Makis Papadimitriou

Acting

Makis Papadimitriou

Born

1975-01-01 (51)

Place of birth

Athens, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Makis Papadimitriou is a Greek stage, film and television actor. He is the recipient of one Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Suntan (2016), in his second nomination for the award. He has also been nominated twice for the Hellenic Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Known for

Don't Start the Murmur poster
7.1

The premise of the series revolves around the daily lives of different couples of all ages from 20 to 65, but who are not connected to each other. Each couple has their own space where they live, while the story of each couple in each episode is not connected to the stories of the other couples.

Don't Start the Murmur

2013

Η Παραλία poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Η Παραλία

2023

Thou Shalt Not Kill poster
6.3

The main theme of the series is the way in which a person is led to murder while each story in the series combines elements of drama, social stories and thrillers. The duration of each episode is 45 minutes and is in the form of a psychograph. While the stories in the series are based on real events that have preoccupied public opinion, their dramatization has undergone some changes.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

2018

10th Commandment / 10i Entoli poster
8.0

10th Commandment (10i Entoli) is a greek TV-Series which revolves around stories of ordinary people that at a crucial point of their lives, they cross the limits in a shocking way: they commit murder. The episodes are based on true events. Αστυνομική, κοινωνική σειρά, αυτοτελών επεισοδίων, βασισμένη σε αληθινές ιστορίες από το αστυνομικό και δικαστικό ρεπορτάζ.

10th Commandment / 10i Entoli

2004

Black Midnight poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Black Midnight

2008

Fuit poster
NR

Forty-year-old Spyros lives in the countryside with his elderly mother, running an old refreshment stand together. His dream is to play for the local football team. When the team finally calls him up, a clash with his mother becomes inevitable.

Fuit

2025

Film credits

2020s · 15 titles

Fuit poster
NR

Forty-year-old Spyros lives in the countryside with his elderly mother, running an old refreshment stand together. His dream is to play for the local football team. When the team finally calls him up, a clash with his mother becomes inevitable.

Fuit

2025

Beckett poster
6.1

An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.

Beckett

2021

The Parade poster
NR

A group of high school students meet to participate in the national parade with their school. A student, is bullied by the teacher because of her nationality. They react, defend her and the conflict becomes intense. To avoid the consequences, they decide to run away. They settle on the top of a nearby hill and spend the rest of the day there, as an act of escapism. Up there, they seem to have forgotten their anxieties and problems, as if they were in another world.

The Parade

2023

Light Falls poster
NR

A well-off young lesbian couple vacationing on a Greek island explores an abandoned hotel. An accident and a clash of different worlds set off a spiral of violence and revenge.

Light Falls

2025

Flux Gourmet poster
5.6

At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.

Flux Gourmet

2022

Iro /he.roː/ poster
NR

Today is Tuesday but Iro is not at school. Instead she's at home and she's ready to set off on a Journey with her mom and a Super Hero towards Lake Stymphalia.

Iro /he.roː/

2020

The River poster
NR

Makis comes from the modern world, while Maria lives in a forgotten one. What is "progress" for him is a threat to her. A car accident brings them closer, and the orgasmic taste of Nuggets brings them even closer. But it takes much more to be together.

The River

2025

Halcyon Days poster
NR

In a mountainous village, a young country girl is getting ready for her wedding at the local town hall. It will be a day unlike all the rest. However, her future husband does not seem to share the same longing. When the wedding is postponed for the next day, everything is up in the air.

Halcyon Days

2024

The Mouse Story poster
NR

The everyday life and troubles of Yorgos Armouse, a human sized mouse living among people, as he struggles to make a living, fit in, and get some cheese to eat.

The Mouse Story

2020

Embryo Larva Butterfly poster
5.5

Penelope and Isidoros live in a world where today they are lovers but the following day they scarcely know one another. It is a place where time doesn’t flow, where the days appear randomly in the past, the present, and the future – if these concepts even apply here. Their relationship is constantly changing; it is one continuous uncertainty marked by shared searching and reassuring. Somewhere next to their world is another where time is linear. It is possible to travel from arbitrary time to linear time, but the conditions for such a journey are mysterious and the price is high…

Embryo Larva Butterfly

2024

Sgt. Fruit Fly poster
NR

A young boy who is a victim of bullying hopes his mother's magic potion will make him a war hero like his father, but in the end discovers that all he needed was to believe in himself. Not your typical coming of age story, Sgt. Fruit Fly shows what happens when a boy can just be a boy.

Sgt. Fruit Fly

2025

The Ride poster
8.0

A taxi driver rushes to finish his last fare so he can watch a football game, but a 90-year-old grandmother slows him down and inspires him to rethink his priorities.

The Ride

2021

Utopolis poster
NR

The silent struggle and systematic hate between Greek natives and refugees will lead to their brutal confrontation over the course of one night

Utopolis

2025

Where We Live poster
5.0

On a day when downtown Athens is experiencing yet another ordinary upheaval, young lawyer Antonis Spetsiotis is celebrating his birthday. However, his birthday will unfold in a completely unexpected way, taking him from the courts of Evelpidon to glamorous cafés and dark parking lots on the National Road, from his tidy bachelor pad in Lycabettus to farmhouses in Chalkoutsi and luxurious villas in Aliartos – and will end unpredictably at dawn in Athens.

Where We Live

2022

Harmonica Man poster
5.7

A father has kidnapped his daughter. Running out of money, they are on a road trip, trying to reach as far as possible.

Harmonica Man

2020

2010s · 27 titles

Suntan poster
6.2

Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.

Suntan

2016

In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand poster
7.0

Two men who live in modern day Athens decide to start the quest for Laura Durand, a porn star of the 90's who has disappeared mysteriously several years ago.

In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand

2019

Welcome to 'All Saints poster
6.2

The trainee Orthopedic Doctor George Spyrou began his career in the fictional General Orthopedic Hospital "All Saints', somewhere on the outskirts of Athens. There you will discover that the hospital population, by physicians, administrators and nurses, to patients, they are all forced to confront dancing a grotesque dance routine. With humor and humanity within a social landscape so angry George Spyratos trying to balance between the warring parties these microcosms. The gradual evolution from inexperienced trainee to experienced editor will be done through the encounter with the absurd environment. Something that would transform from naive young man who initially stands speechless in front of modern Greek chaos, a mature man who will ultimately make a thoughtful account of choice, but persevere, continue to work on public health.

Welcome to 'All Saints

2011

The Stopover poster
5.2

At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it's not that easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.

The Stopover

2016

Pity poster
6.4

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.

Pity

2018

Amerika Square poster
5.9

Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of foreigners coming. They meet in Amerika Square in Athens because of Syrian refugee Tarek.

Amerika Square

2016

Harisma poster
5.2

Ismini is in her early 30s. She is cultivated, delicate, sensitive and... emotionally handicapped. She has developed a simplistic system of defense to protect her emotions: no one is to come near. It is exactly the moment when this collapses that unsophisticated, simple, impolite, aggressive and greatly passionate Haris appears in her life.

Harisma

2010

Heimlich poster
6.0

Heimlich is homely. Paris lives in an unhomely home. Serena wants a home, in a place you wouldn’t exactly call Paris. They drink. They talk. They merge. In water, beer and memory. A frog leaps. Strange. Stranger. Unhomely. Unheimlich. Stranger than home.

Heimlich

2017

A Blast poster
5.7

Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of the motorway. Only a day before she was a caring mother, a loving wife, a responsible daughter. Today she has gone rogue.

A Blast

2014

Chevalier poster
5.7

A fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the precious chevalier. Who will it be?

Chevalier

2015

The Limousine poster
5.0

Three friends from 60s Paris attempt a road trip to modern-day Greece, looping in and out of fantasy and questioning absolutely everything. A situation comedy and a coming-of-age fairy tale or, according to the director himself, "a film that can be heard". Starring Nikos Kouris, Doukissa Nomikou, Dimitris Katalifos and Pavlos Haikalis. Lifetime Achievement Award to Nikos Panagiotopoulos

The Limousine

2014

L poster
5.5

The protagonist, aged 40, lives in his car and receives his family at fixed times. His employer is a rich narcoleptic who can’t drive. The driver provides him with special honey. But when an even better driver comes along, he loses his job and decides to look for another means of transport.

L

2012

A Manifesto for the Un-communal poster
5.5

A documentary, a video-diary and a propaganda piece for the “lawless, those without hearth, nor clan” (The Iliad, ΙX,63).

A Manifesto for the Un-communal

2017

Κύβος poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Κύβος

2016

Perfect Strangers poster
5.5

Seven friends meet up for dinner on a full moon Friday night and deep secrets will come to the surface, shaking their lives and threatening their relationships.

Perfect Strangers

2016

Pandimia poster
3.0

A completely euphemistic black comedy or the worst film you've ever seen, Dimitris Piata's feature directorial debut in the cinema is the triumph of bad taste over "whatever".

Pandimia

2015

The Republic poster
NR

A photojournalist and surveillance expert decides to go up against a system of political corruption and corporate intrigue after witnessing the murder of his brother.

The Republic

2015

The Magic Mirror poster
5.3

Kleanthis is working two jobs, and saddled with debts. His boss hates him, his mother-in-law despises him. His life is going nowhere - at least till he's clearing out a room in the antiquities department where he works, and finds a magic mirror with a friendly genie that can make wishes come true. Kleanthis uses the mirror to change his life and get what he wants - but, even though his wishes are granted, something always seems to go wrong.

The Magic Mirror

2016

Chelsea-Barcelona poster
4.0

Wednesday 6 May 2009. Andreas works as a bank teller and is in debt. He and his colleague, Marios, will watch the Champions League semi-final "Chelsea-Barcelona" together on TV. Who will finally win?

Chelsea-Barcelona

2012

Ellinikon poster
NR

In the abandoned airport of Ellinikon, a man's peaceful solitude is disrupted by bustling activity, and his ticket out might lead him right back to his starting place.

Ellinikon

2019

Do It Yourself poster
5.5

A small-time crook agrees to star in a viral video that will restore the image of a businessman who acts against the law. When he realizes that he is the next victim in this man’s list, he struggles to save himself at any cost, in this suspenseful action film.

Do It Yourself

2018

A Jar of Nuts poster
NR

Still living at home, a middle-aged man devises an intricate plan to take his life after his mother chokes to death on a pistachio.

A Jar of Nuts

2019

Blood Ties poster
6.1

Margarita works as a flight assistant. Her life is divided between travels and the care of her sick father. When he dies, she decides to make a fresh start to her life. She begins a trip to Northern Greece seeking...

Blood Ties

2012

Cowboy poster
4.7

In a few days Minas is going to participate in a TV show called "Talent of the year". A TV crew follows him in his everyday life interviewing him and his closest people, until the big day of the show. Minas must win to fulfill his dream. What is his talent? He is a cowboy. In Athens.

Cowboy

2017

Unfair World poster
6.1

Sotiris is a police investigator in Athens who lives by a strict moral code. An honest man, he carries himself as though held down by the weight of the world. Dora is a cleaning lady, struggling to get by any way she can. Dealt a rough hand in life, she has developed a rich layer of cynicism and mistrust that informs her every action. When a man Sotiris believes is innocent is arrested for a brutal crime, his attempt to uncover the truth results in a grave mistake. Finding himself on the other side of the law for the first time, he places his fate in Dora, the only witness to his malfeasance and the only person who can help him, for better or for worse.

Unfair World

2012

I kori tou Rembrandt poster
2.5

A lavish mansion hosts a grand reception attended by ambassadors, ministers, the police chief, a techno-detective, a mercenary, and two wandering beauties. A mysterious painting by Rembrandt piques the interest of some of the guests, with the host of the evening, Mr. Malaparte, hiding a priceless artistic treasure inside his home... Or maybe not?

I kori tou Rembrandt

2015

Runaway Day poster
5.7

Maria and Loukas decide at the same time and for no apparent reason to respectively run away from their homes. Each of them has to deal with their personal problems: Maria is stuck in a wealthy marriage with Dimitris while raising their two children. Loukas is unemployed and full of debts. Both of them run away from their personal issues, both of them begin wandering in modern day Athens. They come across a series of controversial events and meet with strange characters. Furthermore, various people seem to be on their track; Maria is followed by two policemen. Loukas is followed by a weird stranger dressed in black, Joseph, who desperately wants something from him.

Runaway Day

2013

2000s · 5 titles

The Woman Is... A Tough Person poster
4.8

Johnny Maniatis (Anthony Kafetzopoulos) is a successful advertiser and ... womanizer. Georgia (Fay Kokkinopoulou), currently the woman of his life, wants urgently to make a child. His mother, Aspasia (Jenny Roussea) is absent. His faithful secretary, Herse (Yota Festa) is tired of the irresponsible behavior, but tries to help him. His daughter Artemis (Eleni Apostolopoulos) is arrested aain for stealing the eve of her trial, while the former wife Martha (Mania Papadimitriou) is throwing him all the blame ...

The Woman Is... A Tough Person

2005

Evil - In the Time of Heroes poster
5.1

The story begins at the end of the first Kako movie. The survivors meet up with a group of other barricaded survivors and must take care of the zombies as well as other random Greeks that have taken advantage of the chaos, while shooting random moving targets (zombie or not). Throughout we take small flashback visits into ancient Greece where the zombie apocalypse has also happened and we learn how they faced them.

Evil - In the Time of Heroes

2009

Parees poster
4.5

Holy Week in Pelion. Two friendly Athenians couples find in their yard corpse of a stranger. They try to avoid the charge of murder by locals, while in the whole fuss becoming uncovered secrets that will change the lives of everyone.

Parees

2007

False Alarm poster
5.0

Summer in an Athenian neighborhood, the alarm of a car does not leave their neighbors in peace. But every one has its own problems. Infidelity, robbery, jealousy, flirtation, and family reconciliation on corpses, all pour forth into five intertwined stories

False Alarm

2007

Let's go again poster
NR

For the first time, Nouli won't be part of the audience. She'll confront her life, alone. Everything is already there. But she must write her own lines.

Let's go again

2005

Undated · 3 titles

Series credits

Don't Start the Murmur poster
7.1

The premise of the series revolves around the daily lives of different couples of all ages from 20 to 65, but who are not connected to each other. Each couple has their own space where they live, while the story of each couple in each episode is not connected to the stories of the other couples.

Don't Start the Murmur

2013

Η Παραλία poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Η Παραλία

2023

Thou Shalt Not Kill poster
6.3

The main theme of the series is the way in which a person is led to murder while each story in the series combines elements of drama, social stories and thrillers. The duration of each episode is 45 minutes and is in the form of a psychograph. While the stories in the series are based on real events that have preoccupied public opinion, their dramatization has undergone some changes.

Thou Shalt Not Kill

2018

10th Commandment / 10i Entoli poster
8.0

10th Commandment (10i Entoli) is a greek TV-Series which revolves around stories of ordinary people that at a crucial point of their lives, they cross the limits in a shocking way: they commit murder. The episodes are based on true events. Αστυνομική, κοινωνική σειρά, αυτοτελών επεισοδίων, βασισμένη σε αληθινές ιστορίες από το αστυνομικό και δικαστικό ρεπορτάζ.

10th Commandment / 10i Entoli

2004

Black Midnight poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Black Midnight

2008

The Third Law / O 3os nomos poster
5.0

Every action causes a reaction. Newton's 3rd law does not only explain the relationship between bodies and "momentum" in classical mechanics, but also human relationships and the "momentum" that characterizes them, in general. Relationships with others and with ourselves. The relationship between the present and the past. The relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. Family dramas, love affairs of loyalty and infidelity, serial killers, crimes of honor, passion, revenge, punishment, necessity.

The Third Law / O 3os nomos

2010

Almost Adults poster
7.5

The four heroes' base is an old duplex with a garden and a terrace in the city. In the post-lifestyle era, in the neighborhood with souvlaki shops, post-modern grocery stores and all-day cafés, they are looking for something from the old world that they already know well, having survived the Greek crisis, the memoranda, the anti-smoking law, unemployment, coronavirus and quarantine. The Greek's emotionality clashes with the European model of life with protagonists "Almost Adults" who try to enjoy their everyday life. The bet: will it be easy for them to stand up to whatever incredible things happen to them from now on?

Almost Adults

2021

Zone Defence poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Zone Defence

2007

Invisibles poster
7.0

A motley group of five living in a neighborhood of modern Athens, founds a company that provides an alibi for extramarital affairs. With the launch of the company, the company takes on one strange case after another, getting involved in comic-tragic situations. Everything turns upside down when the 5 associates are at the police station accused of a murder case. Who is to blame?

Invisibles

2022

#atherapefti poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

#atherapefti

2014

Η Χειρότερη Εβδομάδα της Ζωής μου poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η Χειρότερη Εβδομάδα της Ζωής μου

2015

Με Λένε Βαγγέλη poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Με Λένε Βαγγέλη

2011

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