Poll: Best Greek Movies (1998-2009)

Results of 107 votes:

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   Dogtooth (2009)

    

   A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
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   Eternity and a Day (1998)

    

   Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home…
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   Uranya (2006)

    

   Summer 1969. Dictatorship. In a small country town, young Achileas breaks his leg by falling off the yard wall of the local cinema. He wanted to see Brigit Bardo naked... The unexpected arrival of a t…
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   El Greco (2007)

    

   The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
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   A Touch of Spice (2003)

    

   A Greek boy grows up to become a talented cook after political turmoil forces his family to leave Turkey.
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   Hardcore (2004)

    

   Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
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   Afti i nyhta menei (2000)

    

   On the brink of the new millennium, a young aspiring singer leaves Athens for the seedy nightclubs of the rough Greek province, bent on getting her big break amid milky-white cigarette smokes, decayed…
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   It's a Long Road (1998)

    

   Three men head towards a turning point in their lives.
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   From the Edge of the City (1998)

    

   A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city's repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitut…
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    Safe Sex (1999)

     

    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 w…
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    To klama vgike ap' ton Paradeiso (2001)

     

    It is a parody, which mimics with a sweet and nostalgic mood the whole spectrum of the old Greek cinema of the 60's.
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    Brides (2004)

     

    Set in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his …
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    As perimenoun oi gynaikes! (1998)

     

    Two men travel to Thassos, where their families are on vacation. On the way, however, various unexpected and comic events happen to them.
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    The King (2002)

     

    A former drug addict gets a new lease of life in his grandfather's dilapidated rural house, only to face the unwritten laws of the close-knit community. Now, all that's needed is a catalyst. Who can s…
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    Straight Story (2006)

     

    This film is about an upside down world, where being homosexual is considered "normal" and heterosexual is considered "not normal".
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    Afstiros katallilo (2008)

     

    Two young Greek filmmakers seeking financing for their film "The End of the Passion" and end up with "Panourgias" a former porn-king of the 70s. He agrees to shoot the film but he …
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    Strella (2009)

     

    Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young transsexual sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. Bu…
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    Psyhi vathia (2009)

     

    Near the end of the Greek Civil War two brothers find themselves in opposite sides.
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    Cheap Smokes (2000)

     

    As the lights flicker on a warm August night amid vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he has just met. The perfect strangers stroll around the city's quiet night streets, c…
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    Pente lepta akoma (2006)

     

    Tasos dies in a car accident, but he is given five more minutes of life to use them as he wishes.
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    Bank Bang (2008)

     

    Two brothers, Mihalis and Nondas are working in a mortuary trying to make money, since Nondas owes a great amount of money to the Greek Mob and has to repay it; so he proposes to Mihalis that they sta…
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    The Island (2009)

     

    The death of a prominent citizen reveals the corruption that festers behind closed doors on a seemingly serene Greek island.
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    One Day in August (2001)

     

    Three couples flee Athens for the summer, and their journeys change their lives forever.
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    O hamenos ta pairnei ola (2002)

     

    A cynical man, along with a 19 year old musician, a former lover, an alcoholic client of a bar and a black strip club dancer are involved with anarchist mood in a dangerous game with drugs godfathers …
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    Blackmail Boy (2003)

     

    In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crac…
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    Spirtokouto (2003)

     

    During an unbearably hot Athenian summer, a cramped flat becomes a hellish urban battlefield for an ornamental paterfamilias and his family. Now, ugly truths and deleterious words become weapons in a …
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    Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei (2004)

     

    The story starts in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni.
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    Tsiou... (2005)

     

    An ex drug addict tells his hilarious adventure on his way to find heroin, mid August, in Athens.
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    Sirens in the Aegean (2005)

     

    A group of Greek solders, who serve their military service in Kos, is sent to guard the skerry of Pitta. Everything looked normal until a Turkish boat disembarks 4 castaways on Pitta.
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    I psyhi sto stoma (2006)

     

    Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money.
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    Mia melissa ton Avgousto (2007)

     

    Harris, his wife, his German half-sister, and her friend arrive at a distant Aegean island, accessible only by boat. But Harris gets stung by a bee, and he develops an allergy. Suddenly, secrets come …
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    I-4: Loufa & Apallagi (2008)

     

    Five I4 soldiers serve in the army as auxiliaries in a unit supporting commando troops during military training.
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    The Policeman of the 16th Precinct (2008)

     

    Three friends (Thom, Elias and Vaggelis) decide to rob Vaggelis' boss and they come up with a plan to dress Elias as a police officer so that nobody will suspect them. From that point on, everything g…
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    I'm Dying for You! (2009)

     

    Zoe,a devoted mother and wife, decides to leave behind her boring routine and fulfill her sexual urges. But nothing goes according to plan.
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    Akadimia Platonos (2009)

     

    A Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family's past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.