In August 1983, architect Dinu Neagu together with his wife and two children, a boy and a girl, are on a beach of nudists near an industrial area. He is arrested and taken to Bucharest police office, where he is imprisoned in a cell together with Vali, a collaborator of the Security Service.
Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the Securitate, Ceausescu’s secret police, arrives…
In the fall, under the sign of Virgo, in a Dobrogea village, the harvest festival is in progress. An amateur troupe is playing a scene with Afrodite, Dionysos and Neptune; but also dome old shamanic dances. Dița and Dionis are preparing for wedding. But the sins of their parents will weigh heavily on them.
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.
Mircea, a 30-year-old man from a small Transylvanian town fails the judicial admission exam in Bucharest. He has no choice but to return home and live with his parents. He is forced to get a job in a waste collector company owned by a rich local politician. But things get complicated when Mircea starts working for the boss's wife.
Love. It just happens. No rules. It may look sick, but it's deep and it hurts. For everyone, Alex and Kiki are just good friends. They happen to be two girls experiencing another kind of love. For their family, Kiki and Sandu are sister and brother who sometimes fight. They happen to be lovers. Love Sick is about their stories.
MENTORII follows the story of Johnny Balta, an immature young man and future heir to a vast financial empire owned by his father, Dorin Balta. Dissatisfied with his son's superficial behavior, Dorin decides to kick him out of the house after a car accident and gives him six months to prove that he can become a responsible adult. With the help of his sister Magda, Johnny seeks mentorship from the country's three most famous personal development influencers. From there, things take an unexpected turn...
Two railroad men are living in a lineman's cabin. One night a stranger has an accident on the beach nearby that will change everything.
A glimpse into the life of a middle-aged orthodox priest who struggles with his misdemeaning son.
Wolf is a lonely boy who surrounds himself by a world that responds to his desires. He brings Clara, the girl he loves, inside this world but when he can't be sure if she is still real or become imaginary he feels trapped and wants to escape.
Set on the background of economical migration, the film tells the story of Clara, a divorced Romanian mother in her thirties who needs to work abroad in Ulm, a German Town by the Danube river. She is as a babysitter for a little girl that is very fond of. At the same time, she had to leave behind her own 12 years old son who is now in the care of his grandfather. They live in a poor Romanian village also by the Danube river. Feeling abandoned by his mother, the boy runs away from home in an attempt to reach his mother by traveling on a small boat upriver. In this context, Clara has to come back home and face the life she left behind.
Three heavy boozers - a Romanian, a Russian and a Bulgarian - are tripling away their... happiness, into vodka, at "The Happy Immigrant", a joint kept by a Turk. The fauna of this venue is made up out of the Babel Tower's survivors: immigrants who had chosen Romania, as a country where everything is possible. The predictions included... A police raid chases away the pub's barflies. The three professional boozers stop from running just in front of a fortune teller expert in a niche field: death prediction. The rest is entertainment! Although we are all indebted to one death, some refuse to pay this debt. They don't want to die when it was written for them. Or just predicted...
Infidelity drama, male egos, lost dogs in Startsladden favorite Stefan Constantinescu’s arthouse gem about a man consumed by jealousy who risks losing everything while searching for the truth.
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.
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.
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
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.
On a cement factory construction site, the chief engineer reconnects with his ex wife, time to re-evaluate his life priorities.
The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.
The destiny of the man who led the gendarme team after a LGBT film screening in Bucharest, revealed through an investigation by Liliana Calomfir, a young journalist known for her daring reporting.
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.
During the times of the Second World War in Royal Romania, a street smart kid accidentally becomes part of an organization which will eventually decide the future of his country.
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.
Stand-up Revolution, the first stand-up television show with four big names who planning to discover the next big sensation in the field!
Empire of the lions
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.
What do a grumpy retiree, a staunch family man, two bachelors, an urban Shaolin master and two lively female students have in common. We find out the answer this fall in The Scara B show.
Discover dramatic stories about people facing trials, betrayals, and hidden passions. "Lessons of Life" brings suspense, emotion, and real lessons.
A stunning tv travel series aimed at protecting and promoting Romania's natural and cultural legacy. Join us for a road trip through Romania's great historic regions celebrating the country's diverse cultures, landscapes, gastronomy, people and music and showing how eco-tourism and conservation could provide the best road map for the future.
Selecția Națională is the national selection organized by TVR and its regional studios in order to select the country's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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.
