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- DirectorAndrei CretulescuStarsSerban PavluRadu IacobanVictor RebengiucA 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.
- DirectorMarius OlteanuStarsJudith StateCristian PopaAlexandru PotoceanA long time married couple comes to decide within 24 hours, through encounters with strangers, that letting go might be their biggest proof of love.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsMaia MorgensternRazvan VasilescuVictor RebengiucA description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
- DirectorNicolae MargineanuStarsRadu BotarIoan Andrei IonescuRichard BovnoczkiSighet prison in communist Romania. An catholic cardinal considered a national hero is faced with an unusual torturer. There is only one way out, conversion or death.
- DirectorDan PitaStarsValentin PopescuStefan IordacheIrina PetrescuIn an allegorical tale, a luxurious hotel is ruled like a communist country. The ignorant views of leaders and the social stratification are the main focus.
- DirectorDan PitaStarsClaudiu BleontPetre NicolaeEcaterina NazareTwo friends, closer than brothers, working together, staying in the same room, playing together.
- DirectorAlexander NanauStarsDan Alexandru CondreaLiviu IoluRazvan LutacDirector Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
- DirectorConstantin PopescuStarsConstantin DitaBogdan DumitracheIonut CarasThe story of anti-communist partisans in post-World War II Romania.
- DirectorDaniel SanduStarsStefan IancuVlad IvanovToto DumitrescuA 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.
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsCosmina StratanCristina FluturValeriu AndriutaThe friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.
- DirectorLiviu CiuleiStarsVictor RebengiucLiviu CiuleiStefan CiubotarasuIn 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.
- DirectorToma EnacheStarsVali PopescuConstantin CotimanisKira HagiA young composer and double bass virtuoso, who returns to Romania after studying in Vienna, is arrested by the political police soon after getting engaged and taken to the Pitesti prison, where a brainwashing and torture-based experiment is under way. The horrible communist experiment, copied after the Soviet model, is headed by the much-feared Ciumau. The composer survives unimaginable torture due to his strong religious belief and composes Ode to God. His music will eventually save his fiancee, Lia.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsCostel CascavalDorina ChiriacGheorghe VisuThe Bucharest's suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu, a swineherd, meet and tease each other and starts a beverage competition. Their relationship is not just a one-night stand. It would end with a marriage, if Norica wouldn't want to marry Gili, her 50's boss and boyfriend, and if Mitu wouldn't have to make two years of military service. Mitu's passion for Norica will make him to get in trouble: drove by his obsession for her, he makes something unforgettable. The society's resorts start moving and hunting the couple...
- DirectorDorian BogutaStarsTeodor CorbanMarin GrigoreIrina RadulescuAnton, a famous pianist, is missing. The policeman who takes over the case gradually learns about the artist's troubled destiny, his bizarre relationships and the decisions that triggered a whirl of surprising events.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsGeorge ConstantinEmil BottaGeorge MihaitaA 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.
- DirectorStere GuleaStarsLuminita GheorghiuMarian RâleaAna UlaruThe story takes place in 2010, in a post-communist Romania, in which some of those who fully lived in the communist period don't seem to fit anymore. The main character and her husband are about to receive a visit from their daughter, who has been living in the States for the last 10 years, and her American boyfriend. While having dinner with her reunited family, she realizes that she actually liked it in the communist era, that she was better off, and that most of the characteristics of a true communist do gather in her. During the whole movie, she has flashbacks from that "golden" period, and somehow tries to recapture what her life once was, while trying to figure out and solve her daughters' money problems. It is a funny movie, especially for those who know something about communism and what happened then in Eastern Europe, though based on weird yet very real situations people were faced with back than (until 1989).
- DirectorCãtãlin MitulescuStarsGeorge PistereanuAda CondeescuIon BesoiuA young man seduces poor girls in order to pass them to a prostitution ring.
- DirectorCorneliu PorumboiuStarsMircea AndreescuTeodor CorbanIon SapdaruA 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.
- DirectorAnca DamianStarsMamon AfghanIlona BrezoianuCristina FlowersIvan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan's unshakeable lifestyle. After Ivan's arrival back to Bucharest, Ioana is found dead, with her wrists cut. Ivan starts living in the absent presence of Ioana, who is starting to be more vivid in death than in life.
- DirectorRadu DragomirStarsDana RogozMadalina CraiuRazvan VasilescuMo and her best friend Vera are caught cheating during exam by Ursu, the toughest professor in the university. After she asks him for a second chance, the professor invites them to his place. Here, the students will have to pass an unexpected examination. It's all fun and games, until Mo loses control.
- DirectorStere GuleaStarsVictor RebengiucLuminita GheorghiuGina PatrichiThe story of a family: Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army and much more.
- DirectorStere GuleaStarsHoratiu MalaeleIosif PastinaDana DogaruA sequel to Morometii (1987), the tale follows the life of the Moromete family after WWII, with Romania being overpowered by Communism.
- DirectorSilviu PurcareteStarsAnne Marie CherticConstantin ChiriacPaul Chiributa"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. Palilula is a ghost town, lost in the middle of the Wallachia. A quarantine area, a sanatorium, an improbable hospital, a gynecological clinic in a settlement where no child is born. A small community of fools, lazies, sluts, vagabonds with angel's hearts is living under the sun in a sweet innocent unconsciousness. A community of Romanians who forgot their language, but not the nostalgia of their traditional music. Romanians with Danubian taste and disorientation. The young doctor Serafim will not get to practice his profession in this childless town. He will be drowning in the sweet and poisoned honey of the place, like a fly caught by a frog.
- DirectorBogdan MiricaStarsDragos BucurGheorghe VisuVlad IvanovRoman 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 crime lord and his men will not let go of the land..
- DirectorCristian NemescuStarsGabriel HuianMadalina GhitescuGabriel SpahiuAndrei, 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.
- DirectorHoratiu MalaeleStarsMeda Andreea VictorAlexandru PotoceanValentin TeodosiuIn a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.
- DirectorCãtãlin SaizescuStarsDana VulcMaruca BaiasuMagda CatoneMelania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to her parents. The situation is extremely complicated because Emi's mother is the director of the high school where the two lovers study, and Melania's mother is secretary at the same high school. In the fifth month of pregnancy, Melania faints during class hours. She is urgently taken to the hospital by her mother who finds her daughter is 5 months pregnant so it's too late for an abortion. Melanie's mother is forced to tell the truth to Emi's mother. Emi's mother forces Melania's mother to promise to keep the pregnancy secret to everyone, even to Emi. Minor's mothers separates the two lovers and decide to give the baby up for adoption to a family of Romanians living abroad who don't have the right to legally adopt a child from Romania. Through a corrupt clerk they found the legal framework for buying the baby from Melania and her family. Melania gives birth prematurely and the baby is sent to Neonatal Intensive Care (ICU). Just one day after the adoptive father takes the baby on his name, in the Neonatal Intensive Care ward occurs a devastating fire. The event is broadcast on all news channels. Emi discovers the truth and goes to meet Melanie who tells him all the details of the story. The child of Emi and Melania dies along with six other babies born prematurely. The adoptive family wants the money back from Melania and her family, but they already used the money as an advance for the purchase of an apartment in which they have already moved in. The film is based on real events that occurred in August 2010 in Bucharest.
- DirectorVlad ZamfirescuStarsTheo MartonIrina VelcescuVlad ZamfirescuFor two friends there is only one secret to happiness, that is easy to understand, but, perhaps, difficult to accept.
- DirectorAndrei ZincãStarsDeborah FeldmanSerban IonescuRodica LazarA middle-aged man fed up with his marriage embarks on a torrid affair with a sultry young artist, while a blind, old writer defies the odds and reconnects with the enduring love of his life
- DirectorHanno HöferRazvan MarculescuCristian MungiuStarsDiana CavalliotiRadu IacobanVlad IvanovSeveral urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized.