Summer Holiday

Summer Holiday 2008

5.70

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.

2008

Good Boys Go to Heaven

Good Boys Go to Heaven 2024

7.00

Dan dies in a car accident. He arrives in Paradise and finds out that he is not alone in this place: Laura, the girl he was in love with in high school, is also here. Will the two finally manage to be together?

2024

File 631

File 631 2022

6.10

Inspired by a true story, the film presents a TV reporter's journalistic investigation into alleged American "flying prisons" in Romania. Through a combination of circumstances, following a mysterious File 631, Dinu (Iosif Paștina) discovers a leak from a NATO base in Romania. The news event stirs, provokes, tempts various media, top politicians, services, both internal and external, causing both hilarious and absurd dramas in a black comedy. The journalistic endeavour of the "newly" turned investigative reporter is a tough, not easy, test to preserve his professional dignity, but also his character, noting the duplicity, the moral volatility, the lack of measure of a world that relentlessly continues its course.

2022

The Treasure

The Treasure 2015

6.52

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.

2015

Happiness Is So Close

Happiness Is So Close 1977

6.70

Cristina, a girl from a well situated family, falls in love with a young working man, who manages to get into college.

1977

The Prodigal Father

The Prodigal Father 1974

7.50

This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.

1974

Weekend with My Mother

Weekend with My Mother 2009

6.70

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

2009

One Step Behind the Seraphim

One Step Behind the Seraphim 2017

7.53

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.

2017

WARF

WARF 1970

6.00

During World War II, several young people capture a German soldier on the roof of the building they defend and in which they most probably live. One of them ends up staying in the same room with the man for a longer time, keeping an eye on him at gunpoint. The relationship that develops between them, in spite of the language barrier, is suddenly halted by another gun(shot), one that comes from outside the room.

1970

Fed Up

Fed Up 1994

5.40

Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but discovers that the child she was carrying is still alive. Wishing to save its life, the doctor puts the mother on artificial life support. Just then, Bebe, the supposed father of the unborn child, enters the scene. A former teacher and mountain climber, Bebe will soon fall in love with the doctor...

1994

Carmen

Carmen 2013

7.00

In a small village close to the mountains, Mariana and Puiu are a young family with two children: Carmen and Mircea. One morning, the mother and the ten year-old daughter leave for Bucharest, having a hospital as their destination. One doctor alone, Sitaru, believes that Carmen, who can no longer smile, stands any chances at survival. He believes he can perform a miracle and save Carmen's life. Struggling for her daughter, abandoned by almost everybody she trusted, Mariana discovers she is pregnant. After dr. Sitaru operates on the little girl, in a risky manner, Carmen begins to feel increasingly worse. Without any hope, Mariana leaves the hospital and rushes to take Carmen home: while one life ends, another one begins to flicker.

2013

Jacob

Jacob 1988

6.80

Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama. Under the rule of an oppressive monarchy backed by military force, the miners often resort to stealing gold to compensate for their meager wages. Workers are subjected to strip searches and are forced to take laxatives by the often brutal guards and inspectors as they look for stolen gold, and Jacob raises his vocal objections over the treatment of his fellow workers.

1988

La bani, la cap, la oase

La bani, la cap, la oase 2010

4.20

Too soft and innocent for the job they do, HARPOON and THE BAPTIST are two money collectors that don't collect much, except for kicks and bruises. As they try in vain to fulfill their contracts, they get involved in a robbery and decide to go for a change in their lives: they will start collecting for themselves.

2010

Tovarășu': facerea, gloria și desfacerea unui dictator

Tovarășu': facerea, gloria și desfacerea unui dictator 2023

1

Here is the story of the entire life of Nicolae Ceaușescu, a peasant's son who managed to become the most powerful man in Romania. Including original archival footage and historical re-enactments, the story is told by those who lived it, those who knew him intimately, followed him, served him and carried out his orders: fellow prisoners, " his 'double', personal assistants, his personal security men, those who accompanied him on foreign trips, his translator, advisers, diplomats and family members.

2023

Children Underground

Children Underground 2001

7.40

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.

2001

Morski Briz

Morski Briz 2018

1

At the end of summer, Laura, aged 60, goes on vacation with an old friend to a village on the Bulgarian coast. The appearance of a stranger disturbs what was supposed to be a peaceful vacation.

2018

Root of Life

Root of Life 1978

8.00

Fascinated by the idea of creating an industrial inter-collective farm garden, scientist Andrei Barbu interrupts his work at the institute and moves to the district...

1978

Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time

Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time 2018

6.70

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.

2018

Mult mai de preț e iubirea

Mult mai de preț e iubirea 1982

5.90

A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the Lottery. She goes to Bucharest, to find herself.

1982