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Country of Origin: Greece
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A TOUCH OF SPICE (2003)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Fanis, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics, recalls his childhood growing up as a Greek boy in Istanbul and the time spent with his shopkeeper grandfather learning about life and, in particular, the art of cooking. And it was here, in his grandfather's store, that he first fell in love, with Saime. After political tensions over Cyprus in 1963 Fanis's family were deported, but his grandfather stayed in Istanbul, and it is decades later that they meet again as Fanis returns 'home', after yea find out more...
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1980)
Certification12 Our Rating

"Angelopoulos’ sixth film, the Golden Lion award winning Alexander The Great (O Megalexandros, 1980), is a perfect case in point. Covering most of the thematic concerns that have occupied Angelopoulos in his forty years of filmmaking, it’s a deeply allusive meditation on myth, history and modernity, political ideology and national identity, and the demands made of its audience extend far beyond its 199 minute running time." (http://subtitledonline.com/reviews/alexander-the-great)< find out more...

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ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1980)
Certification12 Our Rating

"Angelopoulos’ sixth film, the Golden Lion award winning Alexander The Great (O Megalexandros, 1980), is a perfect case in point. Covering most of the thematic concerns that have occupied Angelopoulos in his forty years of filmmaking, it’s a deeply allusive meditation on myth, history and modernity, political ideology and national identity, and the demands made of its audience extend far beyond its 199 minute running time." (http://subtitledonline.com/reviews/alexander-the-great)< find out more...

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ALPS (2011)
Certification15 Our Rating

The Alps are a mysterious troupe of actors who impersonate the recently deceased, helping relatives negotiate the grieving process. dark, witty and deeply surreal, this is a bizarre yet subtly poignant reverie on the nature of death. From the acclaimed director of ‘Dogtooth’.

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ATTENBERG (2010)
Certification18 Our Rating

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 documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sexual-­education lessons she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father meanwhile ritualistically prepares for his find out more...

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CHEVALIER (2015)
Certification18 Our Rating

In the middle of the Aegean Sea, on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game. during this game things will be compared. things will be measured. songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals, and rivals will become hungry. but at the end of the voyage when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he find out more...

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DOGTOOTH (2009)
Certification18 Our Rating
Three teenagers have been raised in isolation by their parents and taught fear of an unknown outside world of which they nothing. The family develops with its own set of rules, but a burgeoning sexuality and curiosity lead to the downfall of this curious arrangement.
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ETERNITY AND A DAY (1998)
CertificationPG Our Rating
This is a beautifully shot, poetic film concerned with memory and the relationship between personal and political histories. Alexander is a dying author who prepares to leave his family for good when he stumbles upon a letter from his late wife. This evokes memories of happier times, illustrated in some beautiful flash back sequences, including a chance encounter with an Albanian orphan. Characteristically both eloquent and discursive, Angelopoulo's film subtly intertwines the sequences from the find out more...
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EVIL (GREEK HORROR) (2005)
Certification18 Our Rating
Taking his cue from the splatter films of the 1980's, Yorgos Noussias brings the undead to downtown Athens where the usual ragtag group of survivors band together to fight off the flesh-eating hordes and find a safe haven. Riotously gory and with it's decomposing tongue lodged firmly in it's rotting cheek, To Kako is a low-budget but fun zombie-fest. find out more...
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LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST (1988)
Certification15 Our Rating

Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.

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MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (2016)
Certification12 Our Rating

"Homages to early Spielberg abound it is a little movie that is grand in scale and the central performances are terrific. With a rousing soundtrack and some great tension this movie couldn't be recommended enough!" Phil T, Rotten Tomatoes

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MISS VIOLENCE (2013)
Certification18 Our Rating

On her birthday, 11-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony to her death with a smile on her face. An investigation is started as to the reason for this apparent suicide, but the family keeps insisting that it was an accident...

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SUNTAN (2018)
Certification18 Our Rating

For middle-aged Kostis, life has passed him by. As the newly appointed doctor of a tiny island, Kostis spends a dreary winter alone. By the time summer arrives, though, the island has turned into a thriving, wild vacation spot with nude beaches and crazy parties. When Kostis meets the beautiful and flirty Anna, he falls hard for her and goes out of his way to conquer and impress her. Before long, Kostis is spending nearly all of his time getting drunk, partying hard, find out more...

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THE BEEKEEPER (1986)
Certification18 Our Rating

A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring. Only a director as assured as Angelopoulos could get away with casting Mastroianni as a dirty old beekeeper. A dark and still film.

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THE LOBSTER (2015)
Certification15 Our Rating
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THE SUSPENDED STEP OF THE STORK (1991)
Certification15 Our Rating

Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he his an important greek politician who disappeared misteriously a few years ago. Back in Athens, he asks this politician's former wife to come and identify him. A slow and dry meditation about inhumanity of borders.

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THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY (2014)
Certification12 Our Rating

1962 and seemingly wealthy married couple Chester and Colette MacFarland are in the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, when they meet feckless young tour guide Rydal who is immediately taken with the beautiful Colette and doesn't hestitate when the couple invite him to dine with them. Later in the evening, however, he begins to realise that Chester is hid find out more...

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TRILOGY: THE WEEPING MEADOW (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
The Weeping Meadow is the first film in Theo Angelopoulos' 'Trilogy', that tells of the fate of the Greek people through the relationship between two refugees - a relationship that spans the 20th century all the way to the early 21st. find out more...
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ULYSSES' GAZE (1995)
CertificationPG Our Rating
An epic road movie following an emigre filmmaker returning to supervise a film about the Menakis Brothers, founders of Greek cinema. His search for a legendary lost reel takes him through Albania, Romania and the former Yugoslavia, ending in war-torn Sarajevo. Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix prize. find out more...
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VOYAGE TO CYTHERA (1984)
Certification15 Our Rating

An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.

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