Greek weird wave 1 essentials
Movies mentioned in the following articles :
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/greek-weird-wave-10-best-films/
https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/25454/1/the-new-names-in-greek-cinema
https://www.curzon.com/journal/greek-weird-wave/
http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-10-best-movies-of-the-greek-weird-wave/
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/resources/9781474436335_Greek_Weird_Wave_Introduction.pdf
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-40310-6
(Some moves omitted as it was noted in the guardian as "less weird" https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/aug/27/attenberg-dogtooth-greece-cinema)
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/greek-weird-wave-10-best-films/
https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/25454/1/the-new-names-in-greek-cinema
https://www.curzon.com/journal/greek-weird-wave/
http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-10-best-movies-of-the-greek-weird-wave/
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/resources/9781474436335_Greek_Weird_Wave_Introduction.pdf
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-40310-6
(Some moves omitted as it was noted in the guardian as "less weird" https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/aug/27/attenberg-dogtooth-greece-cinema)
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- DirectorAthina Rachel TsangariStarsAriane LabedVangelis MourikisEvangelia RandouStuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsStavros PsyllakisAris ServetalisJohnny VekrisA group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsColin FarrellRachel WeiszJessica BardenIn a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
- DirectorAthina Rachel TsangariStarsVangelis MourikisNikos OrfanosYorgos PirpassopoulosA fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the precious chevalier. Who will it be?
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsBarry G. BernsonHerb CaillouetBill CampSteven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
- DirectorArgyris PapadimitropoulosStarsMakis PapadimitriouElli TringouHara KotsaliOn a hedonistic Greek island, a middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends.
- DirectorAlexandros AvranasStarsThemis PanouReni PittakiEleni RoussinouA chilling account of a horrendous family tragedy perpetuated behind closed doors. As chronic violence chips away at the household's elaborate façade, the shocking secret reveals that almost nothing is as it seems.
- DirectorElina PsykouStarsChristos StergioglouMaria KallimaniGiorgos SouxesAntonis arrives in a hotel near the sea. It is winter, the hotel is closed and Antonis wanders alone. It seems to have all the time with him. Until television announced the disappearance of the famous journalist Antonis Paraskevas.
- DirectorVasilis KekatosStarsIoko Ioannis KotidisNikos ZeginoglouTwo strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking money to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.
- DirectorYorgos ZoisStarsAlexandros VardaxoglouEffi RabsilberNikolas HanakoulasEarth has been abandoned for a long time and humanity has found refuge in outer space. Three archaeologists return to Earth to investigate the origin of a mysterious five tone signal.
- DirectorYorgos ZoisStarsIris PonkinaHara AgaMichalis AinatzoglouAll kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again.
- DirectorDimitris KatsimirisStarsThanassis ChalkiasGiannis TsortekisA woman returns, after 40 years, to the village where she was born. The cause is the death of her mother.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsYannis DrakopoulosEvi SaoulidouMakis PapadimitriouThe story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
- DirectorAlexander VoulgarisStarsAnthi EfstratiadouSofia KokkaliIro BezouSeems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another's company. None of them is "Winona".
- DirectorYorgos ZoisStarsAlexandros VardaxoglouMaria KallimaniAlexia KaltsikiA post modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The audience is captivated by the ambivalence, still not realizing if this is part of the play or not. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not vice versa.
- DirectorDennis IliadisStarsKaterina TsavalouDanae SkiadiIoannis PapazisisLeaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniKleopatra AmpatzoglouStarsMamadou DialloEftychia StefanidouKaterina IliadiWashingtonia is the only palm tree that its heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because it's heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.
- DirectorSyllas TzoumerkasStarsAmalia MoutousiThanos SamarasIoanna TsirigouliIn a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.
- DirectorPanos H. KoutrasStarsMina OrfanouYannis KokiasmenosMinos TheoharisYorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young transsexual sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with Yorgos.
- DirectorChristos NikouStarsAris ServetalisSofia GeorgovassiliAnna KalaitzidouAmidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
- DirectorBabis MakridisStarsAris ServetalisMakis PapadimitriouLefteris MatthaiouIt's absurd not to trust me.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsChristos StergioglouMichele ValleyAngeliki PapouliaA controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
- DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsErrikos LitsisEleni KokkidouCostas XikominosDuring an unbearably hot Athenian summer, a cramped flat becomes a hellish urban battlefield for an ornamental paterfamilias and his family. Now, ugly truths and deleterious words become weapons in a dirty war. Can they emerge unscathed?
