Ioanna Pappa

Acting

Ioanna Pappa

Born 1977-03-11 · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Acting credits

Roz poster
NR

Vassilis Galis is a young man having trouble growing up. His mother was diagnosed with cancer when he was a boy but she got better. Subsequently her vision of life was changed radically and she left her family to embark on new adventures. Vassilis hasn’t seen her since but her absence has left a telling mark on the whole family. His father hardly speaks anymore and his brother, now a famous movie star, is afraid of emotion. Vassilis has problems reaching out to other people and the only steadfast part of his life through the years has been his dog, Roz. When Vassilis meets eleven and a half year old Snezana, a strong friendship begins to develop and Vassilis starts descending ever deeper back into his childhood realm.

Roz

2007

The Loser Takes All poster
6.3

A mysterious man, small-time grifter and big time hard-man has an anarchic tendency to riff on the system, society, police, the underworld itself and other things, along with his beloved bird, Bellafonte, meets up with an odd posse consisting of a young songwriter, a prostitute who gathers money in order to open a bookstore, an alcoholic girl haunted by the relationship with her dead mother, and the grudgey bar-woman-ex-girlfriend. The quintet get caught up in a scheme involving the media, the mob, politicians and the police. And they definitely want to get the hell out of the city, probably to some Caribbean paradise.

The Loser Takes All

2002

Evil - In the Time of Heroes poster
5.2

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

Backdoor poster
5.6

Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he feels ready, he has to claim his mother back from an up-and-coming star of the military regime. A brutal coming-of-age story, where Dimitris reacts in vengeance, changing thus the course of Greek history...

Backdoor

2000

Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need to Have a Serious Talk poster
NR

Womanizer Aris finds out he is a carrier of a sexually transmitted virus, lethal only for women. But he is also the only hope for a curing vaccine if he finds which one of his ex girlfriends had the first viral strain.

Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need to Have a Serious Talk

2021

Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness poster
NR

Through thirteen images and an equal number of stories, little Melina-Amalia, the teenager, the woman, the fighter, Blanche, Stella, Ilya, Phaedra, Medea, Clytemnestra, Minister of Culture, the stoic Melina in Memorial Hospital, all aspects of the "last Greek goddess". Shot on the stage of the National Theater Rex - Marika Kotopouli, it captures, balancing between theater and cinema, important historical events that make the myth that surrounds the glamorous protagonist even more powerful and charming.

Melina Stop Frame - In Search of Modern Greekness

2020

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

Watch Out! Red Light poster
1.5

The occupation of students just before the Panhellenic effervescence inducing s`ena public high school in Piraeus. On the first day of the Panhellenic found dead in the toilets George, with a syringe stuck in the arm. All his friends swear that their informal leader never took drugs. The investigations are difficult and the youth does not show any willingness to cooperate.

Watch Out! Red Light

2003