Ion Grosu

Acting

Ion Grosu

Born

1974-08-12 (52)

Place of birth

Kishinev, USSR (Moldova)

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Ion Grosu is a Romanian film and theatre actor .He was born on August 12, 1974 in Chisinau, Moldova. He graduated from National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1995 .In 2002, he plays first role in the movie Binecuvântatã fii, închisoare. Other notable roles in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Baieti buni (2005) and Comrade Detective (2017). Play on the stage of the theater "Nottara" in Bucharest.

Known for

Killing Eve poster
7.9

A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.

Killing Eve

2018

A Spy Among Friends poster
6.5

Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.

A Spy Among Friends

2022

Comrade Detective poster
6.3

In the 1980s, millions of Romanians tuned in to Comrade Detective, a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show that has now been digitally remastered and dubbed into English for the first time.

Comrade Detective

2017

Shadows poster
8.2

Relu is a family man. He has two children, a wife and a double life. Seen through the eyes of his family, Relu Oncescu appears to be an ordinary taxi driver. No one suspects that Relu works as a collector for Capitanu', a local mobster. Neither of the two worlds (his family and the mafia) knows of the other's existence. Relu manages to keep everything under control, but not for long. After accidentally killing a man, he tries to get out of the underworld, but he can't find his way back. Day by day, the secrets he keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface, one by one.

Shadows

2014

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

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

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 12 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

Of Snails and Men poster
6.6

One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 workers will keep their jobs.

Of Snails and Men

2012

Red Gloves poster
6.6

The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim of a mistake. But Red Gloves is also a political story, describing how a totalitarian state imposes itself by fear, rooting out individuals almost randomly and demanding their submission. By cutting back to scenes from the old life of Felix, the author manages to achieve balance and contrast with the suffocating atmosphere of the prison. We are shown our hero as an idealistic young man, searching for love and fulfillment.

Red Gloves

2010

What a Wonderful World poster
6.5

After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.

What a Wonderful World

2014

Yet to Rule poster
4.8

A surrealist drama about a 40-year-old criminal court judge with a dying father, an unhappy marriage and petty cases to solve - shown as struggle between ANDI, the animal within, and K, his rational side.

Yet to Rule

2018

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

Brutus poster
NR

German shepherd named Brutus got into concentration camp and turned from a harmless pet into a killer.

Brutus

2016

Three days 'till Christmas poster
7.5

Historical Docudrama, which describes accurately - based on evidence, documents, reconstructions and archive footage - the last days of life spouses Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu. Main performers, Victoria Cocias (Elena Ceausescu) and Constantin Cojocaru (Nicolae Ceausescu).

Three days 'till Christmas

2012

White Gate poster
7.0

Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.

White Gate

2014

Bora Bora poster
5.0

Ion lives in one of the most drought-affected areas in Romania. Wishing to put an end to his bad luck, Ion commits to work for a foreigner, unaware of the fact that he becomes involved in illegal activities.

Bora Bora

2011

Humility poster
8.0

In a forgotten village with lazy people and corrupt leadership, Pacoste must suffer for a mistake made in his past. His only friend is a young boy who finds in him a father figure.

Humility

2011

The Walk poster
4.5

An old solitary woman feels the urge to go outside and feel again.

The Walk

2014

2000s · 6 titles

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

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

Gruber's Journey poster
8.0

During the German and Romanian invasion of Soviet Union in 1941, Italian writer Curzio Malaparte arrives in Iași to treat a severe allergy. Finding himself in a desperate situation, he tries to find a Jewish doctor, but soon discovers evidence of a devastating pogrom against the Jewish community. Seeking help in the midst of a city plunged in terror and confusion, Malaparte begins to uncover the horrors of an oppressive regime, in an atmosphere marked by indifference and hidden secrets.

Gruber's Journey

2009

No artwork available
NR

A young drunkard facing divorce climbs up a post to threaten suicide and elicits unexpected reactions from other villagers.

Have a Good Day!

2008

Liviu's Dream poster
6.8

A strange dream forgotten in the morning and an unaccountable feeling cause Liviu to look with resignation upon the world he's living in. His awakening to reality may coincide with the birth of his child ...

Liviu's Dream

2004

The Other Irene poster
6.3

Security guard Aurel (Andi Vasluianu) and his wife Irene have a moderately happy marriage and a moderately comfortable lifestyle in urban Romania. Irene takes a working trip to Cairo and returns invigorated with the swell of success. She sets out again and never returns. What follows is both predictable and unpredictable. Aurel, and the audience, are suspicious of the official explanation of her death so the foundation is laid for the traditional who-dunnit. Aurel proceeds on an emotional search against all odds.

The Other Irene

2009

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