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Gabriel Spahiu
Born: 21st Mar 1968 Bucharest, Romania
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 88
Film: 83 (94%)
Television: 5 (6%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Science Fiction, Western, War, Music
Filmography
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An unusual story about the mental breakdown of a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. ... view
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Original title: Cum vine blînda noapte
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Plot TBA. Represents Radu Jude's feelings of "creative obligation" to Romania and channels Roberto Rossellini's 1948 film 'L'amore' while exploring s ... view
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(No release date supplied. Possibly still in production.)
An American couple travels to a remote, snowbound European town to adopt a child in hopes of saving their marriage. Stranded in an eerie hotel, they e ... view
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Taxi Driver
Original title: Grindul Șacalilor
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Toni and Simina are two lonely souls on the road who meet by chance in a supermarket parking lot. They immediately like each other and decide to conti ... view
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2026
In 1997, Romanian actress Silvia Enescu mysteriously disappeared while searching for family property in Transylvania. All she left behind were a colle ... view
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Prof. Andrei Basarab
Original title: Viitorul ți-l faci cu mâna ta, dar de ce să nu îl lași pe mâna unor specialiști?
2026
Influenced by the media and current beauty standards, Beatrice undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries, under the watchful eye of her husband. ... view
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Original title: Nu mă lăsa să mor
2025
The corpse of a woman is found in front of Maria’s apartment window. She agrees to take charge of the funeral, becoming involved in her neighbour’ ... view
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Neighbor With Flowers
Original title: Nu mă lăsa să mor
2025
The corpse of a woman is found in front of Maria’s apartment window. She agrees to take charge of the funeral, becoming involved in her neighbour’ ... view
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Neighbor
2025
In modern-day Transylvania, vampire hunts and labor strikes collide with sci-fi twists, romance, and AI-crafted tales, as multiple storylines blend fo ... view
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Uncle Sandu
2025
Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences ... view
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Ion
2025
Tatiana, an unemployed woman, spends her days selling her personal things in order to survive. Today she has an important deadline and she might end u ... view
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2025
In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri di ... view
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Dude Cop
Original title: Țăndări
2025
Two villages that received only half their necessary annual budgets decide to wage it all on a soccer game between themselves. Whoever wins gets it al ... view
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Nea Tiribomba
2025
In a crumbling Soviet Union, the Petrosyan family finds themselves as outcasts—wherever they go. Their Armenian heritage marks them for discriminati ... view
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Grigor
Original title: Anul Nou care n-a fost
2024
The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the revolution of 1989, in which the characters search ... view
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Benghe
Original title: Už tě nemám rád
2024
Thirteen-year-old Marek shoots videos on social themes, making him an outsider among his classmates. At home, his peaceful relationship with his mothe ... view
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Homeless man
2024
It's year 0 of the pandemic. A young Roma father, Zoro, accompanied by his loyal companion, the horse Miguel, embarks on a transformative journey to t ... view
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Nea Ghiocel
May 2024 (first aired)
In a humorous approach, the series follows the small and insignificant cases that the policemen of the Nothing Brigade: Arrow, Giovanni, Carmola and T ... view
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Unknown/various (13 ep.)
2024
The next season of Buzz House is the most ambitious yet. Selly has prepared many surprises for the participants: secret competitors, an isolated villa ... view
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2023
In communist Romania, a serial killer discusses religion with his next victim. ... view
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The Priest
Original title: Visul
2023
Alex is an artist shunned by success whose love life is affected by the career rise of his girlfriend, Carmen. Alex is sent to a maximum security peni ... view
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Original title: Cam multă spumă
2023
Vlad is leaving for the city to start working as a bartender. On the way, he finds out that his father has suddenly got sick. Forced to come back, he ... view
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Whitman
2023
A grandmother, a mother and her little girl meet at an oriental restaurant to negotiate the girl's transfer to a better school. Because they didn't ma ... view
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Original title: Antrenamentul de noapte
2023
The new goalkeeper on a youth soccer team faces bullying and hostility from nearly all of his teammates. Only one of the boys, Robert, is nice to him, ... view
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Nea' Nutu
Original title: Balaur
2023
Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina ... view
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The Headmaster
2022
In a world where parents no longer spend enough time with their children, they will do anything to regain this precious time. The five friends, Maria, ... view
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Costel
Mar 2022 (first aired)
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 may ... view
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Domnul Rusu (2 ep.)
Original title: تمزُّق
2021
A pregnant Saudi woman must distinguish reality from dreams, drug-induced delusions, and perceptions of death before a killer gets to her and her fami ... view
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Luca
Original title: Probleme la apartamentul 14
2021
After a water pipe incident a young couple receives an unexpected visit from their older neighbors. Things get heated and cause the smoldering problem ... view
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Original title: Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc
2021
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 de ... view
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Priest Parent
Original title: După 40 de zile
2021
This is Emil’s story, the man who doesn’t believe in ghosts, and his best friend, Titi. The plot unfolds in a remote hamlet, a place looking like ... view
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Original title: Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari
2018
"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 clea ... view
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Original title: Inimi cicatrizate
2016
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 t ... view
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Zed
2016
Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies ... view
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Enver
2016
During a night shift, an emergency ambulance with a team of three, a doctor, a paramedic and a driver, is called to an old man's apartment. The event ... view
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Doru
2016
A woodcutter in an isolated snow village in the heart of the mountains tries to right his wrongs, but sometimes spilled blood can only be cleansed wit ... view
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2015
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 af ... view
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Vasile
Dec 2014 (first aired)
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 ... view
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Giani (2 ep.)
2014
Directed by four different filmmakers and produced by different production companies, these four short films share a common theme - life and death - a ... view
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Original title: Cripta
2014
A French real estate developer prepares an old Romanian thermal resort for renovation. A Roman fresco in a crypt delays the project, so he tries to bu ... view
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Popescu
Original title: Trece si prin perete
2014
An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who's terrified of the young suicide in their building. ... view
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Original title: Sunt o babă comunistă
2013
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. ... view
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Culidiuc
Original title: O umbra de nor
2013
In a torrid summer day in Bucharest, the priest Florin Florescu is called to a dying woman's side for saying a prayer. ... view
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Original title: Toată lumea din familia noastră
2012
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 ... view
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Aurel
Original title: Visul lui Adalbert
2011
It's not just any day at the factory for our shady but somehow admirable hero Iulica (Gabriel Spahiu), Health and Safety Chief, but the morning after ... view
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Iulică Ploscaru
Original title: Film pentru prieteni
2011
A disillusioned man is filming his farewell letter before committing suicide. ... view
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Original title: Ursul
2011
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 ... view
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Cicanica
2011
A Nazi Luger Pistol from W.W.2 with dark and mystical powers re-emerges in modern day Bucharest and is taken to London. En-route it falls into the han ... view
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Tibor
Original title: L'enfance d'Icare
2010
Jonathan Vogel (Guillaume Depardieu) would like to turn back the clock and undo the accident that led to his disability and destroyed his life. When h ... view
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Infirmier transfert
Original title: Viata mea sexuala
2010
This is the story of a young woman, Dorina, working in a sex shop in Bucharest, after being forced to interrupt her studies to care for her parents. B ... view
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Marcel
Original title: Principii de viață
2010
Velicanu considers himself a fulfilled person. He's got money, a new villa, married a younger woman and has a son from a previous marriage. Before the ... view
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Anton
Original title: Buna! Ce faci?
2010
Musician Gabriel and dimpled dry-cleaning proprietress Gabriela live like two strangers who no longer see each other. But in humorous contrast to thei ... view
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Iorgu
Original title: Oxigen
2010
Oxygen is a free re-enactment of a real case: a man who tried to cross the Danube illegally using an oxygen cylinder, to escape the communist Romania. ... view
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Original title: Alza la testa
2009
Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. T ... view
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Radu
Original title: Cealaltă Irina
2009
Security guard Aurel (Andi Vasluianu) and his wife Irene have a moderately happy marriage and a moderately comfortable lifestyle in urban Romania. Ire ... view
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2009
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!). ... view
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Workman
Original title: Amintiri din epoca de aur
2009
Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from ... view
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Grigore (segment "The Legend of the Greedy Policeman")
Original title: Nunta mută
2008
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 ... view
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Nuntas
Original title: INTERIOR. SCARA DE BLOC
2008
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 w ... view
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Bilding Manager
2008
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an ... view
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Taub
Original title: Cover boy: L'ultima rivoluzione
2008
The story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the travails ... view
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Florin
Original title: La drumul mare
2008
A funny tale about a bad woman-driver and a young thief who tries to steal her purse while she's waiting in jammed traffic. ... view
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2007
Radu Ana is born on a Friday, the 13th and is the most unlucky man on Earth. Things, however, are subject to change. ... view
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the psychologist
Original title: Nesfârșit
2007
1999. Kosovo War. In a small Romanian village, the chief of the railway station, who also happens to be a local gangster, stops a NATO train transport ... view
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The Union Leader
Original title: Acasă
2007
On Christmas Eve, a taxi driver takes home a man returning from working abroad. ... view
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The driver
2007
Tacke, an old graveyard digger, finds out he has only two months left to live. This is the moment he discovers he does want something out of life: a g ... view
Character:
Nestor
Character:
2006
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 Alexa ... view
Character:
Vecinul
Original title: Lampa cu căciulă
2006
A father and son go to town to try to fix a broken TV set. ... view
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Father
Original title: Hîrtia va fi albastrã
2006
Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the cre ... view
Character:
Georgescu
2006
Rogue operatives within the C.I.A. smuggle a lethal virus out of the U.S. and use ex-intelligence officer Jack Foster (Seagal) as their courier. Unawa ... view
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Male Cab Driver
Original title: Marilena de la P7
2006
Andrei, a 13 year old teenager, living on Bucharest outskirts, decides one day to steal a trolleybus in order to impress Marilena, a prostitute he fel ... view
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Andrei's father
2006
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 19th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspec ... view
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Thief
2005
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they mu ... view
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Survivor (uncredited)
Original title: Moartea domnului Lăzărescu
2005
After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellis ... view
Character:
Leo
2004
The movie encompasses several different elements-the perils of war, a touch of macabre, sadness and redemption. ... view
Character:
The Lunatic Priest
Original title: Haute tension
2003
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' i ... view
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Man in the Car
2002
Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen." ... view
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Reporter
2002
Three overlapping stories take place over the course of a week in Bucharest, with characters whose life paths intersect and overlap; often independent ... view
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Spaniard
2002
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to ... view
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Inmate
1999
While visiting a museum, two siblings Ben and Kim a fierce electrical storm creates a passage between the real world and worlds within the paintings. ... view
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Villager #1
1999
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building ... view
Character:
Jan
1999
When a sixteen year-old boy and his two young siblings set off on a quest to find their missing parents, their search leads them to a ghost town in th ... view
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Hotel Clerk
1999
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 ... view
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Original title: Terminus paradis
1998
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 ... view
Character:
Nelu
Original title: Pepe și Fifi
1994
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 Bucha ... view
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