Cypriot Feature Films
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- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsEllie LambetiVan HeflinFranco FabriziA wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his not so perfect life.
- DirectorGiorgos SkalenakisStarsKatina PaxinouAngelos AntonopoulosZorz SarriIn Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fails and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their prisoner.
- DirectorMichael PapasStarsDimitri AndreasGeorge KafkarisTamara HinchcoA Cypriot-UK co-production about the military conflict on Cyprus which takes a sympathetic attitude toward the occupying British.
- DirectorGeorgios FilisStarsDimitra DimitriadouPapes FilipidesPitsa AntoniadesThis first film of Cyprus' first director, Giorgios Filis, depicts music and dance customs in the form and style of a folk opera, with traditional Cypriot dances and songs. The film consists of a folkloric inventory based on the folk culture of Cyprus, as well as on similar ritual happenings. The narration and dialogue are entirely in the Cypriot dialect and are characterized by a rhetorical and poetic mood.
- DirectorKostas DoukasStarsKostas KakavasDoukissaEfi OikonomouMichalis, a rich Athenian, is in Cyprus where he meets and falls in love with the popular singer Christina.
- DirectorKostas DoukasStarsTolis VoskopoulosDimitra DimitriadouTheodoulos MoreasAgainst prejudice, the beautiful daughter of Cyprus' most prominent industrialist falls for a humble fisherman; but, fate has a cruel future in store for her. Now, they all need a miracle. Can the poor lad from Cyprus save his beloved?
- DirectorOrestis LaskosStarsDora SitzaniNikos DadinopoulosDionysis PapagiannopoulosThe heirs of two Cypriot winemakers and sworn rivals visit incognito the city of Paphos to flee from two arranged marriages of convenience, only to meet and fall in love. Is this a star-crossed affair in the likes of Romeo and Juliet?
- DirectorStratos MarkidisStarsMona Liza ArbiFaidon GeorgitsisZozo ZarpaMelita is a spoiled young girl who loves luxurious life no matter what she has to do, to have it. Her Boyfriend Richard is mixed up in drug dealing when he decides to keep the money and run from his associates, who they were suspicious of this might happened so they followed them and chased them. Melita and Richard split during the chase and Richard gets killed by the gangsters. Melita calls a friend of hers, Alexis in order to hide her somewhere safe. They fall in love and she keeps manipulate him, so Alexis in order to provide her the kind of life she loves, gets mixed in gambling scam where he cheats on poker games along with Melita's aunt Gizela. Gizela's husband who is a rich old man, hits on Melita and by buying her expensive presents he gets what he wants. One day a poker game does not go well and his scam gets discovered by the other players, so now Alexis and Melita must run again from everyone. At the same time , the hippies from the drug dealing, who happened to discover them, are after them also ..
- DirectorPavlos ParashakisStarsNikos DadinopoulosMihalis ViolarisDimitra DimitriadouA Cypriot tour guide, who dreams of becoming a popular singer, loses his beloved who, succumbing to the pressures of her own, gets engaged to a rich young man from London.
- DirectorStratos MarkidisStarsTina SpathiMagda MakriNatalie DanikaA rich woman falls in love with her maid.
- DirectorIlias MylonakosStarsLaura GemserGabriele TintiLivia RussoA woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.
- DirectorMichael PapasStarsChristos ZannidisAristodimos FessasDimitri AndreasAlmost documentary-like drama of the war between Turkish and Greek people on the island of Cyprus, seen through the eyes of a young Greek boy who greatly admires his grandfather.
- DirectorErrikos ThalassinosStarsSotiris MoustakasMaria BonelouThanos PapadopoulosA struggling photo-reporter who works for a weekly gossip magazine will somehow entangle himself in the plans of an international antiquities-trafficking ring, as he tails an illegal couple in Limassol.
- DirectorPanikkos HrysanthouStarsMarina KittouIlektra HrysanthouMother in Turkish occupied Nicosia tells daughter the story of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
- DirectorAndreas PantzisStarsCostas TymviosThalia ArgyriouIlias AletrasThe story of the Cyprus' turbulent recent history using the device of a desperate man, Evagoras (Costas Timvios), who returns to the island after years of absence to look for his wife and son. His family disappeared while they were visiting his native village on Cyprus, just when the Turkish army invaded (1974). As Evagoras goes out on his search each day with a friendly taxi driver, flashbacks illustrate the recent history of the Greek Cypriots, and the normally quiet Evagoras heads closer and closer to a militant stance.
- DirectorYiorgos StamboulopoulosStarsPiotr FronczewskiBenoît RosselNikiforos NanerisA young child brings conflict between a pagan community and an early Christian one.
- DirectorAndreas PantzisStarsGeorges CorrafaceDimitris VelliosValeria GolinoLonging for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they return home, the pair open a night club. However, their past catches up with them.
- DirectorGeorge ZervoulakosStarsVana BarbaNikos XanthopoulosMichalis PapagellidisEurydice abandons her travelling troupe of musicians to follow wealthy merchant Panos and boost her career. Disenchanted, she finds herself at a crossroads, and tragedy ensues.
- DirectorAliki Danezi-KnutsenStarsVana RambotaStella FyrogeniStathis LivathinosTwo sisters have lost their father during the Turkish invasion in Cyprus 1974 but they find out that he seems to be alive and go to Turkey to search for him.
- DirectorAlki DavidStarsThalia ArgyriouTony BurtonNick CassavetesAbout an old man, played by Abe, who would get the walking farts every time a beautiful woman would enter the room.
- DirectorVangelis SerdarisStarsPaschalis TsarouhasTamilla KoulievaVassilis PapanikasA communist woman and a soldier are ostracized for falling in love after the Greek civil war.
- DirectorPeriklis HoursoglouStarsGiorgos MihalakopoulosEirini InglesiRania OikonomidouAfter 30 years of service, an honourable family man retires and falls in love with another woman. A deep instinct for life pushes them towards a passion like those of their youth.
- DirectorGiorgos KorrasChristos VoupourasStarsAkis SakellariouMuzafer ZiflaArmando DautiThis Greek-Bulgarian-Cypriot co-production depicts the plight of Albanian illegals in Athens and its Piraeus port. Greek intellectual Christos (Akis Sakellariou) unintentionally falls in with a streetwise group of manipulative Albanian scam artists, including Victor (Armando Dauti) Omer (Laert Vasili) and Fuad (Muzafer Et' Hem Zifla). Minus papers, they are nevertheless successfully able to get by in Greece. Eventually, Christos takes a trip to the Albanian village where the duo grew up amid murderous blood feuds. Shown at the 1997 Thessaloniki Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- DirectorChristina HadjizachariouStarsAngeliki Ioannatou
- DirectorManousos ManousakisStarsVladimiros KyriakidisVicky KoulianouGerasimos SkiadaressisA monk searches a night club in Athens for the traces of a gang of antique thieves and gets involved with a fatal singer.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsMichalis IatropoulosKaterina PavlakiManos VakousisIn a nonaligned country, where a civil conflict is raging, a team of photographers follows a mercenary war lord, whose men wreak havoc among enemies and innocents alike.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsCharlotte RamplingAlan BatesTushka BergenAbandoned by her lover, the aristocratic Madame Lubov Ranevskaya returns to Russia, only to see her fragrant cherry orchard in full bloom: a painful reminder of her dire economic state and the imminent foreclosure of the enviable property.
- DirectorCosta NatsisStarsJacques BonnafféElisabeth DepardieuJean-Pierre LéaudA French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released from prison after five years in prison. As he tries to adjust to life on the outside, he accidentally meets a Parisian taxi-driver who commits suicide right before his eyes. Without a pause he takes the dead cabbie's place behind the wheel and starts making the rounds of the city, transporting passengers (Jean-Pierre Léaud plays the role of a client who recites Cavafy throughout the entire ride). He feels the air of freedom, a lord of Paris and master of himself, up to the moment that he meets young Anies, and his life falls into new paths.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsNikos KourisAthina MaximouZoe NalbantiOn the brink of the new millennium, a young aspiring singer leaves Athens for the seedy nightclubs of the rough Greek province, bent on getting her big break amid milky-white cigarette smokes, decayed divas--and ultimately--broken hopes.
- DirectorMaria IlioúStarsJean-Pierre LoritCamille PanonacleMichele ValleyNina, daughter of a Greek woman who left Egypt in 1956, goes for the first time to Alexandria, discovers the city and the longing of her mother to tell her an old love story that she had years ago with a French. but the mother doesn't tell her the truth, who knows why.
- DirectorChristos GeorgiouStarsMirto AlikakiAkis SakellariouStella FyrogeniPhoebe takes Loukas from free Cyprus to occupied Cyprus to see his village after years. While both of their parents were victims of the invasion, he refuses to get over it, while she even smuggles with the Turks to survive.
- DirectorAndreas PantzisStarsGeorges CorrafaceValeria GolinoGiannis VoglisDrama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery.
- DirectorYannis IoannouStarsIrene PapasAlexis IoannouPanikos TschersichGeorgia, the Soviet Union, 1937. Two boys, a Greek and a Georgian, meet and become friends. From their carefree, everyday routine and the calm, humorous life of the small neighborhood, emerges the tragedy of the period with the persecution of the Greeks, who were exiled and imprisoned.
- DirectorAliki Danezi-KnutsenStarsStella FyrogeniAhilleas GrammatikopoulosMichael McKellTwo stories unfold simultaneously with Lea at the center of both. One story takes place in Lefkosia, Cyprus, the other in Montevideo, Uruguay. Lea's disappeared brother is the catalyst for both: while in Lefkosia a group of DNA scientists is trying to reveal the identities of persons missing, in Montevideo, Lea sees her brother in a photograph together with an older tango singer. Are the two stories a game of parallel times? Does one of them belong to a different dimension? Or is Lea's character stolen from a J.L.Borges novel where his heroes are able to make more than one choice. The answer is securely hidden until the end of the film since between the two cities, the two stories there is...a BAR.
- DirectorAdonis FloridisTheodoros NikolaidisStarsAustin AggreyPopi AvraamPhillip AvramovAn illegal immigrant arrives in Cyprus, thinking he is in Italy. A story evolves around him, involving people who live in the margins society, and a veil of hypocrisy is created.
- DirectorChristos SiopahasStarsIlias AletrasClare DayEirini KonstadinouIn this film from Cyprus, Angelos longs for the magical day, Red Thursday, when his wildest dreams will come true. Unfortunately, such a day does not exist on any calendar. When he is arrested at a police roadblock with an illegal cargo of cheeses, he lands up in jail. There he meets Alexei, a charismatic Russian adventurer and idea peddler. Little does Angelos know that this meeting will eventually turn his dreams into nightmares.
- DirectorFatih AkinBarbara AlbertSharunas BartasStarsAlan ReesYohanna TroellAgneta Ulfsäter-TroellAn anthology film is a collection of short film projects by different directors for a common aim. Usually they are unified by a common theme - in this case, the European Union.
- DirectorKostas HaralambousStarsGiorgos Gerontidakis-SempetadelisMarkella PappaGiorgos LazaridesWith the arrival of a self-confident and rebellious beautiful girl in the village, a romantic 16-year-old will be in for a surprise, as the unprecedented feelings of love and passion will offer a gradual but marvellous passage to adulthood.
- DirectorPanikkos HrysanthouStarsChristopher GrecoAgni ScottMichalis TerlikkasOmeris, a Turkish Cypriot boy, grows up with Greek-Cypriots in the innocent years of his homeland. He has been taught that human beings have no differences between them, whether they call themselves Greek or Turk, Muslim or Christian. When he falls in love with a Greek-Cypriot girl, he realizes that the world is not as he imagined it to be.
- DirectorMarinos KartikkisStarsAndroulla IrakleousElena DimitriouAlex MihailEleni leaves alone, haunted by memories of the past. Her life is a routine until she witnesses a quarrel between a young couple in the house across the street. One afternoon, Eleni receives an unexpected visit from Rhea, the young woman from the house across the street. She has locked herself out and needs to use Eleni's phone in order to call a locksmith. And so begins a relationship between the two women with unforeseen consequences for them both.
- DirectorGeorge VoulgarisStarsMaria KarasoullaSofoklis KaskaouniasKoulis NikolaouThree different stories of three different people are combined together through various events becoming one... Robert works as a bodyguard for one of the biggest mafia bosses of Nicosia, Socrates' Iacovou. Things get complicated when Robert and Lisa, Socrates' wife, fall in love. After they run together, Socrates' revenge begins. But everything changes when Robert reverses the ball-game finding the exit. Time passes by and everything changes. Not for the better but for the worse. We are all inside a labyrinth. And we are all looking to find the exit .... the EXODOS
- DirectorAndreas G. AndreouStarsAndreas G. AndreouJames TaffurelliIonela RukaAlex and Michael are two young detectives called in to investigate a series of murders at a University in New York. During the course of this investigation, personal issues push Alex to the breaking point while Michael tries desperately to focus on the case.
- DirectorThanasis AntoniouStarsKostas SommerAlekos SissovitisMaria KorinthiouTwo friendly couples decide to enjoy a few days of vacation together on a secluded beach, but their relationships hide many secrets and lies.
- DirectorKorinna AvraamidouStarsStavros LourasChristopher GrecoMaria KitsouAlexandra and Orestes, a handsome young couple, arrive from Athens, to spend the summer holidays with Orestes' family at a beautiful picture-perfect seaside town on Cyprus.
- DirectorChristos GeorgiouStarsAris ServetalisVicky PapadopoulouRania OikonomidouWho killed Zaharias? Awesome Officer Leonidas will find out, even if he has to question all the island.
- DirectorPeter EllinasStarsChristina AngeliCassandra AntoniadouQuentin Keryvn de MeeredreAfter the death of Bobby Thomas, the lives of four people will change forever.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsVangelis MourikisGiorgos SymeonidisVictoria HaralabidouNear the end of the Greek Civil War two brothers find themselves in opposite sides.
- DirectorGeorge VoulgarisStarsAndreas GeorgiouPetros SergakisKoulis NikolaouIn a small society in our time, there occurs an event which influences many people, especially the one who caused it. Ektoras is one of the most well known businessmen of the city, father of two girls, Ellie and little Liza. Driving home from an evening out with his friend Tania, he hits a student called Philip. Ektoras panics, thinks of nothing but his daughters and chooses to leave the scene of the accident, believing that with this way he will avoid further trouble. He abandons Philip helpless in the middle of street. His actions may have given him temporary solution, but it was the beginning of a chain of reactions which will have great repercussions on him and others as time passes by.
- DirectorGloria MannazzuStarsChristina DemetriadesKyriacos DemetriadesStratis EfthymiouThe story of a friendship and of a dream, taking place in the last divided capital of Europe: Nicosia, Cyprus.
- DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsStathis StamoulakatosVangelis MourikisMaria KallimaniFollowing 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.
- DirectorMarinos KartikkisStarsEliza PatsalidouGiorgos HatzikyriakouLefteris SalomidisAliki and Andreas, a couple in their thirties, try to have a baby a year after the death of their 4-year old daughter. Marios, a man in his late twenties living with his mother Demetra, tries to satisfy his sexual needs by having casual encounters with men in the park. Aliki develops an interest in miracles when she hears in the news about an icon of Virgin Mary who is believed to weep and perform miracles. Meanwhile Marios is getting interested in a young man he meets at the swimming pool while Demetra is constantly concerned about her son. One day, while visiting her husband's grave Demetra sees Aliki in front of her daughter's grave and is intrigued.
- DirectorElias DemetriouStarsMarios IoannouMarlene KaminskyAnne-Marie O'SullivanA hard working Cypriot immigrant in London finally opens his very own chip shop. But his dream turns into a nightmare, as he seems to have overlooked one small detail: Cyprus just isn't London.
- DirectorEleutherios KakathimisStarsAndreas GeorgiouNicolas D. BlakeNathan MellowsALEX, finds himself lying on the floor of his apartment with no memory of anything about him or anyone/anything else. He will try to find out how this happened to him with help from his girlfriend MIA. While two guys JACK and MAX, are chasing him for some reason. Alex doesn't remember anything, but sooner or later everything will be revealed.
- DirectorMichael HapeshisStarsPopi AvraamDonna BerlinNadia CharalambousDr Andrew Michael, the brother, is lost in the anonymity of London medical life. His desire to return to the parental home after 30 years is triggered by a letter lost in the post, sent by his father a few days before he died. When Andrew is back in Cyprus he takes lodge in the family home where he is joined by his three sisters. Old issues become revived as he slowly becomes aware that he is not very welcome and he embarks on a journey to discover how his father died, alienating his sisters in the process. The truth comes as suddenly as the rain that sweeps away all lies and sins, restoring the family to its former glory and allowing the siblings to move forward as one.
- DirectorJason TzavellasStarsLefteris TsatsisLemonia GiannaridouNikos KarathanosThe story of an ordinary couple and the redefinition of their relationship and their existence through their subconscious transition.
- DirectorGeorge VoulgarisStarsNikolas ArkadiouGeorge ConstantinouGeorge GeorgiouRobert for once again returns back for business to help a woman to destroy the plans of Jack Ioannides who's the new mob boss of the underworld in Cyprus. Good versus Evil once again.
- DirectorJorgo PapavassiliouStarsBoris AljinovicLucas BabinRosalind BaffoeTwists and turns as a clever policeman investigates the death of an abusive businessman who has recently divorced his wife and taken custody of their only child, by revealing her past as a porn star. LAURA LOHNER is his prime suspect in a web of S&M games filled with prostitutes and high class hookers. There's one problem: Laura has the perfect motive...but she also has the perfect alibi. When FRANK LOHNER is found shot dead execution style, with six bullets to his body and an unconscious (and drugged) beautiful prostitute at his side, DETECTIVE ADAMS suspects Laura Lohner and sets out to question STAR, the young prostitute about her connections to Laura. As he delves deeper into the suspicious connections between the two women, the detective sets a trap to catch Laura in the act of pulling strings. He convinces Star she too is a victim, even though Laura has been the only one to protect her from her vicious ex-boyfriend SID...who coincidentally acted with Laura back in the day. As Detective Adams closes in on Laura, he is convinced he can get her to confess, and save Star from her obsession with the manipulative Laura. But who is playing whom? And who is the real victim?
- DirectorHristina HatziharalabousRadoslav PavkovicStarsBranislav TrifunovicLjuma PenovMirjana KaranovicHer name is Zoritsa, but the raged villagers name her "the kiss of death"! Is Zoritsa a serial killer or just a girl bearing an extraordinary curse?
- DirectorManuel de CocoStarsManos KokoromitisShaiya SalemDaniel PlackettThe Arab Spring, Yemen 2011. The revolution continues. It's the monsoon season and life goes on smoothly for the inhabitants of Socotra Island. Not far from land, a sailing boat bearing an Israeli flag sinks and the search for survivors begins. A castaway is washed ashore a secluded beach. On the other side of the island, a native dreams of the castaway seeking his help.This adventure begins through the castaway's body, a man who in the sinking of his life sees for the first time a chance to know gratefulness, to be reborn. Will he overthrow destiny? Will he get back alive?
- DirectorAndreas PantzisStarsHaris AbrazisGeorges CorrafaceSilvia PetkovaComing out of prison, Evagoras sets out to find his friend Milen in Bulgaria. In the search he finds love, but loses a friend.
- DirectorVicky JewsonStarsJames FrainSofia Black-D'EliaLydia LeonardAfter her family is killed, Mina finds out her real father is a terrorist, and behind the killings. To get revenge, Mina works with British Intelligence to take him down.
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsTilda SwintonTom HiddlestonMia WasikowskaA depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
- DirectorKyriakos TofaridisStarsOsman AlkasNitu ChandraDimitris DimitriouEnglish satellites who conduct research from space discover large oil deposit in the area of tho Old Mines in Cyprus. A big part of the area belongs to C... (he has bought it from his Turkish Cypriot colleague) who has retired there with his wife. The outbreak of a big economic crisis leads the two sons of the family to bankruptcy forcing them to move their families to the house. This whole situation is made worse when the Cyprus government keeps asking to buy the house, and our protagonist character stubbornly refuses. Two English agents and the Turkish Cypriot heir, camp outside the house. The house is in a state of internal and external siege.
- DirectorMihalis Georgiou
- DirectorStelana KlirisStarsMelia KreilingOrestes SophocleousDimitris XystrasA chance meeting between a man being pressured to propose to his girlfriend and a runaway bride.
- DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsVangelis MourikisPetros ZervosVicky PapadopoulouStratos, an ex-con, struggles to help out his former mafia boss. Then, Stratos learns his loyalty is exploited.
- DirectorStavros PamballisStarsConstantine MarkoulakisDaphne AlexanderNiovi CharalambousSet beside the UN Buffer Zone that divides the city of Nicosia, Siege on Liperti Street tells the story of one family's struggle to hold on to their home, no matter the price.
- DirectorPetros CharalambousStarsKonstantinos FarmakasGiorgos DemetriouKika GeorgiouIn a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates' careless summer days of riding his bike and tantalizing the local residents come to an abrupt end when he finds himself at the center of a murder investigation, which exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
- DirectorChristos SiopahasStarsChristopher GrecoGiannis KokkinosGiorgos KyriacouCyprus, 1940s. A couple, outlaws and hunted, arrive at a secluded mill house. The man leaves the distraught woman in the hands of the miller and runs off. As the young woman is cared for by the miller, love and affection grows between them. Their tranquility is violently disrupted when her husband and those who are after show up at the mill house.
- DirectorAdonis FloridisStarsAndroulla IrakleousEmmanouela HaralampousNiovi CharalambousA burned out soap opera writer turns his gaze upon his dysfunctional neighbours, but gets more than the inspiration he bargained for.
- DirectorIgor DrljacaStarsJasmin GeljoFilip GeljoMasa LizdekJasmin, once a successful actor in former Yugoslavia, dreams of returning to Sarajevo to continue his career, but fears losing his son Daniel if he follows through with his plan.
- DirectorVladan NikolicStarsWilliam LeroyKaterina MisichroniRobert ReesSet against the backdrop of economic crisis and bad news, an extravagant international cast of characters meet, fight, and fall in love, while hiding from the end of the world and other calamities on the tiny Greek island of Khronos.