Greek movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant greek movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, epic, humorous and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with greek, family relations, death, destiny, friendship, storytelling, parents and children, love and romance, greek mythology and fantasy world plots mostly in Drama, Action and Romance genres shot in USA, Greece, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as greek: Immortals (2011), Dogtooth (2009), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), Alexander (2004), Troy (2004), A Touch of Spice (2003), Zorba the Greek (1964), Roza of Smyrna (2016), America America (1963), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014).
Best films
List of greek movies
171K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
Style:
dark fantasy, stylized, exciting, epic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mythology, greek mythology, good versus evil, ancient, legends and myths, ancient history, immortality, greek, god, heroes, sword fight, army ...
Time:
ancient times, future
Place:
ancient greece, greece, europe
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99K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, art house, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
incest, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, isolated house, brother sister incest, child abuse, eccentric family, family problems, overprotective father, cat, confined, greek ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
Style:
feel good, romantic, funny, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids, teens ...
Plot:
wedding, culture clash, mother daughter relationship, greek, love, prejudice, dysfunctional family, love and romance, bride and groom, stereotypes, fall in love, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, chicago illinois, usa, san francisco
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172K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Style:
epic, breathtaking, serious, factual, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
war, ancient history, conquering, battles, gay, warlord, ambition, ruler, military, greek, courage, destiny ...
Time:
ancient times, middle ages
Place:
ancient greece, greece, persia, alexandria egypt, egypt ...
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543K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Malta, UK
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was ...
Style:
epic, exciting, heroic, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
sword fight, mythology, ancient, ancient history, warrior, war, betrayal, courage, greek mythology, battlefield, conquering, ancient world ...
Time:
ancient times, middle ages
Place:
ancient greece, greece, rome italy, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
greek, love and romance, food, self discovery, teenage life, grandparent grandchild relationship, youth, human nature, culture clash, friendship, family life, fall in love ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
greece, istanbul turkey, athens greece, turkey, constantinople
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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, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
greek, dancing, friendship, village, mentor, writers, bittersweet, culture clash, beach, suicide, death, prejudice ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
greece, europe, macedonia, new orleans, crete
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, epic, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
mythology, greek mythology, monster, legends and myths, teenage life, good versus evil, centaur, teenager, demi god, supernatural, young heroes, heroes ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, empire state building manhattan new york city, tennessee, ancient greece, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An avid collector of Greek objects in Asia Minor, Dimitris, prepares an exhibition on multicultural life in Smyrna before World War I. In a trip to Izmir his girlfriend Rita, he finds in a small antique shop a Greek wedding dress that is stained ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, exciting, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
greek, family secret, secret, genocide, inheritance, marriage, grandmother granddaughter relationship, grandmother, wedding, art exhibition, granddaughter, love affair ...
Time:
80s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
greece, athens greece, hellas
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America
Style:
road movie, art house, semi autobiographical, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
greek, emigration, immigration, armenian genocide, american dream, boat, migration, poverty, age-gap relationship, city, social injustice, time travel ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
greece, ottoman empire, new york, turkey, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster "300," this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield--on the sea--as Greek general ...
Style:
epic, heroic, exciting, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
sword fight, ancient history, war, master warrior, king, ancient, good versus evil, military, swords and armor, superhero, legends and myths, vengeance ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
ancient greece, middle east, greece, athens greece
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Two best friends from Berlin win a trip to Greece. On their excursion, they get lost on an island. They wander in the woods until they find an abandoned village where they encounter a mysterious creature, who calls himself Hercules. They spend the ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, melancholic, sexy
Plot:
gay, sexual tension, lgbt, repressed sexuality, male nudity, gay love, greek, friendship, male objectification, bodybuilding, narcissism, gay couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, wildlife, greek, sibling relationship, siblings relations, friendship, misfit, orphan, social relations, death in the family, eccentric family, family life ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
greece, europe
Is relevant ?
159K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Fourteen hundred years ago, a tormented soul walked the earth that was neither man nor god. Hercules was the powerful son of the god king Zeus, for this he received nothing but suffering his entire life. After twelve arduous labors and the loss of ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, epic, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
mythology, greek mythology, legends and myths, hercules, warrior, superhero, battles, beast, legend, strongman, mercenary, good versus evil ...
Time:
15th century
Place:
ancient greece, greece, athens greece
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
My Big Fat Greek Life is a sitcom series that ran on CBS in 2003. The series is a continuation on the 2002 movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding and was produced by HBO Television and Tom Hanks's Playtone Productions for Sony Pictures Television.
In ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, semi serious, feel good, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
greek, lifestyle, unlikely couple, culture clash, family life, eccentric family, couples, society, love and romance, misfit, parents and children, working class ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter ...
Style:
talky, clever, humorous, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, cruise, ship, greek, love and romance, introspection, self discovery, couple relations, legends and myths, couples, parents and children, cruise ship ...
Time:
year 2001, middle ages, 21st century
Place:
mediterranean sea, cairo egypt, jerusalem, middle east, istanbul turkey ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
Style:
exciting, fairy tale, epic, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
mythology, youth, monster, fantasy world, friendship, heroic mission, young heroes, greek mythology, legends and myths, superhuman powers, friends, artifact ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ancient greece
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Spoof of sword-and-sandal flicks such as “Gladiator,” “300″ and “Troy.” Following in the long tradition of National Lampoon, this ballsy comedy takes aim at “sword and sandal” movies of every era, with s special nod of the feathered ...
Style:
parody, humorous, not serious, entertaining, homoerotic ...
Plot:
absurd humor, gladiator, military, greek, disorder, state affairs, soldier, satire, cavalry, sword, friendly fire, castle ...
Place:
greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They ...
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, captivating, surreal ...
Plot:
transsexual, incest, gender, prostitute, starting over, love and romance, hopes, greek, jail, gay, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The heroic tale of young Mathayus and his relentless quest for justice against an evil and powerful villain, King Sargon. Mathayus faces heart-stopping tribulations during his adventurous, odds-defying trajectory toward his ultimate destiny: ...
Style:
serious, epic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mummy, sword and sorcery, revenge, monster, desert, magic, tyrant, heroes, greek, training, heroic mission, good versus evil ...
Place:
egypt, middle east, africa
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
From Ancient Greece to the frozen North, rulers have always needed their elite troops – men trained to perfection, skilled with a devastating array of weaponry – men who will track down their leader’s enemies and kill them. All assassination ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
assassination, battles, military, soldier, greek, world spanning, graphic violence, master warrior, ancient history, war, deadly, reenactment
Time:
middle ages
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their youth.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
restaurant, starting over, workplace, family business, family life, hopes, life turned upside down, down on your luck, coming of age, food, brother brother relationship, greek ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother...
Plot:
greek, age-gap relationship, meeting, athenian, widow, astronomy, motorcycle, teenage boy, solitude, telescope, infatuation, obsession ...
Time:
80s
Place:
athens greece, greece, hellas
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
greek, refugee, village, tragic love, wartime life, on the run, orphan, fall in love, genocide, political unrest, politics, self discovery ...
Time:
1920s, year 1945, year 1936, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
ancient greece, greece, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, intense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, war, italian army, wartime, german, resistance fighter, love and romance, impossible love, wartime life, fall in love, social relations, fascism ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
greece, rome italy, germany, italy, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles. It ran for six seasons, producing ...
Style:
exciting, fairy tale, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
mythology, good versus evil, hercules, supernatural ability, heroes, heroic mission, legendary hero, adventurer, deity, strongman, rivalry, rescue ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ancient greece, greece
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
TV show
Story:
Three couples in their early thirties, mid forties and mid sixties are in Athens.
Style:
entertaining, funny, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
greek, couples, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, three generations, lifestyle, romantic relationship, love story, family relations, relationships, love affair ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Greece, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he is an important Greek politician who disappeared ...
Style:
art house, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
refugee, greek, reporter, chaos, time travel, love, immigrants, society, reluctant partners, politics, starting over, state affairs ...
Time:
90s
Place:
albania, france, greece, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Music, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 230 min.
Story:
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from ...
Style:
road movie, art film, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, male nudity, greek, civil war, anarchist, sex crime, worker, dream, time travel, holocaust, betrayal, murder ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, year 1952, year 1939 ...
Place:
greece, europe, ancient greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Road movie about two children searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
Style:
road movie, serious, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
youth, children, soldier, family relations, on the road, human nature, life is a bitch, siblings relations, mother daughter relationship, greek, father daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
germany, europe
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