Best Greek Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Greek Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: realistic, serious, captivating, cerebral, psychological and suspense. Plot: death, greek, husband wife relationship, family relations, love, dancing, murder, bare chested male, eating and friendship. Genre: Drama, Romance and Comedy. Country: Greece, USA and UK.
Best Greek Movies
Best Greek Movies
TOP Movies: The Other Me (2016), Before Midnight (2013), Destiny (2006), Bliss (2007), Safe Sex (1999), Man of God (2021), Dogtooth (2009), Worlds Apart (2015), The Lobster (2015), The Last Note (2017), The Travelling Players (1975), The Founder (2016), How to Have Sex (2023), Midnight Special (2016), Rise (2022), Miss Violence (2013), Love Is Strange (2014), Sky Riders (1976), Little England (2013), The Lost Daughter (2021).

List of Best Movies

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 7.9
 13K
The Other Me (2016)
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: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, non-linear, confusing ...
Plot: killing spree, revenge, serial killer, investigation, professor, police, asperger's syndrome, crime wave, vigilante, victim, perjury, death ...
Time: 2010s, year 2007, 2000s, year 2014, 80s ...
Place: athens greece, ancient greece, balkan, europe, greece
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 7.9
 171K
Before Midnight (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 109 min.
Story: We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Style: meditative, philosophical, sentimental, romantic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: marriage, summer vacation, writers, hotel room, hotel, midlife crisis, couple relations, existentialism, relationships, love story, divorce, conversation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, paris france, chicago
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 7.8
 17K
Destiny (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bekir is in love with Ugur, who loves Zagor, who loves to commit crimes.
Style: serious, tense, art house, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: romancing a criminal, life is a bitch, on the run, fall in love, estrangement, hopes, crime gone awry, love and romance, murder, destiny, fighting illness, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, balkan, asia, europe, istanbul turkey ...
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 7.5
 8K
Bliss (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: cultural difference, rape, injustice, social differences, traditional versus modern, unlikely partners, love affair, innocence lost, husband wife relationship, sexual humiliation, turk, women's issues ...
Place: middle east, turkey, istanbul turkey
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 6.6
 4K
Safe Sex (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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.
Style: hilarious, sexual, sexy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: couples, gay, phone sex, parallel story, satire, sex addict, love and romance, gender, couple relations, society, sexual relations, hospital ...
Time: 90s
Place: greece, europe, hellas, athens greece
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 7.0
 4K
Man of God (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Exiled unjustly, convicted without trial, slandered without cause. Man of God depicts the trials and tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, as he bears the unjust hatred of his enemies while preaching the Word of God.
Style: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, smart ...
Plot: saint, meaning of life, religion, christianity, religious faith, christian, religious, defamation, preacher, clergy, social injustice, judgment ...
Time: 1890s, 19th century, 1920s, 1910s, 1900s
Place: tibet, greece, egypt, athens greece, ottoman empire ...
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 7.2
 109K
Dogtooth (2009)
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, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, cat, child abuse, brother sister incest, eccentric family, overprotective father, confined, sexual awakening, perversion, greek ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: greece, europe
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 7.4
 9K
Worlds Apart (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as ...
Style: sincere, suspenseful, serious, touching, extraordinary
Plot: love story, extramarital affair, heroes, fall in love, marital problem, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, greek, philosophy, alley, housewife, making love ...
Time: 2010s
Place: greece, athens greece
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 7.1
 291K
The Lobster (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style: surreal, art house, absurd, ironic, allegory ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dystopia, society, blindness, distopia, absurdism, manhunt, love, solitude, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, woods ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, near future, future
Place: ireland, greece, hellas
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The Last Note (2017)
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: suspense, touching, psychological, rough, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, resistance fighter, reprisal, nazi officer, resistance, nazi, mass murder, spring, summary execution
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: greece, germany, athens greece, balkan, europe
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The Travelling Players (1975)
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: contemplative, slow cinema, road movie, art film, aesthetic ...
Plot: world war two, greek, masturbation, greek civil war, resistance, mythology, partisan, anarchist, sex crime, time travel, myth, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 1975, year 1952 ...
Place: greece, europe, ancient greece
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 7.2
 175K
The Founder (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, realistic, factual, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: business, fast food, businessman, capitalism, rags to riches, greed, money, salesman, ambition, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, biopic ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1929 ...
Place: america, usa, california, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota ...
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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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Midnight Special (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Style: futuristic, road movie, atmospheric, tricky, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: father son relationship, supernatural, on the run, chase, superhuman powers, parallel universe, kidnapping, supernatural ability, fbi, goggles, existentialism, survival ...
Time: distant future, year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, usa, louisiana, atlanta georgia
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 7.0
 8K
Rise (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After emigrating to Greece from Nigeria, Vera and Charles Antetokounmpo struggled to survive and provide for their five children, while living under the daily threat of deportation. Desperate to obtain Greek citizenship but undermined by a system ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, captivating, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: basketball, basketball player, professional, biopic, career, basketball team, champion, professional sports, athlete's life, immigrant, direction and purpose, competitor ...
Time: year 2007, year 2017, 90s, year 2013, year 2004 ...
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 7.1
 10K
Miss Violence (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, serious, cerebral ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, child prostitution, perversion, incest rape, suicide, child abuse, incest, family problems, parents and children, domineering husband, teen suicide, childhood sexual abuse ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
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Love Is Strange (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.
Style: touching, melancholic, emotional, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gay marriage, teacher, gay couple, lgbt, relationships, love, life turned upside down, character study, wedding, lgbtq ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 5.9
 1K
Sky Riders (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plans his own ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: terrorism, monastery, kidnapping, hang glider, machine gun, aviation, airplane, explosions, castle, hostage, hang gliding, missing person ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: greece, europe
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Little England (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Τwo sisters from the island of Andros, dubbed Little England because of its affluence, are both in love with the same man. Set in the Greek Civil War period and ending in the 1950s, the movie is based on the homonymous novel by Ioanna Karystiani.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: love and romance, lovers apart, love triangle, sister sister relationship, love, marriage, infidelity, love story, myth, adolescence, mythology, greek ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: greece
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The Lost Daughter (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Israel, Greece
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: motherhood, female masturbation, vacation, female nudity, adultery, depressed woman, beach, sex scene, greek island, girl, women, flashback ...
Time: 90s, 2020s
Place: greece
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 6.0
 8K
Her Smell (2018)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Style: rough, psychological, art house, captivating
Plot: rock music, addiction, mental illness, drug use, husband wife relationship, friendship, chaos, photographer, nervousness, punk, punk rocker, drinking alcohol ...
Place: europe, new york state
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Crimes of the Future (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Greece, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.
Style: suspense, disturbing, detective, captivating, gothic horror ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: body horror, surgical operation, art, metamorphosis, surgery, shipyard, murder, distopia, evolution, mutation, body transformation, transformation ...
Time: near future, 2020s
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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Style: atmospheric, artsy, melancholic, stylized, philosophical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vampire, goth, love, supernatural, eternal life, immortality, blood, vampirism, family relations, musician, fate of humanity, vampire bite ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 90s, year 1975, year 1968 ...
Place: tangier morocco, detroit
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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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Listen Up Philip (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to ...
Style: independent film, stylized, atmospheric, surreal, psychological ...
Plot: loneliness, writer's life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, arrogance, infidelity, solitude, writer's block, self pity, isolation, suicide, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york state, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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Fugitive Pieces (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: holocaust, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, breakup, life is a bitch, fugitives, wartime life, survival, coming of age, war, boy, world war two ...
Time: year 2007
Place: canada, greece, europe, poland
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Queen of Earth (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
Style: psychological thriller, captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: vacation, friendship, depression, promise, party, lesbian subtext, memory, mental illness, doctor, jealousy, danger, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.2
 8K
Attenberg (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance. Instead she chooses to observe it through the songs of Suicide, the mammal ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: death of father, cancer, coming of age, family relations, sex scene, friendship, terminal illness, small town, self discovery, fall in love, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, europe
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 6.9
 8K
What If... (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Athens - Greece - The age of Economic crisis Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, clever, breathtaking ...
Plot: true love, couples, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, female nudity, society, serendipity, political unrest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, parallel universe, love story ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, France, Turkey, Denmark, USA, Switzerland, Greece
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged captain. What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
Style: dark comedy, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cruise ship, shipwreck, rich, class differences, yacht, cruise, model, fashion model, social satire, stranded on an island, jealousy, disability ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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