245 Films & TV Shows Set In Greece
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The Chipmunk Adventure
California Ciudad de Mรฉxico ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฆ๐ถ Antarctica ๐ง๐ฒ BermudaAt last! Alvin's first motion picture. โ Alvin has entered himself and Simon and Theodore in a hot-air balloon race around the world against the Chipettes to deliver diamonds for a group of diamond smugglers. The winners will collect a prize of $100,000. Kids and adults will enjoy this film made with musical numbers by the Chipmunks and the Chipettes.
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The Beekeeper
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceA bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.
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Morning Patrol
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceDoes the Freedom of the Sea Exist? โ A woman travels alone, through a destroyed and abandoned city. She wants to pass the Forbidden Zone and get to the Seaโฆ Deceptive traps lurk everywhere. The Morning Patrol is guarding and they are on her trail. Electronic voices warn the nonexistent citizens to desert the city. The communications system is working, theaters are projecting films, and familiar faces of older times fill the television screensโฆShe is approached by one of the few survivors. Yet he is one of the men who guard this city now. He will help her to get where she wants. That place from where no one has ever returned, to claim it exists. โThe Seaโโฆ Having a fractured memory in common, they will come close to one another. Together, they will try to recall the past and make some sense out of this catastrophe. A story of love in an unbearable world, surrounded by violence and deathโฆ What point can it have?
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High Season
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceOn the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.
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Pretty Smart
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceAfter a taste of knowledge, the girls at Ogilvy Academy think they're... Pretty Smart. โ In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean. She vents her anger by rebelling against the cruel and sicko headmaster. When she discovers that he has been secretly photographing them naked and profiting from the pictures, she rallies the other girls and gets revenge.
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The Wind
California ๐ฌ๐ท GreeceMystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.
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Magic Crystal
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong KongLooking to cash in on the popularity of Steven Spielberg's mega-hits E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hong Kong schlockmeister Wong Jing directs this yarn about Andy who, along with buddies Pin-pin and Pancho ventures to Greece to find his long lost friend Shen. They soon discover Shen is being tailed both by the KGB and by Interpol after discovering some rare gems in an archaeological dig. After a unkindly series of events, Andy winds up back in Hong Kong with the stones, which, it turns out, is not gems but rather an alien life form. Meanwhile Karov, an evil magician, is hell bent on getting his hands on the gem/alien no matter what.
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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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A Greek Tragedy
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceThree scantily-clad female figures struggle to hold up the crumbling remains of an ancient Greek temple.
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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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Voyage to Cythera
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceAn old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.
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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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Hercules
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceHercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.
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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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Sweet Bunch
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceA melody of death, a rapture of colors, sweet violence and dreams. โ 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.
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Summer Lovers
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceSun, surf, sand... and the sexy adventure of a lifetime. โ Michael Pappas and his girlfriend, Cathy, are enjoying the white sand beaches of a Greek island as well as the freewheeling nature of the locals. When Michael meets Lina, who is in Greece from Paris doing archaeological work, he is enamored with the beautiful foreigner. Cathy, unhappy about Lina getting close to Michael, confronts the woman -- only to be unexpectedly wooed by her charms as well.
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Tempest
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceMost men dream their fantasies. Phillip decided to live his. โ A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
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Blood Tide
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceEvil lurks in the Ocean Depths โ An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
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Angel
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceTwenty-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 that shocked Greek public opinion.
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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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For Your Eyes Only
England ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania ๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ฎ๐น ItalyNo one comes close to James Bond, 007. โ A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
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Clash of the Titans
๐ฌ๐ท Greece Ancient HistoryYou will feel the power. Live the adventure. Experience the fantastic. โ To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head, and battling the Kraken monster.
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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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Antropophagus
๐ฌ๐ท GreeceIt's not fear that tears you apart...it's him! โ Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror.
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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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