Ion Grosu

Known for Acting

8/12/1974(Age 51)

Kishinev, USSR (Moldova)

Biography

Ion Grosu is a Romanian film and theatre actor .He was born on August 12, 1974 in Chisinau, Moldova. He graduated from National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1995 .In 2002, he plays first role in the movie Binecuvântatã fii, închisoare. Other notable roles in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Baieti buni (2005) and Comrade Detective (2017). Play on the stage of the theater "Nottara" in Bucharest.

Known For (20 credits)

6.5

Movie

Libertate

2023

Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, security agents, and civilians. Trying to escape the siege, Captain Viorel of the militia is captured and accused of being a terrorist.

6.6

A Spy Among Friends

2022

Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.

6.1

Movie

File 631

2022

Inspired by a true story, the film presents a TV reporter's journalistic investigation into alleged American "flying prisons" in Romania. Through a combination of circumstances, following a mysterious File 631, Dinu (Iosif Paștina) discovers a leak from a NATO base in Romania. The news event stirs, provokes, tempts various media, top politicians, services, both internal and external, causing both hilarious and absurd dramas in a black comedy. The journalistic endeavour of the "newly" turned investigative reporter is a tough, not easy, test to preserve his professional dignity, but also his character, noting the duplicity, the moral volatility, the lack of measure of a world that relentlessly continues its course.

6.8

Movie

Miracle

2022

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

8.0

Killing Eve

2018

A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.

5.0

Movie

Yet to Rule

2018

A surrealist drama about a 40-year-old criminal court judge with a dying father, an unhappy marriage and petty cases to solve - shown as struggle between ANDI, the animal within, and K, his rational side.

6.4

Comrade Detective

2017

In the 1980s, millions of Romanians tuned in to Comrade Detective, a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show that has now been digitally remastered and dubbed into English for the first time.

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Brutus

2016

German shepherd named Brutus got into concentration camp and turned from a harmless pet into a killer.

8.5

Shadows

2014

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.

7.2

Movie

White Gate

2014

Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.

6.0

Movie

The Walk

2014

An old solitary woman feels the urge to go outside and feel again.

6.9

Movie

What a Wonderful World

2014

After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.