Marcel Iures Filmography

Born:: August 2, 1951
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Romanian actor Marcel Iures took his cinematic bow in the early '70s and spent the next several decades specializing in character portrayals. He often appeared as distinguished and educated men (Pope Pius XII in the 2002 Amen; a doctor in The Cave [2005]; a professor in Youth Without Youth [2007])...Read More

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Youth Without Youth

Actors: Tim Roth, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair after a ten-year hiatus with this adaptation of Romanian author Mircea Eliade's tome detailing the arduous journey of a professor whose life is thrown into chaos as World War II looms ominously on the horizon. When the seventy Read More

12/14/07
Goal!

Actors: Leonardo Guerra, Tony Plana, Miriam Colon, Kuno Becker, Jorge Cervera, Jr.

Synopsis: One young man's dream takes him on a remarkable journey in this sports-themed drama. Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) was born in Mexico, and came to California with his family when he was just a boy. One of the few things Santiago brought with him was a love for soccer, and while he holds down two Read More

9/30/05
The Cave

Actors: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Rick Ravanello, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Terror lurks deep beneath the surface of the Earth in this thriller. While on a dig in a Romanian forest, a group of scientists make a startling find -- they find a huge abbey, dating back to the 13th Century, which was built over the entrance to a massive network of subterranean caves. Eager to Read More

8/26/05
Layer Cake

Actors: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman

Synopsis: A mechanic in the British drug trade finds himself caught in the middle of some dangerous circumstances in this crime thriller. XXXX (Daniel Craig) is a nameless go-between in the British mob who buys drugs from underground wholesalers and them sells them to street dealers, keeping the system Read More

5/13/05
Isolation

Actors: John Lynch, Essie Davis, Marcel Iures, Sean Harris, Ruth Negga

Synopsis: An experiment in bovine genetic modification goes horrifically wrong in writer/director Billy O'Brien's debut feature, Isolation. John Lynch stars as Dan a cattle farmer on the remote Irish countryside, whose ex, Orla (Essie Davis of the Matrix films), a veterinarian, has convinced him to take Read More

2005
Amen

Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Ion Caramitru

Synopsis: The collective crimes against humanity known as the Holocaust have been well-documented since the end of World War II, but lingering questions remain about how much was known about the Nazi mass-extermination schemes outside Germany, and what could have been done to prevent them. Political Read More

1/24/03
Hart's War

Actors: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Based on the novel by John Katzenbach, author of Just Cause (1995), this prison camp drama combines elements of A Soldier's Story (1984) and the classic Stalag 17 (1953). Colin Farrell stars as Lt. Tommy Hart, a second-year Harvard Law School student who enlists to fight in World War II but ends Read More

2/15/02
The Peacemaker

Actors: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Alexander Baluev, Rene Medvesek

Synopsis: The first motion picture produced by DreamWorks SKG, The Peacemaker (1997) was a spy thriller that married the exotic locations and derring-do of James Bond with the high-tech obsession and post-Cold War politics of Tom Clancy. Greedy Russian military officers crash two trains into each other, the Read More

1997
Mission: Impossible

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno

Synopsis: After he is framed for the death of several colleagues and falsely branded a traitor, a secret agent embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure. Though it drew its name from the familiar television series, director Brian DePalma's big-budget adaptation shares little more Read More

5/22/96
Un Été inoubliable

Actors: Kristin Scott Thomas, Claudiu Bleont, Olga Tudorache, George Constantin, Ion Pavlescu

Synopsis: A Romanian soldier must choose between family loyalty and political allegiance in this disturbing Romanian drama set in 1925. Capt. Petri Dumitriu has been reassigned to a lonely outpost on the Danube after his wife Marie Therese Von Debretsy refuses the advances of a highly ranked general. On the Read More

1994
Interview With the Vampire

Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater

Synopsis: Anne Rice's best-selling romantic horror tale about the origins of a centuries-old vampire inspired this popular, atmospheric chiller. One of director Neil Jordan's major Hollywood productions, the film stays close to its source material, retaining the frame of a young reporter (Christian Slater) Read More

1994
Le Chêne

Actors: Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Visan

Synopsis: Lucian Pintilie wrote this dramatic tale of a woman who travels through Romania on a journey to bury her father's ashes, while the countryside lapses into chaos during the final days of the Ceausescu regime. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Cei Care Platesc Cu Viata

Actors: Adrian Pintea, Gheorghe Visu, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Not long after World War I, the politicians are back to business as usual in the lovely city of Bucharest. In this political melodrama, a journalist has his sights set on one of these politicians and hopes to get his paper to expose him as the scoundrel he is. However, when the politician and his Read More

1991
Sa mori ranit din dragoste de viata

Actors: Claudiu Bleont, Gheorghe Visu, Marcel Iures, Tora Vasilescu

Synopsis: Hampered by a low-budget, director Mircea Veroiu has still created an effective black-and-white film on the resistance movement in Romania in 1934. The story focuses on the exploits of Sarka (Gheorghe Visu), a circus performer, and Horatio (Claudio Bleont), a student, as they join forces to fight Read More

1984
Il Grande Duello

Actors: Horst Frank, Peter O'Brien

Synopsis: Il Grande Duello is the original title of this Italian/French/West German production. The titular duel pits hard-bitten gunslinger Clayton (Lee Van Cleef) against the equally gritty Saxon (Horst Frank). Before this takes place, however, Clayton champions the cause of Newland (Peter O'Brien) a Read More

2/9/73