Movies and TV shows set in athens greece
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in athens greece ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, tense, melancholic, realistic, psychological and art house films and TV shows about / with greek, urban, friendship, love, social commentary, death, nude, murder, fight and moral ambiguity plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in Greece, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as athens greece: Socrates (1970), The Other Me (2016), Roza of Smyrna (2016), From the Edge of the City (1998), The Two Faces of January (2014), My Life in Ruins (2009), Greatest Days (2023), Intimate Relations (1979), A Touch of Spice (2003), The Last Note (2017).
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List of movies set in athens greece
Genre: Biography, History
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After Athens falls under the government of the Thirty Tyrants, the lives of citizens are no longer safe. The philosopher Socrates, meanwhile, continues his so-called philosophical "preaching", gathering more and more young disciples. The ...
Style:
artsy, philosophical
Plot:
philosophy, philosopher, ancient, ancient world, atheist, greek mythology, antiquity, quantum physics, ancient history, lawyer, italian neorealism, peplum ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
ancient greece, athens greece, greece
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story that features renowned French actor François Cluzet in a key-role.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, confusing, non-linear ...
Plot:
killing spree, serial killer, revenge, investigation, asperger's syndrome, professor, police, marriage proposal, crime wave, vigilante, victim, perjury ...
Time:
2010s, year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1987 ...
Place:
athens greece, ancient greece, europe, greece, balkan
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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:
sentimental, melancholic, exciting, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
greek, secret, family secret, genocide, inheritance, grandmother granddaughter relationship, marriage, wedding, grandmother, art exhibition, love affair, dispute ...
Time:
80s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
greece, athens greece, hellas, ottoman empire
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
Style:
lgbt cinema, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
lgbt, greek, nude young male, male pubic hair, russian mafia, male prostitute, gay sex, homosexuality, teenage boy, male nudity, rent boy, migration ...
Time:
90s
Place:
greece, geneva switzerland, europe, kazakhstan, italy ...
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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, period piece, romantic, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
murder, on the run, tour guide, ruins, love triangle, american abroad, greed, cons and scams, dishonesty, fugitives, criminal heroes, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 2010s, year 2014, year 1962
Place:
greece, athens greece, somalia, europe, turkey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, entertaining, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
tour guide, workplace romance, love story, happy ending, drinking, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, stereotypes, storytelling, hospital, romantic relationship, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece, san francisco, australia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, Greece, Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the Take That musical, five best friends have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later, their lives have changed in many different ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their ...
Style:
uplifting, feel good, sentimental
Plot:
boy band, loss of friend, group of friends, friendship, female friendship, pop music, nostalgia, second chance, concert, coming of age, pop culture, fan culture ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece, united kingdom
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Genre: Crime
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A wealthy heiress that resides in Athens, is the victim of a robbery. Not only does her jewellery disappear but her maid is murdered while attempting to protect her. A police officer named Zaras is on the case. The primary suspects are ... an army ...
Style:
erotic, detective
Plot:
exploitation, stolen jewelry, jewel thief, heiress, bare breasts, love, murder, police, female pubic hair, male nudity, female nudity, love affair ...
Place:
hellas, greece, athens greece
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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:
sentimental, touching, emotional, sincere, indie film ...
Plot:
greek, chef, love and romance, food, self discovery, teenage life, grandparent grandchild relationship, human nature, youth, fall in love, family life, friendship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
greece, athens greece, istanbul turkey, turkey, constantinople
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, touching, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, reprisal, resistance fighter, nazi officer, greek history, execution, prisoner of war camp, martyrdom, political persecution, tragedy, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
greece, athens greece, germany, europe, balkan
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Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 237 min.
TV show
Story:
This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, crying
Plot:
olympics, athletic training, competition, athlete, male nudity, mama's boy, intrigue, track and field, swimming, greek, studying, cycling ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 20th century, victorian era
Place:
athens greece, greece, usa, pittsburgh, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As the lights flicker on a warm August night, amidst vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he just met at a phone booth, while strolling around the city's quiet night streets.
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, art house, road movie, emotional ...
Plot:
night, self discovery, chance meeting, character study, urban, bohemian, slice of life, intimate, transformation, poet, flirting, bittersweet ...
Place:
athens greece, greece
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The series follows the lives and loves of three 30-something professionals in modern day Athens. Elli (Faidra Douka) is a junior executive in a record company, having to deal with a highly demanding bitch-of-a-boss. Following the end of a serious ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, satirical, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, relationships, employer employee relationship, in love, love and romance, love interest, love affair, relationship problems, fall in love, love story, friendship, female friendship ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece, greece
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Niki is a resistance fighter living in a nightmarish dictatorship in Athens, 1972, and Lefteris is her son, who will be forced sooner or later to cut the thread that binds them together.
Style:
surreal, art house, experimental, political, psychological ...
Plot:
memory, resistance, identity, mother son relationship, oppression, dictatorship, violence, rebellion, surveillance, intimate, hopes, minimal dialogue ...
Time:
70s, year 1995, year 1975
Place:
athens greece, greece
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos’ girlfriend who allows him to sleep next to her feeling her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, moody
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love triangle, jealousy, earthquake, identity crisis, longing, forbidden romance, sexual tension, claustrophobia, summer, political activism, jungle, greek ...
Time:
80s
Place:
athens greece
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works ...
Style:
crime drama, tension, suspense, period piece, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, robbery, plan, execution, scheme, office, caper, greed, brothers, risk, urban, friendship ...
Time:
60s
Place:
athens greece
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
While vacationing in Greece, Beckett, becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating car accident forces him to run for his life across the country to clear his name but tensions escalate as the authorities close in and political unrest mounts ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
political conspiracy, tourist, car accident, conspiracy, tragic event, government conspiracy, anxiety, runaway, interracial love relationship, american tourist, evil plot, struggle for survival ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
greece, athens greece, europe
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
After the events of Justice League: War, Ocean Master and Black Manta have declared a war against the surface in retaliation of the aftermath of Apokoliptian-tyrant Darkseid's planetary invasion. Queen Atlanna seeks out her other son, Ocean ...
Style:
anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
justice league, superhero, batman, atlantis, superman, good versus evil, superhero team, destiny, comic book, revenge, green lantern, aquaman ...
Place:
athens greece, atlantic ocean, maine
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.
Style:
satirical, period drama
Plot:
anti war, political satire, gender roles, farce, civil disobedience, national identity, family relations, nudity, obscenity, love, peace, greek ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ancient greece, athens greece, greece, hellas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Athens, mid-August. Tsiou, addicted to substances, while trying to get his dose, mixes a number of people to his search through his sister and her mobster husband. A chain of meetings follows where the pressure passes from one to another.
Style:
intense, dark comedy, tense, tragicomedy, political ...
Plot:
addiction, drug, desperation, heroin, crisis, character study, urban, street life, realism, moral ambiguity, isolation, urban decay ...
Place:
athens greece, greece
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece, Switzerland, India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An ageing Serbian neuroscientist lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded as a paranoid schizophrenic for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. But when, decades later, he is rediscovered by a group ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, intellectual, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
neuroscience, mental illness, isolation, paranoia, ethical dilemma, obsession, social commentary, activism, moral ambiguity, slow burn
Place:
athens greece, greece
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Stories of ordinary people living in a neighborhood of Athens below the Acropolis.
Style:
thrilling, semi serious, captivating, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
lifestyle, satire, urban, community, slice of life, street life, empathy, social realism, domestic drama, intimate, working class, friendship ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece
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Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Greece
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Akropol is a musical by Pantelis Voulgaris about the set of a theatre in Athens and the people trying to make their way in the show business. The movie claimed the Music Award in the Valencia Festival, and also the Directing Award in the Cairo ...
Style:
sentimental, melancholic
Plot:
backstage, bittersweet, drag queen, dancing, singing, cross dressing, drunkenness, replacement, child star, diva, theater, success ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
athens greece
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Her profession, however, is a barrier for their relationship. They try to stay together and overcome their inner conflicts, but the social ...
Style:
romantic drama, tension, poignant, tragic ending, bleak ...
Plot:
prostitute, forbidden love, tragic romance, urban, desire, passion, marriage, jealousy, sexuality, class conflict, realism, fatalism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
athens greece, greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, UK, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of foreigners coming. ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
refugee, greek, syrian refugee, xenophobia, immigration, racism, lifestyle, changing lives, social problems, social issues, immigrant, city life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece, athens greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A nightmarish crisis occurs after a pregnant young Greek immigrant takes a job as a nanny to a young professional couple, in this stunning drama from Germany’s Christian Zübert.
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, intense, tense ...
Plot:
nanny, pregnancy, female protagonist, family drama, motherhood, responsibility, immigration, loss of child, grief, guilt, unwanted pregnancy, social problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
athens greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tungsten deals with the idea of electricity as a metaphor, the scenery is urban, and the plot is unfolded during a single day. One day in Athens, continuous outages, and a final blackout, caused by the strike of technicians at the electricity ...
Style:
tense, bleak, suspenseful, melancholic, existential ...
Plot:
urban, electricity, blackout, darkness, teenager, social commentary, moral ambiguity, strike, intimate, slice of life, claustrophobia, urban decay ...
Place:
athens greece, greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
TV show
Story:
Xenia and Elpida are childhood best friends who group up in an orphanage. When Xenia finds out Elpida is the descendant of a rich businesswoman, she travels to Athens and poses as her granddaughter, stealing Elpida's life and identity.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, twisted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, impostor, false identity, identity theft, manipulation, family drama, domestic drama, con trick, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, inheritance, wealthy family, stolen identity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Summer in an Athenian neighborhood, the alarm of a car does not leave their neighbors in peace. But every one has its own problems. Infidelity, robbery, jealousy, flirtation, and family reconciliation on corpses, all pour forth into five intertwined ...
Style:
tension, tense, melancholic, suspense, anthology ...
Plot:
apartment building, greek, death, multiple storylines, city life, domestic drama, neighborhood, social realism, claustrophobia, slice of life, jealousy, infidelity ...
Place:
athens greece
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Athens in August becomes the place where a group of young people live, fall in love and have fun - guided by, and communicating through, the Internet.
Style:
romantic comedy, light hearted, romantic drama
Plot:
young adult, coming of age, friendship, fall in love, relationships, youth culture, summer vacation, flirting, mediterranean, slice of life, personal growth, social change ...
Place:
athens greece, greece
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