Xenia Kalogeropoulou

Acting

Xenia Kalogeropoulou

Born

1936-09-12 (90)

Place of birth

Athens, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Xenia Kalogeropoulou (Greek: Ξένια Καλογεροπούλου; born September 12, 1936) is a Greek actress, who appeared in both Greek and English-speaking films in her career. With her career, spanning six decades, she has appeared in over forty films and television shows. Kalogeropoulou was born in Athens, Greece and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her acting debut in the 1956 play, La Troupe Francaise. She broke into the movies with a minor part in Mrs. Midwife. She would go on to appear in Marriage Adventures (1959), West Side and East Side (1959), Soldiers in Uniform (1960), and Lisa, Tosca of Athens (1961). Her first starring role was in 1961's, 2000 Sailors and a Gi…

Known for

Before Midnight poster
7.5

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

Before Midnight

2013

Enopios Enopio poster
NR

Enopios Enopio

1991

The Sunday girl poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Sunday girl

1964

Between Two Women poster
7.0

A young lady, Maria, is hired at Mrs Elsa's house to watch her mother-in-law. But she does not realize that her lady has thrown it into nights and gambling. She also understands from the narratives of the mother-in-law of Mrs Elsa and her mother, Demetris, who is the master and has with him on the voyage and his brother Manos, that the two brothers work for a sacred purpose: to raise money and to make money Jail their father. But when Dimitris returns with the intention of staying forever on the land, he finds that Elsa has squandered all their economies on paper. Bitter thought to divorce her but Mary, knowing that Elsa loves him, prevents such a development. Maria itself decides to live with her lawyer, Mr. Pantelis, who has long been in love with her.

Between Two Women

1967

Love and storm poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love and storm

1961

The Brave Bunch poster
6.2

Two friends, a military and a journalist, after the collapse of the Albanian front, go to Macedonia to organize resistance against the Bulgarians.

The Brave Bunch

1970

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

1970s · 5 titles

The Brave Bunch poster
6.2

Two friends, a military and a journalist, after the collapse of the Albanian front, go to Macedonia to organize resistance against the Bulgarians.

The Brave Bunch

1970

Bedlam My Love poster
4.8

An old couple reviews their lives together, from the first time they met and got married since the present, through good and bad moments...

Bedlam My Love

1972

Hero Bunker poster
6.0

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.

Hero Bunker

1972

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Seagull

1976

The Man Who Broke the Ice poster
6.4

Lambros Konstantaras performs a wealthy gossip that has never worked, and all he has to do is make fun and jokes to others. But when he suddenly finds himself in the street, he realizes that life is not just fun and is forced to look for a job. In the end, it turns out he had not lost his fortune as it was an idea his father had invented shortly before he died to be

The Man Who Broke the Ice

1972

1960s · 28 titles

The Sunday girl poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Sunday girl

1964

Between Two Women poster
7.0

A young lady, Maria, is hired at Mrs Elsa's house to watch her mother-in-law. But she does not realize that her lady has thrown it into nights and gambling. She also understands from the narratives of the mother-in-law of Mrs Elsa and her mother, Demetris, who is the master and has with him on the voyage and his brother Manos, that the two brothers work for a sacred purpose: to raise money and to make money Jail their father. But when Dimitris returns with the intention of staying forever on the land, he finds that Elsa has squandered all their economies on paper. Bitter thought to divorce her but Mary, knowing that Elsa loves him, prevents such a development. Maria itself decides to live with her lawyer, Mr. Pantelis, who has long been in love with her.

Between Two Women

1967

Love and storm poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love and storm

1961

It Happened in Athens poster
5.5

In 1896 it is announced that the Olympic Games will be revived in Athens. A young shepherd, Spiridon Loues, decides to enter the 26-mile marathon. Once in Athens, he meets Christina Gratsos, a young woman from his hometown who is now the personal maid of Eleni Costa, Greece's most glamorous actress. Though he has arrived after the qualification date, Spiridon's athletic prowess so impresses Coach Graham of the American team that he is permitted to enter the contest. Eleni informs the press that she will marry the victor, confident it will be her lover, Lieutenant Vinardos.

It Happened in Athens

1962

The Girl Can't Stop poster
4.3

A shipbuilder is ruined. All he has left is a mortgaged house, a mortgaged yacht and a mortgaged wife. Precisely, there is a young vivacious, banker in his spare time, a little sadistic on the edges, ready to take the mortgage in question. Helped by his damned soul, a Turk, brother of his mistress, the builder throws his wife in the arms of the viveur. Which falls madly in love with Thassoula. The Turk kills Giorgian's uncle. Held by blackmail, he realizes that, decidedly, he has gone too far. Too late.

The Girl Can't Stop

1965

Soldiers Without Uniform poster
10.0

A resistance fighter, trying to escape the German blockade, takes refuge in a house where a mother lives with her daughter, Alice. Alice, despite having a relationship with a German collaborator, decides to actively participate in the resistance.

Soldiers Without Uniform

1960

Εγκατάλειψη poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Εγκατάλειψη

1965

The Daywork of Happiness poster
5.8

Two young people are trying to make their common life although have to face the obstacle of an authoritarian mother. The young man, trying to overcome his financial difficulties, will be involved with a suspected man in a hypothetical big bay.

The Daywork of Happiness

1960

Mrs. Midwife poster
7.9

The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village. A retired doctor decides to settle down with his family in his wife's village and opens a medical practice. However, he gradually comes into conflict with the village midwife and her unorthodox medical practices, namely eye-opening and amulets. The midwife's son, a medical student in Athens, comes to the village for vacation, falls in love with the doctor's daughter, who tries to reduce her influence over the villagers.

Mrs. Midwife

1961

The Bluffer poster
7.2

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 Bluffer

1969

The Man from Karpazia poster
7.5

Anestis is a nice guy but he doesn't have the courage to react when others bother him. When one of his close friends brings him some "magic" pills that give Anestis the superpowers of his dreams, everything is going to change...

The Man from Karpazia

1969

Με Τη Λάμψη Στα Μάτια poster
8.7

During the German occupation, the Nazis plan to execute 30 men in retaliation for the death of a German soldier at the hands of the partisans. Among the men are three brothers (Giorgos Fountas, Anestis Vlachos and Giannis Fertis). The villagers ask the German officer (Zoras Tsapelis) to spare the life of one of the brothers. He accepts on the condition that their father (Lavrentis Dianellos) selects the one to remain alive.

Με Τη Λάμψη Στα Μάτια

1966

Brother Anna poster
5.1

Andreas, nephew of the abbot of the Monastery of Dionysios, who died eight years previously, arrives at Agion Oros (Mount Athos) with a team of smugglers of antiquities, with the intention of stealing a gold cross set with precious gems, known as the Cross of Alexander the Great. He earns the trust of the meek and hospitable monks. However, a Jewish girl, Anna - whom, while still a baby during the war, her father had entrusted to the care of the hermit Vasileios - continues to pretend she is a young monk. She manages gradually to discover the entire scheme and acts to foil their plot.

Brother Anna

1963

The Roundup poster
6.9

A summer night in 1944 in Kokkinia, Kosmas, a black marketeer, is out with his friends before he is arrested by the German patrol. The Germans push him to turn in people from the Resistance, or they will execute him.

The Roundup

1965

In the shadow of the other woman poster
3.3

No synopsis available yet.

In the shadow of the other woman

1964

The Best Student poster
5.7

A businessman who balances between legality and illegality can't persuade his rightful employee to overlook his financial discrepancies. To succeed, he enlists the help of a beautiful woman; however, what happens if she, too, fails?

The Best Student

1968

The Storyteller poster
5.1

Dimitris Lazarou is an incurable storyteller. He works as a ground attendant for Olympic Airways, but his big dream is to become a pilot. With his cousin, who is considered the best pilot in the company, as his role model, he never fails to reap the rewards of his cousin's achievements. However, this habit of his will soon get him into trouble...

The Storyteller

1969

my father and i poster
5.3

A bankrupt cosmopolitan arrives with his daughter in Lagonisi, with the aim of finding a rich groom to guarantee financially.

my father and i

1963

Satrapis poster
5.3

Despite being widowed twice, a goldsmith sets sail for his third marriage, aiming to find an obedient bride who will not object to his wishes. However, the woman he meets is a karate instructor who does not take orders.

Satrapis

1968

My Dimitri... My Dimitri poster
6.4

An almost irresistible attraction between the rich daughter of a factory owner and a successful popular singer will lead to marriage against her father's will. Is he the good and honest man everybody says? Will money corrupt him, too?

My Dimitri... My Dimitri

1967

A Great Love poster
4.5

The Maro is in love with Alexis balm, in which the parents did not approve because known play-Boys. The peers aunt Lena undertakes to assist the other to the party that will organize to get to know the parents of Alexis Maro, Lena and Alex will feel a strange attraction. Lena, however, is married with a child and trying to control her emotions.

A Great Love

1964

Wedding like... Greek poster
6.1

Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how hard marriage is.

Wedding like... Greek

1964

Goodmorning Athens poster
5.8

A struggling trio of artists has a chance encounter with a sad industrialist, and decide to undertake three challenging tasks to make him happy. Each day is a new one. So, good morning, Athens, and good morning new life. Will they succeed?

Goodmorning Athens

1960

Let the Cobbler Stick to His Last poster
6.0

For too long, a nephew has been lying to his rich uncle about his marital status, to get his monthly cheques. But, when he pays a sudden visit, only a young architect can save him. Will she be able to pass herself off as his loving wife?

Let the Cobbler Stick to His Last

1969

Uphill poster
7.0

Three students share their dreams for their future after school. Yanna is the moral compass of the film. She wants to work, become financially independent, and then, if she finds the man who speaks to her heart, get married and start a family. Katerina simply wants to get married and take care of her children, and the third member of the group wants to solve her financial problems through a wealthy marriage. She doesn't care about love and romance, she doesn't want children, she wants a life full of "money" even if it means marrying without love. The camera finally focuses on Yanna's life, which seems to be going uphill. Remaining steadfast in her beliefs, she looks for work. When, after a year, she manages to find a job in the offices of a factory, her boss, Mr. Georgiou, makes advances towards her and she seriously injures him.

Uphill

1964

The Brightest Bouzouki poster
5.2

The Fanouris broccoli is a traveling salesman who happens to looks amazing with the famous actor George Kartali, which creates a lot of tangles.

The Brightest Bouzouki

1968

Casablan poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Casablan

1964

Wake Up, Poor Periklis! poster
4.8

To make his frivolous nephew see the error of his ways, a shipowner takes under his wing his bookish secretary to give her a complete makeover, bent on making him notice her. But, can the new and improved lady win the philanderer's heart?

Wake Up, Poor Periklis!

1969

1950s · 6 titles

The Treasure of the Beatitude poster
7.6

Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her rickety house.

The Treasure of the Beatitude

1959

A Matter of Dignity poster
7.4

A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.

A Matter of Dignity

1958

Laos and Kolonaki poster
5.0

A milkman has his shop at the affluent Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki and is in love with an aristocratic girl.

Laos and Kolonaki

1959

Marriage Adventures poster
6.8

Helena (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) returns to Greece after studying in Paris and on the ship home she meets Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos). An attraction develops between them and after a while Dinos asks for her hand in marriage. Helena though cannot accept his proposal because she is pregnant.

Marriage Adventures

1959

2,000 Sailors and One Girl poster
5.4

Head over heels in love with a handsome seaman, a charming dancer plucks up the courage to sneak into the naval base after her beloved is given twenty days' confinement. But, what's a girl doing amid two thousand sailors?

2,000 Sailors and One Girl

1959

Lisa, Tosca of Athens poster
5.6

Lisa (Xenia Kalogeropoulou) runs away from her father at the Athens airport because she does not want to marry a rich man from Paris whom her father has chosen for her. She hitchhikes to the city, where she meets Giorgos (Kostas Kakkavas) a handsome driver. Then, she runs away from him as well and tries to find her mother’s brother (Iordanis), whom she has never seen before. Her father publishes her photo in the newspapers and offers a reward of one hundred thousand drachmas to anyone who finds her. Lisa is now afraid that everyone can identify her, and so, in order to hide, she mingles with a group of tourists. However, she is unaware that her uncle is their guide. Giorgos has followed her in order to find out the reason she left him so suddenly, takes her in his car one more time, and they spend the night together.

Lisa, Tosca of Athens

1959

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