Movie | Documentary, Crime | Romania, Luxembourg | Romanian, English
Director
Alexander Nanau
Writer
Alexander Nanau, Antoaneta Opris
Cast
Dan Alexandru Condrea, Liviu Iolu, Razvan Lutac
Plot
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent cit...
Mr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.
Movie | Action, Biography | Romania, France | Romanian, Italian
Director
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Writer
Titus Popovici
Cast
Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Olga Tudorache
Plot
At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.
The friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.
Umbre follows Relu, an enforcer for a small-time mob boss, as he struggles to keep his family in the dark about his job. The secrets Relu keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface.
Three men from a provincial town are in urgent need of money and decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but soon after their ticket gets stolen.
The 1977 Romanian series 'Toate pînzele sus' follows Moldavian fishermen turned sailors aboard the 'Hope' in the 19th century. Facing challenges at sea, it focuses on friendship, survival, and freedom.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Romania, Luxembourg | Romanian
Director
Horatiu Malaele
Writer
Adrian Lustig, Horatiu Malaele
Cast
Meda Andreea Victor, Alexandru Potocean, Valentin Teodosiu
Plot
In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Romania, Bulgaria | Romanian, Turkish
Director
Radu Jude
Writer
Radu Jude, Florin Lazarescu
Cast
Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin
Plot
Set in early 19th century 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.
A local talk show host organizes an alcoholic professor and a pensioner known for playing Santa Claus to decide whether there was ever a revolution in their town Vaslui.
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher bring the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.
Movie | Biography, Drama | Romania, France | Romanian
Director
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Writer
Titus Popovici, Jacques Remy
Cast
Pierre Brice, Marie-Jose Nat, Georges Marchal
Plot
The Dacian kingdom lies at the eastern border of the Roman Empire.Only the river Danube separates the two mortal enemies.The Dacian king Decebalus knows that soon the vastly superior Roman legions will cross the river and attack D...
Victor Rebengiuc, Liviu Ciulei, Stefan Ciubotarasu
Plot
In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
Three paroled inept Romanian convicts dream up get-rich-quick schemes on the Black Sea Riviera where a petty-crime police squad led by Captain Panait is vacationing.
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B.D. in alertaaka The Miscellaneous Brigade on the Watch(1971)
Movie | Action, Comedy | Romania | Romanian
Director
Mircea Dragan
Writer
Mircea Dragan, Nicolae Tic
Cast
Toma Caragiu, Dem Radulescu, Sebastian Papaiani
Plot
In 1971 three inept petty Romanian criminals are released from prison but find themselves at the core of two money laundering and burglary cases.
On the brink of revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amid protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Romania | Romanian
Director
Lucian Pintilie
Writer
Ion Baiesu, Lucian Pintilie
Cast
Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc
Plot
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 ...
A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations.
During the times of the Second World War in Royal Romania, a street smart kid accidentally becomes part of an organisation which will eventually decide the future of his country.
Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Dumitrache is sure that Veta having an affair; what he does not know is that her lover is Chiriac.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Romania, Luxembourg | Romanian, English
Director
Radu Jude
Writer
Radu Jude
Cast
Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Parsan, Nina Hoss
Plot
An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Romania | Romanian, French
Director
Nae Caranfil
Writer
Nae Caranfil
Cast
Marius Florea Vizante, Ovidiu Niculescu, Mirela Zeta
Plot
In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence W...
Movie | Drama | Romania, France | Romanian, Hungarian
Director
Cristian Mungiu
Writer
Cristian Mungiu
Cast
Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu
Plot
A non-judgmental analysis of the driving forces of human behavior when confronted with the unknown, of the way we perceive the other and on how we relate to an unsettling future.
A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead.
Based on I.L. Caragiale famous romanian novel of the same name, the story explores the fun, bitter and tragic experiences of the main character Lefter Popescu in his desperate attempts to retrieve 2 winning lottery tickets that he...
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Marin Preda, a controversial novelist who died during the Communist rule soon after the book was published. It tells the story of an intellectual, professor of philosophy whose life is crush...
Dem Radulescu, Sebastian Papaiani, Vasilica Tastaman
Plot
The master is Temistocle T. Temistocle. The aprentice is Alecu A. Alecu. Together they formed one of the most funny couple of crooks wich manage to cheat unhappy women and steal their money under the promise of marriage. The film ...
The director of a famous theater in 1930s Bucharest and his Jewish dramatist are preparing a show designed to satirize the fascist (legionnaire) movement, but the legionnaires are determined to stop the spectacle by any means.
The Bucharest's suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu, a swineherd, meet and tease each other and starts a beverage competition. Their relationship is not just a one-night stand. It would end with a marriage, if...
In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.
Occident is a bittersweet comedy that focuses on the growing tendency of Eastern European youth to migrate west. When the amicable Luci (Alexandru Papadopol) and his beautiful lover Sorina (Anca Androne) are evicted from their apa...
Movie | Documentary, Animation | Romania | Romanian, English
Director
Stefan Mandachi
Writer
Stefan Mandachi
Cast
Stefan Mandachi, Cezar Ionascu, Liviu Dragnea
Plot
Romania is on the last place in Europe in terms of highway kilometers, but on the first place in the number of deaths in road accidents. Entrepreneur Stefan Mandachi builds 1 meter of highway on his private property.
Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihut, Petrica Gheorghiu
Plot
A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon's lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza's lover, while she is Cracanel's lover. One letter starts the b...
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 fell in love with.
Nicky Atanasiu, Alexandru Giugaru, Marcel Anghelescu
Plot
The wife of a party leader looses a love letter she received from her lover, the prefect; the letter is found by a representative of the opposition who threatens to publish it unless he's nominated to a position in the National As...
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 crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.
The movie " Veronica ", a masterpiece of Romanian cinema in 1973 with actors like Dem Radulescu, Lulu Mihaescu and Margareta Paslaru is today a charming film for children. In a magical world made with dream scenery, always put hus...
The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation...
Sergiu Nicolaescu, Victor Ion Popa, Anusavan Salamanian
Cast
Amza Pellea, Ernest Maftei, Gheorghe Dinica
Plot
In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
