Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- oppressive
- tense
- bleak
- late night thriller viewing
- serious drama night
What sets it apart
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Thomas is overwhelmed by mistakes, threatened by a loan shark, and forced to seek an urgent solution to save his family home.
The central conflict grows from unpaid obligations, property loss, and the pressure placed on an everyday businessman.
Thomas’s last-minute plan is presented as his only chance to recover what he has endangered and redeem his failures.
Thomas searches through the streets for a solution while every avenue appears blocked and criminal pressure closes in.
Films like Broken Vein, and why
Uncut Gems
Shares desperate financial stakes, escalating criminal pressure, and a morally compromised protagonist driven toward a risky last chance.
Dogman
Combines bleak social realism, working-class desperation, and a protagonist trapped by debt and criminal entanglements.
A Prophet
Resonates through its grounded crime world, moral brinkmanship, and tense transformation of economic precarity into violence.
Movie Details
- Director
- Yannis Economides
- Release Date
- 2025-11-27
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 (9)
Cast
- Vasilis Bisbikis
- Maria Kehayioglou
- Betty Arvaniti
- Stathis Stamoulakatos
- Klelia Renesi
- Yiannis Niarros
- Sofia Kounia
- Ioanna Kolliopoulou
- Yannis Anastasakis
- Dimitris Kapetanakos
Common questions
- What is Broken Vein about?
- A financially cornered Greek businessman gambles everything on one dangerous plan to save his family home from a loan shark.
- What is Broken Vein like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Broken Vein as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Broken Vein violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Broken Vein as mild.
- Which films are like Broken Vein?
- Films with a similar feel include Uncut Gems, Dogman, and A Prophet.
- How long is Broken Vein?
- Broken Vein runs 127 minutes.
