The Ladder

The Ladder 2021

5.38

Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and democracy and faces a series of brutal events that have deeply marked Romania's recent history. Finding comfort in playing the part of Aliosa in a stage adaptation of The Karamazov Brothers, he becomes closer and closer to his character, gradually discovering the way to understanding divinity.

2021

Cărturan

Cărturan 2019

6.88

With little time to live, Carturan, a 60 year old man, tries to fix the most important aspects of his life.

2019

Hamlet

Hamlet 2025

1

A theatre director intends to make a revolutionary version of Hamlet. It all starts with finding the right actors and putting their lives in danger.

2025

Promo

Promo 1998

1

A parody of consumer society, Promo constructs a domestic utopia in which everyday life is overwhelmed by the rhetorical absurdity of advertising language.

1998

Home

Home 2007

6.00

On Christmas Eve, a taxi driver takes home a man returning from working abroad.

2007

The Coders

The Coders 1991

1

Panoramic life of a Moldovan village in the second half of the twentieth century.

1991

Vecina

Vecina 2025

7.03

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.

2025

The Enchanted Grove

The Enchanted Grove 1980

5.94

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.

1980

Mercenaries' Trap

Mercenaries' Trap 1982

7.30

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

1982

The Amateur

The Amateur 2006

7.25

Damian works in a supermarket. In secret, however, he has a different job.

2006

The Headlight

The Headlight 2018

7.00

Radu Iovan and his high moral principles become the target of a ten thousand souls wager between God and Satan.

2018

Happy Funerals

Happy Funerals 2013

8.40

Three heavy boozers - a Romanian, a Russian and a Bulgarian - are tripling away their... happiness, into vodka, at "The Happy Immigrant", a joint kept by a Turk. The fauna of this venue is made up out of the Babel Tower's survivors: immigrants who had chosen Romania, as a country where everything is possible. The predictions included... A police raid chases away the pub's barflies. The three professional boozers stop from running just in front of a fortune teller expert in a niche field: death prediction. The rest is entertainment! Although we are all indebted to one death, some refuse to pay this debt. They don't want to die when it was written for them. Or just predicted...

2013

Black Clothes

Black Clothes 2017

7.00

A glimpse into the life of a middle-aged orthodox priest who struggles with his misdemeaning son.

2017

Fault Condition

Fault Condition 2018

8.00

Melania, 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.

2018

The Thirst

The Thirst 1960

6.40

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

1960

Surorile

Surorile 1984

5.00

Three sisters that had a tranquil life in a town suffer dramatic life changes at the end of WW2.

1984

Illegitimate

Illegitimate 2016

6.27

At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.

2016

03.ByPass

03.ByPass 2016

6.80

During a night shift, an emergency ambulance with a team of three, a doctor, a paramedic and a driver, is called to an old man's apartment. The event will change their lives forever.

2016

Metronom

Metronom 2022

6.20

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…

2022

Mikado

Mikado 2022

5.70

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.

2022