Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things

Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things 2017

6.10

A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds.

2017

Acasă, My Home

Acasă, My Home 2020

6.60

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years – until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.

2020

Matilda

Matilda 2022

1

There is a place, a world, that film creates; somewhere between the harsh lines and light of reality, and the soft warm flickering of the projector. Many people enter. Some never return.

2022

Legacy

Legacy 2020

6.00

A police officer investigates the case of a famous pianist that has been missing for several days. The investigation reveals the artist's troubled destiny, his strange relationships and the decisions that led to a dramatic turn of events.

2020

Two Lottery Tickets

Two Lottery Tickets 1959

8.10

1957 film adaptation of Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's novella “Două loturi” (Two Lottery Tickets, 1901). The scenario was written by director Jean Georgescu, one of the most skilled Romanian filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, while the directing belongs to Aurel Miheleş and Gheorghe Naghi, at that time both recently graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. This is the second feature film in colour from Romania. Despite the great public success, the film was often criticized by reviewers, mostly for its unhandy directing from the two debutants. Miheleş and Naghi would however continue their collaboration and release another two Caragiale adaptations, of which “Telegrame” (Telegrams, 1959) was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1960 edition of the Cannes festival.

1959

The Forest You'll Never Enter

The Forest You'll Never Enter 1978

1

Tenth-graders from one of the city schools came for a two-week internship at a neighboring timber industry enterprise. At first the guys felt like tourists. But participation in forest planting under the leadership of forester Yuri, a true enthusiast of his work, awakened in them a feeling of love for their native nature.

1978

Meanders

Meanders 1966

6.40

Petru and Constantin, former faculty mates, have different views concerning their lives and professions; while the former has a bright imagination, is very creative and daring, the latter is looking only for personal comfort and material satisfaction. They contend for the same woman – but even if she loves Petru, she marries Constantin for his material condition. Though he finds in Constantin an adversary who does not hesitate to remove him, Petru will surpass him professionally.

1966

The Hundred Lei Bill

The Hundred Lei Bill 1973

5.80

Arguing with his parents, Petre, a teenager, moves at his bigger brother, Andrei, a successful actor. There he meets Dora, one of his brother's young fans. When Andrei gives the girl his attention, Petre feels abandoned and runs away without even taking the hundred lei bill his brother had given him. A car runs Petre down. When he learns about this tragic accident, Andrei realizes - while watching his own smiling face in a musical on TV - that underneath his glittering success, he lives an empty life.

1973

Maria

Maria 2003

8.10

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.

2003

The Winner

The Winner 1981

7.00

A successful boxer has a difficult time due to the fact that his family feels neglected.

1981

Dimitrie Cantemir

Dimitrie Cantemir 1974

1

The film is about the life of Dmitry Cantemir and the Moldovan people from November 1710 to July 1711. Turkish troops are preparing for war with Russia. The Sultan entrusted him with the throne of Moldavia. Cantemir secretly established ties with Peter I and concluded a military-political agreement with him, according to which Russia took Moldova under its protectorate, pledged to help expel the Turks and restore the former borders of the Moldovan state.

1974

Klaus & Barroso

Klaus & Barroso 2024

7.30

A bartender-combiner urgently needs to pay off a debt. He persuades his brother, a fiery bouncer, to arrange a bachelor party together, without the knowledge of the owners of the club where he works.

2024

Rocker

Rocker 2012

6.00

The story of Victor, a 45-year-old rocker, whose love for his son Florin go beyond what is socially and morally acceptable. The father's everyday life is orbiting around his son, a drug addict.

2012

Lotus

Lotus 2004

8.00

The tranquility of a small seaside town is disturbed by a strange event: some vagrants try to rape a girl. A young man jumps to her defense. Intre cei doi se infiripa an idila, pana cand his past seems to sail over the present with cynicism and impatience. A strange mystery floats between them, until the day he is found dead and the girl decides to unravel the mystery of his disappearance.

2004

Vampire Zombie

Vampire Zombie 1970

1

Film student Cătălina teams up with ex-rock star Marchizu' to film his comeback music video, but his resemblance to a childhood nightmare begins to blur reality. The encounter makes her question her memory and identity.

1970

21 Rubies

21 Rubies 2023

10.00

When a political turmoil brings a Romanian prosecutor into the spotlight, she is offered the position of attorney general.

2023

Pisica de mare

Pisica de mare 1964

8.00

The Romanian Ministry of State Security has learned that foreign intelligence is hunting for plans for blue mines, where strategic raw materials are mined. This task is carried out by a gang led by a spy named Sea Cat.

1964

The Woman in the Dream

The Woman in the Dream 2005

4.80

The story of a famous director, Thomas, at the peak of his career, obsessed by the ills of the woman he desires, but also by his creative problems. Although his films are award-winning and he is loved by audiences, actors and friends, Thomas is tormented by the desire to make the movie of his life.

2005