Direction: Yorgos Lanthimos

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Poor Things

2023 · Movie · 141 min. · Ireland

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Emma Stone · Mark Ruffalo · Willem Dafoe · Ramy Youssef

Plot Bella Baxter is a young girl brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the...

7.3

27K votes

7.3

27K votes

The Favourite

2018 · Movie · 121 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Olivia Colman · Emma Stone · Rachel Weisz · Nicholas Hoult

Plot Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close...

7.1

24K votes

7.1

24K votes

Dogtooth

2009 · Movie · 94 min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Christos Stergioglou · Michelle Valley · Angeliki Papoulia · Mary Tsoni

Plot Behind the high walls of their family home, three siblings are convinced by their parents that the outside world is filled with death and danger. They spend their days in...

7.1

23K votes

7.1

23K votes

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017 · Movie · 121 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Colin Farrell · Nicole Kidman · Barry Keoghan · Raffey Cassidy

Plot It tells the story of a surgeon (Colin Farrell) who forms a familial bond with a teenage boy (Barry Keoghan). When the boy’s behavior turns sinister, he’s forced to make...

Max

6.6

16K votes

6.6

16K votes

The Lobster

2015 · Movie · 118 min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Colin Farrell · Rachel Weisz · Jessica Barden · Olivia Colman

Plot An unconventional love story set in a dystopian near future where single people, according to the rules of the Town, are arrested and transferred to the Hotel. There they are...

Max

6.6

26K votes

6.6

26K votes

Alps

2011 · Movie · 93 min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Aris Servetalis · Johnny Vekris · Angeliki Papoulia · Erifili Stefanidou

Plot A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.

6.1

4K votes

6.1

4K votes

Nimic (S)

2019 · Movie · 12 min. · Germany

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Matt Dillon · Daphne Patakia · Susan Elle · Sara Lee

Plot A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.

5.6

500 votes

5.6

500 votes

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013 · Documentary · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat

Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido

Plot 70 short movies about cinema and its future.

5.4

74 votes

5.4

74 votes

My Best Friend

2001 · Movie · 104 min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos · Lakis Lazopoulos

Cast Lakis Lazopoulos · Antonis Kafetzopoulos · Vera Krouska

Plot When Konstadinos misses a flight and returns home unexpectedly, he finds his wife in bed with his best friend. Shocked, he leaves the house without letting them know what he...

5.0

31 votes

5.0

31 votes

Necktie (S)

2013 · Movie · 2 min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Jessica Hoare · Mia Jenkins · Callum May · Spike White

Plot 5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.

4.9

66 votes

4.9

66 votes

Gucci Of Course a Horse (S)

2020 · Movie · 2 min. · Italy

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Azu Nwogu · Cheikh Tall · Eli Romanova · Elibeidy Dani

Plot Set in Los Angeles, the Gucci Spring Summer 2020 campaign stars horses and their human friends in paradoxical scenarios. Of Course a Horse is conceived by Alessandro Michele, art directed...

4.6

364 votes

4.6

364 votes

Kinetta

2005 · Movie · 95 min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Evangelia Randou · Aris Servetalis · Costas Xikominos · Hector Kaloudis

Plot At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chambermaid, a man obsessed with BMW cars, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly re-enacted struggles between a...

4.4

419 votes

4.4

419 votes

O viasmos tis Hlois (S)

1995 · Movie · 10 min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Elena Topalidou · Konstadinos Rigos · Giorgos Giaples

Plot The pirates chasing Chloe, the capture and rape. The Bryaxis, their leader, obliges to dance for him. The syringe comes to free her…forever.

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Uranisco Disco (S)

2002 · Movie · 14 min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Akilas Karazisis · Tania Nassibian · Nikos Karathanos · Argyris Xafis

Plot About a producer-director of erotic films and his mistress, a wannabe a singer, making a porn-musical.

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Bleat

2022 · Movie · 30 min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Damien Bonnard · Emma Stone

Plot Silent short film, set on the Greek Cycladic island of Tenos. A woman in black is mourning inside a simple house. Reality blends with dreamy imagination, and tradition with insidious...

Not rated

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Kinds of Kindness

2024 · Movie · min. · Ireland

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Emma Stone · Jesse Plemons · Willem Dafoe · Margaret Qualley

Plot After "Poor Things" (in postproduction in autumn 2022) the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos works again with Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe in another Element Pictures movie distributed by...

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Untitled Yorgos Lanthimos Film

2024 · Movie · min. · Greece

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Emma Stone

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Not rated