Valentin Popescu

Valentin Popescu

Born: April 4, 1955
in Braila, Romania

Movies for Valentin Popescu...

I Want to Smash the Greenhouse
Title: I Want to Smash the Greenhouse
Released: December 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Sara faces the first signs of a disease she inherited from her father, which in its final stage will turn their bodies into plants. Sara needs a big change. But before that, she must try to escape the violent memories of her childhood, so she visits her bedridden father and tells him everything she couldn't tell him until now.
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No Extra Time
Title: No Extra Time
Character: Fane
Released: October 14, 2022
Type: Movie
The residents of a retirement home start a football team.
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Maria Tănase
Title: Maria Tănase
Released: August 26, 2022
Type: Movie
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Miracle
Title: Miracle
Character: Doctor Ivan
Released: February 4, 2022
Type: Movie
A young novice sneaks out of her convent to deal with a matter that cannot be delayed.
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Parking
Title: Parking
Character: Padre
Released: June 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Adrian is a young poet who decides to leave Romania and go live to Spain. He wants to change his life, earn some money and learn Spanish. Upon arriving in Cordoba, he works at a car dealership that sells both old and new cars. During the day he hides in a small caravan in the parking lot of the car dealership. One day, Adrian finds a package with a CD and poster for a tour of one flamenco / jazz band. He is enchanted by the music and by the picture of Maria, who plays a bass guitar in the band. They both meet after a concert on the beach, where they begin their relationship full of passion, problems and surprises.
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Fault Condition
Title: Fault Condition
Released: February 23, 2018
Type: Movie
Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to her parents. The situation is extremely complicated because Emi's mother is the director of the high school where the two lovers study, and Melania's mother is secretary at the same high school. In the fifth month of pregnancy, Melania faints during class hours. She is urgently taken to the hospital by her mother who finds her daughter is 5 months pregnant so it's too late for an abortion. Melanie's mother is forced to tell the truth to Emi's mother. Emi's mother forces Melania's mother to promise to keep the pregnancy secret to everyone, even to Emi. Minor's mothers separates the two lovers and decide to give the baby up for adoption to a family of Romanians living abroad who don't have the right to legally adopt a child from Romania.
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Întoarcerea magilor
Title: Întoarcerea magilor
Character: The Priest
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Mihai and Nidala travel the country putting on shows that convey a simple message: there can be hope if there is love and faith.
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Toni Erdmann
Title: Toni Erdmann
Character: Arbeiter Ölfeld
Released: July 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.
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The Miracle of Tekir
Title: The Miracle of Tekir
Character: Onu
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
In the heart of the Danube Delta, superstition and religion are mixed together, like the earth and water that make up the mysterious mud from Tekir’s area, not far away. Chased away from her village because of her mysterious pregnancy, Mara finds herself employed at the Europa Hotel, providing treatment for infertile women using this miraculous mud. As she meets the rich and eccentric Mrs. Lili, Mara questions her beliefs and intuitions. The relationship between the two women is the key of the miracle of Tekir, between magic and power, tradition and modernity.
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Km 73
Title: Km 73
Character: Dan
Released: August 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Dan and Cristi are both parents. Their sons are best friends. On the way to the Lehliu police station, Dan does not have the courage to tell Cristi the whole truth about his son's accident and the real reason for this long drive.
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To Paris with the Identity Card
Title: To Paris with the Identity Card
Character: Police Commander
Released: May 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Drăgan Niță is a humble French teacher from Romania that has always dreamt of visiting Paris one day. To make his dream come true, he saves 1 lei every day.
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Aurora
Title: Aurora
Character: Doru
Released: March 11, 2011
Type: Movie
An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping next room. Waste land on the city outskirts: behind a line of abandoned trailers, the man silently watches what seems to be a family. The same city, the same man: driving through traffic with two hand-made firing pins for a hunting rifle. The man is 42 years old, his name - Viorel. Troubled by obscure thoughts, he drives across the city to a destination known only to him.
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Floating Things
Title: Floating Things
Character: Avram
Released: October 15, 2009
Type: Movie
While working in Europe, Avram comes to realize that Italians are paying good money for trained dogs that can protect them from the waves of immigrants. That's Avram's big-time idea: he returns to Romania to start breeding watch dogs which he can later export to Italy. As it happens, he settles next to a camp of immigrants recently sent back from Rome. Thus, the Italian tension is willy-nilly reenacted on the banks of the Danube. Avram's life gets complicated. He starts having an affair with his own daughter in law, lands in conflict with his ex-immigrant neighbors and his life is literally under threat. The film ends with an unpredictable situation.
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The Rest Is Silence
Title: The Rest Is Silence
Character: Catargiu
Released: March 7, 2008
Type: Movie
In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now, "Restul e tacere" tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.
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Ryna
Title: Ryna
Character: Biriș
Released: November 24, 2006
Type: Movie
In a small village in the Danube Delta, where traditions are confronted with new material purposes, a teenage girl is becoming a woman. This is the story of Ryna, a 16 year old girl, working as an motor mechanic in Sulina, who strives to find her identity next to a father who is firmly denying her femininity.
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A Roof Overhead
Title: A Roof Overhead
Released: June 10, 2006
Type: Movie
The decision taken by the hospitals council board of early releasing the neurotics and depressed, throw Mona 36 and Cathy 30 in the real world, a world which cannot offer them any place to live except a little house, without a roof , situated at the edge of the country , in the Danube Delta. It's Mona's grandparents house, but both of them are dead. Their arrival triggers weird reactions on behalf of the villagers because they have big plans: to sell the village to a very rich man who own a football team and a political party who wants to turn the place into a luxurious resort. Could Mona and Cathy resist to the villagers reactions? Could they find a place to live in this world?
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Second in Command
Title: Second in Command
Character: Vladimir Norkov
Released: May 2, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Sick
Title: Love Sick
Character: Mr. Parvulescu
Released: March 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Love. It just happens. No rules. It may look sick, but it's deep and it hurts. For everyone, Alex and Kiki are just good friends. They happen to be two girls experiencing another kind of love. For their family, Kiki and Sandu are sister and brother who sometimes fight. They happen to be lovers. Love Sick is about their stories.
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Lost and Found
Title: Lost and Found
Character: (segment "Turkey Girl")
Released: February 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of "generation".
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Sherlock: Case of Evil
Title: Sherlock: Case of Evil
Character: Killer
Released: October 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.
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Philanthropy
Title: Philanthropy
Character: Recuperator #1
Released: March 15, 2002
Type: Movie
In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unassuming high school teacher, never could afford it. Looking for a source of income more substantial than a teacher's salary, Ovidiu plunges into a fabulous world – the beggar mob.
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Capul de zimbru
Title: Capul de zimbru
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Serpent's Lair
Title: Serpent's Lair
Character: Bob
Released: October 19, 1995
Type: Movie
Tom is seduced by Lilith, a succubus who's out to drain him and destroy his marriage.
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Terente: The King of Swamps
Title: Terente: The King of Swamps
Character: Locotenentul
Released: September 22, 1995
Type: Movie
The story takes place early in the 20th century in Eastern Romania, where a famous outlaw lived kind of a Clyde with many Bonnies legend in the landscape of the Danube Delta.
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Meurtres par procuration
Title: Meurtres par procuration
Character: Modine
Released: April 12, 1995
Type: Movie
Lionel suffers from severe memory loss as a result of an accident. Inspector Corona accuses him of the brutal murder of a law student with whom he had a relationship.
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Dark Angel: The Ascent
Title: Dark Angel: The Ascent
Character: Policeman with Club
Released: August 31, 1994
Type: Movie
A demoness from Hell, Veronica Iscariot, uninterested in tormenting the souls of damned sinners, ascends to the world above and finds our world full of evil and corruption. Veronica decides her mission in life is to punish the wicked and evil and goes about this with a bloody vengeance. Along the way she meets and falls in love with a doctor, Max Barris, who tends her wounds after an accident.
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Pepe and Fifi
Title: Pepe and Fifi
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly addicted to Bucharest's sleazy night life. This movie chronicles their daily lives while commenting upon the political and economic situation in Romania.
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Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight
Title: Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight
Character: Leonard
Released: June 1, 1993
Type: Movie
When a lab experiment goes wrong, Benjamin Knight is left invisible while his scientist friends trying to find a formula that will restore his visibility to last the rest of his life.
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Luxury Hotel
Title: Luxury Hotel
Released: April 1, 1992
Type: Movie
In an allegorical tale, a luxurious hotel is ruled like a communist country. The ignorant views of leaders and the social stratification are the main focus.
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Undeva în Est
Title: Undeva în Est
Released: December 31, 1990
Type: Movie
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Sanda
Title: Sanda
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself. A chance encounter with another man may offer her an escape from her daily chores.
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The Last Ball in November
Title: The Last Ball in November
Released: June 19, 1989
Type: Movie
The film is the story of Prince Cantacuzin’s hidden love for his pupil he mentored since early adolescence, until her being married by her stepfather. Daria Mazu, coming from an unfortunate family, with an epileptic brother and a drunker stepfather.
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A Dream's Bird Ashes
Title: A Dream's Bird Ashes
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Five high school graduates are followed though their life altering decisions and their consequences.
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The Inn Among the Hills
Title: The Inn Among the Hills
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
In order to obtain a title, Iordache, recently becoming wealthy, marries his daughter with a noble on hard times, Ștefan. On his way to Iordache's estate, he stops an Mânjoalâ's inn, where he discovers a mysterious world and falls for the innkeeper. Based on Caragiale's novel, "La Hanul lui Mânjoală”. Last film role for Gina Patrichi.
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Bătălia din umbră
Title: Bătălia din umbră
Character: Werner von Schaft
Released: September 22, 1986
Type: Movie
In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group.
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Dommnișoara Aurica
Title: Dommnișoara Aurica
Released: December 15, 1985
Type: Movie
This movie is about the loneliness of an older lady at the end of WWII, in Bucharest. Her mental faculties are declining and she is increasingly living in her own mind.
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Passo Doble
Title: Passo Doble
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Two friends, closer than brothers, working together, staying in the same room, playing together.