Story Line
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
Top Cast
Christos Stergioglou
Father
Michele Valley
Mother
Hristos Passalis
Son
Angeliki Papoulia
Older Daughter
Mary Tsoni
Younger Daughter
Anna Kalaitzidou
Christina
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Rating
7.0/ 10
Release Date
2009-10-22
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama
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•2/8/2025<em>'Dogtooth'</em> is certainly a Yorgos Lanthimos film! On the whole, I found this fascinating. It gets quite disturbing in parts, as you'd expect from this director, but all in all it is very good. The plot starts out difficult to read, though doe...