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30 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The Contest. 1982 1h 36m. 7.4 (373) Rate. An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience. Director Dan Pita Stars Gheorghe Dinica Marin Moraru Stefan Iordache. 2. Crulic - The Path to Beyond. 2011 1h 13m. 7.6 (822) Rate.
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. With praised movies and numerous awards, including Best Screenplay and Best Director at the 2012 and 2016 editions of the Cannes Film Festival, Cristian Mungiu is an emblematic filmmaker in Romanian cinema.
- Beyond the Hills. Cristian Mungiu is considered one of the best Romanian directors and that’s why our list begins with two of his best movies. Beyond the Hills is a 2012 drama also based on a true story.
- Aferim! Radu Jude is the director of one the most awarded Romanian short films The Tube with a Hat which you can find on YouTube. This popular Romanian movie Aferim!
- Child’s Pose. Having a dark sense of humor is a defining feature for a nation with a troubled, difficult history such as ours. And our writers and directors don’t lack their funny, dark perspectives on life.
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father.
20 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Carnival Scenes. 1981 1h 59m. 7.8 (976) Rate. A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon's lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza's lover, while she is Cracanel's lover.
- Romanian Movies That Launched The Romanian New Wave
- Beyond The Hills
- California Dreamin’
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- Graduation
- The Way I Spent The End of The World
- The Rest Is Silence
- Police, Adjective
- 12:08 East of Bucharest
- If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
After decades of censorship and propaganda, Romanian movies started presenting the reality of how communism forever changed the country and its society. A young generation of Romanian directors surprised the audience with their minimalist and realist approach. They set the grounds for the Romanian New Wave with their acclaimed movies. Their focus c...
Director: Cristian Mungiu Beyond the Hills is basedon dramatic real events that shocked Romanian society a few years before. The movie explores the clash between religious indoctrination and religious indifference. The story of the two women, a nun, and her less religious friend, is set in the surreal atmosphere of an isolated Orthodox monastery. T...
Director: Cristian Nemescu California Dreamin’offers a fabulous incursion in yet again post-communist Romania. The action is set in 1999, during the Kosovo war, in a small village in southern Romania. There, the train station chief is a mini-God who steals as much as he can to survive. His life and his daughter’s, who wants to leave as soon and as ...
Director: Cristian Mungiu Maybe the most famous Romanian movie on our list, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Daysis one of the pioneer films of the New Wave. Two best friends face a life-changing decision as they confront the shady and illegal practices of securing an abortion in communist Romania. Far from pro-life moralizing debates, the film presents th...
Director: Cristian Mungiu Nine years after Four Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu delivers another heartbreaking movie, Graduation. A doctor who wants to offer his only daughter a better life and the opportunity to do her university studies abroad has to make a painful decision. He faces a choice between integrity and corruption as an om...
Director: Catalin Mitulescu We go back to the absurd realities of communism. The filmtells the story of Eva and Lalalilu, sister and brother, and how their lives change after a minor incident with dramatic consequences. Lead actress Dorotheea Petre received the Un Certain Regard Award for her role at Cannes Film Festival.
Director: Nae Caranfil The same amazing Nae Caranfil enchanted the public with another masterpiece in 2007, The Rest is Silence. Hilarious, sad at times, and captivating until the end, the film is the story of how another film was madealmost one century ago. The personal dramas and professional struggles of a young director, sponsored by a rich bus...
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective focuses on the moral dilemmas of its main character. A young policeman’s system of values sets him in opposition to his superior and the rigid law system of post-communist Romania. The movie won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival 2009.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu Was there or wasn’t there a revolution in December 1989 in the small city of Vaslui in Eastern Romania? This is the main question of this acclaimed filmby the same Corneliu Porumboiu.
Director: Florin Serban A young man serving his last days in prison is the main character of Florin Serban’s film If I want to Whistle, I Whistle. The closer he gets to freedom, the more complicated things become. He has to deal with his inmates’ aggressivity, the return of his mother after many years, and the presence of a volunteer he falls in lo...
Dec 1, 2021 · A personal selection of the most notable Romanian films released in 2021, from festival winners to debuts, with short reviews and recommendations. Find out which films made the cut and why, from Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn to Blue Moon.
Laugh, cry, sigh, scream, shout or whatever you feel like with these comedies, dramas, romances and thrillers, all hailing from Romania.
