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Veronica (Lulu Mihăescu) is a flighty girl who lives in an orphanage. At the age of 5, a fairy godmother gives her a charmed bag, which can fulfill every wish.

For the people living on a street in downtown Bucharest, the torture has started a few days previous, when a construction site was set up on their street.

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.

Lavinia, a single mother trying to make a better life on her own terms for herself and her 13-year-old son, live in a poor Romanian village. She is impulsive, prone to misreading situations, and not sure how to love. But her son, on the threshold between childhood and adolescence, needs his mother more than ever, and over the course of four seasons their relationship is put to the test.

American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.

Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience.

Alexandru Popovici is a man obsessed with women, whom he films relentlessly. This montage of family and anonymous archives questions the male gaze in the era of Romanian totalitarianism.

A glimpse into the life of a middle-aged orthodox priest who struggles with his misdemeaning son.

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.

A parody of consumer society, Promo constructs a domestic utopia in which everyday life is overwhelmed by the rhetorical absurdity of advertising language.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The movie tells the story of Matilda, an old woman that has to fight against a real-estate mogul in order to save her house. Tanase is a ruthless businessman who built his fortune on scamming people and evicting them from their homes. When he wants to kick Matilda out of her house, his luck comes to an end as the seemingly nice old lady manages to defend her property.

In the history of Romanian cinema, Sergiu Nicolaescu's name stands for "prolific, highly commercial and professional". At the age of 80, the director launched his latest production, which is also his second comedy in a long row of action and historic films. "Poker" is a cinema adaptation of Adrian Lustig's theatre play with the same name, and focuses on four male friends, representatives for the social canvas: a doctor without a moral conscience, an unscrupulous politician, a chief of the local mafia, and a businessman who made a fortune in America. Made by MediaPro Pictures, 'Poker' looks at immorality and intrigues in politics, hinting at the fact that contemporary Romania is a day to day jungle where strings are pulled by those in power, so everything turns into a poker round, where those who have the right aces in their sleeve can win.

The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials.

As a last resort, a girl diagnosed with cancer goes to an unconventional shaman.

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.

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

Ana Mateescu knows that the fairy tale time has passed. A learned person over the last few years to face the responsibility of the lured staff in front of the adults is crying. She can barely remember the good times in care she has a happy family, a house of her own and she lived with her parents, grandmother and sister without anyone to worry about tomorrow. After the death of her father, a grandmother and mother’s departure to Spain, other changes followed in Ana’s life. A house lost in the nursing home, being needed to move with Simona, her younger sister, in their aunt’s apartment, Nuta.

Romanian singing competition series created by Simon Cowell where aspiring singers are drawn from public auditions and compete to become a recording artist.

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!

America at the end of the 19th century: news spreads like wildfire that gold has been found in the Klondike. Half of America is in an uproar. Among the adventurers is the young lawyer Elam Harnish from San Francisco. Over the next few months, he experiences unique adventures with the hard search for gold, the merciless nature and the shrewd stock market sharks of the big city...

The story of four men who come from different backgrounds and who become friends through the lens of the kindergarten their children attend. A former artist turned influencer, an intellectual widower, a well-maintained householder and an old-fashioned boy who still sells clothes and perfumes from the trunk, they end up going through all kinds of events and situations together.

Chefi fără limite is an original cooking, travel and adventure show, produced by Antena 1.

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.

8 comedians from Romania enter a game full of surprises, humor and challenges that will leave you speechless. There is only one goal: unlimited fun. In each edition, two special guests will enter this crazy carousel of challenges set up by Cabral, the presenter of the show.

21 days, 13 celebrities and two hosts prepared to face the jungle or to yell "Get me out of here!"

Love Island România is a Romanian dating reality show based on the international Love Island franchise. The show is presented by Alina Ceușan while Dragoș Răduță provided voice-over narration. Following the premise of other versions of the Love Island format, the show features a group of single contestants, known as "islanders" who live together in a specially constructed villa that is isolated from the outside world, in an attempt to find love.

Leana and Costel and a married couple from the Sadova village in Romania. They have two children: the pig-tailed girl Lila and the mushroom hat boy Axinte. They usually get involved in different arguments with the other villagers.

A behind-the-scenes look at Andrew and Tristan Tate’s lifestyle, business ventures, and travels, filmed in a vlog-style format.

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.

In a complex city, a lost teen with amnesia meets a series of allies and foes as she tries to rediscover her past and find a way home.

Empire of the lions

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.