Movies and TV shows set in crete

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in crete ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, exciting and humorous films and TV shows about / with family relations, bare chested male, danger, greek, escapades, death, murder, mythology, love and romance and village plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres shot in Greece, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as crete: My Grandfather's People (2011), The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991), The Two Faces of January (2014), El Greco (2007), Hell in the Aegean (1970), How to Have Sex (2023), Vortex (1967), O ilios tou thanatou (1978), Forbidden Sun (1988), First Time Godfather (2007).

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My Grandfather's People (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A feature film that tells the story of the director's grandfather who was forced to leave Crete in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.
Style: captivating, sincere, humorous, disturbing, educational
Audience: family outing
Plot: grandparent grandchild relationship, kids and family, immigrant, family relations, immigrant family, immigration, lifestyle, turk, town, suicide, coup d'etat, greek ...
Time: 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: crete, turkey
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Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, South Africa, Germany, USA, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.
Style: stylized, exciting, suspenseful, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: atlantis, natural disaster, forces of nature, legends and myths, danger, survival, father son relationship, ancient, secret, battlefield, volcanic eruption, end of the world ...
Time: ancient times
Place: europe, crete
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The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, anthology, exciting, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: ancient, mythology, myth, writers, magical, heroes, monster, greek, prince, family relations, princess, escapades ...
Place: crete
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The Two Faces of January (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a private detective.
Style: tense, suspenseful, romantic, suspense, talky ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: murder, on the run, tour guide, con artists, private detective, greed, love triangle, american abroad, cons and scams, ruins, dishonesty, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1962
Place: greece, athens greece, somalia, europe, turkey ...
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El Greco (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Greece, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Style: serious, stylized, emotional, captivating, disgusting ...
Plot: painter, art, idealism, politics, tragic hero, ambition, prodigy, self destructing, fall in love, society, destructive relationship, lifestyle ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages
Place: greece, venice, italy, europe, spain ...
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Hell in the Aegean (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Greece, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The picture is set during Battle of Greece and Crete Battle in 1941, after the fall of the mainland when the Germans entered Athens.
Plot: world war two, world war, submarine, kriegsmarine, spy, fighter, british, paratrooper, resistance, greek, army, german soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, year 1941
Place: crete, hellas, greece
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How to Have Sex (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, partying, coming of age, summer, party girl, clubbing, problem, grownups, teenager, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, drinking alcohol ...
Place: crete
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Vortex (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A beautiful young woman Hana Angelousi is lured aboard the yacht of a man who is trying to break the spell that turns men into stone. An updated version of the legend of Perseus and Medusa.
Style: avant garde, experimental
Plot: love triangle, water, skull, mythology, boat, filmmaker, village, public sex, man hits a woman, female objectification, beach, man with glasses ...
Place: crete
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O ilios tou thanatou (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Plot: village, aunt, killing an animal, vendetta, horse, suicide, death, balkan war, folk dance
Time: year 1917
Place: crete
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 4.3
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Forbidden Sun (1988)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Olympic gymnastics coach Francine Lake and her twelve gorgeous students train on the Island of Crete. The rigors of training preclude most sexual activity with the locals, thus the girls spend their evenings in quiet frustration.
Style: independent film
Plot: rape, revenge, extramarital affair, female nudity, flirting, sexual frustration, repressed sexuality, rape and revenge, bare breasts, suicide attempt, language barrier, culture clash ...
Place: crete
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First Time Godfather (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Brought up in California, offspring of an important political family, 11 year old Alex travels to Crete in order to baptize the baby child of a local cacique and parliamentary candidate. He will be a GODFATHER FOR THE FIRST TIME in order to prove to ...
Plot: politician, tradition, village, godfather, democracy, basketball, hedgehog, customs, family relations, speech, dialect
Place: crete
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Cool (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film follows the parallel and entwining stories as well as the common fates of some very different young people for 24 hours in the summertime: from the prison to the corridors of the airport and from the Saronikos beaches to the Psiloritis ...
Plot: female nudity, police, singer, lawyer, crooked businessman, bodyguard, ex convict, beach volleyball
Place: crete
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Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Australia, Greece
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. While the reluctant Manos is tutored in the art of revenge by old friend Stephanos, he also attempts to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: vengeance, twins, murder, teacher, vigilantism, rivalry, couples, family relations, couple relations, old friend, fascism, vendetta ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 2000s, year 1943
Place: australia, melbourne, crete, hellas, greece
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Bang-Bang Wedding! (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Elias and Marina arrive in Crete to join their lives in the holy bonds of marriage, friends and family that are waiting and how! The marriage is celebrated regularly and all are preparing to celebrate but their fate surprises A small but ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good, light, road movie
Plot: wedding ceremony, wedding, marriage, wedding party, father son relationship, misadventure, wedding planning, love and romance, family relations, disorder, friendship, car crash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, crete
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Alexandria Again and Forever (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife.
Style: stylized, offbeat, exciting, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot: peplum, sorcery, mythology, sword and sorcery, myth, danger, heroes, rivalry, escapades, fall in love, imaginary, soldier ...
Place: crete
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For the Love of Benji (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Benji is lost and becomes a stray animal in Athens, Greece, trying to reunite with his family while secret agents pursue him, trying to get a formula which was glued to his paw in order to get it past customs.
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, animal, friendship, pets, chase, canine, kidnapping, espionage, doberman, partner, anti hero, family relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: greece, europe, crete, athens greece
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Programmed to Kill (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: International terrorist leader, Fatima, is critically injured when she attempts to hijack a jumbo jet and is thwarted by Eric Matthews and his anti-terrorist organization, The Retaliators. Fatima is taken to a top-secret research institute, where ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, violence, spy, exploitation, cyberpunk, terminator, soldier, terrorism, kidnapping, dystopia ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east, greece, europe, crete
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The Moon-Spinners (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there ...
Style: light, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, retro ...
Audience: kids
Plot: murder, hotel, coming of age, teenage girl, ship, nature, disorder, danger, uncover truth, chases and races, treasure hunt, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, crete
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Zorba the Greek (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
Style: inspirational, black and white, philosophical, existential, retro ...
Plot: greek, friendship, village, mentor, dancing, writers, bittersweet, culture clash, beach, book, prejudice, suicide ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: greece, ancient greece, europe, macedonia, crete
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Fist of the Reich (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, War
Country: Germany, Croatia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, bleak
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, world champion, anti semitism, boxing, fighting the system, hopes, athlete's life, against humanity, society, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, new york, hamburg germany, berlin germany, germany ...
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