Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek director who has profit international fame with his arthouse indie dramas and thrillers in the last few years . He has been recognized by the international flick community with his films garnering four Academy Award nominations , three BAFTA nominations and one profits , and one Golden Globe nomination .

He has collaborated with the likes ofColin FarrellandNicole Kidmanin projects that were brilliant additions to their career . His gonzo observational dash and strange subject matters have give to his moving-picture show a “ slight ” reputation as mathematical product of an imagination that goes beyond the realms of normal and sick . Without further ado , these are all his films ranked according to Rotten Tomatoes ( the tie beam was settled based on number of critic ’ valuation ) .

My Best Friend / Ο Καλύτερός Μου Φίλος (2001) – No Score Yet

Lanthimos co - directed this film and it must have been the only straight comedy of his career . It was also his feature directorial debut . The motion picture revolves around two good friends , Constantine and Alecos . Flavius Valerius Constantinus advance a fillip slip to Paris from the indemnity companionship where he works . He drop his plane and getting even to find Alecos in bed with his married woman . This contribute the two friends to re - evaluate their whole relationship and scupper each other ’s long - hide secret . The picture was co - directed by and starred Hellenic comedian Lakis Lazopoulos .

Kinetta / Κινέτα (2005) – 17%

This oddball of a drama celluloid was the solo directorial debut of Lanthimos . Throughout off - season at the Greek coastal town of Kinetta in Attica , three people who have never met before -a plainclothes bull with a fetich for expensive German cars and Russian women , an unlawful photographer , and a hotel maid- number together for a somewhat bizarre reason : to reanimate murder . Methodically and with a virtually ritualized style , the doubtful trinity animate crime scenes of vicious homicide , to the power point where the limit of their own personal life-time step by step begin to become malformed . This bond does not take them somewhere ; in fact , it seems to make them even more nihilistic .

Alps / Άλπεις (2011) – 74%

A chemical group of actors that call themselves alp start an strange and somewhat macabre acting - for - hire service : they are rent by grieving friend and family unit of deceased people to aid them cope with the grieving appendage by pretending to be their lost love ones . the Alps extend its services to numerous grief - stricken people : a married guy mourning his mistress , the blind widow of a romancing hubby , and a   valet who is grieve for a childhood booster . The clients state the members of Alps how to dress , act , and talk , build up scenario of their choice , which occasionally get over into psychologically knowledgeable , even sexual site ; nevertheless , these coming upon mostly find uncaring and transactional .

Attenberg (2010) – 78%

Lanthimos did not direct this film , but he produced it and had a small-scale pretend role in it ( The Engineer ) . Marina , a sexually ingenuous woman of 23 , repose with her dying architect father , Spyros , at a coastal swap town and works at the resident steel - mill . unequal to of relating to those around her , she experiences lifetime via the nature docudrama of Sir David Attenborough , the songs of the band Suicide , and what she learns about sexual practice from her acquaintance Bella .

Notwithstanding her intimate immatureness , Marina ’s bail bond with her dad and Bella express tenderness and kindness . Spyros , meditative on his deathbed , says how he believe , “ Humans have designed ruins with mathematical accuracy … ” signifying the fate of most architecture . When a mysterious engineer arrives , Marina experiences her sexual awakening .

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017) – 80%

Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman star in thisunconventional horror filmthat rivet on a slow burn pace and lurid revelations , rather than leap scares . Steven is a cardiothoracic surgeon , get married to Anna with whom he has two nipper , Kim and Bob . Steven frequently meets with Martin , a boy who lost his father and needs some paternal sustenance .

Steven chit-chat Martin ’s habitation where his female parent hits on Steven , making him leave hurriedly . Over the next few days , Steven ignores Martin , until one cockcrow Bob wakes up paralyzed with no ostensible physical ground why . Martin reveals the truth to Steven : his father give-up the ghost on Steven ’s operating table . Now , Steven ’s full family will slowly die … unless he chooses one of them to defeat .

The Lobster (2015) – 87%

Thisromance drama , again starringColin Farrell , was nominated for the Palme d’Or and won the Jury Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival . It was also nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA.John C. Reillymakes a small appearance . David , after being abandon by his wife , goes to a weird hotel for singles where guests are given 45 solar day to discover a match , otherwise they will be transform into an animal of their choice ( David selects a lobster ) . The guests have particular way of mold who is their lucifer by retrieve small ailments that they share . They are brainwash about the rewards of relationships and encouraged to hound the exclusive citizenry that live in the Mrs. Henry Wood , as each seizure earns them an extra day .

Dogtooth / Κυνόδοντας (2009) – 93%

This queer drama ( that some have called drollery , but asEbert wrote “ I was n’t laughing ” ) have place almost only in the declamatory fence family of a family , whose name we never memorize . All the members are prisoners to the rules and oddment of the father , the mother being the only unforced prisoner . He controls all the thoughts and moves of his child well into adulthood , by tell them that they can never go forth the house without a car ( that only he has access to ) because they will be eat by raving mad animals . Words lose all center as the children are teach fake signification for words like “ sea ” . The father has say they will only be able to leave when they lose their cuspid .

The Favourite (2018) – 93%

Olivia Colman , Emma Stone , andRachel Weiszstar in this much - discuss historical drama as Queen Anne , Abigail Hill ( later Baroness Masham ) , and Sarah Churchill , Duchess of Marlborough severally . In 1711 , Queen Anne has poor health and has almost completely relinquished the ruling of her kingdom toSarah , her courtier and mystic lover .

Abigail Hill , Sarah ’s hard up young cousin , comes in search of work , after her father tainted her report by gambling her away . She slowly climb in social station to become Anne ’s Lady of the Bedchamber ; she and Sarah begin clashing for the position of the utmost influence : the Queen ’s Favourite .

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The Lobster poster left, Dogtooth poster right, Lanthimos

My best friend by Yorgos Lanthimos

Kinetta 2005 Lanthimos

Alps by Yorgos Lanthimos

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