The Best Greek Films
This is a list of my favorite films from my homeland. It includes some of the finest and most acclaimed films in the history of Greek cinema along with a few personal favorites; also featuring the best works of Theo Angelopoulos, arguably the most famous of Greek directors and one of the most masterful auteurs of world cinema.
If you think that some movie is missing, it's not necessarily because I don't like it. Chances are that I've not seen it; I have an experience of more than 500 films with Greece as country of origin, but there's still more to explore. The list is constantly changing and expanding.
I would hope that you find this list of The Best Greek Films helpful whether you're a compatriot or a viewer of the international audience.
If you think that some movie is missing, it's not necessarily because I don't like it. Chances are that I've not seen it; I have an experience of more than 500 films with Greece as country of origin, but there's still more to explore. The list is constantly changing and expanding.
I would hope that you find this list of The Best Greek Films helpful whether you're a compatriot or a viewer of the international audience.
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- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsVangelis KazanEva KotamanidouGiorgos DanisOn New Year's Eve, a group of hunters finds the frozen body of a dead WWII partisan fighter. They spend the night debating what to do with it.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsOlga KarlatosGeorge DialegmenosDimitris PoulikakosA father moves with his three sons and their beautiful, hard working servant in a big, old house in the countryside, where a weird drowsiness seems to occupy the four men. Will it be possible for one of them to break free?
- DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsStathis PapadopoulosCostas KotsianidisPanagiotis ChartomatsidisA group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city's repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsManos KatrakisMary HronopoulouDionysis PapagiannopoulosAn old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.
- DirectorGiorgos TzavellasStarsVasilis LogothetidisIlia LivykouMimis FotopoulosPivoting around a shiny counterfeit gold sovereign freshly milled from the clandestine workshop of an otherwise honest goldsmith, four brief vignettes of human imperfection; seduction; fate; desire, and devotion inextricably interweave.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsAndreas KonstantinouAndré HennickeMelia KreilingThe 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.
- DirectorNikos FoskolosStarsNikos KourkoulosMary HronopoulouManos KatrakisAngelos Kreouzis survives a shipwreck and reveals to the committee in charge that the disaster was not an accident, but the consequence of the neglect of the ship by those responsible.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsMarcello MastroianniNadia MourouziSerge ReggianiA bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.
- DirectorNikos FoskolosStarsNikos KourkoulosManos KatrakisEleni ErimouAn incorruptible examiner finds the real culprit of a brutal homicide and tries to release his wrongfully accused ex-lover. Now, he is closer to the solution; but, it takes courage to face the facts. Is he prepared to confront the truth?
- DirectorCostas FerrisStarsSotiria LeonardouNikos KalogeropoulosMichalis ManiatisThe story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
- DirectorNikos GrammatikosStarsVangelis MourikisMarilita LambropoulouMinas HatzisavvasA 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?
- DirectorGiannis DalianidisStarsZoi LaskariNikos KourkoulosMirka KalatzopoulouA blonde diva breaks up with her arrogant libertine boyfriend, hurting his dangerous male ego. And as the pain of humiliation clouds the mind, the lethal revolver in her hand demands revenge. Who is to blame for her downfall?
- DirectorGiorgos PanousopoulosYorgos TsemberopoulosGiorgos TsemperopoulosStarsBetty LivanouAris RetsosGiorgos SiskosOn a hot Athenian July, a reclusive Astronomy student spots a disillusioned woman with his telescope, and his dull existence takes on a new meaning. They coexist in time and space; but, they are so far apart. Will they ever become one?
- DirectorAlekos SakellariosStarsNikos StavridisMimis FotopoulosMaro KodouWhen it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur or a lost pair of bumblebee-yellow gloves. But, are his fears justified or is this case of the lost fashion accessories a big misunderstanding?
- DirectorVasilis GeorgiadisStarsNikos KourkoulosMary HronopoulouGiannis VoglisIn Greece, in the early part of the 20th century, two brothers from a wealthy landowning family have opposite views on how the poor workers who work on their land should be treated.
- DirectorVasilis GeorgiadisStarsJenny KareziGiorgos FoundasDimitris PapamichaelThe inextricably intertwined stories of five women who work as prostitutes just before the ban on brothels in Troumba.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsMelina MercouriGiorgos FoundasAlekos AlexandrakisProud, 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.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsNikos KourisAthina MaximouZoe NalbantiOn 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.
- DirectorKostas GerampinisStarsLazarou FotisPavlos IordanopoulosPaschalis KaratzasThodoris is a lonely 25-year-old who spends his days working out. When he signs up to a new gym, he meets Vicky, a sexy 30 year old trainer. He tries to claim her attention as he struggles with his shame, image and repressed libido.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsEva KotamanidouVangelis KazanAliki GeorgouliGreece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.
- DirectorAsimina ProedrouStarsStathis StamoulakatosEleni OuzounidouEvgenia LavdaA tragic incident on Greece's northern border strikes a local family of three, pushing them to face their own personal impasses, while having to deeply consider the price for their actions.
- DirectorSotiris TsafouliasStarsPigmalion DadakaridisDimitris KatalifosManos VakousisA professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriJules DassinGiorgos FoundasAn American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
- DirectorGiorgos GeorgopoulosStarsPrometheus AleiferOmiros PoulakisVangelis MourikisTwo teenagers, a trolley ticket controller, a couple separating. Everyday, cross-cutting stories in an Athens with constant power outages.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsOmero AntonuttiEva KotamanidouMihalis GiannatosA rebel leader calling himself Alexander the Great escapes from prison and captures some English tourists to hold as hostages. He returns to his village and finds there a commune in existence.