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Plot Summary:
A string of miscalculated choices and the longing of a fresh start will drag Magda of the slums deeper and deeper into a tireless personal nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
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One Day in August (2001)
Plot Summary:
Middle August in Athens. Three families, living in a three storey building, leave for their summer vacations. Everyone is wishing for a miracle to happen this summer. In the meantime, a drifter breaks into their apartments and rummages their personal belongings, thus unfolding hidden secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 106 min
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Woe to young people (1961)
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Two rich old friends, Andreas and Agisilaos are in love with young Rita. Andreas believes that youth and not money drive the word. He sells his soul to the devil, becomes young and flirts Rita. However, in the end it is Agisilaos that wins, as both the girl and her mother, chose him because he is rich. The film ends as Andreas wakes up to discover that he is old and nothing from what he dreamed has happened. He understands that youth alone is not enough and decides to give a dowry to lovely Rita so that she can marry the one she loves.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
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Lola (1964)
Plot Summary:
Aris, Nikos Kourkoulos, is released from prison after three years, and he turns up at Troumpa, a slum area in Piraeus. His purpose is not to settle his own accounts but to find out if Lola (Tzeni Karezi), a young woman who works at Stelios’ cabaret, was among the ones who betrayed him. Aris loves and cares about Lola and wants to get her out of there, but Stelios, who is also in love with her, assigns a thug to kill Aris.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
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Emergency Exit (1980)
Plot Summary:
When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police. Markos falls in love with her and they start going out until he asks her to marry him. That's exactly when she meets a junkie named Tasos Bekiris and falls in love with him. When he is murdered by a mysterious woman all the clues lead to Daisy who tries to prove her innocence. As she discovers, this woman is in charge of a drug-smuggling racket and she is also planning to import a huge quantity of heroin in Athens. Daisy kills her and arrives at their meeting place along with Markos.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 128 min
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The Tree We Hurt (1986)
Plot Summary:
Shot over a capricious summer, this film reveals a world of innocence shattered for some children in their school by corporal punishment. It moves at its own pace to reveal a world of children and adults with animals, birds, nature and sea. The film bears a strong imprint of Greek identity with old chairs, priests with black robes and old dilapidated houses. Dimos Avdeliodis shows that children are not just made for mischief as they are shown to earn money in the form of coins which they earn by carrying the cross during funerals. As the children's gang grows bigger, there is a marked increase in the intensity of their mischievous behavior.For example : a hilarious scene is about how small children run for cover after having hurled mud cakes smeared with urine on wasps. The entire film is replete with scenes of this kind but in the end getting beaten by elders for waywardness and experiences of first love might be counted by viewers as their favorite moments of this film.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 75 min
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On Board (1998)
Plot Summary:
The sailors who were duped by woman sellers, want to steal their capitals to retaliate from them. There are four men and one woman in a ruined boat. Four lazy and dissatisfaction sailors. The woman represent lust, delectation and appalling potential enemy. The men know each other but woman is unknown. Four of them know the responsibility of life. The woman is dangerous with her chastity and her depressed wishes and she represent a chick who gets men's life into trouble. Four men signpost themselves with a breathtaking game, with their decrepitude and modesty, sometimes with their depressed and additive beauty in a closed location. And none of them can not get off without a loss.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film, islamic, aesthetic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, tension
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The Downhill (1961)
Plot Summary:
Greek teenage drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Matchbox (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dimitris, a grumpy middle-aged man, is having a hard time with his business partner on a particular decision as to opening a new business; and he's also having a hell of a time with his family members. He has a really short temper, and the unpleasant behaviour of his nasty wife and his disrespectful children don't contribute much to his health.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, weird
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A Quiet Death (1986)
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Martha is unhappy with her life as it is at the moment, and among other issues, she has decided to give up her writing career. Along with that decision comes a need to get away from her husband and from her psychiatrist, with whom she has had more than just a doctor-patient relationship. As Martha travels through a deserted city landscape in a storm, the external world reflects something of her inner turmoil. Flashbacks are interspersed throughout the film to enhance the suspense of Martha's inner and outer journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
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Brookside: The Lost Weekend (1997)
Plot Summary:
A special, video only story set on the Brookside close. On Friday 14th November 1997, a five night a week storyline ended in a cliffhanger and this video completes the story - a tale of kidnapping extortion and violence. The action-packed episode features faces from the show's past including Sheila Grant (Sue Johnston) and wayward son Barry Grant (Paul Usher), and is written by series creator Phil Redmond.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
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The Red Lanterns (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story of 6 or 7 prostitutes, at Pireas harbor.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Jackals (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a television program dedicated to the problem of drugs, George tells the story of his life which was immersed in the mire of drugs and crime. The troubled relationship with his family, robberies, drugs will revive and the narrative will give an answer to whether love can finally save.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Running Hot (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teen convicted of murdering his father escapes from authorities and heads for Arizona with a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, hot
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Request for a Song (1980)
Plot Summary:
The 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Sweet Bunch (1983)
Plot Summary:
The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to the attention of the State. A discreet surveillance begins. A vigilante group monitors their house, headed by a nameless blonde man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: anthology, avant garde, cult classic, cult film
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The Hot Month of August (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young man, Jason, is on his way home and meets two beautiful women, Hope and Alexis. He falls for Hope, but has sex with Alexis. He doesn't know that Alexis' husband has hired a private detective to trail her, and the man reports back to Alexis' husband about her affair with Jason. The husband kills Alexis but the police suspect Jason. He and Hope have to clear his name and find enough evidence to prove the husband is the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, noir, classic noir
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Junk Food (1997)
Plot Summary:
Junk Food consists of four intertwining stories. The first and fourth sections show the morning routine of an blind, old Japanese woman, waking up, buying bread and milk, praying at the family alter; however, it is the second segment where the true story begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: crying
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Life Imprisonment (1988)
Plot Summary:
The childhood traumas of a solitary young man have a determinative effect on the formation of his personality and sexual behavior and have turned him into a rapist with the angelic face. One day, the young man, Giorgos, confides his secret to a friend and colleague named Toni, who advises him to visit a psychiatrist. At the same time, he encourages him to have a relationship with a colleague of theirs named Kaiti, who seems to be interested in him. But the police, who had been looking looking for the perpetrator all this time, finally appear.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min
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Angel (1982)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover. Later on, he will also join the army. A former lover of his visits him and tells him things about Michalis. At a party, Michalis forces Angelos to dress up as a woman. Later on, Angelos ends up on the street with other transvestites. He gets arrested and expelled from the Navy, while his father kills himself out of shame. His clients often humiliate him, and his lover beats him brutally.Angelos, in despair, decides to kill Michalis..The film is based on true facts and has shocked Greek public opinion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Intimate Relations (1979)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy heiress that resides in Athens, is the victim of a robbery. Not only does her jewellery disappear but her maid is murdered while attempting to protect her. A police officer named Zaras is on the case. The primary suspects are ... an army of Laura's fans and Nelly, Laura's employer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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What Alice Found (2003)
Plot Summary:
A poor young woman is recruited by a friendly couple traveling in an RV into becoming part of the dark world of truck stop prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, talky
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The Lawbreakers (1961)
Plot Summary:
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner 's efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir
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Antigone (1961)
Plot Summary:
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Assault on the Pay Train (1962)
Plot Summary:
Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cyclo (1995)
Plot Summary:
Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, stylized, intellectual, neo noir, controversial, rough, serious, realistic, crying
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Thanks Maa (2009)
Plot Summary:
While on the run from the reformatory, a 12 year old boy named Municipality finds and saves a two day old abandoned baby from becoming the prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people whom he deemed responsible and respectable, Municipality takes up the onus of finding the mother of that abandoned baby himself. Municipality's rock steady determination ultimately helps him emerge a winner against all odds as he reaches that baby's mother but in bargain he loses his most precious possession, the flawless and god-like image of a mother he used to see in his dreams and probably the hope that he'll ever find his own mother again.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending, black comedy, dark comedy, avant garde
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Second Breath (1966)
Plot Summary:
With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspector, Blot (Paul Meurisse), relentlessly seeking him. The implosive Le deuxième souffle captures the pathos, loneliness, and excitement of a life in the shadows with methodical suspense and harrowing authenticity, and contains one of the most thrilling heist sequences Melville ever shot.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, black and white, crime drama, exciting, atmospheric, clever, bleak, serious, realistic
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Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
Plot Summary:
A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: social, hispanic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Violent Four (1968)
Plot Summary:
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective, neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
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From the Edge of the City (1998)
Plot Summary:
Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, neo noir, lgbt cinema, disgusting, queer cinema, gay cinema