1900-1999 Ro

The story of a family: Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army and much more.

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

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.

In 1971 three inept petty Romanian criminals are released from prison but find themselves at the core of two money laundering and burglary cases.

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.

Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.

Follows the Communist Romanian Militia 'miscellaneous brigade' and the 'diverse' crimes that it solves.

Set in post war Romania, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war is now a police detective and sets about clearing his city of gangsters and black marketeers.

In 1475 when Stephen the Great ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

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.

Pacala, a character inspired from the Romanian folklore, does not take himself too seriously and neither some of the people interests. After leaving his home village, he experiences a series of adventurous situations.

The trials and tribulations of two high school students deeply in love with each other, but facing the challenge of their completely different social backgrounds, during the twilight of the communist Romania.

In this film three sequences, which could have formed separate stories, are linked together, like cars on a train, to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work on two different jobs. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery's owner, through no fault of his own, is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life. In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he's sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

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.

Set in the 1910's Transylvanian countryside, a poor but industrious peasant must choose between his obsessive lust for riches and his desire for true love.

The love of two adolescents for the same girl, in 1944, which is disrupted by the demands of war. From the novel by Titus Popovici.

Grigore Pintea, a former officer in the Habsburg army, returns to his native village in Maramures.

Mihai leads members of the local resistance movement in an attack on a barge carrying weapons and ammunition for the Nazis in this World War II.

In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.

In the '30s a man is obsessed with a painting of a woman that reminds him of his long-lost mother. He models his girlfriend exactly after the woman in the painting and after she attempts to commit suicide she is committed into a sanatorium.

When the younger brother is in trouble, and the older one is just a plain, simple, working man that needs not trouble around his new family, any girl he meets in a cake-and-juice bar is good for a ride. To the last days of summer, at the seaside. Anda Onesa is the sweet, innocent bartender in a communist bar with cakes, beers, juices and soda. She has never seen the sea. Geo Costiniu is the non-compliant young man, who failed admission exams to college and worked afterwards in the factory. He is the type the regime did not bent yet - and whose own brother filed a complaint against, at the Militia, for a family financial matter. He's charming yet disorriented and insecure, with visions and nightmares. He invites Anda Onesa at the seaside, right after he meets her, on the back of his motorcycle to a last sunbath for this season. They seem to be so right for each other, yet Militia is getting closer and closer. He lets her go back to Bucharest by her own, almost chasing her away. He is gonna die, a communist lesson for all those who do not want to work, but live life to the full. A Buffalo '66 - only 20 years before.

The love story of two tenth-graders in Romania before the revolution.

The film tells the love relationship of Anca, the daughter of the philosophy teacher Socrates, with Doru, a classmate. The teacher is worried, thinking that Anca might be neglecting her school preparations.

The two principal characters have a love affair, with highs and lows accompanied by the Rock'n'Roll music played by their band.