Nikos Nikolaidis

Directing

Nikos Nikolaidis

Born 1939-10-25 · Athens, Greece

Nikos Georgiou Nikolaidis was a Greek film director, screenwriter, film producer, writer, and stage director. He is considered a representative of European avant-garde and experimental art film.

Acting credits

Unconditionally poster
NR

The 24-hour period of a girl moving through the news is the subject of the film. Heroine of a mannequin, who when the "flash" is extinguished, spends a lifetime empty, unconditionally surrendering to loneliness...

Unconditionally

1968

Directing Hell poster
5.5

A Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and author from Greece. He is famous for creating controversial characters in his films that have a rebellious attitude towards the social and political status quo. He illustrates a dark and pessimistic present and future, but also providing ambiguous hope for the end when his heroes find their escape in death. His films are shocking and contentious, raising questions during times when political visions start to fade away. His filming was poetic, dynamic and aesthetically beautiful in order to present situations on edge and elicit his audience's feelings. The aim of this project is to transfer his dynamics in a documentary that will convey some of his messages and create a platform for exchanging opinions among filmmakers from all over the world, in an effort to decipher his universe and his symbols as reflections of his unique and rare personality.

Directing Hell

2011

An All-Weather Man poster
NR

An approach to the phenomenon of Thanasis Vengos, the man and the artist, through film excerpts, testimonies of his collaborators and relatives and analyses of his symbolic role in the post-war modern Greek reality. Thanasis Vengos, for more than fifty years, was one of the most important actors in Greece. His films and lines are written in history, raising more than three generations of Greeks.

An All-Weather Man

2004

Behind the camera

The Loser Takes All poster
6.3

A mysterious man, small-time grifter and big time hard-man has an anarchic tendency to riff on the system, society, police, the underworld itself and other things, along with his beloved bird, Bellafonte, meets up with an odd posse consisting of a young songwriter, a prostitute who gathers money in order to open a bookstore, an alcoholic girl haunted by the relationship with her dead mother, and the grudgey bar-woman-ex-girlfriend. The quintet get caught up in a scheme involving the media, the mob, politicians and the police. And they definitely want to get the hell out of the city, probably to some Caribbean paradise.

The Loser Takes All

2002

The Loser Takes All poster
6.3

A mysterious man, small-time grifter and big time hard-man has an anarchic tendency to riff on the system, society, police, the underworld itself and other things, along with his beloved bird, Bellafonte, meets up with an odd posse consisting of a young songwriter, a prostitute who gathers money in order to open a bookstore, an alcoholic girl haunted by the relationship with her dead mother, and the grudgey bar-woman-ex-girlfriend. The quintet get caught up in a scheme involving the media, the mob, politicians and the police. And they definitely want to get the hell out of the city, probably to some Caribbean paradise.

The Loser Takes All

2002

The Loser Takes All poster
6.3

A mysterious man, small-time grifter and big time hard-man has an anarchic tendency to riff on the system, society, police, the underworld itself and other things, along with his beloved bird, Bellafonte, meets up with an odd posse consisting of a young songwriter, a prostitute who gathers money in order to open a bookstore, an alcoholic girl haunted by the relationship with her dead mother, and the grudgey bar-woman-ex-girlfriend. The quintet get caught up in a scheme involving the media, the mob, politicians and the police. And they definitely want to get the hell out of the city, probably to some Caribbean paradise.

The Loser Takes All

2002

Singapore Sling poster
6.6

Singapore Sling pursues Laura, a romantic memory from his past. One night, he finds himself at a mysterious villa, watching two women bury a body. He falls into their trap and, in an atmosphere of isolation and decadence, the trio act out insane pleasure games and a ritual of blood and murder.

Singapore Sling

1990

Singapore Sling poster
6.6

Singapore Sling pursues Laura, a romantic memory from his past. One night, he finds himself at a mysterious villa, watching two women bury a body. He falls into their trap and, in an atmosphere of isolation and decadence, the trio act out insane pleasure games and a ritual of blood and murder.

Singapore Sling

1990

Singapore Sling poster
6.6

Singapore Sling pursues Laura, a romantic memory from his past. One night, he finds himself at a mysterious villa, watching two women bury a body. He falls into their trap and, in an atmosphere of isolation and decadence, the trio act out insane pleasure games and a ritual of blood and murder.

Singapore Sling

1990

Morning Patrol poster
6.8

In a deserted city, a woman walks alone trying to approach and enter the forbidden zone. Traps and the morning patrol lurk everywhere. Electronic voices summon the (non-existent) people to abandon the city. Can a love affair survive?

Morning Patrol

1987

Morning Patrol poster
6.8

In a deserted city, a woman walks alone trying to approach and enter the forbidden zone. Traps and the morning patrol lurk everywhere. Electronic voices summon the (non-existent) people to abandon the city. Can a love affair survive?

Morning Patrol

1987

Morning Patrol poster
6.8

In a deserted city, a woman walks alone trying to approach and enter the forbidden zone. Traps and the morning patrol lurk everywhere. Electronic voices summon the (non-existent) people to abandon the city. Can a love affair survive?

Morning Patrol

1987

Unconditionally poster
NR

The 24-hour period of a girl moving through the news is the subject of the film. Heroine of a mannequin, who when the "flash" is extinguished, spends a lifetime empty, unconditionally surrendering to loneliness...

Unconditionally

1968

Unconditionally poster
NR

The 24-hour period of a girl moving through the news is the subject of the film. Heroine of a mannequin, who when the "flash" is extinguished, spends a lifetime empty, unconditionally surrendering to loneliness...

Unconditionally

1968

The Wretches Are Still Singing poster
7.5

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, reunite after years of silence: one arrives from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years; the other comes from a series of 'accidental' murders; another leaves his wife and kids; the fourth is a wonderer; and the last, the sole female, emerges from a lunatic asylum where she's been hiding for years... These outcasts—tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved and betrayed by the politics of their times—hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in their own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.

The Wretches Are Still Singing

1979

The Wretches Are Still Singing poster
7.5

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, reunite after years of silence: one arrives from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years; the other comes from a series of 'accidental' murders; another leaves his wife and kids; the fourth is a wonderer; and the last, the sole female, emerges from a lunatic asylum where she's been hiding for years... These outcasts—tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved and betrayed by the politics of their times—hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in their own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.

The Wretches Are Still Singing

1979

The Wretches Are Still Singing poster
7.5

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, reunite after years of silence: one arrives from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years; the other comes from a series of 'accidental' murders; another leaves his wife and kids; the fourth is a wonderer; and the last, the sole female, emerges from a lunatic asylum where she's been hiding for years... These outcasts—tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved and betrayed by the politics of their times—hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in their own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.

The Wretches Are Still Singing

1979

See You in Hell, My Darling poster
5.8

Lovers and rivals Elsa and Vera are trapped in a hallucinogenic cycle of love, violence, and obsession with a man, all while seemingly stuck in a purgatory-like mansion.

See You in Hell, My Darling

1999

See You in Hell, My Darling poster
5.8

Lovers and rivals Elsa and Vera are trapped in a hallucinogenic cycle of love, violence, and obsession with a man, all while seemingly stuck in a purgatory-like mansion.

See You in Hell, My Darling

1999

See You in Hell, My Darling poster
5.8

Lovers and rivals Elsa and Vera are trapped in a hallucinogenic cycle of love, violence, and obsession with a man, all while seemingly stuck in a purgatory-like mansion.

See You in Hell, My Darling

1999

Euridice BA 2037 poster
6.7

A modern retelling of the Orpheus myth where Euridice, code number BA 2037, is trapped in a metaphorical hell-house, waiting for rescue from her lover, Orpheus.

Euridice BA 2037

1975

Euridice BA 2037 poster
6.7

A modern retelling of the Orpheus myth where Euridice, code number BA 2037, is trapped in a metaphorical hell-house, waiting for rescue from her lover, Orpheus.

Euridice BA 2037

1975

Euridice BA 2037 poster
6.7

A modern retelling of the Orpheus myth where Euridice, code number BA 2037, is trapped in a metaphorical hell-house, waiting for rescue from her lover, Orpheus.

Euridice BA 2037

1975

Love forever poster
7.5

A spoiled rich girl falls in love with a poor, good-looking but also talented pianist, rejecting a wealthy suitor from her own class. However, a combination of her parents' pressure and a misunderstanding with her beloved leads her to accept the proposal of a wealthy businessman. At the same time, an accident obliges the young pianist to abandon his piano for quite a long time. And although the young girl stands by him in his time of need, she leaves him the moment he recovers. However, on the night of his first concert, she returns to his side, determined to spend their life together.

Love forever

1970

Girl with the Suitcases poster
6.3

Michael falls in love with an American woman while borrowing his cousin's apartment, but the discovery of the contents of her suitcases gets them involved with the police, among other troubles.

Girl with the Suitcases

1994

Girl with the Suitcases poster
6.3

Michael falls in love with an American woman while borrowing his cousin's apartment, but the discovery of the contents of her suitcases gets them involved with the police, among other troubles.

Girl with the Suitcases

1994

The Zero Years poster
6.5

Four women, sterilized and under constant toxic restraint and surveillance, serve their term in a government-run brothel. Their relations are at a critical point; food and water are scarce, their house is rotting and ready to collapse, nothing on the outside exists any more. Nightmarish visions, simulated miscarriages, injections and nausea comprise their daily routine. Yet their dream – although they have been sterilized by the State – is to have a child. One day, a customer disappears and the interrogation begins...

The Zero Years

2005