Cypriot Feature Films
A list of films set in Cyprus or made by Cypriots
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- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsEllie LambetiVan HeflinFranco FabriziA wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his not so perfect life.
- DirectorGiorgos SkalenakisStarsKatina PaxinouAngelos AntonopoulosZorz SarriIn Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fails and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their prisoner.
- DirectorMichael PapasStarsDimitri AndreasGeorge KafkarisTamara HinchcoA Cypriot-UK co-production about the military conflict on Cyprus which takes a sympathetic attitude toward the occupying British.
- DirectorGeorgios FilisStarsDimitra DimitriadouPapes FilipidesPitsa AntoniadesThis first film of Cyprus' first director, Giorgios Filis, depicts music and dance customs in the form and style of a folk opera, with traditional Cypriot dances and songs. The film consists of a folkloric inventory based on the folk culture of Cyprus, as well as on similar ritual happenings. The narration and dialogue are entirely in the Cypriot dialect and are characterized by a rhetorical and poetic mood.
- DirectorKostas DoukasStarsKostas KakavasDoukissaEfi OikonomouMichalis, a rich Athenian, is in Cyprus where he meets and falls in love with the popular singer Christina.
- DirectorKostas DoukasStarsTolis VoskopoulosDimitra DimitriadouTheodoulos MoreasAgainst prejudice, the beautiful daughter of Cyprus' most prominent industrialist falls for a humble fisherman; but, fate has a cruel future in store for her. Now, they all need a miracle. Can the poor lad from Cyprus save his beloved?
- DirectorOrestis LaskosStarsDora SitzaniNikos DadinopoulosDionysis PapagiannopoulosThe heirs of two Cypriot winemakers and sworn rivals visit incognito the city of Paphos to flee from two arranged marriages of convenience, only to meet and fall in love. Is this a star-crossed affair in the likes of Romeo and Juliet?
- DirectorStratos MarkidisStarsMona Liza ArbiFaidon GeorgitsisZozo ZarpaMelita is a spoiled young girl who loves luxurious life no matter what she has to do, to have it. Her Boyfriend Richard is mixed up in drug dealing when he decides to keep the money and run from his associates, who they were suspicious of this might happened so they followed them and chased them. Melita and Richard split during the chase and Richard gets killed by the gangsters. Melita calls a friend of hers, Alexis in order to hide her somewhere safe. They fall in love and she keeps manipulate him, so Alexis in order to provide her the kind of life she loves, gets mixed in gambling scam where he cheats on poker games along with Melita's aunt Gizela. Gizela's husband who is a rich old man, hits on Melita and by buying her expensive presents he gets what he wants. One day a poker game does not go well and his scam gets discovered by the other players, so now Alexis and Melita must run again from everyone. At the same time , the hippies from the drug dealing, who happened to discover them, are after them also ..
- DirectorPavlos ParashakisStarsNikos DadinopoulosMihalis ViolarisDimitra DimitriadouA Cypriot tour guide, who dreams of becoming a popular singer, loses his beloved who, succumbing to the pressures of her own, gets engaged to a rich young man from London.
- DirectorStratos MarkidisStarsTina SpathiMagda MakriNatalie DanikaA rich woman falls in love with her maid.
- DirectorIlias MylonakosStarsLaura GemserGabriele TintiLivia RussoA woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.
- DirectorMichael PapasStarsChristos ZannidisAristodimos FessasDimitri AndreasAlmost documentary-like drama of the war between Turkish and Greek people on the island of Cyprus, seen through the eyes of a young Greek boy who greatly admires his grandfather.
- DirectorErrikos ThalassinosStarsSotiris MoustakasMaria BonelouThanos PapadopoulosA struggling photo-reporter who works for a weekly gossip magazine will somehow entangle himself in the plans of an international antiquities-trafficking ring, as he tails an illegal couple in Limassol.
- DirectorPanikkos HrysanthouStarsMarina KittouIlektra HrysanthouMother in Turkish occupied Nicosia tells daughter the story of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
- DirectorAndreas PantzisStarsCostas TymviosThalia ArgyriouIlias AletrasThe story of the Cyprus' turbulent recent history using the device of a desperate man, Evagoras (Costas Timvios), who returns to the island after years of absence to look for his wife and son. His family disappeared while they were visiting his native village on Cyprus, just when the Turkish army invaded (1974). As Evagoras goes out on his search each day with a friendly taxi driver, flashbacks illustrate the recent history of the Greek Cypriots, and the normally quiet Evagoras heads closer and closer to a militant stance.
- DirectorYiorgos StamboulopoulosStarsPiotr FronczewskiBenoît RosselNikiforos NanerisA young child brings conflict between a pagan community and an early Christian one.