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1. Morometii (1987)
142 min | Drama
The story of a family: Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army and much more.
Director: Stere Gulea | Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Luminita Gheorghiu, Gina Patrichi, Dorel Visan
Votes: 4,228
2. Marilena from P7 (2006)
48 min | Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Cristian Nemescu | Stars: Gabriel Huian, Madalina Ghitescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Aura Calarasu
Votes: 2,068
3. The Graduates (1986)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
The love story of two tenth-graders in Romania before the revolution.
Director: Nicolae Corjos | Stars: Stefan Banica Jr., Mihai Constantin, Oana Sîrbu, Cesonia Postelnicu
Votes: 2,373
4. Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, History
Several urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized.
Directors: Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru | Stars: Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban, Vlad Ivanov, Tania Popa
Votes: 6,071
5. Lampa cu caciula (2006)
25 min | Short, Drama
A boy convinces his father to go into town and fix their TV.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Marian Bratu, Gabriel Spahiu, Natalia Calin, Alexandru Georgescu
Votes: 582
6. Pacala (1974)
126 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Pacala, a character inspired from the Romanian folklore, does not take himself too seriously and neither some of the people interests. After leaving his home village, he experiences a series of adventurous situations.
Director: Geo Saizescu | Stars: Sebastian Papaiani, Mariella Petrescu, Stefan Mihailescu-Braila, Vasilica Tastaman
Votes: 559
7. Music in the Blood (2010)
15 min | Short, Drama
Petre works as a night watchman. During the day, Petre is trying to introduce his son, Robert, to the manele music industry. Petre is sure that his boy is a natural-born talent with music ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandru Mavrodineanu | Stars: Dan Bursuc, Lele Robert Drumus, Dorotheea Petre, Andi Vasluianu
Votes: 79
8. Extemporal la dirigentie (1987)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
The film tells the love relationship of Anca, the daughter of the philosophy teacher Socrates, with Doru, a classmate. The teacher is worried, thinking that Anca might be neglecting her school preparations.
Director: Nicolae Corjos | Stars: Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez, Ion Caramitru, Diana Lupescu, Madalina Pop
Votes: 813
9. Why Me? (2015)
125 min | Drama, Thriller
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Tudor Giurgiu | Stars: Emilian Oprea, Mihai Constantin, Andreea Vasile, Dan Condurache
Votes: 2,751
10. Everybody in Our Family (2012)
107 min | Drama, Thriller
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... See full summary »
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Sirbu
Votes: 1,723
11. Child's Pose (2013)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.
Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer | Stars: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia
Votes: 8,853 | Gross: $0.09M
12. Dogs (2016)
104 min | Drama, Thriller
Roman returns to the land 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Bogdan Mirica | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Gheorghe Visu, Vlad Ivanov, Costel Cascaval
Votes: 3,233
13. Buna! Ce faci? (2010)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandru Maftei | Stars: Dana Voicu, Ionel Mihailescu, Paul Octavian Diaconescu, Jordi Gràcia
Votes: 1,729
14. How I Celebrated the End of the World (2006)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
In Communist-era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom.
Director: Cãtãlin Mitulescu | Stars: Dorotheea Petre, Timotei Duma, Ioan Albu, Sergiu Anghel
Votes: 3,231
15. Ana, My Love (2017)
125 min | Drama, Romance
Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty and quickly fall in love.
Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer | Stars: Mircea Postelnicu, Diana Cavallioti, Tania Popa, Igor Caras-Romanov
Votes: 2,426
16. Somewhere in Palilula (2012)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama
"Somewhere in Palilula" tells the story of Serafim, a fresh graduate of a medical school, in 60's Romania. He is brought by destiny to the strange town of Palilula. Nowhere, that is. ... See full summary »
Director: Silviu Purcarete | Stars: Anne Marie Chertic, Constantin Chiriac, Paul Chiributa, Mihai Chirila
Votes: 1,112
17. If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (2010)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama
Two weeks before his release, a teenage prisoner learns that his mother has returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a student working in the penitentiary as an intern.
Director: Florin Serban | Stars: George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Mihai Constantin, Clara Voda
Votes: 6,553 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Excursie (2014)
19 min | Short, Drama
Following a TV News which announce the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works as a guard and starts filming his everyday life and then ... See full summary »
Director: Adrian Sitaru | Stars: Eric Aradits, Adrian Titieni, Maria Radu, Dan Chisu
Votes: 75
19. Liceenii Rock 'n' Roll (1992)
98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The two principal characters have a love affair, with highs and lows accompanied by the Rock'n'Roll music played by their band.
Director: Nicolae Corjos | Stars: Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez, Stefan Banica Jr., Oana Sîrbu, Mihai Constantin
Votes: 1,187
20. Sweet Little Lies (2012)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
The sweetest girl, Dana (Diana Dumitrescu) must go on a date with broker Dani (Andi Vasluianu) because her chubby friend Oana (Antoaneta Zaharia) hasn't the courage to meet her Facebook ... See full summary »
Director: Iura Luncasu | Stars: Diana Dumitrescu, Andi Vasluianu, Zaharia Visan, Marius Damian
Votes: 1,068
21. Police, Adjective (2009)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama
A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica, Irina Saulescu
Votes: 5,346 | Gross: $0.05M
22. Miss Christina (2013)
101 min | Horror, Mystery
When two lovers arrive at the mansion where the girl grew up, they are haunted by a beautiful seductive ghost.
Director: Alexandru Maftei | Stars: Tudor Istodor, Maia Morgenstern, Ioana Anastasia Anton, Dumitrescu Anastasia
Votes: 805
23. Domestic (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Domestic is a story about people who eat the animals they love and animals who love people unconditionally. A rabbit, a hen, a cat, a dog and a dove pass through the lives of the main characters and influence their evolution.
Director: Adrian Sitaru | Stars: Adrian Titieni, Gheorghe Ifrim, Ioana Flora, Clara Voda
Votes: 581
24. Love Is a Story (2015)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
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... See full summary »
Director: Cristina Jacob | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Raluca Aprodu, Ducu Darie, Raluca Amerine
Votes: 458
25. Loverboy (2011)
99 min | Drama, Thriller
A young man seduces poor girls in order to pass them to a prostitution ring.
Director: Cãtãlin Mitulescu | Stars: George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Ion Besoiu, Clara Voda
Votes: 1,904
26. Love Sick (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
In order to spend more time with her girlfriend, Kiki, the young student Alex decides to give up her room at the student's hostel and move into the house where Kiki lives. A few months ... See full summary »
Director: Tudor Giurgiu | Stars: Maria Popistasu, Ioana Barbu, Tudor Chirila, Catalina Murgea
Votes: 3,246
27. The Rage (2002)
83 min | Action, Drama
Two street racers must pay a $7000 debt in exactly 24 hours.
Director: Radu Muntean | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Dorina Chiriac, Andi Vasluianu, Adrian Tuli
Votes: 1,147
28. Tuesday, After Christmas (2010)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Radu Muntean | Stars: Mimi Branescu, Mirela Oprisor, Maria Popistasu, Sasa Paul-Szel
Votes: 4,962 | Gross: $0.03M
29. Weekend cu mama (2009)
87 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Stere Gulea | Stars: Medeea Marinescu, Adela Popescu, Tudor Istodor, Ion Sapdaru
Votes: 1,118
30. The Rest is Silence (2007)
114 min | Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Marius Florea Vizante, Ovidiu Niculescu, Mirela Zeta, Sandu Mihai Gruia
Votes: 2,931
31. Michael the Brave (1971)
203 min | Action, Biography, Drama
At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu, Olga Tudorache, Irina Gardescu
Votes: 6,566
32. Toate pînzele sus (1977– )
G | 568 min | Action, Adventure
The 1977 Romanian series 'Toate pînzele sus' follows Moldavian fishermen turned sailors aboard the 'Hope' in the 19th century. Facing challenges at sea, it focuses on friendship, survival, and freedom.
Stars: Ion Besoiu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Sebastian Papaiani, Jean Constantin
Votes: 1,716
33. Hârtia va fi albastra (2006)
95 min | Action, Drama
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.
Director: Radu Muntean | Stars: Paul Ipate, Adi Carauleanu, Dragos Bucur, Tudor Istodor
Votes: 2,192
34. Summer Holiday (2008)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Radu Muntean | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Anamaria Marinca, Mimi Branescu, Adrian Vancica
Votes: 2,223
35. Niki and Flo (2003)
99 min | Drama
The hero is a retired army officer in the period of transition in Romania from the Communist rule to democracy. As many aged people during these times he loses a lot in position and ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Razvan Vasilescu, Coca Bloos, Mihaela Caracas
Votes: 845
36. The Oak (1992)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Visan
Votes: 3,824
37. Ticalosii (2007)
87 min | Drama
All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn't dream.
Director: Serban Marinescu | Stars: Stefan Iordache, Dorel Visan, Horatiu Malaele, Mircea Diaconu
Votes: 722
38. Of Snails and Men (2012)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
The story of one man who tries to save his car factory
Director: Tudor Giurgiu | Stars: Andi Vasluianu, Monica Barladeanu, Dorel Visan, Jean-François Stévenin
Votes: 2,473
39. Wedding in Bessarabia (2009)
92 min | Comedy
Love and wedding business in the time of transition.
Director: Nap Toader | Stars: Vlad Logigan, Victoria Bobu, Constantin Florescu, Igor Kistol
Votes: 1,066
40. The Godmother (2011)
100 min | Comedy
To free her husband, Jennifer has to enter the world of money laundering mobsters and become the ultimate Godmother.
Directors: Jesús del Cerro, Virgil Nicolaescu | Stars: Whitney Anderson, Dragos Bucur, Stefan Iancu, Alex Velea
Votes: 1,009
41. Live and Become (2005)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama
A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe
Votes: 6,309
42. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
Not Rated | 180 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.
Director: Andrei Ujica | Stars: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Stefan Andrei, Gheorghe Apostol
Votes: 1,639 | Gross: $0.03M
43. 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
Unrated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A local talk show host organizes an alcoholic professor and a pensioner known for playing Santa Claus to decide whether there was ever a revolution in their town Vaslui.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu | Stars: Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Mirela Cioaba
Votes: 8,122 | Gross: $0.09M
44. Crulic - The Path to Beyond (2011)
73 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
While being in Poland, Romanian Claudio Crulic is wrongly accused of theft. In jail he goes on a hunger strike.
Director: Anca Damian | Stars: Vlad Ivanov, Jamie Sives, Sandrine Bonnaire
Votes: 818
45. Asphalt Tango (1996)
100 min | Comedy
A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.
Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Mircea Diaconu, Florin Calinescu, Constantin Cotimanis
Votes: 1,885
46. Youth Without Youth (2007)
R | 124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in World War II Europe, a professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, André Hennicke
Votes: 14,193 | Gross: $0.24M
47. Carnival Scenes (1981)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon's lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza's lover, while she is ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihut, Petrica Gheorghiu, Tora Vasilescu
Votes: 972
48. The Snails' Senator (1995)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small Romanian village, a senator goes through hilarious events as he takes advantage of the people's hospitality while also ignoring their major issues.
Director: Mircea Daneliuc | Stars: Dorel Visan, Cecilia Bârbora, Clara Voda, Madeleine Thibeault
Votes: 632
49. Reconstruction (1968)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher bring the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: George Constantin, Emil Botta, George Mihaita, Vladimir Gaitan
Votes: 1,716
50. The Earth's Most Beloved Son (1993)
138 min | Drama
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Marin Preda, a controversial novelist who died during the Communist rule soon after the book was published. It tells the story of an intellectual, ... See full summary »
Director: Serban Marinescu | Stars: Stefan Iordache, Gheorghe Dinica, Dorel Visan, Maia Morgenstern
Votes: 1,856
51. Un été inoubliable (1994)
82 min | Drama, Romance, War
Romania in the 1920s. Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) refuses the advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Claudiu Bleont, Olga Tudorache, George Constantin
Votes: 1,103 | Gross: $0.07M
52. Somewhere in the East (1991)
84 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
'Someplace in the East' is among the first movies made in Romania after the fall of the Communism, dealing with one of the troubled period at the beginning of the Communist rule in Romania.... See full summary »
Director: Nicolae Margineanu | Stars: Remus Margineanu, Valentin Voicila, Dorel Visan, Marius Stanescu
Votes: 232
53. Doctorul Poenaru (1978)
104 min | Drama
A young doctor, returned from the front, seeks to practice his profession despite the immense economic and political pressures to which he is subjected.
Director: Dinu Tãnase | Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Stefan Iordache, Elena Dacian, Gheorghe Dinica
Votes: 52
54. Faleze de nisip (1983)
92 min | Drama
The plot confronts an influential surgeon and a carpenter accused to have stolen the doctor's personal belongings from the beach. The neurotic doctor involves himself in the inquiry, ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Pita | Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Carmen Galin, Marin Moraru, Gheorghe Visu
Votes: 293
55. Casa din vis (1991)
94 min | Drama
The story of Capalau, a Moromete from the Brailean bank of the Danube. Contested as "boss" by his family, the peasant tries to stay afloat in the maelstrom of history.
Director: Ioan Cãrmãzan | Stars: Maia Morgenstern, Horatiu Malaele, Sofia Vicoveanca, Dan Badarau
Votes: 39
56. Forest of the Hanged (1965)
154 min | Drama, Romance, War
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.
Director: Liviu Ciulei | Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Liviu Ciulei, Stefan Ciubotarasu, György Kovács
Votes: 1,285
57. Too Late (1996)
106 min | Drama, Thriller
Dumitru Costa, a young trainee prosecutor is entrusted with the investigation about the suspicious death of a Jiu Valley coal miner in 1990s Romania. Accident or murder?
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Razvan Vasilescu, Cecilia Bârbora, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Visan
Votes: 719
58. The Cruise (1981)
122 min | Comedy
The best workers from various factories in the communist system are rewarded a cruise on the Danube. The people in charge fight for bureaucratic reasons while the young ones are looking for adventure.
Director: Mircea Daneliuc | Stars: Tora Vasilescu, Nicolae Albani, Maria Gligor, Paul Lavric
Votes: 318
59. Iacob (1988)
117 min | Drama
Iacob lives in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains near a gold mine and tries to survive.
Director: Mircea Daneliuc | Stars: Dorel Visan, Ion Besoiu, Florin Zamfirescu, Cecilia Bârbora
Votes: 283
60. A Clod of Clay (1989)
84 min | Biography, Drama
A film about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.
Director: Nicolae Margineanu | Stars: Dorel Visan, Adrian Pintea, Maria Ploae, Emilia Dobrin
Votes: 260
61. Aferim! (2015)
Not Rated | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Set in early 19th century 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.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin, Alexandru Dabija
Votes: 7,770 | Gross: $0.10M
62. Tanase Scatiu (1976)
115 min | Drama
The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tanase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.
Director: Dan Pita | Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Eliza Petrachescu, Vasile Nitulescu, Andrei Pintilie
Votes: 172
63. Katalin Varga (2009)
82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Strickland | Stars: Hilda Péter, Norbert Tankó, László Mátray, Roberto Giacomello
Votes: 3,053
64. Morgen (2010)
100 min | Drama
A low-key satire that takes a droll approach to the serious subject of illegal immigration.
Director: Marian Crisan | Stars: András Hatházi, Yilmaz Yalçin, Elvira Rimbu, Dorin C. Zachei
Votes: 1,170
65. Aurora (I) (2010)
Not Rated | 181 min | Drama
Viorel a 42 year old man troubled by obscure thoughts drives across the city to a destination known only to him.
Director: Cristi Puiu | Stars: Afrodita Andone, Geo Aur, Andrei Barbu, Anda Barleanu
Votes: 2,071
66. Occident (2002)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Occident is a bittersweet comedy that focuses on the growing tendency of Eastern European youth to migrate west. When the amicable Luci (Alexandru Papadopol) and his beautiful lover Sorina ... See full summary »
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Alexandru Papadopol, Anca Androne, Samuel Tastet, Tania Popa
Votes: 2,633
67. Razboi în bucatarie (2001)
81 min | Drama
A Romanian soldier deserts during the March '90 conflict from Tg. Mures. He hides at a cantonment where he starts a love story with the cantoner's girl, against the Hungarian cantoner's adversity.
Director: Marius Barna | Stars: Dana Vulc, Gheorghe Dinica, Ovidiu Niculescu
Votes: 59
68. Actorul si salbaticii (1975)
150 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The director of a famous theater in 1930s Bucharest and his Jewish dramatist are preparing a show designed to satirize the fascist (legionnaire) movement, but the legionnaires are determined to stop the spectacle by any means.
Director: Manole Marcus | Stars: Toma Caragiu, Mircea Albulescu, Margareta Pogonat, Ion Besoiu
Votes: 841
69. The Contest (1982)
96 min | Drama
An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
Director: Dan Pita | Stars: Gheorghe Dinica, Marin Moraru, Stefan Iordache, Valentin Uritescu
Votes: 370
70. Sequences (1982)
98 min | Drama
In this film three sequences, which could have formed separate stories, are linked together, like cars on a train, to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandru Tatos | Stars: Geo Barton, Ion Vâlcu, Emilia Dobrin, Mircea Diaconu
Votes: 384
71. Prin cenusa imperiului (1976)
101 min | Drama, History
The fate of two opposite male characters - a lame and naive young man without life experience and a mature swindler, passed through life and with a claim to be recognized as part of the elite.
Director: Andrei Blaier | Stars: Gheorghe Dinica, Gabriel Marian Oseciuc, Cornel Coman, Stefan Sileanu
Votes: 304
72. Felix si Otilia (1972)
120 min | Drama
A large family and it's many generations vie for advantage, seeking to win the inheritance sure to be left behind by a wealthy older man of the clan. Along the way, stories of friendship, love and rivalry emerge.
Director: Iulian Mihu | Stars: Radu Boruzescu, Julieta Szönyi, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Gheorghe Dinica
Votes: 444
73. The Miscellaneous Brigade on the Watch (1971)
95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
In 1971 three inept petty Romanian criminals are released from prison but find themselves at the core of two money laundering and burglary cases.
Director: Mircea Dragan | Stars: Toma Caragiu, Dem Radulescu, Sebastian Papaiani, Puiu Calinescu
Votes: 1,977
74. The Concert (2009)
PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Thirty years ago Bolshoi Orchestra conductor Andreï Filipov was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a lowly janitor, an opportunity arises to gather his old musicians to go and pose as the official Bolshoi orchestra in Paris.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitriy Nazarov, François Berléand
Votes: 18,649 | Gross: $0.66M
75. The Crazy Stranger (1997)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.
Director: Tony Gatlif | Stars: Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Izidor Serban, Ovidiu Balan
Votes: 8,370 | Gross: $0.67M
76. Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (1972)
103 min | War, Drama
In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Cristian Sofron, Ion Besoiu, Gheorghe Dinica
Votes: 989
77. Outbound (2010)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A drama about a woman who seems able to overcome everything for freedom, except for her past mistakes.
Director: Bogdan George Apetri | Stars: Ana Ularu, Andi Vasluianu, Ioana Flora, Mimi Branescu
Votes: 902
78. Supravietuitorul (2008)
106 min | Crime
After WWII "Comisarul Moldovan" (Sergiu Nicolaescu, Petr Falc) spent years as a political prisoner of the Communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of ... See full summary »
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Sergiu Nicolaescu, Petr Falc, Vladimir Gaitan, Cristian Motiu
Votes: 1,205
79. Maria (2003)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Based on the true story of an impoverished, unemployed mother of seven living under subhuman conditions in a cave-like basement of a block of flats in newly post-communist Romania. When her... See full summary »
Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer | Stars: Diana Dumbrava, Horatiu Malaele, Serban Ionescu, Luminita Gheorghiu
Votes: 317
80. Îngerul necesar (2007)
95 min | Drama
Ana is a composer who lives a lonely life in her very clean house. All of a sudden her tidy existence is disturbed by a secret admirer whose actions have one element in common: the colour blue.
Director: Gheorghe Preda | Stars: Emily Daler, Anca Florea, Constantin Florescu, Ioana Ginghina
Votes: 106
81. The Secret of Bacchus (1984)
120 min | Comedy, Action
During the communist era in Romania, a reporter finds an incredibly well organized network of a local winery. The whole movie is a satire of the communist regimes' absurd economical and social rules.
Director: Geo Saizescu | Stars: Emil Hossu, Stefan Mihailescu-Braila, Dem Radulescu, Gheorghe Dinica
Votes: 684
82. Patul lui Procust (2002)
118 min | Drama, Romance
George Ladima, a poet and renowned journalist, loves Emilia, an actress whom he helps in her career, but who takes advantage of him. He commits suicide and in his pocket is found a love note to a Mrs. T.
Directors: Viorica Mesinã, Sergiu Prodan | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Petru Vutcarau, Maia Morgenstern, Tania Popa
Votes: 361
83. Eminescu versus Eminem (2005)
80 min | Comedy
Three directing students want to make a feature film - a romantic drama set in the working-class environment and peppered with Eminescu's lyrics.
Director: Florin Piersic Jr. | Stars: Steliana Balacianu, Mihai Bendeac, Gianina Corondan, Constantin Dita
Votes: 196
84. Thalassa, Thalassa! Return to the Sea (1994)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A group of young boys, and one girl, find and steal a Jaguar convertible, and decide to drive to the sea. What starts out as a lark deteriorates into a rather grueling journey.
Director: Bogdan Dreyer | Stars: Silvia Gheorghe, Alexandru Cirstea, Alexandru Anghel, Cristian Paulica
Votes: 144
85. Best Intentions (2011)
105 min | Drama
Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son's life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a ... See full summary »
Director: Adrian Sitaru | Stars: Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Marian Râlea, Alina Grigore
Votes: 541
86. Tapinarii (1983)
91 min | Drama
The life of forest workers isolated in the mountains.
Director: Ioan Cãrmãzan | Stars: Remus Margineanu, Mariana Buruiana, Serban Ionescu, Zoltán Vadász
Votes: 48
87. În fiecare zi Dumnezeu ne saruta pe gura (2001)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of ... See full summary »
Director: Sinisa Dragin | Stars: Dan Condurache, Ana Ciontea, Horatiu Malaele, Dan Astileanu
Votes: 238
88. Badaranii (1960)
88 min | Comedy, History
Film adaptation after Carlo Goldoni's "I rusteghi" comedy, written in 1760.
Directors: Sica Alexandrescu, Gheorghe Naghi | Stars: Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic, Carmen Stanescu, Nicky Atanasiu, Alexandru Giugaru
Votes: 258
89. The Phantom Father (2011)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Georgescu | Stars: Marcel Iures, Barry Gifford, Mihaela Sirbu, Valer Dellakeza
Votes: 495
90. Bless You, Prison (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole,... See full summary »
Director: Nicolae Margineanu | Stars: Maria Ploae, Dorina Lazar, Ecaterina Nazare, Maria Rotaru
Votes: 548
91. Adalbert's Dream (2011)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Adalbert's Dream mines the Romanian communist past for a dryly funny tale of ordinary people just getting on with their lives.
Director: Gabriel Achim | Stars: Gabriel Spahiu, Doru Ana, Ozana Oancea, Anca Androne
Votes: 256
92. Hooked (2008)
84 min | Drama
The story of some ordinary people who undergo a relationship crisis, as well as a consciousness crisis - people who find themselves in an extreme situation and give up their principles.
Director: Adrian Sitaru | Stars: Adrian Titieni, Ioana Flora, Maria Dinulescu, Alexandru Georgescu
Votes: 991
93. Flacari pe comori (1988)
95 min | Drama
Deep in the Transylvanian Alps, the Archangels gold mine is the stage for an epic battle of characters. The arrogant owner is struggling with perceptions of ghosts in the mind of the miners... See full summary »
Director: Nicolae Margineanu | Stars: Mircea Albulescu, Claudiu Bleont, Magda Catone, Imola Gáspár
Votes: 77
94. Zestrea domnitei Ralu (1971)
97 min | Action, History
After the arrest of Anghel Saptecai, Miss Ralu and Ianuli go to Vienna to buy the jewels. Anghel escapes from the furnace and kidnaps Caliopi, Ianuli's wife, to get the latter to give him the jewels in exchange for his wife's release.
Director: Dinu Cocea | Stars: Florin Piersic, Marga Barbu, Toma Caragiu, Aimee Iacobescu
Votes: 254
95. Europolis (2010)
98 min | Drama
Living in Danube Delta Magdalena receives a letter from France. Together with her son, Nae, she embarks on a journey to encounter her brother.
Director: Cornel Gheorghita | Stars: Adriana Trandafir, Áron Dimény, Elena Popa, Joseph Otteno
Votes: 135
96. Somnul insulei (1994)
102 min | Drama
Director: Mircea Veroiu | Stars: Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Marcel Iures, Stefan Sileanu, Elena Albu
Votes: 57
97. Red Gloves (2010)
123 min | Drama
The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim ... See full summary »
Director: Radu Gabrea | Stars: Victoria Cocias, Razvan Hîncu, Ioana Iacob, Marcel Iures
Votes: 105
98. Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010)
163 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of anti-communist partisans in post-World War II Romania.
Director: Constantin Popescu | Stars: Constantin Dita, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ionut Caras, Catalin Babliuc
Votes: 896
99. The Green Grass of Home (1977)
90 min | Drama
A young maths teacher returns to his birth village, after he refused an universitary career.
Director: Stere Gulea | Stars: Florin Zamfirescu, Octavian Cotescu, Vasile Nitulescu, Mihai Paladescu
Votes: 130
100. Vulpe - vânator (1993)
102 min | Drama, History
Inspired by the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, this novelistic feature examines the questions of a society after a revolution has happened, such as guilt and atonement and ... See full summary »
Director: Stere Gulea | Stars: Oana Pellea, Dan Condurache, Mara Grigore, Claudiu Istodor
Votes: 186
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