Best Greek thriller movies

The Enemy Within (2013)

Revenge is a recurrent theme in thrillers, usually dispensed by action heroes with a well-stocked arsenal. But in Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’s nuanced moral maze the protagonist is the bookish Kostas (Manolis Mavromatakis), a suburban florist well versed in social and political theory, which he discusses at length with a local publican. But when his home is invaded by masked hoodlums, who bind his family and rape his teenage daughter, our everyman hero finds his intellectual stance untenable. Encouraged by his paranoid, militarist neighbour, Kostas decides to take the law into his own hands, and in doing so begins to understand – for the first time – the world he has been living in. The vigilante movie is a well-explored genre too, but Tsemberopoulos gives it a whole new urgency, subverting the cliched right-wing fantasy structure and seeing it through the eyes of a man who comes to find his real self while trying to live up to the (imagined) expectations of others. (Source: LFF programme)

Deep End (2008)

Maria cannot stand her husbands jealousy any more. He treats her in a violent way, a proof of their relation is going through a crisis. A trip they were planning to take together aiming at the amelioration of their relationship, confronts them with sex, violence and a deadly secret. Giannis appears in Marias life and they soon become lovers. The boundaries between freedom and jealousy are hardly

A Blast (2014)

Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of the motorway. Only a day before she was a caring mother, a loving wife, a responsible daughter. Today she has gone rogue.

Scopophilia (2018)

Through the voyeuristic nature of the internet, Alexis unintentionally witness a murder through his computer. Will he be able to uncover the murderer or he will be caught into his trap?

Spring Awakening (2016)

Contemporary Athens: A gang of teenage thieves and romantic anarchists test the limits of their youthful rebellion and play out their own tragic spring awakening against the backdrop of a dying city.

Autumn Spoors (2024)

A young teacher is appointed in a small mountainous village with a single student. Upon arriving there, the man will come face to face with the death of the Greek countryside.

Deathcar (2018)

A girl argues with her father. 80 km/h. A boy drives drunk. 100 km/h. A boy is hanging by the window. 120 km/h. A girl is flirting. 140 km/h. A boy is handing out pills. 160 km/h. A boy has epileptic seizure. 180 km/h.

Kierion (1974)

Athens 1967. The political assassinations and the background between the government and foreign powers, on the occasion of the "Polk Case", where an innocent leftist was convicted for the murder of an American journalist in Greece.

Φυλακές Ανηλίκων Νο2: Εκδίκηση στη Βία (1984)

Θέμα συνειδήσεως (1973)

Invisible (2015)

Aris, a 38-year-old worker in a factory is fired without any warning. He is shocked. As his attempts to be re-hired fail, he gradually becomes obsessed with the idea of taking justice into his own hands. He buys a gun with the last of his money. He is ready to proceed with his goal when his ex-wife dumps their six-year-old son on him.

With Fear and Passion (1972)

An incorruptible examiner finds the real culprit of a brutal homicide and tries to release his wrongfully accused ex-lover. Now, he is closer to the solution; but, it takes courage to face the facts. Is he prepared to confront the truth?

The Thief (2023)

Two strangers meet inside an apartment. Someone had left the front door ajar. It could happen to anyone. Anyone could step inside. As nobody is willing to reveal their identity, they become entangled in a role play. Who is the thief and who is the owner?

Apnea (2011)

Dimitris, a 23 yr. old swimming champion, meets Elsa, a yound environmental activist. Their relation, and her sudden dissaperance, make him re-evaluate his settled life.

O gyros tou thanatou (1983)

Stefos does dangerous stunts with his motorcycle for a living. One day, he decides to sell his organs to the executive of a company that transplants them to wealthy customers. But when his life becomes a nightmare, a violent hunt begins.

Death Kiss (1974)

Jim Preston receives a yacht as an anniversary present from his wealthy wife Ellen. He plans to kill her for her entire fortune. To carry out the murder plan, he makes a contact with Mike, a crazed rape killer who has been terrorizing the city. Mike agrees to be the assassin for a large quantity of heroin. However he suspects that Preston will kill him as soon as his assignment is complete, so he finds a woman who looks exactly like Ellen and kills her instead.

The Asphalt Fever (1967)

A police constable tries to find blood during the night for his wife to be born. When he finally finds a blood donor, he will have to deal with a frenzy runaway, who holds hostage children in a school car.

Το συρτάκι της αμαρτίας (1966)

Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family.

The Man on the Train (1958)

A party of couples from Athens is planning to attend the performance of Medea in Ancient Epidaurus. They set off in their cars bright and early in the morning, combining their theater outing with a side trip to Nauplion. They stop at a railroad junction for the train to pass. There Mado recognizes the fleeting figure of the man standing at the window of the train and she faints.

The Last Taxi Driver (2023)

Thomas works as a taxi driver by night and he lives with his wife, Maria, and his teenage son, Tassos. When one of his customers commits suicide, Thomas is prompted to confront everything he’s kept buried inside for too long, and realize the shortcomings of his life. When he meets Eleni, his client’s lost daughter, he sees in her a way out of his weary life and becomes romantically obsessed with her.

Δαίμονες της βίας και του σεξ (1973)

Jason just arrived from Johanesburg and visits a deserted beach house, which belongs to his best friend Mihalis. There he finds Mihalis's wife, Mary, with her sister Magda and a weird fisherman named Kosmas, that stays with them, but seems to somehow, bullying them. He decides to stay with them waiting for his friend to arrive and find him there, but also because he falls in love with Magda. While Jason is having good time with his mistress, things get complicated when he discovers that the fisherman is not what he says he is and at the same time two suspiciously looking characters appear and are stalking the young couple's, every move..

The Deserter (1970)

A soldier runs away from the horrors of war, finds love with a virgin farm girl and a mistreated housewife, and will find that it is difficult to survive the battles of sex and love.

Tango of Perversion (1973)

A rich man with an impotence problem becomes subject to manipulation by those around him. When he gives the keys to his villa to two women, he witnesses a murder. A series of cunning plots and secrets make things difficult for the police as they hunt for the murderer, but a film that the owner of the villa secretly shot reveals the perpetrator’s identity.

Φάκελος Πολκ στον αέρα (1988)

Night Lights (0)

A man is trapped in a loop.

Ο εφιάλτης (1987)

Αιχμάλωτοι της Ηδονής (1971)

Kai oi 5 isan kolasmenes (1968)

Χωρίς μάρτυρες (1983)

The Court of Scum (1993)

Anthology film. In "The Limousine Man", a man who lives by forcing children to sell flowers and beg, when an androgynous creature gets involved in his organisation. In "Tarantula", a serial killer is looking for her father among beggars and ragpickers. In "Sleeping Beauty" a woman brings her father's corpse to a Koulis the Barber, a mortuary beautician.