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

Persephone (2019)
Persephone (2019)
A Greek-Japanese Cine-Operetta, where the ancient Greek myth of the Abduction of Persephone comes alive before the eyes of a Japanese group, as the arrival of a stranger man forces the family members of the hostel 'Persephone' to identify themselves with the fate of the mythological heroes.

Naked On The Street (1969)
Naked On The Street (1969)
Against the backdrop of social prejudice, a torrid affair between a rich heiress and a proud worker starts to bloom, against all odds. Are the star-crossed lovers meant to be together? Is there a future when you're naked in the street?

Our love (1968)
Our love (1968)
An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.

Dying in Athens (2006)
Dying in Athens (2006)
Andreas, an Art History Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, is involved both with a sexy intellectual French-Greek woman and a young student of his despite being in love with his beautiful wife. When he finds out he has leukemia and only a few months to live, he decides to keep it a secret but also to talk to the women in his life about his infidelity.

Apollo Goes on Holiday (1968)
Apollo Goes on Holiday (1968)
Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.

Marijuana Stop! (1971)
Marijuana Stop! (1971)

The Happy Beginning (1954)
The Happy Beginning (1954)
Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their way.

Bouzouki Strumming (1966)
Bouzouki Strumming (1966)
One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and two bouzouki musicians happen to pass by. They listen, enchanted by his limpid voice, and suggest that he becomes a member of their orchestra. Thus, the newly-wed day laborer gets a second job at Mr. Lefteris’ night club. His wife, Marina, soon joins him at the club, and, before long, she too goes on stage, cuts capers and charms everyone. Her success, however, has a negative impact on the couple’s relationship, since Marina’s admirers as well as those of Grigoris’, turn one away from the other.

A Knight for Vasoula (1968)
A Knight for Vasoula (1968)
Vasoula is a poor girl who works as a secretary for a cranky older lady, Ms Kleio who loves novels with knights and lives secluded in her mansion with her butler Aristeidis. One day, in the absence of Ms Kleio, Vasoula is visited by a couple, Popi and Mitsos Bezestainis who ask if they can stay. The sudden return of Ms Kleio causes great upheaval kai Vasoula is forced to introduce Mitsos as her husband, who is a sailor and often away. When Ms Kleio dies, she leaves her entire estate to Vasoula whom she mentions in her will as "wife of Dimitrios Bezestainis". Now, the problems begin, and they can only be solved when Vasoula marries Mitsos.

Fantasia (2019)
Fantasia (2019)
Set in the world of Greece's urban-folk music scene of the 90s, the film depicts the fatal relationship between a young singer and an elder songwriter and her mentor.

Kiss the Girls (1965)
Kiss the Girls (1965)
A director of a travel agency goes with her niece to Greece for holidays and business, there they meet a Greek company of men trying to "catch the good".

The Brightest Star (1967)
The Brightest Star (1967)
A girl from the slums of Athens becomes a famous singer while falling in love with her songwriter.

Here We Are! (2004)
Here We Are! (2004)
The night club "the River" situated in the small Greek city Livadeia is looking for a music group to perform there for a few nights. Many different musicians come from all over Greece and many funny incidents take place among them.

FANTAZIO (2020)
FANTAZIO (2020)
Armed with his guitar, greek "art" singer Andreas Vilarinos is looking for a job in the historical live music scene "Fantazio". He meets the owner, who offers him the opening of the live program. The failure of the project is one way.

ANTE NTE (2022)
ANTE NTE (2022)
The "good vibes only" freshman Mitsos, the "stuck with her parents" 25-year-old Sofia and the "no strings attached" 30-year-old Dimitra. A Saturday night when none knows if they’re ready for the next step.

Apaches of Athens (1950)
Apaches of Athens (1950)
Costas is known as the "Prince". Now that he has learned of the arrival of the Greek-American Paralis and his daughter Vera, for whom Paralis is looking for an aristocratic groom, he decides to appear before him as a real prince.

Lysistrata (1972)
Lysistrata (1972)
Based on Aristophanes's play, Athenian women band together to encourage their men to stop fighting the Spartans by withholding sex from them when they return from the front.
Eurovision Song Contest 2006 - Grand Final (2006)
Eurovision Song Contest 2006 - Grand Final (2006)
The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Athens, Greece. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), the contest was held at the Nikos Galis Olympic Indoor Hall. The grand final was held on the 20th of May 2006.

Des ta re Ellada ola afta! (2021)
Des ta re Ellada ola afta! (2021)
Markos Seferlis remains for the 17th consecutive year at the "Delfinario" theater and as the only "survivor" of the revue wins the prize for communicating with the audience, presenting his new show.

Εθνική Παπάδων (1984)
Εθνική Παπάδων (1984)
Papa-Malachias, Papa-Haros and Papa-Bilias have founded the Priestly Band and make appearances at the nightclub "Xerokomata". Their abbot, who is learning their new occupation, comes to Athens, but fails to make sense of them. When he returns to the monastery of Medouli and tells everything to the other monks, they leave the monastery and form their own rebetika bands, causing a crisis in the field of folk song. At the same time, Papa-Lazaros, who is looking for a solution to his financial problems and at the same time is trying to find money to build a new wing for his parish's orphanage, is resorting to the following solution: setting up a football team with priests.

Ζητιάνος Μιας Αγάπης (1964)
Ζητιάνος Μιας Αγάπης (1964)
A pop singer with a good heart and a lot of achievements, Manos, tenderly loves an orphan anthopolida, Annoula, which works several years in the center singing Manos, in order to finish high school. When he decides to leave Daisy's mistress and marry Anna, the girl's natural father, who was missing seventeen years in Canada, intervenes and claims her. He tries to redeem her stepfather and mistress, Mr Spyros, who, however, refuses. Anna is following her natural father in Thessaloniki. Mr. Spiros is in danger of dying from his fortune, and Manos gets sick by losing his voice. But everything is corrected by the return of the girl and the revelation that her father suddenly remembered it because she intended to put in the money her mother left.

Aliki My Love (1963)
Aliki My Love (1963)
Barry, a wretched playboy, expects to get rich from the legacy of an uncle of his, the king of roast meat sauce, but his lawyer informs him that the secret of the sauce recipe has been lost along with his uncle, and there is nothing to inherit except for a small island in the Aegean - called Eftychia - where his uncle came from. A hotel keeper, Richard, is interested in the island and plans to create a tourist resort on it, so the two men come hastily to Greece to arrange the sale. On the island of Eftychia they meet a beautiful young teacher, Aliki, and her mother Anna, who are determined to stop foreigners and tourist development from coming to the island. Aliki's beauty and charm seduce Barry, while Richard is enslaved by the wonderful cooking of Anna. One day while they are tasting her food, Richard discovers that Anna possesses the secret of the famous sauce, by which Barry can really become rich. Thus the island is saved, and everyone celebrates their unexpected good fortune.

The Godson (1952)
The Godson (1952)
During the Balkan Wars, Vivika Zaharouli, sick and tired of the goings-on of her womanizer husband, welcomes in Athens her godchild, who comes to live in their house. She doesn't know, however, that this is not her godchild but an impostor, Petros Harmidis, who took the other's place because he is in love with her. One day, she is visited by a classmate of hers from their old girl's school, Kiki, who is Harmidis' wife. Kiki asks her to intervene in the transfer of her husband from the front, but one misunderstanding leads to another...

For bread and love (1957)
For bread and love (1957)
An unemployed sailor gets a job at the yacht of a wealthy man, where he is tortured by his beautiful young wife and decides to leave his wife and son to leave with her.

The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man (1969)
The Odyssey of an Uprooted Man (1969)
Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the destruction of Smyrni. From an old man learns that his father did not die but was arrested by the Turks. He decides to follow the scientific mission of Professor John Anderson in Turkey, to find traces of his father.

Παπαδίστικη Κομπανία (1983)
Παπαδίστικη Κομπανία (1983)

They call me Popi (1998)
They call me Popi (1998)

Απ' τα θρανία στα μπουζούκια (1989)
Απ' τα θρανία στα μπουζούκια (1989)
