Movies by Greek directors
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1. Eftihia (2019)
123 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The 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.
Director: Angelos Frantzis | Stars: Karyofyllia Karabeti, Katia Goulioni, Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Thanos Tokakis
Votes: 5,471
2. Hardcore (2004)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Leaving 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.
Director: Dennis Iliadis | Stars: Katerina Tsavalou, Danae Skiadi, Ioannis Papazisis, Omiros Poulakis
Votes: 2,328
3. Stella (1955)
90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Proud, 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.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis, Hristina Kalogerikou
Votes: 2,963
4. A Touch of Spice (2003)
108 min | Drama
A Greek boy grows up to become a talented cook after political turmoil forces his family to leave Turkey.
Director: Tassos Boulmetis | Stars: Georges Corraface, Ieroklis Michaelidis, Renia Louizidou, Tamer Karadagli
Votes: 14,895
5. The Red Lanterns (1963)
132 min | Drama, Romance
The inextricably intertwined stories of five women who work as prostitutes just before the ban on brothels in Troumba.
Director: Vasilis Georgiadis | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael, Manos Katrakis
Votes: 2,025
6. One Day in August (2001)
106 min | Drama
Three couples flee Athens for the summer, and their journeys change their lives forever.
Director: Constantine Giannaris | Stars: Eleni Kastani, Akilas Karazisis, Amalia Moutousi, Emilios Chilakis
Votes: 1,194
7. Brides (2004)
128 min | Drama, Romance
Set in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Damian Lewis, Victoria Haralabidou, Andréa Ferréol, Evi Saoulidou
Votes: 5,005
8. The Last Note (2017)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, History, War
The 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.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Andreas Konstantinou, André Hennicke, Melia Kreiling, Tasos Dimas
Votes: 3,331
9. It's a Long Road (1998)
118 min | Drama
Three men head towards a turning point in their lives.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Thanasis Vengos, Giorgos Armenis, Dimitris Katalifos, Kostas Kazanas
Votes: 2,468
10. The Christmas Tango (2011)
102 min | Drama, Romance
At 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.
Director: Nikos Koutelidakis | Stars: Giannis Bezos, Giannis Stankoglou, Antinoos Albanis, Vicky Papadopoulou
Votes: 3,772
11. Worlds Apart (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
In 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.
Director: Christopher Papakaliatis | Stars: J.K. Simmons, Maria Kavoyianni, Andrea Osvárt, Christopher Papakaliatis
Votes: 9,207
12. From the Edge of the City (1998)
Unrated | 94 min | Crime, Drama
A 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.
Director: Constantine Giannaris | Stars: Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Kotsianidis, Panagiotis Chartomatsidis, Anestis Polychronidis
Votes: 1,474
13. Perfect Strangers (2016)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Seven friends meet up for dinner on a full moon Friday night and deep secrets will come to the surface, shaking their lives and threatening their relationships.
Director: Thodoris Atheridis | Stars: Thodoris Atheridis, Smaragda Karydi, Alkis Kourkoulos, Maria Nafpliotou
Votes: 2,161
14. Strella (2009)
111 min | Drama
Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young transsexual sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with Yorgos.
Director: Panos H. Koutras | Stars: Mina Orfanou, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Argyris Kavidas
Votes: 4,307
15. The Other Me (2016)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.
Director: Sotiris Tsafoulias | Stars: Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Dimitris Katalifos, Manos Vakousis, Ioanna Kolliopoulou
Votes: 12,686
16. The Heart of the Beast (2005)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
After his mother's death, Stephanos inherits her debts and, in order to pay them, decides to help an old classmate who wants to rob a bank.
Director: Renos Haralambidis | Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Giorgos Voultzatis, Manos Vakousis, Jina Thliveri
Votes: 604
17. Roza of Smyrna (2016)
97 min | Drama, Romance
During the volatile 1987 Aegean crisis, a collector sets out to the memory-laden coast of Asia Minor and unearths a haunting mystery dating back to the Great Fire of Smyrna. Can a blood sacrifice appease decades of pain and suffering?
Director: George Kordellas | Stars: Tasos Nousias, Lida Protopsalti, Evgenia Dimitropoulou, Yilmaz Gruda
Votes: 2,068
18. O dromos (2005 TV Movie)
107 min | Drama
Kaiti and Irini, who are friends from a young age, decide to leave their microcosm for the first time. The clever and active Katie convinces the oppressed Irene to make this journey, which she had been dreaming of for years.
Director: Vasilis Tselemegos | Stars: Dimitra Matsouka, Eleni Kastani, Kostas Triantafyllopoulos, Giouli Angeli
Votes: 268
19. Adults in the Room (2019)
124 min | Drama, History
Greece in 2015: the economy is in tatters and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. A new government rebels against the EU's iron-fisted rule and inspires millions of Europeans. Based on the political memoirs of Yanis Varoufakis.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Ulrich Tukur, Daan Schuurmans
Votes: 6,211
20. Spirtokouto (2003)
80 min | Drama
During 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?
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Errikos Litsis, Eleni Kokkidou, Costas Xikominos, Giannis Voulgarakis
Votes: 3,817
21. Spring Awakening (2015)
89 min | Crime, Thriller
A story of five teenagers who are setting up an armed gang: a mosaic of love, lost relationships, betrayal and nihilism, that takes place in a declining city, where everything is collapsing within the economic and social crisis.
Director: Constantine Giannaris | Stars: Konstantinos Elmatzioglou, Daphné Patakia, Kostas Nikouli, Michail Angelo Jeya
Votes: 304
22. Love Struck (2014)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A love story with unpredictable twists and turns between perception and reality, love and its complications and the faults of human nature, Apo Erota (Lovestruck) is a romantic tale with a twist.
Director: Thodoris Atheridis | Stars: Smaragda Karydi, Panayiota Vlanti, Thodoris Atheridis, Constantine Markoulakis
Votes: 1,088
23. Tonight We Dine at Iokastis (2015)
Comedy
When one fine morning a peaceful neighborhoods disrupted by the unexpected disappearance of a Latvian manicurist, Iocasti Papadamou joins forces with ingenious, albeit completely naive, neighbor in order to shed light on the bizarre case.
Director: Vasilis Myrianthopoulos | Stars: Renia Louizidou, Takis Spyridakis, Pavlos Orkopoulos, Leonidas Kalfagiannis
Votes: 349
24. Saison Morte (2021)
97 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
When a series of brutal murders begins, a story unfolds, in which nobody is who they seem to be and they all switch roles and positions, up until the final twist.
Director: Thanassis Totsikas | Stars: Olga Damani, Vasilis Dinopoulos, Argyris Gaganis, Dimitris Lalos
Votes: 216
25. Smyrna (2021)
141 min | Drama, History, War
Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.
Director: Grigoris Karantinakis | Stars: Mimi Denissi, Leonidas Kakouris, Burak Hakki, Krateros Katsoulis
Votes: 3,163
26. Ballad for a Pierced Heart (2020)
140 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 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.
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Vicky Papadopoulou, Vassilis Bisbikis, Stathis Stamoulakatos, Giannis Tsortekis
Votes: 2,372
27. I gefsi tis agapis (2018 TV Movie)
74 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
In the future where robots live with people, a man has a robot that have emotions. When the robot starts to feel feelings and it says about what is love, the man tells it the story of his "lost" love.
Director: Akis Polizos | Stars: Fanis Mouratidis, Dimitris Kitsos, Melissanthi Mahut, Fiona Georgiadi
Votes: 254
28. Little England (2013)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Romance
An 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.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Penelope Tsilika, Sofia Kokkali, Aneza Papadopoulou, Andreas Konstantinou
Votes: 7,758
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