Prea cald pentru luna mai

Prea cald pentru luna mai 1984

7.67

At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.

1984

Those Who Pay with Their Lives

Those Who Pay with Their Lives 1989

4.63

An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.

1989

30 Years of Democracy

30 Years of Democracy 2019

8.00

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of political events and historical milestones significant to Romania accompanied by a narrator's voice walking the viewer through the events, and also interviews with Romanian politicians and other influential public figures sharing their thoughts and their different views on those events.

2019

Another Love Building

Another Love Building 2014

7.50

Nine couples attend a weekend retreat to mend their troubled relationships, only to find their counselors need more help than they do.

2014

The Bet

The Bet 1985

6.30

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.

1985

Back Home

Back Home 2015

6.20

Robert is a young writer passing through a difficult time in his life. He decides to return home into his native village for the first time since his mother passed away three years ago. In more than 10 years, he paid only few visits to his parents and this fact is reflected by the distant relationship Robert has with his father. As it happens, he meets two former classmates: Petrica - his old best friend, now married with children and Paula- his teenage sweetheart. She is divorced after an unhappy marriage and is now working at a local store. She doesn’t seem to be engaged in a relationship…

2015

Romina, VTM

Romina, VTM 2023

5.42

Romina begins to fall in love with Valentin, a tourist on holiday in Costinești with plans to become a musician. Romina helps Valentin to become an artist and, without realizing, he is starting to look a lot like someone from Romina's past.

2023

Our Director

Our Director 1955

6.64

Over at the fictional DRGBP institution, events take a settling turn after a mutinied prize festivity.

1955

SPID

SPID 2016

5.50

Two quarreling youngsters get into one cab at night without knowing that the driver is madly desperate to re-conquer his ex-girlfriend and willing to do anything to have her back; including a car crash.

2016

Holy Week

Holy Week 2024

5.33

The Holy Week, around 1900, somewhere in Romania. The tense relationship between the Jewish innkeeper Leiba and Gheorghe, his Christian employee, reaches the point where the innkeeper decides to expel the latter. Revengeful, Gheorghe promises Leiba that he will return on Easter Night to “settle” his accounts. This threat comes as a last straw against Leiba’s attempts to cohabit with his hostile, anti-Semitic environment. From then on, Leiba will struggle distinguishing between the real danger and the one fabricated by his anxieties, engaging onto a path of transformation leading to extreme consequences.

2024

Transnistria

Transnistria 2019

7.70

An intimate and vital account of love and friendship within a group of youngsters. They live in a complex, contradictory, and isolated world – the self-proclaimed state of Transnistra, where the national flag still holds the hammer and sickle. Tanya plans to move abroad, however future seems to offer frighteningly limited possibilities for her lovestruck friends.

2019

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle 2010

6.40

A teenager prisoner awaits his release when two weeks before that happens he's told that his mother is returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a Sociology student, Ana, working in the penitentiary as an intern.

2010

Investors

Investors 2021

6.62

After working this weekend at a factory, three friends put money together to go on an unforgettable escape to Bucharest.

2021

Kickstarter

Kickstarter 1970

1

An aspiring screenwriter and pathological daydreamer finds his wish magically manifested by a mysterious organization. To make sense of it all he must sift through memories, delusions and instances of both waking and imagined life.

1970

Floating Things

Floating Things 2009

5.40

While working in Europe, Avram comes to realize that Italians are paying good money for trained dogs that can protect them from the waves of immigrants. That's Avram's big-time idea: he returns to Romania to start breeding watch dogs which he can later export to Italy. As it happens, he settles next to a camp of immigrants recently sent back from Rome. Thus, the Italian tension is willy-nilly reenacted on the banks of the Danube. Avram's life gets complicated. He starts having an affair with his own daughter in law, lands in conflict with his ex-immigrant neighbors and his life is literally under threat. The film ends with an unpredictable situation.

2009

The Moromete Family

The Moromete Family 1987

7.47

Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more.

1987

Of Snails and Men

Of Snails and Men 2012

6.59

One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 workers will keep their jobs.

2012