Best Greek comedy movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch comedy films from Greece, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Crying... Silicon Tears (2001)
Crying... Silicon Tears (2001)
This is the story of two Greek families, named Delafrangas and Bisbikides. The former family is very wealthy & lucky, the latter very poor and continually struck by fate. Poor but honest Martha is in love with Giakoumis, a young builder and bouzouki organist, but all her dreams fall apart when posh Tzela "steals" the love of her beloved one... A couple of flash backs, following their families roots back to WW2 and the Turkish domination, and a hidden secret will unfold the story's ending..
Singapore Sling (1990)
Singapore Sling (1990)
Singapore Sling is chasing after Laura, a romantic memory from his past. One night he finds himself in a mysterious villa, watching two women bury a body. He falls into their trap and, in an atmosphere of isolation and decadence, the trio act out insane pleasure games and a ritual of blood and murder.
Tailor (2020)
Tailor (2020)
A coming-of-old-age story of an eccentric Tailor who doesn't quit fit into the world and has isolated himself into the attic of the family's tailoring shop. On the verge of losing everything, he finally gets triggered: with a wondrously strange bricolage coach-a tailor shop on wheels- he reinvents his life and his craft. He changes the brides of Athens and falls in love for the first time in his 50s.
Straight Story (2006)
Straight Story (2006)
This film is about an upside down world, where being homosexual is considered "normal" and heterosexual is considered "not normal".
Peppermint (1999)
Peppermint (1999)
With the sweet taste of love's first kiss in his mouth, an engineer takes a trip down memory lane after receiving an invitation from an old friend. Thirty years after that innocent peck on the lips, fate reunites two estranged soulmates.
Halvai 5-0 (2020)
Halvai 5-0 (2020)
A halva maker is found murdered in his manor. 5 suspects, 0 evidence. Intrigues, passion, hatred, schemes and every day new evidence comes to light that make the case even more complicated. Will officer Mpekras manage to find the killer?
The Ogre of Athens (1956)
The Ogre of Athens (1956)
A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "The Dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.
Snow Cookies (2023)
Snow Cookies (2023)
In a beautiful mountain village, a peculiar confectioner, Mr. Panagiotis is forced due to circumstances to hide little Fani from everyone in his house. Quickly, his two grandchildren and a friend of theirs discover the hidden Fani and thus the gang of five is formed. The four children and Mr. Panagiotis live a wonderful adventure between reality and fairy tale. But first they have to fool everyone, the daughter of Mr. Panagiotis, the village doctor and all the residents of the small society. Their obstacles are endless and after going through a thousand and two twists and trials, they will be revealed and they will have to face the consequences of their actions. Will everyone live happily ever after?
The Summer with Carmen (2024)
The Summer with Carmen (2024)
While having a day-long swim at Athens' queer beach, best friends Demosthenes and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas' feature debut.
Someone like It Cold... (1963)
Someone like It Cold... (1963)
Lakis (Dinos Iliopoulos) has to make sure that his three sisters are married before he can marry his beloved Lela (Martha Karagianni). While at the beach, Eva (Zoe Laskari) and Maria (Hloi Liaskou) will meet Kleopas (Costas Voutsas) and Giorgos (Vagelis Voulgaridis) with whom they will start dating. But Rena (Rena Vlahopoulou) has a secret relationship with Thodoros (Giannis Vogiatzis) for 10 years.
Suntan (2016)
Suntan (2016)
Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.
World Gone Mad (1963)
World Gone Mad (1963)
This classic Greek comedy revolves around the constant fights between Zikos who works as a clerk at a small grocer's shop and the shop's owner. Zikos just can't keep his mouth shut every time his boss behaves as being an aristocrat. Things go even worse when Zikos finds out that his boss, by taking advantage of his wealth and with the help of the local match-maker, is planning to marry a young poor girl living in the same neighborhood.
The Attack of the Giant Mousaka (1999)
The Attack of the Giant Mousaka (1999)
Around the year 2000, a terrible occurence shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how, for what reason? But no one can give an answer...
Mermaids for Love (1968)
Mermaids for Love (1968)
Petros, a race car driver and son of a construction mogul, hears about an island with promising business opportunities. He tells his father, they have to buy land there but Flora, a night club owner also learns about it and arrives at the island before him. Their competition disturbs the peaceful lives of the island's residents. Marina, the daughter of the local restaurant owner falls in love with Petros while Flora charms the men of the island and especially Nicolas, causing his fiance's jealousy. She on the other hand falls for Iasonas, the son of the island's Lady who worries about the outcome of these events.
The Bachelor (2016)
The Bachelor (2016)
A mistake made by the bride rejoins 4 old friends of disaster and a father in law! 5 guys go to Thassaloniki to tear everything down. A father in law gets in a hearse in order to kill a love in the making. An ex-girlfriend dances tango with her memories as a partner. A cancelled wedding and a relationship that starts with the brides vail floating at the wind of independence.
Το Κοροϊδάκι Της Πριγκηπέσσας (1972)
Το Κοροϊδάκι Της Πριγκηπέσσας (1972)
Stavros has a cafe with his brother years and are the only ones in the family who care to get by. He is in love with Mary, which, however, not turning to look at him. Mary comes from an ...
In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand (2019)
Casus Belli (2010)
Casus Belli (2010)
All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again.
Loafing and Camouflage (1984)
Loafing and Camouflage (1984)
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd...
The Blue Beads from Greece (1967)
The Blue Beads from Greece (1967)
A feud develops between a taverna with bouzoukia and a club next door that plays modern music.
Sirens in the Aegean (2005)
Sirens in the Aegean (2005)
A group of Greek solders, who serve their military service in Kos, is sent to guard the skerry of Pitta. Everything looked normal until a Turkish boat disembarks 4 castaways on Pitta.
Cheap Smokes (2001)
Cheap Smokes (2001)
As the lights flicker on a warm August night, amidst vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he just met at a phone booth, while strolling around the city's quiet night streets.
A Lady In Bouzoukia (1968)
A Lady In Bouzoukia (1968)
Three brothers watched as pupil their sister and only trust George, their teammate from the football club where they play. George loves her secretly but not admitting to respect the trust
The Counterfeit Coin (1955)
The Counterfeit Coin (1955)
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.
Extremely Non-Graphic (2008)
Extremely Non-Graphic (2008)
Two young Greek filmmakers seeking financers for their film "The End of the Passion" end up with an almost forgotten old-time porn-king producer. He agrees to help them, while concealing his own secret plan.
A Touch of Spice (2003)
A Touch of Spice (2003)
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. 35 years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather and his first love. He travels back only to realize that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life.
Safe Sex (1999)
Safe Sex (1999)
A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.
Extended Play (2006)
Extended Play (2006)
Poor Tasos and was so young! But also very jealous. A defect that ultimately cost him his own life as during his last jealousy crisis for of his beautiful girlfriend Alice, he will fall victim of a traffic accident. Archangels will sympathize with him, granting him another five invisible, on land, minutes, where he will have the opportunity to touch his favorite - and not - persons and to intervene in their lives.