Greece

Best Greek films and rare cinema from Greece.With English subtitles.

  • Omiros Efstratiadis – Nefeli (1980)

    1971-1980EroticaGreeceOmiros Efstratiadis

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    A beautiful young woman goes to the island of Lesbos to rest, He meets two beautiful young and have a great time fucking around the world.Read More »

  • Antouanetta Angelidi – Topos (1985)

    1981-1990Antouanetta AngelidiArthouseExperimentalGreece

    Quote:
    The deconstruction of visual pleasures and the emergence of a new visual poetry.

    This experimental film is about the representation and alternative views trelated to the passage of time. The visual syntheses are assembled with the voices of the woman that gives birth and dies, and is torn by the conflicts inhabiting her body. “Topos” (Place) is in dialogue with the paintings of Uccello, Carpaccio, Cranach, De Chirico and Balthus, in an attempt to deconstruct the visual pleasures of traditional cinema, but simultaneously to give birth to an innovative seductive iconography.Read More »

  • Thanos Anastopoulos – All the weight of the world aka Olo to varos tou kosmou (2003)

    Drama2001-2010ArthouseGreeceThanos Anastopoulos
    All the weight of the world (2003)

    Quote:
    Everyone carries something, some burden that weighs him down.
    Some are crushed, others are freed, others just carry on.
    Eleven characters cross each others paths, unveiling their fears and desires, during the world weightlifting championship.
    A thousand kilos story, light as a summer breeze?Read More »

  • Orestis Laskos – Dafnis kai Hloi AKA Daphnis and Chloe (1931)

    Classics1931-1940GreeceOrestis LaskosSilent
    Dafnis kai Hloi (1931)

    Lamonas, a shepherd, discovers a baby boy nursing from a goat and takes him in as his own, naming him Dafnis. Around the same time, another shepherd, Dryantas, finds a little girl and names her Chloe.Read More »

  • Theodoros Angelopoulos – O megalexandros AKA Alexander the Great (1980)

    Drama1971-1980EpicGreeceTheodoros Angelopoulos

    Synopsis
    Lead by Alexandros (Omero Antonuti), a group of thieves escape from prison. They take several aristocrats hostage, and, together with a few anarchists, they go to Alexandros’ village, where an administrative system of common ownership and equality among all the inhabitants has been instituted. They ask the aristocrats to return the land to the villagers, but their demands are not met because soldiers have surrounded the village. The anarchists try to leave but are killed on the way. Alexandros executes the hostages; the soldiers kill his comrades, and the villagers murder him. The only survivor is a little boy named Alexandros (Ilias Zafeiropoulos), who escapes and goes to Athens.Read More »

  • Dinos Dimopoulos – Kontserto gia polyvola (1967)

    Drama1961-1970Dinos DimopoulosGreece
    Kontserto gia polyvola (1967)

    Athens, right before the beginning of WW2. Niki, an employee of the General Army HQ, is
    accused of giving classified documents to an Italian agent. She is blackmailed with threats about her brother’s life who is studying in Italy. She makes no effort to defend herself and doesn’t care if she gets convicted to death sentence, but she accepts the cooperation of General Dareios, to keep giving army documents to the Italians only these documents are falsified to deceive the enemy. A Greek captain, named Theodorou, gets involved in the case. He is in love with Niki. He gets arrested and accused for stealing the documents and is sent to martial court, where he is sentenced to death penalty….Read More »

  • Laya Yourgou – Kokkinos ouranos AKA Red Sky (2011)

    2011-2020DramaGreeceLaya YourgouRomance


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    Plot / Synopsis
    Two close friends, Aris and Stelios, have their minds on a mutual goal; they “immigrate” to the south of Greece and together they begin a banana greenhouse business in Crete. There they live secluded in a house by the countryside, with a magnificent view of the Libyan Sea having as their sole amusement Angeliki’s nearby tavern. This is a place where mostly foreign tourists arrive; drown like magnets by the magic of the unknown, red African horizon. Determined to keep women out of their lives, they, and mostly Aris, are unfriendly towards the newly arrived Cordoba, a friend of Aris’ sister who lives and works in Germany. Stelios, after going on a casual stroll with her in the island’s market, will end up going to bed with her. In a mood of recklessness that “suits” summer affairs. But this “one night stand” will develop into a relationship and lead to Cordoba moving in the house the two friends share. Feeling antagonistic, mostly towards Stelios, Aris finds himself flirting with Cordoba. In his own way, being quite the opposite of Stelios’s, he fascinates her and finally wins her erotic interest as Cordoba finds in each one of them elements she is looking for in a man’s personality.Read More »

  • Stratos Tzitzis – 45m2 (2010)

    2001-2010DramaGreeceStratos Tzitzis

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    Christina is a good looking 23 year-old girl from a working-class family. She works as a sales assistant in a classy hand-bag emporium, and belongs to what the Greeks call “the 700 euros generation” – the young people who work for the minimum wage and live with their parents, because they can’t afford to move out. But Christina has enough of that. She decides to rent a place of her own where she can find herself away from her mother’s watchful gaze. Overstretching herself financially, she moves into a 45m2 flat: the rent’s a bargain because the area’s full of foreigners. A foreigner in their midst, she takes her first steps towards freedom.Read More »

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