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 »
Tag Archives: Greece
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 »
O Melissokomos / The Beekeeper (1986) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Drama
Spiros retires as a schoolteacher, his daughter is married, and he starts his annual journey with his bees to get honey from different areas. Read More »
Anaparastasi / Reconstruction (1970) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos, Crime, Drama
A woman murders her husband, upon his return home after a long absence, with the complicity of the lover who has relieved her loneliness. Read More »
To proxenio tis Annas / The Engagement of Anna (1974) Pantelis Voulgaris, Anna Vagena, Smaro Veaki, Kostas Rigopoulos, Drama
Anna, a shy village girl has come to live and work at the house of an elderly Athenian lady, where the family decides to arrange a match for her, as middle-class ethics prescribe. Read More »
Istoria mias kalpikis liras / The Counterfeit Coin (1955) Yorgos Tzavellas, Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. Read More »
Kyriakatiko xypnima / Windfall in Athens (1954) Mihalis Kakogiannis, Ellie Lambeti, Dimitris Horn, Giorgos Pappas, Comedy, Romance
Mina is a charming salesgirl. She buys a lottery ticket, but she finds out soon that it has been stolen from her. Read More »
Attenberg (2010) Athina Rachel Tsangari, Ariane Labed, Yorgos Lanthimos, Vangelis Mourikis, Drama, Romance
Stuck in her boring factory town, 23-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father’s impending death and her distaste for other human beings.
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Antigoni / Antigone (1961) Yorgos Javellas, Irene Papas, Manos Katrakis, Maro Kodou, Drama
In the Ancient Greek city of Thebes, King Oedipus killed his father and married his mother Jocasta, having two sons – Eteocles and Polynieces – and two daughters – Ismene and Antigone. Read More »
Wild Duck (2013) Yannis Sakaridis, Alexandros Logothetis, Themis Bazaka, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Drama
“Wild Duck” is the story of Dimitris, a telecommunications engineer who’s forced to shutter his business after running up a considerable debt with a local loan shark. Read More »
Mia toso makryni apousia / Such a long absence (1985) Stavros Tsiolis, Pemi Zouni, Dimitra Hatoupi, Minas Hatzisavvas, Drama
After the death of her father a young woman who was a student in Germany suffers a nervous breakdown and withdraws inside herself. Read More »
The Mourning Rock / Agelastos petra (2000) Filippos Koutsaftis, Panagiotis Farmakis, Documentary
A documentary about Eleusina. The past and the present, in complete antithesis, coexist in a place spoiled by modern industry but which long ago hosted the Eleusinian Mysteries Read More »
O Megalexandros / Alexander the Great (1980) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Omero Antonutti, Eva Kotamanidou, Mihalis Giannatos, Drama
Lead by Alexandros (Omero Antonuti), a group of thieves escape from prison. They take several aristocrats hostage, and, together with a few anarchists Read More »
Homo faber / Voyager (1991) Volker Schlöndorff, Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa, Drama, Romance, Art-house
Having recently survived a plane crash, American engineer Walter Faber (Sam Shepard) decides to forgo flying and cross the Atlantic Ocean via ship. Read More »