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1. Social Decay (1932)
62 min | Drama
Stelios Tatasopoulos directs the first film of social realism in Athens of the 1930s. Drugs, gangs, prisons, strikes, and also clashes with the police.
Director: Stelios Tatasopoulos | Stars: Stelios Tatasopoulos, Danai Grizou, Tasos Kefalas, Joly Garbi
Votes: 116
2. The Counterfeit Coin (1955)
127 min | Drama, Romance
Pivoting around a shiny counterfeit gold sovereign freshly milled from the clandestine workshop of an otherwise honest goldsmith, four brief vignettes of human imperfection; seduction; fate; desire, and devotion inextricably interweave.
Director: Giorgos Tzavellas | Stars: Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos, Sperantza Vrana
Votes: 3,121
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. The Ogre of Athens (1956)
103 min | Crime, Drama
A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.
Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Giannis Argyris, Thanasis Vengos
Votes: 2,201
5. The Auntie from Chicago (1957)
72 min | Comedy
Aunt Calliopi returns to Greece from Chicago after 30 years and plans to marry off her nieces.
Director: Alekos Sakellarios | Stars: Orestis Makris, Georgia Vasileiadou, Jenny Karezi, Gely Mavropoulou
Votes: 1,766
6. 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: 2,026
7. The Fear (1966)
102 min | Crime, Drama
A disturbing family drama about the pathogeny of Greek countryside.
Director: Kostas Manoussakis | Stars: Elli Fotiou, Anestis Vlahos, Spyros Fokas, Elena Nathanail
Votes: 471
8. Evdokia (1971)
97 min | Drama, Romance
Athens, 1971. In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life, and the suffocating pressure of fragile societal relations. Will they survive one another?
Director: Alexis Damianos | Stars: Maria Vassiliou, Giorgos Koutouzis, Koula Agagiotou, Hristos Zorbas
Votes: 868
9. Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927 (1980)
175 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life and work of Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos from his election in 1910 until 1927.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Minas Christidis, Giannis Voglis, Dimitris Myrat, Manos Katrakis
Votes: 230
10. The Price of Love (1984)
110 min | Drama, Romance
Set on the island of Corfu at the beginning of the century. Story of the troubled love affair between Rene and Andreas and the refusal of Rene's mother to give Andreas the dowry he demands.
Director: Tonia Marketaki | Stars: Toula Stathopoulou, Anny Loulou, Stratis Tsopanellis, Giorgos Agiovlassitis
Votes: 224
11. Loafing and Camouflage (1984)
99 min | Comedy
The "adventures" of some friends during their military service.
Director: Nicos Perakis | Stars: Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Takis Spyridakis, Stavros Xenidis
Votes: 3,647
12. Voyage to Cythera (1984)
120 min | Drama
An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Manos Katrakis, Mary Hronopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Dora Volanaki
Votes: 3,093
13. 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
14. 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
15. Ta kourelia tragoudane akoma... (1979)
123 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence.
Director: Nikos Nikolaidis | Stars: Alkis Panagiotidis, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Rita Bensousan, Hristos Valavanidis
Votes: 1,108
16. 45 M2 (2010)
78 min | Drama
A young woman's struggle to overcome life's economic restrictions in order to meet her true will. She is twenty-three and lives with her mother, a compromise she can no longer stand.
Director: Stratos Tzitzis | Stars: Efi Logginou, Rania Oikonomidou, Antinoos Albanis, Giorgos Giannopoulos
Votes: 722
17. Moon, 66 Questions (2021)
108 min | Drama
After years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father's frail state of health. Discovering her father's well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father in a way she was not able before.
Director: Jacqueline Lentzou | Stars: Lazaros Georgakopoulos, Nikolas Hanakoulas, Kaiti Ibrohori, Sofia Kokkali
Votes: 778
18. 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: 1,317
19. Rom (1989)
75 min | Documentary
Dramatized documentary that follows the stories of four people of Rom (Gypsy) origin. These stories speak of the life of these people in modern Greece, a life full of problems, a life as part of a broader story of the Rom in Europe.
Director: Menelaos Karamaghiolis | Stars: Ilektra Alexandropoulou, Menelaos Karamaghiolis, Giorgos Konstas, Dora Masklavanou
Votes: 42
20. Kaliarda (2015)
58 min | Documentary
A pioneer Greek queer activist and her filmmaking team Paola Team Documentaries present their first feature documentary about "Kaliarda," the secret language of the gay community in Greece,... See full summary »
Director: Paola Revenioti | Stars: Dinos Christianopoulos, Panagiotis Evangelidis, Kostas Kanakis, George Le Nonce
Votes: 48
21. Istoria 52 (2008)
97 min | Mystery, Thriller
Love leads to madness when an unstable man falls for an unsuspecting woman in this thriller from Greece.
Director: Alexis Alexiou | Stars: Yorgos Kakanakis, Serafita Grigoriadou, Dafni Lambrogianni, Orfeas Zafeiropoulos
Votes: 568
22. Son of Sofia (2017)
TV-14 | 111 min | Drama
Athens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn't know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
Director: Elina Psykou | Stars: Victor Khomut, Valery Tscheplanowa, Thanasis Papageorgiou, Artemios Havalits
Votes: 561
23. They Glow in the Dark (2013)
69 min | Documentary
Two middle-aged gay men meet again after 20 years and decide to move together to New Orleans.
Director: Panagiotis Evangelidis | Stars: Jim Baysinger, Mikal Glaab
Votes: 62
24. Wild Duck (2013)
88 min | Drama
A bankrupt telecoms engineer, employed by his ex-boss to investigate a phone-hacking operation, gets trapped into paying off either his economic or his moral debts.
Director: Yannis Sakaridis | Stars: Alexandros Logothetis, Themis Bazaka, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Giannis Stankoglou
Votes: 188
25. Green Sea (2020)
94 min | Drama
A woman who has lost her memory struggles to reconstruct her past while cooking simple yet delicious food for workers at a working-class seaside tavern.
Director: Angeliki Antoniou | Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Giannis Tsortekis, Tasos Palatzidis, Anastasia Dendia
Votes: 941
26. In Hell (1976)
130 min | Drama
An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.
Director: Nikos Papatakis | Stars: Olga Karlatos, Roland Bertin, Philippe Adrien, Mehmet Ulusoy
Votes: 260
27. Winona (2019)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Seems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another's company. None of them is "Winona".
Director: Alexander Voulgaris | Stars: Anthi Efstratiadou, Sofia Kokkali, Iro Bezou, Daphné Patakia
Votes: 773
28. Cosmic Candy (2019)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
When a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.
Director: Rinio Dragasaki | Stars: Maria Kitsou, Pipera Maya, Kimonas Kouris, Dimitris Lalos
Votes: 240
29. 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: 1,413
30. Black Stone (2022)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
While filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son. But when he is accused of fraud, Haroula sets ... See full summary »
Director: Spiros Jacovides | Stars: Eleni Kokkidou, Julio Katsis, Negros Tou Moria, Ahilleas Hariskos
Votes: 542
31. I poli pote den koimatai (1984)
95 min | Action, Drama
After two long decades at sea, a rugged former Rocker returns to Athens, Greece, to shed light on the untimely death of his ton-up boy brother.
Director: Andreas Tsilifonis | Stars: Christos Kalavrouzos, Olia Stefanidou, Takis Moshos, Nicos Ziagos
Votes: 123
32. Oi apenanti (1981)
121 min | Drama, Romance
On a hot Athenian July, a reclusive Astronomy student spots a disillusioned woman with his telescope, and his dull existence takes on a new meaning. They coexist in time and space; but, they are so far apart. Will they ever become one?
Directors: Giorgos Panousopoulos, Yorgos Tsemberopoulos, Giorgos Tsemperopoulos | Stars: Betty Livanou, Aris Retsos, Giorgos Siskos, Dora Volanaki
Votes: 454
33. The Years of the Big Heat (1991)
104 min | Drama
One woman's lonely search for the truth about her mother's murder.
Director: Frieda Liappa | Stars: Ilektra Alexandropoulou, Periklis Moustakis, Kiriakos Agelakos, Eleni Demertzi
Votes: 54
34. I epithesi tou gigantiaiou mousaka (1999)
99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Around the year 2000, a terrible incident shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how? But no one can give an answer.
Director: Panos H. Koutras | Stars: Giannis Angelakis, Christos Mantakas, Myriam Vourou, Gregory Patrick Karr
Votes: 1,120
35. 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
36. 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
37. Bella (2020)
24 min | Short, Drama
Greece 1986-1987, a little before the fall of State Socialism and just at the end of the Cold War. In front of Anthi's eyes the country is changing, the world is changing and with them Christos seems to be changing too.
Director: Thelyia Petraki | Stars: Elena Topalidou, Nikos Kouris, Elena Mengreli, Adonis Hatzipopis
Votes: 376
38. Amygdalia (2019)
77 min | Documentary
A non-fictional poem on belonging, estrangement and home, narrated by five women who are perceived as "foreigners" in Greece.
Director: Christina Phoebe | Stars: Lauretta Macauley, Zandile Ngubane, Christina Phoebe, Elena Stephanopoulou
Votes: 16
39. 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: 12,692
40. The Travelling Players (1975)
230 min | Drama, History, Music
Greece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Eva Kotamanidou, Vangelis Kazan, Aliki Georgouli, Kiriakos Katrivanos
Votes: 4,353
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