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7.8

♡ 1

based on novel or book

Lucian Pintilie Director

Nita Anastase as

Vasile Alexandru as

Ion Radulescu as Toma

Nikolaus Wolcz as Vlad

A prosecutor, policemen and teacher take the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.

The Treasure

2015

6.7

♡ 1

95%

41%

treasure

Corneliu Porumboiu Director

Ciprian Mistreanu as Politist 1

Florin Kevorkian as Sef Costi

Iulia Ciochina as Vanzatoare

Radu Banzaru as Vanzator

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.

Love Sick

2006

6.5

♡ 1

43%

Tudor Giurgiu Director

Maria Popistasu as Kiki / Sandu's sister

Mircea Diaconu as Mr. Dragnea

Catalina Murgea as Mrs. Benes

Virginia Mirea as Mrs. Dragnea

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.

Operation 'The Monster'

1976

8.6

♡ 2

Manole Marcus Director

Vera Varzopov as

George Grigoriu as

Gabriela Teodorescu as

Petre Kuhn as Pescarul lipovean

A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations.

Marfa si banii

2001

7.3

♡ 2

Cristi Puiu Director

Doru Dumitrescu as

Doru Ana as Domnul Doncea

Luminita Gheorghiu as Mama lui Ovidiu

Constantin Draganescu as Tatal lui Ovidiu

A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.

Occident

2002

7.5

♡ 1

82%

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.

Queen Marie of Romania

2019

7.2

♡ 1

1910s

loosely based on historical events

Alexis Cahill Director

Caroline Loncq as Edith Wilson

Robert Cavanah as Joe Boyle

Nicholas Boulton as King George V

Patrick Drury as Woodrow Wilson

Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.

Two Lottery Tickets

2016

7.5

♡ 3

93%

Paul Negoescu Director

Mircea Banu as Agent Guspenec

Nora Cupcencu as Gina Petre

Elias Ferkin as Prezentator loto

Elisa Calin as Prostitute

3 men from a provincial town who are in an urgent need for money so they decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but very soon, the ticket gets stolen.

The Whistlers

2019

6.3

♡ 13

83%

Corneliu Porumboiu Director

Philip Hersh as Hotel Clerk / Kiko / Liviu

Agustí Villaronga as Paco

Sergiu Costache as Toma

Sabin Tambrea as Zsolt

A Romanian police officer, determined to free from prison a crooked businessman who knows where a mobster's money is hidden, must learn the difficult ancestral whistling language (Silbo Gomero) used on the island of Gomera.

Bucharest Non Stop

7.3

Dan Chisu Director

Dan Bordeianu as Barbatul in restaurant

Olimpia Melinte as Jeny

Lia Bugnar as Lia

Toma Cuzin as Tedi

"Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More specifically, the film is a night of non-stop life of a store located in a neighborhood blocks. Four drive four different stories linked by a key figure, Achim, known as "the boy from non-stop", played by George Ifrim. The film wants to convey the story of ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

Funeralii fericite

7.1

Horatiu Malaele Director

Sergiu Costache as Ahmed

Iulian Postelnicu as Doru

Sandu Mihai Gruia as Kiril

Horatiu Malaele as Lionel

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...

Wedding in Bessarabia

7.4

Nap Toader Director

Silvia Berova as mama Vica

Doriana Zubcu as Ofiter granita

Sergiu Voloc as Regizorul Nuntii

Ion Scutelnicu as Tata Vika

“Wedding in Bessarabia” is a story of a young couple who recently got married in Romania. He is a young conductor from Bucharest and she is a gifted pianist from the Republic of Moldova. One day, they decide to have another wedding in Moldova, hoping to get the money to pay the account for a new apartment. The movie exploits the difference of traditions and habits between Romania and Bessarabia, and a sort of a competition which arises between the families involved.

Of Snails and Men

2012

7.2

48%

Tudor Giurgiu Director

Alin Panc as Alin

Constantin Barbulescu as Barbu

Monica Barladeanu as Manuela

Nicodim Ungureanu as Nicodim

One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of the 3000 workers will keep their jobs.

Somewhere in Palilula

2012

7.2

77%

Silviu Purcarete Director

Gabriel Costin as Bran

Olivia Nita as Ciucurel

Horatiu Malaele as Postasul

Adriana Schiopu as Pusa

The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică.

Inve$titorii

6.4

Iura Luncasu Director

Raluca Aprodu as

Maria Popovici as

Adrian Alexandru Bumbes as

Diana Sar as

After working this weekend at a factory, three friends put money together to go on an unforgettable escape to Bucharest.

The Miscellaneous Brigade on the Watch

8.6

Mircea Dragan Director

Cezara Dafinescu as Ingrid

Iurie Darie as Major Dobrescu

Dumitru Furdui as Sgt. Major Cristoloveanu

Puiu Calinescu as Trandafir

The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.

The Miscellaneous Brigade Strikes Again

8.5

Mircea Dragan Director

Dorin Dron as

Nicolae Ifrim as

Jean Lorin Florescu as

Iosefini as (as Aurel Iosefini)

Brigade Miscellaneous fights crime in a funny and serious way.

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

2018

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.

Untamed Romania

2018

8.4

♡ 1

Tom Barton-Humphreys Director

Mark Strong as Narrator

Victor Rebengiuc as Narrator

Untamed Romania provides insight into the stunning natural wonders of Romania, with the Carpathian Mountains, the Danube Delta, and Transylvania as its major areas of interest.

Love Building

2013