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Top 260 films from Romania (out of 260 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love | 1,980 | Mircea Mureșan | Drama, History | 8.4 | 11 | Romanian | Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe. |
| The Actor and the Savages | 1,975 | Manole Marcus | Comedy, Drama, Family | 8.3 | 15 | Romanian | Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the interwar period and focuses on the conflict between actor and Iron Guard movement ("savages") offended by a satirizes artistic performances. Film question the artist's freedom of expression and the danger posed by his involvement in social issues existing in a dictatorship world. |
| Operation 'The Monster' | 1,976 | Manole Marcus | Comedy | 8.2 | 25 | Romanian | 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. |
| Revenge | 1,978 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Action, Crime, Thriller | 8.2 | 10 | Romanian | "Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we meet up with police inspector Tudor Moldovan, once again, who wasn't actually killed and who has returned to put an end to Paraipan's actions once and for all. When Paraipan kidnaps Moldovan's kid, the police inspector makes up his mind to punish Paraipan and his bosses and to finish off the fascist movement, lead by Zavoianu and his allies. Together with the communist that fight to gain power, Moldovan takes out his enemies one by one. |
| The Last Bullet | 1,973 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Action, Crime, Thriller | 8.2 | 10 | Romanian | A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roma... |
| The Christmas Gift | 2,018 | Bogdan Mureșanu | Drama, History | 8.1 | 12 | Romanian | A son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for. |
| The High schoolers | 1,986 | Nicolae Corjos | Comedy, Romance | 8 | 23 | Romanian | The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials. |
| Uncle Marin, the Billionaire | 1,979 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Comedy | 7.9 | 41 | Romanian | At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett. |
| Brigade Miscellaneous Steps In | 1,970 | Mircea Drăgan | Comedy | 7.9 | 20 | Romanian | Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way. |
| Untamed Romania | 2,018 | Thomas Barton-Humphreys | Documentary | 7.8 | 25 | Romanian | Untamed Romania provides insight into the stunning natural wonders of Romania, with the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube Delta, and Transylvania as its major areas of interest. |
| Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea | 1,971 | Mircea Drăgan | Comedy | 7.8 | 22 | Romanian | Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way |
| A Police Inspector Calls | 1,974 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.8 | 12 | Romanian | The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it ro... |
| The World According to Ion B. | 2,009 | Alexander Nanau | Documentary | 7.8 | 11 | Romanian | The fascinating portrait of Ion Bârlàdeanu. The touching and inspiring story of a man who literally lived in the gutter for 20 years - and in the meantime managed to create paintings and collages which are now exhibited alongside works by Andy Warhol or Marcel Duchamp. |
| Philanthropy | 2,002 | Nae Caranfil | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 116 | Romanian | In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unassuming high school teacher, never could afford it. Looking for a source of income more substantial than a teacher's salary, Ovidiu plunges into a fabulous world – the beggar mob. |
| Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula | 1,979 | Doru Năstase | History, Drama | 7.7 | 21 | Romanian | Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court. |
| Test at educational class | 1,987 | Nicolae Corjos | Romance | 7.7 | 12 | Romanian | The school year is inaugurated by teacher Socrates with an extemporary exam on the theme "How would I like to be the class headmaster?". Socrates' popularity worries the math teacher, Isoscel. But Socrates also has his worries about Anca, his daughter in love. |
| The Secret of Bacchus | 1,984 | Geo Saizescu | Action, Comedy | 7.7 | 10 | Romanian | Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret. |
| Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475 | 1,975 | Mircea Drăgan | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.7 | 10 | Romanian | 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. |
| The Immortals | 1,974 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | History, Action, War, Adventure, Thriller | 7.7 | 10 | Romanian | It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream". |
| Nasty | 2,024 | Cristian Pascariu | Documentary | 7.6 | 17 | English | 1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: he won his first US Open, while also reaching both Wimbledon and Davis Cup finals. Moving back and forth in time and featuring amazing archive footage and exclusive interviews with top athletes, the documentary explores Nastase's highs and lows, the controversies that surrounded him and the enduring impact he has had on the world of tennis. Lovable, charming and generous, yet temperamental, arrogant and obscene, Mr. Nice'n'Nasty disrupted the old-fashioned etiquette of the sport in the 70s thus becoming its first rebel rock star. |
| America, Here We Come! | 2,014 | Razvan Savescu | Comedy | 7.6 | 16 | Romanian | Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge teddy bear, cross the ocean to perform in New York. Not everything goes according to plan though. The six decide, for some extra money, to start working with a local agent, also Romanian, settled in The States for some time, who promises them a major tour. |
| Hawaii | 2,017 | Jesús del Cerro | Drama | 7.6 | 14 | Romanian | 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. |
| Ciuleandra | 1,985 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 12 | Romanian | After he kills his beloved wife, Puiu Faranga is helped by his father to fake insanity. |
| Lord | 2,011 | Adrian Sitaru | Drama | 7.5 | 51 | Romanian | Although he hates dogs, Toni is engaged in finding lost animals and then sentimentally blackmails the masters in order to obtain beautiful large amounts of money. Because of an old and ugly Pekinese that Toni cannot succeed of getting rid of, feelings of affection awake in him that surprise even Toni. |
| One Step Behind the Seraphim | 2,017 | Daniel Sandu | Drama | 7.5 | 38 | Romanian | 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. |
| With Clean Hands | 1,972 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Thriller, Action, Crime | 7.5 | 18 | Romanian | A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters. |
| The Last Assault | 1,985 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | War | 7.5 | 15 | Romanian | The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2. |
| The Column | 1,968 | Mircea Drăgan | Drama, History | 7.5 | 15 | Romanian | The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia. |
| Bucharest Identity Card | 1,982 | Virgil Calotescu | Comedy | 7.5 | 14 | Romanian | A provincial young girl, a farming engineer, does not want to return to the countryside on graduating, but stay in the capital. But she needs a Buc... |
| Tortured for Christ | 2,018 | John Grooters | History, Drama | 7.5 | 10 | English | The Voice of the Martyrs presents the inspiring new movie Tortured for Christ, a cinematic retelling of the testimony of VOM founder Pastor Richard Wurmbrand as written in his international bestseller Tortured for Christ. This movie was produced to honor the 50th anniversary of the book’s 1967 release. Filmed entirely in Romania, including in the very prison where Pastor Wurmbrand endured torture and solitary confinement, this powerful film uniquely presents the story with live action rather than interviews. The dialogue is presented in English, Romanian and Russian (with English subtitles) to hold to the authenticity of this true story. |
| The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians | 1,978 | Mircea Veroiu | Action, Western | 7.5 | 10 | Romanian | The adventures of the three Brad brothers continues when Traian falls in love with Anabelle, a singer. He wants to marry her, not knowing that she is helping someone to rob a bank. |
| The Moromete Family | 1,987 | Stere Gulea | Drama | 7.4 | 43 | Romanian | Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more. |
| Children Underground | 2,001 | Edet Belzberg | Documentary | 7.4 | 37 | Romanian | Children Underground follows the story of five street children, aged eight to sixteen who live in a subway station in Bucharest, Romania. The street kids are encountered daily by commuting adults, who pass them by in the station as they starve, swindle, and steal, all while searching desperately for a fresh can of paint to get high with. |
| The Paper Will Be Blue | 2,006 | Radu Muntean | Drama, Action, Thriller, War | 7.4 | 28 | Romanian | 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. |
| Uppercase Print | 2,020 | Radu Jude | Drama, History | 7.4 | 24 | Romanian | In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. Mugur Călinescu was behind them, who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this material. |
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | 2,005 | Cristi Puiu | Drama, Comedy | 7.3 | 192 | Romanian | After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast. |
| Silent Wedding | 2,008 | Horațiu Mălăele | Comedy, Drama, History | 7.3 | 82 | Romanian | In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence. |
| The New Year That Never Came | 2,024 | Bogdan Mureșanu | Drama | 7.3 | 71 | Romanian | The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the counter-revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world. |
| Pororoca | 2,018 | Constantin Popescu Jr. | Drama | 7.3 | 39 | Romanian | Cristina and Tudor have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. They are in their thirties and live an ordinary life in a nice apartment in a Romanian town, but one Sunday morning when Tudor takes his kids to the park, Maria disappears. Their lives abruptly change forever. |
| Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert | 1,971 | Mircea Drăgan | Comedy, Action | 7.3 | 23 | Romanian | The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s. |
| Medal of Honor | 2,010 | Călin Peter Netzer | Drama | 7.3 | 16 | Romanian | Accidentally receiving a Romanian Medal of Honor, a 75-years-old retiree uses it to regain respect from his family. |
| Klaus & Barroso | 2,024 | Regie Colectivă | Comedy | 7.3 | 12 | Romanian | A bartender-combiner urgently needs to pay off a debt. He persuades his brother, a fiery bouncer, to arrange a bachelor party together, without the knowledge of the owners of the club where he works. |
| A Girl's Tears | 1,980 | Iosif Demian | Drama | 7.3 | 10 | Romanian | A cinema-verite approach to this mystery story about the death of a young girl in a village adds credence to the story itself, it is as though the audience were following along with a real investigation instead of simply watching a narrative unfold. An inspector and his police team arrive to find out why the young girl drowned -- under suspicious circumstances -- and start to work interviewing the villagers. Shown in close-up and individually on the screen, each witness contributes to a growing knowledge that the girl was sexually assaulted and beaten before she died, and the real mystery is why no one reacted to the horror. As the interviews continue, the inspector realizes it will not be easy to extract the whole truth from any of the guarded, close-mouthed villagers. |
| The Duel | 1,981 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Thriller, Action, Crime, Mystery | 7.3 | 10 | Romanian | Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catch the man behind Rica Pasarin, the gang leader, by using his brother, who is a pickpocket thief. |
| A Royal Winter | 2,017 | Ernie Barbarash | TV Movie, Romance | 7.2 | 186 | English | While on a last-minute European holiday, a young woman finds herself in the middle of a real-life fairy tale when a chance meeting with a handsome local leads to something more. However, things get complicated when she learns that the "local" is actually a prince who is about to be crowned King, and whose mother is dead-set against her royal son's romance with the tourist. |
| Brother's Keeper | 2,021 | Ferit Karahan | Drama | 7.2 | 52 | Turkish | Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo's condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens to run out. |
| Bucharest Non-Stop | 2,015 | Dan Chișu | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 | 23 | Romanian | "Bucharest Non-Stop" is a 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", played by George Ifrim. The film wants to convey the story of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. |
| Căsătoria | 2,024 | Mihai Bendeac | Comedy | 7.2 | 12 | Romanian | A degenerate gambler and his two idiot friends come up with an elaborate plan to pay down their colossal gambling debts by marrying the dysfunctional daughter of an upstart billionaire. |
| The unlucky man | 2,017 | Iura Luncașu | Comedy | 7.2 | 11 | English | An unpredictable comedy set in modern-day Romania, Ghinionistul follows a down on his luck protagonist who tries to be in time for an audition but obstacle after obstacle gets in his way. |
| Păcală | 1,974 | Geo Saizescu | Comedy | 7.2 | 10 | Romanian | Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity, greed or vanity. His attitude and actions always bring damages to the mean, evil and materialistic people. So beside the jokes, the movie has this philosophical layer, undoubtedly because Pacala's independent way of being, free spirit and his love for the nature creates a way of seeing life, bringing joy. Filmed in a very beautiful part of Romania in 1974, the movie had an important success at that time and it is considered one of the most loved movies in Romania ever. Like the hero, found in many stories and jokes, the movie forwards the spirit of true freedom and pure link with the nature, forgetting about times and governments. |
| The Goat and Her Three Kids | 2,022 | Victor Canache | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.1 | 39 | Romanian | Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer, at all costs. |
| Then I Sentenced Them All to Death | 1,972 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | War, Drama | 7.1 | 26 | Romanian | A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot. |
| The Stone Wedding | 1,973 | Mircea Veroiu | Drama | 7.1 | 19 | Romanian | 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. |
| U Get What U Kiss 2: The Crazy Bride | 2,021 | Camelia Popa | Comedy | 7.1 | 13 | Romanian | In Răchiţele commune, it is said that whoever kisses you on Wool's Day, will be your life partner in a long and busy life. The Mad Bride is the story of three shepherd brothers who have long since married and desperately want to kiss a proud Woolen Day. |
| Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man | 2,010 | Constantin Popescu Jr. | Action, Drama, History | 7.1 | 13 | Romanian | When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-class, who were affected by the Communists’ expropriations. Over a thousand armed resistance groups took refuge in the inaccessible forests of the Carpathian Mountains where they waited in vain for the support of the Western Allies. One of them was led by Ion Gavrilă-Ogoranu, who managed to remain undetected until 1976 when he was arrested. This film depicts the daily existence of this group. It tells the story of a struggle that became an end in itself, as the enemy was constantly in pursuit and arrest meant torture and often liquidation. Hungry and emotionally withdrawn, the group of young men got entangled in a partisan war that could not be won, lost in the landscape of the South Carpathians, accompanied by a vigilant secret police, the Securitate. |
| The Snails' Senator | 1,995 | Mircea Daneliuc | Drama, Comedy | 7.1 | 13 | Romanian | This Romanian dramatic comedy offers metaphorical commentary on life after Ceausescu's reign as it tells the story of a rural community turned topsy-turvy in their mad quest for the snails a prominent senator has requested for his dinner. The trouble begins when a rather imposing, pompous senator comes to visit a small rural Romanian town for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their new hydro-electric dam. After he finishes his speech, the senator is accosted by a Swiss film crew eager to interview him. The senator is inordinately concerned with presenting a positive image of Romania to the world at large and so when he learns that he and the journalists are to stay at the same villa, does everything he came to make sure that they see nothing scandalous. |
| The Punishment | 1,976 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Drama | 7.1 | 13 | Romanian | 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. |
| Tonight We'll Celebrate in the Family | 1,972 | Geo Saizescu | Comedy | 7.1 | 13 | Romanian | The main characters are two "Don Juans", professional "fiancees", who travel the country in search of desperate women willing to spend money to find their soulmates. |
| Stormy Night | 1,943 | Jean Georgescu | Music, Comedy | 7.1 | 10 | Romanian | Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Dumitrache is sure that Veta having an affair, s... |
| High Strung | 2,016 | Michael Damian | Music, Romance, Drama | 7 | 933 | English | When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a competition that could change their lives forever. |
| Queen Marie of Romania | 2,019 | Alexis Cahill | Drama, History | 7 | 31 | Romanian | Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks. |
| U Get What U Kiss | 2,018 | Camelia Popa | Comedy | 7 | 24 | Romanian | In the village Rachitele the legend says if you kiss a girl on the Wool Day she will be your wife. Three shepherds are willing to do anything possible in order to kiss somebody. |
| The Tube with a Hat | 2,006 | Radu Jude | Drama | 7 | 24 | Romanian | A father and son go to town to try to fix a broken TV set. |
| Weddings, christenings and funerals | 2,022 | Alexandru Lustig | Comedy | 7 | 23 | Romanian | 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. |
| The Earth's Most Beloved Son | 1,993 | Șerban Marinescu | Drama | 7 | 21 | Romanian | The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor. |
| High Schoolers: Rock 'n' Roll | 1,991 | Nicolae Corjos | Comedy, Music, Romance | 7 | 16 | Romanian | The adventures of high schoolers, including strict maths teachers, rock 'n' roll music, and first love experiences. |
| The Afternoon of a Torturer | 2,002 | Lucian Pintilie | Comedy, Drama | 7 | 13 | Romanian | A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania. |
| Love Is a Story | 2,015 | Cristina Jacob | Comedy, Romance | 7 | 11 | Romanian | Near by Christmas, in an old and charming town in Transylvania, Sebastian and Aprilia start a beautiful love story. However, nothing is as simple as it would seem. Being influenced by three men with strong personalities, Aprilia needs to find the balance between adulthood and the choices of a young girl's heart. It's Christmas time and life holds for this talented beautiful girl only the presents that she is strong enough to grab. |
| White Gate | 2,014 | Nicolae Mărgineanu | Drama | 7 | 11 | Romanian | Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania. |
| Memories of My Childhood | 1,964 | Elisabeta Bostan | Family, Drama, Comedy, Adventure | 7 | 11 | Romanian | Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood. |
| Proud Heritage | 1,989 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | History | 7 | 10 | Romanian | After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks. |
| Gently Was Anastasia Passing | 1,980 | Alexandru Tatos | Drama, War | 7 | 10 | Romanian | A border town on the Danube, 1944. The town is occupied by the Germans, and there are plenty of collaborators. A number of the young men join the partisans, kill a Serbian, and throw his body into the village, forbidding anyone to bury it. Anastasia refuses to obey the order… |
| 12:08 East of Bucharest | 2,006 | Corneliu Porumboiu | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 | 119 | Romanian | It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television post, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?" |
| Tales from the Golden Age | 2,009 | Hanno Höfer | Comedy, History | 6.9 | 81 | Romanian | Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaușescu's regime. |
| Superman, Spider-Man or Batman | 2,011 | Tudor Giurgiu | Drama | 6.9 | 25 | Romanian | Aron, a 5-year-old boy, sets together with his worried father on a journey at the end of which he wishes, like the superheroes in the comic books, to save his mother suffering from a heart condition. |
| Part-Time Daddy | 2,024 | Letiția Roșculeț | Comedy | 6.9 | 17 | Romanian | Iustin is a lawyer, but his career dream, for which he has made almost any necessary compromise, is put in jeopardy with the appearance of Maya , his 8-year-old daughter, whom he suddenly finds out that he must take care of, although he is not good with children at all. His life… |
| Investors | 2,021 | Iura Luncașu | Comedy | 6.9 | 16 | Romanian | After working this weekend at a factory, three friends put money together to go on an unforgettable escape to Bucharest. |
| Beside Me | 2,018 | Tedy Necula | Drama, Romance | 6.9 | 13 | Romanian | A subway train is blocked between stations on the morning after the fire in the Colectiv Club in Romania. |
| Confession of Love | 1,985 | Nicolae Corjos | Romance | 6.9 | 11 | Romanian | Love story of 2 high school students with different social standards, Ioana and Alexandru. They are to form a couple with all the social and familial obstacles encountered. |
| Blue Moon | 2,021 | Alina Grigore | Drama | 6.9 | 10 | Romanian | Irina wants to go to school, get her degree and escape her dysfunctional family. Liviu, her cousin, is a businessman who lives in a village. He doesn’t believe much in the importance of an education and finds himself at loggerheads with Irina, who would sacrifice anything to go to school. |
| Two Lottery Tickets | 2,016 | Paul Negoescu | Comedy, Adventure | 6.8 | 78 | Romanian | 3 men from a provincial town who are in an urgent need for money so they decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but very soon, the ticket gets stolen. |
| Miami Bici | 2,020 | Jesús del Cerro | Comedy | 6.8 | 73 | Romanian | Miami Bici is the story of Ion and Ilie, two young people from a small dark city in Romania who go to Miami in the middle of winter, to live both the "American Dream" and the Romanian dream of "getting rich quick". Once there, they find themselves in the middle of the Machiavellian plan of Mișu, a Romanian of the lowest species, established in Florida. |
| Wedding for Money | 2,023 | Cristian Ilișuan | Comedy | 6.8 | 28 | Romanian | Mircea hates weddings. And everyone knows that until he makes a controversial post on Facebook that goes viral. Because he has to return a huge amount of money due to wrong decisions, the only solution for him remains his own wedding. |
| Ramon | 2,023 | Jesús del Cerro | Comedy | 6.8 | 20 | Romanian | Ramon is a kind person, he tries to do good things, but he is making them much worse. He is looking for that special person and ends up in Bucharest, were troubles are following him. |
| Semiotic Plastic | 2,021 | Radu Jude | Comedy | 6.8 | 17 | Romanian | The life of human beings, seen from birth to old age. Only that this generic life is not represented with humans, but with the artefacts that we the humans have created for our children (or should we say ‘cubs’?), in order to prepare them for life: the toys. So, the film is a collage of scenes in which the toys help us understand better a possible essence of our life. |
| Vecina | 2,025 | Eugene Buica | Comedy | 6.8 | 15 | Romanian | The quiet life of a group of apartment neighbors is turned upside down when a 55-year-old woman named Doina moves in next door. A maniacal lawsuit enthusiast, Doina demands absolute silence in the building. Tensions rise and chaos unfolds as the neighbors decide to fight back. |
| Too Late | 1,996 | Lucian Pintilie | Thriller, Drama | 6.8 | 13 | Romanian | In post-communist Romania, young prosecutor Dumitru Costa is sent to investigate a miner's suspicious death in the Jiu Valley. As he delves deeper, he uncovers a network of corruption and negligence within the local mining community. Costa's pursuit of justice pits him against powerful interests, testing his resolve in a society struggling with the aftermath of transition. |
| The Japanese Dog | 2,013 | Tudor Cristian Jurgiu | N/A | 6.8 | 11 | Romanian | When a flood strikes Costache's village in Romania, his wife Maria and all of their possessions are swept away. Now in a village shelter, Costache refuses to sell his land and move onward. He has plans to re-build and refuses help and advice from his neighbors. The village is all he has left, except for an estranged son now living in Tokyo. But when his son Ticu hears of his mother's death and father's plight, he arrives unexpectedly with his Japanese wife and son to bring Costache back home with him. This will not be simple. Ticu fled Romania with many issues left unresolved, the biggest being his relationship with his father. Now there is a whole new family for Costache to deal with, old scores to settle, and painful goodbyes to say. |
| Liviu's Dream | 2,004 | Corneliu Porumboiu | Drama | 6.8 | 11 | Romanian | A strange dream forgotten in the morning and an unaccountable feeling cause Liviu to look with resignation upon the world he's living in. His awake... |
| Love Building | 2,013 | Iulia Rugină | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 10 | MO | Love Building is a comedy about a camp designed to mend broken relationships. 14 couples try to break the deadlock and rebuild their love, with the help of three psychotherapists and trainers. The program lasts for 7 days and the participants go through different stages of redesigning their love lives. But the three trainers meant to assist them have problems of their own and things gradually get out of hand. In an ongoing search for the "happily ever after”, one question pops up: "Can love be fixed in seven days?” |
| The Outlaws of Sevenhorses | 1,971 | Dinu Cocea | Adventure, History | 6.8 | 10 | Romanian | The third movie in the Haiducii series, set in Muntenia during the Phanariote period. Lady Ralu needs a million galbeni to buy a jewelry collection from Vienna. In order to satisfy her desire, the Phanariot ruler institutes the "birul vacăritului" (the tax on the cowherd), impoverishing the people. The band of outlaws led by Anghel Șaptecai, after the death of Captain Amza, tries to recover the galbeni, forcibly taken from the tormented people. In the end, captain Mamulos catches Anghel and sends him to the pit. |
| Child's Pose | 2,013 | Călin Peter Netzer | Drama | 6.7 | 140 | Romanian | Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept that her son is a grown-up man. |
| Katalin Varga | 2,009 | Peter Strickland | Thriller, Drama, Crime | 6.7 | 55 | Romanian | In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder. |
| Occident | 2,002 | Cristian Mungiu | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 | 38 | Romanian | "Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results. |
| Reconstruction | 1,968 | Lucian Pintilie | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 32 | Romanian | A prosecutor, policemen and teacher take 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. |
| Why Me? | 2,015 | Tudor Giurgiu | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 6.7 | 29 | Romanian | Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations. |
| Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time | 2,018 | Stere Gulea | Drama | 6.7 | 23 | Romanian | A sequel to one of Romanian cinema’s most lauded adaptations, The Moromete Family, film tells the tale of Ilie Moromete and his family and focuses on his youngest son, Niculae. The entire order of the world of the village, where the most important thing is to own land and work it, changes upon the arrival of the Communist regime and collectivization. |
| Delta Space Mission | 1,985 | Călin Cazan | Animation, Science Fiction | 6.7 | 19 | Romanian | An advanced spaceship called Delta is created to establish dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist boards the ship, she and the captain realize the AI that controls the ship can act on its own. |
| Weekend with My Mother | 2,009 | Stere Gulea | Drama | 6.7 | 15 | Romanian | 15 years ago, Luiza decided to make a fresh start in Spain. She left her 3-year-old daughter Cristina in the care of her relatives and took off. When she returns to Romania, the woman learns some shocking truths that were kept hidden from her: Cristina ran away from home, is a drug addict and has a 2-year-old girl who lives in an orphanage. Overwhelmed by guilt, Luiza attempts to save her daughter |
| Weekend Millionaires | 2,004 | Cătălin Saizescu | Comedy | 6.7 | 15 | Romanian | Following a competitive circumstances, Russian Federation returned the Romanian state treasury found in Moscow. Among the items brought into the country is also a bust of the early twentieth century (porcelain bust made in 1915, signed I. Andropov) that is not in inventory; experts consider it a "regular kitch". The bust was stored at the Museum of Art in Bucharest. |
| Veronica | 1,972 | Elisabeta Bostan | Family, Fantasy, Music | 6.7 | 13 | Romanian | Veronica (Lulu Mihăescu) is a flighty girl who lives in an orphanage. At the age of 5, a fairy godmother gives her a charmed bag, which can fulfill every wish. |
| Quod erat demonstrandum | 2,014 | Andrei Gruzsniczki | Drama | 6.7 | 10 | Romanian | A scholar of mathematics would like to publish his research outside Ceaucescu's Romania, but getting it through the border and the State censorship is not easy. |
| Of Snails and Men | 2,012 | Tudor Giurgiu | Comedy | 6.6 | 28 | Romanian | One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 workers will keep their jobs. |
| The Rest Is Silence | 2,008 | Nae Caranfil | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 27 | Romanian | 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. |
| Forest of the Hanged | 1,965 | Liviu Ciulei | Drama, History, War, Romance | 6.6 | 24 | Romanian | 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. |
| Kontinental '25 | 2,025 | Radu Jude | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 22 | Romanian | Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can. |
| The Camp | 2,021 | Vali Dobrogeanu | Action, Family, Comedy | 6.6 | 21 | Romanian | After a group of teenagers winds up in a camp free of technology, they quickly discover mysterious occurrences at the facility. |
| Death on Holiday | 2,024 | Cristian Ilișuan | Comedy, Action | 6.6 | 19 | Romanian | Mihai, Adrian and Patricia struggle to get into the good graces of Rodica, a lonely and rich old woman in the hope that they will inherit her fortune. |
| The Secret of Happiness | 2,018 | Vlad Zamfirescu | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 18 | Romanian | For two friends there is only one secret to happiness, that is easy to understand, but, perhaps, difficult to accept. |
| The Mill of Good Luck | 1,957 | Victor Iliu | Drama, Crime | 6.6 | 12 | Romanian | Follows the inner transformation of a man who tried to fight his demon, the love for money, and lost. |
| California Dreamin' | 2,007 | Cristian Nemescu | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 61 | Romanian | 1999. Kosovo War. In a small Romanian village, the chief of the railway station, who also happens to be a local gangster, stops a NATO train transporting military equipment. Their arrival in this small village dramatically changes its landscape. |
| Police, Adjective | 2,010 | Corneliu Porumboiu | Drama, Comedy, Crime | 6.5 | 59 | Romanian | A cop named Cristi must go undercover to trail teen Victor who is suspected of selling pot in the north-eastern city of Vaslui. |
| Ana, My Love | 2,017 | Călin Peter Netzer | Romance, Drama | 6.5 | 56 | Romanian | Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. But, because of Ana's mental illness, their relationship slowly collapses. |
| #Selfie 69 | 2,016 | Cristina Jacob | Romance, Comedy, Action | 6.5 | 56 | Romanian | Your best friends are also the friends who'll make you do the stupidest things. After parting hardcore, Roxi, Yasmine and Ana meet in a bet that will change their lives: Who gets married first in three days? |
| Three Kilometres to the End of the World | 2,024 | Emanuel Pârvu | Drama | 6.5 | 33 | Romanian | Adi, a gay teenager, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack. |
| The Fixer | 2,017 | Adrian Sitaru | Drama | 6.5 | 17 | Romanian | Romanian-born Radu Patru is a trainee at a prestigious French news network. Serving as a translator and general problem solver, or "fixer," for the headlining journalists during his trial period, he's looking to make his big break. He sees his opportunity when two underage Romanian prostitutes are repatriated from France, creating an international scandal. Taking advantage of his language skills and local connections, Radu is prepared to do whatever it takes to interview one of the young girls. But as he ventures into tricky moral ground, he must stop to ask himself if, as an aspiring journalist, he can live with the consequences of his actions, and if, as a father, he's setting a good example for his son. |
| A Decent Man | 2,018 | Hadrian Marcu | Drama | 6.5 | 13 | Romanian | Petru is a drilling engineer living in a community of oil industry workers. He has mixed feelings. On the one hand he is about to marry his pregnant girlfriend Laura, on the other he is involved with the wife of one of his colleagues, Sonia, the victim of a serious accident at work. His new life seems about to begin while she feels hers is ending. When Laura finds out about his relationship with Sonia, all hell breaks loose. Petru feels terrible guilt, but also responsibility for the baby-to-be. |
| Breaking News | 2,017 | Iulia Rugină | Drama | 6.5 | 13 | Romanian | While working on an in memoriam piece for a dead colleague, a famous news reporter loses track of the TV story and becomes part of a father-daughter relationship with the teenager left behind. |
| Sweet Little Lies | 2,012 | Iura Luncașu | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 13 | Romanian | The sweetest girl, Dana (Diana Dumitrescu) has to go out on a date with a broker, Dani (Andi Vasluianu) because her chubby friend, Oana (Antoaneta Zaharia), doesn't have the courage to meet her Facebook lover face to face. A hacker (Marius Damian) is cheating his partner, the computer, with a Facebook profile picture of two exquisite "delicious" girls. The whip cream/ chocolate teacher (Loredana Groza), a French woman who knows the insights of living in Bucharest teaches her pupils the art of Savarin by day and Marquis de Sade's practices by night. No one is what they pretend to be and they all believe that telling lies is the most beautiful truth, and this leads to a series of misunderstandings. |
| Monsters. | 2,019 | Marius Olteanu | Drama, Romance | 6.5 | 11 | Romanian | A long time married couple comes to decide within 24 hours, through encounters with strangers, that letting go might be their biggest proof of love. |
| The Cage | 2,010 | Adrian Sitaru | Drama | 6.5 | 11 | Romanian | Parents squabbling over a sick bird that was brought in by their son Alex. |
| Sequences... | 1,982 | Alexandru Tatos | Drama, Comedy | 6.5 | 11 | Romanian | Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. 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 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. |
| Wer | 2,013 | William Brent Bell | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 | 455 | English | A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye. |
| The Oak | 1,992 | Lucian Pintilie | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 | 49 | Romanian | 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 like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything. |
| Stuff and Dough | 2,001 | Cristi Puiu | Crime, Drama | 6.4 | 34 | Romanian | A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources. |
| Cigarettes and Coffee | 2,004 | Cristi Puiu | Drama | 6.4 | 19 | Romanian | The father, fired two years before retirement, wants to get rehired, requiring the support of his son. The action takes place in a restaurant in Bucharest. |
| The Rage | 2,002 | Radu Muntean | Action, Drama | 6.4 | 19 | Romanian | In a city full of "manele", drugs and illegal car races you don't survive unless you know how to pay. Sometimes with other's lives. Young people today are trying to adapt to a world without consciousness, a world of money, unscrupulous businesses. A film-adrenaline with accents of black humor, irony at the society which is run by large rubble and where life is just a currency. |
| Outbound | 2,010 | Bogdan George Apetri | Drama | 6.4 | 16 | Romanian | Matilda takes a one-day release from jail to attend her mother’s funeral, with no intention of returning. The clock is ticking as Matilda tries one last time to get help from her family and is forced to confront her troubled past. |
| Infinite Football | 2,018 | Corneliu Porumboiu | Documentary | 6.4 | 15 | Romanian | “Last autumn, a good childhood friend of mine, Florin, told me that his brother, Laurentiu, invented a new sport by changing the rules of football. One month later I went to Vaslui, my hometown, with a small film crew in order to learn more about this new sport...” |
| Mirror | 1,994 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | History, Drama | 6.4 | 13 | Romanian | Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime Minister. Focused around 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. |
| Our Director | 1,955 | Jean Georgescu | Comedy | 6.4 | 10 | Romanian | Over at the fictional DRGBP institution, events take a settling turn after a mutinied prize festivity. |
| Mirrors | 2,008 | Alexandre Aja | Horror, Mystery | 6.3 | 1,984 | English | An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home. |
| Tuesday, After Christmas | 2,010 | Radu Muntean | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 68 | Romanian | Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas. |
| If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle | 2,010 | Florin Şerban | Drama | 6.3 | 59 | Romanian | A teenager prisoner awaits his release when two weeks before that happens he's told that his mother is returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a Sociology student, Ana, working in the penitentiary as an intern. |
| Teambuilding | 2,022 | Cosmin Nedelcu | Comedy | 6.3 | 46 | Romanian | A frothy comedy about life in the corporation, about the challenges of building a career and those of consolidating and motivating a team. The film, a satire of corporate life, reveals the events of a team building in which the robotic corporativism unleash themselves and unleash themselves by showing their human side. |
| Illegitimate | 2,016 | Adrian Sitaru | Drama | 6.3 | 39 | Romanian | At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation. |
| When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism | 2,013 | Corneliu Porumboiu | Drama | 6.3 | 26 | Romanian | A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress. |
| The Marshal's Two Executions | 2,018 | Radu Jude | Documentary, History | 6.3 | 19 | Romanian | Two different views of the execution of Romanian wartime dictator Ion Antonescu confront one another. On one side is silent footage recorded in 1946 by cameraman Ovidiu Gologan, and on the other side are scenes from a biographical film shot five decades later by director Sergiu Nicolaescu. |
| Shadow of a Cloud | 2,013 | Radu Jude | Drama, Comedy | 6.3 | 18 | Romanian | In a torrid summer day in Bucharest, the priest Florin Florescu is called to a dying woman's side for saying a prayer. |
| Snow, Tea and Love | 2,021 | Cătălin Bugean | Comedy, Science Fiction | 6.3 | 17 | Romanian | The story of three friends who, through a less happy situation, end up in prison. There they plan their escape and with the help of a local mobster they manage to escape only to prepare for the next robbery. Too a strange potion with really strange consequences will fall into their hands. |
| The Bear | 2,011 | Dan Chișu | Comedy | 6.3 | 13 | Romanian | At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the manager decides to steal the bear and run to the mountains to meet the Germans. A crazy road movie starts following the bear. |
| A Good Day for a Swim | 2,008 | Bogdan Mustață | Drama, Crime | 6.3 | 13 | Romanian | The short is about three juvenile delinquents who break out of prison, kidnap a prostitute and a driver and play with them on an empty beach. |
| Marita | 2,017 | Cristi Iftime | Drama | 6.3 | 12 | Romanian | Costi (30) suddenly comes up with the idea of visiting his father, Sandu, and arrange a surprise reunion with the rest of the family that Sandu has neglected all his life. It's Costi's way of running away from his own couple issues for a day. |
| Marilena from P7 | 2,006 | Cristian Nemescu | Drama | 6.2 | 33 | Romanian | 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. |
| Selfie | 2,014 | Cristina Jacob | Comedy | 6.2 | 28 | Romanian | Yasmine , Roxi and Ana run away to the seaside two days before their finals to have the time of their lives. |
| Mirciulica | 2,022 | Cristian Ilișuan | Comedy | 6.2 | 25 | Romanian | Mircea, a 30-year-old man from a small Transylvanian town fails the judicial admission exam in Bucharest. He has no choice but to return home and live with his parents. He is forced to get a job in a waste collector company owned by a rich local politician. But things get complicated when Mircea starts working for the boss's wife. |
| The Potemkinists | 2,022 | Radu Jude | Comedy | 6.2 | 24 | Romanian | The film written and directed by Radu Jude starts from the gesture of defiance against Russia made in 1905 by the sailors on the cruiser Potemkin, who received political asylum in Romania. In 2021, a sculptor (played by Alexander Dabija) is trying to make a work inspired by this event. |
| The World Is Mine | 2,015 | Nicolae Constantin Tanase | Drama | 6.2 | 20 | Romanian | Larisa is 16 and lives in a city by the sea. It's a small city, where gossip and news spread fast. It's a city where your image and influence, "manelele", money and power are all that matters. And Larisa… wants it all. And even if she doesn't have it, she fights for it. Larisa believes in herself. She knows that she deserves better. She is convinced that it's worth doing everything it takes to fulfill her dreams. And for her courage and recklessness - we love her. |
| Veronica Comes Back | 1,973 | Elisabeta Bostan | Fantasy, Family, Music | 6.2 | 19 | Romanian | Fleeing into the woods to save duckling stolen by Madame Fox (Vasilica Tastaman), Veronica (Lulu Mihăescu) gives Cricket (Florian Pittiş), the queen ants (Margaret Pâslaru) and Danila dangerous cat (Dem Radulescu) who intones that all Popa Themistocles other choruses. Tudor Caranfil - 2002 (Dictionary of Romanian films) |
| I'm an Old Communist Hag | 2,013 | Stere Gulea | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 13 | Romanian | The film tells the story of a generation that cannot adapt to the reality post-revolution. Nostalgic Emilia tries to keep alive the golden age. |
| Back Home | 2,015 | Andrei Cohn | Drama | 6.2 | 12 | Romanian | Robert is a young writer passing through a difficult time in his life. He decides to return home into his native village for the first time since his mother passed away three years ago. In more than 10 years, he paid only few visits to his parents and this fact is reflected by the distant relationship Robert has with his father. As it happens, he meets two former classmates: Petrica - his old best friend, now married with children and Paula- his teenage sweetheart. She is divorced after an unhappy marriage and is now working at a local store. She doesn’t seem to be engaged in a relationship… |
| The Godmother | 2,011 | Jesús del Cerro | Comedy | 6.2 | 11 | Romanian | Jennifer is an American who lives in Romania. Radu Prodan is married and with it has a very intelligent boy of 10 years. Jennifer is a teacher of literature in Bucharest. Located at a baptism as NASA, the police arrest her husband and so was the fact her husband has a business that consists of money laundering. Due to restrictions of law, not allowed to leave the country. Jennifer, NASA, trying hard to find a solution to solve all problems. |
| Domestic | 2,012 | Adrian Sitaru | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 10 | Romanian | Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying to have a better life, but sometimes death comes unexpectedly. The lives of three characters surrounded by a bunch of extraordinary, funny, absurd but quite realistic events. It is all about us, people who eat the animals that they love and the animals that love people unconditionally. |
| The Phantom Father | 2,012 | Lucian Georgescu | Drama, Romance | 6.2 | 10 | Romanian | American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous. |
| The Survivor | 2,008 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Action, Crime | 6.2 | 10 | Romanian | After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of the prison was to have the inmates play Russian Roulette. Only his unbelievable luck and survivor spirit helped Moldovan live through his detention. Out of the prison the ex-policeman joins an international Russian Roulette illegal gaming circuit. In late 70's faith brings him to a Central European town where Goldberg, an old acquaintance of his is organizing an "improved" version of the game where two opponents are shooting each other. Step by step Moldovan meets lots of familiar faces, both friends and enemies. It looks like the whole Bucharest's underworld from the 40's chose to meet here. |
| The Hard Corps | 2,005 | Sheldon Lettich | Action, Thriller | 6.1 | 256 | English | An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard. |
| Queen & Country | 2,015 | John Boorman | Drama | 6.1 | 71 | English | In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town. |
| Be My Cat: A Film for Anne | 2,015 | Adrian Țofei | Horror, Thriller, Crime | 6.1 | 64 | English | An aspiring filmmaker goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film. First entry in Adrian Țofei's spiritual trilogy which includes We Put the World to Sleep and Pure. |
| Royal Hearts | 2,018 | James Brolin | TV Movie, Romance | 6.1 | 58 | English | Kelly, a hopeless romantic in Montana eager to finish her dissertation, and her father, Hank, a rancher, receive news that he has inherited an estate from a faraway land. When they travel there, they discover that Hank has not only inherited the estate, but the title that goes along with it – KING! |
| Sherlock: Case of Evil | 2,002 | Graham Theakston | Mystery, Crime, Drama, TV Movie | 6.1 | 48 | English | Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market. |
| Întregalde | 2,021 | Radu Muntean | Drama, Comedy, Thriller | 6.1 | 22 | Romanian | The suspense story follows three humanitarians whose mission in a remote village called Întregalde, in the Apuseni Mountains, in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods. Apart from a few quarrels and conflicts between the group members, everything seems to be going well for Maria and Dan. But soon after they stumble upon a disoriented local and try to help him, things go wrong. |
| Hello! How Are You? | 2,010 | Alexandru Maftei | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 | 20 | Romanian | Musician Gabriel and dimpled dry-cleaning proprietress Gabriela live like two strangers who no longer see each other. But in humorous contrast to their staid, passionless lives, characters in a constant state of sexual arousal surround them. Their libidinous teen son, whose hilarious voiceover commentary intermittently provides important narrative information, prides himself on being the high school stud and aspires to a career in porn. Gabriela's sexy employee switches boyfriends the way she changes clothes. And despite being married, Gabriel's colleague is working his way through the female members of their orchestra. Ultimately, the two Gabys find their virtual affairs reconnect them with their own desires, but in a way less movie-fantasy and more satisfyingly real-life. Written by Palm Springs Internation Film Festival |
| Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things | 2,017 | Emanuel Pârvu | Drama | 6.1 | 11 | Romanian | A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds. |
| Something Is About to Happen | 2,023 | Antonio Méndez Esparza | Drama, Thriller | 6 | 57 | Spanish | After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía decides to become a cab driver. |
| Mama | 1,976 | Elisabeta Bostan | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music | 6 | 43 | Russian | Mrs. Rada the Goat tells her five children to behave while she goes to the fair, and under no circumstances open the door to anyone except her. But the Big Bad Wolf, Kostika (Titi) Suru, and his nephew, the Little Bad Wolf, along with friends Rassul the Lynx and Petrika the Donkey has made a plan to kidnap the children while their mother is away. And when the eldest child, Matei, decides to disobey his mother and visit the fair himself, things start to go badly for the goat-family. |
| Mo | 2,019 | Radu Dragomir | Drama, Thriller | 6 | 31 | Romanian | Mo and Vera, two college students, are caught cheating on an exam, an act that will have terrifying consequences. |
| Immaculate | 2,021 | Monica Stan | Drama | 6 | 12 | Romanian | When young Daria enters rehab to kick the drug habit her first love left her with, her perceived innocence saves her from the sexual advances of the mostly male junkies inside and gains her their protection. Suddenly thrown into the spotlight and enjoying the attention, Daria soon finds out that special treatment comes at a great price. |
| Garcea and the Oltenians | 2,001 | Sam Irvin | Comedy | 6 | 12 | Romanian | The magic stone that could solve world's concerns regarding energy for the next century is found in the village of Sadova. Therefore a number of agents from all around the world get going in the search of the stone. |
| Felix and Otilia | 1,972 | Iulian Mihu | Drama | 6 | 12 | Romanian | Young Felix moves into his eccentric uncle’s house and is immediately drawn to the enigmatic Otilia, a free-spirited woman who lives by her own rules. Love, inheritance games, decaying mansions, and fragile hearts collide in this elegant adaptation of George Călinescu’s novel Enigma Otiliei. |
| Mia Misses Her Revenge | 2,020 | Bogdan Theodor Olteanu | Drama | 6 | 10 | Romanian | Mia, a young actress, is slapped by her boyfriend. That does it. She moves back home and starts planning her revenge. She decides to make a sex video to send to her ex. She just needs to find a man to make it with. And that’s when it turns out things are not that simple. |
| Legacy | 2,020 | Dorian Boguță | Thriller | 6 | 10 | Romanian | A police officer investigates the case of a famous pianist that has been missing for several days. The investigation reveals the artist's troubled destiny, his strange relationships and the decisions that led to a dramatic turn of events. |
| The Long Drive | 1,975 | Mircea Daneliuc | Drama | 6 | 10 | Romanian | Savu and Panait, two drivers working for a firm of construction and assembly must ensure the movement of a giant machine. Along the way, she meets Miriam, a young gone to meet his fiance even transport your destination. Identity documents and stolen his train ticket. The two drivers decide to give her journey. After a night in a motel, drivers have an argument that is not foreign to the presence of Mary. For their silence, Savu decides to disembark. Not long after, overcome by remorse, turn back looking for her and thus reach his village which had left years ago. Here, Maria discovers drama of the human soul, wounded by an unhappy marriage. Arriving at your destination, are the husband of Mary is already married two months. Two men and a woman on the road to return, beyond sadness after a ravishing experience. |
| The Way I Spent the End of the World | 2,006 | Cătălin Mitulescu | Drama | 5.9 | 33 | Romanian | Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator. |
| The Enchanted Grove | 1,980 | Gheorghe Naghi | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 5.9 | 16 | Romanian | Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on their farm. Before long, Lizuca's father comes to take her away to live with him and his new bride, a vile woman who considers children the bane of all existence. Lizuca and the dachshund escape the wicked stepmother and spend the night in a hollow tree, a tree that changes into an enchanted land where Lizuca (like Alice through the Looking Glass) discovers a world of characters in the form of bees, frogs, the four seasons, Snow White, her dwarves, and other fairy tale creatures. This magic place is threatened by the evil stepmother's plan to sell the grove that protects the secret land to developers -- a decision that puts the woman on trial before this perfidy can be realized. |
| Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter | 2,015 | Ana Lungu | Drama | 5.9 | 15 | Romanian | Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a "proper", bourgeois middle-class family. Her time is split between writing for her PhD in Earthquake Engineering, conversations with Alex and Michelle, her two close friends and occasional, eagerly awaited rendezvous' with Dan, a married man with whom she is romantically involved. After her parents move out of the family apartment into a new house, she decides to get a dog. It is something that she wanted ever since she was a child and now that she lives on her own she can finally fulfill this wish. |
| A Month in Thailand | 2,012 | Paul Negoescu | Comedy | 5.9 | 15 | Romanian | In Bucharest on a winter’s morning, a couple make love. Adina wants to move in with her boyfriend Radu as soon as possible. He, on the other hand, is slightly more reluctant but appears to simply tolerate her plans. Today is New Year’s Eve and Radu and Adina have a lot to do: the two have planned a visit to Adina’s parents followed by a party with friends. While buying last-minute gifts at the supermarket, Radu thinks he spots ex-girlfriend Nadja, who he has never forgotten. In one small moment, Radu’s insecurities about Adina come bubbling to the surface. No sooner have the corks begin to pop, the relationship comes to an abrupt end. This is followed by the perfectly timed offer from Radu’s friend Alex to hit the town with him and his friends. Radu accepts the offer in the hope that Nadja is also out. Director Paul Negogescu draws a portrait of Radu with precision and subtle irony – and captures the atmosphere of a New Year’s evening with great authenticity. |
| Twice Upon a Time | 2,006 | Antoine de Caunes | Comedy | 5.9 | 14 | French | Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the 70s. But this pair haven't seen each other in thirty years. |
| Oh, Ramona! | 2,019 | Cristina Jacob | Comedy, Romance | 5.8 | 419 | English | Oh, Ramona! seeks the transformation of Andrew from a teenager into an adult who lives candidly and selflessly his first love story, innocent and uninvolved, alternating with the second, intense and insane story, incapable of making a choice. |
| The Father Who Moves Mountains | 2,021 | Daniel Sandu | Drama, Thriller | 5.8 | 93 | Romanian | Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad. |
| Maria, Mirabella | 1,982 | Ion Popescu-Gopo | Animation, Comedy, Family | 5.8 | 22 | MO | Two little girls - Maria and Mirabella - go to the woods for a walk and encounter several magical characters, among them a frog with his feet frozen in ice, a fireworm whose shoes keep catching fire, and a butterfly who's afraid of flying. To help their new friends, the girls must carry them to a sorceress who lives deep in the forest. |
| Somewhere in Palilula | 2,012 | Silviu Purcărete | Drama | 5.8 | 16 | Romanian | The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică. |
| Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica? | 1,981 | Lucian Pintilie | Comedy, Drama | 5.8 | 11 | Romanian | Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution. |
| Două inimi | 2,022 | Unknown | Drama, Romance | 5.8 | 10 | Romanian | Lexi, a 19-year-old girl, poor, with a life full of difficulties, writes lyrics and music in a notebook. Before an important meeting that can change her life and in which her notebook would play a crucial role, Lexi loses the notebook. |
| Zapping | 2,000 | Cristian Mungiu | Drama | 5.8 | 10 | English | In a shabby apartment somewhere in Romania, a man obsessively zap between his TV channels despite the wife's complaints and nagging. But where his ... |
| The Crucifixion | 2,017 | Xavier Gens | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 | 528 | English | When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence. |
| Dracula II: Ascension | 2,003 | Patrick Lussier | Horror, Thriller, Fantasy | 5.7 | 177 | English | A group of medical students discover the body of the infamous count. Soon, they find themselves in the middle of a bizarre and dangerous conflict when a shadowy figure offers them $30 million for the body so that he may harvest his blood. |
| Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud | 2,007 | Michael Hurst | Horror, Fantasy, TV Movie | 5.7 | 108 | English | During a bitter family feud, Jodie Hatfield, and her boyfriend Ricky McCoy, decide to leave town to avoid being found out, but are soon caught in the act. Wanting vengeance, he seeks out the monster Pumpkinhead, and resurrects it seek revenge on the family. Despite being warned away by the ghost of Ed Harley, his vengeance plan starts out, and the Hatfield family is soon under siege by the powerful demon. Not accepting the legend of the creature and believing their arch-rivals are the real cause, the two families attempt to go to war, only to be stopped when Pumpkinhead attacks the Hatfield house. Putting aside their differences, they band together to stave off the creature before it's vengeance pact is completed. |
| Summer Holiday | 2,008 | Radu Muntean | Drama, Comedy | 5.7 | 22 | Romanian | On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes). In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife. |
| The Independence of Romania | 1,912 | Aristide Demetriade | History, War | 5.7 | 11 | XX | The movie depicts the Romanian War of Independence (1877-1878). |
| Crossing Dates | 2,008 | Anca Damian | Drama | 5.7 | 10 | Romanian | 3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally. |
| Blood and Chocolate | 2,007 | Katja von Garnier | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance | 5.6 | 325 | English | A young teenage werewolf is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man. |
| They're Watching | 2,016 | Jay Lender | Thriller, Comedy, Horror | 5.6 | 164 | English | An American TV crew gets trapped in a centuries-old web of revenge, horror, and blood, when their home improvement show is attacked by angry Eastern European villagers out to kill the show's star. |
| Chimères | 2,013 | Olivier Beguin | Horror, Drama, Romance | 5.6 | 18 | French | A young couple, Alexander and Livia, take off on holiday to Romania. Hospitalized after being hit by a car, Alexander must undergo a blood transfusion—with horrifying consequences: upon his return, he seems afflicted with a strange disease. |
| Loverboy | 2,011 | Cătălin Mitulescu | Drama | 5.6 | 18 | Romanian | Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. Luca falls in love with Veli, one of his potential victims. It's summer down the Danube river, in Harsova. The music is loud, the cars are fancy, the girls are tanned and Veli runs away from home in Luca's bed. First love has never felt more dangerous. |
| A Bomb Was Stolen | 1,962 | Ion Popescu-Gopo | Science Fiction, Comedy, Fantasy | 5.6 | 14 | Romanian | A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military. |
| Little Ghost | 1,997 | Linda Shayne | Family, Fantasy, Adventure | 5.6 | 11 | English | While on location in a spooky Italian villa with his Hollywood big-shot mom and her dorky boyfriend, twelve-year-old Kevin befriends a Renaissance-era girl ghost who helps him cause unrest on the set. |
| Second in Command | 2,006 | Simon Fellows | Action | 5.5 | 178 | English | Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the second-in-command of the embassy, Sam Keenan, played by Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme, to use his amazing martial arts technique to defend the besieged. |
| One in the Chamber | 2,012 | William Kaufman | Action, Thriller | 5.5 | 165 | English | A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy. |
| Love Sick | 2,006 | Tudor Giurgiu | Drama | 5.5 | 64 | Romanian | Love. It just happens. No rules. It may look sick, but it's deep and it hurts. For everyone, Alex and Kiki are just good friends. They happen to be two girls experiencing another kind of love. For their family, Kiki and Sandu are sister and brother who sometimes fight. They happen to be lovers. Love Sick is about their stories. |
| Soldiers. Story from Ferentari | 2,018 | Ivana Mladenović | Drama | 5.5 | 20 | Romanian | Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand. |
| Love 1. Dog | 2,018 | Florin Şerban | Drama | 5.5 | 11 | Romanian | A solitary mountain man finds a young woman who has been beaten and abandoned in the woods. He makes her the object of his passion, but her dark past catches up on them. |
| Brief History | 1,956 | Ion Popescu-Gopo | Animation | 5.5 | 11 | Romanian | This 1957 Romanian short animation and Cannes Film Festival winner skilfully and with incredible artistic expression manages to condense the entire narrative of human evolutionary theory into a ten minute short film. Not only that, he eerily anticipates the communist triumph of the USSR launching the first man into space by a few years. |
| Subspecies | 1,991 | Ted Nicolaou | Horror, Fantasy | 5.4 | 139 | English | Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains. |
| Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes | 2,006 | Jake West | Horror, Fantasy | 5.4 | 110 | English | He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price. |
| Dark Angel: The Ascent | 1,994 | Linda Hassani | Horror, Romance, Fantasy | 5.4 | 47 | English | A bored female demon ventures to the surface world to punish the wicked before they enter her hellish domain. |
| Love by Design | 2,014 | Michael Damian | Romance, TV Movie | 5.4 | 26 | English | After losing her dream job at a fashion magazine -- and her boyfriend, Danielle heads home to Romania. With the help of her colorful family, she rediscovers herself and her love of fashion. |
| Niki and Flo | 2,003 | Lucian Pintilie | Drama | 5.4 | 19 | Romanian | In this very black comedy about ill-suited neighbors united by marriage, Niki is a former colonel in the Romanian army whose daughter is married to the son of Flo, an aging Bohemian who is full of schemes for the “new” Romania. As the young couple prepares to emigrate to the U.S., Niki is obliged to interact with Flo, whom he finds totally unbearable. |
| Caricaturana | 2,021 | Radu Jude | Comedy | 5.4 | 18 | Romanian | Inspired by an idea from Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, director Radu Jude silently flips through satirical lithographs by 19th-century French artist Honoré-Victorin Daumier. Soon, the caricatures’ original texts are read out. Finally, the caricatures are used as commentary for actual news. |
| Horizon | 2,015 | Marian Crișan | Drama, Thriller | 5.4 | 14 | Romanian | Trying to find their luck, husband and wife, Lucian and Andra start a new business by managing a guesthouse hidden somewhere deep in the mountains. |
| Ho Ho Ho | 2,009 | Jesús del Cerro | Comedy, Family | 5.4 | 14 | English | Horace, a 8 years old boy, who still believes in Santa Clause, received as a Christmas gift a day at the mall. What ought to be a normal Christmas day turns into an adventure when Horace loses his mother. He mets John, a pickpocket disguised as Santa Clause, who was in the middle of an illegal operation. Unlike the Santas on TV, John doesn't seem to like children. Althought, the boy is convinced that this is the real Santa Clause and tail of it, causing all sorts of trouble as dangerous, as funny. Finally John finds the magic of Christmas and Horace discovers that miracles indeed, occur. |
| Poppy Field | 2,022 | Eugen Jebeleanu | Drama, Romance | 5.3 | 15 | Romanian | A young Romanian gendarme, Cristi, tries to find the balance between two apparently opposing parts of his identity: that of a man working in a macho hierarchical environment and that of a closeted gay person who tries to keep his personal life a secret. Cristi is called in for an intervention at a movie theatre, where an ultra-nationalist, homophobic group has interrupted the screening of a queer film. After one of the protesters threatens to out him, Cristi spirals out of control. |
| Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis | 2,005 | Ellory Elkayem | Action, Horror, TV Movie | 5.2 | 252 | English | In an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, a group of teenagers end up releasing a horde of bloodthirsty zombies. |
| Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave | 2,005 | Ellory Elkayem | Action, Horror, TV Movie | 5.2 | 221 | English | A student creates and sells a drug called 'Z' which has the unexpected side effect of resurrecting the dead as flesh-eating zombies, who proceed to wreak havoc at a Halloween rave. |
| Bloodlust: Subspecies III | 1,994 | Ted Nicolaou | Horror, Fantasy, Thriller | 5.2 | 66 | English | Still in the thrall of the evil vampire Radu, Michelle yearns to be taught the skills of the vampire. Meanwhile, her sister Becky tries to free her from his evil clutches, and this time, she's brought some help. |
| Apache | 1,973 | Gottfried Kolditz | Western, Adventure | 5.2 | 19 | German | The story of Ulzana, an Apache chief who has reached a rapprochement with the local Mexican population and generously extends it to whites who travel through the territory. His people have become inured to the treacherous ways of the white man, however, and are now reliant on them for booze, 'relief flour' and beef steak. |
| Bloodstone: Subspecies II | 1,993 | Ted Nicolaou | Horror, Fantasy | 5.1 | 83 | English | Continuing after the first "Subspecies", a woman who has just become a vampire tries to escape the evil vampire, Radu, who seeks her as his love in... |
| Battle Drone | 2,018 | Mitch Gould | Science Fiction, Action | 5.1 | 75 | English | 6 mercenaries are hired by CIA to abduct an heir to a republic and take out an arms dealer in Moscow. They get a followup mission in Chernobyl. Treason awaits them. |
| Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles | 2,008 | Pitof | Drama, Fantasy, Adventure | 5.1 | 73 | English | Princess Luisa and knight Gabriel must face a dragon to save their kingdom. |
| Galgameth | 1,997 | Sean McNamara | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 5.1 | 15 | English | The kingdom of Donnegold is being subverted from within, and young prince Davin must defend against the traitors with the help of a legendary, metal-eating dragon called Galgameth. |
| 5 Minutes Too Late | 2,019 | Dan Chișu | Drama | 5.1 | 11 | Romanian | The destiny of the man who led the gendarme team after a LGBT film screening in Bucharest, revealed through an investigation by Liliana Calomfir, a young journalist known for her daring reporting. |
| Frankenstein Reborn! | 1,998 | David DeCoteau | Horror, Action | 5 | 15 | English | Thirteen-year-old Anna is intrigued by the secret experiments of her eccentric uncle Victor, but her curiosity soon turns to total terror when she's confronted by Uncle Victor's latest creation - a hideous-looking monster with the soul of a man, stitched together and reanimated from the bodies of the dead. |
| Phantom Town | 1,999 | Jeff Burr | Horror, Western, Family | 5 | 12 | English | When a sixteen year-old boy and his two young siblings set off on a quest to find their missing parents, their search leads them to a ghost town in the middle of the desert. They soon discover that this is no ordinary tourist spot. In fact, according to the maps, it doesn't exist at all! Finding their way into this mysterious place, the kids must confront the sinister force that dwells beneath it in order to rescue their parents - and save themselves. |
| Francesca | 2,009 | Bobby Păunescu | Drama | 5 | 10 | English | Wanting to follow the current trend, Francesca, a young teacher from Bucharest, is eager to emigrate to Italy. Unfortunately,whilst desperately seeking support from those nearest and dearest to her, various untold truths unravel. |
| A Good Man | 2,014 | Keoni Waxman | Action | 4.9 | 147 | English | After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, Alexander is dragged into an all-out war between rival Chinese and Russian gangs; forcing him to not only defend the family, but bringing him face to face with an old foe, and giving him one more chance to reconcile his past. |
| Dracula III: Legacy | 2,005 | Patrick Lussier | Horror | 4.9 | 123 | English | Dracula leads vampire hunters Father Uffizi and Luke back to Eastern Europe, and a country plagued by civil war. |
| Vampire Journals | 1,997 | Ted Nicolaou | Horror, Fantasy, Thriller | 4.9 | 64 | English | A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampirism as well. |
| Killing Salazar | 2,017 | Keoni Waxman | Crime, Action, Adventure, Thriller | 4.9 | 62 | English | An elite team of DEA agents are assigned to protect a dangerous drug lord and take refuge in a luxury hotel while they await extraction. They soon find themselves at the center of an ambush as the drug lord's former associates launch an explosive assault on the hotel. |
| Lurking Fear | 1,994 | C. Courtney Joyner | Horror, Crime | 4.8 | 62 | English | The storm-swept and depopulated town of Leffert’s Corners has been terrorized for decades by grotesque creatures that breed in the depths beneath the local cemetery. A group of townspeople have hatched a last-ditch plan to destroy the ghoul-infested graveyard, but their mission is interrupted by the arrival of a band of violent thieves intent on retrieving money hidden in one of the graves. |
| Headless Horseman | 2,007 | Anthony C. Ferrante | Horror | 4.8 | 28 | English | Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and unfortunately end up in Wormwood – a "lost" town in the middle of nowhere. They find something strange and sinister happening there – bones and weird decorations line Main Street. The cause: local Wormwood legend says on All Hallows Eve one hundred years ago, a crazed man tortured the youngsters in town and then cut off their heads. In retaliation, the townspeople killed him by cutting off his head. Seeking revenge every seven years, he returns and takes seven heads from children in the town. Now the seven visitors find themselves hunted one by one as the Headless Horseman claims his due. |
| Ulzana | 1,974 | Gottfried Kolditz | Western, Adventure | 4.8 | 14 | German | This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat. |
| Several Conversations About a Very Tall Girl | 2,018 | Bogdan Theodor Olteanu | Drama | 4.8 | 12 | Romanian | Two girls begin to chat about another girl, a former lover of both. As they grow closer, the gap between them widens, as one them is looking for answers and love while safely closeted. A try-out for love confined within suffocating prejudices, in today's Romania. |
| Hellraiser: Hellworld | 2,005 | Rick Bota | Horror, Thriller | 4.7 | 376 | English | When five hardcore Internet gamers are invited to a special party thrown by the website Hellworld, they endure a night of unspeakable terror. |
| Born to Raise Hell | 2,010 | Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle | Action | 4.7 | 111 | English | A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and the Russians, leaving one task force member dead. Fueled with vengeance, he leads us on an action packed thrill ride while avenging his friend's death. |
| Blessed | 2,004 | Simon Fellows | Thriller, Mystery, Horror | 4.7 | 51 | English | Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Good fortune appears to be smiling on the couple when they are given an opportunity to receive free treatments at a mysterious fertility clinic. |
| Hellraiser: Deader | 2,005 | Rick Bota | Horror, Thriller | 4.6 | 369 | English | When a tough-as-nails reporter is lead to a mysterious cult and the evil Pinhead, any moment could be her last. |
| The Detonator | 2,006 | Leong Po-Chih | Action, Thriller | 4.6 | 103 | English | Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe. |
| Method | 2,004 | Duncan Roy | Thriller | 4.6 | 19 | English | The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress begins behaving like the 19th-century murderer she is playing. |
| Poker | 2,010 | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Comedy | 4.6 | 14 | Romanian | In the history of Romanian cinema, Sergiu Nicolaescu's name stands for "prolific, highly commercial and professional". At the age of 80, the director launched his latest production, which is also his second comedy in a long row of action and historic films. "Poker" is a cinema adaptation of Adrian Lustig's theatre play with the same name, and focuses on four male friends, representatives for the social canvas: a doctor without a moral conscience, an unscrupulous politician, a chief of the local mafia, and a businessman who made a fortune in America. Made by MediaPro Pictures, 'Poker' looks at immorality and intrigues in politics, hinting at the fact that contemporary Romania is a day to day jungle where strings are pulled by those in power, so everything turns into a poker round, where those who have the right aces in their sleeve can win. |
| Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness | 2,004 | Jim Wynorski | Horror | 4.5 | 38 | English | Two CIA agents are sent to Bucharest, Romania to solve a high profile kidnapping. But what they discover is something inexplicable. An evil gargoyle, once thought dead and banished forever, has returned with a vengeance. |
| Witchouse | 1,999 | David DeCoteau | Horror | 4.5 | 24 | English | On Mayday 1998 in the town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Elizabeth gathers together a group of specially selected friends for a rather odd party. It turns out that she is the descendent of a malevolent witch named Lilith who was burned at the stake precisely three hundred years ago. Now Elizabeth hopes to resurrect her dreadful ancestor and has a specific (and murderous) need for the guests she has chosen |
| In Perfect Health | 2,017 | Anca Damian | Drama | 4.5 | 11 | Romanian | A young man trying to solve the puzzle of his father's last moments rattles the life of a quiet town and unburies unwanted truths. His compulsive quest becomes a downward spiral of love, lust and lies. |
| Mandroid | 1,993 | Jack Ersgard | Science Fiction, Horror, Action | 4.4 | 19 | English | In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot which follows the motions of a man in a special control suit. He has offered the invention to the USA, who have sent Smith and Wait from the CIA for inspection. However Zimmer's partner Drago has different plans, wants to sell Mandroid to the military. The night he tries to steal Mandroid, he becomes exposed to the highly toxic Superconn. But he can flee and won't give up on Mandroid, even though he's terribly disfigured. |
| Shadow Man | 2,006 | Michael Keusch | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 4.3 | 99 | English | Rogue operatives within the C.I.A. smuggle a lethal virus out of the U.S. and use ex-intelligence officer Jack Foster (Seagal) as their courier. Unaware of the plot he's involved in, Jack takes his daughter on a trip to Europe, where she's kidnapped by a mysterious foreign agent. Now to save her and take down her kidnappers, Jack must blast his way into the shadowy world of international espionage, where enemies lurk at every corner and friends can turn on you in an instant! |
| Attack Force | 2,006 | Michael Keusch | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller | 4.2 | 109 | English | Marshall Lawson is the commander of an elite military unit. Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack, and he takes it upon himself to investigate the attack, with the help of his girlfriend Tia and his friend Dwayne. |
| Witchouse II: Blood Coven | 2,000 | J.R. Bookwalter | Horror | 4.2 | 11 | English | When an old house in a small town is razed to make way for a shopping mall, the crew unearths four unmarked graves. A professor from a nearby university is asked to find out who the bodies are, but when she and her students arrive in town and begin to ask questions, they discover that no one wants to talk to them or help them in any way. |
| Retro Puppetmaster | 1,999 | David DeCoteau | Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 4.1 | 129 | English | Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh. |
| Flight of Fury | 2,007 | Michael Keusch | Action | 4.1 | 95 | English | John, a secret government operative is sent to recover a stolen Stealth Bomber from the hands of terrorist organization which plans to use it in a deadly attack, with warheads containing bio-weapons. |
| Taboo | 2,002 | Max Makowski | Drama, Horror, Thriller, Mystery | 4 | 39 | English | Six young adults struggle with their personal demons while staying at a secluded mansion during a dark and stormy night where a seemingly innocent game of 'taboo' brings out their inter-most secrets which soon leads to murder. |
| Serpent's Lair | 1,995 | Jeffrey Reiner | Thriller, Horror | 4 | 21 | English | Tom is seduced by Lilith, a succubus who's out to drain him and destroy his marriage. |
| Sleep awake | 2,012 | Andrei Stefanescu | Thriller | 4 | 10 | English | "Sleep Awake" is the story of an unhappy Romanian girl, who meets a boy that will forever change her life and the way she sees the world. |
| Planet Raptor | 2,007 | Gary Jones | Science Fiction, Action | 3.9 | 11 | English | In 2066, the planet is entirely occupied by raptors. The only hope for the human race is a group of marines. |
| Huntress: Spirit of the Night | 1,995 | Mark S. Manos | Horror | 3.8 | 17 | English | An architect discovers the animal inside her after she falls prey to an ancient curse on a visit to her Welsh homeland. |
| Clockmaker | 1,998 | Christopher Coppola | Adventure, Science Fiction | 3.8 | 12 | English | Fourteen-year-old Henry and his friends are about to change history. Sneaking into the apartment of an eccentric Clockmaker, the kids discover that the old man controls time for the entire world through an incredible array of magnificent timepieces and weird machines. When one of the curious kids accidentally pushes a wrong button and gets launched back in time, the space-time continuum is severely disrupted. As everything begins to change around them, the young adventurers must travel back in time to save their friend...and the future |
| Epicenter | 2,000 | Richard Pepin | Action, Adventure, Crime | 3.7 | 32 | English | Epicenter concerns brassy, beautiful Amanda Foster, a down-on-her-luck Los Angeles detective who's been assigned to protect a mobster-turned-State's-Witness, Nick Constantine, from the mob. On the night of the assignment, the city is rocked by a devastating earthquake, forcing Amanda and Nick to fight their way through the ravaged city streets while being pursued by ruthless assassins and corrupt cops. |
| Dark Asylum | 2,001 | Gregory Gieras | Thriller, Horror | 3.7 | 17 | English | Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her only help is the janitor, Quitz who may in fact be a forgotten asylum inmate. |
| Teenage Space Vampires | 1,999 | Martin Wood | Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy | 3.5 | 22 | English | Bill, a high school student and avid horror movie fan, witnesses a UFO flying over his town. When the ship lands the next day, Bill and a team from SETI discover that the alien is a strange vampire creature who wants to cast the Earth into darkness so that he and his people can colonize it for themselves. Will Bill and the others be able to keep the Sun shining? |
| Hotel of the Damned | 2,016 | Bobby Bărbăcioru | Thriller, Horror | 3.4 | 21 | English | After a car accident and stranded in the middle of nowhere, an ex-con and his daughter find themselves in an abandoned hotel, populated by sub-human cannibalistic creatures. |
| Caved In | 2,006 | Richard Pepin | Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie | 3.2 | 40 | English | An extreme adventure tour group headed by deep caving expert John Palmer descends into a 2000 Ft abandoned salt mine , that was mysteriously closed down years ago after an unexplained disaster trapped all of the miners . They prepare for rock slides , blackouts , cave-ins - whatever might threaten their journey and commence their descent into the depths. |
| The Elite | 2,001 | Terry Cunningham | Action, Crime | 3.2 | 17 | English | After the murder of their families by a terrorist bomb, five young adults are trained as a hi-tech, anti-terrorist team with a mission to search and destroy high-profile terrorist groups. |
| Prison of the Dead | 2,000 | David DeCoteau | Horror | 2.8 | 19 | English | Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. ... |
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