Dimitris Poulikakos
Also Known As: Θείος Νώντας, Uncle Nontas, Δημήτρης Πουλικάκος
Biography: Dimitris Poulikakos (January 21, 1943 - ) is a Greek singer, composer, actor, radio producer, announcer of commercials, writer, and translator of surrealist poetry and literature. He is also a prominent figure in the Greek Rock scene. He became known for his appearances in films and television series from the 1970s to the 1990s. Main appearances: Sloths of the Fertile Valley (1978), Glue Harp (1982), Dracula of the Exarchies (1983), BIOS + state (1987), Made In Greece (1987), The meteoric step of the stork (1991), Female Company (1999), Soapstone (1995) etc. His main television appearances are in the series The Arbitrary (1989 - 1991), The Men and the Not in the episode "In the Name of the Man" in the second season (1994-1995) where he plays the head prisoner in the prison, Two Strangers (1997 ), Seven deadly mothers-in-law (2008) et al. He is considered one of the main representatives of Greek rock. The record of Metaforai Ekdromai Mitsos is the forerunner of the Greek rock 'n roll discography. His concert at the end of the 1970s in Zografou is a milestone in Greek rock music history.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Birthday: January 21, 1943
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Gender: Male
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The Beekeeper
Overview: Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1986-10-23
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Orpheus Descending
Overview: Eurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and Eurydice gets convinced by a rich farmer to follow him to Athens, where he promises her that he will make her a famous singer. Things do not turn out as promised, and Eurydice returns to the band, which is very successful now, due to Orpheus, a mute clarinet player, who has joined them. The farmer comes to reclaim her by force and Eurydice gets killed in a car accident. Orpheus tries to give her life with his clarinet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Meteor and Shadow
Overview: A biopic about the rise and fall of one of Greece's most esteemed poets, Napoleon Lapathiotis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-03-03
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4 Black Suits
Overview: Four undertakers in financial trouble latch onto a one-off opportunity to change their lives and bid farewell to a profession they entered for a while, but got stuck in for good. On the promise of a large fee, they fulfill the dying wish of a rich Greek who lived his life abroad: he wants them to take his body from Athens to a village in Boeotia for burial...on foot. Deciding to grant his bizarre request, they embark on an odyssey, which soon becomes an unexpected voyage of discovery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2010-03-25
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Αλδεβαράν
Overview: Aldevaran is an imaginary city where the word-maven and poet Dimitris, the prostitute Magdalene and the rock musician Chris live together. Every evening, the two men give improvised performances in a coffee bar, until the day that Dimitris is informed by his doctors that he has cancer and only two months to live. The film is about those two months, with Dimitris wandering in an ugly city which is also dying with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Happy Day
Overview: A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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Medusa
Overview: In this wry retelling of the ancient Medusa myth, strange, clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece. Only Perseus, a leader of a gang of modern Athenian thieves, with a strange childhood, holds the answer to the mystery--and it has something to do with beautiful, long-haired women in black. One night his group breaks into the house of one such creature. Filled with low-key humor and suspense, Medusa unfolds in a simple and tantalizing way
Genres: Fantasy Thriller Horror
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1998-11-15
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Hippie-Hippie Matala! Matala!
Overview: It was in the 60s when Matala, a poor, fishing village in southern Crete, gained worldwide fame with reports in the international press and became the “controversial point” of local society, causing the wrath of the church and the intervention of the military regime in Athens. Hippies from all over the world lived in the famous caves of Matala, forming a unique international community, whose loose and alternative lifestyles provoked the morals of the time. Who were these young people? What brought them to Matala? What was their relationship with the locals? Did orgies really take place? The answers are given by the – nowadays almost septuagenarian – protagonists of the story: Arn and Elmar from Germany, the British sisters Shirley and Pam, Greek musician Dimitris Poulikakos, grandma Alexandra and grandma Katerina, and George, a poor fisherman and a friend of Joni Mitchell from way back.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2013-03-17
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Living Dangerously
Overview: A gifted electrician, Michalis Karamanos works for Greek Telecommunications Organization and it seems that he is the only one who hasn't been completely absorbed by the corrupt and all-devouring system. Acting as a member of the revolutionary organization Constitutional Struggle, which is fighting against the unpopular policy of the government, he connects the computer of the director of OTE to an explosive device. He threatens to destroy the telecommunications of the country if he is not allowed to broadcast on television his revolutionary message during the broadcast of an important football game. The Authorities, thinking that he has gone crazy, try to bring him around using his old friends from the army, whom they pick up one by one as intermediaries. This is a situation comedy with excellent, mature plot development, plenty of suspense as well as masterful criticism of sociopolitical reality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-29
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The Idlers of the Fertile Valley
Overview: In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one wants to do much about leaving, and he does in fact cross the front threshold of the house with his lover, who is also the maid. However, before he has gotten very far, he is very tired, and goes to sleep where he stands. One of the sons outdoes them all by sleeping literally all the time. He is not in a coma -- he is just very, very lazy and tired. Some critics have viewed this film as a sharply delineated social satire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1978-10-01
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Τράνζιτο
Overview: An extreme passion that overturns the balance and changes the life course of a woman. Anna is a successful journalist with impeccable image and perfectly organized life. However, it has reached a borderline where nothing fills it anymore. One night, during a reportage, he will accidentally encounter a strange, mysterious and dangerous stranger, who goes through transit from Greece. Between them a relationship will be exciting, but also nightmarish ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-03-01
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The Suspended Step of the Stork
Overview: A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-12-04
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Dracula of Exarcheia
Overview: A mad scientist creates the band Music Brigades from body parts of dead musicians.
Genres: Comedy Music Horror
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1983-05-17
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Ζωντανοί Στο Κύτταρο - Σκηνές Rock
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2006-10-05
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Female Company
Overview: High society women of a small Greek town try everything to have sex with the first male they can find.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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Lovers Beyond Time
Overview: A fantasy film, featuring the weird relationship between attractive Sylvia and Angelos. The girl breaks up with him. Three years later she is married to a doctor and her life is upset by a series of unbelievable events, such as strange assassinations of her friends and her being inexplicably aroused, at the most inappropriate moments and occasions. This mysterious experiences stem from the presence of Angelos, who, having built a time-machine, wanders around in space-time, in order to eliminate those he sees as rivals and to make love to her.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1990-03-24
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TRANZIT
Overview: Following the mystery of their deaths, Father and Son are reunited in Tranzit, an arid and desolate non-place, a kind of contemporary Dantesque limbo regulated by abstract mathematical principles, where the dead face a dilemma: accept the dematerialization process or remain in indeterminacy forever. Here the memories of the Father, are confused with those of the Son, rekindling old conflicts. Trying to bring order to the past and shed light on what led to his death, the Father relies on his knowledge of mathematics to pursue a crazy idea: to come back to life.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-07
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Revanche
Overview: During the night of the big earthquake that shook Athens in 1981, Yannis, a 30-year-old cinephile, falls in love with his best friend Yorgos’ girlfriend who allows him to sleep next to her feeling her breast. Yannis and Eva have to overcome Yorgos’ jealousy as well as the ups and downs of their own affair. Since they all seem to be suffering, they form a trio and manage to live together in harmony for some time but then a well-hidden secret from the men’s political activism in the past is about to hit them like a new earthquake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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Songs of Revolution
Overview: A hybrid film, part-documentary, part-fiction, on the history of Greek radical music.
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 2017-05-14
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Love, Love, Love
Overview: Shortly before the completion of his latest project, a filmmaker who has already made his mark on the local cult and avant-garde film scene, presents his latest effort - a real low-budget masterpiece!
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2016-12-08
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Misunderstanding
Overview: Remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos."
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1983-06-07
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The Story of Mr. P.
Overview: The film takes place in a student dining hall. A rather lonely student is the narrator. As a frequent visitor of the hall, in his third year of study, he introduces us to the workers in it. He singles out one of the employees, whose name we never learn. Between them there will be a friction with repercussions in the lives of both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2010-01-21
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Games in Edem
Overview: The "God" is the owner of the IT company "EDEN", responsible for the construction of video games such as "David and Goliath", "Noah's Ark", etc. The "devil" is former archiprogrammatistis company, who fell out of favor when he was arrested stealing programs. God and the Devil play by the famous American computer game "Diablo II"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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USSAK
Overview: In a suffering country somewhere in the near future, a community of misfits who live in a state of decadence and paranoia, tries to claim a decent life, fighting against an authoritarian oppressive regime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2017-05-02
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Barbecue Them!
Overview: Three marginals provoke the social establishment with their every act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-10-05
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Loafing and Camouflage
Overview: The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Sweet Country
Overview: An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-23
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Two Turkish Eggs
Overview: Giannis is a subversive young man who rebels against any social institution or authority. Unemployed by conviction, he cohabits with his German friend Ilze, who supports him, helps his arrogant uncle , a fallen aristocrat, with his drug smuggling, and becomes friends with a Pontian Turk, Mustapha. The latter has entered Greece illegally and follows Giannis to Athens, hoping to find his Greek grandmother, who is none other than Giannis' grandmother as well. Mustapha steals the hearty of Ilze, whom he entertains with tales of his exploits, but the uncle turns them over to the police, and so they are truly in a tight squeeze. They get out of doing time, despite it all, and leave for Turkey, but they stray into Albania, where they are arrested and sentenced to manual labor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Patris, listeia, oikogeneia
Overview: A paranoid state organises bank robberies to save its crumbling economy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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The Children of the Swallow
Overview: A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that began with the Civil War. The two men’s search is interrupted when a key person refuses to speak
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-06-15
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The Murderess
Overview: An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1974-06-13
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Terirem
Overview: The mute wife (Olia Lazaridou) of a shadow-theater player (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is suffering from cancer. An old woman, guided by her visions, discovers a Byzantine religious icon buried in a field. Her nephew sells the find to a thief, who then murders the old woman, without knowing that she had told the village priest about the holy icon she found. Two priests arrive in the village together with the puppeteer and his ailing wife, and there the wife sees a vision of the icon and where it was located in the field, which leads to the discovery of the bones of a saint. The wife sleeps on the spot where the holy relics were discovered and, upon awaking the following morning, regains her speech.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-04
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Telecannibals
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1986-11-06
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Donusa
Overview: Donusa is a small island in the Aegean, visited by the mainline ship once a week. One winter day a young German photographer, Stefan, arrives and soon feels strangely attracted to a local girl called Eleni. The stranger’s presence works as a catalyst shedding light on Donusa’s conventions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1992-12-04
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The Apple of Discord
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2000-11-18
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Σαπουνόπετρα: Το Χρήμα στο Λαιμό σας
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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Ο Ρεπόρτερ
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Βίτσια γυναικών
Overview: A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Φάκελος Πολκ στον αέρα
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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The Blue Villa
Overview: The Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by the ghost-like return of a young man, who mysteriously disappeared after the killing of a young Eurasian woman.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-01
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Γάμος Στο Περιθώριο
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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Shores of Twilight
Overview: An adaptation of Alexandros Papadiamantis's short story
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1998-11-15
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Made in Greece
Overview: Giannis Giannakis, released from psychiatric hospital after many years, decides to return home to his parents. On his way back he slowly discovers that the outside world is crazier than he thought - and starts to question whether he'd be better off back in the psychiatric ward.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Arpa Colla
Overview: "Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-10-06
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Sto vathos kipos
Overview: Fedonas and Anastasia's life together is only just beginning; madly in love with plans for a family they find themselves a big house to start their new life. But when Fedonas decides to plant a palm tree in their backyard the garden gives up a long-buried secret and with it comes some unwanted attention from the police and the local mafia. As the landlord had warned them "Never dig... in someone else's garden!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2009-10-28
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Show Bitch!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2010-12-09
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Η εποχή των ασεβών
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2000-11-18
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I Remember You Leaving All the Time
Overview: In Athens, a radical female journalist and a former stage actor share their lives against the backdrop of the regime change, right after the fall of the military dictatorship and the first legislative elections in 1974.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1977-11-15
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A Foolish Love
Overview: The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-11-02
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