Best Greek thriller movies

An art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.

A British couple on a break on a small Greek Island spreads terror beyond anything the Islanders could ever have imagined, only stopping every once in a while to shag anything that moves, be it man, woman or animal. But will they go unpunished, or will the inspector from London be able to put an end to their killing spree?

Stelios Dimitrakopoulos has 32 hours left before he loses everything. From the jazz bar he painstakingly keeps running for years, to his own family. The Romanian gangster who lent him money, now demands the debt to be paid. The middle-man and former friend, makes Stelios take care of illegal errands. His wife is seriously thinking of abandoning him, and a night club owner, not thinking about the consequences, finally starts to stand up for himself. Christmas is coming, the clock is ticking, and the tree in Stelios' house must be decorated.

A woman struggles to keep her stepdaughter from harms way after she hires an assassin to kill her husband, but the hitman turns and blackmails her for the crime.

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.

A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental device which allows him to see with the aid of a computer interface and brain electrodes. Meanwhile, a taxi driver is taking young women up to their apartments, giving them gas, and performing a little fatal amateur surgery on them. Their paths inevitably converge, and the blind man must try to stop the psychopath.

The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to the attention of the State. A discreet surveillance begins. A vigilante group monitors their house, headed by a nameless blonde man.

Under the hot Greek sun, animators at an all-inclusive island resort prepare for the busy tourist season. Kalia is the group leader. Paper decorations, glossy costumes and dance shows fill the stage. As summer intensifies and the work pressure builds up, their nights become violent and Kalia's struggle is revealed in the darkness. But when the spotlights turn on again, the show must go on.

In this ticking clock action-thriller, a courier's last delivery of the day may also be the last day of his life. Strapped with explosives, he must fight for his life while trying to solve a mystery involving both his family and a criminal empire.

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)

The stakes couldn't be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens, but when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.

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 post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in black and carrying guns, come up on stage. They apologize for the interruption and invite people from the audience to participate on stage. The play resumes with a main difference; life imitates art and not the opposite.

Love leads to madness when an unstable man falls for an unsuspecting woman in this thriller from Greece. Iasonas (Giorgos Kakanakis) is throwing a party one evening when a friend introduces him to Penelope (Serafita Grigoriadou); the two quickly hit it off and soon she's sharing his home. However, before long it becomes obvious that something isn't quite right -- each of them tends to see things in different ways, Iasonas has a hard time making his memories skew with what has actually happened, and tension between them reaches the boiling point. But when the relationship finally explodes into violence, what actually happens between Iasonas and Penelope?

A photojournalist and surveillance expert decides to go up against a system of political corruption and corporate intrigue after witnessing the murder of his brother.

Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.

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.

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?

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.

A journalist returns to a dark, virtually unrecognizable Athens to investigate his best friend's murder. The victim's girlfriend gives him a hand but they soon realize they either have to abandon their investigation or become cogs in a powerful machine. Marionettes is a story of mystery, shot in an unknown, dark and full of temptations Athens.

Two young women convince each other they are under threat after accidentally photographing what they believe to be a concealed automatic rifle. Shot in drawn-out, static takes, Emma Doxiadi’s comical mystery comments on Greece’s ongoing refugee crisis in real time, pointing squarely at foolish knee-jerk reactions.

An armed robbery is the starting point of an unpredictable story that unfolds in four different versions; one for each of the film’s characters who rival over the "Blue Queen", one of the world’s most rare diamonds.

What is Hell for others is home for us. This is the story of Vera, Elsa, a Man, and the great love that united them. They started out growing up together but they didn't get very far. Leaving behind a desolate world full of traps, they will begin a hallucinogenic journey of tenderness and violence. The story of three lovers who in a devious and gruesome manner try to destroy each other, to gain a solitary entrance to Hell.

When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police. Markos falls in love with her and they start going out until he asks her to marry him. That's exactly when she meets a junkie named Tasos Bekiris and falls in love with him. When he is murdered by a mysterious woman all the clues lead to Daisy who tries to prove her innocence. As she discovers, this woman is in charge of a drug-smuggling racket and she is also planning to import a huge quantity of heroin in Athens. Daisy kills her and arrives at their meeting place along with Markos.

Two petty thieves dream of a trip to Amsterdam and decide to pull off the big trick: breaking into a rich man's house. They don't find any money, but they do find a secret that no one should know.

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.

Bob and Ches are two bachelors on the make. They are hired by Geraldine to guard her and her daughter, Christine. It seems Christine is psychic, and knows all the details of a political murder.

A fantasy film, featuring the weird relationship between attractive Sylvia and Angelos. The girl breaks up with him. Three years later she is married to a doctor and her life is upset by a series of unbelievable events, such as strange assassinations of her friends and her being inexplicably aroused, at the most inappropriate moments and occasions. This mysterious experiences stem from the presence of Angelos, who, having built a time-machine, wanders around in space-time, in order to eliminate those he sees as rivals and to make love to her.

A corpse is found at Anna's home, and she must explain the criminal investigator how she spent the night. And one story leads to another.

Thirty-year-old Marianna is pregnant and returns to the house she grew up in the village after years, due to her dying father, Pavlos, who is taken care of by her mother, Christina. Traumatic memories from her childhood come back as family secrets are revealed.

An ex cop arrives in Athens after the murder of his wife. Approached by the chief of police, he reluctantly agrees to help take down a mafia ring. Thus begins a circle of blood that becomes more and more violent as the hero goes deeper into the case. When he is asked to abandon his mission, he refuses; nothing seems able to stop the violent outburst of a man desperately looking for catharsis

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.

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.

In 2020, year of the global pandemic without a vaccine or cure, numerous governments urged their citizens to "Stay Safe". However, there might be a threat greater than the pandemic itself.

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.

Stefanos, Giorgos, and Nondas are three young men who ended up in juvenile detention for stealing a bag containing three million euros. After a few years, they are released, full of the experiences they had during all those years locked up in prison. Their goal is to start a new life, avoiding all the mistakes and temptations of the past. Unfortunately for them, however...

A veterinarian is called in to treat a mysterious disease in a remote farm. He examines the first victim of this disease, a ram, and he advises the owner to put down all his livestock as a precautionary measure. A freak storm, though, forces him to spend the night at the farm.

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.

After a drunken night, three best friends hit a man with their car and then they dump his dead body into a lake. After that night their friendship ends, before a beautiful girl returns to their lives and perplexes them again.

In the barren stretch of the motorway, Jimmy’s family diner is on the verge of extinction—until a botched drug deal drops a bag of cash into his lap. Now, Jimmy must navigate the dangerous underworld of gangsters, shady cops, and his own treacherous staff to save the business he’s clung to his entire life. With a mix of crime, thriller, and dark comedy, Jimmy and his eccentric crew—Mara, Nicko, and Abi—must outsmart the criminals closing in, all while struggling with their own growing desires for the cash. It’s a game of survival, where no one plays fair.

An extremely ambitious neurosurgeon, devoted to his science and his child, is urgently called to operate on someone with a brain tumor. After the successful operation, the patient is kidnapped by unknown individuals with the assistance of the clinic's director. Geralis takes the matter personally and begins to investigate the case, discovering, first of all, that the patient is the president of the Hellenic Petroleum Organization, Panagiotis Argyropoulos, who has fallen victim to the relentless competition of multinationals, unwittingly becoming their tool.

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

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?

Greek horror‑thriller and SOV remake of Maniac, set in late‑’80s Athens. Angelos, a seemingly mild‑mannered window‑display mannequin maker, is haunted by grief and obsession. After crafting a doll in memory of his beloved wife, he spirals into madness—strangling sex workers along Sygrou Avenue and fashioning mannequins from their corpses as twisted trophies.

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?

Six American special agents are sent to an idyllic Greek island to disrupt the operation of an international operation of illegal arms deals and African based terrorists. Three agents are killed - so their team has an infiltrated enemy.

Fani, who grew up facing many difficulties on an island in the Ionian Sea, undertakes a dangerous mission: to deliver a package containing highly confidential documents to the home of lawyer Pagoulatos. However, the mission has been compromised, and Fanis is forced to hide the documents because his life is in danger. Shortly afterwards, a girl named Anthi arrives on the island, who is somehow involved in the story of the secret documents. When she meets Fanis, she feels an irresistible attraction to him. They both discover that they are in love. Fanis, at Anthi's urging, comes to Athens... His relationship with Anthi goes through many ups and downs... At some point, he realizes that his life is in danger with every step he takes. The reason is the documents he continues to keep hidden... His love for Anthi slowly turns into a nightmare.

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.

A new and rich heir, Anna Margot, is receiving threatening phone calls from an old friend, Anna not knowing what to do requests the help of her friend Tonis Karzis, the anxiety will culminate as a series of unexplained murders follows .

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.

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.

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.

Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family after being raped by her sister's husband.

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.

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.

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..

A woman is forced to sit under a hanged rotting corpse in the middle of a burnt forest, until the authorities decide that she has been punished enough.

When the painter Nasos Karnezis is found dead and the police arrests Floras, the stockbroker Dimitris, his son from his first marriage, decides to find out who the real murderer is. Along with a tow of his friends, reporter Makris and the politician Delios research the case and they suspect Myrto, daughter of captain Kapsis who was executed by the Germans during the years of Occupation, after Karnezis had turned him in. Dimitris and Myrto, whose innocent has become clear in the meantime, fall in love with each other.

In a secluded location a body has been found, is Martha.

He is a pure child of nature. She comes from the sinful city. They find themselves together in unspoiled nature, but soon she grows bored. Suddenly she finds herself guilty of treason in the court of ordinary people, and he erupts primitively.

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.

The Antonis Maras, a successful professional, and his wife Olga live a peaceful and happy life until the Antonis discovers the double life of his wife. Instructs s` an employee to monitor and eventually will discover that the husband goes secretly to a remote house. The secret of Olga, however, is that extorted by a coil holding her brother hostage. The brother of escapes and suicides and members of Spiral abduct Olga.

In the casino there is only one queen, the small ball that spins on the roulette table. None of the players pays the slightest attention to the female dealers. But Takis, a «perennial» med student, doesn't go to the casino to win millions but to earn a day's wages. Vera works in a gym but trains and gets a second job as a dealer. Her aim is to protect her mother since regulations forbid relatives of employees from entering the casino. Let her Dad knock himself out. There's no way he'll ever play roulette again! At some point, Takis and Vera become lovers. They rig a game at the roulette table, leave the money with her mother and hide out in a friend's house, where their romantic dream soon succumbs to the wretched conditions in which they live. When her father dies of a heart attack in his Jeep, Vera suddenly finds herself with money. At the funeral, the manager of the casino threatens to send her to prison...

A music composer tries to deposit money in his bank one morning, and is accused of counterfeiting. Harassed by the police, the gang of counterfeiters and a stranger, he becomes panic-stricken. The unjust charge brought against him ignites his deeper feelings of guilt which stem from his sterile existence and, mainly, from his inability to produce creative work. Then he flees and begins wandering in an unfamiliar "country" where his painful adventures will finally prove redeeming. The film is an existential drama in the form of a "dreamlike" thriller.

A burglar accidentally kills a wealthy businessman and assumes his identity. He finds life as a playboy very enjoyable, but the deceased man's sister (who lives far away from him) soon starts being suspicious.

Lena, Alexis and Manolis are ready to run with the money of a bogus company they had founded, when Lena discloses the secret to her childhood friend Dimitris. Alexis and Manolis decide to take him along, in their small private plane. They will land in a deserted spot and try to kill him, while Lena escapes with the plane, which she throws to a swamp along with the money it carries. The people from a lighthouse nearby apprise of the situation and try to get the plane out of the swamp, hoping the money will change their fortune.