Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a “proper”, bourgeois middle-class family. Read More »
Tag Archives: Romania
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015) Adrian Tofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton
An aspiring Romanian filmmaker and actor obsessed with Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway Read More »
Speak well about the dead AKA Despre morti numai de bine (2005) Claudiu Romila, Crenguta Hariton, Stefan Sileanu, Tomi Cristin
The death of the senator son Panait (Stefan Sileanu) is politically dangerous for him and for his party. Read More »
The Snails’ Senator AKA Senatorul melcilor (1995) Mircea Daneliuc, Dorel Visan, Cecilia Bârbora, Clara Voda
The Senator feels fine. He has just inaugurated a windmill and now he feels like having snails for dinner. Read More »
The Rest is Silence AKA Restul e Tacere (2007) Nae Caranfil, Marius Florea Vizante, Ovidiu Niculescu, Mirela Zeta
In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together Read More »
Return from Hell AKA Intoarcerea din iad (1983) Nicolae Margineanu, Constantin Brînzea, Maria Ploae, Remus Margineanu
A peasant returns to his village as a rich man. Here he finds that he still has feelings for his ex-girlfriend Read More »
The Man in the Overcoat AKA Un om în loden (1979) Nicolae Margineanu, Mircea Albulescu, Tanase Cazimir, George Constantin
Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night… Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad? Read More »
One Hundred Lei AKA 100 Lei (1973) Mircea Saucan, Ion Dichiseanu, Ileana Popovici, Violeta Andrei
In 1970s Romania rebellious and erratic teenager Petre Pantea is struggling to win his older step brother’s love and attention. Read More »
With Clean Hands AKA Cu mâinile curate (1972) Sergiu Nicolaescu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Alexandru Dobrescu
A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters. Read More »
Ulysses’ Gaze AKA To vlemma tou Odyssea (1995) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson
A, a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas Read More »
The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians AKA Pruncul, petrolul si Ardelenii (1981) Dan Pita, Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iulian Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu
The last part in the trilogy follows the three brothers on their way home Read More »
Modigliani (2004) Mick Davis, Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Read More »
The Waves of the Danube AKA Valurile Dunarii (1960) Liviu Ciulei, Lazar Vrabie, Irina Petrescu
Mihai leads members of the local resistance movement in an attack on a barge Read More »
Beyond the Bridge AKA Dincolo de pod (1977) Mircea Veroiu, Leopoldina Balanuta, Maria Ploae, Mircea Albulescu
Mara, a hard-working widow woman brings up his two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town. Read More »
Youth Without Youth (2007) Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz
1938, Romania: at 70, a professor of language and philosophy, Dominic Matei, contemplates suicide: the love of his life is dead Read More »