Production
Argyris Papadimitropoulos
Born July 23, 1976 · Athens, Greece (age 50)
Argyris Papadimitropoulos was born the year the Ramones released their legendary debut album, and this might somewhat explain his punk temperament. After directing two multi-awarded shorts (Pendulum, 2003 and Tender, 2004) and receiving a Berlinale Talent Campus stamp on his film passport, Argyris went on to become the youngest Greek filmmaker to direct a box-office feature hit. Bank Bang, which …
Known For
Monday · 2021Monday
★ 6.52021
MovieDramaRomance
A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?
Suntan · 2016Suntan
★ 6.22016
MovieComedyDrama
Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.
Properties Of 2 · 2012Properties Of 2
2012
MovieFantasy
According to the director: “The film deals with the corrosive effect, on a relatively advanced life, of what psychologists may call ‘the repressed’, while I prefer to concentrate on the beautiful Greek word ‘kaemos’ [καημός, translated as longing, unfulfilled desire]. The most ‘realistic’ and most synoptic… synopsis I can give for the fiction of the film is: ‘A man comes face to face with himself’, but this wording (and here comes the fantasy element) must be read literally.”
Boy Eating the Bird's Food · 2012Boy Eating the Bird's Food
★ 5.92012
MovieDrama
Three days in the life of a young man in Athens, jobless, without a girlfriend, and without food. His only companion is his canary, and he will share anything he has with it. A modern adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s classic 1890 novel Hunger.
METS · 2023METS
2023
MovieDrama
Athena lives an urban family life. She's bored. Elsa lives a lonely post-adolescence. She's bored. In a ghost-Athens, some random everyday events become occasions to unite their gaps, their insecurities, their wants and their cans.
Electra7 · 2025Electra7
2025
MovieCrimeDrama
Electra and Orestes stand accused of murdering their mother. Yet, in present-day Greece, it is not the gods who deliver justice, but mere mortals—seemingly powerless to piece together the truth.
Gas · 2006Gas
★ 4.52006
MovieDrama
The father is unemployed. His son is sick. It is cold outside.
Comandante Fritz · 2025Comandante Fritz
★ 10.02025
MovieComedy
East German Stasi officer Fritz travels to Cuba with orders to thwart a suspected CIA operation against Fidel Castro. In Havana he meets Lola, a young woman who will both endanger his mission, and change the course of his life dramatically.
