Vana Barba

Acting

Vana Barba

Born 1966-03-13 · Ioannina, Greece

Vana Barba (March 13, 1966, Ioannina) is a Greek actress, and former model, awarded as Miss Greece in 1984. Her career began after her victory in 1984 as Miss Greece while in the same year she was a candidate for Miss World. With her appearance in the Italian film Mediterraneo, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991, she became widely known and continued her career appearing in television and theater.

Acting credits

Take Care poster
4.6

A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an affair with the widow and cannot decide between them

Take Care

1991

Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο πρίγκηπας της καρπαζιάς

1986

Loneliness Everywhere, Loneliness Nowhere poster
3.8

A couple in crisis comes closer when the woman (who suspecting her husband of adultery) decides to work as a dancer in a nightclub. When he sees her dancing, he desires her again.

Loneliness Everywhere, Loneliness Nowhere

1998

Mediterraneo poster
7.6

Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.

Mediterraneo

1991

Living Dangerously poster
6.8

On 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.

Living Dangerously

1987

The Homosexuals poster
NR

Alexis Panas, a brilliant trainee psychiatrist, leads a double life. By day, Alexis handles complex cases for inmates at a mental health clinic. By night, the quiet psychotherapist frequents Athens' seedy gay bars looking for pleasure. As Alexis' complicated existence unfolds, the stories of fellow lost souls depict the city's ugly face and the chronic problem of acceptance and racism that society stubbornly shies away from dealing with. But the closeted psychologist knows he is playing with fire. After all, he is looking for love in all the wrong places. And when a horrible incident leaves him open-mouthed, Alexis will have to choose: live a life in fear or live his life.

The Homosexuals

1988

The Cruise of Love poster
3.0

Jealousy is a reasonable indication of love and expressions of interest for the other half. But when it exceeds the reasonable limits, is suffering for both. Typical is the case of a jealous wife who during a cruise in the Mediterranean, will upset everyone with her antics.

The Cruise of Love

1988

Deluxe Madhouse poster
5.0

Sometimes clumsy, sometimes amateurish, a well-meaning private eye is assigned the task of uncovering a conspiracy involving his old friend's sweetheart. Will he finally manage to get to the bottom of it?

Deluxe Madhouse

1989

Love Me Not? poster
5.6

Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.

Love Me Not?

1989

Agrafos nomos poster
8.0

Stratos, a marginal figure, carries on his shoulders the freedom and doubts of his generation. Upon leaving prison after serving a five-year sentence, he will seek out those responsible, demanding his share of a theft for which he paid the consequences. It is an extremely dangerous journey, and to reach his destination, he must pass through the dark circles of nighttime illegality. He encounters old "friends" who still want him as a pawn in their game, women with strange identities, and police officers who lead him into a relentless pursuit...

Agrafos nomos

1987

Ο πρωτάρης και η Ρίτα poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ο πρωτάρης και η Ρίτα

1989

Οι εγκέφαλοι poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Οι εγκέφαλοι

1987

Orpheus Descending poster
8.0

Eurydice 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.

Orpheus Descending

1996

I alitisa poster
NR

A great baby food industry is poisoning the children using trashy feedstock. A girl of the nobility, studying mannequin comes from Paris, disguised in alitissa and trying to find the edge in the odd case.

I alitisa

1990

To stigma tis enohis poster
3.3

Helen knew the pitfalls of life and the struggles of survival from her childhood. The world around her, the people she knew and became close to, all hid some secret sins and a dirty past. They all had some stigma of guilt... But when a dangerous secret comes to light, none of them could ever have imagined that Helen...

To stigma tis enohis

1985

Πάθος και έρωτας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Πάθος και έρωτας

1989

Lefki apeili poster
NR

Petros is a cop who loses his job and ends up sleeping on the streets. His chance comes when the head of security brings him back into action to take down a ruthless drug lord. Petros starts working for the drug lord as an undercover agent and makes the mistake of getting involved with his girlfriend, Monica.

Lefki apeili

1990

Feminine cocktail poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Feminine cocktail

1989

Crazy Holiday poster
NR

Peter, a lively and wacky young, along with the equally crazy friends, erecting tents on a beach next to a luxury hotel, which makes a holiday of the girl, Anna, along with strict parents of, not the allow comes with this company. The sister of Peter drifted into a supposedly Anna erotic rendezvous father to give the opportunity to Anna to see his brother

Crazy Holiday

1985

The Pink Cat poster
6.7

Panos and Archimidis are colleagues and co-tenants. Panos is a modern young man, whereas Archimidis is more conservative. Panos tries to make Archimidis live his life more passionately. Archimidis then develops a dual personality. In the morning, he is a restrained teacher, and at night he is a reveller and a skirt-chaser. When his sister is kidnapped, Archimidis enters a hospital to overcome his problem.

The Pink Cat

1985

The Horsemen of Pylos poster
5.6

Telemachus, an actor with a glorious past and an uncertain future, leaves Athens at the age of fifty to escape the banks. With the help of Babis "Fou," he finds refuge in an abandoned castle in the heart of Messinia. The only inhabitants are two brothers who don't speak to each other and a niece who got fed up with them and left, Demokratia. Telemachus meets her by chance and is enchanted. A little of the doctor's syrup for his lungs, which have become a mine, a little tsipouro, a little of Babis' "forbidden substances"... the gods intervene and Democracy returns to her place! Dream, reality, or both? You be the judge, and whoever finds out wins a Kalamon pasteli.

The Horsemen of Pylos

2011

Επικίνδυνη σχέση poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Επικίνδυνη σχέση

1989

Το Τίμημα της... Λόξας poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Το Τίμημα της... Λόξας

1988

Hoshiyar poster
9.0

Two brothers, separated in their youth, grow up to be a singer and an assassin, with the latter being hired to kill the former. Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha. Directed by K. Raghavendra Rao.

Hoshiyar

1989