Luminița Gheorghiu

Acting

Luminița Gheorghiu

Born — Died

1949-09-01 — 2021-07-04

Place of birth

Bucharest, Romania

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 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

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

Aurora poster
5.6

A taciturn Romanian divorcee acquires a hunting rifle and initiates a killing spree.

Aurora

2011

Aferim! poster
7.4

Set in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.

Aferim!

2015

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

In-laws poster
6.7

Ionut and Mariana will get married soon. It's time to meet their families and to plot the happy event. In-laws seem to understand perfectly: passion for TV series unites luxury, Romanian music of the '80s and brandy. Especially brandy. As the bottles are emptied, misunderstandings begin to appear. Three couples, three visions on marriage: fast and opulence (with white doves and Holograf Fuego), traditional wedding (with musicians and tent), or a youthful? Different options, different camps. No one fails. Moreover, the two parents-in-law remember that they met once, 25 years ago. They were in different camps. Now that miraculously brought back to life to face. Follow great challenge. It takes a miracle that this wedding is to be held.

In-laws

2014

2000s · 11 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

Code Unknown poster
6.7

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.

Code Unknown

2000

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu poster
7.4

After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast.

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

2005

12:08 East of Bucharest poster
6.9

It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television post, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?"

12:08 East of Bucharest

2006

Time of the Wolf poster
6.1

A middle-class family flees an unspecified disaster that has struck the city and takes refuge in their country home. They think this will allow them to escape the chaos, but they soon realize that getting away won’t be so easy.

Time of the Wolf

2003

Silent Wedding poster
7.2

In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.

Silent Wedding

2008

Stuff and Dough poster
6.5

A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.

Stuff and Dough

2001

INTERIOR. BLOC OF FLATS HALLWAY poster
6.0

A story which might take place in anybody's life. The death of a person starts a chain reaction which involves the neighbours. A satire of the world we live in based on a true story.

INTERIOR. BLOC OF FLATS HALLWAY

2008

The Yellow Smiley Face poster
8.0

A heartwarming comedy of parents using a computer for the first time to communicate with their son in America.

The Yellow Smiley Face

2008

Francesca poster
5.1

Wanting to follow the current trend, Francesca, a young teacher from Bucharest, is eager to emigrate to Italy. Unfortunately,whilst desperately seeking support from those nearest and dearest to her, various untold truths unravel.

Francesca

2009

Maria poster
8.4

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.

Maria

2003

1990s · 6 titles

1980s · 6 titles

Sword Swallower poster
6.2

The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number entitled "Sword Swallower".

Sword Swallower

1982

The Moromete Family poster
7.5

Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more.

The Moromete Family

1987

A Spare Moment poster
6.8

Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.

A Spare Moment

1986

Sequences... poster
7.0

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery’s owner is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life. In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he’s sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

Sequences...

1982

Mireasma ploilor târzii poster
7.0

Paul Vasiliu, a geologist, returns to his native village. Excavating for irrigation works gives him the opportunity to discover some valuable minerals. Now he has to convince the villagers to postpone theirs lifelong dream of having irrigations in their fields to examine if the mineral deposits are economically viable. A common communist propaganda item of those times.

Mireasma ploilor târzii

1984

No artwork available
7.5

A typesetter is in search of an anonymous hero that saved two children.

An Item of News

1986

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