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Tag Archives: Greek
Excursion AKA Ekdromi (1966) Takis Kanellopoulos, Lili Papayanni, Kostas Karagiorgis, Angelos Antonopoulos
The love story between a captain’s wife and his sergeant which has a tragic ending. Read More »
Taxidi (1962) Dinos Dimopoulos, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Nikos Kourkoulos, Vasilis Diamantopoulos
This film is a social comment of the times, exploring issues that centre around relationships Read More »
Lily of the Harbor AKA I Agni tou limaniou (1952) Yorgos Javellas, Georgios Glinos, Eleni Hatziargyri, Alekos Alexandrakis
Captain Giakoumis makes the big decision to forsake the sea and live peacefully close to his wife and his adopted son, Andreas Read More »
The Red Lanterns AKA Ta kokkina fanaria (1963) Vasilis Georgiadis, Jenny Karezi, Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael
The residents of a poor neighbourhood in Piraeus are asked to leave as modernization will take place. Read More »
Blackmail Boy AKA Oxygono (2003) Thanasis Papathanasiou, Michalis Reppas, Nena Menti, Maria Kavoyianni, Akilas Karazisis
In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. Read More »
Landscape in the Mist AKA Topio stin omichli (1988) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou
Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »