Akis Sakellariou

Acting

Akis Sakellariou

Born 1961-11-09 · Thessaloniki, Greece

Akis (Kaloudis) Sakellariou (Thessaloniki, 9 November 1961) is a Greek actor. Graduated from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a graduate of the Roula Paterakis Drama School. He continued his theatrical studies in America, at the Stella Adler Drama School and at HB STUDIO. He has been honored twice with the First and Second Prizes for Best Actor at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and with a state award.

Acting credits

The Bricklayer poster
5.8

Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant – and rebellious – operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.

The Bricklayer

2023

Doxobus poster
5.8

By the 14th century, the Byzantine Empire was, if not on the verge of actual collapse, at least seriously decadent and clearly on its last legs. The hungry wolves of Europe were preparing to dine on its corpse, and as a result the Byzantine army and its allies were constantly engaged in battles and skirmishes. In this story, a widow lives in the 14th-century Byzantine village of Doxobus with her son Xenos. She forms a relationship with a village elder, and when she gives birth to the elder’s son, her son from her previous marriage is sent to live in a monastery.

Doxobus

1987

Adults in the Room poster
6.5

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

Adults in the Room

2019

Γκίνες poster
5.9

Threatened by his debtors, rocked by a broken heart and driven by greed, a charming gambler arrives at a middle-of-nowhere tavern in search of a case of gold. Instead, he attracts the attentions of the grumpy tavern owner's unhappy wife, whose affection complicates his plan and perpetuates his spell of misfortune.

Γκίνες

2009

The Suspended Step of the Stork poster
6.9

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

The Suspended Step of the Stork

1991

God Loves Caviar poster
5.4

The true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of eighteenth-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from humble beginnings to become the head of one of the largest mercantile empires in Europe.

God Loves Caviar

2012

Illustration poster
2.7

An arrogant politician feeds his mail ego in meeting with a Russian call girl. At the same time his wife, a young hysterical star, picks a fight on set with a talk-show hostess who is in a loveless marriage with a yuppie manager who vents in therapy.

Illustration

2006

Small Crime poster
5.8

Leonidas, a young, ambitious police officer, is assigned to a remote island in the Aegean Sea. He dreams of solving important crimes, but there are few to be found in the sleepy beach community where he is left to such menial chores. Each day at the town café, Leonidas and the other locals watch the beautiful Angeliki, the small islands most famous daughter, as she hosts a popular talk show on national TV. These daily rituals are shattered when the island experiences what appears to be an actual crime-the island drunk, Zacharias, is found dead at the base of a cliff. Eager to do some sleuthing, Leonidas soon finds clues that tie the victim to Angeliki, who returns to the island and joins the investigation.

Small Crime

2008

Dodo poster
5.0

A dodo, a bird that disappeared 3000 years ago, makes its appearance in Athens in the luxurious residence of a family on the verge of ruin for which the countdown has begun: the 38 crucial and saving hours that separate them from the marriage of their daughter with a rich heir. The boundaries between reason and madness will be tested and the situation will soon be out of control.

Dodo

2022

The Bachelor poster
5.5

The story of a thirties bank employee whose wife becomes a luxury prostitute. The same would happen with the next woman who knows. Xouan a promoter says he belongs to a particular class of people and asks him to work together.

The Bachelor

1997

Byron: Ballad for a Daemon poster
4.6

Poet Lord Byron decides to fight with the Greek revolutionaries in Missolonghi against the Turks but instead the glorious battle wrestles with fever and his own demons.

Byron: Ballad for a Daemon

1992

Under the Stars poster
5.0

Louka, whose parents were killed in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, persuades a beautiful smuggler to take him over the border to visit his village, where a magical experience awaits them.

Under the Stars

2001

Santa Klaou poster
6.7

A prophet says that this Christmas the end of the world will come, via a huge asteroid, bigger than the Colosseum. Our story begins in Nonda's Canteen and in less than an hour it will officially be Christmas.

Santa Klaou

2023

A Sea Apart poster
8.0

Eleni left Karpathos at the age of 17. Twenty years later, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children. Taking care of her children and the family's Greek restaurant are her daily activities. But an unexpected event turns everything upside down. Eleni's teenage love, Aris, comes from the island to America to find her. Suddenly, what she once longed for now becomes a source of pain. Eleni is called upon to make a very difficult decision. Will she leave everything she has, her life, her children, her husband, to follow her dream, or will she choose to stay with what now clearly seems like a dull and lonely life?

A Sea Apart

2003

Everything Will Be Fine poster
4.4

Fani and Gina, an illicit couple, are drawn into a strange and poorly planned kidnapping by Miltiadis, Gina's official fiancé. Their plan to kidnap the corrupt lawyer Giotis Mathiopoulos fails miserably, as they end up kidnapping his aunt, Elenitsa, instead.

Everything Will Be Fine

2009

Τα Νεοκλασικά - Η Κόμισσα Της Φάμπρικας poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Τα Νεοκλασικά - Η Κόμισσα Της Φάμπρικας

2022

Defunct poster
9.0

A 30-something failed businessman moves into his grandpa's house, the defunct WW2 veteran. His quest to live up to his legacy, will redefine both the family hero and himself.

Defunct

2020

Marionetes poster
5.7

A journalist returns to a dark, virtually unrecognizable Athens to investigate his best friend's murder. The victim's girlfriend gives him a hand but they soon realize they either have to abandon their investigation or become cogs in a powerful machine. Marionettes is a story of mystery, shot in an unknown, dark and full of temptations Athens.

Marionetes

2015

Approach poster
4.0

Strangers find themselves trapped inside five elevators that break down. Tension rises. There is no communication; just angry men and women bringing the worst out of each other. This is hell in 4m².

Approach

2019

Liar Wanted poster
5.6

This bitter political satire is based on a theatre play, later made to a movie, of which the current film is a remake.It's main focus is the clientelistic character of Greek politics which makes a well-meaning but naive Health minister to employ an ambitious young provincial with a talent for lying in order to handle the diverse demands of his volatile political clientèle.The provincial becomes the mastermind behind every move of the minister causing the envy of the minister's closest associates and of his good-looking wife, played by rising Greek media star Zeta Makrypoulia. Changes of fortune abound and finally the plot reveals that the lying provincial is not a bad person in heart although he never denounces lying as a survival strategy.

Liar Wanted

2010

Μεταξύ Φίλων poster
3.0

Vicki and Fedon are two marriage counselors who have, seemingly, solved all their marital problems. Although their false happiness is exposed when they fall randomly onto a special grocery store couple, Marina and Zecharia.

Μεταξύ Φίλων

2005

Slaves in Their Bonds poster
6.0

Genteel aristocrats and the terrible impasse erect in front of them their debts, forbidden loves and marriages interests, passions and conflicts.

Slaves in Their Bonds

2009

Meltem poster
5.9

One year after the death of her mother, Elena, a young French woman of Greek origin, returns to her holiday home on the island of Lesbos. She is accompanied by her friends Nassim and Sekou, two young suburbanites more used to the benches of the city than the paradisiac beaches.

Meltem

2019

Jesus Stopped at Gyzi poster
NR

The first day of the school year, a girl remembers the incidents that took place during the summer, when the family was forced to close their bookstore and move to their grandmother's house. Now the family has to maintain their dignity and keep the hope for the future alive.Inspired from 'Jesus stopped at Eboli' by Carlo Levi.

Jesus Stopped at Gyzi

2013