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis, Themis Bazaka
Votes: 3,124
49. Dogtooth (2009)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis
Votes: 110,602 | Gross: $0.11M
50. Mathe paidi mou grammata (1981)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small Greek village, short time after the collapse of the Junta regime, a memorial of those who died in the German occupation of Greece brings in the surface the political differences of a conservative teacher and his two sons.
Director: Thodoros Maragos | Stars: Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Anna Matzourani, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Christos Kalavrouzos
Votes: 1,218
51. Fish n' Chips (2011)
102 min | Drama
A hard working Cypriot immigrant in London finally opens his very own chip shop. But his dream turns into a nightmare, as he seems to have overlooked one small detail: Cyprus just isn't London.
Director: Elias Demetriou | Stars: Marios Ioannou, Marlene Kaminsky, Anne-Marie O'Sullivan, Diomedes Koufteros
Votes: 240
52. The Right Pocket of the Robe (2018)
100 min | Drama
A monk of a Greek monastery, tries to cope with the unbearable sadness and loneliness , when he loses his little dog, the only companion he has got.
Director: Giannis Lapatas | Stars: Thodoros Antoniadis, Gerasimos Skiadaressis, Manos Vakousis, Kostas Laskos
Votes: 121
53. Matzourana (2013)
89 min | Drama, Thriller
A mother is pressuring her young daughter to do well on a competitive cooking show, until the daughter begins to behave strangely.
Director: Olga Malea | Stars: Natalia Dragoumi, Maria Riskaki, Iosif Polyzoidis, Youlika Skafida
Votes: 202
54. The Waiter (I) (2018)
TV-MA | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Renos, a lonely professional waiter, sees his well-organized life routine changing after an unexpected series of events.
Director: Steve Krikris | Stars: Aris Servetalis, Giannis Stankoglou, Alexandros Mavropoulos, Chiara Gensini
Votes: 1,473
55. Ta kalytera mas hronia (2020–2023)
45 min | Comedy, Family
The youngest of the Antonopoulou family, the eight-year-old Angelos and storyteller, will travel with us in the late 60's, when television was slowly entering the family living rooms, in "Our Best Years".
Stars: Katerina Papoutsaki, Meletis Ilias, Vassilis Haralambopoulos, Dimitris Kapouranis
Votes: 447
56. Oneiropagida (2010–2011)
Comedy, Romance
On an isolated island, hidden in the trees, there is 'Dreamcatcher'. It is the perfect destination for dreams to come true and also the hostel owned by Petros. Katerina will find herself ... See full summary »
Stars: Yorgos Karamihos, Maria Solomou, Tasos Halkias, Christina Tsafou
Votes: 203
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