Best Greek family movies

Wasted Milk (2022)

Thirty-year-old Marianna is pregnant and returns to the house she grew up in the village after years, due to her dying father, Pavlos, who is taken care of by her mother, Christina. Traumatic memories from her childhood come back as family secrets are revealed.

Naked Bodies (2019)

Two friends, a boy and a girl, at the age of 16, decide to deal with the taboo of being naked.

Just Broke Up (2008)

Ilektra receives a message from her boyfriend saying that he wants to break up with her.

Nutmeg (2021)

Angeliki is a young girl who works as an answering machine in a small company in the city center. Through her work develops a special relationship with an elderly woman, Sophie. Inside from Sophie's fantastic stories, Angeliki will review some situations of her life.

Iphigenia: No more tears (2021)

A person, in the case of "Iphigenia" a girl, sacrifices part or even her whole ego to become a member of a new social ensemble and specifically of the social ensemble of her future husband. The film is inspired by the theater of the absurd and mainly by theatrical texts by Ionesco and Pinter but also by the original myth of Iphigenia which symbolizes sacrifice.

O Παραμυθάς Και Οι Ιστορίες Του (2014)

Goldfish (2017)

A young boy thinks his new goldfish is gay, much to the horror of his conservative father.

Wings (2023)

A woman receives a startling phone call from her son, while waiting for him and his girlfriend over for lunch.

Robogirl (2018)

Downhill (2015)

On a sunny day in September, she marches down the hill of a Mediterranean island. He is driving down the road with his old car and picks her up. As they drive downhill, the missing pieces of the story unravel, and the news that so much upset her is revealed. One thing is for sure, whatever happened earlier, no one should find out. The story of a mother trying to come to terms with the admission of her son's sexuality in an island community that is taking the first step toward the recognition of same-sex relationships.

Driving Lessons (2013)

Nick, along with his wife and child, are traveling to his family's house in the countryside. It soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary visit.

Generator (2013)

Savvas, a fifty-five-year old man, witnesses the gradual collapse of everything that he has been building his whole life. Why did things go so wrong? What can be done now? People around his shop are constantly changing. He worries about his daughter’s future. “As long as we’ are alive and well, you have nothing to fear.”

Maasai (2014)

A hospital's quiet waiting area becomes the setting for a confrontation between two brothers as they wait for their mother to come out of surgery.

Αγνές ψυχές (1960)

A children's film about the adventures of a young boy, Lampros, who returns to school after an absence of many days due to an accident. Lampros has a loyal and true friend in his dog, whom he calls Lykos (Wolf), with whom he spends endless hours of games and carefree abandon.

O mikros drapetis (1968)

A boy escapes from the reformatory and hides in a young girl’s house. The two kids become friends...

Polydroso (2024)

Sophia, the daughter, is returning to the Athenian suburb of Polydroso to take care of Sophia, the mother. Back in her neighbourhood, she will confront the reasons that made her leave in the first place. Polydroso is a mystical isolated suburb and both Sophias spend their time daydreaming about ghosts of the past. A film about tender people in a non-tender world.

Rallou At Home (2023)

As Rallou (40) visits her parents at the house, imagination and reality interweave comic-tragic situations that give the protagonist laughter but also strength to face the definitive changes that time brings. she grew up in, fantasy and reality create bittersweet situations that make the protagonist smile and give her strength to face the definite changes brought on by time.

Unfair curse (1967)

Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the wedding, Peter leaves for London, but when he returns, Lisa's relatives avoid him. What has happened;

The Little Dolphins (1994)

Set in the period between the two world wars in a seaside village in the bay of Amvrakikos. Two children, Petros (8 years old) and Anthoula (7 years old) spend their summer holidays. During a walk they discover in an isolated shack a boy who lives with his mother. He is rejected by the community because of tuberculosis. Petros and Anthoula become friends with the boy. They encounter the cruelty of the adults and they decide to resist.

Η μικρή ζητιάνα (1963)

Dead liqueur (1992)

In late-1950s Athens, a big sister and her twin brothers sneak in their grandfather's distillery to perform a strange rite. But, how important is the last drop of the rare "Dead Liqueur" to the experimenting adolescents' budding sexuality?

The Scent of Violets (1985)

A romantic girl, influenced by a popular magazine, has a series of brief adventures with her ambitious cousin, her gay cousin, her neighborhood's electrician and a distant aunt, which will land her from myths and dreams to reality.