Cumpăna 1979
On New Years Eve, in an isolated mountain chalet, two robbers seek refuge, together with two lost tourists.
On New Years Eve, in an isolated mountain chalet, two robbers seek refuge, together with two lost tourists.
The war, with its immorality and cruelty, touched the foundations - the "bridges of life" - of a simple Moldovan village...
Nelu works at a pawn shop, and Ilinca is employed at a travel agency in the same busy intersection. Their daily routine includes having a quick lunch together while making various life plans.
Vitoria, a strong-willed peasant woman from the mountains, sets out on a relentless journey to find out what happened to her husband, the shepherd Nechifor, who disappeared without a trace after leaving to buy sheep.
A happily married teacher finds out that a child of hers she believed dead for 10 tears is alive. On the trail of her first lover, she reconnects with her lost daughter.
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
Vlad is a famous actor in Bucharest, married to Alina, who has always been tempted to have extra-conjugal relations.
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.
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.
On a hot summer day, Vasile, a 50-something year old peasant, refuses to accompany his wife Lucretia to a religious ceremony arguing he has to finish the ditch in front of their house to avoid paying a fine. Scared by the hard work ahead of him, he tries to find somebody to help him. Petre, a Gypsy young man seems to be the right person. After changing a few words with him, Vasile notices that Petre is upset because none of the villagers wants to be the Godfather for his kid. Vasile decides to baptize the child himself asking Petre in exchange to help him finish the ditch. In the evening, Lucretia learns about Vasile's decision and a new ordinary domestic fight starts between them.
Adrian is a young poet who decides to leave Romania and go live to Spain. He wants to change his life, earn some money and learn Spanish. Upon arriving in Cordoba, he works at a car dealership that sells both old and new cars. During the day he hides in a small caravan in the parking lot of the car dealership. One day, Adrian finds a package with a CD and poster for a tour of one flamenco / jazz band. He is enchanted by the music and by the picture of Maria, who plays a bass guitar in the band. They both meet after a concert on the beach, where they begin their relationship full of passion, problems and surprises.
Two villages that received only half their necessary annual budgets decide to wage it all on a soccer game between themselves. Whoever wins gets it all and fulfill their objectives. So everything becomes fair game in their quest to win.
An unsolved case. An unknown criminal. An obsessed cop. His investigation plunges him into a world of darkness and violence, pulling everyone around him into a web of destructive passion and revenge.
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.
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…
A peasant went to work in constructions for a few years in Bucharest. He's thinking of returning home, but only after overturning his father's unfair sentence.
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.
In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. Mugur Călinescu was behind them, who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this material.
A history professor decides to take kids from his class in a trek across the country so they can experience various places and people.
A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
Relu is a family man. He has two children, a wife and a double life. Seen through the eyes of his family, Relu Oncescu appears to be an ordinary taxi driver. No one suspects that Relu works as a collector for Capitanu', a local mobster. Neither of the two worlds (his family and the mafia) knows of the other's existence. Relu manages to keep everything under control, but not for long. After accidentally killing a man, he tries to get out of the underworld, but he can't find his way back. Day by day, the secrets he keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface, one by one.
Couples, temptations and an island full of traps, these are the key elements of the reality show presented by Radu Vâlcan. In the end, only true love can pass the test, and the couples entering the competition will find out if they are connected only by habit or, on the contrary, by sincere and strong feelings. The ultimate test of love and trust will be given by the couples who will return from Thailand totally changed.
When life throws her a curveball, an aspiring ballerina takes a job at a family estate, where she falls for a man with a secret, complex romantic past.
Reliable 30-something Rux’s plans to leave Bucharest to join her long-distance lover in LA are upended when her boss assigns her to his wife’s mayoral race and pairs her with a know-it-all colleague.
Dan Nichita is a young rock singer who enjoys success, appreciates the pleasures of life, and especially romantic adventures. He lives in the moment, knowing that he has a powerful father behind him, Alexandru Nichita, the owner of a chain of casinos, who would like his son to become more responsible and serious. What his father cannot achieve, perhaps love will? Because Dan will fall in love with Daria, a young orphan who has finished high school and wants to become a ballerina. Thanks to the kindness of a good-hearted man, Gicu Timofte, the old high school librarian, Daria lives in the library. He protects her from the cruelty of the librarian Olivia Muscalu, a mean and sharp-tongued woman. From the moment she meets Dan, Daria will go through a lot of difficult situations caused by his official mistress, Silvia Damian.
Full Sail is a TV series aired on Romanian National Television (TVR), based on the eponymous novel by Radu Tudoran. The series follow the adventures of two friends, the Romanian Anton Lupan and the French Pierre Vaillant. Anton Lupan tries to find the L'Esperance schooner, which belonged to them, wiyhout knowing that it was a victim of a pirate attack. But he hopes in particular to find Pierre, so they can start on a trip to an uncharted land, which they attempted several times to explore unsuccessfully. He found the ship, but his friend was nowhere to be found. Anton was forced to leave on a trip across Atlantic, to Tierra del Fuego.
9 pairs of stars are ready to embark on the adventure of their lives, in the hardest reality show in Romania. America Express will take them on the Golden Route, on a route of more than 7000 kilometers, which passes through Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia.
The corrupt owner of a lame, forth division football team gets locked up so his bimbo wife has to step in and take control of the club, wrecking chaos in the community.
Visuri la cheie is an extremely emotional show that brings Romanians inspiration, joy, tears of happiness and reasons to firmly believe that desires can come true with the help of people. The broadcast team crosses the country every year and meets special people who always fight to stay united and who have never given up their dreams.
Băieți de oraș is a TV series created by Mihai Bendeac. He exposes the lives of 4 teenagers: Roby Roberto, Malone, Robotzelu and Dorian. In this series, besides the protagonists, there were also famous actors from Romanian cinemas such as Rodica Popescu Bitănescu or Carmen Tănase. The intro song of the series is composed and performed by the Romanian rapper Cheloo. The Băieți de oraș comedy series is one of the most watched TV series in Romania.
MasterChef România is the Romanian version of the television cooking game show, open to amateur and home chefs.
After two hapless stoplight technicians make an offhand joke about an imaginary heist, everyone in their small Romanian town suddenly wants a piece of the pie – forcing the pair to make a decision that could change their lives forever.
The Clan is an adaptation that will center on an engaging story about the classic struggle between the Police and the Mafia. Tensions will rise as love stories spice up the eternal battle between good and evil.
A former British soccer star moves to a quiet village after divorce, meeting a local doctor. Their growing love faces obstacles as two different worlds collide, while past secrets and present conflicts test their relationship.
During the height of the Cold War, Victor Godeanu, the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, and secret agent for the KGB, must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. Helped by an undercover Stasi agent and an up-and-coming CIA agent, Godeanu must elude the KGB and his own country’s spooks, fully aware that his defection is putting his family back home in mortal danger.
The protagonists mistakenly fall in love, leading to a domino-type situation filled with awkwardness and comic situations. A large inheritance, acquired through a special will condition, sparks a tragico-comic competition among contenders.