Tania Popa

Acting

Tania Popa

Born

1973-01-19 (53)

Place of birth

Kaushany, Moldavian SSR, USSR [now Causeni, Moldova]

Known for

Acting

Credits

19 titles

Tania Popa (born January 19, 1973, in Căușeni, Moldova) is a Romanian film and theatre actress who graduated from the I.L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film Arts in Bucharest in 1994, studying under professor Grigore Gonţa. She has been a permanent ensemble member of the National Theatre "I.L. Caragiale" in Bucharest since her 1994 debut as Ondine in Jean Giraudoux's Ondine, and has since performed in a wide range of productions including A Letter (Caragiale, 2003), Heart of a Dog (after Bulgakov, 2005), Orchestra Titanic (2018), and the one-woman show The Girl from the Rainbow (2012, for which she won Best Actress at both the International Studio Theatre Festival in Pitești…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 9 titles

Child's Pose poster
6.7

Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept that her son is a grown-up man.

Child's Pose

2013

Ana, My Love poster
6.4

Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. But, because of Ana's mental illness, their relationship slowly collapses.

Ana, My Love

2017

America, Here We Come! poster
7.5

Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge teddy bear, cross the ocean to perform in New York. Not everything goes according to plan though. The six decide, for some extra money, to start working with a local agent, also Romanian, settled in The States for some time, who promises them a major tour.

America, Here We Come!

2014

America, Here We Come! poster
7.5

Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge teddy bear, cross the ocean to perform in New York. Not everything goes according to plan though. The six decide, for some extra money, to start working with a local agent, also Romanian, settled in The States for some time, who promises them a major tour.

America, Here We Come!

2014

Beyond the Hills poster
7.1

Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to best.

Beyond the Hills

2012

I'm an Old Communist Hag poster
6.2

The film tells the story of a generation that cannot adapt to the reality post-revolution. Nostalgic Emilia tries to keep alive the golden age.

I'm an Old Communist Hag

2013

Love Bus: Five Love Stories from Bucharest poster
4.7

Love Bus is an omnibus film composed of five different episodes, each of them taking place in a different district of Bucharest, Romania.

Love Bus: Five Love Stories from Bucharest

2014

Matei Child Miner poster
7.7

Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beautifully shot film on the illusions and disillusionments of childhood.

Matei Child Miner

2013

The Pill of Happiness poster
7.0

Revenge. Feels so good. Are you ready to pay the price for it?

The Pill of Happiness

2012

2000s · 7 titles

The Detonator poster
4.7

Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.

The Detonator

2006

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days poster
7.5

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

2007

Occident poster
6.9

Three overlapping stories take place over the course of a week in Bucharest, with characters whose life paths intersect and overlap; often independently of their intentions to emmigrate from Romania, or to stay behind.

Occident

2002

Tales from the Golden Age poster
7.0

Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaușescu's regime.

Tales from the Golden Age

2009

Bed of Procust poster
6.5

The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discovers a mysterious Miss T.

Bed of Procust

2002

Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth poster
5.2

Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive. Written by Gonz30

Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth

2002

What a Happy World poster
6.3

The relationship between a younger painter and an older woman.

What a Happy World

2003

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