Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Read More »
Tag Archives: Greece
Bliss AKA Mutluluk (2007) Abdullah Oguz, Özgü Namal, Talat Bulut, Murat Han
When a young woman named Meryem (Özgü Namal) is raped, her village custom requires Read More »
Runaway Day (2013) Dimitris Bavellas, Maria Skoula, Makis Papadimitriou, Errikos Litsis
Maria and Loukas decide at the same time and for no apparent reason to respectively run away from their homes. Read More »
Dracula of Exarcheia AKA O Drakoulas ton Exarheion (1983) Nikos Zervos, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Tzimis Panousis, Vangelis Kotronis
A mad scientist creates the band Music Brigades from body parts of dead musicians. Read More »
O Jerusalem (2006) Élie Chouraqui, JJ Feild, Saïd Taghmaoui, Maria Papas
Alternating between the unique vantage points of the Jews, the Arabs, and the British, director Elie Chouraqui’s historical drama Read More »
Absences AKA Apousies (1987) Giorgos Katakouzinos, Themis Bazaka, Pemi Zouni, Katerina Sarri
Greece, early twentieth century. A bourgeois family is on the verge of breaking up. Read More »
Sweet Country (1987) Mihalis Kakogiannis, Jane Alexander, John Cullum, Carole Laure
Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970’s. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. Read More »
Evdokia (1971) Alexis Damianos, Maria Vassiliou, Giorgos Koutouzis, Koula Agagiotou
A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Read More »
Plato’s Academy AKA Akadimia Platonos (2009) Filippos Tsitos, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastasis Kozdine, Titika Sarigouli
Stavros, a Greek shopkeeper cares for his aging mother after a stroke. Read More »
Eternity and a Day AKA Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (1998) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Alexander, an old writer, is ill and prepared to die. Read More »
Ulysses’ Gaze AKA To vlemma tou Odyssea (1995) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson
A, a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas Read More »
Sonia (1980) Takis Kanellopoulos, Antigoni Doudoumi, Spiros Focás, Kostas Lahas
The brief history of love Sonia lived in the summer with his teacher, greater and married in the early 60s By the fall man Read More »
Blood on the Land AKA To homa vaftike kokkino (1965) Vasilis Georgiadis, Nikos Kourkoulos, Mairi Hronopoulou, Giannis Voglis
Under the scorching sun of June in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Thessaly, Odysseas Chormovas–the untamed Read More »
Minor Freedoms AKA Mikres eleftheries (2008) Costas Zapas, Antonis Papadopoulos, Marlen Saites, Alexandros Tountas
Set in the Greek highlands, the story presents a violent, domineering man who deals in the trafficking of emigrants and young, Balkan prostitutes. Read More »
To stigma AKA Stigma (1982) Pavlos Tasios, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Olia Lazaridou, Kostas Ballas
A young couple (Antonis Kafetzopoulos and Olia Lazaridou) have a baby affected with the Down Syndrome. Read More »