Three of his feature films were Croatia's submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (A Wonderful Night in Split in 2004, No One's Son in 2008 and Halima's Path in 2012), although none received a nomination.
In it Laya Raki starred as Halima, a Moroccan dancer and bartender, who is the partner of the title character, the bar owner and smuggler Richard Crane, played by Patrick Allen.
During her theatrical years and her transition, she appeared in films including O methystakas (Ο μεθύστακας, 1950), Halima (Χαλιμά, a production of an operetta by Theophrastos Sakellaridis) Oute gata oute zimia (Ούτε γάτα, ούτε ζημιά, a comedy by Alekos Sakellarios-Christos Giannakopoulos), Piassame tin kali (Πιάσαμε την καλή, 1955).