Vangelis Mourikis
Also Known As: Vaggelis Mourikis, Vagelis Mourikis
Biography: Vangelis Mourikis (Greek: Βαγγέλης Μουρίκης) is a Greek film actor. He has appeared in more than thirty films since 1982. He studied in Australia where he did his first works. In the 1990s he returned to Greece and devoted himself to independent cinema. He has been nominated for three Hellenic Film Academy Awards for Best Actor, winning twice, for the films Digger (2020) and Stratos (2014). He has also been nominated for three Hellenic Film Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor. Mourikis occasionally helps co-write movie scripts, with his work being nominated for three Hellenic Film Academy Awards, two for Best Screenplay and one for Best Documentary.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Water on Mars
Overview: Mother and Son attend the exhumation of Husband/Father. The painful process holds an unexpected surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-09-30
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Running on Empty
Overview: Mike loves his fast cars and his hot women. When he fancies the girlfriend of the local street racing king, Fox, he gets way in over his head in racing for his girl, his money and his life. Through racing, sex, nightclubs and small road trips the film depicts what it was like to be a teenager in Australia in the 1980's.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-05
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Attenberg
Overview: Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2010-12-09
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With Heart & Soul
Overview: Two brothers are fighting on opposite sides during the Greek Civil War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2009-10-22
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The Final Payoff
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Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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The Garden of God
Overview: It's Christmas time. Shortie, Beanpole, Alekos and Sinoue, everyday people, decide to reinvent themselves because in the garden of god everything seems the same. They play ball, keep notes, lose their friends, strike their enemies, working out in the yard, learning how to dance, reciting poetry. They drink alcohol, paint, set fire to their bodies. And they promised to themselves, this Christmas to "make their way down" to the sea.
Genres: Drama Action Fantasy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1994-11-01
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Soul Kicking
Overview: Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money. He's got a family, a baby, a home... Takis is being cheated. He loves her and he suffers... Takis can't take it at work. He's besieged by savages. But his boss tops them all... Takis has one friend and relatives. Woe is him!... Takis has run out of time. Yet, in his mind, a heavy black cloud has settled, turning everything dark... Takis is silent. He lies down and fills with rage. He fills with rage and sinks deeper...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2006-11-13
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Medea, Louder Than My Thoughts
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-03-01
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Knifer
Overview: After his father death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he's wearing down into his misery routine, till the moment his relationship with his aunt changes everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2010-10-20
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Εδώ είναι Βαλκάνια
Overview: A forgotten satirical (and occasionally dark) comedy about sex life in the Greek countryside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1984-10-06
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Boobheads
Overview: In a prison cell two lifers meet, a former truck driver and the other one a "volunteer" who entered the prison because he believes that life as an inmate prisoner is better than outside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2008-08-29
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The Winter
Overview: Niko is a romantic, young Greek writer living in London. When his finances go astray, Niko hides out in his neglected family house in the Greek mountain town of Siatista. Surrounded by the ghosts of the past, Niko must uncover the mystery of his father’s death and retain his grasp on reality.
Genres: Drama Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2013-11-05
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The King
Overview: A 35-year old man, just released from jail, decides to make a clean break from the big city and his troubled past. He retreats to the abandoned village his father came from and moves into an old, collapsing house. Alone, far from the bigger village and doing petty jobs to survive, he will strive to find himself once more. Amidst a haze of suspicion and scorn by villagers who treat him an intruder, his past catches up to him in the form of his girlfriend from Athens. Conflict is inescapable
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2002-11-09
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Stratos
Overview: At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day during a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life. Stratos never forgot this. A free man now, Stratos works the night shift at a bakery workshop, a far cry from the killing contracts he executes by day. He gives away all his money to spring Leonidas out of prison, funding an escape plan managed by Leo’s brother, Yorgos. The fulfillment of his debt is the only thing that matters to Stratos, everything else is indifferent and he lives detached, surrounded by ghosts and fallacies. The day of the escape, the most important day of his life, is near…
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-03-27
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The Flower of the Lake
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1999-11-14
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Well Kept Secrets: Athanasia
Overview: A young American woman returns to her Greek roots in search of her real father. Accompanied by her stepfather, she shatters the very myths designed to protect her. She uncovers an unlikely relationship between those who raised her, a globe-trotting photojournalist and Athanasia. Athanasia, a girl with no right in life. A choice of nature, but not of her community. Angela finds her father and discovers her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2008-12-04
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Magic Men
Overview: An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for his friend from the childhood, who saved him from the Holocaust. In meantime he formed a special relationship with young Greek woman, and dealt with the broken relationship with his devout Hasidic son.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2014-03-27
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Truants
Overview: The story follows the sporadic reunions of six friends during the seven year period of their integration into society. The reunions take place on their ancestral island, the setting of their common past. Every time they return "home" they carry with them the results of their personal choices. They also carry with them the effects of modern Greek society, a society the slowly but surely changes them, weathering their relationships, until they gradually lose contact with each other. The end of this epoch, will find them dispersed, confronting the dawn of an era where the pursuit of individual ambitions reigns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-12-06
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Arcadia
Overview: Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in a windy autumn, matching the less-than-pleasant occasion: Yannis has been called to identify the victim of a tragic accident at the hospital of the small town. When the local policeman informs them that the victim’s vehicle had plunged over the parapet of a stone bridge and leads them to the morgue, Katerina sees her worst suspicions confirmed. Together with Yannis, but also on her own nightly excursions to a mysterious, rustic beach bar called Arcadia, they begin to put the pieces of the puzzle together, revealing a haunting story of love, loss, acceptance and letting go.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2024-02-18
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Chevalier
Overview: In the middle of the Aegean Sea, six men on a fishing trip on a luxury yacht decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of the journey, when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he will wear on his smallest finger the victory ring: the Chevalier.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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Parees
Overview: Holy Week in Pelion. Two friendly Athenians couples find in their yard corpse of a stranger. They try to avoid the charge of murder by locals, while in the whole fuss becoming uncovered secrets that will change the lives of everyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2007-03-15
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Welcome to 'All Saints
Overview: The trainee Orthopedic Doctor George Spyrou began his career in the fictional General Orthopedic Hospital "All Saints', somewhere on the outskirts of Athens. There you will discover that the hospital population, by physicians, administrators and nurses, to patients, they are all forced to confront dancing a grotesque dance routine. With humor and humanity within a social landscape so angry George Spyratos trying to balance between the warring parties these microcosms. The gradual evolution from inexperienced trainee to experienced editor will be done through the encounter with the absurd environment. Something that would transform from naive young man who initially stands speechless in front of modern Greek chaos, a mature man who will ultimately make a thoughtful account of choice, but persevere, continue to work on public health.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-03-31
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Αλήθεια
Overview: The strange suicide of a scientist working in an Oil company permanently changes the lives of two friends, leading them to investigate and uncover the truth.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2006-04-03
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The Wake
Overview: A corrupt cop, Andrew, tries to flee the country after accidentally shooting his wife. His last resort for help: his estranged frocked brother, Nick.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2005-10-31
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Norway
Overview: In 1984, photophobic Zano arrives in Athens and quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city.
Genres: Horror Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-07-07
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Tungsten
Overview: Tungsten deals with the idea of electricity as a metaphor, the scenery is urban, and the plot is unfolded during a single day. One day in Athens, continuous outages, and a final blackout, caused by the strike of technicians at the electricity company. A day during which, six people's lives are being crossed and diverted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-11-24
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Κάθαρση
Overview: An ex cop arrives in Athens after the murder of his wife. Approached by the chief of police, he reluctantly agrees to help take down a mafia ring. Thus begins a circle of blood that becomes more and more violent as the hero goes deeper into the case. When he is asked to abandon his mission, he refuses; nothing seems able to stop the violent outburst of a man desperately looking for catharsis
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2010-09-23
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Dream Toy
Overview: Something lies beneath the bed of this cluttered kid's room. What's it waiting for?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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The Photographers
Overview: In a nonaligned country, where a civil conflict is raging, a team of photographers follows a mercenary war lord, whose men wreak havoc among enemies and innocents alike. The story is a modern version of the tragedy Antigone, in a time when TV and the other media present unrelieved visions of war and bloody mayhem.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1998-11-21
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Monday
Overview: A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-11
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The Field Guide to Evil
Overview: A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have a Serious Talk
Overview: Womanizer Aris finds out he is a carrier of a sexually transmitted virus, lethal only for women. But he is also the only hope for a curing vaccine if he finds which one of his ex girlfriends had the first viral strain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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Digger
Overview: When Jonny visits his father Nikitas in his cabin in the woods after 20 years, the hermit ignores him. But to prevent the muddy ground from being pulled out from under their feet for reasons of profit, father and son must dig deep into it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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Ballad for a Pierced Heart
Overview: In a small town in Greece, when amorous passion meets with greed money, dead bodies start pilling up and "Sleeping Beauty" Olga will never know the horrors she has been spared of.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2020-03-05
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The Taverna
Overview: When a waitress is substituted for a belly dancer in a Greek restaurant, chaos ensues before the owner is forced to change his old ways in order to prevent a major catastrophe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-01
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Amercement
Overview: Vangelis, a remnant of the rave party generation of the late 90s, sells weed for a living. Wants a steady job, no risks involved. Petros, a smalltime gangster. Wants a family. Demands respect. Katerina unwillingly brings them together under the same roof.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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N' Me for Myself
Overview: Antonis always goes by train. He is in a rush to make it on time. His recent past keeps catching up on him. Reality does not allow him to escape the images. That's how it is. because that's how it goes. He couldn't give a damn about anything. He needs to pee. Dependent on his girlfriend just as he's on himself. He doesn't owe anything to anybody.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Rakushka
Overview: A husband whose young wife has committed suicide meets for the first and last time his Russian mother-in-law who has arrived to collect the coffin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2004-11-17
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Μετεωρίτες
Overview: Djam, a Greek girl, is sent to Istanbul on a mission to find a motor-boat part of her uncle
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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A Journey to the Stars
Overview: The story of Greek businessmen Pavlos and Thanasis Giannakopoulos and their impact on Panathinaikos basketball club
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2022-03-16
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