Gay Themed Movies from Greece
Cinematic journeys of love, identity, and freedom.
A beautifully shot drama set in 1970s Greece where a simple dance lesson between a lieutenant and a soldier reveals hidden desires. It is a slow, atmospheric film about the tension of the military junta era.
Blackmail Boy (Oxygono) is a dark Greek drama about small town politics, hidden love and the quiet damage people cause when reputation becomes more important than truth. No heroes here. Only consequences.
a short film by Konstantinos Menelaou, released in 2022. The film is about a man who returns to Athens and spends his days alone in his new apartment. Through his voice, he shares heartfelt messages to the lover he left behind, capturing the bittersweet emotions of love, distance, and the struggle to move on.
While having a day-long swim at Athens’ queer beach, best friends Demos and Nikitas recall the events of a recent summer in the prospect of turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas’ feature debut.
Director: Zacharias Mavroeidis
A grieving Greek ex-diver meets a bold German on a ferry, and their gay road trip to Bavaria becomes a tender story of love and family.
Director: Stelios Kammitsis
The film revolves around dissolving relationships of people who fell in love with passion. The murder of a man defines the relationship of three couples across three different decades.
Two high school students. While seeking their identity, through violence, they will inevitably test each other’s boundaries.
Director: Thanasis Neofotistos
The Distance Between Us and the Sky is a 2019 Greek-French short film written and directed by Vasilis Kekatos. It won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
A Greek gay man meets a young Arab, acquires experiences and pays the emotional and existential price.
Director: Christos Voupouras (as Hristos Voupouras)
Stars: Nikos Faroupos, Haris Fragoulis, Nikos Gelia
Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away.
Director: Panos H. Koutras
A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city’s repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.
Director: Constantine Giannaris
A human clone is washed up on the shores of Santorini. Allan Dawson discovers this new finding within his recently inherited property. What follows is an attempt to mold his new best friend to dire consequences.
Two young men are alone at a self-service laundry. They are sitting next to each other, waiting in silence. An old framed embroidery of a young deer is hanging against the wall across them.
Director: Thanasis Tsimpinis
