Best Greek films and rare cinema from Greece.With English subtitles.
Set in a post-fire landscape, anthos traces two bodies as they lean toward the earth, opening themselves to processes of decay and renewal. Bound and entangled with ropes, knots, and charred treebarks, their interaction unfolds through gestures of restraint, touch, and growth. The film imagines queer bodies as tender, fertile terrains — where ecological and intimate transformations take root — a quiet meditation on regeneration, intimacy, vulnerability, and care.Read More »
A young woman has to face her fear and the guilt that plagues her after the loss of her sister on a bleak and remote Greek island.Read More »
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Totally disconnected from his past and memory, the Passenger tries to define himself, confronted by his pre-determined fate, a fate that he has to re-live upon every anniversary of his death.Read More »
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The film explores the significance of Greece’s national symbol, the Acropolis, in the creation of national identity and collective memory. Likening the “sacred rock” to the female body, the film attempts to make a comment on the timeless exploitation of the monument, while exploring the relation of History to pornography.Read More »
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EVE (1953) heralds the arrival of cinematic modernism in Europe, in the same way that Agnes Varda’s Pointe-Courte, is now considered in the bibliography to be the forerunner of the French Nouvelle Vague. Eve is the filmmaker’s first work with a plot set in the present and based on an original script that explores themes of betrayal and marital oppression through the story of a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage who begins a passionate affair. Maria Plyta created a radical representation of female sexual desire, female self-actualization, and presenting the male body as a source of visual pleasure. Additionally, with Eve, Plyta raises concerns about the institution of marriage, which can trap two people in a daily life full of anger, depression, and even hatred.Read More »
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Daisy Alexiou is a very conscientious traffic controlling police officer who happens to be near the scene of a bank robbery and manages to save police Captain Marcos Angelou’s life as well as chase the fleeing robber. For she’s brave and altruistic (let alone beautiful), she’s made police Lieutenant overnight and joins the newly formed Women’s Department in the Hellenic Police Force. She especially asks for a position in the Narcotics Prosecution Bureau and she has her reasons for doing so.Read More »
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On the island of Chios in the 1960s and a few days before schools close for the summer vacations, the friendship between Giannis and Vangelis is overshadowed by a minor misunderstanding. Before long, however, the misunderstanding is put behind them, and the two boys intensely experience various moments of the island’s social life, as well as an unforgettable summer in the company of all their friends. Tenderness and childish “hellishness” alternate with romantic feelings and nostalgia. The film, largely autobiographical, unfolds through a lyrical lament for lost innocence, and its recovery becomes a matter of memory and artistic creation.Read More »
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To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.Read More »
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A peaceful innocent man is mistaken for a serial ravisher and killer who looks very much like him. He finds himself on the run by everyone that knows him, and finally hides inside a night club owned by small crooks. In his face, they see the leader that will give them everything they desire…Read More »