This is a list of films featuring characters identified as Greek or of Greek heritage. The list is divided into English language films and Greek language films, arranged in chronological order by year of release.
English language films
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 1958 Onionhead Comedy Norman Taurog Stella Papparonis Felicia Farr 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 2006 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
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
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