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 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.
An old aviator fights to stay in the air. Whether he wins or not, his participation will mark a new record for aviation and will allow one more armistice in his battle with time.
Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the initiative to drain it and use the land for grains. They hatch a plan to make the pond a natural monument, so an expert is summoned, but foolish beliefs betray them.
After he fails to be accepted in college, Vali is questioned by police for participating in various thefts. He needs an alibi and he thinks the best one would be his father in Bucharest. To get there, he steals a motorcycle. In Bucharest he meets store clerk Anișoara, and he invites her to a seaside escapade. Their one day of love and future optimism is ended abruptly by a tragic motorcycle accident.
Adrian, a man from a provincial town, has decided to start a new life as a monk. The mayor, the policeman and the leader of the Christian Youth Association accompany their friend on his way to the monastery.
Soare is a musician with too little inspiration and too many neurons baked from smoking weed. One day, he decides that his life has become too chaotic, so he begins writing a guide for surviving the moments when his reality stops making sense. Passing various surreal episodes, Soare hopes to regain his inspiration.
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...
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.
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.
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.
In a godforsaken landscape, filmed in transcendental black and white, as if fallen out of time, young Ada lives alone with her ill mother. Her rather lonely existence is characterized by hard work and poverty and as her mother's condition worsens there doesn't seem to be a way out anymore. Ecce homo is a parable about being human, rich in religious symbolism, which dreamily and at the same time sombrely poses existential questions without volunteering answers.
Nea Costel and her consort, Didona, want their daughter, Tina, to participate in the Miss Litoral beauty contest. But Tina is in love with a shy and jealous boy who does not see in Tina a beauty of the kind that appears on the covers of magazines and wants to keep her only for himself.
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
In the remote Romanian village of Catane, a community of villagers, long surviving on disability benefits obtained through ambiguous means, faces exposure when a local inquiry descends. What unfolds is not a story of deception, but of unexpected ingenuity as the villagers craft a disarmingly poetic and humorous response to the absurdities of a broken system. In reinventing their way of life, they reveal not only a means of survival—but a radical model of communal resilience in a fractured world.
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.
A history professor decides to take kids from his class in a trek across the country so they can experience various places and people.
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 disappears. When he is found, the little boy's footage is misinterpreted by the media.
Sami is a passionate visual artist with a keen eye for the world's untold stories. Tonight, he steps away from the comfort of artistic abstraction at a vibrant party, seeking authenticity amidst the chaos of a city in upheaval. Drawn to the raw energy of street protests, Sami finds himself in a reality far beyond the scope of his camera—a reality where the lines between observer and participant blur. As he navigates the complexities of truth, power, and freedom, Sami's journey becomes an exploration of resilience and the cost of integrity in the face of injustice. The Capture invites audiences on a gripping journey through the beauty and pain of standing up for one's beliefs, challenging us to question where we draw our own lines.
It's Maxim's birthday. He's 8 years old. He lives together only with his mother in a village not so close to the big city. For his birthday, his mother will take him to Bucharest, to McDonald's. There, Maxim hopes to meet his father.
We are waiting for you every day at IQ Financiar exclusively on Antena 1: Observator 6, Observator 23 and AntenaPLAY. Also, the daily financial education column is archived online and available on this page. Iancu Guda brings Antena 1 viewers a financial education marathon, for decisions that are good for the long term. The purpose of the column is to improve our financial IQ, that is, our skill in managing money, so as to increase prosperity and financial stability in the family and in business.
„Serviciul Roman de Comedie” is a Romanian humor group that satirizes events, politics, and social life, in a comical and sarcastic style.
The web miniseries created by Matei Dima (BRomania), is the successful attempt to show how the education in Romania works, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable of its beneficiaries. That the series has a lot and a kind of bitter humor is just one of the pluses.
Next Star is a Romanian TV show broadcast on the Romanian television station Antena 1 to discover talent for those aged 3 to 13 years. The top prize is 20,000 euros. The show is presented by Dan Negru and the jury composed of Pepe, CRBL, Alina Eremia and Dorian Popa,And from the 9th season the jury will change again will be composed of Pepe, Alina Puşcaş CRBL, and Dorian Popa. In 5 seasons the jury was composed of Pepe, Connect-R, Maria Cârneci, Lora and Vasile Muraru. Famous performers from Romania and elsewhere occasionally take part to co-sing with the children. The show was launched in 2013 and the first winner was Omar Arnaout, a Romanian of mixed Lebanese-Romanian origin. In later seasons, children from other countries were qualified to participate to become "Next Star International". Also besides solo participants, children band were also allowed to take part in competition
Selecția Națională is the national selection organized by TVR and its regional studios in order to select the country's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Memorialul Durerii is a Romanian Television documentary series about persecution, the labor camp system, anti-communist resistance and the secret police in communist Romania. It started airing in 1991. The main producer is Lucia Hossu-Longin. One of the most memorable interviews on the show was the one conducted in 1992 with Elisabeta Rizea, who joined an anti-Communist guerrilla group in the early 1950s, and then spent 12 years in prison, being subjected to torture.
Empire of the lions
The Carpathian Mountains, the Danube River and the Black Sea, gave birth to the wildest country in Europe. The richness of this place lies in spectacular mountains, in rivers full of life, in healthy forests. Following the four seasons of the year, we will discover the life of the most emblematic animals of Romania and we will unfold the story of the most amazing natural landscapes.
Stand-up Revolution, the first stand-up television show with four big names who planning to discover the next big sensation in the field!
After two years of working nonstop, singer Irina Rimes makes a two-week journey in a mobile studio, traveling across Romania and beyond in order to reconnect with herself, find inspiration, and complete her new album, Home.
A crime committed in Bucharest opens the door to a mystery much greater than it seems. Edi, a police inspector, discovers that the answers are not only in the files, but also in signs that no one else can see.
A travel documentary exploring the scenic beauty and rich culture of the Romanian Carpathian mountains.
Sorin Bontea, Florin Dumitrescu and Cătălin Scălătescu put their skills, friendship and spirit of adventure on a new show, where the culinary competition takes place on a tasty journey to our country and beyond its borders.
Chefi fără limite is an original cooking, travel and adventure show, produced by Antena 1.
This is a show on Youtube made by Ionut Rusu
