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, suspense, psychological, bleak and melancholic. Plot: death, greek, murder, husband wife relationship, loneliness, drinking, family relations, love, dialogue and dancing. Genre: Drama, Thriller and Romance. Country: Greece, USA and UK.
Best Greek Movies
TOP Movies: The Other Me (2016), Before Midnight (2013), Safe Sex (1999), Man of God (2021), Destiny (2006), Bliss (2007), Dogtooth (2009), The Founder (2016), Midnight Special (2016), Worlds Apart (2015), The Last Note (2017), The Lobster (2015), The Travelling Players (1975), Sky Riders (1976), Eftihia (2019), Her Smell (2018), Little England (2013), The Lost Daughter (2021), Rise (2022), Miss Violence (2013).
List of Best Movies
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: USA
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:
philosophical, cerebral, sexy, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
marriage, summer vacation, writers, hotel room, hotel, midlife crisis, relationships, love story, couple relations, existentialism, hopes, divorce ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place:
greece, mediterranean sea, europe, chicago, paris france ...
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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:
sexy, sexual, hilarious, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
couples, desire, gay, tourism, phone sex, satire, sex addict, parallel story, love and romance, society, couple relations, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
greece, europe, hellas, athens greece
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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, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, smart ...
Plot:
saint, meaning of life, christian, religious, religion, christianity, religious faith, defamation, preacher, teaching the ways of the world, accusation, suffering ...
Time:
19th century, 1920s, 1900s, 1890s, 1910s
Place:
tibet, greece, egypt, europe, athens greece ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Bekir is in love with Ugur, who loves Zagor, who loves to commit crimes.
Style:
tense, serious, art house, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
fall in love, destiny, romancing a criminal, on the run, estrangement, hopes, crime gone awry, love and romance, murder, fighting illness, impossible love, desire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, balkan, asia, europe, istanbul turkey ...
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8K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 123 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, contemplative, serious, touching ...
Plot:
rape, cultural difference, injustice, social differences, traditional versus modern, unlikely partners, love affair, innocence lost, husband wife relationship, turk, women's rights, misogyny ...
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
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122K
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, black comedy, sexy, psychological, art house ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, brother sister incest, paranoia, sadism, brother sister sex, child abuse, overprotective father, eccentric family, abuse, isolation ...
Time:
2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe
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202K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
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, cerebral, uplifting ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
business, businessman, fast food, capitalism, rags to riches, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, salesman, money, marketing, greed, food ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 2010s, year 2016, year 1954 ...
Place:
usa, america, california, arizona, illinois ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Style:
road movie, futuristic, tricky, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
chase, on the run, father son relationship, parallel universe, woods, goggles, fbi, existentialism, hostage, supernatural, parents and children, superhuman powers ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, distant future, year 2016, 80s ...
Place:
texas, usa, louisiana, atlanta georgia
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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:
touching, suspenseful, sincere, serious, extraordinary
Plot:
love story, housewife, extramarital affair, marital problem, heroes, fall in love, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, greek, alley, philosophy, restlessness ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece, athens greece
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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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330K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, Belgium, 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, clever, absurd, ironic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
absurdism, dystopia, distopia, solitude, blindness, love, manhunt, society, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, secret relationship ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, future, near future
Place:
ireland, greece, hellas, canada
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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:
contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, art film, road movie ...
Plot:
world war two, masturbation, greek, greek civil war, resistance, male nudity, rape, dream, holocaust, worker, holocaust survivor, greek history ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 1930s, year 1975, year 1939 ...
Place:
greece, europe, ancient greece
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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:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
monastery, terrorism, hang glider, kidnapping, hang gliding, castle, hostage, machine gun, aviation, airplane, explosions, missing person ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
greece, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Greece
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young girl, recently married, is traveling from Aidini to Greece with her mother and her two daughters. On board the ship she decides not to let life pass her by, but to live her own way. And she goes ahead! She writes endlessly wherever she can, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, semi autobiographical, inspirational ...
Plot:
songwriter, biopic, greek, relationships, lifestyle, female protagonist, survival, female empowerment, female artist, passion, immigration, theater ...
Place:
athens greece, ottoman empire
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Greece, USA
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:
psychological, rough, captivating, art house, f word
Plot:
rock music, addiction, drug use, friendship, husband wife relationship, nervousness, chaos, photographer, punk, punk rocker, drinking alcohol, guru ...
Place:
europe, new york state
Is relevant?
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, stylized, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
love and romance, lovers apart, love triangle, sister sister relationship, infidelity, love, marriage, love story, skinny dipping, greek history, third world, adolescence ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
greece
Is relevant?
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, captivating, psychological, grim, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vacation, motherhood, flashback, beach, greek island, girl, caught masturbating, adultery, doll, sex, female nudity, infidelity ...
Time:
2020s, 90s
Place:
greece
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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:
captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, feel good
Audience:
kids
Plot:
basketball, basketball player, biopic, career, basketball team, professional, champion, professional sports, athlete's life, immigrant, sport team, direction and purpose ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2004, 90s, 2000s, 2010s ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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, erotic, cerebral, perverse, serious ...
Plot:
perversion, child prostitution, incest rape, dysfunctional family, suicide, child abuse, incest, child suicide, family problems, parents and children, teen suicide, family in crisis ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece
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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, emotional, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
homosexuality, gay marriage, lgbtq, gay, gay interest, lgbt, teacher, gay couple, relationships, wedding, couple relations, male male relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, grim, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, greek island, guilt, moral ambiguity, redemption, literary, remote island, moral dilemma, religion, survival, isolation, widow ...
Time:
20th century
Is relevant?
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, bleak, emotional, breathtaking ...
Plot:
holocaust, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, breakup, life is a bitch, fugitives, wartime life, coming of age, survival, war, boy, little boy ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
canada, europe, greece, poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
While shooting a documentary about “missing” civill servants a filmmaking duo stumble upon Charoula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother searching for her missing civil servant son. But when his name is linked to government fraud with a ...
Style:
emotional, dramatic, tense, suspenseful, road movie ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, protective mother, corruption, social commentary, family drama, missing person, moral ambiguity, bureaucracy, investigation, intimate, activism, cultural conflict ...
Place:
athens greece
Is relevant?
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, melancholic, artsy, philosophical, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
vampire, goth, love, immortality, blood, supernatural, vampirism, eternal life, death, musician, fate of humanity, vampire bite ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 90s, year 1975, year 1968 ...
Place:
tangier morocco, detroit
Is relevant?
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:
sexy, cerebral, independent film, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
sarcasm, loneliness, arrogance, self pity, writer's life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, solitude, writer's block, infidelity, isolation, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york state, brooklyn new york city, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, Greece
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone ...
Style:
anthology, suspenseful, absurd, dark comedy, f word
Plot:
rape, skinny dipping, surrealism, murder, dog, group sex, female nudity, absurdism, moral dilemma, mental illness, sexual content, sexual abuse ...
Place:
new orleans
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: History, Sport
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A.E.K., the well-known Greek basketball team founded in 1924 by refugees from Constantinople, after 44 years, beats SLAVIA of Prague and wins the European Cup.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, patriotic, period piece, heroic ...
Plot:
basketball, championship, teamwork, greek history, victory, fan, biopic, rivalry, celebration, community, legacy, refugee ...
Time:
60s, year 1968
Place:
athens greece, prague, constantinople
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Greece
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, retro, philosophical, existential ...
Plot:
greek, friendship, village, dancing, mentor, writers, bittersweet, culture clash, death, depression, book, philosophy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
greece, ancient greece, europe, balkan, macedonia ...
Is relevant?
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:
cerebral, captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot:
lesbian subtext, mental breakdown, jealousy, friendship, vacation, depression, promise, party, mental disorder, memory, doctor, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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