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ROMANIAN CINEMA

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  • Adrian Titieni and Maria Dragus in Graduation (2016)

    1. Graduation

    20162h 8mR84Metascore
    7.3 (15K)
    A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
    DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAdrian TitieniMaria DragusLia Bugnar
  • Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

    2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

    20071h 53mNot Rated97Metascore
    7.9 (65K)
    A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
    DirectorCristian MungiuStarsAnamaria MarincaLaura VasiliuVlad Ivanov
  • 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)

    3. 12:08 East of Bucharest

    20061h 29mUnrated77Metascore
    7.3 (8.4K)
    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.
    DirectorCorneliu PorumboiuStarsMircea AndreescuTeodor CorbanIon Sapdaru
  • One Step Behind the Seraphim (2017)

    4. One Step Behind the Seraphim

    20172h 30m
    8.1 (3.9K)
    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.
    DirectorDaniel SanduStarsStefan IancuVlad IvanovToto Dumitrescu
  • Ion Besoiu, Dorina Lazar, and Gheorghe Ifrim in Bucharest Non Stop (2015)

    5. Bucharest Non Stop

    20151h 26m
    7.3 (2.3K)
    "Bucharest Non-Stop" is a Romanian feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More specifically, the film is a night of non-stop life of a store located in a neighborhood blocks. Four drive four different stories linked by a key figure, Achim, known as "the boy from non-stop(24 hours open)", played by George Ifrim. The film wants to convey the story of ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
    DirectorDan ChisuStarsGheorghe IfrimIon BesoiuDorina Lazar
  • Hawaii (2017)

    6. Hawaii

    20171h 56m
    7.5 (1.5K)
    Hawaii is a story on the struggle of inheriting $3 million in communist-era Romania when owning $1 could mean losing your freedom and touches on the theme of how money could buy if not happiness, at least the freedom to choose unhappiness.
    DirectorJesús del CerroStarsDragos BucurCristina FluturAndi Vasluianu
  • Mircea Diaconu in Philanthropy (2002)

    7. Philanthropy

    20021h 50m
    8.4 (14K)
    Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.
    DirectorNae CaranfilStarsMircea DiaconuGheorghe DinicaMara Nicolescu
  • The Oak (1992)

    8. The Oak

    19921h 45m
    7.8 (4.1K)
    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 lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
    DirectorLucian PintilieStarsMaia MorgensternRazvan VasilescuVictor Rebengiuc
  • Andi Vasluianu and Monica Barladeanu in Of Snails and Men (2012)

    9. Of Snails and Men

    20121h 33mNot Rated
    7.2 (2.5K)
    The story of one man who tries to save his car factory
    DirectorTudor GiurgiuStarsAndi VasluianuMonica BarladeanuDorel Visan
  • 6.9 on the Richter Scale (2016)

    10. 6.9 on the Richter Scale

    20161h 57m
    7.3 (1.6K)
    A humble Romanian actor in his 30s, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.
    DirectorNae CaranfilStarsLaurentiu BãnescuMaria ObretinTeodor Corban
  • Ada Condeescu and George Pistereanu in If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (2010)

    11. If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

    20101h 34mUnrated64Metascore
    7.0 (6.7K)
    Two weeks before his release, a teenage prisoner learns that his mother has returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a student working in the penitentiary as an intern.
    DirectorFlorin SerbanStarsGeorge PistereanuAda CondeescuMihai Constantin
  • Emilian Oprea in Why Me? (2015)

    12. Why Me?

    20152h 5m
    7.5 (2.8K)
    Cristian, an idealistic young prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to open a case against an elderly colleague accused of corruption.
    DirectorTudor GiurgiuStarsEmilian OpreaMihai ConstantinAndreea Vasile
  • Serban Pavlu, Anca Sigartau, Gheorghe Ifrim, and Ilona Brezoianu in Weddings, Christenings and Funerals (2022)

    13. Weddings, Christenings and Funerals

    20222h 1m
    6.8 (2.2K)
    Cosmin plays a tennis game with 3 friends. He looks at the clock and starts panicking: he is late to the Registry Office, to a wedding- his wedding, with his ex-wife, who he had divorced without his friends knowing. Everything starts in 2007 when the real-estate bubble reaches its peak. Cosmin gifts Reli a land on the edge of a lake, for their wedding anniversary. He plans to build 7 villas, sell them and win 1 million Euros.
    DirectorAlexandru LustigStarsSerban PavluAndreea MateiuGheorghe Ifrim
  • Love Sick (2006)

    14. Love Sick

    20061h 26mNot Rated
    6.5 (3.3K)
    In order to spend more time with her girlfriend, Kiki, the young student Alex decides to give up her room at the student's hostel and move into the house where Kiki lives. A few months later, Alex and Kiki are a couple. Alex suggests to Kiki that they spend the summer at her parents' house in the country. Theirs is a peaceful, idyllic summer. Until Kiki's jealous brother Sandu appears on the scene, wanting to take Kiki back to town.
    DirectorTudor GiurgiuStarsMaria PopistasuIoana BarbuTudor Chirila
  • Întregalde (2021)

    15. Întregalde

    20211h 44m82Metascore
    6.7 (1.6K)
    A humanitarian mission arrives in Transylvania, offering goods to locals. Maria and Dan, despite conflicts, find themselves assisting a disoriented local.
    DirectorRadu MunteanStarsMaria PopistasuIlona BrezoianuAlex Bogdan
  • The Moromete Family (1987)

    16. The Moromete Family

    19872h 22m
    8.8 (4.5K)
    The story of a family: Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army and much more.
    DirectorStere GuleaStarsVictor RebengiucLuminita GheorghiuGina Patrichi
  • Two Lottery Tickets (2016)

    17. Two Lottery Tickets

    20161h 26m77Metascore
    7.5 (12K)
    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.
    DirectorPaul NegoescuStarsDorian BogutaDragos BucurAlexandru Papadopol
  • Sebastian Papaiani and Amza Pellea in Uncle Marin: The Billionaire (1979)

    18. Uncle Marin: The Billionaire

    19791h 28m
    8.3 (4.1K)
    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.
    DirectorSergiu NicolaescuStarsAmza PelleaDraga Olteanu MateiJean Constantin
  • Veronica (1973)

    19. Veronica

    19731h 34m
    7.9 (850)
    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 husbands and exuberant energy, Veronica, a girl who grows up in a home for children, receives a birthday present from her fairy godmother, played by Margareta Paslaru a magic bag that will fulfill any desire. Veronica refuses to share this gift with other children and for this is punished by Zana. From this moment the dream adventures of Veronica become very exciting. New characters appear as Puss Danila, played by Dem Radulescu, goody fox (Vasilica Tastaman), cricket, played by Florian Pitis and mouse in which we can see the role of George Michael. Elisabeta Bostan, iconic film director and writer of Romanian children waited for two years for permission to start the movie, filming in 1972 by launching a villa situated in the Prahova Valley, in ruins but gave Giulio Tincu life, high designer of his time.
    DirectorElisabeta BostanStarsLulu MihaescuMargareta PîslaruDem Radulescu
  • Ringul (1984)

    20. Ringul

    19841h 36m
    6.3 (335)
    Andrei is now a truck driver. But on one of his travels to Germany, he must become a boxer once again just for one night in the middleweight category.
    DirectorSergiu NicolaescuStarsMarin MoraruSergiu NicolaescuConstantin Brînzea
  • Gheorghe Dinica and Sergiu Nicolaescu in Revansa (1978)

    21. Revansa

    19781h 41m
    7.7 (831)
    After Iron Guard member Paraipan discovers that commissioner Moldovan had staged his own death, he kidnaps Moldovan's son in order to draw him out. Tensions build up resulting in a final epic confrontation.
    DirectorSergiu NicolaescuStarsGheorghe DinicaSergiu NicolaescuJean Constantin
  • Un comisar acuza (1974)

    22. Un comisar acuza

    19741h 54m
    7.5 (1.1K)
    In the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed 40 political prisoners in the Viraga prison. The next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga.
    DirectorSergiu NicolaescuStarsAmza PelleaGheorghe DinicaIon Besoiu
  • Ilarion Ciobanu and Sergiu Nicolaescu in Ultimul cartus (1973)

    23. Ultimul cartus

    19731h 40m
    7.5 (867)
    Mihai Roman, the partner of the ex commissar Miclovan tries hard to see Miclovan's assassin, Semanca, portrayed by George Constantin, behind bars. Because the court didn't have enough evidence, Semanca is set free. In his desperate efforts to imprison Semanca, Mihai Roman receive another mission and another partner in the same time. The new partner, Oarca seems to be an ex servant who is good at everything, and he is one of the best at driving on serpentine.
    DirectorSergiu NicolaescuStarsIlarion CiobanuGeorge ConstantinAmza Pellea
  • Duelul (1981)

    24. Duelul

    19811h 45m
    7.4 (636)
    The Moldovan commissioner has to solve the case of a robbery of the central bank, with the help of Petrescu, a novice partner.
    DirectorSergiu NicolaescuStarsSergiu NicolaescuJean ConstantinColea Rautu
  • The Miscellaneous Brigade Strikes Again (1970)

    25. The Miscellaneous Brigade Strikes Again

    19701h 40m
    8.5 (2K)
    Follows the Communist Romanian Militia 'miscellaneous brigade' and the 'diverse' crimes that it solves.
    DirectorMircea DraganStarsToma CaragiuSebastian PapaianiPuiu Calinescu

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