Greek films about singing

List of the best Greek films about singing according to the audience: Attenberg, Djam, Her Smell, Worlds Apart, Nicostratos the Pelican, The Last Note, God Loves Caviar, Bourek, Wednesday 04:45, Wasted Youth.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryGreece
Duration01:35

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance. Instead she chooses to observe it through the songs of Suicide, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sexual-education lessons she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father meanwhile ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated." Caught between the two men and her collaborator, Bella, Marina investigates the wondrous mystery of the human fauna.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, adventure, music
CountryFrance, Greece, Turkey

Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repair their boat. In Istanbul, she encounters Avril, a nineteen-year-old French girl, alone and without any money, who came to Turkey as a voluntary worker with refugees. Djam, generous, cheeky, unpredictable, and free-spirited, takes Avril under her wing on the way to Mytilene. A journey filled with encounters, music, sharing, and hope.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, music
CountryUSA, Greece
Duration01:38

A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryGreece

Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryFrance, Greece
Duration01:28

After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelican and decides to leave the bird at home. Pelican helps the boy find his father again and revive him back to life ...

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, military
CountryGreece

The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.

Markimdb: 6
Genreadventure, biography, history
CountryGreece, Russia
Duration01:41

The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy
CountryGreece, Cyprus, USA

In this humanistic comedy, set against the backdrop of economic crises and bad news, an extravagant international cast of characters meet, fight, and fall in love, while hiding from the end of the world and other calamities on the tiny Greek island of Khronos.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryGreece, Germany, Israel

Stelios Dimitrakopoulos has 32 hours left before he loses everything. From the jazz bar he painstakingly keeps running for years, to his own family. The Romanian gangster who lent him money, now demands the debt to be paid. The middle-man and former friend, makes Stelios take care of illegal errands. His wife is seriously thinking of abandoning him, and a night club owner, not thinking about the consequences, finally starts to stand up for himself. Christmas is coming, the clock is ticking, and the tree in Stelios' house must be decorated.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama
CountryGreece
Duration02:02

Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGreece, Germany
Duration01:24

In the middle of the Aegean Sea, six men on a fishing trip on a luxury yacht decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of the journey, when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he will wear on his smallest finger the victory ring: the Chevalier.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama
CountryGreece, France

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Greece
Duration02:23

Aggie, A 67 year-old Black Cajun, has just stepped into her worst nightmare. Her two granddaughters have disappeared, and the only clue she possesses is a forgotten laptop. Aware she only has a short window of time, she feels helpless to save them as her money and influence are scarce. Desperate to get her girls back, Aggie risks everything to cross paths with Richard and Lottie DuMonde, two of the wealthiest and most connected people in New Orleans. Certainly, once they hear her story, they will help. But what Aggie doesn't foresee is the dark world she's about to step into, or the dangers accompanying the rescue needed to bring her girls home.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryGreece, France, Belgium

Strangers in their own birthplace, a camp 16-year-old, lollipop-sucking Dany and his 18-year-old brother Odysseus cross the entire country (along with pet rabbit Dido ) in search of their Greek father, who they only know as “The Nameless”, after the death of their Albanian mother. They hope to get Greek passports and citizenship but on the journey they encounter racism and prejudice.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama
CountryGreece
Duration01:42

At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGreece

Seven friends meet up for dinner on a full moon Friday night and deep secrets will come to the surface, shaking their lives and threatening their relationships.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA, Greece
Duration02:08

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryGreece

A lonely criminology professor attempts to solve the mystery behind five murders by decoding the puzzle of five Pythagorean theorems, in a crime story that features renowned French actor François Cluzet in a key-role.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryGermany, Greece

A tale of dirt, soap, and magic set in a cult on a remote Greek island.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGreece

It is a movie following the coming-of-age for a boy; the story begins in the mid-60s, continues all through the 70s, and finishes in 1981. He is a creative young man facing the troubles of the first pangs of love and we observe the way he tries to handle them within his social surroundings, his family, and environment.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, detective
CountryFrance, Greece

​Greece. A seaside resort struck by a heavy heat wave. Water is scarce and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, is looking after a villa while its owners are away. On a dusty road crushed by the sun, he is stopped by a police officer for an identity check...

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, documentary
CountrySpain, United Kingdom, Germany, Greece

The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google says they are building a library for mankind, but some say they also have other intentions.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance, Greece

"Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But, some forty years and four sons later, nothing is happening like it should be during this month of August: as she arrives on Greek soil to organize her traditional festival with her tribe, Jo learns that the latter has been cancelled, courtesy of the economic crisis. The hour seems to be tragic but the maternal instinct grows stronger, she is ready to do everything for the happiness of her sons. Between squabbles and blood and destiny blows, this summer will be like no other.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryBulgaria, Greece

When Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of lev on the train tracks, he decides to turn the entire amount over to the police. Grateful, the state rewards him with a new wristwatch… which soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, the head of PR for the Ministry of Transport, loses his old watch. Here starts Petrov’s desperate struggle to get back not only his old watch, but his dignity.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA, Greece

After crossing into the U.S. with no family to speak of, young Cecilia finds herself in the charge of Francisco, a lonely Cuban immigrant long separated from his own family. Francisco operates a way station for border crossers on the outskirts of Lake Los Angeles, a surreal, desiccated lakebed in the California desert. While he copes with the alienation of living alone in a foreign land and the impossibility of realizing the American dream, Cecilia aimlessly wanders the dusty landscape, accompanied only by her fantastical imagination and distant memories of motherly love.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, Greece

A Greek History Professor & his daughter travel to a Greek Island for one last chance to finish his thesis on ancient love spells before he loses his research grant. His daughter attempts to match her father with the local women without success until she meets a beautiful Mermaid with whose help the Professor might finally find true love for himself.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySweden, Denmark, USA, Greece, Turkey, Mexico, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA, Greece, France, Portugal
Duration01:58

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.

Genredrama
CountryUSA, Greece

A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Greece
Duration02:18

Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryMexico, USA, Greece, Dominican Republic

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryGreece, United Kingdom, Germany

Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of foreigners coming. They meet in Amerika Square in Athens because of Syrian refugee Tarek.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryGreece
Duration01:38

On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep insisting that it was an accident. What is the secret that young Angeliki took with her? Why does her family persist in trying to "forget" her and to move on with its life?

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryGreece, France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Romania, Albania, Luxembourg
Duration02:23

Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he is an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously a few years ago. Back in Athens, he asks this politician's former wife to come and identify him. A slow and dry meditation about inhumanity of borders.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryItaly, Brazil, Greece

Whilst vacationing in Greece, Beckett, becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating car accident forces him to run for his life across the country to clear his name but tensions escalate as the authorities close in and political unrest mounts which makes Beckett fall even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, military, history
CountrySerbia, Greece

The story of the Serbian army, led by the King Peter, through the World War I.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGreece, France, Canada, USA
Duration01:33

A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast and her coach offer a service for hire wherein they stand in for dead people by appointment, hired by relatives, friends or colleagues of the deceased, to assist with the grieving process.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, documentary, biography, history
CountryFrance, Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Greece
Duration02:38

Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryGreece, United Kingdom, USA

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGreece, USA
Duration02:22

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration01:36

    In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror
    CountryNew Zealand, USA, Greece, India, Hungary, Austria, Turkey, Poland

    A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, comedy, drama
    CountryGreece

    Singapore Sling is chasing after Laura, a romantic memory from his past. One night he finds himself in a mysterious villa, watching two women bury a body. He falls into their trap and, in an atmosphere of isolation and decadence, the trio act out insane pleasure games and a ritual of blood and murder.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA, Greece

    Owing to a genetic mix-up involving stem cell research, the recently founded company Infinity Baby is able to offer a service for aspiring parents who never want to leave the baby bubble — infants that do not age.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryGreece, Germany, Cyprus

    Norwegian Ninja is the true story of how Commander Arne Treholt and his Ninja Force saved Norway during the Cold War. In 1983 the Ninja Force discovers that the sinister NATO force Stay Behind, who take charge in times of war and emergency, are planning a coup-d'état in peacetime. Treholt and the Ninjas see only one solution: a full can of whoop-ass.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryCanada, Greece

    Sexy puckish pickpocket Becky, a Bugs Bunny of a girl, is teasing a wallet out of a purse on a crowded Athens metro when she notices Miranda, falls in love, and the chase is on. Oops, Becky picks the pocket of a policeman on vacation, her Elmer Fudd, and he's obsessed with catching her.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryGreece

    An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Greece, USA

    A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryCyprus, Greece, Italy

    A former Greek diving champion and an eccentric German student take an adventurous road-trip of rediscovery from Bari to Bavaria.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama
    CountryGreece

    Members of the Baltatzis family recount the 1922 burning of Smyrna, Greece, including the assault on vibrant Greek and Armenian communities.




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