
April 12, 1949 · 77 years old

Mr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.

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

After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.

The story of a family: Problems, marriage, taxes, revenge, friendship, army and much more.

In Communist-era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom.

A sequel to The Moromete Family (1987), the tale follows the life of the Moromete family after WWII, with Romania being overpowered by Communism.

15 years ago, Luiza decided to make a fresh start in Spain. She left her 3-year-old daughter Cristina in the care of her relatives and took off. When she returns to Romania, the woman learns some shocking truths that were kept hid...

The director of a famous theater in 1930s Bucharest and his Jewish dramatist are preparing a show designed to satirize the fascist (legionnaire) movement, but the legionnaires are determined to stop the spectacle by any means.

Robert is a young writer passing through a difficult time in his life.

A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds.

Based on the true story of an impoverished, unemployed mother of seven living under subhuman conditions in a cave-like basement of a block of flats in newly post-communist Romania. When her drunken husband loses his job and eventu...

Professor Nitza is the good guy: soft-spoken and mild-mannered. Everyone in the movie gets license to treat him like a punching bag.

In love with Anca, Dragomir kills the woman's husband. In his place, Ion, a weak-minded forester who only robbed the body, is sent to prison. Ten years later, Ion, now insane from the beatings he received in prison, escapes and re...

A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timisoara.