THE LATEST ROMANIAN MOVIES

BUCHAREST MEMORIES (1970) – documentary film online

Foreword: A glimpse into the pre-war and interwar world of Romania’s capital city.

Bucharest Memories has everything it takes to delight: it is unique and sensational, full of curiosity and a touch of ridicule, tenderness and irony, striking and moving images.

Directed by: Radu Gabrea
Narrators: Valeria Gagealov, Mihai Pălădescu
Commentary: George Macovescu

EVERYTHING IS GREAT AND NOBODY’S HAPPY (2024) – comedy film online

Foreword: Black comedy on New Year’s Eve. Fulfilling her list of New Year’s resolutions creates more problems than solutions for Monica (Cosmina Olariu).

Directed by: Ioana Păsărin
Script by: Ioana Păsărin
Cast: Cosmina Olariu, Alina Chivulescu, Evelina Siminică, Anastasia Rădulescu, Letiția Vlădescu, Bogdan Farcaș, Mihaela Sîrbu, Ana-Maria Guran, Nicholas Cațianis Jr., Cecilia Bârbora, Marius Damian

SICK ANIMALS (1970) – drama film online

Foreword: Acclaimed author Nicolae Breban adapts his own novel, Sick Animals, which takes place in a small provincial town.

The murder of two workers and a high school student triggers a series of investigations, the conclusions of which are eagerly awaited. After several attempts, a sergeant manages to catch the killer.

Directed by: Nicolae Breban
Script by: Nicolae Breban
Cast: Dan Nuțu, Ion Caramitru, Mircea Albulescu, Vasile Nițulescu, Ion Dichiseanu, Ion Besoiu, Emilia Dobrin, Dan Mastacan

THREE BEDTIME STORIES (2025) – documentary film online

Foreword: “Three Bedtime Stories” are three real-life stories belonging to Marica, Tanța, and Anica, three women from Bucharest’s District 6 who are united by a common element.

Three Bedtime Stories is a feminine tryptic following the lives of three women reminiscing their past.

Directed by: Andreea Chiper
Script by: Andreea Chiper
Cast: Marica Popescu, Constanța Borunteia, Anica Bumbu

PORTRAITS AT WORK (2025) – documentary film online

Foreword: Four seniors from Bucharest look back on their professional journeys — from the dreams of their youth to their daily work and the meaning they now give to their past.

Through interviews and old photographs, the film traces how personal choices intersect with social circumstances, shaping each person’s understanding of the world.

Directed by: Andra Tarara
Script by: Andra Tarara
Cast: Marin Vișan, Maria Țanea, Ioan Cojocaru, Paul Hera

WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM (2013) – drama film online

Foreword: Corneliu Porumboiu’s third film, after Was 2:08 East Of Bucharest and Police, Adjective, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism, is a hyper-subtle anti-romance.” (Andrei Gorzo)

We are in the middle of the film shoot. Paul, the director (played by Bogdan “Boogie” Dumitrache), is having an affair with Alina, an actress playing a supporting role (played by Diana Avrămuţ).

The next day, the last scenes featuring Alina will be shot. Paul decides to shoot a nude scene with her. He wakes up in the morning full of doubts and changes his plans: instead of filming the nude scene, he tells the producer that he is having an ulcer attack. Then he takes a day off to meet Alina. Gradually, the film becomes more and more intertwined with real life, and the filming takes an unexpected turn.

Directed by: Corneliu Porumboiu
Script by: Corneliu Porumboiu
Cast: Bogdan Dumitrache, Diana Avrămuț, Mihaela Sîrbu, Alexandru Papadopol, Alexandru Jitea, Gabriela Crețan, Lucian Iftimie

ASTRAY (1978) – drama film online

Foreword: Tatos’ second film: a wandering between the mirage of Western freedom and the shadows of an exile that seems to have been filmed by Godard and dreamed by Fellini, with Ioana Pavelescu in the role of the female lead à la Antonioni.

Ioana Pavelescu plays the role of a young woman who gives up her previous life, including her handsome boyfriend played by Dan Nuţu, to seek happiness in a free society. Once in Germany, after a period of euphoria, she begins to regret her old life, unable to adapt to the new culture she has entered.

Directed by: Alexandru Tatos
Script by: Ion Băieșu, Alexandru Tatos
Cast: Ioana Pavelescu, Klaus Gehrke, Dan Nuțu, Marga Legal, Gina Patrichi, Regine Heintze, Emilia Dobrin, Albert Kitzl, Brândușa Marioțeanu, Kity Stroescu, Dorel Vișan, Wolfgang Bathke, Constantin Dumitrescu, Silvia Popovici, Ion Besoiu, Benone Sinulescu, Irina Loghin

THE FRESHMEN’S WINTER (1977) – comedy film online

Foreword: The second film in The Freshmen series directed by Mircea Moldovan, preceded by The Freshmen’s Autumn… and followed by The Freshmen’s Spring…, starring Draga Olteanu-Matei and Marin Moraru in the lead roles, at the head of the agricultural cooperative of the (already) famous fictional Transylvanian village of Viișoara.

Directed by: Mircea Moldovan
Script by: Petre Sălcudeanu
Cast: Draga Olteanu-Matei, Marin Moraru, Constantin Diplan, Carmen Galin, Sebastian Papaiani, Nae Gh. Mazilu, Emil Hossu, Virgil Ogășanu, Florina Cercel, Vasile Nițulescu, Haralambie Polizu, Paul Lavric, Monica Ghiuță, Ileana Iurciuc, Constantin Bîrliba, Mircea Cosma, Octavian Cotescu, Medeea Marinescu

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROMANIA (2024) – docudrama film online

Foreword: At first glance, the National Day parade is a spectacle celebrating the country and the nation. Behind the scenes, however, real conflicts are taking place.

A dialogue between two different Romanias at a turning point in tense times, when each one of us is searching for its own identity and that of the country in the other person.

Directed by: Vali Nechifor
Script by: Vali Nechifor
Cast: Sorin Mihai, Vali Nechifor

THE FRESHMEN’S SPRING (1985) – comedy film online

We are now fifteen years later in the fictional village that we already know quite well. And, indeed, Viișoara has not changed that much over the years: the shepherd is the same lonely character, Varvara is the same energetic woman caught up in complicated administrative tasks, Toderaș with his bottle of plum brandy hidden among the chopped wood in the barn and his castrated authority, the elders are wise and still active in community life, the young people are full of enthusiasm. But not all of them. (Adrian Ionescu, cinepub.ro)

Directed by: Mircea Moldovan
Script by: Petre Sălcudeanu
Cast: Dem Rădulescu, Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez, Horațiu Mălăele, Anda Onesa, Tora Vasilescu, Ovidiu Schumacher, Paul Lavric, Ana Ciontea, Adela Mărculescu, Aristide Teică, Nae Gh. Mazilu

BEING ROMANIAN: A FAMILY JOURNAL (2019) – documentary film online

Foreword: The story of a nation told by those who lived it, not those who wrote it. A hundred years seen through the life of the -escu family, a reflection of any Romanian family.

Directed by: Șerban Georgescu
Script by: Șerban Georgescu
Cast: Mihaela Miroiu, Ioana Pârvulescu, Stelian Tănase, Sorin Ioniță, Theodor Paleologu, Vintilă Mihăilescu

CARMEN (2013) – drama film online

Foreword: The directorial debut of university professor Doru Nițescu, “the film represents an encounter with death much sooner than it should be in every person’s life.” (Tudor Voican, screenwriter)

Directed by:Doru Nițescu
Script by: Tudor Voican, Doru Niţescu, based on an idea by Cătălin Cocriş
Cast: Rodica Lazăr, Adrian Titieni, Maia Morgenstern, Mimi Brănescu, Doru Ana, Iulia Lupașcu, Amalia Ciolan, Laure Creț, Victoria Dicu, Leonid Doni, Constantin Drăgănescu, Alexandru Gheorghiu, Monica Ghiuță, Carmen Lopazan, Maria Obretin, Cătălin Stelian, Maria Teslaru, Nicodim Ungureanu

THE CASE OF ENGINEER URSU (2023) – documentary film online

Foreword: For over 30 years, Andrei Ursu has been fighting to reveal the truth about his father’s death. Engineer Gheorghe Ursu was killed in the Security Service’s detention center after denouncing Ceaușescu’s decision to halt the reinforcement of buildings damaged by the 1977 earthquake.

Directed by: Șerban Georgescu, Liviu Tofan
Cast: Andrei Ursu, Vasile Hodiș, Dan Voinea, Doru Cosma, Eugenia Crângariu, Vasile Manea Drăgulin
Producer: Șerban Georgescu (Kolectiv Film), Oana Muntean (co-producer – Victoria Film), Liviu Tofan

THE BRIDE FROM THE TRAIN (1980) – love film online

Foreword: When we talk about “The Bride from the Train”, we are referring to a mature Lucian Bratu, already with a sure hand in cinema, but only on his second attempt at a story with young people — for more than a decade, “A Film with a Charming Girl” had been enough. (Călin Boto, cinepub.ro)

Directed by: Lucian Bratu
Script by: D.R. Popescu
Cast: Gheorghe Visu, Aurora Leonte, Radu Gheorghe, Radu Vaida, Ica Matache, Dorel Vișan, Ion Igorov, Răzvan Vasilescu, Vasile Muraru, Valentina Caracașian-Bucur, Gil Dobrică

A VOICE BEYOND BORDERS (2025) – documentary film online

Foreword: Monica Lovinescu, literary critic and authority on contemporary Romanian literature, was a prominent figure who dedicated her life and work to the fight against communist totalitarianism. She protected, watched over, and built a wall of words around those who protested.

Directed by: Șerban Georgescu, Liviu Tofan
Cast: Gabriela Adameșteanu, Cristina Cioabă, Ion Bogdan Lefter, Cristian Teodorescu, Mircea Martin, Florin Iaru, Dinu Flămând, Matei Cazacu and Dana Tapalagă (narrator)
Producer: Șerban Georgescu (Kolectiv Film), Oana Muntean (co-producer – Victoria Film)

THE SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE (1968) – comedy film online

Foreword: In their third collaboration as screenwriter and director, writer Dumitru Radu Popescu and director Geo Saizescu imagine in “The Saturday Night Dance,” released in the important year of 1968, a true local sexual revolution, built around Papă (a truck driver played by Sebastian Papaiani, Saizescu’s favorite actor of the period). – Andrei Rus, cinepub.ro

The film print has been faithfully restored to Geo Saizescu’s original by NERV FILM, the company of filmmaker Cătălin Saizescu, son of the renowned comedy director. We thank him for his generosity and hope you enjoy the film.

Directed by: Geo Saizescu
Script: D.R. Popescu, Geo Saizescu
Producer: Ion Lascu, Vasilica Istrate (Studioul Cinematografic București)

QUARANTEEN (2022) – short film online

Foreword: Bogdan Iancu plays a carefree teenager whose reality is suddenly shaken when his grandfather dies during the coronavirus pandemic.

Plot summary: Matei is a carefree teenager who spends his time having fun and breaking pandemic rules. His world turns upside down when he learns of his grandfather’s death — the man he unknowingly infected with COVID-19.

Directed by: Florin Babei
Cast: Bogdan Iancu, Medeea Marinescu, Maruca Băiașu, Vlad Furtună, Nicolae Urs, Cristian Robe, Georgiana Cotoi, Cristina Simion, Alexandru Vrăjitoru, Luana Năstase, Marius Boboc, Tiberius Zavelea

REPEATED WEDDING (1985) – comed y film online

Foreword: The movie “Repeated Wedding” is the sequel of the famous comedy Bucharest Identity Card, starring Mircea Diaconu, Catrinel Dumitrescu, Draga Olteanu-Matei, Octavian Cotescu and Mitică Popescu in the leading roles.

Plot summary: After a marriage and a turbulent divorce (in Bucharest Identity Card), Silvia and Radu each go their separate ways, losing all contact with one another. Since she couldn’t get a job in Bucharest, Silvia decides to take the position assigned to her in Bolintin, as an agricultural engineer.

Directed by: Virgil Calotescu
Script: Francisc Munteanu
Cast: Mircea Diaconu, Catrinel Dumitrescu, Draga Olteanu-Matei, Octavian Cotescu, Mitică Popescu, Rodica Mandache, Radu Gheorghe, Costel Constantin, Vasile Nițulescu, Nae Lăzărescu, Mariana Calotescu, Geo Saizescu, Rodica Popescu Bitănescu, Ernest Maftei, Aurel Giurumia, Julieta Strâmbeanu, Dumitru Rucăreanu

OUR DAILY BREAD (2022) – documentary film online

Foreword: At the MamaPan bakery, they don’t just make bread. They also fix lives.

Plot summary: MamaPan is an artisan bakery practicing social economy. A small business that makes a huge difference in the lives of the women who are part of it. Two of them stubbornly fight to keep the business going.

Directed by: Șerban Georgescu
Cast: Irina Sorescu, Corina Munteanu and the employees of the MamaPan bakery (Andreea, Luminița, Adriana)
Producer: Șerban Georgescu (Kolectiv Film), Oana Muntean (co-producer – Victoria Film)

THE FRESHMEN’S AUTUMN (1975) – comedy film online

Foreword: The first film in the “Freshmen” series, starring Maria Ploae, Emil Hossu, and Dumitru Furdui as college graduates who, in keeping with the custom of the time, are assigned to the village of Viișoara, which they have no idea where to find on the map.

Directed by: Mircea Moldovan
Script: Petre Sălcudeanu
Cast: Marin Moraru, Draga Olteanu Matei, Emil Hossu, Sebastian Papaiani, Maria Ploae, Octavian Cotescu, Dumitru Furdui, Vasile Nițulescu, Monica Giuta, Elena Sereda, Nae Mazilu, Julieta Strâmbeanu, Ileana Jurciuc, Constantin Bîrliba, Haralambie Polizu, Tatiana Lili Iorga, Savu Rahoveanu, Vasile Ardeleanu, Elena Stescu

THE ACTRESS, THE DOLLARS AND THE TRANSYLVANIANS (1980) – comedy film online

Foreword: A Romanian western filmed during the Golden Age; the second in the cult trilogy “Ardelenii” (The Transylvanians).

Plot summary: Captivated by the charms of singer Anabelle, Traian Brad (Ilarion Ciobanu) wants to marry her, unaware that she is actually helping her accomplice rob a bank.

Directed by: Mircea Veroiu
Script: Titus Popovici
Cast: Ilarion Ciobanu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu, Rodica Tapalagă, Mircea Albulescu, Tatiana Filip

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