Theo Angelopoulos Movies

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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 history of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight selection.

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

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

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

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.

Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station,...

A journey through history

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

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet...