List of films with Hellenic/Greek characters
English language films
[edit]| Year | Title | Genre | Director | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | The Show | Silent Drama | Tod Browning | The Greek | Lionel Barrymore | n/a | USA |
| 1938 | Crime School | Crime Drama | Lewis Seiler | George "Fats" Papadopoulos, Nick Papadopoulos |
Bernard Punsly Paul Porcasi |
n/a | USA |
| 1944 | The Mask of Dimitrios | Mystery | Jean Negulesco | Dimitrios Makropoulos | Zachary Scott |
n/a | USA |
| 1944 | Destination Tokyo | War | Delmer Daves | Leos Theofilos Karafias Jr aka "Tin Can" | Dane Clark |
n/a | USA |
| 1951 | It's a Big Country | Anthology | Charles Vidor | Icarus Xenophon | Gene Kelly | n/a | USA |
| 1953 | Beneath the 12-Mile Reef | Drama | Robert D. Webb | Tony Petrakis | Robert Wagner | n/a | USA |
| 1954 | Ulysses | Drama | Mario Camerini Mario Bava |
Ulysses | Kirk Douglas |
n/a | Italy, USA, France |
| 1957 | Boy on a Dolphin | Romance Adventure | Jean Negulesco | Phaedra | Sophia Loren |
n/a | USA |
| 1960 | Never on Sunday | Drama | Jules Dassin | Ilya | Melina Mercouri |
n/a | Greece |
| 1960 | Spartacus | Epic | Stanley Kubrick | Spartacus | Kirk Douglas |
n/a | USA |
| 1960 | Oceans 11 | Heist | Lewis Milestone | Spyros Acebos | Akim Tamiroff |
n/a | USA |
| 1961 | The Guns of Navarone | War | J. Lee Thompson | Col Andrea Stavros Maria Pappadimos |
Anthony Quinn Irene Pappas |
n/a | UK, USA |
| 1962 | Phaedra | Drama | Jules Dassin | Phaedra Alexis |
Melina Mercouri Anthony Perkins |
n/a | USA, Greece |
| 1963 | America America | Drama | Elia Kazan | Various | Various |
n/a | USA |
| 1964 | Zorba the Greek | Comedy-Drama | Michael Cacoyannis | Alexis Zorba | Anthony Quinn |
n/a | USA, Greece |
| 1969 | A Dream of Kings | Drama | Daniel Mann | Matsoukas Caliope |
Anthony Quinn Irene Pappas |
n/a | USA |
| 1969 | The Arrangement | Drama | Elia Kazan | Evangelos Topouzoglou (aka "Eddie Anderson") |
Kirk Douglas | n/a | USA |
| 1969 | Z | Drama | Costa-Gavras | Various | Various |
n/a | France, Algeria |
| 1978 | The Greek Tycoon | Biographical Drama | J. Lee Thompson | Theo Tomasis | Anthony Quinn | n/a | USA |
| 1981 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | Drama | Bob Rafelson | Nick Papadakis | John Colicos | n/a | USA |
| 1985 | Eleni | Drama | Peter Yates | Eleni Gatzoyiannis Nicholas Gage |
Kate Nelligan John Malkovich |
n/a | USA |
| 1991 | Only the Lonely | Comedy | Chris Columbus | Nick Acropolis | Anthony Quinn |
n/a | USA |
| 1998 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Heist Comedy | Guy Ritchie | Nick "the Greek" | Stephen Marcus |
n/a | UK |
| 1998 | The Big Lebowski | Heist Comedy | Coen Brothers | Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos | Steve Buscemi |
n/a | USA |
| 2000 | 300 | War Epic | Zack Snyder | Leonidas | Gerard Butler | n/a | USA |
| 2002 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Comedy | Joel Zwick | Various | Various | n/a | USA, Canada |
| 2002 | Windtalkers | War Epic | John Woo | Corporal Milo "Greek" Pappas | Mark Ruffalo | n/a | USA |
| 2004 | Troy | Epic War | Wolfgang Petersen | Achilles Odysseus Agamemnon Menelaus |
Brad Pitt Sean Bean Brian Cox Brendan Gleeson |
n/a | USA, UK, Malta |
| 2009 | My Life in Ruins | Comedy | Donald Petrie | Georgia Ianakopolis | Nia Vardalos | n/a | USA, Greece, Spain |
| 2012 | Papadopoulos & Sons | Comedy-Drama | Marcus Markou | Various | Various | n/a | UK |
| 2020 | The Taverna | Comedy-Drama | Alkinos Tsilimidos | Various | Vangelis Mourikis | n/a | Australia |
Greek language films
[edit]| Year | Title | Genre | Director | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | The Little Mouse (Το ποντικάκι) | Nikos Tsiforos | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 1960 | Murder Backstage (Έγκλημα στα παρασκήνια) | Dinos Katsouridis | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 1961 | The Clever Bird (Το έξυπνο πουλί,) | Orestis Laskos | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 1966 | The Fear (Ο φόβος) | Kostas Manoussakis | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 1983 | Rembetiko | Costas Ferris | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2001 | The Bubble (Η Φούσκα) | Nikos Perakis | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2004 | Brides (Νύφες) | Pantelis Voulgaris | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2008 | Omega (Ωμέγα) | Vasilis Blioumis | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2009 | Dogtooth (Κυνόδοντας) | Yorgos Lanthimos | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2013 | Little England (Μικρά Αγγλία) | Pantelis Voulgaris | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2013 | Miss Violence | Alexandros Avranas | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2015 | Chevalier | Athina Rachel Tsangari | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2016 | The Other Me (Έτερος Εγώ) | Sotiris Tsafoulias | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2016 | Lines (Γραμμές) | Vassilis Mazomenos | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2017 | The Last Note (Το Τελευταίο Σημείωμα) | Pantelis Voulgaris | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2019 | The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (Το Θαύμα της Θάλασσας των Σαργασσών) | Syllas Tzoumerkas | Various | Various | n/a | Greece | |
| 2021 | Smyrna my Beloved (Σμύρνη μου αγαπημένη) | Grigoris Karantinakis | Various | Various | n/a | Greece |