Acting
Olia Lazaridou
Born March 13, 1954 · Kolonaki, Athens, Greece (age 72)
Olia Lazaridou (Athens, 13 March 1954) is a Greek actress and director. Her father was a radio producer and advertiser. She studied acting at the Drama School of the Art Theatre where she performed, as an actress, in tragedies and in the play Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Giorgos Lazanis. In 1986 she went to France where she attended classes at the school of Antoine Vitez. …
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Varieté · 1985Varieté
★ 5.01985
MovieComedyDrama
An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
Stigma · 1982Stigma
★ 6.71982
MovieDramaCrime
A young couple (Antonis Kafetzopoulos and Olia Lazaridou) have a baby affected with the Down Syndrome. In order to avoid the difficulties entailed in bringing a child that will never live a normal life, they decided to put an end to its life.
The Woman Who Missed Home · 2005The Woman Who Missed Home
2005
MovieDramaFamily
Anna, married to a husband much older than she, longs to see her island, which is right across the island she lives. She has never visited it again since her marriage. Thus, she persuades Mathio, a young shepherd to take her there with a 'borrowed' boat. He accepts, hoping for a romantic adventure. However, all she wants is to see her island. Her husband follows her ...
Potlatch · 1987Potlatch
★ 6.01987
MovieDramaRomance
Arhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming birthday, a self-destructive symphonic composer makes an out of bounds and dangerous bet on himself.
Rare Land · 2022Rare Land
2022
MovieDrama
A young boy slowly drifts into illness. As sight + sound begin to dwindle, his love for life does not…
Paradise · 2011Paradise
★ 5.12011
MovieDramaRomance
Marianna returns to Greece on a whim to surprise her boyfriend, secretly plotting to stay with him forever, while Nikos is using the carnival as an excuse to confess his love to his unsuspecting boss. Eugenia hesitates to tell her daughter about her secret romance with the much younger carnival crew leader, while Ilias has no qualms about begging his estranged wife to come home. Four couples, each one desperately trying to either rescue or escape their relationship, lose themselves in the intoxicating atmosphere of the carnival before they finally reveal their true colors, hidden behind the masks. In the midst of carnival madness, four duets are staking their claim on their own personal Paradise…
Invincible Lovers · 1988Invincible Lovers
★ 5.71988
MovieDrama
Twelve-year-old Vasilis escapes the orphanage, wanders a while in the capital and then takes the train for his hometown, Tripolis. As he wanders through the mountains of Arcadia, he meets a girl whose car has broken down. They become friends and spend the summer together, until Vasilis returns to his grandmother's house, which he finds abandoned and in ruin. The girl disappears, and Vasilis, deserted and alone, takes the road to Tripolis, where, in order to make ends meet, he performs odd jobs. On the day celebrating his patron saint, however, he abandons the city and takes the road back to his village.
The Wretches Are Still Singing · 1979The Wretches Are Still Singing
★ 7.51979
MovieMysteryDrama
Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, reunite after years of silence: one arrives from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years; the other comes from a series of 'accidental' murders; another leaves his wife and kids; the fourth is a wonderer; and the last, the sole female, emerges from a lunatic asylum where she's been hiding for years... These outcasts—tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved and betrayed by the politics of their times—hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in their own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.
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Prodosia · 1997Prodosia
★ 5.01997
SeriesDrama
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