245 Films & TV Shows Set In Greece
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Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος: 1910-1927
🇬🇷 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
🇬🇷 Greece The 1940sThe patriot, the professor, the comic and the stripper, were fighting for what they believed in. Getting rich! — 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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The Thrushes Are Still Singing
🇬🇷 GreeceFive friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years, the other comes from a series of "accidental" murders, another leaves his wife and kids, the fourth one is a wonderer, and the last one, the girl of the gang, comes from a lunatic asylum where she has been hiding for years... All of them are outcasts, tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved friends and betrayed by the politics of their times. They hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in his own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.
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Midnight Express
🇬🇷 Greece 🇹🇷 Turkey The 1970sWalk into the incredible true experience of Billy Hayes, and bring all the courage you can! — 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 Greek Tycoon
New York District of Columbia England 🇬🇷 GreeceShe was the most famous woman in the world. He was a peasant, a pirate, a shark. What he couldn't buy with money he stole with charm. — A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
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Metamorphoses
🇬🇷 Greece Ancient HistorySeveral animated stories from "Metamorphoses," the Roman poet Ovid's narrative of legends, are presented.
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For the Love of Benji
🇬🇷 GreeceThe world's most huggable hero! — Benji gets lost after a flight overseas and becomes a stray in Athens, Greece. He then tries everyday to reunite with his family while mysterious people pursue him, in a race to get a code which was secretly tattooed on his paw at the airport. But who are the bad guys and who are the agents that can be trusted? Will Benji and his kids and their nanny ever get to enjoy their vacation?
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Iphigenia
🇬🇷 Greece 🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistoryThe Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
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Death Steps in the Dark
🇬🇷 GreeceAn Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main suspect. With the help of his Swedish girlfriend he starts investigating in order to prove his innocence.
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The Hunters
🇬🇷 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 bleeding…
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A Woman at Her Window
🇬🇷 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 Devil's Men
🇬🇷 GreeceHalf man - Half beast - Trapped in a world forgotten by time! — A satanic cult kidnaps 3 young people and Priest Donald Pleasence and Costas Skouras must save them from the hands of this evil.
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Sky Riders
🇬🇷 GreeceThey soared from the skies to stage the most daring rescue ever filmed — Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plans his own rescue attempt. James Coburn plays McCabe, Ellen's ex-husband who hires a crew of professional hang gliders to help him rescue her and the kids from the terrorist's mountain top lair.
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The Travelling Players
🇬🇷 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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Euridice BA 2037
🇬🇷 GreeceEuridice in Hades, code number ΒΑ 2037, is waiting for Orpheus to free her and lead her to the Upper World. She’s waiting for orders that will allow her to move out of her prison/home. Her destination is not mentioned. A voice from a computer orders her to move out.
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Assault on Agathon
🇦🇱 Albania 🇬🇷 GreeceA deadly mission for Cabot Cain! — CIA team in Greece tries to capture a major drug dealer.
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40 Carats
New York 🇬🇷 GreeceShe's a divorcee. She's forty. She's engaged... to a younger man. — After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on her doorstep to take her daughter to a party. Despite her yearning for Peter and the encouragement of her friends and family, Ann initially rebuffs him when he pursues her, but slowly she yields to his charm and her own stifled emotions.
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Days of '36
🇬🇷 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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The Countess of Corfu
🇬🇷 GreeceA businnesman, Sotiris Karelis, is presented to the piano teacher and twice a widow, Antzolina, and asks her to sell her mansion in order to convert it into a hotel. The same time, an Italian music group arrive in Corfu, which has been abandoned by Alinda Ritsi singer. Antzolina is persuaded not only to host her home but also to replace the singer. However, there is a lot of confusion because the singer of the group Alinda Ritsi comes in Corfu with her fiancée, and everyone is starting to look for their real identities.
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The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
🇬🇷 GreeceAfter her husband dies in a freak plane accident, a woman leaves London for Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy. She soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money - and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, a private investigator arrives to investigate irregularities in the claim, teaming up with a beautiful reporter.
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The Burglars
🇬🇷 GreeceCatch the burglars ! — In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.
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The Trojan Women
🇬🇷 Greece 🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistoryThe Strength of Mankind has Always Been it's Women — Hecuba and the other women of Troy rise to find their city in ruins and their cause lost. The city has fallen into Greek hands and it is likely their lot to become slaves of Greek soldiers. A messenger approaches to inform them that the lots have been drawn and each woman will be taken to the man who drew for her. Of particular interest is Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, who is chosen for the Greek kings bedchamber. She has received word of this news already and is in hiding because she has sworn an oath to the gods that she will live as a virgin. When she is found she has some particularly nasty things to say about treatment at Greek hands.
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Evdokia
🇬🇷 GreeceA prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Her profession, however, is a barrier for their relationship. They try to stay together and overcome their inner conflicts, but the social environment crushes them.
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Socrates
🇬🇷 Greece The 4th Century BCA false accusation leads the philosopher Socrates to trial and condemnation in 4th century BC Athens.
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
🇬🇷 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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