Country: Romania

Direction Liviu Ciulei

Cast Victor Rebengiuc · Anna Széles · Stefan Ciubotarasu · György Kovács

Synopsis Romanian actor and director Liviu Ciulei’s Pădurea Spânzuratilor (The Forest of the Hanged) adapted from a novel by Liviu Rebreanu, appeared in competition at Cannes in 1965 where it received the Best Director award. The thrilling historical masterpiece takes place...

Direction Stere Gulea

Cast Victor Rebengiuc · Luminita Gheorghiu · Gina Patrichi · Dorel Visan

Synopsis Story of a family. Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army, life and much more...

Direction Gabriel Liiceanu · Sorin Iliesiu

Direction Radu Jude

Cast Ioana Iacob · Alexandru Dabija · Alex Bogdan · Ion Rizea

Synopsis A young artist is planning to reconstruct a historical event from 1941, during which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front.

Direction Tom Barton-Humphreys

Synopsis This film is a unique production that reveals the beauty of Romania as it is: raw, magical but fragile at the same time.

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Amza Pellea · Gheorghe Dinica · Ernest Maftei · Ioana Pavelescu

Synopsis A former soldier and convict returns to his village after World War I and is suspected and rejected by everyone (his wife included), with the exception of a young widow. The local aristocrat is murdered by bandits and the former...

Direction Cristian Mungiu

Cast Anamaria Marinca · Vlad Ivanov · Laura Vasiliu · Alexandru Potocean

Synopsis 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (2007) follows two university students, Otilia and Gabita, in 1980s Romania under Ceaușescu's oppressive regime. Gabita, pregnant and desperate, seeks an illegal abortion, a crime punishable by imprisonment. Otilia, her loyal friend, helps...

Direction Alexander Nanau

Synopsis This observational documentary follows the events after the tragedy that took place at the Colectiv Club in Bucharest on 30 October 2015, killing 65 young people and injuring dozens. The tragedy led to public protests against corruption and to the...

Direction Cristi Puiu

Cast Ioan Fiscuteanu · Luminita Gheorghiu · Mimi Branescu · Dana Dogaru

Synopsis Mr. Lazarescu is 63 years old and lives in a block of flats, together with Nusu, Mirandolina and Fritz, his three cats. His wife died eight years ago and Bianca, his daughter, has moved to Canada. One evening, Mr. Lazarescu,...

Direction Bogdan Muresanu

Cast Adrian Vancica · Nicoleta Hancu · Emilia Dobrin · Iulian Postelnicu

Synopsis On the brink of revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amid protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.

Direction Nae Caranfil

Cast Mircea Diaconu · Gheorghe Dinica · Mara Nicolescu · Viorica Voda

Synopsis Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.

Direction Radu Jude

Cast Serban Pavlu · Sofia Nicolaescu · Gabriel Spahiu · Mihaela Sirbu

Synopsis Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told...

Direction Radu Ciorniciuc

Cast Vali Enache · Gica Enache · Niculina Nedelcu · Rica Enache

Synopsis For two decades, the Enache family—nine kids and their parents—lived in a shack in the wilderness of Bucharest Delta: an abandoned water reservoir, one of the biggest urban natural reservations in the world, with lakes and hundreds of species of...

Direction Nae Caranfil

Cast Marius Florea Vizante · Ovidiu Niculescu · Mirela Zeta · Vasile Albinet

Synopsis 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...

Direction Andrei Gruzsniczki

Cast Sorin Leoveanu · Ofelia Popii · Florin Piersic Jr. · Virgil Ogasanu

Synopsis Romania, mid-1980s. Sorin (Sorin Leoveanu), a gifted mathematician whose career advancement is blocked because he is not a member of the Communist party, comes to the attention of the security services after he secretly arranges for an academic paper on...

Direction Emanuel Parvu

Cast Bogdan Dumitrache · Laura Vasiliu · Valeriu Andriuta · Adrian Titieni

Synopsis Set in a conservative Danube Delta community, a gay teenager's journey of self-discovery clashes with the traditional values upheld by his parents and neighbors.

Direction Cristian Mungiu

Cast Cosmina Stratan · Cristina Flutur · Valeriu Andriuta · Dana Tapalaga

Synopsis A drama centered on the friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage. Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita - the only person in the world she loves and was loved by...

Direction Bogdan Muresanu

Cast Mircea Andreescu · Ioana Flora · Gabriela Hamzescu · Luca Toma

Synopsis A son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for.

Direction Anca Damian

Synopsis The animated documentary feature-length “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells the story of the life of Crulic, the 33 years old Romanian who died in a Polish prison while on hunger strike. The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Ivanov, narrates...

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Amza Pellea · Ion Besoiu · Olga Tudorache · Irina Gardescu

Synopsis An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pätrascu, known as "Michael the Brave", the prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century against...