Șerban Pavlu

Șerban Pavlu

Born: June 29, 1975
in Bucharest, Romania

Movies for Șerban Pavlu...

Băieții buni ajung în Rai
Title: Băieții buni ajung în Rai
Released: March 22, 2024
Type: Movie
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Klaus & Barroso
Title: Klaus & Barroso
Character: Maxi
Released: January 16, 2024
Type: Movie
A bartender-combiner urgently needs to pay off a debt. He persuades his brother, a fiery bouncer, to arrange a bachelor party together, without the knowledge of the owners of the club where he works.
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Title: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Released: September 27, 2023
Type: Movie
On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.
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Teambuilding
Title: Teambuilding
Character: dl. Oprea
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
A frothy comedy about life in the corporation, about the challenges of building a career and those of consolidating and motivating a team. The film, a satire of corporate life, reveals the events of a team building in which the robotic corporativism unleash themselves and unleash themselves by showing their human side.
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Weddings, christenings and funerals
Title: Weddings, christenings and funerals
Character: Cosmin
Released: September 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Cosmin plays a tennis game with 3 friends. He looks at the clock and starts panicking: he is late to the Registry Office, to a wedding- his wedding, with his ex-wife, who he had divorced without his friends knowing. Everything starts in 2007 when the real-estate bubble reaches its peak. Cosmin gifts Reli a land on the edge of a lake, for their wedding anniversary. He plans to build 7 villas, sell them and win 1 million Euros.
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Title: The Clan
Character: Comisarul Sef Costoiu
Released: September 19, 2022
Type: TV
The Clan is an adaptation that will center on an engaging story about the classic struggle between the Police and the Mafia. Tensions will rise as love stories spice up the eternal battle between good and evil.
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Almanah Cinema
Title: Almanah Cinema
Released: July 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Six shorts by Radu Jude:Plastic Semiotic,To Punish, To Discipline,The Potemkinists, Memories of the eastern front,Caricaturana and The Marshal's Two Executions
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Mikado
Title: Mikado
Released: June 2, 2022
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Ruxx
Character: Moscu
Released: March 8, 2022
Type: TV
Reliable 30-something Rux’s plans to leave Bucharest to join her long-distance lover in LA are upended when her boss assigns her to his wife’s mayoral race and pairs her with a know-it-all colleague.
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Sabina - Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years
Title: Sabina - Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years
Character: Captain Dieter
Released: November 8, 2021
Type: Movie
A story of transformation and hope in a time of turmoil and terror
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Caricaturana
Title: Caricaturana
Character: (voice)
Released: October 31, 2021
Type: Movie
Based on an idea by Eisenstein, who dreamt of composing the 101 poses of Robert Macaire – a popular French character epitomizing the unscrupulous swindler – as represented in the 101 lithographs of the series Caricaturana by Honoré Daumier. First, a montage of the gestures as Eisenstein envisaged. Then, original texts are added to the caricatures. And finally, we took the liberty to use them as a commentary to some current news.
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Title: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Character: Father in Apartment
Released: April 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
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Fairy Fever
Title: Fairy Fever
Released: August 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Ileana gives up trying to heal her sleepwalking condition and decides to embrace the sleepwalker inside. With her lover, Lia, as a guide, she stumbles upon a fairytale ending.
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Uppercase Print
Title: Uppercase Print
Character: The Father
Released: February 21, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. Mugur Călinescu was behind them, who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this material.
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Monsters.
Title: Monsters.
Character: Alex
Released: December 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A long time married couple comes to decide within 24 hours, through encounters with strangers, that letting go might be their biggest proof of love.
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Zavera
Title: Zavera
Character: Nic
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: Movie
After the suspicious death of his best friend Nic, Stefan, a fifty-year-old businessman, uncovers the unknown part of their relationship and has to come to terms with his new life.
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Queen Marie of Romania
Title: Queen Marie of Romania
Character: Baliff
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.
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Alice T.
Title: Alice T.
Character: Sorin
Released: May 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Alice, a buoyant and impertinent red-hair teenager is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted as she was unable to have a child of her own. Being an endless source of problems and affected by the specter of her mother’s disappointments, Alice acts with her back against the wall, forging lies and blurring lines between the fiction she designs for herself and the reality of her existence. Until her mother discovers she is pregnant.
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The Afghanistans
Title: The Afghanistans
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Sporadic gunshots echo among the ruins of a village which, though abandoned, is an objective of great import for the Romanian government. This forces two young men to lead a hard negotiation, both for the fate of the settlement and for their own future.
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I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Title: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
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In the Shadow of Men
Title: In the Shadow of Men
Released: June 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Four people meet in a bar. Two of them know exactly why they are there. The third has a pretty good idea. The fourth is in for a bit of a shock...
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Charleston
Title: Charleston
Character: Alexandru
Released: June 8, 2018
Type: Movie
A couple of weeks after his wife Ioana dies in a car crash, drunk and alone on the night he turns 42, Alexandru receives a visit. Sebastian, a shy, younger man, has been Ioana's lover for the past five months. Sebastian has an outrageous request: he wants Alexandru to help him overcome the despair caused by Ioana's death.
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Parabellum
Title: Parabellum
Released: May 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Seven months after their divorce, Ducu pays Maria one last visit...
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Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things
Title: Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things
Character: Doru
Released: November 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Scarred Hearts
Title: Scarred Hearts
Character: Dr. Ceafalan
Released: November 2, 2017
Type: Movie
During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.
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Summer's Over
Title: Summer's Over
Released: December 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Two boys meet during a summer vacation in the late '90s in a romanian town located on the Danube shore, a few days before the summer eclipse. They become close friends, until one of their actions will cause powerful consequences.
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Two Lottery Tickets
Title: Two Lottery Tickets
Character: The jealous boyfriend
Released: October 7, 2016
Type: Movie
3 men from a provincial town who are in an urgent need for money so they decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but very soon, the ticket gets stolen.
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Seven Months Later
Title: Seven Months Later
Character: Vlad
Released: June 8, 2016
Type: Movie
One perfect house. One perfect marriage. One perfect Sunday morning.
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Released: May 19, 2015
Type: Movie
One girl. One car. One night. No coincidence.
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Aferim!
Title: Aferim!
Character: Traveler
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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Title: Shadows
Character: Relu Oncescu
Released: December 28, 2014
Type: TV
Relu is a family man. He has two children, a wife and a double life. Seen through the eyes of his family, Relu Oncescu appears to be an ordinary taxi driver. No one suspects that Relu works as a collector for Capitanu', a local mobster. Neither of the two worlds (his family and the mafia) knows of the other's existence. Relu manages to keep everything under control, but not for long. After accidentally killing a man, he tries to get out of the underworld, but he can't find his way back. Day by day, the secrets he keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface, one by one.
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Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã
Title: Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã
Released: November 28, 2014
Type: Movie
Directed by four different filmmakers and produced by different production companies, these four short films share a common theme - life and death - and a common origin - all four are independent productions made with a little help from all our friends.
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Kowalski
Title: Kowalski
Character: Kowalski
Released: June 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Three men go into a pub. The first man has too many questions. The second man has the perfect plan. The third man has no chance.
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Quod erat demonstrandum
Title: Quod erat demonstrandum
Character: Bucur, the driver
Released: November 12, 2013
Type: Movie
A scholar of mathematics would like to publish his research outside Ceaucescu's Romania, but getting it through the border and the State censorship is not easy.
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The Japanese Dog
Title: The Japanese Dog
Character: Ticu
Released: October 18, 2013
Type: Movie
When a flood strikes Costache's village in Romania, his wife Maria and all of their possessions are swept away. Now in a village shelter, Costache refuses to sell his land and move onward. He has plans to re-build and refuses help and advice from his neighbors. The village is all he has left, except for an estranged son now living in Tokyo. But when his son Ticu hears of his mother's death and father's plight, he arrives unexpectedly with his Japanese wife and son to bring Costache back home with him. This will not be simple. Ticu fled Romania with many issues left unresolved, the biggest being his relationship with his father. Now there is a whole new family for Costache to deal with, old scores to settle, and painful goodbyes to say.
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Roxanne
Title: Roxanne
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Bucharest, 2009. Twenty years after Romanian Revolution, Tavi Ionescu, a nice but quite immature guy for his late 30's finds out from his Securitate (Romanian Secret Police) file that he could be the father of a son he didn't know about. Starting his own secret investigation, Tavi is caught by a complicated past that now comes to reveal ugly hidden truths, messing up his life and the life's of the ones close to him. For the first time in his life, Tavi is forced to take really mature decisions.
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I'm an Old Communist Hag
Title: I'm an Old Communist Hag
Character: bus driver
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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Shadow of a Cloud
Title: Shadow of a Cloud
Character: Cornel
Released: May 23, 2013
Type: Movie
In a torrid summer day in Bucharest, the priest Florin Florescu is called to a dying woman's side for saying a prayer.
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Bad Penny
Title: Bad Penny
Character: Strange man
Released: April 13, 2013
Type: Movie
One night, just before the holidays, in an empty park, two small-time thugs hold up a strange looking man. Where's the Christmas spirit?
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Everybody in Our Family
Title: Everybody in Our Family
Character: Marius
Released: February 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.
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A Film for Friends
Title: A Film for Friends
Released: June 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Considering that his life is a failure, a man records himself leaving a video-message to his loved ones. After this message, which tackles, in funny and sad ways, a lot of issues, both personal and social, he shoots himself in the head. But he fails. And what follows is the a ridiculous and horrific agony, that probably changes the characters' vision about life... A film done basically in one single shot.
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The Bear
Title: The Bear
Character: Panduru
Released: May 6, 2011
Type: Movie
At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the manager decides to steal the bear and run to the mountains to meet the Germans. A crazy road movie starts following the bear.
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Title: În puii mei!
Released: November 7, 2009
Type: TV
În puii mei! is a Romanian television show in which many actors mimic certain people in Romanian society. This is a pamphlet.
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The Happiest Girl in the World
Title: The Happiest Girl in the World
Character: Director
Released: May 8, 2009
Type: Movie
Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commercial. All goes well until it becomes clear that Delia and her parents have very different ideas about what to do with the new car. Meanwhile, the contest's sponsor needs a radiant prize-winner with a gleaming smile. A wicked satire and a psychological portrait of a society perverted by its slavery to capitalism and consumerism
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Silent Wedding
Title: Silent Wedding
Character: Coriolan
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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Currency Exchange
Title: Currency Exchange
Released: October 17, 2008
Type: Movie
How far can one person go to try and reclaim what they have lost? In a country town, Emil (Cosmin Selesi) becomes unemployed when the factory where he worked closes. After his wife loses her job as well, the two decide to travel to Australia; drawbacks, however, start even before they board a plane.
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Alexandra
Title: Alexandra
Character: Tavi, Alexandra's father
Released: December 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Tavi, a forty-year-old divorced father, comes to his ex-wife's home to repair his four-year-old daughter's bike. He realizes with amazement that Alexandra does not call him "Daddy" any more. He asks an explanation from his ex-wife...
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Title: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Character: Gelu
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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Niki and Flo
Title: Niki and Flo
Character: Eugen Tufaru
Released: September 24, 2003
Type: Movie
In this very black comedy about ill-suited neighbors united by marriage, Niki is a former colonel in the Romanian army whose daughter is married to the son of Flo, an aging Bohemian who is full of schemes for the “new” Romania. As the young couple prepares to emigrate to the U.S., Niki is obliged to interact with Flo, whom he finds totally unbearable.
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The Afternoon of a Torturer
Title: The Afternoon of a Torturer
Character: Ticuta
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.
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War in the Kitchen
Title: War in the Kitchen
Released: April 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Feature film.
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Față în față
Title: Față în față
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Fii cu ochii pe fericire
Title: Fii cu ochii pe fericire
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a magnatețs son, who makes it into a talk show, in which he humiliates an expat.
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Last Stop Paradise
Title: Last Stop Paradise
Released: September 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.