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- DirectorStelios TatasopoulosStarsStelios TatasopoulosDanai GrizouTasos KefalasStelios Tatasopoulos directs the first film of social realism in Athens of the 1930s. Drugs, gangs, prisons, strikes, and also clashes with the police.
- DirectorGiorgos TzavellasStarsVasilis LogothetidisIlia LivykouMimis FotopoulosPivoting around a shiny counterfeit gold sovereign freshly milled from the clandestine workshop of an otherwise honest goldsmith, four brief vignettes of human imperfection; seduction; fate; desire, and devotion inextricably interweave.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsMelina MercouriGiorgos FoundasAlekos AlexandrakisProud, independent Stella, an unconventional Rebetico singer who cherishes her freedom, finds herself in an intense whirlwind romance. Everything points to a tragic ending, and in the aftermath of passion, there can be no winners.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsDinos IliopoulosMargarita PapageorgiouGiannis ArgyrisA peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.
- DirectorAlekos SakellariosStarsOrestis MakrisGeorgia VasileiadouJenny KareziAunt Calliopi returns to Greece from Chicago after 30 years and plans to marry off her nieces.
- DirectorVasilis GeorgiadisStarsJenny KareziGiorgos FoundasDimitris PapamichaelThe inextricably intertwined stories of five women who work as prostitutes just before the ban on brothels in Troumba.
- DirectorKostas ManoussakisStarsElli FotiouAnestis VlahosSpyros FokasA disturbing family drama about the pathogeny of Greek countryside.
- DirectorAlexis DamianosStarsMaria VassiliouGiorgos KoutouzisKoula AgagiotouAthens, 1971. In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life, and the suffocating pressure of fragile societal relations. Will they survive one another?
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsMinas ChristidisGiannis VoglisDimitris MyratThe life and work of Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos from his election in 1910 until 1927.
- DirectorTonia MarketakiStarsToula StathopoulouAnny LoulouStratis TsopanellisSet on the island of Corfu at the beginning of the century. Story of the troubled love affair between Rene and Andreas and the refusal of Rene's mother to give Andreas the dowry he demands.
- DirectorNicos PerakisStarsNikos KalogeropoulosGiorgos KimoulisTakis SpyridakisThe "adventures" of some friends during their military service.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsManos KatrakisMary HronopoulouDionysis PapagiannopoulosAn old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsThanasis VengosGiorgos ArmenisDimitris KatalifosThree men head towards a turning point in their lives.
- DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsStathis PapadopoulosCostas KotsianidisPanagiotis ChartomatsidisA group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city's repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsAlkis PanagiotidisKonstantinos TzoumasRita BensousanFive friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence.
- DirectorStratos TzitzisStarsEfi LogginouRania OikonomidouAntinoos AlbanisA 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.
- DirectorJacqueline LentzouStarsLazaros GeorgakopoulosNikolas HanakoulasKaiti IbrohoriAfter years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father's frail state of health. Discovering her father's well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father in a way she was not able before.
- DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsStathis StamoulakatosVangelis MourikisMaria KallimaniFollowing his father's death, Nikos leaves the provinces to work in Athens guarding his brutish uncle's dogs. Nikos finds the dynamic of his relationship with his uncle changing when his uncle's wife draws closer to him.
- DirectorMenelaos KaramaghiolisStarsIlektra AlexandropoulouMenelaos KaramaghiolisGiorgos KonstasDramatized documentary that follows the stories of four people of Rom (Gypsy) origin. These stories speak of the life of these people in modern Greece, a life full of problems, a life as part of a broader story of the Rom in Europe.
- DirectorPaola ReveniotiStarsDinos ChristianopoulosPanagiotis EvangelidisKostas KanakisA pioneer Greek queer activist and her filmmaking team Paola Team Documentaries present their first feature documentary about "Kaliarda," the secret language of the gay community in Greece, from the 40s until the country's regime change in the early 70s. Paola became acquainted with Kaliarda towards the end of its use, in the 80s. The team started out aiming to record the history of Kaliarda, but realized they were recording the history of the queer community's life in Greece during the 20th century. Themes start emerging, such as love, sexuality, hang-outs, the problems faced by gays at the time and how conditions gradually changed until today. In the documentary, we encounter academics and people from the street, who had a first-hand experience of our subject.
- DirectorAlexis AlexiouStarsYorgos KakanakisSerafita GrigoriadouDafni LambrogianniLove leads to madness when an unstable man falls for an unsuspecting woman in this thriller from Greece.
- DirectorElina PsykouStarsVictor KhomutValery TscheplanowaThanasis PapageorgiouAthens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn't know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
- DirectorPanagiotis EvangelidisStarsJim BaysingerMikal GlaabTwo middle-aged gay men meet again after 20 years and decide to move together to New Orleans.
- DirectorYannis SakaridisStarsAlexandros LogothetisThemis BazakaYorgos PirpassopoulosA bankrupt telecoms engineer, employed by his ex-boss to investigate a phone-hacking operation, gets trapped into paying off either his economic or his moral debts.
- DirectorAngeliki AntoniouStarsAngeliki PapouliaGiannis TsortekisTasos PalatzidisA woman who has lost her memory struggles to reconstruct her past while cooking simple yet delicious food for workers at a working-class seaside tavern.
- DirectorNikos PapatakisStarsOlga KarlatosRoland BertinPhilippe AdrienAn actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.
- DirectorAlexander VoulgarisStarsAnthi EfstratiadouSofia KokkaliIro BezouSeems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another's company. None of them is "Winona".
- DirectorRinio DragasakiStarsMaria KitsouPipera MayaKimonas KourisWhen a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.
- DirectorFilippos TsitosStarsAntonis KafetzopoulosAnastasis KozdineTitika SarigouliA Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family's past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.
- DirectorSpiros JacovidesStarsEleni KokkidouJulio KatsisNegros Tou MoriaWhile filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son. But when he is accused of fraud, Haroula sets out with her other, disabled son and a Greek-African taxi driver to bring him back home where he belongs. Even if this means discovering who her son really is.
- 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.
- DirectorGiorgos PanousopoulosYorgos TsemberopoulosGiorgos TsemperopoulosStarsBetty LivanouAris RetsosGiorgos SiskosOn a hot Athenian July, a reclusive Astronomy student spots a disillusioned woman with his telescope, and his dull existence takes on a new meaning. They coexist in time and space; but, they are so far apart. Will they ever become one?
- DirectorFrieda LiappaStarsIlektra AlexandropoulouPeriklis MoustakisKiriakos AgelakosOne woman's lonely search for the truth about her mother's murder.
- DirectorPanos H. KoutrasStarsGiannis AngelakisChristos MantakasMyriam VourouAround the year 2000, a terrible incident shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how? But no one can give an answer.
- DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsEleni KastaniAkilas KarazisisAmalia MoutousiThree couples flee Athens for the summer, and their journeys change their lives forever.
- DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsErrikos LitsisEleni KokkidouCostas XikominosDuring 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?
- DirectorThelyia PetrakiStarsElena TopalidouNikos KourisElena MengreliGreece 1986-1987, a little before the fall of State Socialism and just at the end of the Cold War. In front of Anthi's eyes the country is changing, the world is changing and with them Christos seems to be changing too.
- DirectorChristina PhoebeStarsLauretta MacauleyZandile NgubaneChristina PhoebeA non-fictional poem on belonging, estrangement and home, narrated by five women who are perceived as "foreigners" in Greece.
- DirectorSotiris TsafouliasStarsPigmalion DadakaridisDimitris KatalifosManos VakousisA professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsEva KotamanidouVangelis KazanAliki GeorgouliGreece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.