PLOT:
At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chambermaid, a man obsessed with BMW cars, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly re-enacted struggles between a man and a woman.Read More »
Greece
Best Greek films and rare cinema from Greece.With English subtitles.
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Yorgos Lanthimos – Kinetta (2005)
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Panos H. Koutras – Alithini zoi AKA Real Life (2004)
2001-2010DramaFantasyGreecePanos H. KoutrasQuote:
Aris, 27 years old, returns home after a long journey… His mother, an eccentric and lonely woman lives together with her secretary, Sylvia and her loyal gardener mute Christos. Her house is famous not only for its view in Acropolis but also for his pool: the deepest in Europe. Determined to leave behind his past and start a new life, Aris, will search the secret of his youth, he will fall in love with a poor girl, Alexandra and he will confront his own ghosts. In the meanwhile a fire turns Athens into a living hell…Read More » -
Sotiris Stamatis – Mia nyhta sto theatro AKA A Νight at the Theater (2022)
2021-2030DramaGreeceSotiris StamatisTwo hundred years after the Greek Revolution, a coup d’état is underway in Greece. A man named Odysseus hides in a theater for three days. On the third night, a woman named Athena finds him in his shelter. As the night passes by, they slowly transform into the mythological characters of the same name.Read More »
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Costas Zapas – Agapi, agapi, agapi AKA Love, Love, Love (2016)
2011-2020Costas ZapasDramaGreeceThriller“Love, Love, Love” unfolds the chronicle of two couples who experience love and passion to its limits: the exotic and forty years old strip-dancer Stella with the loner ex-playboy and fifty years old Nick, but also of Stella’s teenage daughter Fani with the immature Hector. They all lack love and they want it more than anything in the world. Will love be able to change the fate of these people? Will love be able to beat something colossal as fate? And if it can, how far will they go for love?Read More »
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Alexandros Avranas – Love Me Not AKA Não Me Ames (2017)
2011-2020Alexandros AvranasDramaGreeceThrillerA couple hires a migrant to be a surrogate mother on their behalf, and take her to their beautiful home. While he is at work, the two women become more intimate.Read More »
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George Kordellas – I Roza tis Smyrnis AKA Roza of Smyrna (2016)
Drama2021-2030George KordellasGreeceRomanceThe enigmatic old woman Rosa from Izmir and the powerful Ismael live for decades with the weight of a well-kept secret. An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition in a renowned museum in Athens on Culture of Nationalities who cohabited in Izmir before the genocide. In a trip to Izmir with the curator of the museum and his girlfriend Rita, he accidentally finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained with blood. An old photograph, a wedding dress soiled with blood and a letter, become the reason to retract their story from the past.Read More »
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Erricos Andreou – To agistri AKA The Hook (1976)
1971-1980CrimeErricos AndreouGreeceThrillerKostas is an all-powerful tycoon, in love with his beautiful wife, Iro, who, however, is cheating on him with a young playboy, Nikos. The two lovers are planning to kill Kostas, and believe that the opportunity arises during a yachting regatta, where the crime can appear as an accident. Nikos, however, falls into the sea, and his body is never found. The police investigating the cause of the accident don’t believe the claims of Nikos’ fiancée that her fiancé was murdered. As it turns out, Kostas was aware of his wife and Nikos’ plans, and the disappearance of the latter was his idea for revenge. Nevertheless, the conflict of the married couple will be fatal for everyone.Read More »
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Evi Kalogiropoulou – Ston throno tou Xerxi AKA On Xerxes’ Throne (2022)
2021-2030Evi KalogiropoulouGreeceShort FilmQuote:
A ban on physical contact in a dystopian workplace has turned interaction into otherworldly simulations. The suppression of touch transformed the boatyard into charged landscape of alienation and sensuality beyond heteronormative desires.Read More » -
Antouanetta Angelidi – Kleftis i I pragmatikotita AKA Thief of Reality (2001)
Antouanetta Angelidi2001-2010ArthouseGreeceSynopsis
«Reality steals your dreams, and you steal it in order to dream. Reality steals your life, and you steal it in order to live.» A darkly optimistic film. Three versions of a single day. Three characters trapped in parallel universes. The invasion of the Thief will unite them. Each point of view produces a different story. The Sculptress has visions of Judgment Day, the Scientist holds fast to a fragmented memory, the Actor sees «Antigone» invading all space. Three philosophical viewpoints: Fate – Chance – Free Will. What do they have in common? The Thief progresses towards an answer. It is the human condition that unites us, imprisons us and frees us. The brotherhood of mortality. Whatever I spent, I had. Whatever I saved, I lost. Whatever I gave, I have.Read More »









