Best of Modern Greek Cinema
by nodasxiros | created - 15 Dec 2016 | updated - 16 Aug 2022 | PublicA collection of modern Greek movies, between 90s and present day.
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1. Miss Violence (2013)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A chilling account of a horrendous family tragedy perpetuated behind closed doors. As chronic violence chips away at the household's elaborate façade, the shocking secret reveals that almost nothing is as it seems.
Director: Alexandros Avranas | Stars: Themis Panou, Reni Pittaki, Eleni Roussinou, Sissy Toumasi
Votes: 9,956
2. Suntan (2016)
Unrated | 104 min | Drama
On a hedonistic Greek island, a middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends.
Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos | Stars: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou, Hara Kotsali, Milou Van Groesen
Votes: 8,090
3. Testosteroni (2004)
92 min | Comedy
Peter, the hero, aged 20, finds himself on a deserted Greek island with no other men in sight. The women of the island, regardless of age harass him sexually. What starts off as a typical male sexual fantasy turns out into a nightmare.
Director: Giorgos Panousopoulos | Stars: Dimitris Liakopoulos, Natalia Dragoumi, Dimitra Matsouka, Ketty Papanika
Votes: 672
4. Love Struck (2014)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A love story with unpredictable twists and turns between perception and reality, love and its complications and the faults of human nature, Apo Erota (Lovestruck) is a romantic tale with a twist.
Director: Thodoris Atheridis | Stars: Smaragda Karydi, Panayiota Vlanti, Thodoris Atheridis, Constantine Markoulakis
Votes: 1,088
5. Dogtooth (2009)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis
Votes: 110,515 | Gross: $0.11M
6. 45 M2 (2010)
78 min | Drama
A young woman's struggle to overcome life's economic restrictions in order to meet her true will. She is twenty-three and lives with her mother, a compromise she can no longer stand.
Director: Stratos Tzitzis | Stars: Efi Logginou, Rania Oikonomidou, Antinoos Albanis, Giorgos Giannopoulos
Votes: 721
7. Wasted Youth (2011)
122 min | Drama
Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.
Directors: Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Jan Vogel | Stars: Haris Markou, Ieronymos Kaletsanos, Arthouros Kiviliov, Jason Wastor
Votes: 1,033
8. No Budget Story (1997)
87 min | Comedy
In order to secure money for the production of his first film, a young man asks help from a film producer. The producer, however, was involved with pornographic films.
Director: Renos Haralambidis | Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Yannis Bostantzoglou, Dimitra Papadima, Giorgos Voultzatis
Votes: 622
9. Uranya (2006)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of young boys must decide whether to buy a TV set to watch the launch of Apollo 11 or visit Uranya to learn about the secrets of love.
Director: Costas Kapakas | Stars: Aris Tsapis, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Dimitris Piatas, Manolis Mavromatakis
Votes: 1,435
10. O hamenos ta pairnei ola (2002)
121 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A cynical man, along with a 19 year old musician, a former lover, an alcoholic client of a bar and a black strip club dancer are involved with anarchist mood in a dangerous game with drugs godfathers of the night, cops and media.
Director: Nikos Nikolaidis | Stars: Giannis Angelakas, Jenny Kitseli, Ifigenia Asteriadi, Simeon Nikolaidis
Votes: 1,428
11. Burning Heads (2011)
99 min | Drama
Adonis returns to Athens to introduce his bride-to-be to his mother Rina and brother Lefteris, a schizophrenic. But Adonis's visit unravels family dynamics and deep-running problems that haunt all of them.
Director: George Siougas | Stars: Omiros Poulakis, Prometheus Aleifer, Ioanna Tsirigouli, Iro Bezou
Votes: 690
12. Back Door (2000)
105 min | Drama
An Athens youth has adulthood thrust upon him after he loses his father.
Director: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos | Stars: Konstandinos Papadimitriou, Alexandriani Sikelianou, Haris Sozos, Ieroklis Michaelidis
Votes: 547
13. The Enemy Within (2013)
TV-14 | 107 min | Crime, Drama
When a brutal gang invades his home, a grizzled father of two finds himself confronted with a destructive dilemma. But when guns have the final say, everyone is the enemy.
Director: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos | Stars: Manolis Mavromatakis, Maria Zorba, Giorgos Gallos, Antonis Karistinos
Votes: 780
14. The Sentimentalists (2014)
94 min | Crime
Two henchmen, Hermes and John, do 'dirty work' for a criminal. Both will commit a fatal mistake: while Hermes falls for the daughter of the boss, John is obsessed with a prostitute. Both will pay a heavy price for being 'sentimentalists'.
Director: Nik Triantafyllidis | Stars: Dimitris Lalos, Haris Fragoulis, Takis Moshos, Ilianna Mavromati
Votes: 775
15. Xenia (2014)
Unrated | 134 min | Drama, Romance
Strangers 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.
Director: Panos H. Koutras | Stars: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Giannis Stankoglou, Marisha Triantafyllidou
Votes: 4,345 | Gross: $0.00M
16. Afterlov (2016)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
Twelve hard months after their sudden break-up, a struggling musician invites his ex-lover at a friend's sumptuous villa in search of answers. Living apart, or living together, is equally scary; but, is there an answer to every question?
Director: Stergios Paschos | Stars: Iro Bezou, Haris Fragoulis
Votes: 1,040
17. Cheap Smokes (2000)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
As the lights flicker on a warm August night amid vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he has just met. The perfect strangers stroll around the city's quiet night streets, changed by the unforgettable journey.
Director: Renos Haralambidis | Stars: Renos Haralambidis, Anna-Maria Papaharalambous, Michalis Iatropoulos, Kostas Tsakonas
Votes: 3,921
18. Stratos (2014)
137 min | Crime, Drama
Stratos, an ex-con, struggles to help out his former mafia boss. Then, Stratos learns his loyalty is exploited.
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Petros Zervos, Vicky Papadopoulou, Giannis Tsortekis
Votes: 3,335
19. Tsiou... (2005)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
An ex drug addict tells his hilarious adventure on his way to find heroin, mid August, in Athens.
Director: Makis Papadimitratos | Stars: Alexandros Parisis, Makis Papadimitratos, Anastasis Kolovos, Jenny Theona
Votes: 2,448
20. To thavma tis thalassas ton Sargasson (2019)
Not Rated | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece, two women live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. Elisabeth is a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens ten... See full summary »
Director: Syllas Tzoumerkas | Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Youla Boudali, Christos Passalis, Argyris Xafis
Votes: 872
21. Spirtokouto (2003)
80 min | Drama
During an unbearably hot Athenian summer, a cramped flat becomes a hellish urban battlefield for an ornamental paterfamilias and his family. Now, ugly truths and deleterious words become weapons in a dirty war. Can they emerge unscathed?
Director: Yannis Economides | Stars: Errikos Litsis, Eleni Kokkidou, Costas Xikominos, Giannis Voulgarakis
Votes: 3,817
22. The King (2002)
130 min | Drama
A former drug addict gets a new lease of life in his grandfather's dilapidated rural house, only to face the unwritten laws of the close-knit community. Now, all that's needed is a catalyst. Who can stop the advent of hell on New Paradise?
Director: Nikos Grammatikos | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Marilita Lambropoulou, Minas Hatzisavvas, Babis Giotopoulos
Votes: 2,563
23. It's a Long Road (1998)
118 min | Drama
Three men head towards a turning point in their lives.
Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Thanasis Vengos, Giorgos Armenis, Dimitris Katalifos, Kostas Kazanas
Votes: 2,468
24. Afstiros katallilo (2008)
110 min | Comedy
Two young Greek filmmakers seeking financing for their film "The End of the Passion" and end up with "Panourgias" a former porn-king of the 70s. He agrees to shoot the film but he also has another secret plan.
Directors: Thanasis Papathanasiou, Michalis Reppas | Stars: Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Penelope Pitsouli, Dimitris Tzoumakis
Votes: 2,165
25. To klama vgike ap' ton Paradeiso (2001)
110 min | Comedy, Musical
It is a parody, which mimics with a sweet and nostalgic mood the whole spectrum of the old Greek cinema of the 60's.
Directors: Thanasis Papathanasiou, Michalis Reppas | Stars: Anna Panagiotopoulou, Mirka Papakonstantinou, Tasos Halkias, Maria Kavoyianni
Votes: 3,269
26. Safe Sex (1999)
100 min | Comedy
A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. We see several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way as the film progresses.
Directors: Thanasis Papathanasiou, Michalis Reppas | Stars: Mina Adamaki, Alexandros Antonopoulos, Kostas Grekas, Vaso Goulielmaki
Votes: 3,837
27. Afti i nyhta menei (2000)
112 min | Drama, Music, Romance
On the brink of the new millennium, a young aspiring singer leaves Athens for the seedy nightclubs of the rough Greek province, bent on getting her big break amid milky-white cigarette smokes, decayed divas--and ultimately--broken hopes.
Director: Nikos Panayotopoulos | Stars: Nikos Kouris, Athina Maximou, Zoe Nalbanti, Kostas Markopoulos
Votes: 1,421
28. Apples (II) (2020)
91 min | Drama
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
Director: Christos Nikou | Stars: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis
Votes: 5,460
29. Digger (2020)
101 min | Drama
A father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited.
Director: Georgis Grigorakis | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Argyris Pandazaras, Sofia Kokkali, Theo Alexander
Votes: 2,938
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