Sotiris is a police interrogator in Athens. He has an obsession: he needs to be fair. Read More »
Tag Archives: Greece
A Girl in Black (1956) Mihalis Kakogiannis, Ellie Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Eleni Zafeiriou
Marina’s sister drowned herself, her brother is both headstrong and weak, and her widowed mother has a reputation for sleeping around. Read More »
The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978) Nikos Panayotopoulos, Olga Karlatos, George Dialegmenos, Dimitris Poulikakos
A father moves with his three sons and their beautiful, hard working servant in a big, old house in the countryside Read More »
Christmas Tango (2011) Nikos Koutelidakis, Giannis Bezos, Yannis Stankoglou, Antinoos Albanis
During the Greek junta, four people struggle with illicit desires at a military camp somewhere in Evros. Read More »
Oi Klironomoi (1964) Giannis Dalianidis, Dinos Iliopoulos, Costas Hajihristos, Martha Karagianni
Three distant cousins, barber Panagiotis; unemployed Sotiris, who wants to open a club; and dancer Mary, are the heirs of a house of haute couture. Read More »
Triple agent (2004) Eric Rohmer, Katerina Didaskalou, Serge Renko, Cyrielle Clair
France, 1936-37. The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. Read More »
Mania (1985) Giorgos Panousopoulos, Alessandra Vanzi, Aris Retsos, Antonis Theodorakopoulos
It is on Ascension Day that Zoe, a brilliant computer analyst, visits the National Park in the center of Athens with her daughter, Katerina. Read More »
Vortex (1967) Nikos Koundouros, Philippo Vlachos, Fanis Hinas, Alexis Mann, Drama
On a deserted Greek island a number of men are leaded by an attractive female who, like a medusa or spider, devours any male without inhibition. Read More »
Up, Down and Sideways (1993) Michael Cacoyannis, Irene Papas, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Panos Mihalopoulos, Comedy
A parody of the life in Athens of the 90ies where a widow and her son get entangled in crazy situations. Read More »
Fallen Angels (1948) Nikos Tsiforos, Hristos Tsaganeas, Smaroula Giouli, Irene Papas, Drama
Elli’s mother is sick and the family is poor. Elli’s stepfather, a small time crook, gets her a job as a mule delivering packages for the local drug lord. Read More »
The Groaning Lake (1959) Grigoris Grigoriou, Irene Papas, Andreas Barkoulis, Andreas Zisimatos, Drama, History, Romance
Based on a true historical event, this is the story of Frosyni, a genteel woman who lived in the city of Yannena, Epirus in the late 18th century Read More »
To Meteoro Vima tou Pelargou / The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gregory Patrick Karr, Drama, Romance
Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Read More »
Kravgi gynaikon / A Dream of Passion (1978) Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andréas Voutsinas, Drama
Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy “Medea” (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. Read More »
Hardcore (2004) Dennis Iliadis, Katerina Tsavalou, Danae Skiadi, Ioannis Papazisis, Drama, Crime
Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns (2000) John Tatoulis, Lakis Lazopoulos, Zoe Carides, John Bluthal, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. Read More »