Watch movies directed by Theo Angelopoulos

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Invisible World

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

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2011 Documentary 70 min Play

6.8

To Each His Own Cinema

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

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6.8

2007 Comedy 100 min Play

7.4

The Weeping Meadow

This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is also taken care by Alexis' family. The refugees build a small village somewhere near a river and we watch as the kids grow up and fall in love. But difficult times of dictatorship and war are coming...

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7.4

2004 Drama 170 min Play

7.7

Eternity and a Day

Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.

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7.7

1998 Drama 137 min Play

7.6

Ulysses’ Gaze

"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images ...

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7.6

1995 Drama 169 min Play

6.7

Lumière and Company

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes. The results run the gamut from Zhang Yimou's convention-thwarting joke to David Lynch's bizarre miniature epic.

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6.7

1995 Action 88 min Play

6.8

The Suspended Step of the Stork

Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he is an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously a few years ago. Back in Athens, he asks this politician's former wife to come and identify him. A slow and dry meditation about inhumanity of borders.

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6.8

1991 Drama 136 min Play

7.9

Landscape in the Mist

Two children search for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.

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7.9

1988 Drama 127 min Play

6.8

Voyage to Cythera

An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.

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6.8

1984 Drama 133 min Play

7.5

The Travelling Players

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country during World War II. While the production that they put on is entitled "Golfo the Shepherdess," the thespians end up echoing scenes from classic Greek tales in their own lives, as Elektra (Eva Kotamanidou) plots revenge on her mother (Aliki Georgouli) for the death of her father, and seeks help from her brother, Orestes (Petros Zarkadis), a young anti-fascist rebel.

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7.5

1975 Drama 224 min Play