Direction: Theodoros Angelopoulos

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


Landscape in the Mist

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

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

Plot 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...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Eternity and a Day

1998 · Movie · 130 min. · Greece

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

The Look of Ulysses

1995 · Movie · 176 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

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

Plot "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...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

The Suspended Step of the Stork

1991 · Movie · 143 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

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

Plot 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...

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

Trilogy I: The Weeping Meadow (Eleni)

2004 · Movie · 162 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

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

Plot 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...

7.2

877 votes

7.2

877 votes

The Travelling Players

1975 · Movie · 230 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

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

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

7.2

459 votes

7.2

459 votes

Voyage to Cythera

1984 · Movie · 134 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

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

Plot 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...

7.2

446 votes

7.2

446 votes

The Hunters

1977 · Movie · 165 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Mairi Hronopoulou · Eva Kotamanidou · Vangelis Kazan · Giorgos Danis

Plot It is New Year's Eve. 1976. On a Greek island a party of bourgeois hunters comes upon a body, buried in the snow and miraculously preserved by the cold. By...

6.9

169 votes

6.9

169 votes

Alexander the Great

1980 · Movie · 200 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Omero Antonutti · Eva Kotamanidou · Mihalis Giannatos · Grigoris Evangelatos

Plot A Greek bandit leads a group of British aristocrats to a mountain village where the peasants have overthrown the landowners and established a commune.

6.8

203 votes

6.8

203 votes

The Bee Keeper

1986 · Movie · 117 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Dinos Iliopoulos · Serge Reggiani · Jenny Roussea

Plot The journey of a bee keeper from north to south following the trail of the flowers. A film on the silence of history, of love, of God.

6.7

382 votes

6.7

382 votes

Reconstruction

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · Greece

6.6

169 votes

6.6

169 votes

Days of 36

1972 · Movie · 105 min. · Greece

6.4

161 votes

6.4

161 votes

Broadcast (S)

1968 · Movie · 22 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Theodoros Katsadramis · Lina Triantafillou · Yannis Kostoglou · Makis Panorios

Plot Angelopoulos' first (completed) film won the Hellenic Association of Film Critics prize in 1968 for best short fiction film. It is a witty dismantling of media celebrity that uncannily prefigures...

6.3

99 votes

6.3

99 votes

To Each His Cinema

2007 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Lumière and Company

1995 · Documentary · 88 min. · France

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Hugh Hudson · David Lynch · John Boorman

Cast Romane Bohringer · Pascal Duquenne · Bruno Ganz · Neil Jordan

Plot In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using...

6.2

813 votes

6.2

813 votes

The Dust of Time

2008 · Movie · 125 min. · Greece

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast Willem Dafoe · Bruno Ganz · Michel Piccoli · Irène Jacob

Plot In this second part of Theo Angelopoulos’ historical panorama, an American film director of Greek ancestry named A is making a film about the life of his parents, Spyros and...

6.0

162 votes

6.0

162 votes

Invisible World

2012 · Movie · 93 min. · Brazil

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Gian Vittorio Baldi · Marco Bechis · Laís Bodanzky

Cast Ashot Adamyan · Jupiter Apple · Sônia Braga · Leon Cakoff

Plot An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

Not rated

Not rated

Athens, Return to the Acropolis (TV)

1983 · Documentary · 45 min. · Greece

Not rated

Not rated