Visiting Room

Visiting Room 2011

6.38

The Romanian penitentiary system allows, from 2006, the marriage of people sentenced to serve time in prison. Most of the inmates cultivate the pre-existing relationships with the concubines or partners who live outside the prison walls. Though, there is a special category, of those who find a life partner during their time in prison. VISITING ROOM follows the stories of some prisoners found in different penitentiaries across the country, who have found their life partner during their sentence time. The one is either a person from outside, or as them, a person who is serving time in prison. Our intention was to talk to the people found in the special situation of being deprived of freedom, to whom love becomes a substitute for freedom and represents maybe their only hope for a better future.

2011

Pepe and Fifi

Pepe and Fifi 1994

6.40

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.

1994

Asphalt Tango

Asphalt Tango 1996

6.96

A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.

1996

Before the Silence

Before the Silence 1978

7.00

Obsessed by greed and the fact that his wife is in love with his brother, innkeeper Stavarache heads towards madness. Based on the I.L.Caragiale novel, "In Times of War"

1978

Point Zero

Point Zero 1996

5.00

On the eve of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, two American spies are sent undercover to retrieve a list of East Bloc agents working in the west.

1996

The Conspiracy

The Conspiracy 1973

6.70

A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.

1973

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death 1972

7.10

A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.

1972

99.999%

99.999% 2023

6.00

Nicoleta meets his father for the first time after finding him on internet.

2023

Passo Doble

Passo Doble 1985

5.90

Two friends, closer than brothers, working together, staying in the same room, playing together.

1985

Love at first bite

Love at first bite 2023

6.10

Two lovers are kept away from each others during childhood because of a secret family recipe war between the two families. After they grow up they meet again and try to regain the recipe to make a new family restaurant work.

2023

Promisses

Promisses 1985

8.00

Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.

1985

Scarred Hearts

Scarred Hearts 2017

6.70

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

2017

Starting Over

Starting Over 1987

6.70

Traumatized by the loss of his wife, Vasile, an engineer, joins a new work collective in the provinces, at the ARO factory. Saddened by his loneliness, Cristina overcomes his resistance by becoming close to his little boy.

1987

The Mermaids 2: The Mysterious Island

The Mermaids 2: The Mysterious Island 2025

1

Arriving on the mysterious island, the 3 mermaids try by all means to give up their magical powers, but those who hunt them are closer than ever. Selena, Milen and Lena will need new powers and a lot of help to face this new challenge.

2025

Zorillo's Secret

Zorillo's Secret 2022

7.40

Threatened by Roman invasion, a group of Dacians embarks on a perilous journey to claim a mystical crystal that has the power to save them all.

2022

The Happiest Girl in the World

The Happiest Girl in the World 2009

6.90

Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commercial. All goes well until it becomes clear that Delia and her parents have very different ideas about what to do with the new car. Meanwhile, the contest's sponsor needs a radiant prize-winner with a gleaming smile. A wicked satire and a psychological portrait of a society perverted by its slavery to capitalism and consumerism

2009

The Recruitment

The Recruitment 1985

5.80

Lured by a delusional offer, a young geologist ravels abroad where he falls in the tentacles of an economic spying multinational, that forces him to play as its agents sing for him. Well endowed morally and physically, our geologist passes with flying banners the tests, more so, he even resists the charms of an irresistible lady agent, only to be able to return home, where it's very obvious for him what he has to do! —Tudor Caranfil & Mihnea Columbeanu

1985

Holiday at the Seaside

Holiday at the Seaside 2013

7.00

Amalia, a girl of thirteen, gets her first period one day before leaving for the seaside with her parents.

2013

A Mess at Apartment 14

A Mess at Apartment 14 2021

6.50

After a water pipe incident a young couple receives an unexpected visit from their older neighbors. Things get heated and cause the smoldering problems of the couple to come out.

2021

The Dacians

The Dacians 1967

7.50

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.

1967