Marcel Iureș
Also Known As: Marcel Iureş, Marcel Iures
Biography: Marcel Iureş (born August 2, 1951) is a Romanian stage and screen actor. Iureş was born 2 August 1951 in Băileşti, Romania and is one of Romania's most acclaimed stage and film actors. Iureş entered the Institutul de Arta Teatrala si Cinematografica in Bucharest in 1974 and graduated in 1978. He has acted in films and on stage both in Romania and internationally, as well as playing at least ten roles on Romanian and British television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marcel Iures, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bailesti, Romania
Birthday: August 02, 1951
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Gender: Male
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Mission: Impossible
Overview: When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-22
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Overview: The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world - 92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Genres: War Drama History Adventure Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-09
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Hart's War
Overview: When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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The Peacemaker
Overview: When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-26
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Youth Without Youth
Overview: Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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Amen.
Overview: Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-27
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Goal!
Overview: Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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Isolation
Overview: On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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Thick as Thieves
Overview: A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-09
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An Unforgettable Summer
Overview: In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian frontier where both their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-06-15
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Interview with the Vampire
Overview: A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-11
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The Phantom Father
Overview: American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
Overview: The adventures of the three Brad brothers continues when Traian falls in love with Anabelle, a singer. He wants to marry her, not knowing that she is helping someone to rob a bank.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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Red Gloves
Overview: The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim of a mistake. But Red Gloves is also a political story, describing how a totalitarian state imposes itself by fear, rooting out individuals almost randomly and demanding their submission. By cutting back to scenes from the old life of Felix, the author manages to achieve balance and contrast with the suffocating atmosphere of the prison. We are shown our hero as an idealistic young man, searching for love and fulfillment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Human
Overview: He is a silent man. He walks the streets, watching, looking for the right place. He finds it. In the middle of a market. He sets up a stand. But instead of selling his goods, the silent man gives them away for free. The other sellers watch. They feel provoked. The situation escalates. They lose control. But in the end... there is hope.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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The Season of the Seagulls
Overview: In order to get a promotion, a chemical engineer (Dorel Vișan) uses the researches done by his colleague (Dan Condurache) for his doctoral thesis. But when an important damage takes place in the factory where both of them work, the first one’s incompetence comes out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Cave
Overview: After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While exploring deeper into the underwater caves, a rockslide blocks their exit, and they soon discover a larger carnivorous creature has added them to its food chain.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-26
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The Son of the Stars
Overview: In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board their ship while they go searching for the missing astronaut — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Animation
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1988-10-17
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Somnul insulei
Overview: The topic of the film points out the condition of an intellectual in time of totalitarian dictatorship, which subjugated an island from where you can not run. The only alternative is collaborating with power and internment in a rehabilitation institute. A famous writer returns to his homeland to try to confront the terror of an oppressive regime, but he ends up being himself corrupted-thanks to the aberrant system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Doar amintirile...
Overview: Short university film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1989-12-29
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Fatally Injured by Love of Life
Overview: The story of two men working with the underground movement in 1934.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-11-16
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The Oak
Overview: A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1992-09-16
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Overview: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker. The group must navigate dangerous waters, confront many foes and, ultimately, choose sides in a battle wherein piracy itself hangs in the balance.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-19
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A Clod of Clay
Overview: A movie about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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Octave
Overview: When an elderly man returns to his family home after decades of absence, the apparition of his childhood sweetheart triggers a rewind to the life-changing events from his youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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Gruber's Journey
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2009-04-24
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Delta Space Mission
Overview: An advanced spaceship called Delta is created to establish dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist boards the ship, she and the captain realize the AI that controls the ship can act on its own.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Aurel Vlaicu
Overview: Biography of Aurel Vlaicu, a world wide aviation pioneer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-06-13
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January Dream
Overview: Young Moldovan nobles try to overthrow King Mihail Sturdza. They plot an assassination and spread flyers. On this backdrop, there is a romance story between Franz Liszt, in tournament, and one of the noblemen's daughter, who is close to the plotters.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Carpathian Castle
Overview: In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Mystery
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-03-23
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The Famous Paparazzo
Overview: A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1999-11-09
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The Great Vacation
Overview: Neagu's father appears unexpectedly as he and his family prepare to leave for vacation. He is having an argument with his wife, so his father, feeling unwelcome, leaves. split between his family and his father, he tries to make the best of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Dommnișoara Aurica
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-12-15
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Those Who Pay with Their Lives
Overview: An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1989-10-16
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Fii cu ochii pe fericire
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Layer Cake
Overview: When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-30
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My Father's Shoes
Overview: A father recounts to his daughter the extraordinary journey of four young explorers throughout the world. Fascinated by this story, the little girl will discover that the adventure told to her by her father is at border between reality and fiction.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2019-06-06
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King Michael: The Journey Home
Overview: The dramatic story of the last king of Romania, King Mihai. A king who defied Hitler at a turning point in World War II, only to be dethroned and exiled from his homeland by Stalin-imposed communists. Documentary made in 2021, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of King Mihai!
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-09
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