Joly Garbi
Also Known As: Τζόλυ Γαρμπή, Τζολυ Γαρμπη, Tzoli Garbi
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1913
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 09, 2002
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Για την καρδιά της ωραίας Ελένης
Overview: Louisa's father does not approve her young painter lover because he is poor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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What a Mess
Overview: Three short stories satirizing the Greece of “Change” in early 80's. A take-off on the police dramas of Giannis Maris; a satire of the films of the New Greek Cinema; and a satire of the “fustanella (Greek kilt)” films as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-10-26
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Father-in-Law With a Heart of Gold
Overview: A few hours after the arrival of Aristeidis (Dinos Iliopoulos), Mary's (Kakia Analyti) soon to be fiance, her father Andreas (Vasilis Diamantopoulos), an upstanding citizen, lies about having a meeting with the Bishop and instead goes to meet his neighbor Betty (Anna Kyriakou). Aristeidis, on his way to Mary's house as a series of misfortunes and ends up in a fight with Andreas (whom he does not know) while he is with Betty at a studio apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Someone like It Cold...
Overview: Lakis (Dinos Iliopoulos) has to make sure that his three sisters are married before he can marry his beloved Lela (Martha Karagianni). While at the beach, Eva (Zoe Laskari) and Maria (Hloi Liaskou) will meet Kleopas (Costas Voutsas) and Giorgos (Vagelis Voulgaridis) with whom they will start dating. But Rena (Rena Vlahopoulou) has a secret relationship with Thodoros (Giannis Vogiatzis) for 10 years.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-10
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Makrykostas and Kontogiorgis
Overview: Stelios Kondogiorgis (Dinos Iliopoulos) and Thomas Makrykostas (Costas Hajihristos) are two quiet men that come from the same Peloponnese village yet do not know each other. Their families however are involved in a bloody feud that started 80 years ago. Stelios and Thomas are the last male members from each family. After the last murders in the village where a member of each family died, Stelios' uncle (Pantelis Zervos) urges him to find and kill Thomas for revenge lest he finds him and kills him first. At the same time Thomas is visited by his aunt (Joly Garbi) who asks of him the same and provides him with weapons. Despite everything, neither Stelios nor Thomas are interested in murdering one another and they are both terrified from the idea that a stranger is looking for them in order to kill them. So, they decide to leave their respective jobs and hide at some remote hotel. Luck brings them together without them knowing of each other's identity as they share a room.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-02-02
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The Big Fool
Overview: Businessman Telis Birkas (Periklis Hristoforidis) decides to marry his daughter Antzela (Sasa Kastoura) with a nice guy, his accountant Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos). Antzela though does not want to hear a word about it. Telis, decides to train Dinos in order for him to win his daughter's heart. Training does not go so well and so the call in the big guns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Wise Guy
Overview: Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-15
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Thanasakis, the Politician
Overview: The young daughter (Anna Synodinou) of a well-off family comes back from Switzerland after completing her studies, married to a young scientist, Thanasakis (Byron Pallis), who comes back to Greece determined to serve his country as a politician. With the financial support of his brother-in-law (Dinos Iliopoulos) he enters the election with no results. Soon though, another election is announced and he decides to run for a second time, again asking support from his brother-in-law who insists that a new campaign would be financial suicide for the family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Papadopoulou family
Overview: Young Alexis Vranas (Stefanos Linaios) returns to Athens form studying abroad and starts working for a major company. There, he will meet and fall in love with a secretary, Varvara Papadopoulos (Kakia Analyti).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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I Neraida Kai to Palikari
Overview: Fourtounakis’ daughter, Katerinio, is forced to get engaged with a brutal Cretan, Skandalakis. But the return of Manousos Vrontakis from Athens and his flirtation with the girl leads to a great romance, without them knowing that they belong to families who are longstanding enemies.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-12-22
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Social Decay
Overview: A poor university student, Ntinos Vristhenis, has abandoned his studies due to financial difficulties and is searching for a job. He is hired as an actor in a troupe, where he meets and falls in love with the leading actress. When she yields to a businessman who promises her a bright future, Nikos, feeling disappointed, leaves the theater. Poverty forces him to join the proletariat and become a tobacco worker in order to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1932-06-25
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Μια Μάνα Κατηγορείται
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-09-18
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10 Days in Paris
Overview: Two men intend to make a "secret" trip to Paris alone and live it up in order to escape the stranglehold of their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-06-05
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Ο Γιάννος κι η Παγώνα
Overview: Pagona loves Yiannos, her father's sheeper, who wants to marry her with Dimos, the son of other sheeper of the nearby village. However, Crystalo loves Yiannos too.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Throbs at the Desk
Overview: Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the honeymoon she begins to yearn school and her classmates and she returns to it without saying anything to her husband. Soon, her husband begins to suspect her because of her frequent absences from home and her secret meetings with the professor seem to confirm his suspicions.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-11-11
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Thanos and Despina
Overview: Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-08-26
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The Tough Guy
Overview: Iraklis (Hercules) Leontopoulos is a low-paid employee with a heart of gold, who inherits a building together with its tenants. His easy disposition is his biggest problem because he can not collect any rents. In addition, he can not make any evictions nor can he demand any increase in the rents. Everything is about to change when his lawyer Aleka Palli makes him play the tough guy in order to collect the unpaid rents. The consequences of this transformation will be hilarious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-10-30
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Lisa and the Other Woman
Overview: A rich girl leaves her family to avoid marrying the person her father has chosen for her. Her father offers a reward in order to find her and an other girl that looks exactly like her is brought to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-11-13
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Ο τσιφούτης
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Our love
Overview: An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-03-25
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Eftyhos... trellathika!
Overview: Charilaos Maraziotis owns a store and owes so much money both to his lenders and to the state, that he is in danger of going to jail. He decides to pretend to be a psychopath and is sent to an asylum. His lenders, upon hearing the news about his mental health, change their attitude towards him and release him from his debts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-10-23
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Welcome Dollar
Overview: Philip (Giorgos Constantinou), a shy and dignified accountant and English teacher, lives with his mother (Zoli Garbi) and his two siblings in the same house. His and his mother's meager income, just enough to support them all. His younger brother (Alekos Tzanetakos) remains unemployed and lazy rather out of conscience, while his older brother, Kimon (Orpheus Zachos), dreams of being re-elected prefect and refuses, although a qualified accountant, to work, considering the positions demeaning and irrelevant offered to him. His tragic financial situation will be further burdened by their imminent forced move to another house. It is also the first color Greek film, edited entirely in Greece. It is based on the play "The 6th American Fleet" by Alek Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos, who also wrote the screenplay, while Sakellarios directed the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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The Young Lady's Fool
Overview: Julia, the daughter of Telis, general manager of the steel company, is a rich girl who likes the good living. Grigoris, a poor employee in the company who is in love with Julia, after a series of misunderstandings will lose his job and be fired ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-03-14
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Ο Εξυπνάκιας
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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An Italian in Greece
Overview: Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any woman he desires falls head over heels for a beautiful Italian student; however, she is a hard nut to crack. Will he manage to impress her?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Slum, my love
Overview: A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when she learns she is about to die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-02-25
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The Woman Driver
Overview: Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, borrows their new car. When Lilly crashes the car, she asks Mary to cover for her so that her husband doesn’t find about her new affair. The case of the car crash is brought to court, and Mary is accused. Things get so complicated that not even Lilly’s confession can solve the misunderstanding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-11-07
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A Patented Stupid Man
Overview: As Pelopidas is going around hungry, trying to find something to eat, a misunderstanding makes him seem like a thief. In order to escape his persecutors, he runs trying to hide. He hitchhikes and gets a ride by a truck, whose driver happens to be his fellow villager who knows the runaway’s past. Pelopidas has been working hard since his childhood, but due to his naivety nobody is serious with him. His return to the village where was born gets him mixed up in more trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Fanouris and His Kin
Overview: A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful expatriate brother to finally see their older sister get married. However, is the wealthy sibling willing to help?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-12-02
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The Lady and the Tramp
Overview: Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises herself as a boy named Pipis. As such, she meets a poor fisherman, Lefteris, and helps him on his way to Ioannina.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-12-30
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Forgotten Faces
Overview: A marginal guy, Tony, returns from America and, in a nightclub, he meets his old love, who has become a prostitute for his sake, abandoning her husband and child. Tony tries to take advantage of his friend's daughter, who is about to get married to a rich young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1946-04-08
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Αυτό το κάτι άλλο!
Overview: An unorganized and spoiled guy, Telis Partalis, who is only cut off for his amusement, is squandering all of his father's possessions in feasts and cartogangers. His sister, Ellie, a tasty girl and a serious lawyer, as well as Julie's rich aunt, do their utmost to avert this situation but telis is not at all aware of his own misery. His aunt is forcing him to get engaged to the wealthy Nana, who in turn is a fanatic of the spree and has the ability to bail him out of debt. They once realize that Telis has fallen to the clutches of the deft who, led by the impostor Stelios, want to take away even the factory he has inherited. Then they all buckle together, even his sister and Nana, so they take down the bad guys. The factory survives, the hero's mind is somewhat "coagulates" and the love that arises between dues and nanas seals the happy ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Τελευταία πτήση
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Innocent or Guilty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Gold and Tin
Overview: A super market owner opposes the affair of his daughter with a new employee at his business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Το Κλωτσοσκούφι
Overview: A young woman asks from a ship magnate to help her immigrate to Australia but he falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-03-21
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Η Κλεοπάτρα ήταν Αντώνης
Overview: An unemployed man poses as a housekeeper to stay afloat; but, his fiancée starts to suspect something, the gardener wants more of "her", and his employer's scheming cousins want everything for themselves. Can he get out of the tight spot?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Γιατί με πρόδωσες
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Thyella se paidiki kardia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Αντίο Ζωή
Overview: A woman who lives happily with her husband and child discovers that she is suffering from cancer and tries to ensure their happiness after her death, without learning anything about the truth…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-03-29
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We Have Only One Life
Overview: A bank teller discovers an accounting error, becomes rich and lives his life like he's never lived it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-05-08
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Lost dreams
Overview: Two ambitious junior employees from different social backgrounds, an aspiring author and the elegant daughter of a failed industrialist, see their youthful optimism turn into utter defeat. But what is the cost of a lost dream?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-03-11
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Αργυρώ η προδομένη τσελιγκοπούλα
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Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Μαριώ, η κατατρεγμένη βοσκοπούλα
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Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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