Best Greek fantasy movies

Evi visits her interplanetary pen-friend Klooms on Pluto. They have fun together while Evi tries to get accustomed to life on the dwarf planet. On their way home a figure approaches them suddenly. They react differently. Will the Plutonians affect the Earthling?

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.

In 1984, photophobic Zano arrives in Athens and quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city.

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.

Two rich old friends, Andreas and Agisilaos are in love with young Rita. Andreas believes that is youth and not money that drive the world. He sells his soul to the devil, becomes young and flirts Rita. However, Andreas understands that youth alone is not enough and decides to give a dowry to lovely Rita so that she can marry the one she loves.

Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.

The soul of a young woman experiences the five stages of grief, before moving on to the afterlife.

A triptych film inspired from Peloponnesian folk tales: "The Changed", "The Sinner", "The Antichrist".

A savage warrior escapes slavery and hunted by his former masters, begins a perilous journey back to his homeland and his wife.

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

A scientist sets up another garden of Eden where he imprisons his creations and unleashes his dark fantasies on them.

The first sexual experience of a sensitive 16-year-old girl becomes the starting point of an emotional journey towards adulthood and reconciliation through music and its power.

Dare not to be different. A totalitarian society forces unequal things to become equal. Ignorance creates fear and envy brings violence. The average person's weak mentality rules by any means. Inspired by Costis Georgiou's art.

A surreal journey inspired from the paintings of the acclaimed artist Theodore Pantaleon. Aenigma is a a 3D requiem to form, feminine-goddess, eternal eve, art. From idealization and sacred worship to delectation and insemination, to transformation and reproduction, to deterioration and decay, to desecration and vandalizing, to condemnation and subjugation, to the fall into timeless erebus. To the dream of regeneration.

When mysterious creatures invade a Greek seaside port, a misfit band of musicians, tourists, bodybuilders, and grannies unite to save the city in this quirky action-comedy.

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.

Ioannina, Souther Balkans, 1808.
What can a humble florist in love do to win the heart of a Pasha's favourite? An ancient Ottoman fairy tale tells the story of a forbidden love, made of patience, silence and the help of a heron.

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.

Kleanthis is working two jobs, and saddled with debts. His boss hates him, his mother-in-law despises him. His life is going nowhere - at least till he's clearing out a room in the antiquities department where he works, and finds a magic mirror with a friendly genie that can make wishes come true. Kleanthis uses the mirror to change his life and get what he wants - but, even though his wishes are granted, something always seems to go wrong.

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.

According to the director: “The film deals with the corrosive effect, on a relatively advanced life, of what psychologists may call ‘the repressed’, while I prefer to concentrate on the beautiful Greek word ‘kaemos’ [καημός, translated as longing, unfulfilled desire]. The most ‘realistic’ and most synoptic… synopsis I can give for the fiction of the film is: ‘A man comes face to face with himself’, but this wording (and here comes the fantasy element) must be read literally.”

Isolated and abandoned by his friends, not a soul in sight, a young man stares out to sea. Then, an illusory Osiki emerges from the unfathomable abyss. What could an "Osiki" be?

Football games, fights between mosters and explosions, everything that happens in a normal day in Athens.

Many years ago, somewhere in the mountains of Japan, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. They were very old and had no children. Every day the man went alone to the forest to cut wood, while his wife stayed at home to weave. But one day, the man went much further than usual...

Sylvia finds a dead boy on her ground floor and tries to resurrect him to keep her company.

In order to buy a horse, a man wanders in the bazaars of Thessaly. His journey will take him further than he imagines, as old prophets, forgotten witches and vampire princes will find himself on his way.

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.

11-year-old Misha is coming from Russia to Athens during the 2004 Olympic Games to live with his mother. He does not know there is a father waiting for him.

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...

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?

Makis is a professional deflowerer and visits psychiatrist Haralabos Babis to ask for his help about a personal issue. Their conversation though, will soon take unexpected paths.

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.

During a strange night, a prostitute, an opera singer, a fortune teller, a travel agent, a police chief and an insomniac meet by chance.

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 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 retiring man in rioting Athens faces ghosts and memories from the past to make choices about the present.

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.

An old man, cut off from his future and his past, brings a young taxi driver into his game. The two meet Karkalou, a crazy prostitute, whom the former once loved madly and the latter will soon love.

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.

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.

Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

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.

Once upon a time, the Time of the World had a problem. But no one took notice, because everybody was part of the World, of Time and its problem.

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

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.

A hermit decides to leave his underground sanctuary and returns to the surface, only to find out that the world is a cruel place and people misunderstand things easily. Even if you have the best of intentions...

Tolis, an avid lottery ticket buyer, wins the first prize, but while celebrating his success in the streets, he is killed by a passing car. However, he returns to his wife as a ghost, having been granted permission by the Almighty, with the aim of restoring her...

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

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.

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.

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.

It's Christmas time. Shortie, Beanpole, Alekos and Sinoue, everyday people, decide to reinvent themselves because in the garden of god everything seems the same. They play ball, keep notes, lose their friends, strike their enemies, working out in the yard, learning how to dance, reciting poetry. They drink alcohol, paint, set fire to their bodies. And they promised to themselves, this Christmas to "make their way down" to the sea.

The portrait of an Andalusian musician who wanders around Epirus and socializes with the strangest characters in the area.

A boastful elf and his prank-happy orc brother must learn to work together to stop a fiendish orc gang from retrieving a magical stone that will give them the power to take over the world.