Don't Let Me Die

Andrei Epure Director

Cezar Grumazescu as Arborist

Elias Ferkin as Building Administrator

Elina Löwensohn as Isabela Ivan

Gabriel Spahiu as Neighbor With Flowers

The corpse of a woman is found in front of Maria’s apartment window. She agrees to take charge of the funeral, becoming involved in her neighbour’s existence. Maria adopts the woman’s unattended dogs and forms a bond with her estranged son. After the burial, Maria tries to reclaim her own life back, but a haunting feeling lingers.

Buna! Ce faci?

2010

Romanian

7.2

♡ 1

Comedy

Romance

Alexandru Maftei Director

Gabriel Spahiu as Iorgu

Ioan Ionescu as Marcel / Gabriel's friend

Sabrina Iaschevici as Miruna Jipescu

Ioana Abur as Silvia

Musician Gabriel and dimpled dry-cleaning proprietress Gabriela live like two strangers who no longer see each other. But in humorous contrast to their staid, passionless lives, characters in a constant state of sexual arousal surround them. Their libidinous teen son, whose hilarious voiceover commentary intermittently provides important narrative information, prides himself on being the high school stud and aspires to a career in porn. Gabriela's sexy employee switches boyfriends the way she changes clothes. And despite being married, Gabriel's colleague is working his way through the female members of their orchestra. Ultimately, the two Gabys find their virtual affairs reconnect them with their own desires, but in a way less movie-fantasy and more satisfyingly real-life. Written by Palm Springs Internation Film Festival

Occident

2002

Romanian

7.5

♡ 1

82%

Action

Comedy

Romance

Cristian Mungiu Director

Doru Ana as Directorul agentiei

Viorel Comanici as Directorul de magazin

Anca Androne as Sorina

Gabriel Spahiu as Spaniolul

"Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

2018

Romanian

7.3

♡ 4

92%

Radu Jude Director

Sofia Nicolaescu as

Ilinca Harnut as

Gabriel Spahiu as

Mihai Niculescu as

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.

Uppercase Print

2020

Romanian

6.6

83%

Documentary

Drama

History

Radu Jude Director

Marian Ralea as

Nicodim Ungureanu as

Gabriel Spahiu as

Florin Kevorkian as

In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. Mugur Călinescu was behind them, who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this material.

It Can Pass Through the Wall

2014

Romanian

6.6

Drama

Radu Jude Director

Sofia Nicolaescu as

Gabriel Spahiu as

Ion Arcudeanu as

Marcel Horobet as

An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who's terrified of the young suicide in their building.

Alexandra

6.9

Radu Jude Director

Mimi Branescu as Cezar

Oana Ioachim as Iulia

Serban Pavlu as Tavi, Alexandra's father

Gabriel Spahiu as Vecinul

Tavi, a forty-year-old divorced father, comes to his ex-wife's home to repair his four-year-old daughter's bike. He realizes with amazement that Alexandra does not call him "Daddy" any more. He asks an explanation from his ex-wife...

California Dreamin'

2007

Romanian

7.7

♡ 1

Cristian Nemescu Director

Armand Assante as Captain Doug Jones - The American Military Officer in Command

Sabina Branduse as Despina

Constantin Draganescu as The Grandfather

Gabriel Spahiu as The trade union chief , Andrei's father

1999. Kosovo War. In a small Romanian village, the chief of the railway station, who also happens to be a local gangster, stops a NATO train transporting military equipment. Their arrival in this small village dramatically changes its landscape.

Tales from the Golden Age

2009

Romanian

7.8

♡ 6

91%

79%

Action

based on myths, legends or folklore

Cristian Mungiu Director

Gabriel Spahiu as Neighbor

Iulian Postelnicu as Primul gardian

Viorel Comanici as The Party Secretary

Ingrid Bisu as Viviana

Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaușescu's regime.

Tache

2007

Romanian

7.3

♡ 2

Comedy

Igor Cobileanski Director

Constantin Draganescu as Bobicescu

Gabriel Spahiu as Nestor

Claudia Susanu as Prostituata #1

Mircea Diaconu as Tache

Tacke, an old graveyard digger, finds out he has only two months left to live. This is the moment he discovers he does want something out of life: a glamorous funeral service in the cemetery's « downtown » area, where he had spotted for a long time an splendidly situated burial site. Everything goes smoothly, especially that the town's luxury funeral home has just acquired Lady Di's hearth. Tacke has some money for the funeral ceremony, he also has some friends who would mourn for him, but he is out of luck: the funeral site he was hoping to acquire was just given to somebody else.

The New Year That Never Came

2024

Romanian

8.1

♡ 6

Bogdan Muresanu Director

Iulian Postelnicu as

Gabriel Spahiu as Benghe

Mihai Calin as Stefan Silvestru

Nicodim Ungureanu as Taxi driver

The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the counter-revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.

Exploratorul

2013

Romanian

7.8

♡ 2

Documentary

Titus Muntean Director

Gabriel Spahiu as Adrien De Gerlache / Frederick Cook

Andi Vasluianu as Emil Racovita

Dana Bunescu as Helene Racovita

Eusebiu Stefanescu as Narator

The documentary presents the life and research of Emil Racovita, one of the first Antarctic explorers, a pioneer of oceanology and the founder of a new science, the bio-speleology. He created in Cluj the first Institute of Speleology in the world. Using photographs made by Emil Racovita in Antarctica, the film focuses mainly on the Belgica expedition (1897-1899), the first scientific expedition who wintered in Antarctica, having Roald Amundsen, Frederick Cook on board and Adrien de Gerlache as captain.

Domnul de la curte

2014

Romanian

5.8

♡ 1

Drama

Cornel Gheorghita Director

Constantin Florescu as Cristiano

Sanda Toma as La vieille dame

Serge Riaboukine as Leduc

Gabriel Spahiu as Popescu

A French real estate developer prepares an old Romanian thermal resort for renovation. A Roman fresco in a crypt delays the project, so he tries to burn it down. But he locks himself in a courtyard by mistake. He stays trapped for days, the neighborhood being deserted. He tries communicating with the few remaining residents and changes from a civilized being to a beast, until finding new perspectives. Will he leave the courtyard, or not?

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

2021

Romanian

6.5

♡ 10

91%

unintended consequences

Radu Jude Director

Nicodim Ungureanu as Lt. Gheorghescu

Olimpia Malai as Mrs. Lucia

Gabriel Spahiu as Priest parent

Dan Radulescu as Smartphone guy

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Scarred Hearts

2016

Romanian

7.1

♡ 5

78%

Radu Jude Director

Sofia Nicolaescu as Child in the train

Ilinca Harnut as Isa

Damian Oancea as Priest

Gabriel Spahiu as Zed

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.

The New Year That Never Came

2024

Romanian

8.1

♡ 9

Bogdan Muresanu Director

Iulian Postelnicu as

Gabriel Spahiu as Benghe

Mihai Calin as Stefan Silvestru

Nicodim Ungureanu as Taxi driver

The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the counter-revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.

Kontinental '25

2025

Romanian

7.0

♡ 5

100%

Radu Jude Director

Marius Damian as

Gabriel Spahiu as Ion

Eszter Tompa as Orsolya

Serban Pavlu as Priest Serban

Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.

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Don't Let Me Die

Buna! Ce faci?

Occident

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

Uppercase Print

It Can Pass Through the Wall

Alexandra

California Dreamin'

Tales from the Golden Age

Tache

The New Year That Never Came

Exploratorul

Domnul de la curte

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Scarred Hearts

The New Year That Never Came

Kontinental '25