
Acting
Luminița Gheorghiu
Born — Died
1949-09-01 — 2021-07-04
Place of birth
Bucharest, Romania
Known for
Acting
Credits
34 titles
Known for
6.8No synopsis available yet.
La bloc
2002
7.5Two 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
6.7A 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
7.4After 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
6.7Child'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
7.3In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Train of Life
1998
Film credits
2010s · 6 titles
6.7Child'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
7.1Alina 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
5.6A taciturn Romanian divorcee acquires a hunting rifle and initiates a killing spree.
Aurora
2011
7.4Set 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
6.2The 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
6.7Ionut 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
7.5Two 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
6.7A 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
7.4After 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
6.9It'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
6.1A 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
7.2In 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
6.5A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.
Stuff and Dough
2001
6.0A 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
8.0A heartwarming comedy of parents using a computer for the first time to communicate with their son in America.
The Yellow Smiley Face
2008
5.1Wanting 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
8.4When 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
7.3In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
Train of Life
1998
Poland is invaded by Nazi Germany and entrusts the national treasure to Romania. In September 1939, the Romanian government thus took an enormous risk.
Marea sfidare
1990
5.6After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.
Look Ahead with Anger
1993
7.0A petite Romanian gymnast trains with her teammates for what she hopes will be Olympic perfection.
Reach for the Sky
1990
6.1A story of revolution, betrayal, corruption and wrongful imprisonment, as well as human character and strength while facing them.
State of Things
1995
5.8The survivor of a cursed family seeks revenge on the lover who jilted her.
Remainders
1990
1980s · 6 titles
6.2The 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
7.5Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more.
The Moromete Family
1987
6.8Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.
A Spare Moment
1986
7.0Three 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
7.0Paul 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
A typesetter is in search of an anonymous hero that saved two children.
An Item of News
1986
1970s · 2 titles
8.8Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. In 1978 it was broadcast only in select cities in Romania for 1 week, being deemed "too harsh" by the government.
This Above All
1978
7.2Obsessed by greed and the fact that his wife is in love with his brother, innkeeper Stavarache heads towards madness. Based on the I.L.Caragiale novel, "In Times of War"
Before the Silence
1978
Undated · 2 titles
NROn his way to a business meeting, Claudiu drops by his old man's house to snap a photograph his father kept bugging him for. What initially seemed like an easy job proves quite difficult, as the picture is of particular significance to the old man.
Fotografia
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NRThe presentation of the team of Romanian socialist activists Ștefan Gheorghiu, I.C. Frimu, M.G. Bujor, and Gheorghe Cristescu, joined by the journalist and publicist N.D. Cocea.
Labirintul
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