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Alexander the Great is a grec film of genre Drama directed by Theo Angelopoulos released in USA on 4 august 1980 with Omero Antonutti
Alexander the Great (2023)
Ο Μεγαλέξανδρος (Ο Μegalexandros)
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Add to a movie listAlexander the Great (Greek: Ο Μεγαλέξανδρος) is a 1980 Greek film directed by Theo Angelopoulos.
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The film is based on the Dilesi Massacre of 1872 during which several bandits kidnapped British tourists and demanded a ransom. The film opens with a character named Alexander the Great who is the leader of the bandits being freed from prison.Actors
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There are 24 films with the same actors, 16 films with the same director, 63595 with the same cinematographic genres (including 999 with exactly the same 3 genres than Alexander the Great), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Alexander the Great, you will probably like those similar films :
The Travelling Players (1975)
, 3h50Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Giorgos Tzifos
Rating77%
A group of travelling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama Golfo The Shepherdess. In a first level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the travelling players and as they affect the villages which they visit: The last year of Metaxas' fascist dictatorship, the war against the Italians, the Nazi occupation, the liberation, the civil war between left and right wingers, the British and American interventionism in the Greek politics. In a second level the characters live their own drama of jealousy and betrayal, with its roots in the ancient myth of the House of Atreus. Agamemnon, a Greek refugee from Asia Minor, goes to war against the Italians in 1940, joins the resistance against the Germans, and is executed by them after being betrayed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthos. Aegisthos, Clytemnestra's lover, is an informer and collaborator working with the German occupiers. Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, fights on the side of the leftists, avenges his father's death by killing his mother and Aegisthos. He is arrested in 1949 for his guerrilla activities and is executed in prison in 1951. Electra, his sister, helps the leftists and aids her brother in avenging the treachery of their mother and Aegisthos. After the death of Orestes she continues the work of the troupe and her relationship with Pylades. Chrysotheme, Electra's younger sister, collaborates with the Germans, prostitutes herself during the occupation, sides with the British during liberation, and later marries an American. Pylades, close friend of Orestes, is a Communist who is exiled by the Metaxas regime, joins the guerrillas and is arrested and exiled again. Finally he is forced to sign a written denunciation of the left after torture by the right wing and he is released from prison in 1950.
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
, 2h56Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films based on mythology, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Road movies, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern, Thanasis Veggos, Ljuba Tadić, Dragan Maksimović
Rating75%
A successful Greek filmmaker A (Harvey Keitel) is returning home and sets out on an epic journey across the battered Balkans in search of three lost reels of film by the Manaki brothers, the pioneering photographers who introduced movies into the Balkans at the beginning of the century.
Days of '36 (1972)
, 2hDirected by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Pétros Márkaris, Giorgos Tzifos
Rating68%
En mai 1936, dans une Grèce secouée par de nombreux attentats politiques, un dirigeant syndicaliste est assassiné. Sofianos, un petit délinquant et contrebandier, informateur de la police et agent provocateur dans les manifestations de gauche est accusé du meurtre. Installé dans une chambre à part des autres détenus, il est maintenu au secret. Les seules personnes lui rendant visite sont un député du parti conservateur et son chauffeur, qui est aussi le frère de Sofianos. Un jour, celui-ci prend en otage le député, à l'intérieur de sa cellule, afin d'obtenir sa libération avant minuit, sans qu'on sache comment il s'est procuré le revolver dont il se sert ; à l'extérieur, les gardiens sont impuissants, tandis que le directeur de la prison subit de la part de son ministre de tutelle et des partis politiques, des pressions, parfois opposées, pour trouver rapidement une solution.
The Weeping Meadow (2004)
, 2h50Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Michael Giannatos
Rating78%
The film revives themes of Angelopoulos' 1975 film The Travelling Players, and its events span from 1919 to the aftermath of World War II. It tells the story of Greek history through the sufferings of one family. A band of refugees that returns to Greece after the Russian Revolution adopts an orphaned girl, Eleni (Alexandra Aidini). Eleni becomes the focus of the story. The film follows her through adolescence and the marriage to her musician half-brother Alexis (Nikos Poursanidis). Eleni becomes pregnant by Alexis, and bears twin boys, who are sent away at birth. Many years later she is forced to marry her widowed adopted father. On her wedding day, Eleni escapes with Alexis to Thessaloniki, where they reunite with their sons. Their lives are then ripped apart by World War II and the ensuing Greek Civil War.
Eternity and a Day (1998)
, 2h10Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Michael Giannatos, Pétros Márkaris, Petros Fyssoun
Rating78%
Alexander (Bruno Ganz), a bearded poet, leaves his seaside apartment in Thessaloniki after learning he has a terminal illness and must enter a hospital the next day for an unspecified "test". He is trying to get his affairs in order and find a new master for his dog.
The Reconstruction (1970)
, 1h40Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Theo Angelopoulos
Rating72%
Dans un village retiré de l'Épire, une femme assassine son mari, tout juste de retour d'Allemagne où il était parti travailler, avec l'aide de son amant. Le crime n'est jamais montré à l'écran. Les personnages principaux (juge, policiers, journalistes) tentent de reconstituer et comprendre un fait-divers qui leur échappe.
The Hunters (1977)
, 2h48Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mary Chronopoulou, Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Giorgos Tzifos
Rating74%
Six chasseurs issus de la bourgeoisie découvrent dans la neige le cadavre d'un résistant communiste. Leurs dépositions se transforment vite en délires hallucinatoires, retour du refoulé.
Voyage to Cythera (1984)
, 2h17Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Actors Manos Katrakis, Giulio Brogi, Mary Chronopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Athinodoros Prousalis, Michael Giannatos
Rating76%
Alexandre (Giulio Brogi), metteur en scène, est à la recherche d'un vieil acteur. Il le trouve chez un vendeur de légumes. Le film peut commencer. Alexandre accueille son père Spyros (Manos Katrakis), ancien résistant, de retour d'URSS après trente-deux années d'exil forcé. L'amnistie a en effet été prononcée après la chute de la dictature des colonels en 1974. Spyros retrouve sa femme, Katerina (Dora Volanaki). Puis il retrouve son village, sa maison et quelques anciens camarades. Mais Spyros a beaucoup de mal à comprendre le temps écoulé. L'idée-même du retour qu'il a chérie durant 32 ans est devenue intangible. Seule son épouse semble le comprendre.
The Beekeeper (1987)
, 2hDirected by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Serge Reggiani, Dinos Iliopoulos, Michael Giannatos, Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Dimitris Poulikakos
Rating71%
Un quinquagénaire du nom de Spyros quitte sa femme et son foyer le jour de mariage de sa fille. Il part vers le sud au volant de sa camionnette et souhaite devenir apiculteur. Au cours de ce voyage, il retrouve de vieux camarades, la maison où il est né ... et il rencontre une jeune auto-stoppeuse.
Landscape in the Mist (1988)
, 2h7Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Themes Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Gerasimos Skiadaresis, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Michael Giannatos, Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996)
Rating78%
Pubescent Voula (Tania Palaiologou) and her five-year-old brother Alexandros (Michalis Zeke) want to see their father, whom they have never met before. Their mother tells them he lives in Germany and so Voula and Alexandros one day secretely leave their home to find him. They go to the Athens Railway Station and try to use the Germany Express, but are removed from the train for not having a ticket. A police officer takes them to a distant uncle, who convinces the officer that the children do not have a father in Germany. He informs him that their mother lied to them, to prevent them from knowing the truth: that they have different fathers and are simply the results of one-night stands. Although Voula and Alexandros eavesdrop on the conversation, they still believe their mother and believe the uncle is lying. When a blizzard suddenly hits the village and no more attention is paid to them, the children manage to escape.