Country: Greece

Direction Robert Beavers

Direction Vasilis Georgiadis

Cast Jenny Karezi · Mairi Hronopoulou · Dimitris Papamichael · Giorgos Foundas

Synopsis Just a little time before the infamous brothels of Troumba (a slum of Peiraieus) are closed down, the story follows the lives of 5 prostitutes. Anna, in love with a gentle and wise sea captain, tries to hide the existence...

Direction Yorgos Javellas

Cast Vasilis Logothetidis · Ilia Livykou · Mimis Fotopoulos · Sperantza Vrana

Synopsis A honest, religious engraver, Anargyros Loumbardopoulos (Vassilis Logothetidis), has routinely invested his money in gold coins, specifically British gold sovereigns, bought from a friend of his, a banker. Upon having stored away 100 sovereigns, a friend of the banker suggests...

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Tania Palaiologou · Michalis Zeke · Stratos Tzortzoglou · Vasilis Kolovos

Synopsis In a working-class suburb of Athens, two illegitimate children, Voula, aged 11 and her brother Alexander, aged 5, dream each night that they will join their father in Germany. The father, in reality, does not exist and has been invented...

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Bruno Ganz · Isabelle Renauld · Fabrizio Bentivoglio · Achilleas Skevis

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Harvey Keitel · Maia Morgenstern · Erland Josephson · Giorgos Konstas

Synopsis "A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first...

Direction Dinos Dimopoulos

Cast Jenny Karezi · Alekos Alexandrakis · Dionysis Papagiannopoulos · Lili Papayanni

Synopsis A young architect gets a job in a firm that is managed by a beautiful but rather "stiff" woman. When they come face to face, there are sparks flying everywhere...

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

Direction Aris Chatzistefanou · Katerina Kitidi

Synopsis Seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions.

Direction Aris Chatzistefanou · Katerina Kitidi

Cast Naomi Klein · Ken Loach · Slavoj Žižek

Synopsis The creators of Debtocracy, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization and search for clues on the day after Greece's massive privatization program.

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Jeanne Moreau · Dora Chrisikou · Gregory Karr

Synopsis While working on a story in the border area, a young reporter discovers a divided town bisected by a river which is also the national frontier. He observes a surreal wedding in which the bride and her family stand on...

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Alexandra Aidini · Nikos Poursanidis · Giorgos Armenis · Vasilis Kolovos

Synopsis This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she...

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Ellie Lambeti · Dimitris Horn · Eleni Zafeiriou · Stephanos Stratigos

Direction Yorgos Javellas

Cast Yvonne Sanson · Dimitris Horn · Vasilis Avlonitis · Hristos Tsaganeas

Synopsis Kleon is a poor man trying to make his living with a small job at a bank. One day, he discovers an accounting error and deciding not to report it, he takes the money and instantly becomes rich. This gives...

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Melina Mercouri · Giorgos Foundas · Alekos Alexandrakis · Hristina Kalogerikou

Synopsis The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a...

Direction Thanassis Vengos

Cast Thanassis Vengos · Zannino · Dimitris Nikolaidis · Giorgos Attikos

Synopsis In this film, Vengos plays a loser who studies in a secret agents academy, dreaming of becoming a great spy like 007. Unfortunately he can't do anything right, so he wrecks havoc during his final exams.

Direction Costas Ferris

Cast Sotiria Leonardou · Nikos Kalogeropoulos · Michalis Maniatis · Themis Bazaka

Synopsis The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Eva Kotamanidou · Aliki Georgouli · Vangelis Kazan · Stratos Pahis

Synopsis Greece 1939 - 1952 Fascist, Nazi, Communist conflict as seen through a family of travelling provincial players.

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Manos Katrakis · Mairi Hronopoulou · Dionysis Papagiannopoulos · Giulio Brogi

Synopsis A director wants to make a film about political refugee. An old man fascinates him and he follows him. The director’s fantasies become reality. A voyage in the realm of the imaginary, of love and death.

Direction Marianna Economou

Cast Alexandros Gousiaris · Christos Takas · Olga Lorida · Agathi Gousiari

Synopsis Two ingenious cousins, with the help of the knowledge of the grandmothers and the illusion of the inhabitants of an isolated village in Greece, manage to raise the spirits and the economy of the place, exporting small jars with organic...