Dimitris Petropoulos

Acting

Dimitris Petropoulos

Dimitris Petropoulos is a prolific Greek actor and director known for his extensive work in television, film, and theater. He has built a widely recognized career, with recent prominent screen appearances including roles in the series Grand Hotel (2024–2025), Aparaitito fos (2025), and the TV movie The Greek Aisle (2026). His career spans several decades, with notable appearances in classic Greek television like The Unacceptable (1991) and long-running shows such as I polykatoikia (2008–2011). On the film side, he has appeared in prominent features including Uranya (2006) and Costa-Gavras's political thriller Adults in the Room (2019).

Acting credits

Uranya poster
5.9

A group of young boys must decide whether to buy a TV set to watch the launch of Apollo 11 or visit Uranya to learn about the secrets of love.

Uranya

2006

On Course poster
7.5

A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War.

On Course

1985

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

Playing Parts poster
NR

A group of friends decide to marry

Playing Parts

2003

The Spectator poster
1.0

Thanos has detached himself from every feeling and watches his life as if it was a film.

The Spectator

2016

In the Nick of Time - 20 Years Later poster
NR

An unforgettable evening, a birthday party for a legendary series. Everything is ready for the Reunion of “In the Nick of Time - 20 Years Later”. The comedy inspired by Giorgos Kapoutzidis premiered in September 2005 and although it formally completed its cycle two years later, it never stopped being a part of our lives. Viewers, social media users, new and older generations kept “Sto Para Pente” alive all these 20 years, using the lines that made history in their everyday lives. This constant and uninterrupted love of the audience is what made this unique evening imperative. "Sto Para Pente – 20 years later" is exactly that: A party, a multi-thematic television tribute to celebrate this moving birthday together with the fans of the comedy series.

In the Nick of Time - 20 Years Later

2025

The Greek Aisle poster
8.0

When Georgia travels to the Greek island of Corfu to finalize an inheritance, she unexpectedly discovers that marrying her handsome co-inheritor is the only way to meet the requirements.

The Greek Aisle

2026

Hamam poster
NR

History of modern Greece, so full of adventures: division, national turmoil, disaster, occupation and dictatorship together with the everyday stories of two families and the persons around them, their desires and destinies, through the eyes of a painting that changes hands and owners οver the years.

Hamam

2023

Bordello poster
5.5

Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored in the port of Chania in protecting Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Rosa Bonaparte, accompanied by twelve girls off at a deserted beach with all the equipment of a Marseille brothel. Installed in a wing of a huge, ruined former Town Hall, where the officers of the allied fleet meet and entertain in the evenings surrounded by undercover agents, military connectors, and speculators : an East-West mosaic of languages, costumes and intrigue ...

Bordello

1985

Happy Day poster
5.1

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead.

Happy Day

1976

On the Hill poster
NR

The Recorder, the keeper of Epameinondas's mind, documents his moments on on little notes. Encouraged by his best friend Yiannis, Epameinondas sets out on a hike to escape the weight of a recent breakup. As time flows by, he becomes a father, only to later find himself battling dementia in a nursing home. The Recorder's room is now in a state of danger. Yet, the hike goes on.

On the Hill

2023

Look at the Stars poster
NR

In the twilight of his life, an elderly man revisits a bittersweet memory and reshapes it in the way he would have liked to have lived it.

Look at the Stars

2022

At the Level of Haramada TV poster
10.0

In a hypothetical scenario of the overthrow of the government by a radical ecological party, the rise and domination of a new TV channel is described in a satirical way. The clash of the channel with political corruption, in the person of the Foreign Minister, will lead political life to a dead end.

At the Level of Haramada TV

1992

Success Story poster
4.2

In a country in deep crisis, two worlds collide: the bourgeois milieu of an intellectual psychiatrist, and the humbler, but no less ambitious world of a beautiful working class actress. They fall in love, but they will soon have to face reality.

Success Story

2017

Birth City poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Birth City

1988