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The 1970’s … Greece is under a brutal military dictatorship (the so called “Revolution” 1967-1974). Christmas is walking in a military camp, at Evros (in the extreme cold north of the country, borders with Turkey) and everyone is getting prepared for the traditional celebration. The thoughts, however, of Lieutenant Captain Stephen Karamanides are somewhere else. He is a man closed to himself, never smiles, rough and rugged. He has only one desire: to dance with his secret love, the wife of Lt. Colonel Emmanuel Logos. But he does not know how to dance. Read More »
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Nikos Koutelidakis – To tango ton Hristougennon AKA Christmas Tango (2011)
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Takis Kanellopoulos – Parenthesi AKA Interlude (1968)
1961-1970ArthouseGreeceRomanceTakis KanellopoulosAn affair–parenthesis in the dull life of two people (Angelos Antonopoulos and Alexandra Ladikou), who meet by chance on a railway trip and spend a few hours together while the train is stuck in a station.Read More »
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Pantelis Voulgaris – Isyhes meres tou Avgoustou aka Quiet Days in August (1991)
1991-2000ArthouseDramaGreecePantelis VoulgarisThe stories of three lonely people surviving a sweltering summertime in Athens are interwoven in this gentle romantic drama. Nikos used to be a merchant seaman, traveling around the globe to exotic places and testing his wits and his mettle in different situations. Now he is retired, living in Athens with his wife whom he no longer loves. While at the train station, he encounters a woman who faints more or less into his arms. From her, he learns that this day has already been special to her for two reasons: her husband just died, and it is her birthday. Curiously, this meeting sparks new life in him. Another man suffering through the hot Athens summer is a bank employee who gets calls every day at four p.m. from a woman who seeks to arouse him. What succeeds in doing is rousing his curiosity, which he is likely to regret giving in to. Finally, an elderly woman lives in near isolation, lost in dreams of bygone love. Her new neighbor is a young woman who makes a good connection with her. ~ Clarke Fountain, RoviRead More »
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Panos H. Koutras – Xenia (2014)
2011-2020DramaGreecePanos H. KoutrasRomanceStrangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.Read More »
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Nikos Koundouros – Byron, i balada enos daimonismenou AKA Byron: Ballad for a Daemon (1992)
1991-2000ArthouseDramaGreeceNikos KoundourosJanuary 1824. Lord Byron arrives in Messolonghi, a seemingly unimportant, filthy and surrounded by an unhealthy lagoon small town on the western coast of Greece, in order to be proclaimed “General of the Greeks” in their revolution against the mighty Ottoman Empire. Away from his homeland, life-weary and possessed by his daemons, the great romantic comes to this besieged, depressive and defended by semi-barbarians town for his last heroic stand.Read More »
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Argyris Papadimitropoulos – Suntan (2016)
2011-2020Argyris PapadimitropoulosDramaGreeceHorrorPLOT:
Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.Read More » -
Yorgos Lanthimos – Kinetta (2005)
2001-2010ArthouseDramaGreeceYorgos LanthimosPLOT:
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 man and a woman.Read More » -
Panos H. Koutras – Alithini zoi AKA Real Life (2004)
2001-2010DramaFantasyGreecePanos H. KoutrasQuote:
Aris, 27 years old, returns home after a long journey… His mother, an eccentric and lonely woman lives together with her secretary, Sylvia and her loyal gardener mute Christos. Her house is famous not only for its view in Acropolis but also for his pool: the deepest in Europe. Determined to leave behind his past and start a new life, Aris, will search the secret of his youth, he will fall in love with a poor girl, Alexandra and he will confront his own ghosts. In the meanwhile a fire turns Athens into a living hell…Read More » -
Sotiris Stamatis – Mia nyhta sto theatro AKA A Νight at the Theater (2022)
2021-2030DramaGreeceSotiris StamatisTwo hundred years after the Greek Revolution, a coup d’état is underway in Greece. A man named Odysseus hides in a theater for three days. On the third night, a woman named Athena finds him in his shelter. As the night passes by, they slowly transform into the mythological characters of the same name.Read More »