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A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.
Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Thodoros Angelopoulos · 4 critic votes
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
Dogtooth (2009)
Yorgos Lanthimos · 4 critic votes
Streaming on Kanopy, Kino Film Collection
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 abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Thodoros Angelopoulos · 3 critic votes
Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.
Voyage to Cythera (1984)
Thodoros Angelopoulos · 2 critic votes
An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Thodoros Angelopoulos · 2 critic votes
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
The Lobster (2015)
Yorgos Lanthimos · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
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 animals and sent off into The Woods.
Windfall in Athens (1954)
Michalis Cacoyannis · 1 critic vote
On a lazy Athenian Sunday, a young and fresh saleswoman loses her soon-to-be winning lottery ticket, only to meet its handsome new owner. Of course, she wants it back; however, what if fortune and ardent Cupid are already on her doorstep?
Place (1985)
Antoinetta Angelidi · 1 critic vote
During its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in Western art.
Thief or Reality (2001)
Antouanetta Angelidi · 1 critic vote
An experimental-allegorical film. Three different people: a sculptress of funereal monuments, an actor preparing for Sophocles’ Antigone, and a mother who has lost her child, experience three different versions of reality - with a fourth character, a thief, providing the connecting link.
Strella (2009)
Panos H. Koutras · 1 critic vote
Yiorgos 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 trans sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love.
Attenberg (2010)
Athina Rachel Tsangari · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy, Strand Releasing Amazon Channel
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...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."
