Cinematografia românească / Romanian movies

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

A Romanian peasant, visiting a friend who is working at a hotel on the Black Sea Riviera, is mistaken for a look-alike rich American businessman.

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

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

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 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 War that had been fought in 1877. Now, "Restul e tacere" tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.

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.

Focused on the August 23rd 1944 coup against Marshal Antonescu, the movie also tackles other topics from the same era such as the Iron Guard rebellion and the execution of political leaders by communists.

The Last Assault is a 1986 Romanian drama film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu. It is set during World War II, during the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis.

Cinematic evocation of the Revolt of Horia, Closca and Crisan.

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 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.

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

The story of anti-communist partisans in post-World War II Romania.

Accidentally receiving a Romanian Medal of Honor, a 75-years-old retiree uses it to regain respect from his family.

A historical tale from the 15th century about a young man that falls in love with the same woman that the son of the ruler of Moldavia loves.

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.

During the cholera pandemic in 1873, a wealthy man in a village sends his son an his son's servant, to find people in the mountain area, in order to help finish collecting his wheat crop. His son although has another agenda in finding a girl who worked on his father's land a year ago and with whom he fell in love with. When found, both men, the son and his servant, fell in love with the girl.

Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.

The film is a masterpiece of directing and acting in the same time.In starring brilliant play Serban Ionescu, Amza Pellea,Gheorghe Cozorici and Tora Vasilescu in a realistic vision of the story-communist emblem of culture: young work site which gives answers to the great questions of existence. Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by engineer Dan to accompany him in building a new city. Along the way, he meets his future wife and subsequently source of unrest and rebellion against fate. The movie is based on a novel by Marin Preda called "The Intruder".Scenario, especially frames and inner monologue are very good thought. Review is written and thought by George Ciocirlan.

A young graduate tries to get a Bucharest ID card in comunist Romania, by pretending to marry a taxi driver.

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.

A few important events from the Romanian peasant uprising of 1907.

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 ball rolling and ugly characters start revealing themselves in a burlesque-like fashion.