On Friday, August 21, the 1953 American musical comedy “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” will be screened on the SNFCC’s Great Lawn, starting at 9 p.m.

Rivals in panache and daredevilry, the Great Leslie and Professor Fate embark on a crazy seven-car rally from New York to Paris via the Bering Strait and across Russia.

The indomitable Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn star in the kooky 1969 comedy “Cactus Flower,” which is playing at the Great Lawn of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Friday, starting at 9 p.m. 

Exactly 120 years after the first motion pictures were shown to the public of Syros, these images of a bygone era are making a return. 

The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) is screening noir classics on the terrace of its Historical Archives in a former factory in downtown Athens in a tribute to the great films of the 1940s and 50s that shaped the crime genre.

The Athens Open-Air Film Festival sets up camp at Akadimia Platonos Park on July 25, with a screening of the classic 1966 spaghetti western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 screwball comedy will have the audience roaring with laughter at the Great Lawn of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on July 24.

The Temple of Olympian Zeus serves as the stunning setting for a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 neo-Gothic psychological thriller “Rebecca,” on Friday, July 17.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center’s Park Your Cinema program is dedicated to classic comedies this month, offering Athenians and visitors the perfect summer evening escape.

In “The Trip to Greece,” the fourth and final chapter in Michael Winterbottom’s psycho-gastronomic-travel series (showing in theaters now), Rob Brydon tells Steve Coogan that he didn’t realize that Greece was so big.

The Greek capital’s second drive-in movie theater is opening at the Olympic Stadium (OAKA) in northern Athens, after the first was launched on Lycabettus Hill last month after the lockdown.

The Park Your Cinema al fresco movie program is back at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center’s (SNFCC) Great Lawn, and this Friday features the all-time classic “A Night at the Opera.”

A Greek-American religious drama on the tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina is entering its fourth week of filming in Athens after the coronavirus lockdown pulled the plug less than a week into production in mid-March.

The Spanish-Language Film Festival of Athens will be taking place online this year, screening 18 comedies, dramas, documentaries, thrillers and tributes from the Spanish-speaking world at no charge to viewers.

More pertinent than ever before in the midst of the pandemic, the Athens Open Air Film Festival is back, bringing classics and crowd-pleasers to iconic locations around the Greek capital.

The dramatic cliffs and idyllic sugar-cube villages of Amorgos form the backdrop of the Greek leg of German comedy drama “Daughters,” which began filming on the Aegean island over the weekend.

Athens’ first drive-in cinema, opened earlier this month on the capital’s iconic Lycabettus Hill, continues its successful run with screenings of “Back to the Future” and “Grand Torino” on Friday.

Hit films are being screened at a newly created drive-in movie theater on Lycabettus Hill this summer, with tickets per car costing 14 euros. The screenings on Friday are “Sex and the City” and “Midnight in Paris.”

The City Drive-In on the iconic Lycabettus Hill overlooking the capital has been drawing large numbers of movie lovers since screenings began last Friday. More City Drive-Ins are expected to crop up this summer, which apart from the outdoor experience they offer are also convenient as audiences don’t have to worry about social distancing requirements. Almost every night has been sold out since screenings began, with a total of about 2,500 people of all ages making their way up Lycabettus in the first five days to enjoy the thrill of a new cinematic experience.

A woman prepares to take a seat at an open-air cinema in Kypseli, central Athens, Monday evening. Open-air movie theaters across Greece opened their doors to the public following the easing of coronavirus-related restrictions. They are only allowed to run at 75 percent capacity, with open bars and no breaks. Only cinema employees are obliged to wear face masks. The opening coincided with wet weather as heavy rainfall hit the capital Monday. Most venues will be holding just one screening per night for the time being, as opposed to the customary two, beginning at between 8.45 and 9.15 p.m. [Intime News]