Maro Kodou
Also Known As: Maro Kontou, Μάρω Κοντού, Μαρω Κοντου, Maro Kondou, Маро Конду, Маро Коду
Biography: Maro Kontou (Greek: Μάρω Κοντού; born 21 June 1934) is a Greek actress and politician. She performed in more than sixty films since 1954.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Birthday: June 21, 1934
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Strongman Who Became a Lamb
Overview: Leonidas Petrohilos (Lambros Konstantaras), a widower with three master unruly children, Kimon (Paul Liaros), Andreas (Thanassis Papadopoulos) and dad (Vangelis Ioannidis), still loves his first wife and refuses to remarry. His friend Xenophon (Stavros Xenidis) recommends Mary's (Maro Kondou) atychisasa a lady who needs to work. Leonidas hires Mary as housekeeper and serenity comes home. But until Leonidas understand that it is intended for rigged plot has good bite on the plate ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-22
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Antigone
Overview: In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-05-31
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Murder Backstage
Overview: A journalist helps, famed policeman Becca, to solve the murder of a theater actress.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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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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Seven Years of Marriage
Overview: Having been married for seven years, a tourist office director and his well-known television presenter wife, Alekos and Efi Fotiou go through a crucial phase. Dedicated to their careers, they rarely meet, and when thy actually achieve it they always end up quarreling. The only family they have, their uncles, suggest they have a baby. She finds it a good idea, but Alekos thinks that they won't be able to raise a baby properly. This dispute brings them one step closer to divorce, which now seems the only solution, especially when Efi starts to believe that Alekos is flirting with Tzouli, and Alekos suspects that his wife is having an affair with Dimitris. When it is finally proved that none of this is true, and, actually, Tzouli is planning to marry Dimitris and Efi's aunt Dimitris' uncle, they all get reasonable, the couple gets over its crisis and they live happily ever after, together with their newborn child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-01-12
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Three Ladies and me
Overview: As the lithe accountant of an haute couture house on the brink of bankruptcy takes three beautiful mannequins to promote their work, a chance encounter with a rich businessman will soon pave the way for a delightful romance under the sun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-10-10
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Μπροστά στην αγχόνη
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The barker
Overview: A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-11-01
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The Big Cannon
Overview: A masseur whose son is a student in Germany learns that he has become a member of the Neo-Nazi party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-12-14
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Gerontokoros
Overview: Thanasis is against marriage, by conviction. But he changes his mind when hiring Mary as secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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An Italian girl from Kypseli
Overview: A young student (Alekos Alexandrakis) comes from Italy and presents to his sister (Katerina Gioulaki) the fiancée (Maro Kondou) as Italian, because the first insisted not to marry a Greek. The couple, however, in cooperation with the afflicted spouse (Giannis Vogiatzis) strict sister, managed to change the opinion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-10-28
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Καπετάν Φάντης Μπαστούνι
Overview: Captain Andreas, a widower master learns that the planned departure postponed and the crew discovers hidden in the ship's refrigerator a girl, Marina. The company and the kind of behavior makes him take her with him to his home in Poros, which is home to the sister of Royal and two nephews. The presence of the marina there inflamed passions and causes the scheming sister, culminating when he set sail for the trip. When his ship sinks and he is considered missing, his sister declares him dead, eliminates the Marina and trying to reap his fortune with the help of their lawyer. Some time later, Andrew returns secretly finds Marina, marries her and takes her to his home, where enforce order ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Taste from Greece
Overview: Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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What If...
Overview: Athens - Greece - The age of Economic crisis Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a female German Shepherd called Lonesome. One night, after supper, Lonesome wants to be taken out. Demetris tries to change her mind but Lonesome insists Its at this moment that he comes to a decision. This decision will change his entire life. If Demetris goes out he will meet Christina, the love of his life. If he stays in, he will not meet her. Does true love exist? What is the impact of a severe economic crisis on people and how can the crisis destroy a couple? One story shown from two different angles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2012-11-29
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The Sold Man
Overview: A young man decides to "sell" himself to make money. He is trained by a homosexual writer and enters the circles of good society, flirting the daughter of an industrialist. He gets a job in his business and marries his daughter, who seeks marriage to give her name to her extrovert child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-04-14
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And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband
Overview: When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later..
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-06-28
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Ο Φαφλατάς
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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Oh, If I Only Were a Man
Overview: Frustrated and unemployed after being sexually harassed repeatedly, Stella decides to play the role of a guy, using the identity of her twin brother (who is living in Australia) hoping to get a job. She immediately wins the trust of her new employers and soon gets promoted to manager. The troubles begin when she falls in love with her boss' son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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My Wife's Husband
Overview: By closing his pharmacy, Panagiotis Panagiotidis falls on a provocative stranger, Lulu, who leads him to a beach for swimming and then drives him home. There, he learns that he is called Jordan Steka, that Lulu is his wife and that he suffers from a personality split. He asks for police assistance, but the policeman is convinced that he is crazy and he asks for a psychiatrist to prove him suffering from a personality split.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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I have you behind me, Satan
Overview: Paul is an unmarried middle-aged man who runs an insurance company in which his employee, Manolis Petichakis, presents his sister Eve for the post of secretary. Paul's friend, Tasos, convinces him to respond to a sentimental ad. Finally, he makes an appointment with a woman signing "The Rose of Isfahan". But the appointment evolves into a blaze..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-02-08
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Yie mou... Yie mou...
Overview: A widow wants to remarry, but as often as he tries to flirt with younger women he faces the rivalry of his own son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-10-25
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Η Κρεβατομουρμούρα
Overview: Lawyer Savvas Tsiviklis receives a gift from an old girlfriend, Kiki Petachtidou, who has just returned from the Congo. The gift is two small wooden lions which, in order not to find his wife Koula and mad in the bedroom, gives them to a well-known young man. In a while, however, his wife comes and gives him the lions he had previously given to the young man. Savvas goes crazy and begins the quarrels and jealousy that bachelor Menios supposes by constantly exclaiming "What good do I do and not get married!" Of course, in the end, they clear everything, since Koula from the beginning She had said the lions were a gift from an old classmate, Ms. Contoyorgus, and those that Savvas gave to the young, though quite the same, were different.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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Της ζήλειας τα καμώματα
Overview: Lampros, a successful journalist and his wife, Christina, who also writes in a magazine, have been constantly confused. In each of these battles, nostalgia refers to Stephanos, a youth of love. One night Lambros meets Stephanos, who after many years does not respond to his old image. But he avoids telling his wife, not to be disappointed. She thinks she is beating her, hiding her where she was all night and starting the divorce process. When I add to all this and the flirting of a young lawyer, Christina's mother will take over the problem ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-07-27
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The Grouch
Overview: A nephew of three strange uncles loves a girl, but his uncles are against the marriage. A resourceful aunt takes the case and helps the couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-07-27
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Woe to the Young
Overview: Two rich old friends, Andreas and Agisilaos are in love with young Rita. Andreas believes that is youth and not money that drive the world. He sells his soul to the devil, becomes young and flirts Rita. However, Andreas understands that youth alone is not enough and decides to give a dowry to lovely Rita so that she can marry the one she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-10-30
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The wildcard Labroukos
Overview: An unbeatable gentleman, he meet a widow, owner of a nightclub that has a hidden casino in its own. He goes in the club, plays cards and wins at first. But when he starts to lose large amounts, he understands that he has been the victim of gamblers. His reaction is immediate, he takes lessons from professional gamblers, and avenues his opponents. In the end, he also wins the beautiful widow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-11-05
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What a Waste!
Overview: Marios was the abuser convicted. The day he is released from prison meets Danae, which he grants a villa and a luxury car with the assertion that performs the last wish of the deceased husband, for whose account was fraud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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The Hemline
Overview: At a luxurious hotel various women spend their summer holidays trying, each one in her own way, to find the love of their life or solve the problems of a love affair. Through various misunderstandings and amusing incidents, the women find what they are looking for, with the help of luck and their female instinct.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-11-10
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The Bald Student
Overview: Thanasis, a family breadwinner who has been working for 17 years at the Ministry of Measure and Station without any promotion, is trying to cover his expenses by doing a second job. When he learns that he can not be promoted because he does not own a high school diploma, he decides to go back to school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Bluffer
Overview: John Halaris is neat antiques and incurable bluffer. After a successful bluff to three friends in Hydra, he returns to Athens. The carefree single life will change completely when they visit a young girl pretending to be his daughter. At first he thinks it is a bluff, but quickly convinced that Gianna is indeed daughter, by his first and only love of his life, Miranda ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Τα Καμάκια
Overview: This comedy takes place during a hot summer at a Greek island. We meet Stathis and his company and we watch as they try to get the attention of all kinds of beautiful foreign girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-07-15
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A Crazy Party Animal
Overview: Panos Pampanos has a double life. For Thalia, the daughter of his best friend and his protege, is a moral man of strict principles. But, he is nothing but a party animal hiding behind behind the mask of a nephew he has invented himself. Misunderstandings succeed one another...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Μία γυναίκα κατηγορείται
Overview: A woman is on trial for her husband’s murder and must prove her innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-06-12
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The Scum
Overview: A string of miscalculated choices and the longing of a fresh start will drag Magda of the slums deeper and deeper into a tireless personal nightmare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-10-07
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My friend, Lefterakis
Overview: Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend Lefterakis Tsampardis, Theo will welcome him with surprise and terror.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-02-25
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Crime in Kolonaki
Overview: When the painter Nasos Karnezis is found dead and the police arrests Floras, the stockbroker Dimitris, his son from his first marriage, decides to find out who the real murderer is. Along with a tow of his friends, reporter Makris and the politician Delios research the case and they suspect Myrto, daughter of captain Kapsis who was executed by the Germans during the years of Occupation, after Karnezis had turned him in. Dimitris and Myrto, whose innocent has become clear in the meantime, fall in love with each other.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-06-12
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Gang of Lovers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The yellow gloves
Overview: When it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur or a lost pair of bumblebee-yellow gloves. But, are his fears justified or is this case of the lost fashion accessories a big misunderstanding?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-12-12
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Wedding like... Greek
Overview: Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how hard marriage is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-12-07
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Horafa family
Overview: The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt the 14th located in his mother's belly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Man on the Train
Overview: A party of couples from Athens is planning to attend the performance of Medea in Ancient Epidaurus. They set off in their cars bright and early in the morning, combining their theater outing with a side trip to Nauplion. They stop at a railroad junction for the train to pass. There Mado recognizes the fleeting figure of the man standing at the window of the train and she faints.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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My Dimitri... My Dimitri
Overview: An almost irresistible attraction between the rich daughter of a factory owner and a successful popular singer will lead to marriage against her father's will. Is he the good and honest man everybody says? Will money corrupt him, too?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-10-16
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The stigmatized
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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ABE Mafia... National academy of crooks
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Greedy
Overview: The daughter of a factory owner beats with her car, the unemployed and hungry Chris, and her father from the obligation to recruit staff. Life Christos changing for the better and all you want to complete the happiness is to marry the daughter of his boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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A Pitiful Don Juan
Overview: A wealthy man is responsible for his friend’s daughter, who has come to Athens to study. The girl messes up his life and soon falls in love with him. Although he behaves like a father to her, he is tempted and jealous and flirts with her in front of a charming classmate of her, who is also interested in the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Three Liars
Overview: Liza (Maro Kontou), a famous movie actress, is obliged to marry the man her three uncles choose for her (all played by Nikos Stavridis) so that she can inherit a huge fortune. The young woman promises a film extra (Giorgos Pantzas) her hand in marriage if he manages to convince her uncles that he’s the one they should choose for her. The extra gives his best performance and convinces each of the uncles in turn of his worth as a groom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-11-27
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A script is our life
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Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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Στην Πόρτα της Κολάσεως
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Oi kathos prepei
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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