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- DirectorSotiris TsafouliasStarsPigmalion DadakaridisDimitris KatalifosManos VakousisA professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.
- DirectorAnna RezanStarsAnna RezanPantelis KodogiannisNina BenrubiThe story of the Greek Jews during the Holocaust,the Axis occupation,the resistance,the role of the Christian clergy;a hymn to love and courage as it is discovered by a young woman in her quest to uncover her Greek Jewish family's history.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsAnthony QuinnAlan BatesIrene PapasAn uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
- DirectorVasilis GeorgiadisStarsJenny KareziGiorgos FoundasDimitris PapamichaelThe inextricably intertwined stories of five women who work as prostitutes just before the ban on brothels in Troumba.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriJules DassinGiorgos FoundasAn American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
- DirectorDimitris NakosStarsAkilas KarazisisMaria SkoulaXenia KalogeropoulouTassos, a man just over 50 years old, with a career in the marketing and commercial direction of large corporations, has been unemployed for three years now.
- DirectorDimitris KatsimirisStarsThanassis ChalkiasIlektra GennataGiorgos IeronymakisOn the day of their ailing, elderly father's birthday, the reunion of three siblings leads to an intense confrontation after which their lives can no longer remain the same.
- DirectorYorgos GoussisStarsElena TopalidouAntonis TsiotsiopoulosNikos SpanidesHaving 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.
- DirectorDimitris KatsimirisStarsThanassis ChalkiasGiannis TsortekisA woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother.
- DirectorPanagiotis KountourasAristarchos PapadanielStarsAristarchos PapadanielAs a mummy portrait of Fayum, the gaze of the Poet who "brought to Art" "things half glimpsed, faces or lines" distinguishes with the corner of his eye the souls procession at Mati's little corner. Audiovisual epigram in memory. To no avail.
- DirectorFokion BogrisStarsKostas StefanakisVangelis MourikisChristos NatsiosA hard-boiled ex-cop, against the background of a pitiless and cold-blooded revenge, stands alone before the Mob, his personal demons and a grand, yet violent catharsis.
- DirectorAlexander LeontaritisStarsTonia SotiropoulouAnna FonsouMaria IoannouFive people wake up in an abandoned warehouse. None of them has any recollection of memory of who they are and how they got there.All of them have to remember and to find a way to get out of this place before it is too late.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsChristos StergioglouMichele ValleyAngeliki PapouliaA controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
- DirectorYelena PopovicStarsAris ServetalisAlexander PetrovMickey RourkeExiled unjustly, convicted without trial, slandered without cause. Man of God depicts the trials and tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, as he bears the unjust hatred of his enemies while preaching the Word of God.
- DirectorGrigoris KarantinakisStarsMimi DenissiLeonidas KakourisBurak HakkiMembers of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.
- DirectorAngelos FrantzisStarsKaryofyllia KarabetiKatia GoulioniPigmalion DadakaridisThe story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who escaped the burning of Smyrna and journeyed to Athens, Greece, where she became a major figure in Greek popular music and the beloved lyricist of the country.
- DirectorAlexandros AvranasStarsThemis PanouReni PittakiEleni RoussinouA 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.
- DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsErrikos LitsisEleni KokkidouCostas XikominosDuring 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?
- DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsVicky PapadopoulouVassilis BisbikisStathis StamoulakatosIn 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.
- DirectorYannis SakaridisStarsGiannis StankoglouMakis PapadimitriouVassilis KoukalaniA bitter Greek nationalist in Athens is horrified when his apartment building and local park become resting stops for refugees.
- DirectorAsteris KutulasStarsMikis TheodorakisSandra von RuffinStathis Papadopoulos60 stories based on 60 bits of music in a clip-style docu-fiction about musical anarchist Mikis Theodorakis (Z, Serpico, Zorba, Canto General).
- DirectorTassos BoulmetisStarsGeorges CorrafaceIeroklis MichaelidisRenia LouizidouA Greek boy grows up to become a talented cook after political turmoil forces his family to leave Turkey.
- DirectorNikos KoutelidakisStarsGiannis BezosGiannis StankoglouAntinoos AlbanisAt the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsPenelope TsilikaSofia KokkaliAneza PapadopoulouAn 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.
- DirectorThanasis PapathanasiouMichalis ReppasStarsMina AdamakiAlexandros AntonopoulosKostas GrekasA 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.
- DirectorThanasis PapathanasiouMichalis ReppasStarsOdysseas PapaspiliopoulosPigmalion DadakaridisPenelope PitsouliTwo 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.
- DirectorRenos HaralambidisStarsRenos HaralambidisAnna-Maria PapaharalambousMichalis IatropoulosAs 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.
- DirectorDennis IliadisStarsKaterina TsavalouDanae SkiadiIoannis PapazisisLeaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsAlkis PanagiotidisKonstantinos TzoumasRita BensousanFive friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence.
- DirectorNikos ZervosStarsSpiros PapadopoulosIlias LogothetisNadia MourouziWhether by mistake or design, everyone around a famous psychiatrist is bent on ruining him. His effortless composure keeps everything from falling apart; however, what happens if the poisonous women around him start making demands on him?
- DirectorDinos KatsouridisStarsThanasis VengosEfi RoditiAntonis PapadopoulosStill owing his truck to his voracious employer, and with his sister still dangerously unmarried, a poor lorry driver meets an equally wronged young woman and realises that not all wars can be won. Can his trusted gun right the wrongs?
- DirectorDinos DimopoulosStarsJenny KareziDionysis PapagiannopoulosAndreas BarkoulisIn order to help her father who has financial problems, Tzeni agrees to a fake marriage with his political rival.
- DirectorGiannis DalianidisStarsRena VlahopoulouHronis ExarhakosVagelis SeilinosSometimes, the circumstances call for reckless bravery--and just like that--a humble neighbourhood seamstress becomes an enchanting Parisian couturière bent on dazzling Mykonos' haut monde. But, is all fair in love and war?
- DirectorAlekos SakellariosStarsRena VlahopoulouAndreas BarkoulisNora ValsamiA hard-working hotel cleaner poses as an undercover hippie aunt when her daughter and her free-spirited flower-child fiancé take refuge in a happy commune of non-conformists. Will she manage to talk some sense into her radical child?
- DirectorFilippos KoutsaftisStarsPanagiotis FarmakisThe past and the present coexist in a place spoiled by modern industry but which long ago hosted the Eleusinian Mysteries, the secret ceremonies that initiated the ancient Greeks into the miracles of life, death and the afterlife.
- 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.
- DirectorAlekos SakellariosStarsOrestis MakrisGeorgia VasileiadouJenny KareziAunt Calliopi returns to Greece from Chicago after 30 years and plans to marry off her nieces.
- DirectorChristopher PapakaliatisStarsJ.K. SimmonsMaria KavoyianniAndrea OsvártIn 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.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsMarcello MastroianniJeanne MoreauGregory Patrick KarrA reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician.
- DirectorAntonis AggelopoulosStarsEleni KastaniVladimiros KyriakidisElisavet KonstantinidouIn Nisos 2 the main actors return to the island following the rumours of a hidden treasure. During their "treasure hunt" a bunch of surprises and unexpected events await them.