Betty Livanou

Acting

Betty Livanou

Born

1951-01-01 (75)

Place of birth

Athens, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Betty Livanou (Greek: Μπέτυ Λιβανού) was born in Athens, in Plato's Academy, to a family with roots from Asia Minor and Egypt. Before she even finished school, young Betty found herself working in advertising, posing for print ads and acting in film spots, while after finishing school she worked for a year as a model. Although she had been receiving offers to act in films since she was young, she was not particularly interested. However, when, at the age of 20, she was called by Filopoimin Finos and Yannis Dalianidis, everything changed. The two “masters” of cinema had noticed her in a cigarette commercial in which she was pantomiming and had been captivated by her face. And so, without havi…

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

Αγαπώ Τη Μαμά Σου poster
NR

The Alceste (Betty Livanos) is a fifty-year woman with two daughters, who still retains the youthful glow of years. The decision to follow her lover to England resulted completely disrupt relations with Mika (Christiana Matzouranis), her great daughter. When Alcestis decides to settle in Greece, wants to make a new beginning with her daughters. But Mika confronts her icily, and never accepted behavior of her mother. A legacy in Galaxidi addressed Alcestis and her daughters, imposing the coexistence of the family. Only that Mika has decided to send a representative to husband, Marino (Haris Romas), a winemaker ... Behind the aggressive attitude of Marino for the charming mother of hiding a strange eroticism to unforeseen development, which causes many comical situations ...

Αγαπώ Τη Μαμά Σου

2007

Testosterone poster
5.1

Peter, the hero, aged 20, finds himself on a deserted Greek island with no other men in sight. The women of the island, regardless of age harass him sexually. What starts off as a typical male sexual fantasy turns out into a nightmare

Testosterone

2005

No artwork available
10.0

A young scientist, Andreas Karamanolis, starts to follow the singer Katia, who not only sparks off Andrea's revolution but also draws him into her strange world. On Katia's farm, Andreas lives in a totally absurd environment. He seems to live in a dream, but often dreams can become nightmares

Ο Παράδεισος είναι Προσωπική Υπόθεση

2001

Όνειρα γλυκά poster
5.5

fantastical human story

Όνειρα γλυκά

2002

Athens Blues poster
5.7

A group of men in their sixties that spend the August nights in Athens outside a pharmacy during night shift, an ambulance driver who has an affair with a younger girl, a middle-aged couple who have invented a lie to renew their passion for one another, a child pretending to sleepwalk in the streets of Athens, two younger people who are tied together in an office after a burglar attack, and other amorous encounters during the same night.

Athens Blues

2001

Love Me Do poster
3.0

A director decides to make a film about an old friend, musician, who died from drugs years ago and became known to the general public after his death. The present and the past confused in the mind of the director and the influences in his work.

Love Me Do

2003

1980s · 5 titles

Arpa Colla poster
6.1

"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.

Arpa Colla

1982

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

A Foolish Love poster
6.5

The story of a young man who every day watches the inhabitants of the apartment across the street. They have a very beautiful daughter, but after a few days he finds himself in love with the mother...

A Foolish Love

1981

Sudden Love poster
5.2

Still reluctant to call it quits on her dying marriage, a conventional Athenian housewife gets caught up in a whirlwind romance with a successful man. Will this deliciously dangerous affair lead to true love or sharp disappointment?

Sudden Love

1984

Underground route poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Underground route

1983

1970s · 9 titles

An Uncompromising Man poster
5.6

A medical student (Pavlos Sidiropoulos) delays his studies to become a singer in this story of a man who follows his own convictions. He becomes a street singer and finds a young woman (Betty Livanou) he wishes to marry. After the two are wed, he returns to medical school to support his wife and family. He earns his medical degree and lands a job in a hospital. When he refuses to take part in the exploitation of the patients, he is fired. He opens his own practice but later quits when he is asked to participate in another fraudulent medical scam.

An Uncompromising Man

1979

Honeymoon poster
5.0

Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in the ocean, naked, as he and Zaharoula are out walking on the beach. Taken up in the spirit of the moment, she joins him among the waves. The results, however, are not what they expected.

Honeymoon

1979

The Revolutionary poster
4.3

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 Revolutionary

1971

Η Αμαρτία Της Ομορφιάς poster
3.8

A pageant queen marries o wealthy man,but his mother will do anything to keep them apart.

Η Αμαρτία Της Ομορφιάς

1972

Twenty Women and I poster
6.2

A bunch of women dominates Kostas Filipou's life. His mother Smaro and his three sisters: married Rika - who wants to take a divorce -, religious Fanouria and Tzela the student. The last two have to get married. There are also the women who work at the women's lingerie business that he runs, many of whom see him as a potential husband, as well as Betty, a colleague deeply in love with him, whose mother pressures her to get married. When Kostas secretly marries Betty, who rents with her mother an apartment above theirs, Smaro decides to find both of them a mate. She suggests to Betty the neighborhood's electrician- but Kostas finds a way to break the match- and to Kostas a young woman from Veroia- but Betty manages to break the match. The revelation of the couple's marriage relieves everyone and the fact that Betty is pregnant brings the desired peace and serenity.

Twenty Women and I

1973

Groom Urgently Wanted poster
5.1

A mature woman, a widow with a daughter of marrying age, is trying to rebuild her life, but all the men she approaches are interested in her daughter and not herself. After several failed attempts, she eventually manages to find a man of her age.

Groom Urgently Wanted

1971

The Sinners poster
3.5

A young man leaves Thessaloniki and goes to Athens to find a job. But he gets tangled in different situations and gets accused of murder.

The Sinners

1971

Abuse of authority poster
6.1

A police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a morphine. As a member of the Drug Enforcement Department, he tries to identify the head of a drug dealer gang. His unorthodox way of acting upsets his superiors, even though they allow him to continue his investigations. When the gang discovers that he is a police officer, he makes him a drug addict, but he manages to detoxify and eventually capture the gang's brain.

Abuse of authority

1971

A Joyful Afternoon poster
5.1

After a long decade of separation, a rising politician accompanies his ex-wife to the airport, thirsting for closure. As both fight with their inner demons, a suicide bomber threatens them. Will they find redemption this smiling afternoon?

A Joyful Afternoon

1979

Series credits

Η Παραλία poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Η Παραλία

2023

Έρωτας Μετά poster
10.0

A story of love and mystery

Έρωτας Μετά

2019

7 Deadly Mother-in-Laws poster
6.4

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.

7 Deadly Mother-in-Laws

2004

Άφρικα poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Άφρικα

1992

Η Τελευταία Παράσταση poster
5.0

this is about the life during the world war ii in greece

Η Τελευταία Παράσταση

2006

Painted sun poster
5.7

Olga and Stefos, two seemingly mismatched people, since she is a writer and he is a taxi driver and an old, as well as unlucky in his life actor, are plundered by their families. Abandoned by their own one Christmas, drowned by the feeling of a torturous loneliness, they meet. A customer in his taxi, she asks him to set off without a destination. They arrive at the sea. They see a tavern, she asks him to accompany her and have a drink together. Thus begins their story. They lean on each other. They feel alive again, they feel full, young. But the plunderers are lurking. They will learn, they will slander and they will demand their gains again. In vain. Olga and Stefos, have caught the sun of their lives and will not leave it anymore. It is in his west, but it is theirs.

Painted sun

1996

Sweet and sour wine poster
7.0

A destructive love is born within a family and tragedy breaks out not only among its members but also among its acquaintances and friends. Marina is an oenologist and her two great passions are: Stefanos, her husband who is a shipbuilder, and the new wine she prepares in her vineyards in the Peloponnese. The couple has an adopted 17-year-old daughter, Anna. Suddenly, an unexpected and uncontrollable passion is born between Stefanos and Anna. Marina, who is a support for both of them, will not be long in discovering the truth and then the conflicts are painful. The impasse of this situation is also experienced by the family's relatives. Everyone sees things from their own perspective but everyone is called upon to make their choices, paying the corresponding price.

Sweet and sour wine

1999

O Giteftis poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

O Giteftis

2007

Το μονοπάτι της αγάπης poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Το μονοπάτι της αγάπης

1994

Behind the camera