Katerina Yioulaki
Birthday: Born in 1938-03-27 in Athens, Greece
Deathday: 2025-06-09
Katerina Yioulaki (Greek: Κατερίνα Γιουλάκη, born Aikaterini Yiouvarlaki (Αικατερίνη Γιουβαρλάκη); 27 March 1938 – 9 June 2025) was a Greek actress. She studied at the Dramatic School at the National Theatre of Greece. Her first appearance in the theater was in 1959 with Dinos Iliopoulos in the work I kiria tou kiriou (Η κυρία του κυρίου). She felt that she marked her appearance in TV in the beginning in the 1970s in the show I kokoromiali (Η κοκορόμυαλη), in the mid-1980s with I kiria mas ( Η Κυρία μας) and in 1990–1992 in Retire (reh-tee-reh) with Giannis Dalianidis. She was awarded the Greek Theatrical Writers' Guild Award in 1996. She died on 9 June 2025, at the age of 87.[1][2] Her death was announced after her remains were cremated on 13 June.[3][4]
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Το Ρετιρέ
Character: Κατερίνα Σοφιανού
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7 Θανάσιμες Πεθερές
Character: Veta
Vicky Stavropoulou plays the ghost of a woman who, invisible to ordinary mortals, watches, narrates and intervenes for good in various family affairs starring mothers-in-law with many different characters....
Η Καλή ... Πεθερά
Character: Καλή Μαυροδήμου
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For a Lousy Drachma
Character: Elpiniki
To convince his wealthy uncle to keep sending his monthly cheques, a poor man lies about his marital status. But, when the relative returns to Greece, he talks his partner into posing as his wife. Will they get away with fraud so easily?...
Wild Chickens
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At the Presidential Mansion news arrives every day indicating that things in the country are going from bad to worse. The President summons all the political leaders in order to understand exactly what is happening; and yet no one can enlighten him. He decides to act. He calls two journalists and assigns them the task of investigating the matter by speaking directly with ordinary people. The investigation starts with the notorious Gypsy Tamtakos, who struggles every day for a living. Then they m...
Women in Arms
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In a small village, the women seize power and command the men for an entire day. Bent on abolishing this old custom, ardent males resort to a radical solution on the eve of the momentous event. When will men realise war is not the answer?...
Commando and Manoulias
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A 35-year-old reservist is called up for retraining in new weapons. He has been engaged for nine years to a Cretan girl, whose brother threatens to kill him if he does not set a wedding date immediately. So he sees his conscription as a saving grace, but he is assigned to a paratrooper commando unit and endures hell during training. At the camp, he hangs out with three other guys his age who are turning the universe upside down. However, the difficult life at the camp eventually convinces him to...
Gia ola ftaine oi gomenes
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Others can't manage with one... but Panos manages with three! And each of the three thinks she's the only one. But there are also unpredictable factors. So at some point, the three "chicks" meet and Panos desperately tries, with the help of Beba, to get out of the mess......
Wet Romeo
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Day Off
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Against the backdrop of Athens' bustling streets, a Greek white-collar worker starts his day off by doing various errands, and even though he hasn't worked all day, in reality, he is exhausted. Is this what his typical day off looks like?...
The Wastrels
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Exarhos is persuaded by his two lazy brothers to sell their shipyard, and they buy a factory in which nothing works normally....
Στον πυρετό της δόξας και της λόξας
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The Crooked Wood
Character: Ourania Marouli
Nikos, a grumpy and clumsy man, is the manager at a shoe factory and he's living with his wife and his niece. Everyone regards him as a curmudgeon, especially his niece who maintains a parallel relationship with Nikos' partner and a client and doesn't want to get married....
Οι μάγκες δεν υπάρχουν πια
Character: Βαρβάρα
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Seven Days of Lying
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Lukas and Sotiris hate the work but are forced to make ends meet working as salesman of books. In one visit, Luke would accept a proposal from the hostess, Fofi to represent her husband in the eyes of Julia's aunt, as long as you remain in Greece....
The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia
Character: Sophie
The film focuses on the Tarniatis brothers, with the brother trying to marry his sister (Georgia Vasileiadou), who refuses to follow the fashion of the time and become a lustful woman, so that he too can marry, having been engaged for eight years. The last groom that Vangelis shows Eftychia is Kleomenis, who after their trip to Hydra falls in love with the family's niece. However, Koulis also wants to marry Eftychia, who thinks he is inheriting 120,000 pounds....
Another One for the Million
Character: Λουλού
The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s siblings to embezzle money from his job and lend it to them. When his manager, leaving on a trip, entrusts him with a million drachmas without a receipt, Savvas succumbs to the pressure and gives some of the money to his brother-in-law. In the end, however, an unexpected development awaits Savvas, since his manager is killed in an airplane crash and he has to decide what to do with the money....
Papatrechas
Character: Alexandra Lagou
Polydoros Lagos is a janitor in an ordinary Athens' block in the 1960s who's struggling to serve as many of the building's residents as possible in order to save some money to help his six sisters (and his aunt) get married, since this is the only way he can finally get married too....
An Italian girl from Kypseli
Character: Toula
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....
Ladies of the Courtyard
Character: Paraskevi
The Pippi a genuine artist, painting with touches of everyday life of ordinary people, who live and share the joys and sorrows in the large and vibrant with life yard of a neighborhood of old Athens....
The Man Who Ran a Lot
Character: Tasia
Thanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time and the clocks have become obsessed after running nonstop in an effort to nourish their relatives. The 'philosopher' brother dies and leaves another four mouths under his protection. The day is divided between the shop, his sister and his niece to marry, and his beloved, who works in a supermarket, while the economic situation and their obligations do not allow them to marry....
O Katergaris
Character: Toula Varni
Chronis employed by a company, the chairman of which is a consequential, terrible moralist man, who is of the opinion that its employees must follow its own life and perception patterns. One day his sister Chronis, Eve, organizing home parties and invite Emilios, the president's son. Among them a fiery romance develops. The other day the president makes strict remarks to Chronis, who expects nothing anymore his dismissal ......
I Really Play the Man
Character: wife Zinon
Zinon is a successful fashion designer but he has family problems. His wife, his children and his parents-in law are too abusive and uncaring. Everything changes when the police starts looking for a serial killer who is identical to Zinon....
The Jar
Character: Vaso
Two poor friends live together and hope to earn some money to marry their beloved ones. When they discover a jar full of pounds in a building site, their lives change....
The Building Manager
Character: Violeta
A gently ironic portrait of a midlife crisis. Pavlos takes over the job of building manager just as a sewage pipe bursts. Will Pavlos succeed in fixing the broken sewage pipe before he can fix his own wrecked life? Director Hoursoglou succeeds in creating a faithful, entertaining, and even touching portrait of "ordinary" interpersonal relations....
The Rope Maker
Character: Veta Skoudri
Lampros is a scrooge person whining for every penny he spends. One day though, along with a friend, he goes out to party with unexpected results......
The seawolf
Character: Nora Sgourou
A trainee sailor makes life difficult for his marker to be presented with his outfit and his name to a girl he likes....
Lalakis the Import
Character: Λούλα
Lalakis, a penniless guy, is obsessed with expensive imported clothing, and through various petty schemes he manages to satisfy his "shopping" addiction. When he gets fired from his job and is left penniless, an Italian woman, Livia, appears and suggests that they import cosmetics from Italy to Greece. Lalakis gladly accepts and goes to Rome to bring them back, but he gets mixed up with a gang of antiquities smugglers, who follow him to Greece. However, he manages to neutralize them and subseque...
Satrapis
Character: Markela Dourou
Despite being widowed twice, a goldsmith sets sail for his third marriage, aiming to find an obedient bride who will not object to his wishes. However, the woman he meets is a karate instructor who does not take orders....
The madness goes on ... schools
Character: Ellen Paraschou
Nana with her mother come from Thessaloniki to settle in Athens. The mother and daughter relationship is completely liberated from social taboos. Nana written at Athens High School, but from day one faces the bad faith of the classmate. All classmates are girls, the authorities of feminism is the guiding principle of their conduct. Nana between them looks like the fly in the milk and this bothers...
Thanasis, Juliet and the sausages
Character: Anna
Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is an honest working man who has to support his sister’s family as well, as Maria’s husband is only interested in football. Thanasis is in love with Juliet (Aimilia Ypsilanti), daughter of a rough butcher from Mani, who wants to have her marry a sausage-tycoon....
The Heirs
Character: Roula
Four very different people inherit a percentage of a fashion house but in order to make it work they have to get along with each other....
Jack of All Trades, Master of None
Character: Giannakis' mother
Thanasis Vengos plays a poor young man that comes to Athens looking for a job. We watch as he tries many different jobs; druggist, photographer, even wrestling referee. The result is always hilarious and explosive!...
My friend, Lefterakis
Character: Katina
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....
Yannis is afraid of the Beast...
Character: Kaiti
Pericles, a barber, leaves his homeland and goes to Africa to hunt wild animals. Someday he decides to return and his adventure is about to begin......
The Princess's Little Boy
Character: Theodora
Stavros has a cafe with his brother years and are the only ones in the family who care to get by. He is in love with Mary, which, however, not turning to look at him. Mary comes from an ......
Oh, If I Only Were a Man
Character: Vaso
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....
Father Gomenios
Character: Zozo
Menios is an unrepentant womanizer with countless victories on his resume. Eventually he decides to settle down and marry Sula. Paradoxically, although his friends called him small "Gkomenio" for obvious reasons, fails to demonstrate the capabilities of the Gannet, which remains unblemished even after the honeymoon. On the one disappointment Menios and the other pressures of mother-who wants grandchild, lead him to the monastery of his uncle, where they stylite monk. There by the grace of God, m...
I Loved an Armchair
Character: Zeta
Years ago, Grigoris was forced to sell four velvet armchairs to the junk dealer. After the death of his aunt, he was informed that her entire legacy, which was a box of jewelry, was hidden in one of those four armchairs. In the meantime, the armchairs had been sold to other people, and so a desperate quest for the right armchair begins, resulting in many and sometimes grotesque adventures....
That Something... Else!
Character: Nana's Mother
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...
Aristotelis the Lightweight
Character: Areti
A pasta-factory owner, Aristotelis Kolokythas, after two unsuccessful marriages in the past, is now crazy about a folk singer, Mirella. For her sake, he lavishly squanders his pasta profits, despite the earnest efforts of his partner Orestis, to rein in his spending and put some sense into him. When the business finally goes bankrupt, the hero considers leaving for the Congo to work with his twin brother, Vangelis. Suddenly, however, everything changes, as Vangelis arrives in Athens....
Thilyko thiriotrofeio
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In a girls' school, the students compete with each other in scandalous behavior. Sassy and experienced, they decide to seduce one of their serious teachers, the young gym teacher Dimitris, who performs his duties as an educator with great conscientiousness but refuses to see them as women....
All that glitters is gold
Character: Eirini Temboglou
Lambis, a traffic inspector, falls victim to a misunderstanding when corrupt employees mistake him for a financial inspector. They try to appease him in every way possible in order to hide a book containing suspicious information. Comical situations follow one after another, until the real inspector reveals the truth, putting an end to the commotion....
For a Handful of Tourist ladies
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In search of the perfect location to start a camping business, a lovely investor visits a sun-kissed Greek island, only to get caught in the middle of a long-standing feud between two antagonistic villages. Can they let bygones be bygones?...
Gold and Tin
Character: Toula
A super market owner opposes the affair of his daughter with a new employee at his business....
The Revolutionary
Character: Ισαβέλα Μαρινέρη
Set in the 1880's, a rich young man from the middle class falls in love with the daughter of a local count and sets in motion a series of conflicts with the aristocrats of Zante....
The lucky pants
Character: Vangelis' Wife
A police officer arrests pitiable Thanasis, who admits to having stolen the trousers of a happy man in the hope of becoming happy himself, after being advised to do so by a Gypsy. He confesses that, in order to marry his girlfriend, he asked to borrow a pair of trousers, but no one would lend them to him, so he went ahead and stole a pair of trousers, but no one was willing to lend him. So he decided to steal one. The policeman assists him and finds the trouser holder and also works for Thanasis...
Μια κυρία στον υπόκοσμο
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Ellas ole... kai tsepes kourele!
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