During the Greek junta, four people struggle with illicit desires at a military camp somewhere in Evros. Read More »
Tag Archives: Greek
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 »
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 »
The Fear (1966) Kostas Manoussakis, Elli Fotiou, Anestis Vlahos, Spiros Focás
In this disturbing family drama, a prosperous middle-aged farmer takes up gambling and whoring at the expense of his devoted second wife. 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 »
