Discover the best of Cypriot cinema, film, and television
Discover the definitive list of popular and critically-acclaimed movies and TV shows from Cyprus. Find your next binge-watch, streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
The cinema of Cyprus
Cypriot cinema is a film culture defined by its island setting and a history that is both sun-drenched and complex, a cinema born from the unique perspective of a divided land. Its most famous cinematic son is without doubt the legendary Michael Cacoyannis. While his masterpiece Zorba the Greek was a Greek production, it brought a Cypriot's directorial vision to global cinematic glory, an immense point of pride for the island. For decades, the island's division has been the powerful, beating heart of its storytelling. Filmmakers from both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities have used the camera to explore themes of identity, memory, loss, and the surreal reality of life on either side of the Green Line. This has created a cinema of profound reflection. In recent years, a new generation has found clever and moving ways to tackle this subject. Films like Marios Piperides’s award-winning Smuggling Hendrix use comedy and charm to highlight the absurdity of the situation, earning international acclaim. This creative spirit also fuels a thriving domestic television scene, with popular dramas and comedies that are central to Cypriot family life. What makes Cypriot cinema so compelling is this very contrast: stories of profound historical weight told under the warm Mediterranean sun. It's a cinema of resilience, reflection, and immense heart.
Best Cypriot series
Παραμύθι... Αλλιώς 2017
Alpha TV70
Aigia Fuxia 2008
100 years ago ... Unexpected residents, in a village that hides a past ... Human stories in a place that is haunted by a great secret ... In a Cypriot ethos would anyone say? ...Not at all! In a painting of trees and stone houses? ...Not at all! In a historical series? ... In a series, for every season! 20 characters left out of the old communicate with a different kind of humor, where even the most dramatic moment sprang up on our screens, light and makes us laugh laughter. A hidden love, devastated relationships, greed, intrigues, misunderstandings, twists and grotesque situations, come to revive Cyprus of the 20th century through a caustic writing and a different spectacle! An ingenious Cypriot comedy that combines the old with the modern element in an apt way! A mysterious village that will tempt us to discover it! Welcome to Cyprus that we loved ... through the eyes of the new generation!
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The Voice of Greece 2014
Take a look as budding Greek singers compete against each other in a variety of rounds to attain glory.
Sigma TV46
The Sunshine Murders 2025
An unlikely crime fighting duo made up of two very different sisters. Shirley, a farmer from New Zealand and in search of her father, travels to Athens and meets her half-sister & detective, Helen. Shirley soon starts to help Helen solve crimes with her ‘bush’ wisdom and wit while they try to find their missing father.
Channel 540
Brusko 2013
A romantic and passionate love story. The love of two young people, Achilles from Cyprus and Melina from Crete, could be based on the timeless story of Romeo and Juliet. This is a modern adaptation of the archetypal myth, which tells the story of a great love.
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Βήματα στην Άμμο 2010
PIK 110
Best Cypriot movies
Find Me Falling 2024
After a failed comeback album, a rock star retreats to a cliffside home on Cyprus, only to find his new life complicated by visitors — and an old flame.
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Profile 2018
Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.
68
The Feast 2021
A wealthy family hosts a sumptuous dinner, only for a mysterious young server to chillingly unravel their lives with terrifying consequences they could never see coming.
57
Smuggling Hendrix 2019
Caught between the mob and border patrol, washed-up musician Yiannis must put his plans to leave Cyprus on hold when his beloved dog escapes across the wall to the island's Turkish side.
68
The Ghosts of Monday 2022
A group of US filmmakers travel to Cyprus to film a documentary in the tragically famous Hotel Gula - a once popular resort where more than 100 people died in mysterious circumstances. What begins as just another day at the office will eventually turn into a terrifying journey into the unknown.
39
The Ghost of Peter Sellers 2018
A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.
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