Acting
Katerina Helmy
Born August 12, 1939 · Athens, Greece
Died April 15, 2023 · aged 83
Katerina Helmi (Greek: Κατερίνα Χέλμη, Athens, 12 August 1939 - Kifissia, 15 April 2023) was a Greek actress. She became widely known to the Greek audience through roles in some of the most beloved films of Greek cinema. Her first appearance in cinema was in 1957 in the film Barbagiannis the Pitcher, but her greatest success is The Red Lights. She was also the rival of Aliki Vougiouklaki in the fi…
Known For
Angel · 1982Angel
★ 5.61982
MovieDrama
Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover.
The Red Lanterns · 1963The Red Lanterns
★ 7.21963
MovieDrama
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
Νατάσα · 1970Νατάσα
★ 7.51970
MovieDrama
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea · 2019The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea
★ 5.22019
MovieCrimeDrama
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman, is miserable in the narrow-minded town in which she's living. While Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.
Erotic Stories · 1959Erotic Stories
★ 4.91959
MovieDrama
A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.
Εις θάνατονΕις θάνατον
★ 9.0
MovieDrama
There Are No Deserters · 1970There Are No Deserters
★ 7.01970
MovieWarDrama
August 1944, and a captain in the Greek army in the Middle East, Jason, secretly disembarks on an island with the mission of gathering information on the state of the German defensive positions, in view of the imminent landing of the Allied Forces. To complete his mission, he makes contact with some rebels, but the Germans are aware of his presence and arrest twelve men to force him to surrender. Shortly before the deadline expires, a local man who had been declared a deserter shortly before the war began and had been in hiding, presents himself at his post and is executed, making his wife and son proud.
Passion Fever · 1969Passion Fever
★ 4.21969
MovieDrama
This and The Hot Month of August, both made in Greece, were acquired by DORIS WISHMAN for release in the United States. However, she somehow or other lost the dialogue sheets needed for dubbing the films into English. With the original dialogue a mystery, and not understanding Greek in the first place, the Grand Dame of Sexploitation simply re-invented the entire plot blissfully dubbing it away without any clue as to what was really being said, and then adding some steamy sex scenes with her own anonymous adulterers to liven things up.

















