Theo Angelopoulos Movies

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside...

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along...

The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions,...

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass,...

A journey through history

A film director, his relationships with women and the expression of his bitterly emotions about cinema and Greece

A history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

An actress who shone during the "golden age" of Greek cinema now lives far from the limelight, almost isolated, with only a few friends for company....

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his...

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

A comic tale. The issue of film education has been a Gordian link for many years in Greece. Starting from the time of Stavrakos in 1950, the...