Eleni Anousaki

Acting

Eleni Anousaki

Born

1944-04-30 (82)

Place of birth

Athens, Greece

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Eleni - Electra Anousaki (Greek: Ελένη Ανουσάκη, Athens, 1 May 1944) is a Greek actress and politician. Her parents are actress Malaina Anousaki and opera tenor and protagonist of the revue genre, Evangelos Anousakis. She first appeared in cinema in 1950 at the age of six. She was the little girl held by Eleni Hatziargyri in the film I Sinned for My Child, in which her father starred. At the age of 16, she entered the Drama School of the National Theatre as an exceptional talent. She appeared in the film The Red Traffic Lights and was expelled from the school due to her appearance. Later, the decision of the director Thanos Kotsopoulos was overturned and she returned. At the same time, she a…

Known for

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

7 Deadly Mother-in-Laws poster
6.4

Vicky Stavropoulou plays the ghost of a woman who, invisible to ordinary mortals, watches, narrates and intervenes for good in various family affairs starring mothers-in-law with many different characters.

7 Deadly Mother-in-Laws

2004

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

To soi mas

1992

Wonderful Creatures poster
5.0

The series follows the lives and loves of three 30-something professionals in modern day Athens. Elli (Faidra Douka) is a junior executive in a record company, having to deal with a highly demanding bitch-of-a-boss. Following the end of a serious relationship, Elli is worried about never having a chance to marry or have kids. Her search for new partners mostly results in the entry of weirdos in her life. Mitsaki (Mirto Alikaki) is a radio producer with a love-hate-relationship with her own boss. A life-long party girl with a tendency towards short-lived relationships and an aversion to taking any short of responsibility, Mitsaki has to come to grips with the idea of growing up. Billy (Giorgos Pyrpassopoulos) is a reporter with a rather unsteady love-life. He is a homosexual, but tends to be turned-off by the quirks of his various partners and has yet to fully commit to a relationship.

Wonderful Creatures

2007

Enopios Enopio poster
NR

Enopios Enopio

1991

A Rich Without Money poster
4.2

A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money .

A Rich Without Money

1967

Film credits

1970s · 9 titles

Provocation poster
4.2

Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disappointment, so all the money he buys a ticket to Australia. But while the young man is waiting for departure in his life to happen a new love experience. A chance meeting with Isabella on the ship that was carrying him to Athens, would be for Angelos another test, would lead to a meeting with the past and will be the key to unlocking the old crime.

Provocation

1971

Νατάσα poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Νατάσα

1970

Conflict of Emotions poster
2.8

A drug addict meets an aristocratic woman who married a criminal.

Conflict of Emotions

1971

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

Marijuana Stop! poster
5.4

The old mansion in Plaka, inherited by three cousins, becomes the stone of the scandal, as each of them thinks to use it differently. Achilleas wants to turn it into a nightclub, where he will present his dance program, while Hippocrates lives in it and rents the basement to the girl he loves, Despina. Things are complicated by the arrival from abroad of the third heiress, Kaiti, who will blow their minds.

Marijuana Stop!

1971

Diamonds on Her Naked Flesh poster
3.5

A female hotel manager and her male accomplice, murder a German gangster to steal his diamonds. Soon, other members of the gang arrive to find out what went on.

Diamonds on Her Naked Flesh

1972

Souliotes poster
7.0

Souliotes learn that Ali pasha is planning to attack. Photos Tzavellas and his men are ready to defend their freedom. They repel repeatedly Ali's army but after a prolonged siege the decide that they are not to be taken alive. All women go to Zaloggo where they fall off the cliffs dancing, while the men decide to die exploding a convent at Kougi mountain.

Souliotes

1972

Captives of Hate poster
5.3

Viky, a Greek from Africa, returns in shock to her homeland after the riots in the Congo, where she saw almost all of her family killed before her very eyes. In Athens, the businessman Angelos von Zirach, of German origin, helps her brother avoid financial disaster, but also helps her launch a career as a singer and dancer. Viky falls in love with him and agrees to marry him, inviting the wrath of his secretary and lover Tzina, who, in order to get even with him, reveals to Vicky that Angelos' ships don't transport food, medicine and indispensable articles to Africa, but guns, ammunition and even mercenaries. Viky is shocked. She turns in von Zirach to the police and leaves. After some years, she returns to him with their son Freiderikos, when von Zirach has donated his fortune to the orphans of Biafra.

Captives of Hate

1972

Beautiful days poster
8.3

A mysterious woman arrives on the Greek island Patmos.

Beautiful days

1970

1960s · 27 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

A Rich Without Money poster
4.2

A poor accountant, in order to raise money for his marriage, finds a second job in a luxury hotel where he accepts to change his name and life with a rich playboy who wants to try if women want him for his money .

A Rich Without Money

1967

The Red Lanterns poster
7.2

The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.

The Red Lanterns

1963

Punishment poster
10.0

A poor teacher, living with her disabled father and lazy brother, falls in love with a doctor. The doctor's mother tries to prevent the romance and helps get the teacher fired from the school. The teacher ends up becoming a singer, but she never forgets her lover...

Punishment

1965

Η ώρα της οργής poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Η ώρα της οργής

1968

Another One for the Million poster
6.5

The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s siblings to embezzle money from his job and lend it to them. When his manager, leaving on a trip, entrusts him with a million drachmas without a receipt, Savvas succumbs to the pressure and gives some of the money to his brother-in-law. In the end, however, an unexpected development awaits Savvas, since his manager is killed in an airplane crash and he has to decide what to do with the money.

Another One for the Million

1964

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

Αυτή η γη είναι δική μας poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Αυτή η γη είναι δική μας

1967

My Dimitri... My Dimitri poster
6.4

An almost irresistible attraction between the rich daughter of a factory owner and a successful popular singer will lead to marriage against her father's will. Is he the good and honest man everybody says? Will money corrupt him, too?

My Dimitri... My Dimitri

1967

The barker poster
6.2

A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.

The barker

1964

Passion Fever poster
4.2

This and The Hot Month of August, both made in Greece, were acquired by DORIS WISHMAN for release in the United States. However, she somehow or other lost the dialogue sheets needed for dubbing the films into English. With the original dialogue a mystery, and not understanding Greek in the first place, the Grand Dame of Sexploitation simply re-invented the entire plot blissfully dubbing it away without any clue as to what was really being said, and then adding some steamy sex scenes with her own anonymous adulterers to liven things up.

Passion Fever

1969

The fate of the innocent poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

The fate of the innocent

1965

To nyfopazaro poster
8.0

Three friends, on a cruise in the Ionian Sea, throw erotic messages in bottles into the sea and fantasize about the women in their lives.

To nyfopazaro

1969

Anguish poster
7.3

Two very poor young people who grow up together, Alexis and Anna, live in two hovels with a common courtyard and seriously love each other, thinking indeed of getting married. One day, Alexis, who has a very good voice and a real talent in popular music, sends a demo cassette to a well-known record company, and suddenly everything changes. From one day to the next, he becomes famous, and, naturally, he is confused by his own success, changing tastes and styles. He is attracted by the glamor of a successful singer and neglects his former love. In the end, however, he will return to her, and everything will turn out fine.

Anguish

1969

Young and old in action... poster
5.6

Antonis and Marianna are in love and, although they are no longer young, they plan to get married. The only problem is how to break the news to their children, Elina and Giorgos, who are studying abroad. Elina sends a telegram saying that she will soon be returning to Greece, and Antonis and Marianna think they will make her like Marianna so that they can gradually tell her the truth. However, they do not know that she is returning with George...

Young and old in action...

1963

And All 14 Were Wonderful! poster
5.8

Four cousins inherit a rich uncle. In order to do this, however, they must first fulfill the terms that each uncle has laid down in his covenant.

And All 14 Were Wonderful!

1965

Come on People poster
6.5

Thanasis tries to reunite with his wife.He is having for obstacle her mother, which did not want him because he helps anyone in need with any way he can.

Come on People

1967

No, Mr. Johnson. poster
6.0

A tomato juice seller of a major American company arrives in Greece to promote his company's product.

No, Mr. Johnson.

1965

Crazy, Nuts and Vengos poster
6.4

Thanasis, the waiter of country tavern "The seven brothers", is preparing to marry the Anthoula. Shortly before going to church but has an accident and suffers amnesia. While Anthoula, siblings and friends are waiting for him in the church, he wanders the streets unnecessarily.

Crazy, Nuts and Vengos

1967

Wake up, you sucker... poster
5.4

The Tasia chasing the impostor Lepoura Vangelis arrives with hitchhiking in Athens. Gaining confidence wholesaler Kyriacou Bolore and taken to his house as a maid. The daughter of Kiriakos, Lia, presents the writer Phaedon Tramountana and asks him to finance the scenario. His son Lakis, wants to succeed in the profession of wholesaler and prefers to deal with the rock band. His sister Ismene has in mind only the deck.

Wake up, you sucker...

1969

In the Storm of Passion poster
7.0

Christos and Maria, a couple living in poverty, hope for a better future. However, their love will be tested by the harsh reality and poverty that plagues them. When Christos loses his job, he abandons Maria for a wealthy woman. His life is filled with riches and comforts, but he soon realizes that his happiness lies with Maria. He searches for her and finds her at the home of Lola, a prostitute who has taken the unfortunate girl in. Their plans to claim their happiness are overturned once and for all when Lola's protectors rape Maria, who dies shortly afterwards in hospital. Christos takes his own life and Lola kills the man responsible for the girl's death.

In the Storm of Passion

1964

Eva Has Not Sinned poster
4.7

A pretty and chubby woman, Eva, Fontas ex- wife, is now married to the neighborhood’s tavern owner, Menelaos, who gives her a hard time being unbelievably jealous. His jealousy is sparked off by the large number of admirers his wife has, as well as the malicious Fontas.

Eva Has Not Sinned

1965

Deluxe Crazy poster
7.0

Faidon is rich but lazy and ungrateful, complaining all day long. Everything in his life will change when he hosts a couple of friends at his villa.

Deluxe Crazy

1963

The Sorceress poster
7.0

A young doctor, Spyros, falls in love with a poor singer, Eleni, who is under the extortionist urge of her fiancé Peter, who is unbearably pushing her to marry a wealthy old man so that he can pay his debts on paper. Spyros is driven for his sake by separation from his spoiled and wealthy fiancé, Katerina, and the usual problems in such cases begin. In the pre-existing class differences, the hatred of the people in his circle, who do everything they can to prevent it, is added. Spyros, however, is totally determined to cope with life the way he thinks - and eventually succeeds.

The Sorceress

1967

Doubts poster
4.9

A fickle and unfaithful husband, Antonis, tries to drive his rich wife crazy so that he can get his hands on her fortune, with the chauffeur and his lover as accomplices. In order to succeed, he fakes his own death, but fate, as usual, plays its own game. A game in which an old friend of his wife is also involved, a reporter on the police beat, Bekas, who is trying to solve a mystery in which strange phenomena come one right after the other, and doubts never seem to end.

Doubts

1964

Καρδιά που λύγισε από τον πόνο poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Καρδιά που λύγισε από τον πόνο

1968

Why Did You Betray Me? poster
8.0

A nice but poor medical student, Petros, lives in a poor courtyard with a down-and-out musician, Antonis. His fellow student Eleni is in love with Petros, but he has no eyes for anyone but Aliki, a girl from an upper-class family, whom her parents wish to rehabilitate with a son-in-law of their own class.

Why Did You Betray Me?

1969

Series credits

7 Deadly Mother-in-Laws poster
6.4

Vicky Stavropoulou plays the ghost of a woman who, invisible to ordinary mortals, watches, narrates and intervenes for good in various family affairs starring mothers-in-law with many different characters.

7 Deadly Mother-in-Laws

2004

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

To soi mas

1992

Wonderful Creatures poster
5.0

The series follows the lives and loves of three 30-something professionals in modern day Athens. Elli (Faidra Douka) is a junior executive in a record company, having to deal with a highly demanding bitch-of-a-boss. Following the end of a serious relationship, Elli is worried about never having a chance to marry or have kids. Her search for new partners mostly results in the entry of weirdos in her life. Mitsaki (Mirto Alikaki) is a radio producer with a love-hate-relationship with her own boss. A life-long party girl with a tendency towards short-lived relationships and an aversion to taking any short of responsibility, Mitsaki has to come to grips with the idea of growing up. Billy (Giorgos Pyrpassopoulos) is a reporter with a rather unsteady love-life. He is a homosexual, but tends to be turned-off by the quirks of his various partners and has yet to fully commit to a relationship.

Wonderful Creatures

2007

Enopios Enopio poster
NR

Enopios Enopio

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Η Μανιάτισσα

1987

Η κυρία Ντορεμί poster
4.0

The main character of the series is a female teacher who, during the interwar period, leaves her hometown, Paris, to come to Greece, her place of origin. The political and social situation prevailing in Greece surprises her and her emotions alternate, as she encounters various behaviors and mentalities. Her appointment in Rethymno becomes an occasion for her to get to know the conservatism of the province and to risk her career and her reputation. In the first episode of the series, Katerina Makri travels to Crete, observes people and events and recalls in her memory images and incidents that marked the first hours of her return to Greece.

Η κυρία Ντορεμί

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Για μια καινούργια ζωή

1988