
Dimitris Poulikakos
Actor · b. 1943 · Athens, Greece
Dimitris Poulikakos (Greek: Δημήτρης Πουλικάκος, 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.
Movies24
- MovieAdventure
Movie6.0In 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.
Movie7.4ComedyA group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.
Movie6.6ComedyOn the morning of the World Cup final, Karamanos, an employee of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (TOE), connects his commander's personal computer to a devilishly complex and explosive device. He threatens to blow up the floor and the satellite dishes above if he is not allowed to appear on the national network 10 minutes before the football match to denounce all the wrongs that plague the lives of Greek citizens and make them victims of a partisan and corrupt state.
Movie7.0DramaFollowing 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.
MovieComedyThe "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"
Movie6.0DramaA 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
Movie6.1Comedy"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.
Movie7.5DramaAn 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.
MovieFantasyFollowing 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.
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- Movie8.0TV MovieDrama
The family of a Greek man living in Berlin, who runs a tailor shop, is desperate to secure as much money as possible to ensure he can return home. His obsession with this goal threatens to overshadow the good qualities of his character.
Erebos
1989 · 1 votes
MovieActionCrime
Movie3.4ComedyShow Bitch!
2010 · 5 votes
Movie5.8FantasyThrillerIn 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
Movie4.9DramaHistoryAn American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Sweet Country
1987 · 8 votes
Movie4.7DramaA biopic about the rise and fall of one of Greece's most esteemed poets, Napoleon Lapathiotis.
MovieDocumentaryMusic
Movie5.5DramaDuring 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.
Movie6.9DramaA reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
Movie5.3ComedyMusicA mad scientist creates the band Music Brigades from body parts of dead musicians.
Movie3.4DramaComedyShortly 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!
Movie4.9ComedyHigh society women of a small Greek town try everything to have sex with the first male they can find.
Movie6.3DramaA wealthy member of the upper classes and his three sons withdraw to a country villa where they spend their days in complete idleness, having everything done for them by their young and beautiful maid. They surrender to the pleasure of sleep, while idleness permeates the tiny world of these living dead, with the exception of the woman who is the sole representative of positive values, will-power and action. Finally, the youngest son will try to break free.
Movie8.0DramaEurydice 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.
Series11
TV7.3ComedyArbitrary! Two families who coincidentally have the same name and live in the same apartment building. One is headed by a failed lawyer, Andreas Hatzigiorgis, who is supported by his wealthy wife, while the other is headed by a restaurateur who harasses his employees, Kostas Hatzigiorgis. The two families are often at odds as one wants to destroy the other, creating unspeakable situations.
TV7.0Crime
TV7.0ComedyΤι συμβαίνει με το Χάρη
2001 · 1 votes
TV8.0ComedyFour men and one woman, possessed by a "natural need" for the law, create the NSPR (Special Body to Fight Poverty) and intervene whenever circumstances call for them. However, the driving force behind everything is the old hacker named Nikephoros A', who not only watches, protects and sometimes subtly guides his son's scandalous group, but also paves the way for the Greece of the future...
- TV5.5Comedy
Τα Μπακούρια
1992 · 2 votes
TV7.8DramaΔούρειος Ίππος
3 votes
TVDramaΚινούμενη Άμμος
2005
- TVDrama
Η Μανιάτισσα
1987
TV7.0DramaΟι Χρηματιστές
1994 · 1 votes
- TV7.0Comedy
Πλάκας Μέλαθρον
1992 · 1 votes
- TV5.0
Τζακ Ποτ
1995 · 1 votes