Best Films of All Time by Country

Selected by Piero Scaruffi
(Needless to say, it is not easy to determine the nationality of a film: the place where it was made, the place where it was released, the country that funded it, the birthplace of the filmmaker...?)
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Best Greek Films of All Time


8.6 Theo Angelopoulos: O Thiasos/ Travelling Players (1975)
8.5 Theo Angelopoulos: Topio Stin Omichli/ Landscape In The Mist (1988)
8.2 Theo Angelopoulos: O Melissokomos/ The Beekeeper /Il Volo (1986)
7.8 Theo Angelopoulos: To Meteoro Vima Tou Pelargou/ The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
7.7 Theo Angelopoulos: To Livadi Pou Dakryzei/ The Weeping Meadow (2004)
7.5 Theo Angelopulos: To Vlemma tou Odyssea/ Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
7.5 Theo Angelopoulos: Mia Aioniotita Kai Mia Mera/ Eternity and a Day (1998)
7.4 Yorgos Lanthimos: Langosta/ The Lobster (2015)
7.4 Yorgos Lanthimos: The Favourite (2018)
7.2 Yorgos Lanthimos: Poor Things (2023)
7.2 Yorgos Lanthimos: Kynodontas/ Dogtooth (2009)
7.2 Theo Angelopoulos : Taxidi sta Kithira/ Voyage to Cythera (1984)
7.1 Nikos Nikolaidis: Singapore Sling (1990)
7.0 Yorgos Lanthimos: Alpeis/ Alps (2011)
7.0 Costantin Costa-Gravas: Z (1969)
7.0 Alexandros Avranas: Miss Violence (2013)
7.0 Argyris Papadimitropoulos: Suntan (2016)

Frequently mentioned but not my favorites (yet):
Giorgos Tzavellas: Istoria mias Kalpikis Liras/ The Counterfeit Coin (1955)
Mihalis Kakogiannis: Stella (1955)
Mihalis Kakogiannis: Zorba the Greek (1964)
Nikos Koundouros: O Drakos/ The Ogre of Athens (1956)
Vasilis Georgiadis: The Red Lanterns (1963)
Alexis Damianos: Evdokia (1971)
Nikos Panayotopoulos: The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
Costa Ferris: Rembetiko (1983)
Nikos Nikolaidis: The Sweet Bunch (1983)
Constantinos Giannaris: Apo tin Akri tis Polis/ From the Edge of the City (1998)
Filippos Tsitos: Plato’s Academy (2009)
Athina Rachel Tsangari: Attenberg (2010)

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