Luminița Gheorghiu

Luminița Gheorghiu

Born: September 1, 1949
Died: July 4, 2021
in Bucharest, Romania

Movies for Luminița Gheorghiu...

Aferim!
Title: Aferim!
Character: Smaranda Cîndescu
Released: March 6, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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In-laws
Title: In-laws
Character: Suzana Vrânceanu
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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I'm an Old Communist Hag
Title: I'm an Old Communist Hag
Character: Emilia
Released: August 23, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Child's Pose
Title: Child's Pose
Character: Cornelia Kerenes - Mother
Released: March 8, 2013
Type: Movie
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.
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Beyond the Hills
Title: Beyond the Hills
Character: Schoolteacher
Released: September 12, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Aurora
Title: Aurora
Character: Mioara Avram
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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Francesca
Title: Francesca
Character: Ana
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Silent Wedding
Title: Silent Wedding
Character: Fira
Released: November 21, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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INTERIOR. BLOC OF FLATS HALLWAY
Title: INTERIOR. BLOC OF FLATS HALLWAY
Character: Mrs. Pascale
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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The Yellow Smiley Face
Title: The Yellow Smiley Face
Character: Mioara Popescu
Released: June 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A heartwarming comedy of parents using a computer for the first time to communicate with their son in America.
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Title: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Character: Mrs. Radu
Released: August 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
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12:08 East of Bucharest
Title: 12:08 East of Bucharest
Character: Doamna Jderescu
Released: September 29, 2006
Type: Movie
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?"
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Title: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Character: Mioara Avram
Released: May 17, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Maria
Title: Maria
Character: Maia
Released: November 21, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Time of the Wolf
Title: Time of the Wolf
Character: Mrs. Homolka
Released: August 28, 2003
Type: Movie
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
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Title: La Bloc
Character: Baba
Released: April 1, 2002
Type: TV
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Stuff and Dough
Title: Stuff and Dough
Character: Ovidiu's mother
Released: June 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.
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Code Unknown
Title: Code Unknown
Character: Maria
Released: November 15, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Train of Life
Title: Train of Life
Released: September 16, 1998
Type: Movie
In 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.
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State of Things
Title: State of Things
Character: Mureșan's Wife
Released: December 8, 1995
Type: Movie
A story of revolution, betrayal, corruption and wrongful imprisonment, as well as human character and strength while facing them.
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Look Ahead with Anger
Title: Look Ahead with Anger
Released: April 4, 1993
Type: Movie
After 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.
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Forgotten by God
Title: Forgotten by God
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The survivor of a cursed family seeks revenge on the lover who jilted her.
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Reach for the Sky
Title: Reach for the Sky
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A story about young gymnasts in Romania.
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The Moromete Family
Title: The Moromete Family
Character: Catrina Moromete
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more.
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A Spare Moment
Title: A Spare Moment
Released: April 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.
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An Item of News
Title: An Item of News
Character: Galbură's Wife
Released: February 28, 1986
Type: Movie
A typesetter is in search of an anonymous hero that saved two children.
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Mireasma ploilor târzii
Title: Mireasma ploilor târzii
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Sequences
Title: Sequences
Released: November 29, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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Sword Swallower
Title: Sword Swallower
Released: April 19, 1982
Type: Movie
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".
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Before the Silence
Title: Before the Silence
Released: October 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Obsessed 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"