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Plot Summary:
At the turn of the twentieth century 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. The young man develops a kind of sympathy to the arch-brigand and realizes that the underground life and moral code of his kidnappers actually represent a more genuine expression of “New Hellenism” than his bourgeois well-being.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min
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McGuire, Go Home! (1965)
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This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Daskala Me Ta Xantha Mallia (1969)
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Mirto, a progressive teacher, is assigned to a backward village, where her ideas find opposition from the parents. She falls in love with Stephanos, the mayor's son, whom she marries. As soon as the marriage ends, the eve of 28 Oct, 1940, the war with Italy breaks out. Stephanos is enlisted and after a while, news of his death arrives. Mirto continues her teaching job, aided by a colleague of hers Angelos. After liberation Angelos proposes marriage and Mirto accepts, although she still loves her dead husband. However, Stephanos, who was wounded and healed in an Italian hospital returns and the couple lives happily ever after.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
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Against the Storm (1984)
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The years of the storm are Greek historical - dramatic - adventurous film of 1984, directed and directed by Giorgos Tzimas . Starring Michalis Stamatakis Katerina Koutroupida and Menelaos Daflos. Two fighters, cut up in the mountains, after the defeat of the Democratic Army in 1949, are trying to return to their homes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: epic
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One Day in August (2001)
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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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The Descent of the Nine (1984)
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Summer 1949: end of the civil war in Greece. The last band of guerrillas of the Democratic Army is forced to abandon Mount Taygetus and to head for the sea. Everything behind them has collapsed and they can count on help from no one. In this long, desperate and aimless march, the group will end up by being annihilated by the National Army and the armed villagers.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 122 min
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Lola (1964)
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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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Memed My Hawk (1984)
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In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Tree We Hurt (1986)
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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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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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Eduart (2006)
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Based on true story. Albanian man leaves oppressive family situation to a better life in Athens. Then kills someone and has to face his guilt.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, Germany, Albania
Duration: 104 min
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Zoo (1988)
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Martina, eleven, lives with her father, a zoo-keeper. One day she meets a 15 years old Slavic and they become friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 87 min
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Learn How to Read and Write, Son (1981)
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The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
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October 28, 1940: 5:30 A.M. (1971)
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After the Albanian war, the Kyriakos Platanias xanagyrnaei in the village, his little white, but with many badges and mutilated legs. The father of the delight that was always proud of his son could not bear the situation and resort to drink. Soon, the little white occupy the Germans led by Willy Knut, who behave like the inhabitants of servants. The new slavery is not prepared to accept the delight.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
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The Charioteer (1995)
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Alexis Damianos's final film (of three) came twenty-four years after his EVDOKIA, which many consider the greatest of Greek films. THE CHARIOTEER begins in 1941: Hniochos, a student, is captured by the Italians and imprisoned. In prison he learns the first hard lessons of life. He escapes and becomes a guerrilla.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 180 min
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The Camp Followers (1965)
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In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Lieutenant Natassa (1970)
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The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian war, she met Orestis . With the German invasion, Orestis, who was an officer in the Greek army, left for the Middle East. She followed him and accompanied him back to occupied Greece on a mission. She was arrested, interrogated and tortured and was finally sentenced to execution.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: War, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 136 min
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Stone Years (1985)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 142 min
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi? (1971)
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A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: political
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Operation Leopard (1980)
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In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Love and Blood (1968)
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The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well. Whatever crosses the river separating the two families, be it man or beast, dies. The film is yet another rendering of the Romeo and Juliet tale, with intense emotions, dominated by the extreme behavior of the heroes. The film tries to imitate the style, atmosphere and action of westerns.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
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The Mountain (2012)
Plot Summary:
The heroic story of two soldiers trapped in an ambush, fighting for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense
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The Mediterranean In Flames (1970)
Plot Summary:
A volunteer from a World War II-era Greek resistance group agrees to seduce a German officer in order to gain secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2010)
Plot Summary:
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Kings of the World (2022)
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Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano. Five boys who live on the streets of Medellín. Five kings with no kingdom, no law, no family, set out on a journey in search of the promised land. A subversive tale told through a wild and endearing clan, somewhere between reality and delirium. A journey to nowhere, where everything happens.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Colombia, Luxembourg, France, Mexico, Norway
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
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"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: road movie, contemplative, philosophical, sincere, surreal, avant garde, visual, slow cinema, visually stunning, poetic
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The Cavern (1964)
Plot Summary:
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
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Glory Sky (1962)
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Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
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The Captain Martens Brothers (1974)
Plot Summary:
Historical movie based on the "fratii Jderi" book. The movie is in the top 20 most watched Romanian movies.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 105 min
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America America (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: road movie, social, art house, existential, aesthetic, semi autobiographical, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating
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The Battle of the Last Panzer (1969)
Plot Summary:
The film looks through the eyes of the German offense during World War II, specifically a German tank crew who, after losing a battle, struggle to get home.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat