Greece

  • Olga Malea – Loukoumades me meli aka Honey and the Pig (2005)

    2001-2010ComedyGreeceOlga MaleaRomance

    In this surreal comedy, a child molester is hunted down by a former victim, a pretty hearse-driver and a pet piglet.
    A young man pursues his molester but events quickly get out of control. Pots of honey, a sweet-toothed piglet, a perverted uncle, a sexy hearse-driver, a wandering dietician and hundreds of villagers mingle in an outrageously original comedy.
    Olga Malea, Greece’s well-known filmmaker and a professional psychologist, tackles the issue of child sexual abuse through a surreal sense of humor and a Balkan landscapeRead More »

  • Tasos Psarras – Karavan Sarai (1986)

    Drama1981-1990GreeceTasos Psarras

    Plot:
    Shortly before the end of the Civil War, in 1948, the villages along the border are evacuated to facilitate the National Army’s movements as well as to hamper those of the rebels. A forty-year-old villager, Margaritis (Thymios Karakatsanis), is forced, as are many others, to abandon his home and head for Thessaloniki with his two children. He settles into one of the city buildings, the Caravanserai, which has been designated for just this purpose. Here the refugees live under appalling conditions and resort to unnatural, dishonest behavior and cunning deeds. Margaritis tries not to get involved in all the unspeakable atrocities unfolding before him, at quite some psychological cost.Read More »

  • Yorgos Lanthimos – Alpeis AKA Alps (2011) (HD)

    2011-2020ArthouseDramaGreeceYorgos Lanthimos

    Quote:
    Life is a baffling but also intriguing imitation of itself in Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to well-received arthouse hit Dogtooth. Scarcely less bizarre than that droll excursus about a family that lives, loves and even speaks at one surreal remove from the rest of the world, Alps denies us such traditional cinematic handholds as rounded characters with backstories; a plot with an identifiable moral arc; neatly tied narrative ends; an easy-to-read ‘message’. Yet the film only very occasionally feels like a piece of self-indulgent arthouse mystification: most of the time, this story of a team of melancholy, oddball characters who help (or profit from) the bereaved by standing in for departed loved ones holds us emotionally and intellectually – and ends by saying something profound about a world in which ‘reality’ is just another TV format…Read More »

  • Vasilis Georgiadis – Koritsia ston ilio AKA Girls in the Sun (1968)

    1961-1970DramaGreeceRomanceVasilis Georgiadis

    A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece (imdb)Read More »

  • Yorgos Zois – Interruption (2015)

    2011-2020DramaGreeceYorgos Zois

    A post modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The audience is captivated by the ambivalence, still not realizing if this is part of the play or not. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not vice versa (imdb)Read More »

  • Ektoras Lygizos – To agori troei to fagito tou pouliou AKA Boy Eating the Bird’s Food (2012)

    2011-2020ArthouseEktoras LygizosExperimentalGreece

    Synopsis
    The Greek drama from first-time director Ektoras Lyzigos follows the life of a young man on the brink of starvation in modern-day Athens.
    Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood ReporterRead More »

  • Argyris Papadimitropoulos & Jan Vogel – Wasted Youth (2011)

    2011-2020Argyris PapadimitropoulosArthouseDramaGreeceJan Vogel

    Wasted Youth is set during a hot summer day in Athens. A sixteen-year-old skater and his friends are amusing themselves in the big city. A middle-aged man struggles to take care of his family, through work that he hates and mounting stress. Their lives intersect in this contemporary portrait of the city of Athens and a society in crisis.
    The film deliberately avoids factual accuracy, instead telling a fictional story. Wasted Youth is above all a film about the city of Athens, which is teetering on the brink of a nervous breakdown.Read More »

  • Jules Dassin – Kravgi gynaikon aka A Dream of Passion (1978)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGreeceJules Dassin

    Quote:
    The husband and wife team of director Jules Dassin and actress Melina Mercouri, who first enjoyed international success with the comedy Never on Sunday, collaborated for the last time on this powerful drama. Maya (Melina Mercouri) is a famous actress who is returning to the stage for a production of the classic Greek tragedy Medea, in which she will play the title character, a mother who murders her children. Kostas (Andreas Voutsinas), Maya’s former lover, will be directing Maya in the production, and when he discovers that Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), an American woman, is housed in a nearby Greek prison for killing her offspring, he suggests that Maya should meet Brenda as a means of better understanding her character. Read More »

  • Dimos Avdeliodis – I earini synaxis ton agrofylakon AKA The four seasons of the law (1999)

    Drama1991-2000ComedyDimos AvdeliodisGreece

    Plot
    Chios Island, 1960. Due to the sudden death of the field guard at the village of Tholopotami, the Community Council urgently asks for a replacement from the area’s Agronomist. All the remaining, available field guards refuse to work at that village because of its bad reputation and because of the fact that their co-worker passed away while on duty. But when the Community Council raise up the issue again, offering this time a higher salary to the one who will accept the position, 4 candidates turn up…Read More »

Back to top button