Acting
Giannis Voglis
Born September 30, 1937 · Athens, Greece
Died April 20, 2016 · aged 78
Giannis Voglis (Greek: Γιάννης Βόγλης; 30 September 1937 – 20 April 2016) was a Greek actor. Voglis was born in Athens and he studied at Pelos Katselis' drama academy. His father was from Asia Minor and his mother from Andros. His first appearance in the theater was in the theatrical performance I anodos tou Artouro in 1961, directed by Karolos Koun. He made his first appearance in film in the mo…
Known For
Frenzy · 1971Frenzy
★ 9.51971
MovieMysteryCrime
A woman murders her disabled husband and informs his brother (with whom she is having an affair), but she realizes she has misdialed and accidentally confessed her crime to a stranger. The caller attempts to blackmail her, but when he tries to rape her she kills him in the struggle. Worse still, her doctor and lover inform her to say nothing because her husband has been dead for eight months and everything that has happened she has imagined.
Panic in the Schools · 1982Panic in the Schools
★ 5.21982
MovieAdventureDrama
When he loses his son from overdose, in his school, the outraged father will look for the villains responsible for the loss of his child. At the same time, a journalist covers the narrative report on drugs in schools. With her help, the father will discover the gang leader with whom traded smuggled drinks for himself.
Hero Bunker · 1972Hero Bunker
★ 6.01972
MovieDramaWar
Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, war was declared, and the Italians attacked the Albanian front on October 28. From an outpost on the Greek-Albanian border, a military truck unexpectedly comes under fire by Italian tanks. Petros, the only one who manages to escape death or captivity, saves a village girl, Maria. However, the Greeks manage to recapture the machine-gun nest, setting free the soldiers who had been pinned down. The platoon in question puts up a hard fight against the Italian invaders, while, at the same time, the Greek army is preparing for a counter-attack, which doesn't take long to happen. Right after, the Italians are forced to fall back; Northern Epirus is recaptured, and the army of the Badoglio is repulsed from the Adriatic.
The Swamp · 1973The Swamp
★ 5.71973
MovieAdventureDrama
Lena, Alexis and Manolis are ready to run with the money of a bogus company they had founded, when Lena discloses the secret to her childhood friend Dimitris. Alexis and Manolis decide to take him along, in their small private plane. They will land in a deserted spot and try to kill him, while Lena escapes with the plane, which she throws to a swamp along with the money it carries. The people from a lighthouse nearby apprise of the situation and try to get the plane out of the swamp, hoping the money will change their fortune.
The barker · 1964The barker
★ 6.31964
MovieDrama
A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.
Ο 13ος · 1967Ο 13ος
★ 7.01967
MovieDramaWar
O efialtis · 1987O efialtis
1987
MovieDramaRomance
Dimitris Apostolou is a successful lawyer and former minister. He lives peacefully with his wife and daughter, leading an uneventful family life. Tassos, a dear friend of his, tries to convince him to make his life a little more fun by escaping from the daily grind, but he is not convinced. Dimitris meets Aliki, a journalist by profession, who becomes his lover but also writes his biography. However, someone from his past comes to disturb his peace...
Girls in the Sun · 1968Girls in the Sun
★ 6.41968
MovieRomanceDrama
A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece.
Movies
Frenzy · 1971Frenzy
★ 9.51971
MovieMysteryCrime
A woman murders her disabled husband and informs his brother (with whom she is having an affair), but she realizes she has misdialed and accidentally confessed her crime to a stranger. The caller attempts to blackmail her, but when he tries to rape her she kills him in the struggle. Worse still, her doctor and lover inform her to say nothing because her husband has been dead for eight months and everything that has happened she has imagined.
Panic in the Schools · 1982Panic in the Schools
★ 5.21982
MovieAdventureDrama
When he loses his son from overdose, in his school, the outraged father will look for the villains responsible for the loss of his child. At the same time, a journalist covers the narrative report on drugs in schools. With her help, the father will discover the gang leader with whom traded smuggled drinks for himself.
Hero Bunker · 1972Hero Bunker
★ 6.01972
MovieDramaWar
Following the torpedoing of the destroyer Elli on August 15, 1940 on Tinos by an Italian submarine, war was declared, and the Italians attacked the Albanian front on October 28. From an outpost on the Greek-Albanian border, a military truck unexpectedly comes under fire by Italian tanks. Petros, the only one who manages to escape death or captivity, saves a village girl, Maria. However, the Greeks manage to recapture the machine-gun nest, setting free the soldiers who had been pinned down. The platoon in question puts up a hard fight against the Italian invaders, while, at the same time, the Greek army is preparing for a counter-attack, which doesn't take long to happen. Right after, the Italians are forced to fall back; Northern Epirus is recaptured, and the army of the Badoglio is repulsed from the Adriatic.
The Swamp · 1973The Swamp
★ 5.71973
MovieAdventureDrama
Lena, Alexis and Manolis are ready to run with the money of a bogus company they had founded, when Lena discloses the secret to her childhood friend Dimitris. Alexis and Manolis decide to take him along, in their small private plane. They will land in a deserted spot and try to kill him, while Lena escapes with the plane, which she throws to a swamp along with the money it carries. The people from a lighthouse nearby apprise of the situation and try to get the plane out of the swamp, hoping the money will change their fortune.
The barker · 1964The barker
★ 6.31964
MovieDrama
A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.
Ο 13ος · 1967Ο 13ος
★ 7.01967
MovieDramaWar
O efialtis · 1987O efialtis
1987
MovieDramaRomance
Dimitris Apostolou is a successful lawyer and former minister. He lives peacefully with his wife and daughter, leading an uneventful family life. Tassos, a dear friend of his, tries to convince him to make his life a little more fun by escaping from the daily grind, but he is not convinced. Dimitris meets Aliki, a journalist by profession, who becomes his lover but also writes his biography. However, someone from his past comes to disturb his peace...
Girls in the Sun · 1968Girls in the Sun
★ 6.41968
MovieRomanceDrama
A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece.
The Suspended Step of the Stork · 1991The Suspended Step of the Stork
★ 6.81991
MovieDrama
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
Word of Honour · 2001Word of Honour
★ 4.92001
MovieDrama
Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery.
Sweet Country · 1987Sweet Country
★ 4.91987
MovieDramaHistory
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Παγίδα · 1962Παγίδα
★ 8.01962
MovieDramaAdventure
In the Turkish-occupied Greece of the 18th century, Menousis when the Turks would kill his wife, decides to climb the mountains and along with the thieves to fight for the liberation of his country.
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World · 1988Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
★ 6.61988
MovieDrama
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.
I goiteia tou hrimatos · 1988I goiteia tou hrimatos
★ 9.01988
MovieDrama
Two brothers, one woman in their lives. Their erotic passion brings them face to face. They compete fiercely through the IT companies they represent. Intrigues and murders strike mercilessly at both sides. The law of "an eye for an eye" prevails...
Love without Borders · 1970Love without Borders
★ 4.51970
Movie
An impotent husband pushes his wife in the arms of a playboy in order to offer her satisfaction. At the same time a lesbian is flirting with her.
Erotes sti Lesvo · 1967Erotes sti Lesvo
1967
MovieComedy
A Greek-American expatriate with six months to live embezzles millions from his New York City company and flees to his hometown of Mytilene. But law and fate never forget, and a chance encounter with love complicates matters.
A Dream of Passion · 1978A Dream of Passion
★ 6.21978
MovieDrama
Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927 · 1980Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927
★ 6.41980
MovieHistory
A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by Venizelos after the Goudi movement, his dispute with the King over Greece's stance in the First World War, the temporary his withdrawal from politics after his defeat in the 1920 elections and the Asia Minor disaster. A biography of the former Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos and the recreation of his acts and the political and social climate in Greece from 1910 to 1927.
Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες · 1966Ξεχασμένοι Ήρωες
★ 10.01966
MovieDramaWar
Ταξίδι... στη Μπανγκόκ · 1987Ταξίδι... στη Μπανγκόκ
★ 3.01987
MovieDramaRomance
Blood on the Land · 1966Blood on the Land
★ 6.91966
MovieDramaAdventure
Two rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek homeland.
In Thessaly in 1907, a man incites the poor farmers to take over the land they work for the benefit of the landowners. Odysseus (Nikos Kourkoulos), the son of one such landowner (Manos Katrakis), refuses to clash with the farmers.
The Bluffer · 1969The Bluffer
★ 8.01969
MovieComedy
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 ...
The Brave Bunch · 1970The Brave Bunch
★ 6.21970
MovieDramaHistory
Two friends, a military and a journalist, after the collapse of the Albanian front, go to Macedonia to organize resistance against the Bulgarians.
I blame the People · 1966I blame the People
★ 6.41966
MovieDrama
A new, ambitious prosecutor undertakes a great trial for a murder trial but things get very confused. Instead of the accused, slowly proved that culprit is actually the wife of itself.
TV Shows
In Red Background · 2008In Red Background
★ 7.02008
SeriesDrama
Love, passion, fear, pain, blood. All symbolized by the most intense of colors, red, because people who live with passion live against a red background. In 1967, a soldier in the Greek division leaves Cyprus, losing his teenage love forever. Forty-one years later, he learns that he left much more behind. A woman trapped in a dead marriage, but at the same time caught up in a passionate and forbidden love affair. A doomed love affair that will lead two brothers into a deadly conflict. When one foot steps into passion, the other is surely in the wrong. But only the dead are far from passion and error. The living are doomed to experience the supreme happiness of a love that is born, but also the deep pain left behind by a love that dies, or, even worse, a love that is forever forbidden and unfulfilled. Joy and tears, love and pain, are all painted on a red background!
Akti Oneiron · 1998Akti Oneiron
1998
SeriesDrama
Η Δίψα · 1990Η Δίψα
★ 7.31990
Series
Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά · 2006Της Αγάπης Μαχαιριά
★ 4.02006
SeriesDrama
Ακροβατώντας · 2003Ακροβατώντας
★ 5.72003
SeriesDrama
O episkeptis tis omihlis · 1991O episkeptis tis omihlis
★ 7.01991
SeriesDrama
Άγγιγμα ψυχής · 1998Άγγιγμα ψυχής
★ 6.51998
SeriesDrama
Psithiroi Kardias · 1997Psithiroi Kardias
★ 7.01997
SeriesDrama
Who can forget the sore look of the gypsy. The mismatched love of a young architect with great ambitions and a beautiful gypsy just under twenty. A love that from birth carries, almost insurmountable obstacles, as it comes in complete contrast both with the "properly" environment of Antonis and with the marginal, but tightly closed to its own rules, world of Erato.
Σύνορα Αγάπης · 1999Σύνορα Αγάπης
★ 8.01999
SeriesDrama
Άφρικα · 1992Άφρικα
★ 6.51992
SeriesDrama
Η Αγάπη Ήρθε από Μακριά · 2002Η Αγάπη Ήρθε από Μακριά
★ 6.02002
SeriesDrama
Μια ζωή για την Έλσα · 1995Μια ζωή για την Έλσα
1995
SeriesDrama
Έρωτας Κλέφτης · 2000Έρωτας Κλέφτης
★ 5.32000
SeriesDrama
Μεθυσμένη πολιτεία · 1980Μεθυσμένη πολιτεία
1980
SeriesDrama
Silver Dinar · 1994Silver Dinar
★ 8.01994
SeriesCrimeMystery
Journalist Costas Tsarouchas reveals the recipient of the stolen goods from the great theft of the Esterházy collection from the "Museum of Fine Arts" in Budapest, in November 1983, as revealed by evidence from the investigations he conducted.
Peter and Paul · 1981Peter and Paul
★ 7.21981
SeriesDramaFamily
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.
Manto Mavrogenous · 1983Manto Mavrogenous
★ 7.01983
Series
The straw hats · 1995The straw hats
★ 8.01995
SeriesDrama
Love, the search for love, the desire for love... Three summers in the bright light of Attica, three sisters in their prime, Maria, Infanta, Katerina. Maria, the eldest, sensual, close to the mysteries of nature, Infanta, fiery but restrained in the face of love, Katerina, thirsty for independence, who chooses the dream. For her, the myth becomes reality, like the mysterious faces of the Polish grandmother and Captain Andreas. Katerina narrates these three summers with imagination, humor and immense tenderness, with a youthful grace that already has a touch of nostalgia.