Best Greek fantasy movies
A curated collection of popular fantasy movies from Greece.

Entwined (2020)
Entwined (2020)
Panos, a city doctor, relocates to a remote Greek village to offer his services to the underserved community. It's love at first sight when he sees Danae, who lives in isolation and with a mysterious skin condition. Determined to cure her, Panos will soon discover Danae is not the helpless princess he thought she was, and time is of the essence for both of them.

Medusa (1998)
Medusa (1998)
In this wry retelling of the ancient Medusa myth, strange, clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece. Only Perseus, a leader of a gang of modern Athenian thieves, with a strange childhood, holds the answer to the mystery--and it has something to do with beautiful, long-haired women in black. One night his group breaks into the house of one such creature. Filled with low-key humor and suspense, Medusa unfolds in a simple and tantalizing way

The End of Suffering (A Proposal) (2020)
The End of Suffering (A Proposal) (2020)
Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.

Evergreen (2012)
Evergreen (2012)
A strange woman arrives from the North to a prehistoric village bringing some bad news...

DOS: Μια Ιστορία Αγάπης Απ' Την Ανάποδη (2011)
DOS: Μια Ιστορία Αγάπης Απ' Την Ανάποδη (2011)
Athens & Barcelona, two cities, two love stories, two languages, two realities, two couples that will never meet, two years anniversary... or is it all one?

Electric Angel (1981)
Electric Angel (1981)
A typical experimental film, in which a variety of audiovisual techniques are used to create the sense of polymorphic eroticism as developed by European and Mediterranean cinematography of the 20th century. Combining the methods of “animation” and “live action”, this intricate work embodies the idea of an “ars combinatoria”. The structure is loose, with neither a central axis nor a point where everything converges, contributing greatly to the open-ended character of the film, where rhythm is the key element.

Moon Runway (1994)
Moon Runway (1994)
A police comedy/fantasy adventure with witches, ghosts, beautiful fairies and a cop who tries to solve a mysterious murder.

Acrylic (2017)

Danilo Treles: The Famous Andalusian Musician (1986)
Danilo Treles: The Famous Andalusian Musician (1986)
The portrait of an Andalusian musician who wanders around Epirus and socializes with the strangest characters in the area.

Cosmic Candy (2020)
Cosmic Candy (2020)
When a young girl's father suddenly disappears, her weirdo neighbor - an eccentric supermarket cashier - is forced to take care of her.

Kala azar (2020)
Kala azar (2020)
A young couple employed by a pet crematorium finds fulfilment in respectfully removing cadavers. Their love blossoms in an environment where the boundaries between human and animal are fading. When they hit a stray dog, their relationship starts to derail.

The Silence of the Dying Fish (2018)
The Silence of the Dying Fish (2018)
Makis works at a fish farm. One morning, as he goes to work, he's told he’s dead… since the day before. After trying in vain to prove he's very much alive, all that remains is to accept the situation and find someone who will take care of his canaries before the funeral.

Real Life (2004)
Real Life (2004)
Aris, 27 years old, returns home after a long journey... His mother, an eccentric and lonely woman lives together with her secretary, Sylvia and her loyal gardener mute Christos. Her house is famous not only for its view in Acropolis but also for his pool: the deepest in Europe. Determined to leave behind his past and start a new life, Aris, will search the secret of his youth, he will fall in love with a poor girl, Alexandra and he will confront his own ghosts. In the meanwhile a fire turns Athens into a living hell...

Bliss (2017)
Bliss (2017)
The post-it messages of a stranger push Anna to her limits, shattering her mental health. A tragicomic glance at the life of a young woman, viewed through a distorted perception of reality.

Descended from Heaven (1965)
Descended from Heaven (1965)
The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present everywhere, he is able to eavesdrop on what's going on: his youngest daughter lives it up with some Teddy boys, his eldest do not intend to marry her fiancé, his son has become a crook, and his wife a gambler.

A Dog's Dream (2005)
A Dog's Dream (2005)
During a strange night, a prostitute, an opera singer, a fortune teller, a travel agent, a police chief and an insomniac meet by chance.

Thief or Reality (2001)
Thief or Reality (2001)
An experimental-allegorical film. Three different people: a sculptress of funereal monuments, an actor preparing for Sophocles’ Antigone, and a mother who has lost her child, experience three different versions of reality - with a fourth character, a thief, providing the connecting link.

BASTARDS (2023)
BASTARDS (2023)
The Bastards have left the city behind. Their house in the countryside smells of nothing but summer. Five girls and five boys living in the moment, for the moment. No outsider comes around here, and all the insiders take turns standing guard, kissing each other, playing dead. They are still kids. They are your kids. They are our Bastards.

Earthbound (2024)
Earthbound (2024)
A kid who wants to play with his friends, a woman trying to avoid her husband, and an everyday guy who's been owed money, all try to find the courage to escape manipulation, while a "giant alien flying object" starts falling from the sky.

The Woman Who Dreamed (1988)
The Woman Who Dreamed (1988)
Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.

The Dead Brother's Oath (1969)
The Dead Brother's Oath (1969)
One of nine sons, Konstantis, convinces his mother to arrange the marriage of his only sister, Areti, to a stranger and swears on the Bible that he will go himself and fetch her if she is ever needed. When all nine sons succumb to an epidemic, leaving their mother alone, she curses Konstantis, who rises from his grave to find his sister and bring her back to the family home. Now thought to be a lost movie.

The Enchantress (1985)
The Enchantress (1985)
Combining Greek popular tradition and magic realist irrationalism, it tells the story of a 17-year-old youth who runs away from his village to find The Enchantress, a beautiful fairy feared by all. Travelling through an enchanted world of ghosts, spirits, imps and fairies, he leans what true love and passion really are.

Η οδύνη του Νώε (1983)
Η οδύνη του Νώε (1983)

Potlatch (1987)
Potlatch (1987)
Arhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming birthday, a self-destructive symphonic composer makes an out of bounds and dangerous bet on himself.