Greek films
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1. No Budget Story (1997)
87 min | Comedy
In order to secure money for the production of his first film, a young man asks help from a film producer. The producer, however, was involved with pornographic films.
Director: Renos Haralambidis | Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Yannis Bostantzoglou, Dimitra Papadima, Giorgos Voultzatis
Votes: 622
2. 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: 3,817
3. 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
4. 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: 110,504 | Gross: $0.11M
5. To kako (2005)
R | 83 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
An evil force is awakened in downtown Athens transforming the unsuspecting citizens into raving zombies. The few survivors will have to fight hard for their lives. To the death.
Director: Yorgos Noussias | Stars: Meletis Georgiadis, Pepi Moschovakou, Argiris Thanasoulas, Stavroula Thomopoulou
Votes: 1,893
6. 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: 13,852 | Gross: $0.01M
7. 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: 2,579
8. Apples (II) (2020)
91 min | Drama
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
Director: Christos Nikou | Stars: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis
Votes: 5,458
9. 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
10. 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: 2,448
11. 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: 8,090
12. 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: 3,919
13. 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
14. 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: 3,269
15. 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: 2,165
16. 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: 3,837
17. 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: 14,895
18. 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: 5,005
19. 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: 8,409
20. 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: 9,207
21. 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: 12,687
22. 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: 3,331
23. Common Denominator (2014)
80 min | Drama
Four men in a small traditional coffee shop talk about women.
Director: Sotiris Tsafoulias | Stars: Antonis Antoniou, Vladimiros Kyriakidis, Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Markella Giannatou
Votes: 1,943
24. 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: 7,758
25. Stella (1955)
90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Proud, independent Stella, an unconventional Rebetico singer who cherishes her freedom, finds herself in an intense whirlwind romance. Everything points to a tragic ending, and in the aftermath of passion, there can be no winners.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis, Hristina Kalogerikou
Votes: 2,963
26. 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
27. 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: 2,201
28. 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
29. Digger (2020)
101 min | Drama
A father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.
Director: Georgis Grigorakis | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Argyris Pandazaras, Sofia Kokkali, Theo Alexander
Votes: 2,938
30. 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
31. Stratos (2014)
137 min | Crime, Drama
Stratos, an ex-con, struggles to help out his former mafia boss. Then, Stratos learns his loyalty is exploited.
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Petros Zervos, Vicky Papadopoulou, Giannis Tsortekis
Votes: 3,335
32. 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: 1,316
33. 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
34. 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: 1,420
35. Ballad for a Pierced Heart (2020)
140 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets with greed money, dead bodies start pilling up and "Sleeping Beauty" Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of.
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Vicky Papadopoulou, Vassilis Bisbikis, Stathis Stamoulakatos, Giannis Tsortekis
Votes: 2,372
36. Magnetic Fields (2021)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.
Director: Yorgos Goussis | Stars: Elena Topalidou, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos, Nikos Spanides, Froso Tzanetatou
Votes: 1,829
37. 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
38. The Heart of the Beast (2005)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
After his mother's death, Stephanos inherits her debts and, in order to pay them, decides to help an old classmate who wants to rob a bank.
Director: Renos Haralambidis | Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Giorgos Voultzatis, Manos Vakousis, Jina Thliveri
Votes: 604
39. Z (1969)
M/PG | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Périer
Votes: 31,357 | Gross: $0.08M
40. Apo to balkoni (2021)
12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A middle aged lady observes the world of an Athenian neighborhood from her balcony with mixed reactions from those she constantly watches.
Director: Aris Kaplanidis | Stars: Constantina Georganta, Maria Diakopanayotou, Yannis Economides, Spyros Margaritis
Votes: 613
41. 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: 9,954
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