Some great greek films
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- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsDinos IliopoulosMargarita PapageorgiouGiannis ArgyrisA peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsDespina TomazaniDora MasklavanouTakis MoshosA band of handsome Athenian pariahs waiting for a miracle have a fateful encounter with the ever-present state instead. And as the law's suffocating stranglehold tightens around them, the shotguns have the final say.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsThemis BazakaDimitris KatalifosMaria MartikaA young couple fight for their love and freedom.
- DirectorNikos TzimasStarsAlekos AlexandrakisAngelos AntonopoulosKostas KazakosThe story of Nikos Belogiannis, member of the Greek Communist Party and officer of ELAS.
- DirectorNikos GrammatikosStarsNikos GeorgakisGiorgos EvgenikosVangelis MourikisThe story follows the sporadic reunions of six friends during the seven-year period of their integration into society.
- DirectorRenos HaralambidisStarsRenos HaralambidisAnna-Maria PapaharalambousMichalis IatropoulosAs 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.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsGiorgos FoundasMargarita PapageorgiouStefanos StratigosKosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because of debts, he gets tangled up in smuggling. His morals are tested and he tries to find a way out.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsAnna VagenaSmaro VeakiKostas RigopoulosAnna is a servant of an old lady for ten years. The old lady chooses a man for Anna.
- DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsErrikos LitsisEleni KokkidouCostas XikominosDuring 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?
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsAleka PaiziThemis BazakaThanasis VengosDifferent human stories, about joyless and depressed people, in the heat of the nights and days of Athens.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsYannis DrakopoulosEvi SaoulidouMakis PapadimitriouThe story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsAntigoni AmanitouZaharias RohasNikos KapiosThe consequences of the Destruction of Smyrna and the Genocide of the Greeks in Turkey, as seen through the eyes of three characters who were dragged to the arid plains of Anatolia only to succumb to hunger, thirst, and the winner's knife.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsAlexandra AidiniNikos PoursanidisGiorgos ArmenisThe story starts in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsMichalis ZekeTania PalaiologouStratos TzortzoglouTwo children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsBruno GanzIsabelle RenauldFabrizio BentivoglioFamous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.
- DirectorDimos AvdeliodisStarsYannis AvdeliodisNikos MioterisMarina DelivoriaThe friendship between two young boys during the summertime in 60's Chios island.
- DirectorGiannis DalianidisStarsRena VlahopoulouLabros KonstadarasLili PapayanniAbout Aleka who is obsessed with playing cards and the efforts of her husband to make her quit this bad "habit".
- DirectorTakis VougiouklakisStarsAliki VougiouklakiNikos GalanosNikos RizosA young woman arrives in Athens along with her poodle, putting on a show as Charles Chaplin's tyrant in The Great Dictator (1940) to eke out a living. But, love always finds a way. Could a kind blind philosophy student be hope personified?
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsLefteris VoyatzisStavros ParavasKonstantinos TzoumasThis musical shows of the Acropole dominated Greek theater during the 1950s and 60s. Acropole follows Prince, the self-made producer of this unusual and mythic theater, and Lakis, the cross-dressing actress who specializes in comic female roles. The story culminates on closing night, when cast and crew recreate the "Alalum," a traditional piece by Aristophanes resplendent with the unexpected, the spontaneous and the insane.
- DirectorVasilis GeorgiadisStarsJenny KareziGiorgos FoundasDimitris PapamichaelThe inextricably intertwined stories of five women who work as prostitutes just before the ban on brothels in Troumba.
- DirectorFilippos TsitosStarsAntonis KafetzopoulosAnastasis KozdineTitika SarigouliA Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family's past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.
- DirectorDinos DimopoulosStarsDinos IliopoulosAlekos AlexandrakisNora ValsamiIn old times Athens many houses had one yard for all.This movie takes us to one of those yards where people interfere with each others lives for better or worst.
- DirectorStavros TsiolisStarsGiannis ZouganelisArgyris BakirtzisSakis BoulasTwo men travel to Thassos, where their families are on vacation. On the way, however, various unexpected and comic events happen to them.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsAnthony QuinnAlan BatesIrene PapasAn uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
- DirectorGiorgos TzavellasStarsOrestis MakrisDimitris HornBilly KonstantopoulouA poor cobbler has become a drunkard and the laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When she falls in love with a rich young man, her father tries in vain to hide his passion from his family.