51 Films & TV Shows Set In Greece During The 20th Century
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Greed
England ๐ฒ๐จ Monaco ๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1970s The 2010sThe Devil is in the Retail โ A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฌ๐ท Greece Tokyo Prefecture The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sDiscover how it all began. โ Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her motherโs hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophieโs biological father.
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1968
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1960sThey won because they couldn't lose โ A.E.K., the well-known Greek basketball team founded in 1924 by refugees from Constantinople, after 44 years, beats SLAVIA of Prague and wins the European Cup.
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Polyxeni
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1950s The 1960sIn 1955 a couple of prominent Greek Istanbulites adopt an orphan Greek girl, twelve-year-old Polyxeni, who is separated from her younger brother. She embarks on a new life and a future that looks bright, but she will have to defend whatโs rightfully hers.
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The Last Note
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sThe execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
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Jason Bourne
Nevada California Virginia England ๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990s The 2010sYou know his name โ The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
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Ouzeri Tsitsanis
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sDuring World War II in Greece, under the submission of Germans, one Christian, Giorgos, falls in love with a Jewish, Estrea, something completely forbidden. Can they and their families overcome all the obstacles, along with racial discriminations and hardship? The story mainly takes place in an ouzeria, in which Tsitsanis works, one of the greatest Greek composer, librettist and singer in the 20th century.
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The Two Faces of January
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey The 1960sA Mysterious Past. An Unspeakable Secret. โ A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a private detective.
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Little England
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1950sOne home, one secret, one man, two sisters. โ ฮคwo sisters from the island of Andros, dubbed Little England because of its affluence, are both in love with the same man. Set in the Greek Civil War period and ending in the 1950s, the movie is based on the homonymous novel by Ioanna Karystiani.
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Christmas Tango
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1970sAt the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.
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Max Schmeling
New York ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1930s The 1940sBased on the true story of Max Schmeling. A national hero in the 1930's when he became World heavyweight champion. He lost favour with the Nazi regime when he lost to a black man, Joe Louis, and is sent to the front in the hope he will be killed in battle.
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Munich
New York England ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ซ๐ท France ๐จ๐พ Cyprus ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1970sThe world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. โ During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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The 11th Day
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sOut of a world at war, ancient legends would be reborn. โ "The 11th Day" chronicles the story of the men, women, and children of the Cretan civilian resistance movement and their relentless battle against Nazi occupation forces from 1941-1945.
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Brides
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1920sA young female character, Nikki Douka, from Samothraki, is sailing to the U.S. to fulfill a marriage contract and save her family honor. Her skills as a seamstress keep her busily sewing throughout the voyage to alter wedding dresses for the third-class voyagers. But along the way, she meets a young American photographer who is returning from the Middle East where he was snapping shots of the war in Smyrna, 1922. Her honesty, pride, and beauty attract the attention of the American who falls in love with her. Tribulations abound during the voyage, following the dramas of several unfortunate young women upon whom nasty characters preyed, as Nikki struggles with her feelings for the photographer.
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The Weeping Meadow
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1920sThis is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is also taken care by Alexis' family. The refugees build a small village somewhere near a river and we watch as the kids grow up and fall in love. But difficult times of dictatorship and war are coming...
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A Touch of Spice
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey The 1960sCinnamon... is bitter and sweet, just like a woman โ "A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. 35 years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather and his first love. He travels back only to realize that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life.
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I Am David
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1950sBelieve in the power to change your destiny โ Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark and a compass to help get him there.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sWhen a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephalonia (Kefalonia), but Hollywood made it into a pure love story by removing much of the "unpleasant" stuff.
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Britannic
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1910sThey Never Thought It Would Happen Again โ It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epic voyage of human passion, courage and betrayal aboard an ill-fated ocean liner bound for a shattering demise. With the world at war, an undercover British agent (Amanda Ryan), embarks the Britannic in search of a German spy believed to be on board to sabotage the ship. Posing as a governess, the undercover agent finds herself falling in love with the ship's chaplain (Edward Atterton). In a stunning discovery, the lovers suddenly find themselves enemies of war. And when a massive explosion deals a deathblow to the ship, their battle becomes one for their own survival. With a dynamic, international cast and a story line that hosts a chilling tale of espionage, politics and romance, Britannic brings one of history's most devastating events to riveting, new life.
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Mediterraneo
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sOn a magical Greek island a soldier is about to discover that it is better to make love instead of war โ Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.
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Triumph of the Spirit
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sFact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to fight.
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The Big Blue
๐ฌ๐ท Greece New York ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980s The 1960sDanger...Like Passion...Runs Deep โ Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful insurance investigator from America, and he finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.
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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sA renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they're up against German wartime geniuses out to establish a Fourth Reich.
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Eleni
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1980s The 1940sThe Echo of a Mother's Voice. Fuels a Son's Revenge. โ Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
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The Little Drummer Girl
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ต๐ธ Palestine The 20th CenturyShe will become their most deadly weapon. As long as they can make her fall in love. โ An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
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