Best Cypriot movies
A curated collection of popular movies from Cyprus.
Ma (2019)
Ma (2019)
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.
Find Me Falling (2024)
Profile (2018)
Profile (2018)
Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.
The Feast (2021)
Smuggling Hendrix (2019)
Smuggling Hendrix (2019)
Caught between the mob and border patrol, washed-up musician Yiannis must put his plans to leave Cyprus on hold when his beloved dog escapes across the wall to the island's Turkish side.
The Ghosts of Monday (2022)
The Ghosts of Monday (2022)
A group of US filmmakers travel to Cyprus to film a documentary in the tragically famous Hotel Gula - a once popular resort where more than 100 people died in mysterious circumstances. What begins as just another day at the office will eventually turn into a terrifying journey into the unknown.
Every Sunday (2021)
Every Sunday (2021)
“Every Sunday” follows a group of Filipino domestic workers in Cyprus getting ready for a beauty pageant organised by their local community. The organizers and the participants use it as an opportunity to gather once a week - their only day off - as well as to redefine their position as migrant working women in Cypriot society and reclaim their individuality. Meanwhile, an unprecedented case of a serial killer targeting foreign female workers and their little daughters comes to the surface. With 4 of the victims being Filipino, the community, including the pageant’s participants and organizers, come together to react to the crime and pay their respects to the victims.This documentary examines gender, race, class and power relations that permeate Cypriot society, through a celebration that empowers the migrant working woman but also the horror these crimes and the institutional gaps that have allowed them.
Exodus (2008)
Exodus (2008)
Three different stories of three different people are combined together through various events becoming one... Robert works as a bodyguard for one of the biggest mafia bosses of Nicosia, Socrates' Iacovou. Things get complicated when Robert and Lisa, Socrates' wife, fall in love. After they run together, Socrates' revenge begins. But everything changes when Robert reverses the ball-game finding the exit. Time passes by and everything changes. Not for the better but for the worse. We are all inside a labyrinth. And we are all looking to find the exit .... the EXODOS
Knifer (2010)
Knifer (2010)
After his father death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he's wearing down into his misery routine, till the moment his relationship with his aunt changes everything.
Born Of War (2013)
Born Of War (2013)
Mina, a young college student, has her life ripped away after her family is killed. When she finds out their murder was part of a botched kidnapping to return her to her real father—a terrorist in the middle east.
This Is Not a Coup (2016)
This Is Not a Coup (2016)
"This Is Not a Coup" describes ECB's financial interventions in states like Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece. Featuring well known academics, politicians and journalists, it analyses the relation of EU institutions with big corporations and banks. In order to guarantee full independence from private companies and interests, the project is financed through crowd-funding - namely donations from citizens, trade unions and independent organizations and foundations across the globe.
Boy on the Bridge (2016)
Boy on the Bridge (2016)
In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
Siege on Liperti Street (2019)
Siege on Liperti Street (2019)
Austerity took everything but the roof over their heads, and today it will come for that too. But this time, they will finally fight back, like a family with nothing left to lose...
The Passing (2015)
The Passing (2015)
When two young lovers crash their car into a ravine in the remote mountains of Wales, they are plunged into a lost world. Dragged from the river by a mysterious figure, they are taken to a ramshackle farm, a place untouched by time. As events unfold we learn the explosive truth about the young couple’s past. More unsettling still, we discover the ghostly truth about Stanley, and the tragedy of the valley he once called home.
Buffer Zone (2023)
Buffer Zone (2023)
Two young soldiers across enemy lines fall in love and find escape from their oppressive environments in this musical drama.
Mediterranean Fever (2022)
Mediterranean Fever (2022)
Waleed (40) lives in Haifa with his wife and children and dreams of a writing career while suffering from chronic depression. He develops a close relationship with his neighbor (a small-time crook) with an ulterior plot in mind. While the scheme turns into an unexpected friendship between the two men, it leads them into a journey of dark encounters.
Small Crime (2008)
Small Crime (2008)
Leonidas, a young, ambitious police officer, is assigned to a remote island in the Aegean Sea. He dreams of solving important crimes, but there are few to be found in the sleepy beach community where he is left to such menial chores. Each day at the town café, Leonidas and the other locals watch the beautiful Angeliki, the small islands most famous daughter, as she hosts a popular talk show on national TV. These daily rituals are shattered when the island experiences what appears to be an actual crime-the island drunk, Zacharias, is found dead at the base of a cliff. Eager to do some sleuthing, Leonidas soon finds clues that tie the victim to Angeliki, who returns to the island and joins the investigation.
Underground (2024)
Underground (2024)
The last shovelful plunges the shot into darkness. The film seems to be talking about death, yet it's doing the exact opposite.
In the Name of the Sparrow (2007)
In the Name of the Sparrow (2007)
A young man loses his name and is driven to a specialist, a "nameologist" doctor, in order to be given a name.
Love at 16 (2004)
Love at 16 (2004)
With the arrival of a self-confident and rebellious beautiful girl in the village, a romantic 16-year-old will be in for a surprise, as the unprecedented feelings of love and passion will offer a gradual but marvellous passage to adulthood.
The Very Last Morning (2016)
The Very Last Morning (2016)
Emigration is one of the most pronounced issues faced by the post-communist Romanian society. With a script inspired from the life of the Romanian community in Cyprus, the film tells a painful, personal story in a world in which we use only numbers to talk about emigration, prostitution and suffering, as an unfortunate statistic. Abused by her step father, then driven away from home, Eva, a Romanian teenager, becomes a victim of human trafficking. She ends up prostituting herself in Cyprus. Years later, the young woman creates her own web of relations and becomes a full-fledged "courtesan" for influential men: politicians, diplomats, business people. Her life takes a dramatic turn when she is diagnosed with AIDS.
Dead End (2013)
Dead End (2013)
The loss of youth, social and professional activity intensifies the sense of loneliness, the obsessions and the "dead end" in the life of an elderly couple.
.dog (2021)
.dog (2021)
Young Dimitris, on the verge of manhood yet very much a child, has romanticized his imprisoned father to mythic proportions. When he gets released after ten years, Dimitris cannot wait to finally know him and make up for lost time. But when his father reveals his true nature, Dimitris must face a great dilemma: will his need of belonging prevail over his sense of justice?
Phoebe (2024)
Phoebe (2024)
Having been recently discharged from rehab, 26-year-old Phoebe takes her young son on a road trip that will determine their future.
Deserted (2010)
Deserted (2010)
In a desperate attempt to survive, two deserters and a green beret try to reunite with their forces after the enemy unleashes its secret weapon.
The Parrot Lady (2020)
The Parrot Lady (2020)
An enigmatic figure moves across the landscape of a seaside town. She is the Parrot Lady; an elderly homeless woman with three pet parrots tied around her finger. Inspired by a true story, 'The Parrot Lady' is an artistic contemplation on a woman's life who chose to live on the streets with her parrots, afraid of dying alone in her home.
Sunrise in Kimmeria (2018)
Sunrise in Kimmeria (2018)
An isolated Cypriot village goes into tragicomic overload when a flying object crash-lands in a potato field inside the adjacent UN-controlled buffer zone. A young farmer unwisely digs it out setting off a chain of incredible events.