Movies & TV Shows from Greece

After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.

Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their way.

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.

In this mesmerizing experimental film, a Stephen King television movie is compressed and transformed through hypnotic black and white collage animation that meticulously reconstructs and reshapes its supernatural drama to an eerie and profound effect.

The Johnny Lloveras, singer and showman, leaving the province and comes to Athens in order to conquer. He wants to become the first star in the field of night entertainment. But the bad fate and misfortune of many surprises. Moreover awaits him and love as the heart of the fight two delicious singers, Miranda and Jealousy. Which will win?

Since her parents' death, 19-year old Della lives with her aunt Marsha and Andrew, her old husband. One morning Marsha has sex with Alex, her husband's doctor. Right afterwords, Della seduces him at the beach while Marsha watches them from her window. The two women have a fight which results to Della leaving the house. She finds refuge at Maria's (a friend of hers) place but as it appears she is missing and the house is inhabited by Aris and Samantha. Della makes a pass at Aris, managing to infuriate Samantha. In the meanwhile, the local authorities are investigating the murder of Aris' business partner, Steve Brynner. When all trace leads to Aris, Della suggests a swap: She'll travel to Italy to get fake passports for the couple as long as they accept to murder Marsha.

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

After many years, with help of Thetis and negotiations between Zeus and Hades, an aged Achilles is released from the Underworld into a modern world.

When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later..

The factory that once employed the entire town and surrounding villages has been closed down due to a questionable privatization process, coinciding with a tragic incident where a group of its workers perished in a deliberately set fire. The remaining workers, devastated by the loss of their loved ones and the subsequent corrupt sale of the factory, initiate protests, but their efforts seem futile, yielding no concrete results. Feeling abandoned not only by the authorities but also by their cherished church, they find themselves seeking solace and answers in the supernatural.

The comedy of a thinking man who wants his philosophical views to be taken seriously when he is nothing but a failed filmmaker.

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

Antonio is a seventy-year-old gentleman, a former strict and impeccable judge. Having refused to accept his daughter's hospitality, he found himself in a strange place where, after completing an intensive course on the latest technologies of modern society, he will have to be adopted by families who request it.

A group of dodgy businessmen and their girlfriends/mistresses discover a container drifting next to their yacht with 3 escaped prisoners inside,all are brought aboard and procede to terrorise and humiliate their hosts until rather predictably the victims begin to fight back and turn the tables on their crackpot captors.

A super review that speaks volumes to everyone.

A teenage boy and girl face their first break-up. On the last day, before the boy leaves the city for good, he learns how to cry.

Radio Arvyla is a Greek live show hosted by ANT1 in Thessaloniki. It first aired on April 2008. It is hosted by Antonis Kanakis, Giannis Servetas, Stathis Panagiotopoulos and Christos Kiousis. It mainly criticizes the political life and what prevails in the modern social life through parodies, videos and jokes. It's a show that isn't afraid to show the truth and most of the time, it does that, with a humorous way.

Two young people from opposing families fall in love and reawaken the vendetta from years ago in a mountain village in Crete.

One summer six teens at a camp by the sea shout out loud their wishes at the night of the falling stars.....

Every time a daughter was born, the father of Eleni, Asimina and Froso planted a poplar tree at the edge of their orchard to commemorate the arrival of the new child. As they grew and grew tall and slender, he boasted of them as his daughters. In the proudest poplar, however, Helen's poplar, a swarm of wild bees had already nested. "You will be happy, my daughter, and life will be as sweet as this honey. You'll see," her father used to tell her. But, the years passed and Eleni looked at the poplar and listened to the hum... "How do you know, father... How do you know that life has written only bitterness for my root".

The lives of four women from the beginning to maturity... A lawyer, a singer, a publisher and a woman who sacrificed her career for her husband's, walk together in modern Greece. Their experiences and character determine their actions, leading each to chart her own path.

Greek television series

A young priest and professor of theology upsets a small town upon his arrival. Apart from charm, however, it also hides secrets. No one knows the real reason it is there. And no one can predict, least of all himself, that the young daughter of the most powerful man in the area will prove to be his greatest test.

The premise of the series revolves around the daily lives of different couples of all ages from 20 to 65, but who are not connected to each other. Each couple has their own space where they live, while the story of each couple in each episode is not connected to the stories of the other couples.

Two women fight till the end for the life they have stolen from them

Politician Antonis Papastavrou marries his son Dimitris Papastavrou to Erietta, the only daughter of his childhood friend Stefanos Sekeris. Sekeris's wife is having an illicit affair with a much younger man, Andreas. On the wedding day, in front of everyone on the steps of the church, Papastavrou is murdered and the young Andreas is arrested as the perpetrator. A tangle of strange relationships and financial scandals will begin to unravel on the occasion of this arrest of the alleged murderer and the attempt to solve the murder.

A series of murders alarm the police authorities, as strange symbolisms are traced to every crime scene. The eccentric professor of criminology Dimitris Lainis is asked to shed some light on the mystery.

The small Greek village of Platanos (Plane Tree) buries the elderly recluse Vangelas and notifies the deceased's estranged children and grandchildren about his death. Vangela's will leaves 3 million euros to his family, but requires them to move to the village and obey certain terms in order to inherit.

Three powerful families of Mani are involved in a cycle of blood, hatred, and revenge. In the rugged land of olives, a revenge trap sets to love.

Maria, i Aschimi is the Greek adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Betty la Fea. The series ran from 2007 to 2008 on Mega Channel in Greece. The series starred Aggeliki Daliani in the title role of Maria and Anthimos Ananiadis as the boss who became the man of her dreams.

The bright sunlight shines on the small island of Arsinoe. Some secrets, betrayals, and crimes are revealed. The mirror has somehow turned upside down. Sotiris, who was let down by those closest to him, will go from being a victim to becoming a perpetrator.