01 Three generations of a family gather to decide who will care for their ailing grandmother.
12 Best Greek Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 1, 2026
Greece Arthouse thought provokingslow and atmospheric
Greek cinema’s newest wave, led by Yorgos Lanthimos, built an entire deadpan, unsettling style out of families and societies enforcing bizarre private rules, and it’s made Greek film genuinely hard to ignore internationally again.
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02 A dying writer spends his last day caring for an orphaned Albanian boy while revisiting his own past.
03 Two children travel across Greece searching for a father who may not even exist.
04 A middle-aged doctor's obsession with a young tourist spirals into humiliation over one island summer.
05 A young woman's awkward sexual awakening unfolds while her father is dying.
06 A group secretly impersonates the recently deceased to help grieving families cope, until the roleplay stops being professional.
07 A reserved writer's life is upended by a free-spirited laborer's appetite for living.
08 An American academic tries to reform a free-spirited Greek sex worker, and ends up learning more than he teaches.
09 A political assassination investigation exposes a government conspiracy reaching the very top.
10 Three adult siblings are kept entirely isolated from the outside world by parents who've invented their own language and rules.
11 A girl's birthday-party suicide unravels the disturbing secret her family has been hiding for years.
12 A broke young man in Athens's economic collapse survives on scraps while fixating on his upstairs neighbor.
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