NEW GREEK CINEMA:
by eressos81 | created - 20 Aug 2013 | updated - 6 months ago | PublicAn emerging cinema rises in Greece after Angelopoulos. For more than three decades, new filmakers are making films that surprise.
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1. Dogtooth (2009)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis
Votes: 109,608 | Gross: $0.11M
2. Miss Violence (2013)
98 min | Drama
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: 9,828
3. 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: 4,297
4. No Sympathy for the Devil (1997)
82 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
A romance of extremes in Athens tomorrow. A cashier finds true love in the face of a young waitress who has just been released from prison. When he looses her, he travels all the way to get her back.
Director: Dimitris Athanitis | Stars: Kostas Kazanas, Lena Kitsopoulou, Giorgos Kotanidis, Panos Thanassoulis
Votes: 119
5. Cheap Smokes (2000)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
As 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.
Director: Renos Haralambidis | Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Anna-Maria Papaharalambous, Michalis Iatropoulos, Kostas Tsakonas
Votes: 3,905
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. Attenberg (2010)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Votes: 7,639 | Gross: $0.02M
8. Magnetic Fields (2021)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Yorgos Goussis | Stars: Elena Topalidou, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos, Nikos Spanides, Froso Tzanetatou
Votes: 1,802
9. The King (2002)
130 min | Drama
A 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?
Director: Nikos Grammatikos | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Marilita Lambropoulou, Minas Hatzisavvas, Babis Giotopoulos
Votes: 2,551
10. I psyhi sto stoma (2006)
117 min | Drama
Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money.
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Errikos Litsis, Vangelis Mourikis, Maria Kehayioglou, Giannis Voulgarakis
Votes: 1,704
11. Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me (2001)
102 min | Documentary, Music
Portrait of an important American musician through the testimonies of fellow musicians and people from his environment, but also through archival material and documents from various stages of his life and career.
Director: Nik Triantafyllidis | Stars: Frank Ash, Arthur Brown, Eric Burdon, Bo Diddley
Votes: 192
12. Alps (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Stavros Psyllakis, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Ariane Labed
Votes: 13,715 | Gross: $0.01M
13. 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: 1,468
14. Knifer (2010)
108 min | Drama
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 draws closer to him.
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Stathis Stamoulakatos, Vangelis Mourikis, Maria Kallimani, Giannis Voulgarakis
Votes: 1,310
15. Still Looking for Morphine (2001)
119 min | Drama
An act of violence turns a girl into a woman and leads her to a new life.
Director: Yannis Fagras | Stars: Ekavi Douma, Panagiotis Karras, Nikos Pomonis, Christina Fragiadaki
Votes: 236
16. Boy Eating the Bird's Food (2012)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
Three days in the life of an Athens boy who is without a job, a girlfriend, or anything to eat. The only thing he has left is his canary, and he will quite literally share with it anything he's got.
Director: Ektoras Lygizos | Stars: Yiannis Papadopoulos, Lila Baklesi, Vangelis Kommatas, Kharálampos Goyós
Votes: 975
17. Hostage (2005)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity ... See full summary »
Director: Constantine Giannaris | Stars: Stathis Papadopoulos, Theodora Tzimou, Giannis Stankoglou, Minas Hatzisavvas
Votes: 589
18. Peppermint (1999)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
With the sweet taste of love's first kiss in his mouth, an engineer takes a trip down memory lane after receiving an invitation from an old friend. Thirty years after that innocent peck on the lips, fate reunites two estranged soulmates.
Director: Costas Kapakas | Stars: Georges Corraface, Ageliki Spiliopoulou, Anny Loulou, Alexandros Mylonas
Votes: 997
19. 2000 + 1 stigmes (2000)
75 min | Drama
As New Year's Eve approaches at the end of 2000, eight lonely, alienated city dwellers struggle to connect with other human beings.
Director: Dimitris Athanitis | Stars: Vicky Volioti, Dimosthenis Papadopoulos, Marianna Calbari, Ieronymos Kaletsanos
Votes: 44
20. Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2002)
113 min | Drama, Family
In 1969 Athens, a 10 year old boy struggles to come to terms with the sudden death of his father.
Director: Penny Panagiotopoulou | Stars: Yorgos Karayannis, Stelios Mainas, Ioanna Tsirigouli, Christos Stergioglou
Votes: 484
21. Apples (II) (2020)
91 min | Drama
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.
Director: Christos Nikou | Stars: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis
Votes: 5,395
22. Mideia (2022)
82 min | Drama
Medea, Jason, and their two children live as refugees in the Greek city of Corinth. When Jason abandons her to marry the king's daughter, Medea is forced to leave the country, on penalty of death.
Director: Dimitris Athanitis | Stars: Alexandra Kazazou, Markos Papadokostantakis, Kostas Kazanas, Lefteris Tsatsis
Votes: 26
23. Digger (2020)
101 min | Drama
A father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.
Director: Georgis Grigorakis | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Argyris Pandazaras, Sofia Kokkali, Theo Alexander
Votes: 2,884
24. Agelastos petra (2000)
87 min | Documentary
The 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.
Director: Filippos Koutsaftis | Star: Panagiotis Farmakis
Votes: 535
25. 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: 3,805
26. Tsiou... (2005)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
An ex drug addict tells his hilarious adventure on his way to find heroin, mid August, in Athens.
Director: Makis Papadimitratos | Stars: Alexandros Parisis, Makis Papadimitratos, Anastasis Kolovos, Jenny Theona
Votes: 2,442
27. Three Days Happiness (2012)
80 min | Drama, Thriller
In Athens, a city that decays, three young women are struggling to find their way out. As their paths cross in an unexpected way, they are driven to a violent adulthood.
Director: Dimitris Athanitis | Stars: Alexandra Aidini, Katerina Fotiadi, Nikol Drizi, Dimitris Agartzidis
Votes: 51
28. Eduart (2006)
104 min | Drama
Eduart, a young man raised in a cruel and oppressive family environment, leaves Albania with the dream of becoming a rock star and living a better life
Director: Angeliki Antoniou | Stars: Eshref Durmishi, André Hennicke, Ndriçim Xhepa, Ermela Teli
Votes: 449
29. Valkanizater (1997)
97 min | Comedy
Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.
Director: Sotiris Goritsas | Stars: Gerasimos Skiadaressis, Stelios Mainas, Katharina Zapatka, Giota Festa
Votes: 900
30. Unfair World (2011)
107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A middle-aged policeman tired of the corruption and bureaucracy finds himself in a terrible dilemma after he tries to save an innocent man.
Director: Filippos Tsitos | Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Makis Papadimitriou, Stavros Markonis, Minas Hatzisavvas
Votes: 661
31. Tetarti 04:45 (2015)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 literally blow everything up.
Director: Alexis Alexiou | Stars: Stelios Mainas, Dimitris Tzoumakis, Adam Bousdoukos, Giorgos Symeonidis
Votes: 1,765
32. Antio Verolino (1994)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
In order to shoot his first film, Alex decides to follow his agent's advice. Carrying his ambitious script, Alex arrives in Athens planning to meet an eccentric producer, but a couple of gangsters confuses him with "the man" they have been waiting from Berlin.
Director: Dimitris Athanitis | Stars: Dimitris Athanitis, Zaharenia Athinaki, Giorgos Bilikas, Tassos Blatzios
Votes: 40
33. No Budget Story (1997)
87 min | Comedy
In order to secure money for the production of his first film, a young man asks help from a film producer. The producer, however, was involved with pornographic films.
Director: Renos Haralambidis | Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Yannis Bostantzoglou, Dimitra Papadima, Giorgos Voultzatis
Votes: 621
34. Akadimia Platonos (2009)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
A Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family's past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.
Director: Filippos Tsitos | Stars: Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastasis Kozdine, Titika Sarigouli, Giorgos Souxes
Votes: 1,412
35. Pity (2018)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
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 world not cruel enough for him.
Director: Babis Makridis | Stars: Yannis Drakopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Makis Papadimitriou, Nota Tserniafski
Votes: 3,612
36. September (I) (2013)
99 min | Drama
Anna lives with her dog Manu. She thinks they will live together forever. When he dies.
Directors: Penny Panagiotopoulou, Penny Panayotopoulou | Stars: Kora Karvouni, Maria Skoula, Nikos Diamandis, Christos Stergioglou
Votes: 313
37. 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: 2,324
38. Wasted Youth (2011)
122 min | Drama
Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.
Directors: Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Jan Vogel | Stars: Haris Markou, Ieronymos Kaletsanos, Arthouros Kiviliov, Jason Wastor
Votes: 1,033
39. Invisible (V) (2015)
84 min | Drama, Thriller
Aris, 38, worker in a factory, is fired without any warning. He is shocked. As his attempts to be re-hired fail, he gradually becomes obsessed by the idea to take justice in his own hands. ... See full summary »
Director: Dimitris Athanitis | Stars: Giannis Stankoglou, Christos Benetsis, Menelaos Hazarakis, George Bakolas
Votes: 145
40. Radio Moscow (1995)
85 min | Comedy
The strange story of Sonia, a Russian dancer, who left her country behind.
Director: Nik Triantafyllidis | Stars: Harry Klynn, Blaine Reininger, Svetlana Pancratova, Dinos Iliopoulos
Votes: 143
41. Kinetta (2005)
95 min | Drama
At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chamber maid, a man obsessed with BMWs, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly reenacted struggles between a man and a woman.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Evangelia Randou, Aris Servetalis, Costas Xikominos, Babis Galiatsatos
Votes: 2,526
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