Theo Angelopoulos Movies

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside...

An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along...

A journey through history

The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions,...

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his...

A poetic visit to the city of Athens, based on paintings, poems and philosophical texts.

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass,...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience.

Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence...

As Yorgos Papalios trains for the Athens Marathon, his remarkable life unfolds – from shipping dynasties and revolutionary Cuba to the shaping...

The team of journalists of a radio show asks women on the street for their definition of the ideal man in order to conduct a search for someone to...

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.