Giorgos Arvanitis Movies

An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, testimonies of his collaborators and relatives and...

The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One,...

A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the...

Charles Chinaski is a guy with many problems and feels responsible for most of them: women, alcohol, his hostility towards certain groups of people....

Returning from a business trip to Rhodes, Markos finds out that his sick son has been kidnapped. He agrees to pay the ransom that the kidnappers...

Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is an honest working man who has to support his sister’s family as well, as Maria’s husband is only interested...

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

This European existential drama utilizes complex symbols inspired by abstract psychological theories to explore the effects and reasons behind a...

A wretch jobber tries to find the money to build the house promised to groom, to repay the truck he drives and help a poor girl, who has been...

A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.

A masseur whose son is a student in Germany learns that he has become a member of the Neo-Nazi party.

Pierre, a young man of Brussels, has lost his job. Unbeknowst to Barbara, the woman he lives with, he has become a pickpocket to survive. He works in...

By the 14th century, the Byzantine Empire was, if not on the verge of actual collapse, at least seriously decadent and clearly on its last legs. The...

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film

A young French actor, Matthieu comes to Greece. He meets a pregnant Greek woman, Xenia, who leaves for Andalusia to give birth there. Car breakdowns,...

A music composer tries to deposit money in his bank one morning, and is accused of counterfeiting. Harassed by the police, the gang of counterfeiters...

The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to...

Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players...

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his...