# The best Greek films of all time

From Stella to Dogtooth: the Greek films that stand out in the lists of the Greek film critics' association, the BFI and critics (Ethnos, Cityportal, Filmy).

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- Jun 13, 2026 · katerina_frame24
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## Top 14

1. **The Travelling Players (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Theo Angelopoulos; first on the Greek critics' list.
2. **The Ogre of Athens (1956)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nikos Koundouros, a clerk who looks like a notorious criminal.
3. **Stella (1955)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Michael Cacoyannis with Melina Mercouri.
4. **Dogtooth (2009)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yorgos Lanthimos; Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes.
5. **Never on Sunday (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jules Dassin and Melina Mercouri in Piraeus.
6. **Rembetiko (1983)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Costas Ferris; the story of a rebetiko singer.
7. **Voyage to Cythera (1984)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Theo Angelopoulos.
8. **Evdokia (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Alexis Damianos; a sergeant and a prostitute.
9. **Sweet Bunch (1983)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nikos Nikolaidis.
10. **The Photograph (1986)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nikos Papatakis, two Greek emigrants in Paris.
11. **The Counterfeit Coin (1955)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Giorgos Tzavellas, four stories around a fake coin.
12. **The Fear (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kostas Manoussakis, a crime in a farming family.
13. **The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nikos Panayotopoulos, a family that does nothing at all.
14. **Let the Women Wait (1998)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stavros Tsiolis.
15. **Reconstruction (1970)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Theo Angelopoulos, his first feature.

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