New Greek Cinema (1965-1981)
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- DirectorRoviros ManthoulisStarsCostas MessarisEleni StavropoulouTheano IoannidouPenniless and without a future, an English teacher agrees to tutor a pampered woman, only to become enmeshed in a strange reality and a downward spiral of desire and illusion, guilt and self-contempt. Will the ugly truth set him free?
- DirectorAlexis DamianosStarsHristos TsagasAlexis DamianosEleni BourbouhakiAs a grizzled, poverty-stricken mountaineer heads to the bustling port of Piraeus to embark for Australia, three intertwined stories of vehement passion become the painful reminders that, when love ends, life is ugly and unbearable.1966
- DirectorYiorgos StamboulopoulosStarsNikiforos NanerisEleni TheofilouBetty ArvanitiDimitris, a shy and not ambitious 30-year-old bourgeois, is struggling against his past, the nightmare of German occupation and his unstable reality, just to discover his real self and the meaning of his whole existence.
- DirectorDimos TheosStarsAnestis VlahosKyriakos KatzourakisEleni TheofilouAthens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.
- DirectorAlexis DamianosStarsMaria VassiliouGiorgos KoutouzisKoula AgagiotouAthens, 1971. In the tumultuous years of the Greek military junta, an unconventional couple is torn between the complexities of love, life, and the suffocating pressure of fragile societal relations. Will they survive one another?1970
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsToula StathopoulouYannis TotsikasThanos GrammenosA husband working in West Germany pays a visit back home to his village in Epirus and is murdered by his wife and her married lover.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsVangelis KazanKostas PavlouThanos GrammenosWhen a trade unionist is murdered in broad daylight, the suspects rounded up include Sofianos, who doggedly maintains his innocence. When a minister visits his cell, he tricks his warders and takes the man hostage, threatening to kill him.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsAnna VagenaSmaro VeakiKostas RigopoulosAnna is a servant of an old lady for ten years. The old lady chooses a man for Anna.1972
- DirectorTonia MarketakiStarsManolis LogiadisMika FloraVangelis KazanThe story of Ioannis Zachos, a young psychopath who commits a murder in Athens.
- DirectorThodoros MaragosStarsVangelis KazanHristos ToliosKostas TsakonasIn Filiatra, a half deserted township of Messinia, farmers who are left are in a constant struggle to pay off their debts to the Agricultural Bank.
- DirectorKostas AristopoulosStarsGeorge DialegmenosTakis KilakosBabis PethymisisThe film shows a movie crew who with the help of the people in Mani depict the passions of Christ.
- DirectorThanasis RentzisNikos ZervosStarsYorgos TsemberopoulosVicky PotamianouHaris IoannouA young man arrives in Athens to study at the School of Fine Arts. He doesn't let the events at the Polytechnic in November 1973 affect his studies, and he also begins an affair with a girl.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsAndreas SinanosAnna VagenaNasos KatakouzinosO Megalos Erotikos (Magnus Eroticus) is a song cycle of Manos Hadjidakis. In the film the camera tries to capture the atmosphere of the music. An optical voyage in Athens, a free play of image and sound.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriMikis TheodorakisRénos MandisA recreation of how the Greek military junta that started in 1967 tragically affected university students.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsNikitas TsakiroglouVangelis KazanElena KyranaDuring the shooting of a film, a strange man enters the set holding an umbrella. He walks into the sea and disappears. The musician for the film tries to investigate the incident and the significance of this action.1974
- DirectorCostas FerrisStarsMaria AlkeouDora LytinakiDimitris PoulikakosAdaptation of Papadiamantis' novel Fonissa about a woman who murders little girls.
- DirectorKostas SfikasRobots in a single set representing a factory yard. A critique of the 'implacable process that transforms mankind into negotiable goods and mere accessories of an industrial machine.'
- DirectorTasos PsarrasStarsMihalis BogiaridisStelios KapatosByron TsaboulasLocal tobacco farmers decide jointly not to sell to the tobacco traders, who have taken advantage of their need for cash. One farmer breaks his promise and is shot. At the trial, the court tries to discover the real motives for the crime.
- DirectorTakis HatzopoulosThe life of tobacco farmers in Gazoros village, Serres province, Greece.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsLakis HalkiasGiorgos DalarasMariza KochThis documentary presents the reaction of the Greek people after the Colonel's Junta, and the celebrations that followed the fall of the dictatorial regime.
- DirectorSakis ManiatisYorgos TsemberopoulosStarsThe People of MegaraThe struggle of olive growers in Megara, to fight the Junta's decision to expropriate a large agricultural region, for the installation of an oil refinery.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsEva KotamanidouVangelis KazanAliki GeorgouliGreece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.
- DirectorKostas Sfikas