Filmographies
As the creator of one of the finest films ever made in Greece, Evdokia, Alexis Damianos introduced a modern narrative voice to Greek cinema. With just three films, he succeeded in revealing - at times with rawness, at others with tenderness - a “different” Greece from the one portrayed by the cinema of his time.
With his name now inextricably linked to unclassifiable chronicles of contemporary Balkan history and as a standard-bearer of a new avant-garde wave, Radu Jude makes only the cinema he wants, without any restrictions and with a completely unapologetic attitude. Enter at your own risk.
One of Europe’s leading filmmakers of our time, beloved by Greek audiences and the recipient of both an Oscar and a Golden Lion. Tender, queer, unapologetic, provocative, cult, melodramatic, funny. Pedro Almodóvar is simply punk.
At the forefront of the American filmmakers who broke out in the late ’90s, a millennial favorite and a bold symbolist of our era. Darren Aronofsky makes films that are impossible to ignore.
A towering figure of contemporary European cinema and, without doubt, the most significant Greek filmmaker, with a coherent artistic vision shaped by history, memory, and the ever-shifting relationship between past, present, and future. Cinobo proudly presents the complete filmography of Theodoros Angelopoulos.
A central figure of what some theorists have termed as the Greek Weird Wave, her cinema explores representation, social conventions, and their systematic unraveling. From her remarkable debut Attenberg to today, step into the singular, unconventional gaze of Athina Rachel Tsangari.
"For me, each film is an act of life, of existence". A modern-day dream traveler, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas redefines the concepts of faith, desire, and identity in contemporary cinema. Four films from a transcendent body of work lead the viewer down uncharted cinematic paths.
The Chilean who redefined the very notion of documentary, found the connection between his country's history and the stars, and made the voice of the Chilean people resonate in the ether, from the peaks of the Andes to outer space. Four films by the pioneering documentary filmmaker are now available on Cinobo.
The directorial duo that changed British cinema forever and drew generations of audiences into their wondrous technicolor world has arrived at Cinobo. A filmography that is both a lesson in cinematic history and a stark testament to the incredible ingenuity of their cinema, which remains thrillingly captivating to this day.
The beloved Korean auteur, who discovers stories in everyday coincidences, in crossing paths, in lives that sometimes meet and sometimes separate, comes to Cinobo. Through three iconic moments in his filmography, we explore Hong Sang-soo's work, small in scale but richly layered in narrative.
The filmography of Pantelis Voulgaris comes to meet its audience again in 4K. After 60 years in Greek cinema, one of the greatest Greek directors decides to look back at his entire oeuvre and not to let a single moment of it be lost in the oblivion of time. Cinobo is proud to be part of this great restoration project.
Described as grotesque, heretical, harsh, disarmingly honest, over-the-top and also a genius, the most explosive director of contemporary Greek cinema has managed to become a genre of himself, with his characters' legendary lines becoming an integral part of Greek pop culture.
"If you haven't seen Ray's cinema, it's like existing in the world without having seen the sun or the moon." So said Akira Kurosawa, about one of the greatest exponents of auteur cinema in film history, the great poet of Indian cinema, who captured like no one before him the social and cultural characteristics of a country riddled with change and contradictions.
“How do we spend our time on Earth?” the Swedish surrealist auteur attempts to answer this question through his quirky and fascinating filmography. Short human stories colour the great director’s charming tableaux vivants, where tragedy meets comedy, just as in life.
For the first time, the comprehensive filmography of the anarchist cosmopolitan of cinema, Nikos Papatakis, is showcased on a Greek platform. A revolutionary and unwavering global citizen, Papatakis rightfully claims his position in the pantheon of esteemed Greek filmmakers, marking a vital and thrilling reevaluation of his subversive body of work.
An absolute psychographer of the human soul, with more than 20 documentary titles under his belt and awarded for most of them, always using a calm voice, Stavros Psyllakis maps a much needed Greece of the here and now, which is somehow hidden, yet so present in today's everyday life.
Seeing his last two films win the Palme d'Or, he is now a superstar director of the 21st century. An excellently sarcastic YouTube lover -that's where he draws inspiration for his films, a fantastic narrator of modern embarrassment, a warm-blooded Swede who understands modern society like few others do.
A cinematic legend who, despite his untimely death in 1995, left behind a monumental filmography that begins in Poland in the mid-70s and ends in the 90s with the unforgettable Three Colours trilogy, a landmark of the European cinema, amazingly fresh and totally relevant to this day.
If there are a handful of people who reinvented comedy in cinema, Jacques Tati is certainly among them. Intelligent, noble, insightful and melancholic, the great pioneer messes with the modern world and teaches us modern and timeless humor through the figure of his alter ego, Monsieur Hulot.
Nouvelle Vague's "litterateur", the man who turned his stories into films because, according to his own words, he could not turn them into novels just as well, played masterfully with the frailties of the human heart that strike his bourgeois heroes at crucial times of their lives.
Keeping a distance from the French New Wave and mainly serving the film noir genre, the unique outlaw stories of the "poet of the underworld" continue to captivate audiences to this day, having been some of the most influential films of European cinema, starring French cinema legends.
Whether focusing on the political and social changes in his country, or turning his gaze to different places and new, digital techniques, the Iranian creator triumphed through simple, human stories, thanks to his proverbial ease at mixing reality with fiction and connecting them uniquely at the junction.
Provocateur practically became his middle name early on. His directorial potential is inexhaustible. His ability to shock is undeniable - Irreversible was just the first proof. That's why he's one of the few directors today with a loyal, fanatic audience that follows him, no questions asked.
The absolutely personal, emotive and exciting cinematic universe of Alexandros Voulgaris is presented here through his filmography, as well as all the music video clips he has directed throughout the years, edited together for the first time under the overall title Never Been Kissed.
"The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events". Here he is, the great poet of American independent cinema, a faithful lover of silences, of cult characters, minimalism, blues music and endless highways. This is the coolest cinematic universe that's worth discovering.
Audiences treat his films with an intense Mood for Love. One of the most influential creators of modern cinema, who has directed some of the most romantic and heartbreaking stories that “deal with people who are stuck in certain routines that don't make them happy, and the love that causes them to move on”.
Iconic creator whose films usually have something of a thriller, something surreal and dreamy, definitely something unclassified. His style is so distinctive that in 2018 the word lynchian was added to the Oxford English Dictionary with the following definition: "reminiscent of or imitating the works of David Lynch".
"A woman's first feminist gesture is the act of deciding to look" Varda said, and it is true that very few filmmakers in history have looked with more curiosity and with more sense of experimentation. Tireless and versatile, she defined the Nouvelle Vague through charming, bold, political and unclassifiable creations.
"At times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it". Having made history with Parasite, he is a great architect of cinema, a master of suspense, of movie characters and filmmaking, constantly jumping between genres, opening up the very boundaries of cinema along the way.
"We think too much and feel too little". The unforgettable words of a key figure of the 20th century, in a filmography that is extremely important not only for historians, but because it contains all the reasons why we love cinema and all the impression it ends up leaving to our eyes and minds.
The quiet force of the new German cinema, an unflappable storyteller who has no trouble jumping between different genres and is today one of the most important European directors, while also managing to elevate fellow countrymen actors such as Nina Hoss, Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski.
One of the most beloved directors of the Greek audience (and not only), he became worldwide known with his film Head-On which won the Golden Bear in Berlin Festival 2004. Being inspired by Elia Kazan and John Ford, he often works as a one man band, being behind the script, production and direction.
Nouvelle Vague's pure frontman, the first director who became inextricably linked with it with his impressive debut, The 400 Blows, the man who created a cinematic universe (that of Antoine Doinel) long before they were cool, a unique and generous cinephile with a wonderfully diverse filmography.
Who comes to mind more quickly, when we talk about humanist cinema today? He built his reputation with a series of wonderful family dramas from the mid-90s and especially the 00s before finally taking off with one of the most disarming Palmes d'Or in the history of Cannes, for "Shoplifters".
Without Jacques Demy there would be no La La Land. The great romantic of French cinema, the director who gave us The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and changed musical forever, the creator who beautifully filled our cinema screens with dazzling color, wonderful music and a technicolor fairy tale.
"We are the same: one person, four eyes. We have to be, otherwise we could not make the same film". How many siblings can talk about their partnership like that? Multi-awarded, the two Dardenne still have such a clear cinematic identity that one shot is enough to recognize them behind the camera.
A combative, assertive, effective and unyielding political cinema. A cinema for the weak and the outcasts of a system that has forgotten them. A cinema about the working class that never goes to heaven. A cinema for all human beings. The direct, realistic, essential cinema of Ken Loach.
Cinobo presents part of the filmography of one of the greatest American comedians of all time. Seven decades now, the prolific New Yorker continues to magically and effectually fit almost every single film genre into his own multilayered, cerebral and completely personal universe.
"It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers". Provocateur, thinker, but above all an anatomist of Western culture, the great Austrian director does not belong to the elite group of two Palmes d’Or winners by chance, since each one of his films raises the most crucial questions.
A Cannes festival darling, an absolute pop culture and operatic melodrama lover, Canadian Xavier Dolan films without fear and with great passion, always filling his images with music and emotion. An enfant terrible of world cinema who never seems to lose his childhood enthusiasm.
His westerns result from the westernization of his own country. Perhaps the most important Chinese director at the moment, he started within the world’s film festivals in the late 90s and now, through his three great recent films, he talks about the constant cultural and social conflict in today's China.
