Weird Greek Wave
by guimp | created - 22 Nov 2019 | updated - 22 Feb 2020 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Wasted Youth (2011)
122 min | Drama
Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.
Directors: Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Jan Vogel | Stars: Haris Markou, Ieronymos Kaletsanos, Arthouros Kiviliov, Jason Wastor
Votes: 1,033
2. Boy Eating the Bird's Food (2012)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
Three days in the life of an Athens boy who is without a job, a girlfriend, or anything to eat. The only thing he has left is his canary, and he will quite literally share with it anything he's got.
Director: Ektoras Lygizos | Stars: Yiannis Papadopoulos, Lila Baklesi, Vangelis Kommatas, Kharálampos Goyós
Votes: 981
3. Interruption (II) (2015)
109 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A post modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the ... See full summary »
Director: Yorgos Zois | Stars: Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Maria Kallimani, Alexia Kaltsiki, Christos Stergioglou
Votes: 548
4. Tungsten (2011)
100 min | Drama
Two teenagers, a trolley ticket controller, a couple separating. Everyday, cross-cutting stories in an Athens with constant power outages.
Director: Giorgos Georgopoulos | Stars: Prometheus Aleifer, Omiros Poulakis, Vangelis Mourikis, Tasos Nousias
Votes: 682
5. Attenberg (2010)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Votes: 7,668 | Gross: $0.02M
6. Knifer (2010)
108 min | Drama
Following his father's death, Nikos leaves the provinces to work in Athens guarding his brutish uncle's dogs. Nikos finds the dynamic of his relationship with his uncle changing when his uncle's wife draws closer to him.
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Stathis Stamoulakatos, Vangelis Mourikis, Maria Kallimani, Giannis Voulgarakis
Votes: 1,313
7. The Lobster (2015)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman
Votes: 296,003 | Gross: $8.70M
8. Suntan (2016)
Unrated | 104 min | Drama
On a hedonistic Greek island, a middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends.
Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos | Stars: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou, Hara Kotsali, Milou Van Groesen
Votes: 8,077
9. 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: 110,324 | Gross: $0.11M
10. Alps (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Stavros Psyllakis, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Ariane Labed
Votes: 13,827 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Miss Violence (2013)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A chilling account of a horrendous family tragedy perpetuated behind closed doors. As chronic violence chips away at the household's elaborate façade, the shocking secret reveals that almost nothing is as it seems.
Director: Alexandros Avranas | Stars: Themis Panou, Reni Pittaki, Eleni Roussinou, Sissy Toumasi
Votes: 9,930
12. Xamou (2016)
87 min | Drama
A love letter to the island of Crete, this gentle Mediterranean pick-me-up posits a back-to-the-land solution to Greece's economic crisis and boasts breathtaking cinematography, haunting, original music and mouthwatering food and wine.
Director: Kleio Fanouraki | Stars: Nikos Bousdoukos, Georges Corraface, Zoe Corraface, Lefteris Eleftheriou
Votes: 35
13. Smac (2015)
110 min | Drama
A dying woman brings home a homeless man trying to overcome her fear of death to discover that it's not her death that she fears more.
Director: Elias Demetriou | Stars: Evangelia Adreadaki, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Stavroula Kontopoulou, Stefanos Mwange
Votes: 112
14. 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
15. 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: 4,344 | Gross: $0.00M
16. 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: 3,626
17. Amerika Square (2016)
86 min | Drama
A bitter Greek nationalist in Athens is horrified when his apartment building and local park become resting stops for refugees.
Director: Yannis Sakaridis | Stars: Giannis Stankoglou, Makis Papadimitriou, Vassilis Koukalani, Xenia Dania
Votes: 1,704
18. Chevalier (2015)
Unrated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the precious chevalier. Who will it be?
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Nikos Orfanos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Yiorgos Kendros
Votes: 4,967 | Gross: $0.03M
19. The Capsule (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 35 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Ariane Labed, Clémence Poésy, Isolda Dychauk, Evangelia Randou
Votes: 590
20. The Slow Business of Going (2000)
101 min | Adventure, Comedy
A mysterious woman travels the world with a rocking chair, interacting with the people she meets.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Lizzie Curry Martinez, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Gary Price, Kenny Strickland
Votes: 154
21. Afterlov (2016)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Twelve hard months after their sudden break-up, a struggling musician invites his ex-lover at a friend's sumptuous villa in search of answers. Living apart, or living together, is equally scary; but, is there an answer to every question?
Director: Stergios Paschos | Stars: Iro Bezou, Haris Fragoulis
Votes: 1,040
22. Luton (2013)
100 min | Drama
Although they seem to have no relations, the lives of a young trainee lawyer in her thirties, a wealthy high school boy trapped within the manners and etiquette of his social class, and a ... See full summary »
Director: Michalis Konstantatos | Stars: Nicholas Vlachakis, Eleftheria Komi, Christos Sapountzis, Yota Argyropoulou
Votes: 312
23. L (2012)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
It's absurd not to trust me.
Director: Babis Makridis | Stars: Aris Servetalis, Makis Papadimitriou, Lefteris Matthaiou, Nota Tserniafski
Votes: 806
24. Kinetta (2005)
95 min | Drama
At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chamber maid, a man obsessed with BMWs, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly reenacted struggles between a man and a woman.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Evangelia Randou, Aris Servetalis, Costas Xikominos, Babis Galiatsatos
Votes: 2,565
25. 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: 4,305
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