Poll: Best Greek Movies (2010-2021)

Results of 103 votes:

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   The Other Me (2016)

    

   A professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.
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   Man of God (2021)

    

   Exiled 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 preac…
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   Attenberg (2010)

    

   Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.
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   1968 (2018)

    

   A.E.K., the well-known Greek basketball team founded in 1924 by refugees from Constantinople, after 44 years, beats SLAVIA of Prague and wins the European Cup.
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   Alps (2011)

    

   A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
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   Miss Violence (2013)

    

   An unnerving story about a horrid family drama kept behind closed doors, and an elaborate facade where appearances can be deceiving, and nothing is as it seems.
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   Xenia (2014)

    

   Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.
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   Suntan (2016)

    

   On a hedonistic Greek island, a middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends.
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   Smyrna (2021)

    

   Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.
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    The Christmas Tango (2011)

     

    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.
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    Little England (2013)

     

    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.
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    Chevalier (2015)

     

    A fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the…
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    Roza of Smyrna (2016)

     

    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 appe…
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    Eftihia (2019)

     

    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 …
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    Apples (2020)

     

    Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
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    Magnetic Fields (2021)

     

    Having 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.
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    Knifer (2010)

     

    Following his father's death, Nikos leaves the provinces to work in Athens guarding his brutish uncle's dogs. Nikos finds the dynamic of his relationship with his uncle changing when his uncle's wife …
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    What If... (2012)

     

    Under the Athenian night sky, before the silent threat of an imminent socio-economic crisis, a young man goes for a stroll and meets the love of his life. Does fate govern one's existence? What would …
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    Worlds Apart (2015)

     

    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 tog…
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    Cloudy Sunday (2015)

     

    During the tumultuous 1943, against the backdrop of a German-occupied Thessaloniki, two star-crossed lovers struggle to surmount prejudice and fear, as the brutalities against the town's persecuted Je…
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    Kazantzakis (2017)

     

    Biographical film of the life of the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis.
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    Pity (2018)

     

    The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a…
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    God Loves Caviar (2012)

     

    The Greek pirate who turned businessman, Ioannis Varvakis, made his fortune selling caviar in Russia and all over the world. Varvakis strives all his life for freedom for himself and then for his coun…
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    Love Struck (2014)

     

    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.
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    Tetarti 04:45 (2015)

     

    Stelios Dimitrakopoulos realizes that his life is falling apart. He has 32 hours to reevaluate his choices, protect his business and the future of his family, face his enemies at once, or 32 hours to …
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    Mythopathy (2016)

     

    From the day the first love worries appear in Stavros, his desire to tell stories in his own, subversive way ignites.
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    Perfect Strangers (2016)

     

    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.
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    Jamaica (2017)

     

    Two estranged brothers, who have not spoken to each other for years, reunite at their mother's funeral.
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    Digger (2020)

     

    A father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.
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    Amercement (2020)

     

    Vaggelis, a remnant of the rave generation, scrapes by as a small-time weed dealer. He is a cool, low profile person who would rather have a steady job than continue a life in petty crime. However, hi…
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    Stratos (2014)

     

    Stratos, an ex-con, struggles to help out his former mafia boss. Then, Stratos learns his loyalty is exploited.
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    Common Denominator (2014)

     

    Four men in a small traditional coffee shop talk about women.
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    Amerika Square (2016)

     

    A bitter Greek nationalist in Athens is horrified when his apartment building and local park become resting stops for refugees.
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    The Last Note (2017)

     

    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.
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    Ballad for a Pierced Heart (2020)

     

    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.