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The Devil's Men
Two icons of horror, Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasence, clash in this terrifying tale of ancient evil and death in the land of the Minotaur. In a remote part of Greece, young backpackers are going missing on an archaeological site and the local police authorities are not interested in searching...Watch Movie
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A Place in the Sun
Model-handsome Athenian Ilias (Stavros Zalmas) has "never been in love… at least not for more than a couple of weeks." But after a spell abroad, he returns home to discover his city "flooded with foreigners" in the wake of Balkan conflicts and the Iron Curtain's collapse....Watch Movie
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The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas
Antonis Paraskevas is a man incapable of life away from the media spotlight. A famous television personality whose star is waning, Antonis decides to stage his own kidnapping to gain sympathy and attention from a world that is slowly forgetting him. He hides out in an...Watch Movie
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North of Vortex
A bisexual junkie poet (Stavros Zalmas) driving coast-to-coast first picks up a hunky hitchhiking sailor (Howard Napper) and then an androgynous waitress (Valda Drabla) as companions. They form an uneasy erotic triangle that will finally implode in a fateful desert episode. Greek director...Watch Movie
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Alpha
In a not-so-far-away future, Alpha, a conforming bourgeois woman, refuses to provide shelter to a mysterious Fugitive, for fear of putting her controlled life in danger. The Fugitive is captured and Alpha is arrested and taken to the Forest, where the authorities throw the castaways and the...Watch Movie
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L
Living in his car, a forty-year-old man spends his days delivering honey to a narcoleptic. In his spare time, he visits his estranged wife and children, who live in a different car. But when the man is fired, he abandons his car for a motorcycle. From the writer of Academy-award® nominated DOGTOOTH.Watch Movie
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Angel
ANGEL is George Katakouzinos' ground breaking, boldly told tragedy of innocence betrayed. It is the first openly gay film in Greek history to have received major theatrical distribution both domestically and abroad. Angel, a young handsome Athenian, attempts to escape his abusive alcoholic father...Watch Movie
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Meteor and Shadow
A poignant and harrowing account of the rise and fall of Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greece's most esteemed poet. Acclaimed director Takis Spetsiotis conveys with sensitive daring finesse the poet's life as a romantic charmer, literary genius, communist sympathizer, depraved drug...Watch Movie
