The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly addicted to Bucharest's sleazy night life. This movie chronicles their daily lives while commenting upon the political and economic situation in Romania.
Adi, a gay teenager, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.
A 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.
A scholar of mathematics would like to publish his research outside Ceaucescu's Romania, but getting it through the border and the State censorship is not easy.
He wanted to become Someone, and he became somebody else.
A young Romanian gendarme, Cristi, tries to find the balance between two apparently opposing parts of his identity: that of a man working in a macho hierarchical environment and that of a closeted gay person who tries to keep his personal life a secret. Cristi is called in for an intervention at a movie theatre, where an ultra-nationalist, homophobic group has interrupted the screening of a queer film. After one of the protesters threatens to out him, Cristi spirals out of control.
During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.
Sebastian (Rutger Hauer) sets up an ingenious plan to transform a woman from an unknown to a star by appearing together in the television show "Hidden Camera Live".
Hawaii is a story on the struggle of inheriting $3 million in communist-era Romania when owning $1 could mean losing your freedom and touches on the theme of how money could buy if not happiness, at least the freedom to choose unhappiness.
In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
Eva, a psychologist specializing in couples therapy, is about to get married and her best friends are organizing her bachelorette party at a discreet tantra-yoga retreat in Vama Veche.
A frothy comedy about life in the corporation, about the challenges of building a career and those of consolidating and motivating a team. The film, a satire of corporate life, reveals the events of a team building in which the robotic corporativism unleash themselves and unleash themselves by showing their human side.
Famous Romania communist propaganda movie, one of the templates to what followed. It is about the volunteers that built the Bumbești-Livezeni railroad.
Based on a 19th century tale, this self-referential fantasy, complete with musical and animated interludes plus a cast of fairytale characters, tells the story of a bet between an old man and a fairy over a bag with two gold coins.
A terminally ill professor gets an immoral offer.
A copilot takes control of the aircraft due to the fact that the captain has taken some risky decisions. This will degenerate into an ugly conflict.
The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.
Jurnalul TVR is the main news program of the TVR, broadcast daily on TVR1, TVRi at 07:00, 14:00, 17:00, 19:00 and 22:45, and on TVR2. It broadcasts at different hours on TVR1 and TVR2, if the schedule of some sporting event that the two channels broadcast interfere with the usual TV schedule.
Romania is drifting further away from the path to a better future, a future promised over 33 years ago. Now, more than ever, it's crucial for us, the citizens, to unite in defense of democracy. In Starea Impostorilor, activist Valeriu Nicolae takes over the Starea Nației platform to expose and discuss in detail the systemic issues and political impostors undermining the nation's progress. With sharp analysis and compelling insight, this show shines a light on the realities we must confront. Stay tuned, dear viewers!
Dansez pentru tine is a show produced and broadcast on television station Pro TV, presented and moderated by Ștefan Bănică, Jr. and Iulia Vântur. It was the most watched entertainment show in Romania in recent years as audiences. It is the Romanian version of the BBC's popular Dancing with the Stars, franchise which has been sold to more than 35 countries worldwide.
Mondenii este un serial de parodie în care cinci actori intră în pielea personajelor mondene din România. Primul episod a fost difuzat de Prima TV pe 5 septembrie 2006. Este difuzat, de asemenea, în Statele Unite ale Americii și Italia.
Flavours of Romania
The Voice of Romania is a Romanian reality talent show that started in September 2011. It is part of the international syndication The Voice based on the reality singing competition launched in the Netherlands as The Voice of Holland, created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. The judging panel is Smiley, Tudor Chirila, Loredana Groza and Marius Moga with Pavel Bartoș presenter, Roxana Ionescu as Co-presenters and Vlad Roșca in backstage. In second season Roxana Ionescu was replaced with singer and actress Nicoleta Luciu. One of the important premises of the show is the quality of the singing talent. Four coaches, themselves popular performing artists, train the talents in their group and occasionally perform with them. Talents are selected in blind auditions, where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the auditioner.
Next Top Model is a reality documentary and the Romanian version of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model. It places contestants against each other in a variety of tests in order to determine who will win title of Romania's Next Top Model along with a lucrative 4 year-long modelling contract with MRA Models worth 50,000 Euros. The competition is hosted by romanian fashion designer Cătălin Botezatu making him the fifth male host of the international Top Model franchise after Fyodor Bondarchuk, Alexander Tsekalo, Jay Manuel and Nathan Lee. The panel is completed by photographer Gabriel Hennessey, Make-Up Artist Mirela Vascan, Hair Stylist Laurent Tourette and model agent Livio Ionescu.
Celebrity MasterChef is an Romanian competitive cooking game show. It is spin-off of MasterChef România, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features celebrity contestants. It began production in early 8 October 2013, and will begin on PRO TV on October 2013. Cătălin Scătlătescu, Sorin Bontea and Florin Dumitrescu will returning as judges for the show and Răzvan Fodor will returning as a host.
Burlacul is an Romanian reality television dating game show debuting in 2010 on Antena 1. The first season was hosted by Lucian Marinescu, in season 2 he was replaced by host and designer Cătălin Botezatu. There is one related series: Burlăcița.
Ora de ştiri is the main news show broadcast daily on TVR2 starting at 10pm. It is presented by Lucian Pirvoiu and Livia Dila.
