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NEW GREEK CINEMA:

by eressos81 • Created 11 years ago • Modified 1 year ago
An emerging cinema rises in Greece after Angelopoulos. For more than three decades, new filmakers are making films that surprise.
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  • 41 titles
  • Dogtooth (2009)

    1. Dogtooth

    20091h 37mNot Rated73Metascore
    7.1 (117K)
    A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
    DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsChristos StergioglouMichele ValleyAngeliki Papoulia
  • Chloe Bolota in Miss Violence (2013)

    2. Miss Violence

    20131h 38m75Metascore
    7.0 (11K)
    A chilling account of a horrendous family tragedy perpetuated behind closed doors. As chronic violence chips away at the household's elaborate façade, the shocking secret reveals that almost nothing is as it seems.
    DirectorAlexandros AvranasStarsThemis PanouReni PittakiEleni Roussinou
  • Mina Orfanou in Strella (2009)

    3. Strella

    20091h 51m
    7.3 (4.4K)
    Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young transsexual sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with Yorgos.
    DirectorPanos H. KoutrasStarsMina OrfanouYannis KokiasmenosMinos Theoharis
  • No Sympathy for the Devil (1997)

    4. No Sympathy for the Devil

    19971h 22m
    6.8 (129)
    A romance of extremes in Athens tomorrow. A cashier finds true love in the face of a young waitress who has just been released from prison. When he looses her, he travels all the way to get her back.
    DirectorDimitris AthanitisStarsKostas KazanasLena KitsopoulouGiorgos Kotanidis
  • Cheap Smokes (2000)

    5. Cheap Smokes

    20001h 25m
    7.4 (4.3K)
    As the lights flicker on a warm August night amid vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he has just met. The perfect strangers stroll around the city's quiet night streets, changed by the unforgettable journey.
    DirectorRenos HaralambidisStarsRenos HaralambidisAnna-Maria PapaharalambousMichalis Iatropoulos
  • One Day in August (2001)

    6. One Day in August

    20011h 46m
    6.6 (1.3K)
    Three couples flee Athens for the summer, and their journeys change their lives forever.
    DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsEleni KastaniAkilas KarazisisAmalia Moutousi
  • Evangelia Randou and Ariane Labed in Attenberg (2010)

    7. Attenberg

    20101h 37mNot Rated73Metascore
    6.2 (8.1K)
    Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.
    DirectorAthina Rachel TsangariStarsAriane LabedVangelis MourikisEvangelia Randou
  • Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos and Elena Topalidou in Magnetic Fields (2021)

    8. Magnetic Fields

    20211h 18m
    6.7 (2K)
    Having met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.
    DirectorYorgos GoussisStarsElena TopalidouAntonis TsiotsiopoulosNikos Spanides
  • Vangelis Mourikis in The King (2002)

    9. The King

    20022h 10m
    8.1 (2.8K)
    A former drug addict gets a new lease of life in his grandfather's dilapidated rural house, only to face the unwritten laws of the close-knit community. Now, all that's needed is a catalyst. Who can stop the advent of hell on New Paradise?
    DirectorNikos GrammatikosStarsVangelis MourikisMarilita LambropoulouMinas Hatzisavvas
  • I psyhi sto stoma (2006)

    10. I psyhi sto stoma

    20061h 57m
    6.5 (1.8K)
    Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money.
    DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsErrikos LitsisVangelis MourikisMaria Kehayioglou
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me (2001)

    11. Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me

    20011h 42m
    7.5 (197)
    Portrait of an important American musician through the testimonies of fellow musicians and people from his environment, but also through archival material and documents from various stages of his life and career.
    DirectorNik TriantafyllidisStarsScreamin' Jay HawkinsFrank AshArthur Brown
  • Alps (2011)

    12. Alps

    20111h 33mNot Rated69Metascore
    6.3 (15K)
    A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
    DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsStavros PsyllakisAris ServetalisJohnny Vekris
  • Costas Kotsianidis and Stathis Papadopoulos in From the Edge of the City (1998)

    13. From the Edge of the City

    19981h 34mUnrated47Metascore
    6.4 (1.5K)
    A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city's repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.
    DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsStathis PapadopoulosCostas KotsianidisPanagiotis Chartomatsidis
  • Knifer (2010)

    14. Knifer

    20101h 48m
    6.3 (1.4K)
    Following his father's death, Nikos leaves the provinces to work in Athens guarding his brutish uncle's dogs. Nikos finds the dynamic of his relationship with his uncle changing when his uncle's wife draws closer to him.
    DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsStathis StamoulakatosVangelis MourikisMaria Kallimani
  • Ekavi Douma in Still Looking for Morphine (2001)

    15. Still Looking for Morphine

    20011h 59m
    6.3 (240)
    An act of violence turns a girl into a woman and leads her to a new life.
    DirectorYannis FagrasStarsEkavi DoumaPanagiotis KarrasNikos Pomonis
  • Boy Eating the Bird's Food (2012)

    16. Boy Eating the Bird's Food

    20121h 20mNot Rated
    6.2 (1K)
    Three days in the life of an Athens boy who is without a job, a girlfriend, or anything to eat. The only thing he has left is his canary, and he will quite literally share with it anything he's got.
    DirectorEktoras LygizosStarsYiannis PapadopoulosLila BaklesiVangelis Kommatas
  • Stathis Papadopoulos in Hostage (2005)

    17. Hostage

    20051h 45m
    6.0 (605)
    Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers hostage and demands a ransom of half and million euro, and safe passage to his homeland of Albania. Surrounded by police, the bus trundles towards the Albanian border and the tension mounts until the final harrowing conclusion.
    DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsStathis PapadopoulosTheodora TzimouGiannis Stankoglou
  • Giorgos Gerontidakis in Peppermint (1999)

    18. Peppermint

    19991h 45m
    6.8 (1.1K)
    With the sweet taste of love's first kiss in his mouth, an engineer takes a trip down memory lane after receiving an invitation from an old friend. Thirty years after that innocent peck on the lips, fate reunites two estranged soulmates.
    DirectorCostas KapakasStarsGeorges CorrafaceAgeliki SpiliopoulouAnny Loulou
  • 2000 + 1 stigmes (2000)

    19. 2000 + 1 stigmes

    20001h 15m
    7.7 (45)
    As New Year's Eve approaches at the end of 2000, eight lonely, alienated city dwellers struggle to connect with other human beings.
    DirectorDimitris AthanitisStarsVicky VoliotiDimosthenis PapadopoulosMarianna Calbari
  • Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2002)

    20. Hard Goodbyes: My Father

    20021h 53m66Metascore
    7.0 (503)
    In 1969 Athens, a 10 year old boy struggles to come to terms with the sudden death of his father.
    DirectorPenny PanagiotopoulouStarsYorgos KarayannisStelios MainasIoanna Tsirigouli
  • Apples (2020)

    21. Apples

    20201h 31m77Metascore
    6.8 (5.9K)
    Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
    DirectorChristos NikouStarsAris ServetalisSofia GeorgovassiliAnna Kalaitzidou
  • Mideia (2022)

    22. Mideia

    20221h 22m
    8.0 (27)
    Medea, Jason, and their two children live as refugees in the Greek city of Corinth. When Jason abandons her to marry the king's daughter, Medea is forced to leave the country, on penalty of death.
    DirectorDimitris AthanitisStarsAlexandra KazazouMarkos PapadokostantakisKostas Kazanas
  • Digger (2020)

    23. Digger

    20201h 41m64Metascore
    7.3 (3.2K)
    A father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.
    DirectorGeorgis GrigorakisStarsVangelis MourikisArgyris PandazarasSofia Kokkali
  • Agelastos petra (2000)

    24. Agelastos petra

    20001h 27m
    8.5 (563)
    The past and the present coexist in a place spoiled by modern industry but which long ago hosted the Eleusinian Mysteries, the secret ceremonies that initiated the ancient Greeks into the miracles of life, death and the afterlife.
    DirectorFilippos KoutsaftisStarPanagiotis Farmakis
  • Spirtokouto (2003)

    25. Spirtokouto

    20031h 20m
    7.0 (4.1K)
    During an unbearably hot Athenian summer, a cramped flat becomes a hellish urban battlefield for an ornamental paterfamilias and his family. Now, ugly truths and deleterious words become weapons in a dirty war. Can they emerge unscathed?
    DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsErrikos LitsisEleni KokkidouCostas Xikominos

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