Dimitris Poulikakos

TRANZIT (2024)

Following the mystery of their deaths, Father and Son are reunited in Tranzit, an arid and desolate non-place, a kind of contemporary Dantesque limbo regulated by abstract mathematical principles, where the dead face a dilemma: accept the dematerialization ...

Songs of Revolution (2017)

A hybrid film, part-documentary, part-fiction, on the history of Greek radical music. ...

USSAK (2017)

In a suffering country somewhere in the near future, a community of misfits who live in a state of decadence and paranoia, tries to claim a decent life, fighting against an authoritarian oppressive regime. ...

Love, Love, Love (2016)

Shortly before the completion of his latest project, a filmmaker who has already made his mark on the local cult and avant-garde film scene, presents his latest effort - a real low-budget masterpiece! ...

Hippie-Hippie Matala! Matala! (2013)

It was in the 60s when Matala, a poor, fishing village in southern Crete, gained worldwide fame with reports in the international press and became the "controversial point" of local society, causing the wrath of the church and the intervention of the milit ...

Show Bitch! (2010)

4 Black Suits (2010)

Four undertakers in financial trouble latch onto a one-off opportunity to change their lives and bid farewell to a profession they entered for a while, but got stuck in for good. On the promise of a large fee, they fulfill the dying wish of a rich Greek wh ...

The Story of Mr. P. (2010)

The film takes place in a student dining hall. A rather lonely student is the narrator. As a frequent visitor of the hall, in his third year of study, he introduces us to the workers in it. He singles out one of the employees, whose name we never learn. ...

Sto vathos kipos (2009)

Fedonas and Anastasia's life together is only just beginning; madly in love with plans for a family they find themselves a big house to start their new life. But when Fedonas decides to plant a palm tree in their backyard the garden gives up a long-buried ...

Ζωντανοί Στο Κύτταρο - Σκηνές Rock (2006)

Games in Edem (2002)

The "God" is the owner of the IT company "EDEN", responsible for the construction of video games such as "David and Goliath", "Noah's Ark", etc. The "devil" is former archiprogrammatistis company, who fell out of favor when he was arrested stealing program ...

The Apple of Discord (2000)

Two brothers, who are rivals in life and in their professional careers, come into conflict when they fall in love with the same girl. She, hurt by the younger brother, decides to marry the older one, exacerbating the rivalry between them. ...

Η εποχή των ασεβών (2000)

Vitsia gynaikon (2000)

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits. ...

Female Company (1999)

High society women of a small Greek town try everything to have sex with the first male they can find. ...

Medusa (1998)

In this wry retelling of the ancient Medusa myth, strange, clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece. Only Perseus, a leader of a gang of modern Athenian thieves, with a strange childhood, holds the answer to the mystery--and it has something to ...

Shores of Twilight (1998)

An adaptation of Alexandros Papadiamantis's short story. Passion for a woman and some desperate thoughts push a young man to secretly take a stranger's boat and set sail. The wind carries him away and he is shipwrecked. He comes to in a cave, near the dese ...

Orpheus Descending (1996)

Eurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and Eurydice gets convinced by a rich farmer to follow him to Athens, where he promises her that he will make her a famous singer. Things do not turn out as promised, ...

The Blue Villa (1995)

The Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by the ghost-like return of a young man, who mysteriously disappeared after the killing of a young Eurasian woman. ...

Sapounopetra: To hrima sto Laimo sas (1995)

A brilliant investigative journalist, Alekos Varnesis, desperately searches for the truth behind a scandal that is rocking Greek society concerning the trade in human organs. In his attempt to track down the mastermind behind the ring, he encounters unpred ...

Τράνζιτο (1995)

An extreme passion that overturns the balance and changes the life course of a woman. Anna is a successful journalist with impeccable image and perfectly organized life. However, it has reached a borderline where nothing fills it anymore. One night, during ...

Donusa (1992)

Donusa is a small island in the Aegean, visited by the mainline ship once a week. One winter day a young German photographer, Stefan, arrives and soon feels strangely attracted to a local girl called Eleni. The stranger's presence works as a catalyst shedd ...

The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)

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

Lovers Beyond Time (1990)

A fantasy film, featuring the weird relationship between attractive Sylvia and Angelos. The girl breaks up with him. Three years later she is married to a doctor and her life is upset by a series of unbelievable events, such as strange assassinations of he ...

Gamos sto Perithorio (1989)

An 80-year-old widower, Mr. Elias, goes to his village (Perithorio, where he had been president of the community for twenty-four consecutive years) to vote in the municipal elections. There he meets his childhood sweetheart (Fotini, also a widow). Their yo ...

O fakellos Polk ston aera (1988)

Two parallel stories complement each other. The first recounts the investigation of a journalist and an actress who, through a radio program, attempt to identify parallels between terrorist acts of the present and the past. The second takes us back to 1948 ...

Living Dangerously (1987)

On the morning of the World Cup final, Karamanos, an employee of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (TOE), connects his commander's personal computer to a devilishly complex and explosive device. He threatens to blow up the floor and the satellite d ...

Terirem (1987)

The mute wife (Olia Lazaridou) of a shadow-theater player (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is suffering from cancer. An old woman, guided by her visions, discovers a Byzantine religious icon buried in a field. Her nephew sells the find to a thief, who then murders ...

Two Turkish Eggs (1987)

Giannis is a subversive young man who rebels against any social institution or authority. Unemployed by conviction, he cohabits with his German friend Ilze, who supports him, helps his arrogant uncle , a fallen aristocrat, with his drug smuggling, and beco ...

Patris, listeia, oikogeneia (1987)

A paranoid state organises bank robberies to save its crumbling economy. ...

The Children of the Swallow (1987)

A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that be ...

Sweet Country (1987)

An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow. ...

Made in Greece (1987)

Giannis Giannakis, released from psychiatric hospital after many years, decides to return home to his parents. On his way back he slowly discovers that the outside world is crazier than he thought - and starts to question whether he'd be better off back in ...

Telecannibals (1986)

An aspiring burglar of a television station falls asleep in the armchair of the General Manager, who has just been dismissed by the Minister responsible. The next day, everyone believes that he is the new General Manager. With the authority he has been giv ...

The Beekeeper (1986)

Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self ...

Meteor and Shadow (1985)

A biopic about the rise and fall of one of Greece's most esteemed poets, Napoleon Lapathiotis. ...

Loafing and Camouflage (1984)

A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest. ...

Revanche (1983)

During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos' girlfriend who allows him to sleep next to her feeling her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome Yorgos' jealous ...

Misunderstanding (1983)

Dimitris Lembessis gets out of prison, pays his friend Stratos a visit and kills him. With Ilias he organizes a big jewel heist. During the operation they discover that someone has ratted on them. In their attempt to escape, a police officer is killed and ...

Dracula of Exarcheia (1983)

A mad scientist creates the band Music Brigades from body parts of dead musicians. ...

Arpa Colla (1982)

"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author ...

Ο Ρεπόρτερ (1982)

A Foolish Love (1981)

The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother... ...

Barbecue Them! (1981)

Three marginals provoke the social establishment with their every act. ...

The Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)

A wealthy member of the upper classes and his three sons withdraw to a country villa where they spend their days in complete idleness, having everything done for them by their young and beautiful maid. They surrender to the pleasure of sleep, while idlenes ...

I Remember You Leaving All the Time (1977)

In Athens, a radical female journalist and a former stage actor share their lives against the backdrop of the regime change, right after the fall of the military dictatorship and the first legislative elections in 1974. ...

Happy Day (1976)

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refus ...

Aldevaran (1975)

Aldevaran is an imaginary city where the word-maven and poet Dimitris, the prostitute Magdalene and the rock musician Chris live together. Every evening, the two men give improvised performances in a coffee bar, until the day that Dimitris is informed by h ...

The Murderess (1974)

An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild's crib. Her mot ...

Sapounopetra: To hrima sto Laimo sas (1995)

A brilliant investigative journalist, Alekos Varnesis, desperately searches for the truth behind a scandal that is rocking Greek society concerning the trade in human organs. In his attempt to track down the mastermind behind the ring, he encounters unpred ...

Telecannibals (1986)

An aspiring burglar of a television station falls asleep in the armchair of the General Manager, who has just been dismissed by the Minister responsible. The next day, everyone believes that he is the new General Manager. With the authority he has been giv ...

Barbecue Them! (1981)

Three marginals provoke the social establishment with their every act. ...

Power (1977)

An abstract tale of a society that exploits everyone and everything. A closed societal system is run by a class of rulers composed of priests, elders, politicians, bankers, and military men. All these people prostitute themselves in order to exercise power ...