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
- DirectorThanasis RentzisStarsGiorgos Kyritsis
- DirectorCostas FerrisStarsGiannis KounoupakisMyrto ParashiKostas VrettosA speculation on power, using the film image to experiment with and explore a combination of elements, such as eastern philosophy, pop culture and music.
- DirectorAndreas ThomopoulosStarsDimitri FininisEleni ManiatiDimitris PoulikakosTrapped in the decaying city of Aldevaran, a doomed wordsmith and poet is searching for hope and purpose with his only friends: a call girl and a rocker. Is he destined to perish along with Aldevaran, the inhospitable, dream-crushing city?
- DirectorYannis SmaragdisStarsKostas KazakosNikos HaralambousVangelis KazanA former military officer is under arrest by Greek junta in 1972 for anti-national actions.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsMichael CacoyannisRauf DenktasGlafkos KleridesAn indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.
- DirectorNikos KavoukidisStarsGeorgios PapadopoulosA documentary presenting people and events connected with the political developments from the student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic in 1973 until the first year of democratic rule after the dictatorship collapsed in 1974.
- DirectorPhoebus EconomidisThodoros MaragosKostas PapanikolaouStarsKonstantinos KaramanlisAlexandros PanagoulisGeorgios PapadopoulosA political documentary and model of team work par excellence, with the struggles of the Greek people as its theme. It begins with the rebellion of the university students against the junta, with the occupation of the Law School in February 1973, and continues with the popular mobilization and the major strikes against the first government of Karamanlis in July 1975. An absolutely committed film that attempts to intensify the political struggle and not just create entertainment from it. An extension of this fighting spirit was also reflected in the way in which this film was distributed. As a rule, it wasn't played in commercial cinemas but at political organizations, where its creators would discuss the film with the audience.
- DirectorSakis Maniatis
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsZorz SarriGiorgos MoshidisStavros KalaroglouThe film depicts the penal experience of political prisoners exiled to a small Aegean island during the military junta and in particular one prisoner's refusal to submit.1976
- DirectorLambros LiaropoulosStarsKostas KastanasAn autobiographical recording, but also a comment on the crucial decade between 1965 and 1975, the smoothening qualities of time and the everchanging facet of our world.
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsVera TschechowaJohn MooreNiki TriantafillidiAwaiting for Orpheus to save her from a modern Hades, Euridice faces her fears, desires, hallucinations and memories.1976
- DirectorKostas AristopoulosStarsDimitris Kaberidis
- DirectorDimos TheosStarsKostas SfikasEleni ManiatiAngelos SfakianakisA variation of the myth of Antigone. In a small island colony of Minoan Crete called Lycabettus, the ambassadors of the mother city propose a revolutionary irrigation system that could modernise the production system.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsVangelis KazanEva KotamanidouGiorgos DanisOn New Year's Eve, a group of hunters finds the frozen body of a dead WWII partisan fighter. They spend the night debating what to do with it.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsOlga KarlatosGeorge DialegmenosDimitris PoulikakosA father moves with his three sons and their beautiful, hard working servant in a big, old house in the countryside, where a weird drowsiness seems to occupy the four men. Will it be possible for one of them to break free?1977
- DirectorPavlos TasiosStarsMimis HrysomallisKaterina GogouLida ProtopsaltiMimis, owner of a coffee shop in Chalkidiki has to come to Athens and work as a waiter. Life in Athens isn't easy for Mimis.
- DirectorNikos AlevrasStarsLitsa GerardouNikos AlevrasMiranda EvdokimidouA film director, his relationships with women and the expression of his bitterly emotions about cinema and Greece, all portrayed in absurdist scenes of satire.
- DirectorCostas FerrisStarsMyrto ParashiSpyros SakkasIro KyriakakiIn August, in a deserted Athens, a man and a woman meet and have a brief romantic relationship.
- DirectorTonis LykouresisStarsVera KrouskaVangelis KazanNikos AlevrasThe teacher of a village in Zakynthos, trying to react to the alienation of the village, mobilizes his villagers to put on a play and falls in love with the widow of an immigrant.
- DirectorDimitris MakrisStarsFaidon GeorgitsisThaleia PapazoglouVangelis KazanThe lives of two people in Athens in the 50's. One is a former Resistance fighter, now compromised, and the other is an adventurer who takes advantage of the first man he finds in front of him to become an industrialist.
- DirectorTakis PapagiannidisStarsChryssoula DiavatiLykourgos KallergisKiriakos KatrivanosPortrays the marine element as a catalyst between myth and historical experience via the evocation of the major events that shaped modern Greece in the course of its past decades.
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsAlkis PanagiotidisKonstantinos TzoumasRita BensousanFive friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence.
- DirectorThanasis RentzisStarsKonstantinos TzoumasAn experimental film using a mixture of techniques to portray the different views of the human body. It consists of seven parts, each one presenting an ideotype of the human body, from the beginning of civilization up to the present time. The body as a concept or dogma is simply the embodied reflection of every civilization, upon which man himself is established. The anthropomorphism that characterizes the sum total of perception, in a clear or latent state, comes from the fact that the human body, as reality, idea and expression, comprises the ultimate reference.
- DirectorVasilis VafeasStarsMinas HatzisavvasNelly AngelidouAntonis AntoniouA young chemical engineer finds a new job in a multinational corporation. As he climbs the career ladder the most he loses his humanity.
- DirectorNikos ZervosStarsCostas FerrisMarili TsopanelliHristina AulianouRebellious Costas, now in his forties, feels alienated in all modern social or ideological groups. He leaves the commune and walks out into the boulevard. But his soul still feels empty.
- DirectorAndreas ThomopoulosStarsPavlos SidiropoulosVera KrouskaEleni ManiatiPavlos a young man full of dreams is questioning the Status quo and decides to quit medical school and become a street musician. He meets Apostoli Flou and the wandering begins.
- DirectorHristoforos HristofisStarsDespina TomazaniIlias LogothetisLefteris VoyatzisA lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a relative of his.
- DirectorNikos ZapatinasStarsVangelis KazanThymios KarakatsanisNikitas TsakiroglouAn enigmatic man offers free food, shelter, and money to two destitute ex-convicts to keep an eye on his bedridden wife. But something doesn't add up. Why would he entrust his beloved one to a pair of nobodies with nothing to lose?
- DirectorDiamantis LeventakosStarsNikitas Tsakiroglou
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsOmero AntonuttiEva KotamanidouMihalis GiannatosA rebel leader calling himself Alexander the Great escapes from prison and captures some English tourists to hold as hostages. He returns to his village and finds there a commune in existence.
- DirectorNikos PanayotopoulosStarsLefteris VoyatzisMary XenoudakiAleka PaiziA 30-year-old man returns from America suffering an existential crisis. He goes to Corfu to see his sick mother and tries to find happiness through a desperate love affair.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsMinas ChristidisGiannis VoglisDimitris MyratThe life and work of Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos from his election in 1910 until 1927.
- DirectorYiorgos StamboulopoulosStarsGiannis FloriniotisVera KrouskaKostas ArzoglouA research of a TV reporter about a popular singer shows out all the social and political situations of the 80s in Greeece.
- DirectorNikos TzimasStarsAlekos AlexandrakisAngelos AntonopoulosKostas KazakosThe story of Nikos Belogiannis, member of the Greek Communist Party and officer of ELAS.
- DirectorPavlos TasiosStarsAntonis AntoniouAntonis KafetzopoulosKaterina GogouThe real story of Nikos Koemtzis, who one night knifed a company of men in a tavern, just because they wanted to dance on the song he had "ordered" from the musicians.
- DirectorTasos PsarrasStarsVasilis KolovosVana FitsoriDimitra HatoupiIn high hopes of getting a loan to update his antiquated machinery, a financially hard-pressed owner of an old tannery turns to a well-to-do migrant who wants to marry his young daughter. Could he be the solution to the family's problems?1980
- DirectorLakis PapastathisStarsAlexis DamianosKostas ArzoglouYorgos SambanisAt the turn of the century (1900) a young merchant is abducted by a group of brigands who are sheltered in a remote mountainous area of Greece aiming to extract ransom from his wealthy family.
- DirectorThodoros MaragosStarsVasilis DiamantopoulosAnna MatzouraniNikos KalogeropoulosIn a small Greek village, short time after the collapse of the Junta regime, a memorial of those who died in the German occupation of Greece brings in the surface the political differences of a conservative teacher and his two sons.