51 Films & TV Shows Set In Greece During The 20th Century
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Loaf and Camouflage
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1960sThe film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd...
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Rembetiko
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910srempetiko rembetiko mousiki โ The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ณ๐ต Nepal District of Columbia ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ต๐ช Peru The 1930sIndiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS. โ When Dr. Indiana Jones โ the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist โ is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
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Time Bandits
England ๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1910s Ancient History The Middle AgesAll the dreams you've ever had and not just the good ones. โ Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
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Alexander the Great
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1900sBased on some historical events, the film gives a romanticized biography of Theodoros Kolokotronis, a Greek historical hero serving as a metaphor for Greece herself.
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ฮฮปฮตฯ ฮธฮญฯฮนฮฟฯ ฮฮตฮฝฮนฮถฮญฮปฮฟฯ: 1910-1927
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1900sA biography of the former Greek prime minister Eleutherios Venizelos and the recreation of his acts and the political and social climate in Greece from 1910 to 1927.
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Escape to Athena
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sThe patriot, the professor, the comic and the stripper, were fighting for what they believed in. Getting rich! โ During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.
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Midnight Express
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey The 1970sWalk into the incredible true experience of Billy Hayes, and bring all the courage you can! โ Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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The Hunters
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1970sDuring a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleedingโฆ
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A Woman at Her Window
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940s The 1930sGreece, 1936. An aristocratic woman engages in a series of loveless affairs before finding herself falling for a political activist.
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The Travelling Players
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThis expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra (Eva Kotamanidou) plots revenge on her mother (Aliki Georgouli) for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes (Petros Zarkadis), a young anti-fascist rebel.
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Days of '36
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1930sThe assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage and the government prevaricates over tactics so as not to alienate potential political allies.
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sA 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.
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Black Seed
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sThe story of Macedonian soldiers who were captured by the Greek army and taken to the prison camps on Greek islands during Greek Civil War in 1946. Suspected of being communists, they are maltreated by the Greek officers running the camp
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Lieutenant Natassa
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sThe 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.
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Z
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1960sHe is alive! โ Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it's too late to save Z's life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the facts leak out, those who tell the truth pay the price for their honesty.
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Backfire
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 20th CenturyA greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
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The Red Lanterns
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1960sDaring! Realistic! Overwhelming! โ The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
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The Guns of Navarone
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sThe Greatest High Adventure Ever Filmed! โ A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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The Angry Hills
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sThe amazing adventures of a lone American in a land of violence! โ Nazis chase a U.S. newsman (Robert Mitchum) paid to smuggle names of Greek resistance leaders to London.
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Ill Met by Moonlight
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sThey stole a General under the noses of his 20,000 crack paratroops. โ Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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He Who Must Die
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1920sGreece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.
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The Girl In The Kremlin
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐บ Russia The 20th CenturyThe story behind the world's greatest conspiracy! โ In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic surgeon leads Stalin into the operating room and transforms his face so that he is unrecognizable. He vanishes, but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe.
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They Who Dare
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940sIn Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.
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In Which We Serve
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1940s The 1930sYou'll Never Forget... In Which We Serve โ The story of the HMS Torrin, from it's construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, butโmost importantlyโto themselves.
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