Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "greek"

1. The Lobster (2015)

R | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman

Votes: 296,007 | Gross: $8.70M

2. Troy (2004)

R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Julian Glover

Votes: 570,170 | Gross: $133.38M

3. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Karen Allen

Votes: 198,068

4. 300 (2006)

R | 117 min | Action, Drama

In the ancient battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fight against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. They face insurmountable odds when they are betrayed by a Spartan reject.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West

Votes: 863,822 | Gross: $210.61M

5. The Last Samurai (2003)

R | 154 min | Action, Drama

Nathan Algren, a US army veteran, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques. Nathan finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds.

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, William Atherton

Votes: 470,790 | Gross: $111.11M

6. CSI: NY (2004–2013)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Forensic scientists and investigators of the New York City Police Department unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths.

Stars: Gary Sinise, Carmine Giovinazzo, Hill Harper, Eddie Cahill

Votes: 49,571

7. Hercules (1997)

G | 93 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The son of Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.

Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, James Woods, Barbara Barrie

Votes: 254,996 | Gross: $99.05M

8. The 13th Warrior (1999)

R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, History

A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land.

Directors: John McTiernan, Michael Crichton | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhøi, Vladimir Kulich

Votes: 132,048 | Gross: $32.70M

9. The Bourne Identity (2002)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Franka Potente, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen

Votes: 576,048 | Gross: $121.66M

10. Inherent Vice (2014)

R | 148 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston

Votes: 110,673 | Gross: $8.11M

11. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)

PG | 118 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A teenager discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Logan Lerman, Kevin McKidd, Steve Coogan, Brandon T. Jackson

Votes: 202,918 | Gross: $88.76M

12. Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word "SHAZAM!" is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam.

Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler

Votes: 124,610

13. Kojak (1973–1978)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in his city.

Stars: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas

Votes: 8,872

14. Clash of the Titans (2010)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Perseus, a demigod and the son of Zeus, battles the minions of Hades and the Underworld in order to stop them from conquering Olympus and Earth.

Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng

Votes: 292,664 | Gross: $163.21M

15. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Christina Eleusiniotis

Votes: 144,563 | Gross: $241.44M

16. The Name of the Rose (1986)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin

Votes: 117,194 | Gross: $7.15M

17. 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

R | 102 min | Action, Drama

Greek general Themistocles of Athens leads the naval charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

Director: Noam Murro | Stars: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson

Votes: 315,807 | Gross: $106.58M

18. Alexander (2004)

R | 175 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest army leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie

Votes: 176,613 | Gross: $34.30M

19. Scream Queens (2015–2016)

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

A semi-anthology series that centers on characters being terrorized by a serial killer in different locations, including a university and a hospital.

Stars: Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer

Votes: 46,457

20. Elektra (2005)

PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Kirsten Zien

Votes: 97,908 | Gross: $24.41M

21. The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Not Rated | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle

Votes: 55,361 | Gross: $28.90M

22. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

A Portokalos family secret brings the beloved characters back together for an even bigger and Greeker wedding.

Director: Kirk Jones | Stars: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan

Votes: 35,579 | Gross: $59.69M

23. Before Midnight (2013)

R | 109 min | Drama, Romance

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane Labed

Votes: 172,070 | Gross: $8.11M

24. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Crime

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.

Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers

Votes: 78,010 | Gross: $42.04M

25. Alexander: The Making of a God (2024– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Alexander was King of the ancient Greek city state Macedon and widely considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military commanders. By the age of 30 he had created one of the largest empires in history.

Stars: Souad Faress, Buck Braithwaite, Will Stevens, Mido Hamada

Votes: 11,911

26. The Two Faces of January (2014)

PG-13 | 96 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flee Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective.

Director: Hossein Amini | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Oscar Isaac, Daisy Bevan

Votes: 33,644 | Gross: $0.51M

27. Centurion (2010)

R | 97 min | Action, Drama, History

A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack.

Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Andreas Wisniewski

Votes: 86,340 | Gross: $7.89M

28. Midnight Express (1978)

R | 121 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli

Votes: 88,200 | Gross: $35.00M

29. Crooked House (2017)

PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Glenn Close, Honor Kneafsey

Votes: 27,519

30. Miss Violence (2013)

98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A 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.

Director: Alexandros Avranas | Stars: Themis Panou, Reni Pittaki, Eleni Roussinou, Sissy Toumasi

Votes: 9,930

31. Perfect Strangers (1986–1993)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family

A high-strung and cynical man's life is never the same when his naive but good-natured cousin comes to America to live with him.

Stars: Bronson Pinchot, Mark Linn-Baker, Melanie Wilson, Rebeca Arthur

Votes: 11,007

32. Diner (1982)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Daniel Stern

Votes: 22,809 | Gross: $14.10M

33. The Magnificent Century (2011–2014)

90 min | Biography, Drama, History

From 1520, follows Suleiman the Magnificent and his relatives from his great conquests to the "Battle of Szigetvár".

Stars: Halit Ergenç, Nur Fettahoglu, Selim Bayraktar, Selen Öztürk

Votes: 19,112

34. Andrei Rublev (1966)

R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev

Votes: 57,028 | Gross: $0.10M

35. Date Movie (2006)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man, his crush, his parents, and her father.

Directors: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg | Stars: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge

Votes: 62,225 | Gross: $48.55M

36. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)

G | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Sinbad the Sailor sails to deliver a cursed prince to a dangerous island in the face of deadly opposition from the powerful witch Zenobia, her son and their several monsters.

Director: Sam Wanamaker | Stars: Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting

Votes: 8,662 | Gross: $16.79M

37. The Water Diviner (2014)

R | 111 min | Drama, History, War

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try to locate his three missing sons.

Director: Russell Crowe | Stars: Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney, Isabel Lucas

Votes: 77,888 | Gross: $4.19M

38. Angel (1983)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Molly, a high schooler, secretly earns her living as Angel, a street prostitute whose only family and friends are the ones she works with on the streets. She has to survive against a serial killer who is targeting people of her profession.

Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil | Stars: Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun

Votes: 4,579 | Gross: $17.49M

39. Romance & Cigarettes (2005)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

This down-and-dirty musical set in the world of working-class New York tells the story of a husband's journey into infidelity and redemption when he must choose between his seductive mistress and his beleaguered wife.

Director: John Turturro | Stars: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 12,831 | Gross: $0.54M

40. The Wog Boy (2000)

92 min | Comedy

When a 'dole bludging' Greek gains national fame following a television appearance, he's recruited by a political party as the face of their campaign to improve the country's unemployment rate.

Director: Aleksi Vellis | Stars: Nick Giannopoulos, Lucy Bell, Vince Colosimo, Geraldine Turner

Votes: 2,310

41. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)

R | 131 min | Drama, Music, Romance

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale

Votes: 35,938 | Gross: $25.54M

42. The Grim Reaper (1980)

R | 92 min | Horror

A group of friends and a hitchhiker become stranded on a tourist island where they are stalked by a disfigured cannibalistic killer who is prowling the island after killing its residents.

Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Tisa Farrow, Saverio Vallone, Serena Grandi, Margaret Mazzantini

Votes: 6,964

43. Anonymous (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Thriller

The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto

Votes: 42,127 | Gross: $4.46M

44. Poolhall Junkies (2002)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

A talented pool hustler who has stayed out of the game for years must return to his old ways when his little brother gets involved with his enemy--the very man who held him back from greatness.

Director: Mars Callahan | Stars: Mars Callahan, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Rosenbaum, Ricky Schroder

Votes: 10,841 | Gross: $0.56M

45. Kaos (2024– )

60 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | Post-production

A modern day contemporary retelling of Greek mythology.

Stars: Debi Mazar, Aurora Perrineau, Fady Elsayed, Sam Buttery

46. Beckett (2021)

TV-MA | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Following a tragic car accident in Greece, an American tourist finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy and on the run for his life.

Director: Ferdinando Cito Filomarino | Stars: John David Washington, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps, Alicia Vikander

Votes: 28,485

47. The Man with the Answers (2021)

Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance

A former Greek diving champion and an eccentric German student take an adventurous road-trip of rediscovery from Bari to Bavaria.

Director: Stelios Kammitsis | Stars: Vasilis Magouliotis, Anton Weil, Stella Fyrogeni, Marc Pistono

Votes: 3,957

48. The Riot Club (2014)

R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Jessica Brown Findlay

Votes: 24,113

49. The Magnificent Century: Kosem (2015–2017)

120 min | Drama, History, Romance

Anastasia a young Greek woman in Ahmed I's harem takes on the name 'Kosem' (leader, pioneer). In a world of men, she rules of the Ottoman Empire through her sons and grandson.

Stars: Hakan Sahin, Sener Savas, Nurgül Yesilçay, Ece Çesmioglu

Votes: 4,024

50. Malcolm (1986)

PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi

A socially awkward and mechanically gifted man becomes involved in a quirky and unconventional crime.

Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Colin Friels, John Hargreaves, Lindy Davies, Chris Haywood

Votes: 2,840 | Gross: $0.54M