The lost highway
The lost highway of the Greek cinema
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- DirectorDimos TheosStarsAnestis VlahosKyriakos KatzourakisEleni TheofilouAthens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.
- DirectorApostolos C. DoxiadisStarsGiannis FertisBetty LivanouGiorgos MoshidisA young minister has to deal with his suicidal wife and a large-scale environmental disaster.
- DirectorTasos PsarrasStarsMihalis BogiaridisStelios KapatosByron TsaboulasLocal tobacco farmers decide jointly not to sell to the tobacco traders, who have taken advantage of their need for cash. One farmer breaks his promise and is shot. At the trial, the court tries to discover the real motives for the crime.
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsMichele ValleyTakis SpyridakisPanos ThanassoulisGoing alone into an abandoned, living city, a woman tries to cross a forbidden zone swarming with the Morning Patrol and traps. Meeting one of the last city guards, they attempt recall the past and penetrate the zone together.
- DirectorNikos VergitsisStarsAntonis KafetzopoulosGiota FestaPanos IliopoulosDuring a hot summer somewhere in the early-1980s Athenian urban jungle, three friends experiment with a difficult love triangle. Will their ambivalent feelings and the unbearably lingering identity crisis consume them?
- DirectorGiorgos KorrasStarsTakis MoshosMinas HatzisavvasAnna MakrakiAris and Thanos are good friends and they share an apartment. The arrival of Stella will unbalance their relationship.
- DirectorGiorgos KorrasChristos VoupourasStarsStelios MainasToula StathopoulouLeonidas NomikosA fresco of life in a small country spa, as it unfolds before the eyes of Christos, a young man from Athens. Christos is led there, dazzled by a youth, Manolis, in whose person all the contradictions of his social milieu come to life.
- DirectorAndreas TsilifonisStarsChristos KalavrouzosOlia StefanidouTakis MoshosAfter two long decades at sea, a rugged former Rocker returns to Athens, Greece, to shed light on the untimely death of his ton-up boy brother.
- DirectorCostas FerrisStarsMaria AlkeouDora LytinakiDimitris PoulikakosAdaptation of Papadiamantis' novel Fonissa about a woman who murders little girls.
- DirectorTasos PsarrasStarsVasilis KolovosVana FitsoriDimitra HatoupiIn high hopes of getting a loan to update his antiquated machinery, a financially hard-pressed owner of an old tannery turns to a well-to-do migrant who wants to marry his young daughter. Could he be the solution to the family's problems?
- DirectorNikos PapatakisStarsOlga KarlatosGeorge DialegmenosLambros TsagasThanos, a poor shepherd who has returned to Greece after spending time in Germany as an immigrant worker, puts into motion the mechanism of fate.
- DirectorKostas ManoussakisStarsElli FotiouAnestis VlahosSpyros FokasA disturbing family drama about the pathogeny of Greek countryside.
- DirectorVasilis VafeasStarsMinas HatzisavvasNelly AngelidouAntonis AntoniouA young chemical engineer finds a new job in a multinational corporation. As he climbs the career ladder the most he loses his humanity.
- DirectorStavros TsiolisStarsTassos DenegrisKonstantinos TzoumasKaterina TsioliA middle-aged sociology professor quits his job, leaves his family and lives in a secluded home. His only motive to keep going seems to be his desire to find an unknown woman who appears in a photograph.
- DirectorDimos AvdeliodisStarsThanassis DendrisSpyros SakkasDimos AvdeliodisThe owners of a blacksmith and a workshop, located next to each other in Athens, have poor relations between them, dating since their grandparents first came from Samos and Samothrace respectively.
- DirectorCostas FerrisStarsAlkis PanagiotidisSotiria LeonardouGiorgos MoshidisA film adaptation of the ancient tragedy, The Bacchae. Surreal scenes unfold before Pentheus' eyes, arousing doubts as to whether his experiences are real or not.
- DirectorRoviros ManthoulisStarsCostas MessarisEleni StavropoulouTheano IoannidouPenniless and without a future, an English teacher agrees to tutor a pampered woman, only to become enmeshed in a strange reality and a downward spiral of desire and illusion, guilt and self-contempt. Will the ugly truth set him free?
- DirectorLambros LiaropoulosStarsKostas KastanasAn autobiographical recording, but also a comment on the crucial decade between 1965 and 1975, the smoothening qualities of time and the everchanging facet of our world.
- DirectorTonia MarketakiStarsManolis LogiadisMika FloraVangelis KazanThe story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
- DirectorGiorgos PanousopoulosStarsAlessandra VanziAris RetsosAntonis TheodorakopoulosA brilliant program analyst and married mother of two goes for a stroll in the dense National Garden on a sweltering Athenian afternoon. There, wild animalistic instincts emerge, and the park turns into a tricky, lush but savage jungle.
- DirectorStavros TornesStarsStavros TornesCharlotte Van GelderPierre Luigi AbnerStavros and Charlotte are wandering the streets of a burdensome reality like immigrants, tracing the world around them through friendships, journeys and political quests.
- DirectorStavros TsiolisStarsTassos MiliotisOlia LazaridouKonstantinos TzoumasTwelve-year-old Vasilis escapes the orphanage, wanders a while in the capital and then takes the train for his hometown, Tripolis.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsLefteris VoyatzisMary XenoudakiAleka PaiziA 30-year-old man returns from America suffering an existential crisis. He goes to Corfu to see his sick mother and tries to find happiness through a desperate love affair.
- DirectorAntouanetta AngelidiStarsJosy DelettreAntouanetta AngelidiMakiko SuzukiThrough a paradoxical audiovisual collage incorporating striking black-and-white ideologies about intellectual and political extremism, this project explores the dipole of reality and art/masculinity and femininity.
- DirectorAntouanetta AngelidiStarsJany GastaldiMagia LymberopoulouAnnita SantorinaiouDuring its 85-minute, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in Western art.
- DirectorThanasis RentzisStarsFaidon GeorgitsisMarili TsopanelliFilippos SofianosPivoting around the eternal dipole of man/woman, masculinity/femininity, this experimental film delves deep into the realm of sexuality and eroticism.
- DirectorKostas SfikasStarsThomas BodinasMichalis GalanakisThomas GerasimidisThe ruins of paganism and the birth of Christianity portrayed by immobile people along with music.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsMyrto ParashiGiannis BezosTasos YfantisAnna's life and her husband's Achilles changes when she begins to see vivid dreams.
- DirectorGiorgos PanousopoulosStarsStavros XenidisAleka PaiziBetty LivanouA retired couple spends its vacation at a spa town. Their also retired friends see life with a different eye. Some believe that the future does not reserve anything important for them and others seek love and try to live every moment.
- DirectorVasilis VafeasStarsKostas VoutsasHara AngelousiGiannis GoumasMeandering amid a hot Athenian summer, Odysseas finds himself in Hydra, after losing his job. There, an elusive dark-haired nymph lures him into a dream-like hunt for the ideal love, tempting him to embrace life. Will he emerge a new man?
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsVera TschechowaJohn MooreNiki TriantafillidiAwaiting for Orpheus to save her from a modern Hades, Euridice faces her fears, desires, hallucinations and memories.
- DirectorKostas ManoussakisStarsPetros FyssounManos KatrakisDimitris MyratA Nazi officer arrives in occupied Athens in 1941 and falls in love with a Jewish girl, unaware of her true identity.
- DirectorTakis KanellopoulosStarsAimilia PittaFaidon GeorgitsisTakis EmmanuelThe experiences and suffering of a band of Greek soldiers during the 1939-45 war.
- DirectorTakis KanellopoulosStarsLili PapayanniKostas KaragiorgisAngelos AntonopoulosThe love story between a captain's wife and his sergeant which has a tragic ending.
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsMeredyth HeroldPanos ThanassoulisMichele ValleyA man searching for his long-lost lover is kidnapped by her killers, an insane, mother-daughter duo, and they force him to commit various sexual atrocities with them.
- DirectorVangelis SerdarisStarsAnestis VlahosHristos TsagasYiorgos KalantzisTwo brothers and their friend decide to make a heist into the office, one of them works and go for the vault. They plan and execute perfectly so they only have to try and stay out of the police's radar for some time.
- DirectorThodoros MaragosStarsVangelis KazanHristos ToliosKostas TsakonasIn Filiatra, a half deserted township of Messinia, farmers who are left are in a constant struggle to pay off their debts to the Agricultural Bank.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsZorz SarriGiorgos MoshidisStavros KalaroglouThe film depicts the penal experience of political prisoners exiled to a small Aegean island during the military junta and in particular one prisoner's refusal to submit.
- DirectorYiorgos StamboulopoulosStarsNikiforos NanerisEleni TheofilouBetty ArvanitiDimitris, a shy and not ambitious 30-year-old bourgeois, is struggling against his past, the nightmare of German occupation and his unstable reality, just to discover his real self and the meaning of his whole existence.
- DirectorKostas SfikasStavros TornesA poetic documentary about the island of Santorini.
- DirectorRoussos KoundourosOne of the first Greek commercial documentaries on the industrial infrastructure, which stands out for its editing and a highly immersive soundscape. The film presents the procedures and the construction phases of the infrastructure of an aluminium plant, as well as the stages of production, from bauxite extraction to aluminium production.
- DirectorSakis ManiatisYorgos TsemberopoulosStarsThe People of MegaraThe struggle of olive growers in Megara, to fight the Junta's decision to expropriate a large agricultural region, for the installation of an oil refinery.