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History Movies about Cyprus

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  • If Aphrodite Had Arms (2007)

    1. If Aphrodite Had Arms

    200753m
    Intensely moving and sweeping documentary about the division of Cyprus on July 20, 1974 by the illegal invasion of the Turkish military and the struggles that still exist in their turbulent world.
    DirectorJenna ConstantineStarsEvyenia ConstantineJenna ConstantineJohn T. Papas
  • Sun, Sea and Brides to Be (2019)

    2. Sun, Sea and Brides to Be

    2019– 20 epsTV Series
    6.2 (6)
    Observational documentary series showing the challenges faced by British wedding planners working in Cyprus, where each year around 4,000 British couples tie the knot, helping UK couples fulfil their dream of a wedding in the sun.
    StarWynne Evans
  • Kartallarin öcü: Severek ölenler.. (1965)

    3. Kartallarin öcü: Severek ölenler..

    19651h 17m
    5.2 (21)
    DirectorOsman F. SedenStarsIzzet GünayFatma GirikSüleyman Turan
  • Kibris Sehitleri (1959)

    4. Kibris Sehitleri

    19591h 18m
    4.8 (18)
    The story of a Turkish Cypriot man fighting against Greek gangs.
    DirectorBehlül DalStarsÖztürk SerengilMine CoskunSaliha Tekneci
  • Sezercik: Küçük Mücahit (1975)

    5. Sezercik: Küçük Mücahit

    19751h 19m
    4.1 (149)
    Little Sezercik fights against Greek Cypriots in 1974.
    DirectorErtem GöreçStarsÖzdemir AkinCevdet ArikanSükriye Atav
  • 6. The Interrogator

    19611h 30mTV Movie
    Set in the British Colony of Cyprus during the Cyprus Emergency (1955-1959). A British officer interrogates a Greek Cypriot member of the EOKA (National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters).
    DirectorJohn JacobsStarsBernard LeeJohn BarrieConrad Phillips
  • My Aunt Is Here (2013)

    7. My Aunt Is Here

    20131h 40m
    7.2 (1K)
    Does not just tell a story in the Greek village of Northern Cyprus, where the sounds of the Ezan is accompanied by the church bells, it also underlines a tradition in Anatolia; the drama of child brides.
    DirectorErhan KozanStarsMiray AkayMelisa CelayirTunç Oral
  • Michael Craig and Eva Renzi in The Incredible Challenge (1970)

    8. The Incredible Challenge

    19701h 40mPG
    5.1 (114)
    During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks, a British peacekeeping officer is trying to prevent a Greek guerrilla fighter from escalating the violent situation even further.
    DirectorAdriano BolzoniStarsMichael CraigEva RenziAdolfo Celi
  • Göklerdeki sevgili (1966)

    9. Göklerdeki sevgili

    19661h 41m
    5.3 (50)
    A young Turkish pilot Timur fall into love with Yildiz. While he going to duty to Cyprus he gives a letter his mom to transmit Yildiz. But his mom lies to Timur.
    DirectorRemzi A. JöntürkStarsCüneyt ArkinSelda AlkorGiray Alpan
  • On Korkusuz Adam (1964)

    10. On Korkusuz Adam

    19641h 39m
    4.9 (77)
    The adaptation of The Magnificent Seven.
    DirectorTunç BasaranStarsTamer YigitYilmaz GüneyMehmet Ali Akpinar
  • Vana Rambota and Stella Fyrogeni in Roads and Oranges (1996)

    11. Roads and Oranges

    19961h 40m
    6.2 (45)
    Two sisters have lost their father during the Turkish invasion in Cyprus 1974 but they find out that he seems to be alive and go to Turkey to search for him.
    DirectorAliki Danezi-KnutsenStarsVana RambotaStella FyrogeniStathis Livathinos
  • Cyprus: Britain's Grim Legacy (1984)

    12. Cyprus: Britain's Grim Legacy

    19841h 43mTV Movie
    8.0 (7)
    How Nicosia became a divided city.
    DirectorBruce MacDonald
  • Susan Strasberg, Dirk Bogarde, and George Chakiris in McGuire, Go Home! (1965)

    13. McGuire, Go Home!

    19651h 54m
    5.9 (341)
    During Cyprus' war of independence against Britain, Juno Kozani (Susan Strasberg), an American archeology student visiting Cyprus, is caught between the two warring sides.
    DirectorRalph ThomasStarsDirk BogardeGeorge ChakirisSusan Strasberg
  • Laukaus Kyproksessa (1965)

    14. Laukaus Kyproksessa

    19651h 32m
    4.8 (57)
    A Finnish UN soldier falls in love with a beautiful Greek girl in Cyprus. Their love is mutual but cultural differences and misunderstandings complicate a romance that stretches across the language wall.
    DirectorÅke LindmanStarsDemetra DemetriMonica VasileiouÅke Lindman
  • To nisi tis Afroditis (1965)

    15. To nisi tis Afroditis

    19651h 35m
    7.2 (53)
    In 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.
    DirectorGiorgos SkalenakisStarsKatina PaxinouAngelos AntonopoulosZorz Sarri
  • Attilas '74 (1975)

    16. Attilas '74

    19751h 43m
    7.1 (326)
    An indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.
    DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsMichael CacoyannisRauf DenktasGlafkos Klerides
  • Born of War (2014)

    17. Born of War

    20141h 49mR
    4.4 (480)
    After her family is killed, Mina finds out her real father is a terrorist, and behind the killings. To get revenge, Mina works with British Intelligence to take him down.
    DirectorVicky JewsonStarsJames FrainSofia Black-D'EliaLydia Leonard
  • Shadows and Faces (2010)

    18. Shadows and Faces

    20101h 56m
    6.9 (1K)
    Shadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
    DirectorDervis ZaimStarsHazar ErgüçlüOsman AlkasPopi Avraam
  • Bir Zamanlar Kibris (2021)

    19. Bir Zamanlar Kibris

    2021–202224 epsTV Series
    7.2 (677)
    Turkish television series about Turkish Cypriots and the period before the Operation of Cyprus. The published trailers also shows about the activities of pro-Enosis Greeks in the series.
    StarsAhmet KuralPelin KarahanSerkan Çayoglu
  • The Palace (2011)

    20. The Palace

    201117mShort
    7.1 (103)
    Cyprus 1974. A Cypriot family flees advancing Turkish forces and takes refuge in an abandoned Ottoman-era palace. When a young Turkish Cypriot conscript comes face to face with the family in hiding, he is forced to confront the harsh reality of war and his role in it.
    DirectorAnthony MarasStarsErol AfsinKevork MalikyanTamer Arslan
  • Despo Diamantidou and Dimitris Papamichael in Death Strikes Again (1961)

    21. Death Strikes Again

    19611h 30m
    6.3 (110)
    On a cold and stormy night in Cyprus, a determined assassin murders a military officer, and the prime suspects, including his daughter and his second wife, play the innocent. Who is behind the assassination of Brigadier Norton?
    DirectorErrikos ThalassinosStarsDimitris PapamichaelNelly AngelidouDespo Diamantidou
  • Horst Buchholz and Gina Lollobrigida in The Young Rebel (1967)

    22. The Young Rebel

    19671h 51mM
    5.6 (219)
    A highly fictionalized filming of the early life of Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote".
    DirectorVincent ShermanStarsHorst BuchholzGina LollobrigidaJosé Ferrer
  • Kato apo t' astra (2001)

    23. Kato apo t' astra

    20011h 27m
    6.5 (111)
    Phoebe takes Loukas from free Cyprus to occupied Cyprus to see his village after years. While both of their parents were victims of the invasion, he refuses to get over it, while she even smuggles with the Turks to survive.
    DirectorChristos GeorgiouStarsMirto AlikakiAkis SakellariouElias Demetriou
  • Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Mary Ure in Where Eagles Dare (1968)

    24. Where Eagles Dare

    19682h 38mM63Metascore
    7.6 (65K)
    Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.
    DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsRichard BurtonClint EastwoodMary Ure
  • The Private Right (1966)

    25. The Private Right

    19661h 26m
    6.6 (8)
    A Cypriot-UK co-production about the military conflict on Cyprus which takes a sympathetic attitude toward the occupying British.
    DirectorMichael PapasStarsDimitri AndreasGeorge KafkarisTamara Hinchco

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