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Romanian-Language Films

Name: Romanian-Language Films
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Top 247 Romanian-language films from a catalog of 247, ranked by TMDB rating.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Country↕	Overview↕
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love	1,980	Mircea Mureșan	Drama, History	8.4	11	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	"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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
5Gang: A Different Kind of Christmas	2,019	Matei Dima	Action, Comedy	7.9	111	Romanian	Unknown	To keep the band together, Selly tries to earn money by making an appearance at the birthday party of a mobster's daughter - until he gets kidnapped.
Uncle Marin, the Billionaire	1,979	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Comedy	7.9	41	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.
Untamed Romania	2,018	Thomas Barton-Humphreys	Documentary	7.8	25	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu	2,010	Andrei Ujică	Documentary	7.7	28	Romanian	Germany	The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.
Eastern Business	2,016	Igor Cobileanski	Comedy, Drama	7.7	21	Romanian	France	Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.
Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula	1,979	Doru Năstase	History, Drama	7.7	21	Romanian	Romania	Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.
Toto and his Sisters	2,014	Alexander Nanau	Documentary, Drama, Family	7.7	14	Romanian	Canada	Totonel (10) and his sisters, Andreea (14) and Ana (17), are waiting for their mother to come back home from prison. As they grow up, each of them learns how to survive on their own, hoping that when their mother returns, the family will be reunited.
Test at educational class	1,987	Nicolae Corjos	Romance	7.7	12	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".
America, Here We Come!	2,014	Razvan Savescu	Comedy	7.6	16	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	After he kills his beloved wife, Puiu Faranga is helped by his father to fake insanity.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	2,007	Cristian Mungiu	Drama	7.5	796	Romanian	Belgium	Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
Collective	2,019	Alexander Nanau	Documentary	7.5	181	Romanian	Germany	In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.
Lord	2,011	Adrian Sitaru	Drama	7.5	51	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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.
The Dacians	1,967	Sergiu Nicolaescu	War, Drama, History	7.5	26	Romanian	France	The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.
With Clean Hands	1,972	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Thriller, Action, Crime	7.5	18	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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...
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians	1,978	Mircea Veroiu	Action, Western	7.5	10	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Men of Deeds	2,022	Paul Negoescu	Comedy, Drama, Thriller	7.4	14	Romanian	Bulgaria	Ilie, a small-town police chief, wants to build a modest comfortable life for himself, but ends up making the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to be a part of something - to build an orchard, even a home. Although dubious things happen in the village, Ilie only sees what suits him. The moment he gets involved in the village marks the beginning of his collapse. In a vacuum of solutions, he tries to be what he has never been before: the justice seeker who arrests everyone guilty.
Bruce Lee and the Outlaw	2,018	Joost Vandebrug	Documentary	7.4	10	Romanian	Netherlands	Nicu, a homeless street kid, is adopted by the notorious 'Bruce Lee' and brought up in the subterranean tunnels of Bucharest. As he grows up, he begins to realise that this 'King of the Underworld' may not be the father that he needs. Filmed over five years by photographer Joost Vandebrug, the film is a real life Oliver Twist story about growing up, and finding a family.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu	2,005	Cristi Puiu	Drama, Comedy	7.3	192	Romanian	Romania	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.
Aferim!	2,015	Radu Jude	Drama, History	7.3	113	Romanian	Bulgaria	Set in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Silent Wedding	2,008	Horațiu Mălăele	Comedy, Drama, History	7.3	82	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
Medal of Honor	2,010	Călin Peter Netzer	Drama	7.3	16	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Another Lottery Ticket	2,023	Paul Negoescu	Comedy	7.3	12	Romanian	Unknown	Sile gets out of jail and has the idea to get rich by mining cryptocurrency. Together with Dinel and Pompiliu he meets Ionuţ, the smartest guy in town, who helps them mine six million euros worth of crypto which they store on an USB drive. Dinel is responsible of keeping the drive safe, but he manages to lose it pretty quick, so the three of them start on a quest to recover the lost drive.
Mercenaries' Trap	1,982	Sergiu Nicolaescu	War, Adventure	7.3	11	Romanian	East Germany	The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman
A Girl's Tears	1,980	Iosif Demian	Drama	7.3	10	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Michael the Brave	1,971	Sergiu Nicolaescu	War, Drama, History	7.2	44	Romanian	France	An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama.
Bucharest Non-Stop	2,015	Dan Chișu	Comedy, Drama	7.2	23	Romanian	Romania	"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	Romania	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.
Summer's Over	2,016	Radu Potcoavă	Drama	7.2	10	Romanian	Unknown	Two boys meet during a summer vacation in the late '90s in a romanian town located on the Danube shore, a few days before the summer eclipse. They become close friends, until one of their actions will cause powerful consequences.
Păcală	1,974	Geo Saizescu	Comedy	7.2	10	Romanian	Romania	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.
Beyond the Hills	2,012	Cristian Mungiu	Drama, Romance	7.1	204	Romanian	Belgium	Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to best.
Chuck Norris vs Communism	2,015	Ilinca Calugareanu	Documentary, History	7.1	59	Romanian	Germany	In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
The Goat and Her Three Kids	2,022	Victor Canache	Drama, Horror, Thriller	7.1	39	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Dumitrache is sure that Veta having an affair, s...
Queen Marie of Romania	2,019	Alexis Cahill	Drama, History	7	31	Romanian	Romania	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.
Everybody in Our Family	2,012	Radu Jude	Drama, Thriller	7	31	Romanian	Netherlands	Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.
U Get What U Kiss	2,018	Camelia Popa	Comedy	7	24	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	A father and son go to town to try to fix a broken TV set.
Asphalt Tango	1,996	Nae Caranfil	Comedy, Drama	7	24	Romanian	France	A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.
Weddings, christenings and funerals	2,022	Alexandru Lustig	Comedy	7	23	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.
Crulic: The Path to Beyond	2,011	Anca Damian	Animation, Documentary	7	11	Romanian	Poland	An animated feature-length documentary telling the story of the life of Crulic, a 33 year-old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from an important Polish judge. Crulic was brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to start a hunger strike from the day he was arrested, demanding a meeting with somebody from the Romanian Consulate.
Memories of My Childhood	1,964	Elisabeta Bostan	Family, Drama, Comedy, Adventure	7	11	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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…
R.M.N.	2,022	Cristian Mungiu	Drama	6.9	174	Romanian	Belgium	A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the unresolved fears that have gripped him. He’s also eager to see his ex-lover Csilla and preoccupied about his old father, Otto. When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin sliver of apparent understanding and calm.
12:08 East of Bucharest	2,006	Corneliu Porumboiu	Comedy, Drama	6.9	119	Romanian	Romania	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?"
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World	2,023	Radu Jude	Comedy, Drama	6.9	109	Romanian	Croatia	On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.
Tales from the Golden Age	2,009	Hanno Höfer	Comedy, History	6.9	81	Romanian	Romania	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.
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians	2,018	Radu Jude	History, Drama, Comedy	6.9	53	Romanian	Germany	"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
The Happiest Girl in the World	2,009	Radu Jude	Comedy, Drama	6.9	40	Romanian	Belgium	Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commercial. All goes well until it becomes clear that Delia and her parents have very different ideas about what to do with the new car. Meanwhile, the contest's sponsor needs a radiant prize-winner with a gleaming smile. A wicked satire and a psychological portrait of a society perverted by its slavery to capitalism and consumerism
Next Stop Paradise	1,998	Lucian Pintilie	Romance, Crime, Drama	6.9	39	Romanian	France	Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.
Superman, Spider-Man or Batman	2,011	Tudor Giurgiu	Drama	6.9	25	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Graduation	2,016	Cristian Mungiu	Drama	6.8	294	Romanian	Belgium	After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.
Two Lottery Tickets	2,016	Paul Negoescu	Comedy, Adventure	6.8	78	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Malmkrog	2,020	Cristi Puiu	History, Drama	6.8	38	Romanian	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent.
Wedding for Money	2,023	Cristian Ilișuan	Comedy	6.8	28	Romanian	Romania	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.
6.9 on the Richter Scale	2,016	Nae Caranfil	Comedy, Music	6.8	22	Romanian	Bulgaria	A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.
Ramon	2,023	Jesús del Cerro	Comedy	6.8	20	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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...
The Outlaws of Sevenhorses	1,971	Dinu Cocea	Adventure, History	6.8	10	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Sieranevada	2,016	Cristi Puiu	Drama	6.7	102	Romanian	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Back from a professional trip to Paris, a neurologist at the pinnacle of his career has to pick up his wife so that they can attend a family meal to commemorate his father, who died a year before. At his mother's flat, the guests are waiting for the priest to arrive while arguing about all kinds of things connected and unconnected with the world’s events and wars.
Katalin Varga	2,009	Peter Strickland	Thriller, Drama, Crime	6.7	55	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	"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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Miracle	2,022	Bogdan George Apetri	Drama, Thriller	6.7	27	Romanian	Czech Republic	A young novice sneaks out of her convent to deal with a matter that cannot be delayed.
Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time	2,018	Stere Gulea	Drama	6.7	23	Romanian	Romania	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.
Libertate	2,023	Tudor Giurgiu	Drama, History, Thriller, War	6.7	21	Romanian	Hungary	Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, security agents, and civilians. Trying to escape the siege, Captain Viorel of the militia is captured and accused of being a terrorist.
Scarred Hearts	2,017	Radu Jude	Drama	6.7	19	Romanian	Belgium	During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.
Delta Space Mission	1,985	Călin Cazan	Animation, Science Fiction	6.7	19	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Kino Caravan	2,009	Titus Muntean	Drama	6.7	10	Romanian	Germany	On a rainy day, two guys arrive in a small village with film and a projector in their car. No one from the village comes to meet them. What happened? Who are they? The not knowing relays no small amount of interest at times through tension as in a horror movie, and at times through compassionate laughter.
Fiddlers	1,973	Emil Loteanu	Drama, Romance, Music	6.7	10	Romanian	Soviet Union	Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, and spends his life and fortune trying to find her.
Of Snails and Men	2,012	Tudor Giurgiu	Comedy	6.6	28	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	For two friends there is only one secret to happiness, that is easy to understand, but, perhaps, difficult to accept.
Maia – Portrait with Hands	2,024	Alexandra Gulea	Documentary	6.6	15	Romanian	Germany	The Aromanians (Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group found mainly in today’s Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. For filmmaker Alexandra Gulea, this question of heritage is connected to the name she shares with her grandmother, who was born into a traditional Aromanian life, and is fluent only in an Aromanian language. The older Alexandra's father suffered a violent death in an uprising for his people's rights, which forced the family out of Greece and into a politically treacherous Balkan landscape deep in the throes of nationalist upheavals, until finally, they found a home in Romania.
Acasă, My Home	2,020	Radu Ciorniciuc	Documentary	6.6	14	Romanian	Germany	In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years – until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.
The Mill of Good Luck	1,957	Victor Iliu	Drama, Crime	6.6	12	Romanian	Romania	Follows the inner transformation of a man who tried to fight his demon, the love for money, and lost.
Cinema, Mon Amour	2,016	Alexandru Belc	Documentary	6.6	10	Romanian	Czech Republic	Follows the story of Viktor Purice - manager, former projectionist and lifetime cinephile and his two loyal employees, Cornelia & Lorena, in their everyday battle to preserve Dacia Panoramic Cinema in Piatra Neamt - one of the last remaining cinemas in Romania today. Having lived through "the golden age" of cinema, Viktor dreams of bringing back the good old glory days, yet struggles to keep up with the new harsh reality. In a theater that lacks heating and is slowly falling apart, with no support from the State who owns the place, it’s almost a Don Quixote fight.
The Treasure	2,015	Corneliu Porumboiu	Comedy	6.5	63	Romanian	France	Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family’s country home in Romania and split the profits.
California Dreamin'	2,007	Cristian Nemescu	Drama, Comedy	6.5	61	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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 Action Pack	2,023	Vali Dobrogeanu	Action, Comedy	6.5	17	Romanian	Unknown	A police satire about Aurel, a gipsy police officer, on his first day of work. He really wants to prove what he is capable of, but his career is at risk when his friend, Denzel, recruits him in his not so secret operation.
The Fixer	2,017	Adrian Sitaru	Drama	6.5	17	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
What a Wonderful World	2,014	Anatol Durbală	Drama	6.5	12	Romanian	Moldova	After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.
The Unsaved	2,013	Igor Cobileanski	Drama	6.5	12	Romanian	Moldova	Nineteen-year-old Viorel lives with his mother in a remote Moldovan town. He has no great ambitions nor any illusions about life. He and his pal Goos earn a little cash through illegal activities, and Viorel is helping him fulfill his dream of flying. His mother tries to convince him to find a decent job. Eventually, Viorel begins taking control of his life.
Monsters.	2,019	Marius Olteanu	Drama, Romance	6.5	11	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	Parents squabbling over a sick bird that was brought in by their son Alex.
Sundays on Leave	1,993	Nae Caranfil	Comedy, Drama	6.5	11	Romanian	France	It is late in the Ceausescu era in Romania, and Cristina is having a difficult time with her boyfriend. He wants her to have sex with him before he goes off to do his obligatory stint in the army. She wants him to marry her first. She also gets involved with a slightly rebellious actor, a would-be ladies' man. He has some vague plans to defect - could those be the reason he is receiving mysterious phone calls? Or are they the work of his anonymous admirer?
Sequences...	1,982	Alexandru Tatos	Drama, Comedy	6.5	11	Romanian	Romania	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.
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn	2,021	Radu Jude	Comedy, Drama	6.4	253	Romanian	Croatia	Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
Box	2,015	Florin Şerban	Drama	6.4	60	Romanian	France	Box is a story of two people who meet at a crossroad. Two different destinies, two different lives, face to face in a game of sweat, blood and tears. Rafael (19) is a young boxer who dreams to conquer the world; Cristina (33) is a single mother who lost her balance. Two lives; one running very close to the earth, the other trying to fly high up, too high.
The Oak	1,992	Lucian Pintilie	Comedy, Drama	6.4	49	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.
One Floor Below	2,015	Radu Muntean	Drama	6.4	23	Romanian	Germany	After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends up in murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer. The other is his very own conscience.
A Higher Law	2,023	Octav Chelaru	Drama, Romance	6.4	20	Romanian	Germany	Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.
Cigarettes and Coffee	2,004	Cristi Puiu	Drama	6.4	19	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	“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	Romania	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	Romania	Over at the fictional DRGBP institution, events take a settling turn after a mutinied prize festivity.
Tuesday, After Christmas	2,010	Radu Muntean	Drama, Romance	6.3	68	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Metronom	2,022	Alexandru Belc	Drama, Romance	6.2	37	Romanian	France	Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the Securitate, Ceausescu’s secret police, arrives…
Dogs	2,016	Bogdan Mirică	Drama, Thriller	6.2	33	Romanian	Bulgaria	Roman returns to the land near the Ukrainian border he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land - and their smuggling business - without a fight.
Marilena from P7	2,006	Cristian Nemescu	Drama	6.2	33	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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)
Perfect Strangers	2,021	Octavian Strunilă	Comedy, Drama	6.2	16	Romanian	Unknown	One evening, a glass of wine, 7 friends enter a dangerous game: they put their phones on the table and decide that everything they receive that evening, calls, messages, emails, will be answered by a speaker or read aloud.
I'm an Old Communist Hag	2,013	Stere Gulea	Comedy, Drama	6.2	13	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Taxi Drivers	2,023	Bogdan Theodor Olteanu	Comedy	6.1	28	Romanian	Unknown	A night. Dozens of stories. A city. Lică, a taxi driver, is an all knowing guy, while Liviu, his friend, also a taxi driver keeps a lot to himself. They are completely different and their ideas about life and people only meet when they are eating and drinking at the bar. They are frustrated with their jobs. For Lică money is the most important thing, while Liviu thinks that a happy and fulfilling life represents more. They are trying to rediscover who they are and what they can do with their life, all while being on an on going adventure on the streets of Bucharest where they cross paths with all kinds of clients who end up having an impact on their lives, for better and also for worse.
Întregalde	2,021	Radu Muntean	Drama, Comedy, Thriller	6.1	22	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
The Whistlers	2,019	Corneliu Porumboiu	Thriller, Crime	6	177	Romanian	France	A Romanian police officer, determined to free from prison a crooked businessman who knows where a mobster's money is hidden, must learn the difficult ancestral whistling language (Silbo Gomero) used on the island of Gomera.
Mo	2,019	Radu Dragomir	Drama, Thriller	6	31	Romanian	Romania	Mo and Vera, two college students, are caught cheating on an exam, an act that will have terrifying consequences.
Alice T.	2,019	Radu Muntean	Drama	6	24	Romanian	France	Alice, a buoyant and impertinent red-hair teenager is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted as she was unable to have a child of her own. Being an endless source of problems and affected by the specter of her mother’s disappointments, Alice acts with her back against the wall, forging lies and blurring lines between the fiction she designs for herself and the reality of her existence. Until her mother discovers she is pregnant.
Unidentified	2,021	Bogdan George Apetri	Action, Crime, Thriller	6	20	Romanian	Czech Republic	An unsolved case. An unknown criminal. An obsessed cop. His investigation plunges him into a world of darkness and violence, pulling everyone around him into a web of destructive passion and revenge.
Morgen	2,010	Marian Crișan	Drama	6	14	Romanian	France	NELU, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the place where many illegal emigrants try to cross, by any means posible, to Hungary and then further to Western Europe. One morning, NELU will “fish” something different out of the river: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Not able to communicate verballly, the two men will somehow understand each other. NELU takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter. He doesn’t really know how to help this stranger. The Turkish man gives NELU all the money he has on him so he will help him cross the border. Eventually, NELU takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border tomorrow, MORGEN…
Immaculate	2,021	Monica Stan	Drama	6	12	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
The Father Who Moves Mountains	2,021	Daniel Sandu	Drama, Thriller	5.8	93	Romanian	Romania	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.
Somewhere in Palilula	2,012	Silviu Purcărete	Drama	5.8	16	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Aurora	2,011	Cristi Puiu	Drama	5.7	38	Romanian	France	A taciturn Romanian divorcee acquires a hunting rifle and initiates a killing spree.
Summer Holiday	2,008	Radu Muntean	Drama, Comedy	5.7	22	Romanian	Romania	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.
Miami Bici 2	2,023	Jesús del Cerro	Comedy, Action	5.7	16	Romanian	Unknown	Piciu and Bila seize an unexpected opportunity from a Romanian client and move to Los Angeles. But they soon realize that they have unwittingly fallen into the world of the credit card rip-off mafia.
The Story of a Summer Lover	2,018	Paul Negoescu	Comedy	5.7	14	Romanian	Bulgaria	Petru is a math professor at the Polytechnic University, who's living an easy life, with no big worries. He is in an open relationship with Irina, who agreed he can sleep with other women from time to time. But when she becomes pregnant, he will be put in the situation to change his lifestyle and be forced to mature at 42 years old. One of his supporting friends decides to write a book based on his story.
Mikado	2,022	Emanuel Pârvu	Drama	5.7	10	Romanian	Czech Republic	One day, teenager Magda offers her expensive necklace to a sick child in the hospital she volunteers for- her father is certain she is lying again. When she proves her innocence, he is ashamed and guilty but also incapable of admitting he was wrong. Relationships are now broken and in chaos, and past decisions have an irreversible outcome.
Crossing Dates	2,008	Anca Damian	Drama	5.7	10	Romanian	Romania	3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally.
Loverboy	2,011	Cătălin Mitulescu	Drama	5.6	18	Romanian	Romania	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.
Charleston	2,018	Andrei Cretulescu	Comedy, Drama	5.6	17	Romanian	France	A couple of weeks after his wife Ioana dies in a car crash, drunk and alone on the night he turns 42, Alexandru receives a visit. Sebastian, a shy, younger man, has been Ioana's lover for the past five months. Sebastian has an outrageous request: he wants Alexandru to help him overcome the despair caused by Ioana's death.
A Bomb Was Stolen	1,962	Ion Popescu-Gopo	Science Fiction, Comedy, Fantasy	5.6	14	Romanian	Romania	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.
Tertium Non Datur	2,006	Lucian Pintilie	War, Drama	5.6	11	Romanian	France	In the Ukrainian steppe, toward the end of World War II, the German and Romanian troops are retreating in the face of the unstoppable Red Army. A Romanian military unit has set up its headquarters in a deserted school. A visit of high-ranking Wehrmacht officers is suddenly announced. Hope is awakened: will they receive new orders? But disappointment comes quickly.
Love Sick	2,006	Tudor Giurgiu	Drama	5.5	64	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Hooked	2,008	Adrian Sitaru	Drama	5.5	16	Romanian	Unknown	A math teacher from Bucharest and his lover go out for a picnic to relax. The film follows what happens after an accident occurs and the two characters argue about how to handle the situation. Things take a twist and as the victim becomes an part of the story.
Love 1. Dog	2,018	Florin Şerban	Drama	5.5	11	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Niki and Flo	2,003	Lucian Pintilie	Drama	5.4	19	Romanian	Romania	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.
Romina, VTM	2,023	Paul-Razvan Macovei	Comedy, Romance	5.4	18	Romanian	Unknown	Romina begins to fall in love with Valentin, a tourist on holiday in Costinești with plans to become a musician. Romina helps Valentin to become an artist and, without realizing, he is starting to look a lot like someone from Romina's past.
Caricaturana	2,021	Radu Jude	Comedy	5.4	18	Romanian	Romania	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	Romania	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.
Poppy Field	2,022	Eugen Jebeleanu	Drama, Romance	5.3	15	Romanian	Romania	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.
Last Night of Love	1,980	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Drama, War	5.3	12	Romanian	Germany	In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's border with Austria-Hungary. Not receiving any news from his wife he persuades the commanding officer, Captain Dimiu, to allow him a short leave to visit his wife. Tudor married Lena two years before but was very jealous and suspected her of infidelity. When his grandfather dies Tudor inherits most of the fortune. Gigolo lawyer Andrei Nicolau is the executor of the will. He also is the man who lustfully desires Tudor's beautiful wife. A contest for Lena's love begins. Romania is plunged into WW1 and ironically Tudor receives his junior Lieutenant commission in the same regiment where gigolo lawyer Nicolau serves as a Major. Their destinies seem intertwined.
Parking	2,019	Tudor Giurgiu	Drama	5.1	16	Romanian	Czech Republic	Adrian is a young poet who decides to leave Romania and go live to Spain. He wants to change his life, earn some money and learn Spanish. Upon arriving in Cordoba, he works at a car dealership that sells both old and new cars. During the day he hides in a small caravan in the parking lot of the car dealership. One day, Adrian finds a package with a CD and poster for a tour of one flamenco / jazz band. He is enchanted by the music and by the picture of Maria, who plays a bass guitar in the band. They both meet after a concert on the beach, where they begin their relationship full of passion, problems and surprises.
5 Minutes Too Late	2,019	Dan Chișu	Drama	5.1	11	Romanian	Romania	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.
Touch Me Not	2,018	Adina Pintilie	Drama	5	60	Romanian	Bulgaria	Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.
Do It or Shut Up	2,019	Iura Luncașu	Action, Comedy	4.9	14	Romanian	Unknown	With the support of the Spanish authorities, the Romanian police are developing a bold and dangerous plan to unmask a criminal organization and capture the leader. The comedy settles with the visit of a Spanish official who puts great difficulty on the Romanian officials. In "Hola, mamacita, Shakira, Pique" all their vocabulary in Spanish is summarized and they understand about the official directives. "We're on a mission, but who is that?" Obviously, things get fun. Fortunately, there are competent people to deal with the force intervention. A team of six girls from the special forces, ministers, commissioners, a puzzled driver, a criminal with a hidden identity and an officer full of lust, all set in motion.
Wolf	2,013	Bogdan Mustață	Drama	4.9	12	Romanian	Germany	Wolf is a lonely boy who surrounds himself by a world that responds to his desires. He brings Clara, the girl he loves, inside this world but when he can't be sure if she is still real or become imaginary he feels trapped and wants to escape.
Several Conversations About a Very Tall Girl	2,018	Bogdan Theodor Olteanu	Drama	4.8	12	Romanian	Romania	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.
Poker	2,010	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Comedy	4.6	14	Romanian	Romania	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.
In Perfect Health	2,017	Anca Damian	Drama	4.5	11	Romanian	Romania	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.
Blue Boy	2,019	Manuel Abramovich	Documentary	4.4	15	Romanian	Argentina	Young men from all over the world have been meeting at the Blue Boy Bar in Berlin for forty years.

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