Sotiris Moustakas

Acting

Sotiris Moustakas

Born — Died

1940-09-17 — 2007-06-04

Place of birth

Limassol, Cyprus

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Sotiris Moustakas (Greek: Σωτήρης Μουστάκας) (17 September 1940 – 4 June 2007) was a Greek Cypriot actor born in Kato Platres, Limassol. His acting career lasted for over four decades, with 1960s–80s as his most successful years. He was described as an "Actor without a Label" cause of his variety of playing in theatrical plays (many different genres), films, television movies, television series, videotape/videocassette movies and many more with great reviews and success in all of them. He became internationally famous with his role "Mimithos" in 1964 Oscar-winning film Zorba the Greek. After that he became a national star in Cyprus and Greece, being part of the Golden Age of the Cypriot and …

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 25 titles

Ο Χασοδίκης poster
NR

Low- life advocate Aristides is fed up of constantly having trials, trying to save his stupid son's ass so he decides to sell him as sperm donor.

Ο Χασοδίκης

1988

Some Like It Electronic poster
6.0

Telis, inventor of "Heraclitus computers", presents his new achievement, the robot Paraskeva, which among other fans who do, can read the minds of people. Telis has built Paraskevas replica of himself, and this helps him to fulfill various obligations wants to avoid, such as its involvement in gynaikodouleies partner Costas

Some Like It Electronic

1986

The Pink Cat poster
6.7

Panos and Archimidis are colleagues and co-tenants. Panos is a modern young man, whereas Archimidis is more conservative. Panos tries to make Archimidis live his life more passionately. Archimidis then develops a dual personality. In the morning, he is a restrained teacher, and at night he is a reveller and a skirt-chaser. When his sister is kidnapped, Archimidis enters a hospital to overcome his problem.

The Pink Cat

1985

Sotiris the Little Crocodile poster
7.0

Sotiris works in a mall and he dress up like a crocodile man.

Sotiris the Little Crocodile

1987

Father Gomenios poster
5.4

Menios is an unrepentant womanizer with countless victories on his resume. Eventually he decides to settle down and marry Sula. Paradoxically, although his friends called him small "Gkomenio" for obvious reasons, fails to demonstrate the capabilities of the Gannet, which remains unblemished even after the honeymoon. On the one disappointment Menios and the other pressures of mother-who wants grandchild, lead him to the monastery of his uncle, where they stylite monk. There by the grace of God, meets various women that seek a "blessing" of ...

Father Gomenios

1982

Captain Furtounas poster
9.0

Manolis is Captain in a ship which has just started a cruise to Santorini.

Captain Furtounas

1989

A Madman Will Save Us poster
10.0

The Timolaos is a teacher of Greek province and to find a job, do not hesitate to hit even the door of the minister. But the minister instead to appoint the school, finds work in a factory and there, by a strange quirk of fate, you will love the daughter of industrialist.

A Madman Will Save Us

1988

Don't play it minister poster
9.5

A Greek Minister of health is been mixed up at the hospital with a doppelgänger and a series of misunderstoods starts.

Don't play it minister

1988

Me... and My Bird poster
5.6

A photo reporter, shortly before leaving for a job in Cyprus, becomes unwittingly the recipient of a golden owl, who stole a gang from the archaeological museum, who are following him in order to take the owl back.

Me... and My Bird

1982

Lover From The Refrigerator poster
8.0

Angelos Klapsopoulos, a former actor, has lost all of his money on charities. One day a young female director appears on his house.

Lover From The Refrigerator

1987

Robbers and insurers poster
6.5

Antonis Alaiporos has just been fired from his job and gets into the world of insurance market.

Robbers and insurers

1988

My wife's lover poster
10.0

Sotiris Moustakas gets involved in many funny situations.

My wife's lover

1989

Sexy batsos kai skliros poster
5.5

Sotiris owns a souvlaki restaurant but at his free time he loves to work as a P.I. in the neighborhood.

Sexy batsos kai skliros

1987

Brain With Screw... And Valve!!! poster
7.5

Eftyhios Anemelos is a detective with slow down business. One day...

Brain With Screw... And Valve!!!

1988

The Bricks poster
5.8

Two streetwise childhood friends and powerful financial tycoons who never quite managed to graduate from high school will go back to class, only to fall for the same girl. But, are they willing to let the woman do the choosing?

The Bricks

1985

The Tsitisiolinos poster
6.7

Lefteris makes a safe life in Mr Ganttemis' company. He has begun to get tired of his relationship with Rena and thinks of his death, leaving money for security. One day he goes fishing, directing his drowning. She will change life and meet Christina. Discovering the asphalt's body, she takes Rena's security money and gathers them with Sotiris, the proffer of Lefteris.

The Tsitisiolinos

1987

The love-struck poster
NR

Thanasis loves his wife but his mother-in-law puts pressure on him. His friend Giorgos convinces him to make them feel jealous by having a false mistress but things go wrong and Thanasis tries to save his marriage.

The love-struck

1988

The Sucker poster
5.0

Sotiris Charitos is a very good car mechanic, but he wants to become an actor. His friends, who are aware of his dream, refer to him as "delusional." He pursues acting opportunities everywhere, until one day, after a resounding failure, he achieves success by playing the role of a fool on television with tremendous success.

The Sucker

1983

I can do it with my... grandmother poster
NR

If tonight you want to laugh. If tonight you want to forget about accuracy, smog and bills. If tonight you want to enjoy something different, something that no satellite dish will bring to your home, get this movie. A crazy SHOT. MUSTACHE with his crazy company will charm you, make you deaf, make you laugh and drive you crazy.

I can do it with my... grandmother

1989

Infidelities with... Doctor's Prescription poster
2.6

The honest and hard-working advertiser, Kosmas Papalexiou, has his work cut out for him, having to deal with his wife Pitsa's incessant and unjustified fits of jealousy. After an accident during one of the couple's fights, Kosmas pays a visit to his physician friend, Labros, who has a simple but infallible method of getting away with his extramarital shenanigans. Now, Kosmas can do whatever he wants, as long as his partner-in-crime is there to back him up. Would you care for a slice of infidelity? After all, it's doctor's orders.

Infidelities with... Doctor's Prescription

1988

Bedbugs and ATA ...and two rotten eggs poster
NR

A super review that speaks volumes to everyone.

Bedbugs and ATA ...and two rotten eggs

1988

Lover for Eleven Nights poster
9.0

The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom

Lover for Eleven Nights

1988

A Crazy Crazy Night poster
8.0

Two friends making prank on their best friend, only then get involved in big adventures

A Crazy Crazy Night

1989

The Magician of Sex poster
10.0

Three different stories with a common element, a police officer.

The Magician of Sex

1988

Μήτσος ο Ρεζίλης poster
6.9

Mitsos, the son of a coffee shop owner and matchmaker, runs a marriage bureau and earns his living by arranging marriages. He does not hesitate to dress up according to the occasion in order to satisfy his clients' whims. Everything goes well until he meets Eva and his heart beats wildly with love.

Μήτσος ο Ρεζίλης

1984

1970s · 10 titles

For a Handful of Tourist ladies poster
3.2

In search of the perfect location to start a camping business, a lovely investor visits a sun-kissed Greek island, only to get caught in the middle of a long-standing feud between two antagonistic villages. Can they let bygones be bygones?

For a Handful of Tourist ladies

1971

My Luck Went Crazy poster
6.0

An employee can not marry the girl, because of financial problems and stalked by her brother. So decide, together with the son of his boss, facing the same problems, to get each other's position.

My Luck Went Crazy

1970

King of Liars poster
3.3

Achilleas, who works together with his friend Paminos at Prokopis’ gas station, tries, via correspondence, to find a rich woman from abroad to marry and, in this way, hit the jackpot.

King of Liars

1971

The Sighing Chord poster
5.7

Against prejudice, the beautiful daughter of Cyprus' most prominent industrialist falls for a humble fisherman; but, fate has a cruel future in store for her. Now, they all need a miracle. Can the poor lad from Cyprus save his beloved?

The Sighing Chord

1970

Women in Arms poster
6.0

In a small village, the women seize power and command the men for an entire day. Bent on abolishing this old custom, ardent males resort to a radical solution on the eve of the momentous event. When will men realise war is not the answer?

Women in Arms

1979

A Law-Abiding Citizen poster
8.5

A young man who grew up beneath the heavy shade of autocratic and avaricious mother, son Gregory, has lost initiative and the minimum footprint. The servility of his mother against his boss, which facilitates the solicitations of the latter to his sister, infuriates him. The fiancée, Soula, can not understand his sexual desires and his girlfriend, Julia, the only one that loves him really forced to abandon him. Gregory wonder with all this and rebels, but his rebellion brings him to the brink of madness. When you finally meet, forced to follow the commands of the mother and uncle ultraconservative so he marries the woman who suggest those.

A Law-Abiding Citizen

1974

The Unpraised poster
6.5

Struggling to make ends meet, the talented but still unrecognised artist, Miltos, knows firsthand what's it like to try to live off art alone. Already behind in the rent, Miltos is utterly unaware that he has just inherited a fortune from his long-lost uncle; a piece of vital information only the secretary in the notary's office, and her statuesque friend, Popi, know. Under those circumstances, Popi hatches an ambitious plan, intent on getting her hands on Miltos' money; however, the impecunious painter is head-over-heels in love with Litsa, the beautiful daughter of the neighbourhood's taverner. Will Miltos give in to Popi's intoxicating beauty? But, what is more precious, love or money?

The Unpraised

1970

A Funny Girl poster
6.3

The son of a shipping magnate finds himself increasingly drawn to a lively circus clown, unaware of her profession. This doesn't sit well with his companion, and a war in the name of love begins. Is he capable of loving the funny girl?

A Funny Girl

1970

Mom's Child poster
10.0

Giannis Vogiatzis is Tilemahos, a young man with a very strict mother. One day he decides to get married.

Mom's Child

1970

Men Know How to Love poster
5.4

A delicious and understated countryman, Anna, leaves for the capital to study. He's hitchhiking on the motorway, and a business car, with a medical practitioner, stops to get it. The driver, named Fanis, is doing this job very much to take care of his seriously ill mother. Fanis gives her a place in his house to stay and, over time, falls in love with her, but family situations force Anna to abandon her studies. She returns to the village and marries her fellow villager, the Bargaining Barnabas. This, above all, has sent her father to the grave for unbearable debts. After his death and his mother, Fanis comes to the village and tries to persuade the girl to follow him to Athens, which is done with the mediator's help from the pope. Fanis promises to finish his studies and become the doctor of the village, to marry Anna naturally and to have children.

Men Know How to Love

1971

1960s · 17 titles

Zorba the Greek poster
7.5

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Zorba the Greek

1964

Martha poster
6.9

The oldest ship in the fleet, Martha, and her jolly crew, must race Harald and win, or it's the scrappers next.

Martha

1967

A Bullet Through the Heart poster
6.0

Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.

A Bullet Through the Heart

1966

Electricity... Water... Telephone, Plots with Installments poster
4.4

Two friends get involved in a scam involving selling of land plots.

Electricity... Water... Telephone, Plots with Installments

1966

Fifis the Unbeatable poster
7.0

A tough sailor, Fotis, returns to Greece to marry his beloved and to settle certain inheritance issues with his twin brother Fifis, who is an effeminate artist. Their striking resemblance will upset the lives of both of them equally.

Fifis the Unbeatable

1966

To Be or Not To Be poster
6.6

After his business' bankrupcy, Giorgos Alexiou decides to commit suicide. Rosa, his cousin's wife who stand to benefit form his death, hires a private detective to keep an eye on him in case he changes his mind. Minas, Giorgos' employee, becomes Giorgos' guardian angel preventing the suicide at the last minute.

To Be or Not To Be

1966

The tailor poster
4.5

The relationship between a doctor and his wife gets broken after he came home late last night. Meanwhile, he has to pretend to be a dressmaker because of a misunderstanding between him and the furious fiancé of an old girlfriend he met.

The tailor

1967

For the heart of beautiful Helen poster
6.5

Louisa's father does not approve her young painter lover because he is poor.

For the heart of beautiful Helen

1967

Erotes sti Lesvo poster
NR

A Greek-American expatriate with six months to live embezzles millions from his New York City company and flees to his hometown of Mytilene. But law and fate never forget, and a chance encounter with love complicates matters.

Erotes sti Lesvo

1967

The Saucy Guy poster
7.4

Although a gas station employee, a young man has a great idea about himself and chases brides with a great dowry, ignoring his neighbor who loves him.

The Saucy Guy

1968

Kolonaki Conduct Zero poster
5.3

When an open-hearted folk man, a butcher of the profession, buys an apartment to stay with his family in a block of flats in a lush neighborhood, the tenants are colluding in order to get him away. The only defenders are the concierge and a general who will think of a clever way to correct the situation.

Kolonaki Conduct Zero

1967

The idiot poster
6.2

An engineer is working hard without any substantial effect and he is not taking seriously the persistent remarks of his wife on this. When a businessman, on the one hand, and his company's executives, on the other hand, will try to lure him to serve their conflicting interests in the construction of a new road, the engineer reacts.

The idiot

1968

Yannis is afraid of the Beast... poster
8.5

Pericles, a barber, leaves his homeland and goes to Africa to hunt wild animals. Someday he decides to return and his adventure is about to begin...

Yannis is afraid of the Beast...

1969

Athens, theft on Stadiou Street poster
7.0

Marianna, a free-spirited and wealthy young lady, becomes romantically involved with Marios, the leader of a gang of burglars who committed a major robbery at a jewelry store in Athens. The robbery was committed in broad daylight by Alekos and his girlfriend, Suzy and Sotos.

Athens, theft on Stadiou Street

1968

Welcome Dollar poster
7.1

Philip (Giorgos Constantinou), a shy and dignified accountant and English teacher, lives with his mother (Zoli Garbi) and his two siblings in the same house. His and his mother's meager income, just enough to support them all. His younger brother (Alekos Tzanetakos) remains unemployed and lazy rather out of conscience, while his older brother, Kimon (Orpheus Zachos), dreams of being re-elected prefect and refuses, although a qualified accountant, to work, considering the positions demeaning and irrelevant offered to him. His tragic financial situation will be further burdened by their imminent forced move to another house. It is also the first color Greek film, edited entirely in Greece. It is based on the play "The 6th American Fleet" by Alek Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos, who also wrote the screenplay, while Sakellarios directed the film.

Welcome Dollar

1967

The Father-in-Law poster
5.5

Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business abroad. In Greece the mother-in-law gives the hotel's managment to Xristos but also loads to him all the work. Desperate, he decides to slam the yoke and kill her ...

The Father-in-Law

1968

I Die Every Dawn poster
5.5

The story of three young girls that are sisters and remain with their mother a tavern in the port. The Persa, the more dynamic it has relations with the labeled Zachos. The Tasia waiting at the port for years, the return of her beloved. Hara, a tomboy, reluctant to reveal feelings for Alekos, who sees it as a good childhood friend. Among all these catalytic moves a man of law, Orpheus.

I Die Every Dawn

1969

Series credits

The Unacceptable poster
7.8

A comedy television series. The series is representative of the daily life of Athenians in the early '90s.

The Unacceptable

1991

Enopios Enopio poster
NR

Enopios Enopio

1991

Mazi poster
NR

Mazi is tvshow on Mega Channel in 2000 until 2003

Mazi

2000

Πρωινός Καφές poster
7.3

Proinos Kafes was a television daytime show aired by ANT1 in Greece during the period 1991-2009. Though it has received low ratings in the past years, it was one of the longest running and well known shows in Greece. The show consisted of different segments which included fashion shows, game and prizes, interviews, and live music from Greek and foreign artists. 'Proinos Kafes previous hosts': 1991-1994: Roula Koromila, 1994-1995: Popi Chadzidimitriou, 1995-2005: Eleni Menegaki, 2005-2008: Eleonora Meleti 2008-2009 Katerina Zarifi and Nikos Moutsinas 2009 George Lianos and Despoina Kabouri, 2009- Vicky Kaya Since the start of the show in 1991, the show has toured different parts of Greece including different areas of Athens, Heraklio on the island of Crete, Patras, Thessaloniki and many other places in Greece. The theme song of Proinos Kafes, was "Kalimera" - a song originally sung by Alexia Vassiliou, also known as, Alexia, in her 1990 album, 'Ela Mia Nyxta'.

Πρωινός Καφές

1991

Ta haidemena paidia poster
8.0

Four men and one woman, possessed by a "natural need" for the law, create the NSPR (Special Body to Fight Poverty) and intervene whenever circumstances call for them. However, the driving force behind everything is the old hacker named Nikephoros A', who not only watches, protects and sometimes subtly guides his son's scandalous group, but also paves the way for the Greece of the future...

Ta haidemena paidia

2001