Emanuel Pârvu

Acting

Emanuel Pârvu

Born 1979-02-12 · Bucharest, Romania

Emanuel Parvu (born 12 February, 1979; Bucharest) is a Romanian film and theatre actor,director and writer. He was born in Bucuresti, Romania. He graduated at National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 2006 . Along side with Adrian Titieni, Daniela Vitcu and Radu Niculescu, they started the first Film Acting Master Studies in Romania at Ovidius University in Constanta. Other notable works as director - Totul e foarte departe (2018), Meda sau Partea nu prea fericita a lucrurilor (2017) and Mikado (2021). Notable works as actor - Miracle (dir. Bogdan George Apetri), 5 minutes (dir. Dan Chisu), Aniversarea (dir. Dan Chisu), Tales from the Golden Age (dir. Cristian Mungiu)

Acting credits

Shadow Man poster
4.3

Rogue operatives within the C.I.A. smuggle a lethal virus out of the U.S. and use ex-intelligence officer Jack Foster (Seagal) as their courier. Unaware of the plot he's involved in, Jack takes his daughter on a trip to Europe, where she's kidnapped by a mysterious foreign agent. Now to save her and take down her kidnappers, Jack must blast his way into the shadowy world of international espionage, where enemies lurk at every corner and friends can turn on you in an instant!

Shadow Man

2006

Graduation poster
6.8

After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.

Graduation

2016

The Detonator poster
4.7

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

The Detonator

2006

Art poster
6.1

A 14-year-old girl auditions for a film role as an abused sex worker, and the director tries to convince her mother of the artistic rationale behind the provocative part.

Art

2014

Attack Force poster
4.2

Marshall Lawson is the commander of an elite military unit. Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack, and he takes it upon himself to investigate the attack, with the help of his girlfriend Tia and his friend Dwayne.

Attack Force

2006

5 Minutes Too Late poster
5.1

The destiny of the man who led the gendarme team after a LGBT film screening in Bucharest, revealed through an investigation by Liliana Calomfir, a young journalist known for her daring reporting.

5 Minutes Too Late

2019

Unidentified poster
6.0

An unsolved case. An unknown criminal. An obsessed cop. His investigation plunges him into a world of darkness and violence, pulling everyone around him into a web of destructive passion and revenge.

Unidentified

2021

Second in Command poster
5.5

Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the second-in-command of the embassy, Sam Keenan, played by Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme, to use his amazing martial arts technique to defend the besieged.

Second in Command

2006

Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes poster
5.4

He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price.

Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes

2006

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

No artwork available
NR

A journalist ventures to interview the owner the first gypsy minority football team, The King of the Roma people himself.

Cupa Regelui

2017

Black Clothes poster
7.0

A glimpse into the life of a middle-aged orthodox priest who struggles with his misdemeaning son.

Black Clothes

2017

Miracle poster
6.5

A young novice sneaks out of her convent to deal with a matter that cannot be delayed.

Miracle

2022

The Anniversary poster
6.2

At Radu Maligan's 94th anniversary the family members and the former colleagues of the old man come to his birthday party. Everything gets complicated when half of the guests try to convince Radu to confess his sins to a priest, while the others think that no one should be forced to do something beyond their will.

The Anniversary

2017

Better This Way poster
NR

Sixteen-year-old Adi struggles with persecution. The boy is taken for forensic examination, he has clear signs of being beaten, he doesn't say much. The police quickly determine that the attack may be related to his sexual orientation.

Better This Way

2024

The Ladder poster
5.4

Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and democracy and faces a series of brutal events that have deeply marked Romania's recent history. Finding comfort in playing the part of Aliosa in a stage adaptation of The Karamazov Brothers, he becomes closer and closer to his character, gradually discovering the way to understanding divinity.

The Ladder

2021

Eminescu versus Eminem poster
7.0

Three directing students brainstorm ideas for a feature film.

Eminescu versus Eminem

2005

No artwork available
NR

Filmed with a single shot, the entire movie develops one big situation: in front of a block of flats, a rescue car has to rush a suicidal young woman who has slit her wrists to hospital. Things get complicated, though, as the nurse has a phobia of blood, the jumpy neighbors manage to stall things, and the mishap sends another accident on their heads, an explosion in which two elderly people are injured.

Nevroze Nocturne

2005

Fix Alert poster
7.5

This film is a puzzle, which fits together in many different ways, only one of which is right. And all of which are deadly.

Fix Alert

2005

The Fixer poster
6.5

Romanian-born Radu Patru is a trainee at a prestigious French news network. Serving as a translator and general problem solver, or "fixer," for the headlining journalists during his trial period, he's looking to make his big break. He sees his opportunity when two underage Romanian prostitutes are repatriated from France, creating an international scandal. Taking advantage of his language skills and local connections, Radu is prepared to do whatever it takes to interview one of the young girls. But as he ventures into tricky moral ground, he must stop to ask himself if, as an aspiring journalist, he can live with the consequences of his actions, and if, as a father, he's setting a good example for his son.

The Fixer

2017

Two poster
NR

The short film Two, directed by Emanuel Parvu, is a one-shot film, shot from the crane, which tells a story in two characters sitting on a bench in a park.

Two

2013

Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man poster
7.1

When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected by the Communists’ expropriations. Over a thousand armed resistance groups took refuge in the inaccessible forests of the Carpathian Mountains where they waited in vain for the support of the Western Allies. One of them was led by Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu, who managed to remain undetected until 1976 when he was arrested. This film depicts the daily existence of this group. It tells the story of a struggle that became an end in itself, as the enemy was constantly in pursuit and arrest meant torture and often liquidation. Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret police, the Securitate.

Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man

2010

Nine Stories of Love and Hate in Isolation poster
7.7

Dan Chisu made a new film, while in isolation. Some of the most famous Romanian actors performed, by filming themselves with their mobile phones.

Nine Stories of Love and Hate in Isolation

2020

Familiar poster
8.0

Dragos Binder is doing research in order to write a fiction film based on the true event of his parents fleeing the country in the 80s communist Romania, but then he changes the subject, moving the camera lens on himself.

Familiar

2023

Behind the camera

Mikado poster
5.5

One day, teenager Magda offers her expensive necklace to a sick child in the hospital she volunteers for- her father is certain she is lying again. When she proves her innocence, he is ashamed and guilty but also incapable of admitting he was wrong. Relationships are now broken and in chaos, and past decisions have an irreversible outcome.

Mikado

2022

Mikado poster
5.5

One day, teenager Magda offers her expensive necklace to a sick child in the hospital she volunteers for- her father is certain she is lying again. When she proves her innocence, he is ashamed and guilty but also incapable of admitting he was wrong. Relationships are now broken and in chaos, and past decisions have an irreversible outcome.

Mikado

2022

Three Kilometres to the End of the World poster
6.6

Adi, a gay teenager, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.

Three Kilometres to the End of the World

2024

Three Kilometres to the End of the World poster
6.6

Adi, a gay teenager, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.

Three Kilometres to the End of the World

2024

Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things poster
6.1

A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds.

Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things

2017

Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things poster
6.1

A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds.

Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things

2017

Better This Way poster
NR

Sixteen-year-old Adi struggles with persecution. The boy is taken for forensic examination, he has clear signs of being beaten, he doesn't say much. The police quickly determine that the attack may be related to his sexual orientation.

Better This Way

2024

Better This Way poster
NR

Sixteen-year-old Adi struggles with persecution. The boy is taken for forensic examination, he has clear signs of being beaten, he doesn't say much. The police quickly determine that the attack may be related to his sexual orientation.

Better This Way

2024

Gasca de la Drept poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gasca de la Drept

2025

Two poster
NR

The short film Two, directed by Emanuel Parvu, is a one-shot film, shot from the crane, which tells a story in two characters sitting on a bench in a park.

Two

2013

Two poster
NR

The short film Two, directed by Emanuel Parvu, is a one-shot film, shot from the crane, which tells a story in two characters sitting on a bench in a park.

Two

2013

Two poster
NR

The short film Two, directed by Emanuel Parvu, is a one-shot film, shot from the crane, which tells a story in two characters sitting on a bench in a park.

Two

2013

High Schoolers, The Film of a Generation poster
NR

A parody of the movie "The High Schoolers" (1986), in our generation.

High Schoolers, The Film of a Generation

2011

High Schoolers, The Film of a Generation poster
NR

A parody of the movie "The High Schoolers" (1986), in our generation.

High Schoolers, The Film of a Generation

2011

Square One poster
9.2

In the Danube Delta, people are guided by archaic beliefs not understood by others. Not even the Earth is in harmony with their antiquated habits, and digging up the dead after ten years to wash their bones can Skiddle into an unpleasant event. But members of a family in Saint George decide to ignore the priest's requirement to stop digging for bodies, believing that they are doing the right thing according to Customs and customs.

Square One

2013

Square One poster
9.2

In the Danube Delta, people are guided by archaic beliefs not understood by others. Not even the Earth is in harmony with their antiquated habits, and digging up the dead after ten years to wash their bones can Skiddle into an unpleasant event. But members of a family in Saint George decide to ignore the priest's requirement to stop digging for bodies, believing that they are doing the right thing according to Customs and customs.

Square One

2013

Everything Is Far Away poster
NR

Love and devotion are different. You can't tell if it's love or not if you avoid saying things to the loved ones. If those things might hurt them, and there is nothing to to to change them, maybe it's love not to say it.

Everything Is Far Away

2018

Everything Is Far Away poster
NR

Love and devotion are different. You can't tell if it's love or not if you avoid saying things to the loved ones. If those things might hurt them, and there is nothing to to to change them, maybe it's love not to say it.

Everything Is Far Away

2018

Chicken, Fries and a Coke poster
NR

A ten year old granddaughter and her two grandmothers go to the seaside. It’s her first time in Romania. She doesn’t speak romanian, the grandmothers don’t speak english… Nor to each other.

Chicken, Fries and a Coke

2012

Chicken, Fries and a Coke poster
NR

A ten year old granddaughter and her two grandmothers go to the seaside. It’s her first time in Romania. She doesn’t speak romanian, the grandmothers don’t speak english… Nor to each other.

Chicken, Fries and a Coke

2012

Meda poster
NR

Meda, a thirteen years old girl, was raised up in modest conditions but with love in a country family, under maternal assistance legal conditions. When the mother, owner of the maternal assistance certificate, dies, Meda has to return to the orphelinat, against here will. The widower, behaving more than a true loving father, fights with all around him, authorities and people, in order to keep Meda and take care of her.

Meda

2016

Meda poster
NR

Meda, a thirteen years old girl, was raised up in modest conditions but with love in a country family, under maternal assistance legal conditions. When the mother, owner of the maternal assistance certificate, dies, Meda has to return to the orphelinat, against here will. The widower, behaving more than a true loving father, fights with all around him, authorities and people, in order to keep Meda and take care of her.

Meda

2016

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Family

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Family

2009