The Treasure

The Treasure 2015

6.52

Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family’s country home in Romania and split the profits.

2015

Delta Space Mission

Delta Space Mission 1985

6.55

An advanced spaceship called Delta is created to establish dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist boards the ship, she and the captain realize the AI that controls the ship can act on its own.

1985

Find A Horseshoe For Luck

Find A Horseshoe For Luck 1983

1

The fates of two women: Ilinka, a member of the partisan movement, the mother of two adopted children; Varvara— the chairman of the collective farm, secretary of the district party committee...

1983

The World Is Mine

The World Is Mine 2015

6.20

Larisa is 16 and lives in a city by the sea. It's a small city, where gossip and news spread fast. It's a city where your image and influence, "manelele", money and power are all that matters. And Larisa… wants it all. And even if she doesn't have it, she fights for it. Larisa believes in herself. She knows that she deserves better. She is convinced that it's worth doing everything it takes to fulfill her dreams. And for her courage and recklessness - we love her.

2015

The Encounter

The Encounter 1982

6.50

This film si about the sabotage of a Nazi fluvial transport on the Danube during WWII.

1982

The Woman in Red

The Woman in Red 1997

7.30

The woman in red is Ana Cumpanas, a Romanian emigrated to the US, which facilitates the killing of her lover, the famous gangster John Dillinger in Chicago. After an adventurous life, the woman returns to die in her homeland.

1997

The Father Who Moves Mountains

The Father Who Moves Mountains 2021

5.80

Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.

2021

Căruța cu mere

Căruța cu mere 1983

5.00

Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the communism is knocking at the door, and in these uncertain times, two young people are fighting to get their dream become real artists.

1983

Touch Me Not

Touch Me Not 2018

5.10

Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free. Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.

2018

The Rest Is Silence

The Rest Is Silence 2008

6.63

In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now, "Restul e tacere" tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.

2008

Ghost Train

Ghost Train 1933

5.00

This earliest surviving Romanian horror-thriller is distinctly un-Romanian in several ways: an adaptation of Arnold Ridley’s play of the same name (best known through its 1941 film version starring Arthur Askey), TRENUL FANTOMĂ was shot in Hungary as an alternate-language version of KÍSÉRTETEK VONATA (1933), with both films using footage taken from the 1931 British movie adaptation.

1933

Unfinished Ground

Unfinished Ground 2022

10.00

Finally, the day has come for eighteen-year old Liana and her father Stancu to return to Romania, having lived and worked in Germany for several years. But Stancu hesitates, and Liana has to risk both her family's livelihood and her relationship with her father to make it home.

2022

Oil

Oil 1977

5.10

When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.

1977

The Snails' Senator

The Snails' Senator 1995

7.08

This Romanian dramatic comedy offers metaphorical commentary on life after Ceausescu's reign as it tells the story of a rural community turned topsy-turvy in their mad quest for the snails a prominent senator has requested for his dinner. The trouble begins when a rather imposing, pompous senator comes to visit a small rural Romanian town for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their new hydro-electric dam. After he finishes his speech, the senator is accosted by a Swiss film crew eager to interview him. The senator is inordinately concerned with presenting a positive image of Romania to the world at large and so when he learns that he and the journalists are to stay at the same villa, does everything he came to make sure that they see nothing scandalous.

1995

Melodii, melodii

Melodii, melodii 1978

8.00

A young light music band accepts the offer of a shady impresario whose "arrangements" can't prevent their triumph on the seaside.

1978

Resentment

Resentment 2019

7.67

A thirty-year old woman, wanting a child, decides to apply for a husband through a marriage agency. She finds one in Andrei, a boastful and patriarchal veteran of the Afghan war. They struggle financially, and after meeting up with an old war buddy, Andrei disappears. Galina is bereft, pregnant, lost. What will become of her as the country is torn apart by civil war?

2019

Jacob

Jacob 1988

6.80

Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama. Under the rule of an oppressive monarchy backed by military force, the miners often resort to stealing gold to compensate for their meager wages. Workers are subjected to strip searches and are forced to take laxatives by the often brutal guards and inspectors as they look for stolen gold, and Jacob raises his vocal objections over the treatment of his fellow workers.

1988

Sweet Little Lies Downtown

Sweet Little Lies Downtown 2016

6.58

Matters of the heart weave themselves into a love pentagon between five actors as they rehearse for a stage play in Bucharest's historic quarter.

2016

Appalachia

Appalachia 2022

1

Leo, a 17-year-old biker, and Raisa, the pastor's daughter of a small conservative village from Romania, fall in love at first sight, but communitarianism and religious fanaticism will defeat their relationship.

2022