Some great greek films
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1. The Ogre of Athens (1956)
103 min | Crime, Drama
A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.
Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Giannis Argyris, Thanasis Vengos
Votes: 2,192
2. 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
3. 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: 867
4. The Man with the Carnation (1980)
125 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Nikos Belogiannis, member of the Greek Communist Party and officer of ELAS.
Director: Nikos Tzimas | Stars: Alekos Alexandrakis, Angelos Antonopoulos, Kostas Kazakos, Vangelis Kazan
Votes: 576
5. Truants (1996)
115 min | Drama
The story follows the sporadic reunions of six friends during the seven-year period of their integration into society.
Director: Nikos Grammatikos | Stars: Nikos Georgakis, Giorgos Evgenikos, Vangelis Mourikis, Tasos Nousias
Votes: 975
6. 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: 3,916
7. The Magic City (1954)
80 min | Crime, Drama
Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because of debts, he gets tangled up in smuggling. His morals are tested and he tries to find a way out.
Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Giorgos Foundas, Margarita Papageorgiou, Stefanos Stratigos, Thanasis Vengos
Votes: 376
8. Anna's Engagement (1972)
87 min | Drama
Anna is a servant of an old lady for ten years. The old lady chooses a man for Anna.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Anna Vagena, Smaro Veaki, Kostas Rigopoulos, Stavros Kalaroglou
Votes: 460
9. 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: 3,815
10. Quiet Days in August (1991)
108 min | Drama
Different human stories, about joyless and depressed people, in the heat of the nights and days of Athens.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Aleka Paizi, Themis Bazaka, Thanasis Vengos, Chryssoula Diavati
Votes: 248
11. Pity (2018)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Director: Babis Makridis | Stars: Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Makis Papadimitriou, Nota Tserniafski
Votes: 3,625
12. 1922 (1978)
135 min | Drama, History
The consequences of the Destruction of Smyrna and the Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey, as seen through the eyes of three characters who were dragged to the arid plains of Anatolia only to succumb to hunger, thirst, and the winner's knife.
Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Antigoni Amanitou, Zaharias Rohas, Nikos Kapios, Vasilis Kolovos
Votes: 366
13. Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei (2004)
170 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story starts in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vasilis Kolovos
Votes: 5,272 | Gross: $0.02M
14. Landscape in the Mist (1988)
TV-MA | 127 min | Drama
Two children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Eva Kotamanidou
Votes: 9,642
15. Eternity and a Day (1998)
Unrated | 137 min | Drama
Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ahilleas Skevis
Votes: 14,420 | Gross: $0.11M
16. The Tree We Hurt (1986)
75 min | Drama
The friendship between two young boys during the summertime in 60's Chios island.
Director: Dimos Avdeliodis | Stars: Yannis Avdeliodis, Nikos Mioteris, Marina Delivoria, Katerina Kyriakodi
Votes: 334
17. I hartopaihtra (1964)
94 min | Comedy
About Aleka who is obsessed with playing cards and the efforts of her husband to make her quit this bad "habit".
Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Rena Vlahopoulou, Labros Konstadaras, Lili Papayanni, Hloi Liaskou
Votes: 1,472
18. Dictator Aliki (1972)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young woman arrives in Athens along with her poodle, putting on a show as Charles Chaplin's tyrant in The Great Dictator (1940) to eke out a living. But, love always finds a way. Could a kind blind philosophy student be hope personified?
Director: Takis Vougiouklakis | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Nikos Galanos, Nikos Rizos, Lavrentis Dianellos
Votes: 383
19. Akropol (1996)
125 min | Musical, Drama
This musical shows of the Acropole dominated Greek theater during the 1950s and 60s. Acropole follows Prince, the self-made producer of this unusual and mythic theater, and Lakis, the ... See full summary »
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Lefteris Voyatzis, Stavros Paravas, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Themis Bazaka
Votes: 176
20. The Red Lanterns (1963)
132 min | Drama, Romance
The inextricably intertwined stories of five women who work as prostitutes just before the ban on brothels in Troumba.
Director: Vasilis Georgiadis | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael, Manos Katrakis
Votes: 2,024
21. Akadimia Platonos (2009)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
A Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family's past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.
Director: Filippos Tsitos | Stars: Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastasis Kozdine, Titika Sarigouli, Giorgos Souxes
Votes: 1,413
22. Oi kyries tis avlis (1966)
100 min | Comedy, Musical
In old times Athens many houses had one yard for all.This movie takes us to one of those yards where people interfere with each others lives for better or worst.
Director: Dinos Dimopoulos | Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Alekos Alexandrakis, Nora Valsami, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos
Votes: 386
23. 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: 2,707
24. Zorba the Greek (1964)
Not Rated | 142 min | Comedy, Drama
An uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 24,106
25. O methystakas (1950)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A poor cobbler has become a drunkard and the laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When she falls in love with a rich young man, her father tries in vain to hide his passion from his family.
Director: Giorgos Tzavellas | Stars: Orestis Makris, Dimitris Horn, Billy Konstantopoulou, Athanasia Moustaka
Votes: 391
26. To bloko (1965)
74 min | Drama, War
A night of 1944 the Germans capture a black marketeer in Kokkinia and pushing him to inform against the Resistance, otherwise will execute him.
Director: Adonis Kyrou | Stars: Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Alexandra Ladikou, Giannis Fertis, Kostas Kazakos
Votes: 154
27. 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: 2,466
28. 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: 3,122
29. A Neighborhood Named 'The Dream' (1961)
95 min | Drama
The stories of poor people living in a neighborhood in Athens and their difficulties.
Director: Alekos Alexandrakis | Stars: Alekos Alexandrakis, Manos Katrakis, Aliki Georgouli, Spyros Mousouris
Votes: 946
30. Please, Ladies, Don't Cry (1992)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
A village in Arcadia invites a "famous" icon painter and his assistant to restore the worn-out murals in a historic church. One is an amateur astronomer, and the other is involved in various scams.
Directors: Stavros Tsiolis, Hristos Vakalopoulos | Stars: Argyris Bakirtzis, Dimitris Vlahos, Dora Masklavanou, Nikolas Kekos
Votes: 599
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