THE LATEST ROMANIAN MOVIES

THE INN AMONG THE HILLS (1988) – drama film online

“The Inn Among the Hills” (1988), directed by Cristiana Nicolae, is a film adaptation inspired by I.L. Caragiale’s short story “At Mânjoală’s Inn.” The film blends realism with the fantastical, creating an atmosphere of mystery and magical realism.

Directed by: Cristiana Nicolae
Script by: Cristiana Nicolae, based on I.L. Caragiale
Cast: Florin Busuioc, Dana Dogaru, Alexandru Repan, Gina Patrichi, Mariana Buruiană, Teofil Vâlcu, Valentin Popescu, Cornelia Gheorghiu, Petrică Nicolae, Ion Pascu

DÉJÀ VU (2013) – drama film online

“Déjà vu” is a Romanian film that tells, by mean of the “subjective” camera angle tehnique, the story of a man who, facing midlife crisis, can’t make a definitive choice between his wife and his mistress. The feature benefits from the well-articulated acting of Ioana Flora, Mirela Oprișor and the invisible Dan Chișu who also directs the movie.

Director: Dan Chișu
Scriptwriter: Dan Chișu
Cast: Ioana Flora, Mirela Oprișor, Anca Alexandru, Gabriel Răuță, Tudor Smoleanu, Gabriel Sandu, Dan Chișu

BLACK SEA ADVENTURES (1972) – action film online

Foreword: “Black Sea Adventures” is a Romanian action and spy film directed by Savel Stiopul in 1972. The film combines espionage, adventure and comedy elements in a story set on the Romanian Black Sea coast.

Directed by: Savel Știopul
Script by: Tudor Popescu
Cast: Florin Piersic, Corina Chiriac, Mircea Șeptilici, Zephi Alșec, Dumitru Rucăreanu, Carmen Maria Strujac, Dana Crișan, Marcel Anghelescu, Mircea Mureșan

THE OLD COURT LIBERTINES (1996) – drama film online

Foreword: A film inspired by the novel of the same name by Mateiu I. Caragiale, published in 1929, starring Mircea Albulescu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Răzvan Vasilescu, and Marius Bodochi.

Directed by: Mircea Veroiu
Script by: Ioan Grigorescu, Mircea Veroiu
Cast: Mircea Albulescu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Răzvan Vasilescu, Marius Bodochi, Ilinca Goia, Adriana Șchiopu, Ion Marinescu, Ștefan Sileanu, Manuela Golescu, Cristina Tacoi, Diana Gheorghian, Boris Petroff, Nicolae Urs, Gheorghe Dinică

LANTERN OF MEMORIES (1962) – documentary film online

Foreword: Jean Georgescu reconstructs the history of the early days of Romanian cinema using archival footage and film clips in a documentary narrated by the unmistakable voice of Radu Beligan.

Directed by: Jean Georgescu
Script by: Jean Georgescu
Cast: Radu Beligan

THE CYANIDE… AND THE RAINDROP (1978) – crime film online

Foreword: „The cyanide… and the raindrop” is a Romanian crime thriller directed by Manole Marcus, built around a tense investigation and an atmosphere filled with mystery.

Directed by: Manole Marcus
Script by: Manole Marcus, Virgil Mogoș
Cast: Victor Rebengiuc, Maria Chira, Mihai Dobre, Dem Niculescu, Doina Atanasiu, Ion Besoiu, Marin Moraru, Eugen Racoti, Gheorghe Simonca, Iurie Darie, Aurel Giurumia, Ștefan Bănică, Ottilia Borbáth, Olimpia Arghir, Dumitru Palade

THE HOUSE BETWEEN THE FIELDS (1980) – drama film online

Foreword: In a farmers’ cooperative in a village on the plains, the cooperative’s president rules with an iron fist, ably assisted by his sycophantic henchmen. However, there is one couple — an agricultural engineer and his wife — who refuse to compromise and, as a result, must be silenced.

Directed by: Alexandru Tatos
Script by: Corneliu Leu
Cast: Amza Pellea, Mircea Daneliuc, Tora Vasilescu, Mircea Diaconu, Corado Negreanu, Dorel Vișan, Kitty Stroescu, Mihai Pălădescu

LIKE IN THE MOVIES (1984) – drama film online

Foreword: A 1984 Romanian film directed by Manole Marcus, starring Ion Caramitru, Alexandru Arșinel, and Catrinel Dumitrescu.

Directed by: Manole Marcus
Script by: Liviu Timbus
Cast: Ion Caramitru, Alexandru Arșinel, Catrinel Dumitrescu, Violeta Andrei, Tudorel Filimon, Gheorghe Tomescu, Cristina Deleanu, Nicolae Praida, Mircea Anghelescu, Constantin Rășchitor, Maria Rotaru, Gheorghe Șimonca

WEEKEND WITH MY MOTHER (2009) – drama film online

Foreword: “Weekend with my mother” is an atypical film in Stere Gulea’s filmography, based on Vera Ion’s novel, starring Adela Popescu and Medeea Marinescu in a tense drama about a mother-daughter relationship marked by absence, resentment, and emotional fragility.

Directed by: Stere Gulea
Script by: Stere Gulea, Vera Ion
Cast: Medeea Marinescu, Adela Popescu, Tudor Istodor, Ion Sapdaru, Constantin Ghenescu, Gheorghe Dinică, Andi Vasluianu, Ecaterina Nazare, Florin Zamfirescu, Răzvan Vasilescu

CHASING RAINBOWS (2012) – comedy film online

Foreword:A tragicomedy about naivety, scams, and the early days of the internet in Romania. In “Chasing Rainbows”, a mundane email received at a time when technology still seemed mysterious becomes the start of an absurd hoax about the illusion of getting rich overnight and the people willing to believe in chasing rainbows.

Director: Dan Chișu
Scriptwriters: Dan Chișu
Cast: Adrian Titieni, Tudor Smoleanu, Anca Florescu, Ionuț Vișan, Cătălin Bordea, Marius Niță, Dragoș Bucur, Coca Bloos, Constantin Ghenescu, Nicodim Ungureanu, Ana Popescu, Oxana Moravec, Oreste Scarlat Teodorescu, Cătălin Neamțu, Rosana Oprea

GRANT MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES? (1984) – drama film online

Foreword:From the director of the famous “Angela Goes On”, the film “Grant Mitigating Circumstances?” has the very interesting distinction of never having been circulated online (…), so we can consider it a sort of hidden gem. — Bogdan Movileanu (cinepub.ro)

Directed by: Lucian Bratu
Script by: Simon Gall, Radu Gurău
Cast: Gheorghe Dănilă, Marioara Sterian, Dorina Lazăr, Corneliu Revent, Constantin Gabor, Diana Gheorghian, Ion Fiscuteanu, Nicolae Toma, Ion Simine, Valentin Uritescu, Rudy Rosenfeld, Eugen Popescu

MEMORIES FROM AN OLD CHEST OF DRAWERS (1980) – drama film online

Foreword: Somewhere between decadent elegance and period propaganda, the film “Memories from an Old Chest of Drawers” transforms George Călinescu’s world into a sweeping fresco depicting the collapse of the Romanian aristocracy. One of the most ambitious and challenging projects in Romanian cinema of the 1980s.

Directed by: Dan Pița
Script by: Eugen Barbu (inspired by the novels “Poor Ioanide” and “Black Chest” by George Călinescu)
Cast: Ion Pacea, Constantin Codrescu, Marga Barbu, Petre Gheorghiu, Tănase Cazimir, Octavian Cotescu, Ștefan Iordache, Gheorghe Dinică, Olga Tudorache, Leopoldina Bălănuță, Beate Fredanov, Jean Lorin Florescu, Carmen Galin, Ion Caramitru, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Anda Călugăreanu, Mircea Constantinescu, Ion Besoiu

THE WAY I SPENT THE END OF THE WORLD (2006) – drama film online

Foreword: Cătălin Mitulescu’s debut film, which was screened and awarded (in the Un certain regard section at the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival).

A film about how a 7-year-old boy (Timotei Duma) saved us from Ceaușescu, and a 17-year-old girl (Dorotheea Petre) was able to decide her own future — a tragicomedy with touches of the absurd and the sublime.

Directed by: Cătălin Mitulescu
Script by: Cătălin Mitulescu
Cast: Dorotheea Petre, Timotei Duma, Marius Stan, Marian Stoica, Ionuț Becheru, Cristian Văraru, Mircea Diaconu, Carmen Ungureanu, Nicolae Praida, Cristian Nicolaie

WHO IS RIGHT? (1990) – drama film online

Foreword:“Who Is Right” remains Alexandru Tatos’s final film, completed and presented to the public by his team — led by cinematographer Vivi Drăgan Vasile — following the director’s passing.

Directed by: Alexandru Tatos
Script by: Paul Everac
Cast: Andrei Ralea, Oana Pellea, Andrei Finți, Zoltan Vadasz, Maria Munteanu, Ovidiu Ghiniță, Valeriu Preda, Emilian Belcin, Cătălina Mustață, Liviu Pancu, Cerasela Iosifescu, Marin Alexandrescu, Smaragda Olteanu, Constantin Rășchitor

DOUBLE OF NOTHING (2024) – comedy film online

Foreword:Called in at the last minute for a night film shoot, Drăgan becomes the key witness to a million-euro heist.

Directed by: Mihai Pîrcălabu
Script by: Mihai Pîrcălabu
Cast: Cătălin Babliuc, Alec Secăreanu, Lucian Iftime, Nicu Banea, Radu Stoian, Ștefan Lupu, Cosmina Olariu, Ștefan Mihai, Mircea Băluță, Johnny Bădeliță, Emanuel Bighe, Doru Pîrcălabu, Marina Palii

ALONE VS MYSELF (2003) – drama film online

Foreword: The latest film by director Andrei Blaier, starring Gheorghe Dinică as a seasoned inmate (Lamă) who, in the end, proves to be more human than criminal.

Directed by: Andrei Blaier
Script by: Petre Sălcudeanu
Cast: Gheorghe Dinică, Florian Ghimpu, Dana Rogoz, Irina Movilă, Costel Constantin, Florin Zamfirescu, Mitică Popescu

PORTRAIT OF THE FIGHTER AS A YOUNG MAN (2010) – history film online

Foreword: The story of Ion Gavrilă Ogoranu’s anti-communist resistance group, which operated in the Făgăraș Mountains in the period following the establishment of the communist dictatorship in Romania.

“One of the few Romanian films that comes closest to defining who we are, but does so not by chronicling daily life, but by showing who we were.” — Lucian Georgescu (cinepub.ro)

Directed by: Constantin Popescu Jr.
Script by: Constantin Popescu Jr.
Cast: Constantin Diță, Cătălin Babliuc, Ionuț Carac, Vasile Calofir, Bogdan Dumitrache, Dan Bordeianu, Constantin Lupescu, Cosmin Natanticu, Bogdan Cotleț, Alexandru Pavel, Adrian Nicolae, Paul Ipate, Andrei Mateiu, Alexandru Potocean, Ion Bechet, Radu Iacoban, Alin Mihalache, Ștefan Gomoi, Claudiu Maier, Aura Călărașu, Mircea Drâmbăreanu, Cătălin Naum, Raluca Rusu, Andrei Ralea, Ion Cosma, Cosmin Mircea Crețu, Florin Lăzărescu, Dorian Boguță, Mihai Constantin, Mihai Bendeac, Cosmin Seleși, Emanuel Pârvu, Bogdan Stanoevici, Gabriel Bucur, Sergiu Fleșner, Dan Rădulescu, Răzvan Vasilescu, Mimi Brănescu, Nicodim Ungureanu

BOOGIE (2008) – drama film online

Foreword:A sort of John Cassavetes-style “Husbands,” set by the seaside on May 1. Dragoș Bucur, Mimi Brănescu, and Adrian Văncică are three high school friends who reunite in their late 30s and party like they’re 17. Except life isn’t quite what it used to be.

Directed by: Radu Muntean
Script by: Radu Muntean, Alexandru Baciu, Răzvan Rădulescu
Cast: Dragoș Bucur, Anamaria Marinca, Mimi Brănescu, Geanina Varga, Adrian Văncică, Alexandru Potocean, Valentin Antofi

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ (ENDLESS) – (2005)

Foreword: The Americans are finally here; only they’re not leaving.
Cristian Nemescu’s first and last feature film: a beginning that unwittingly became an ending.

Directed by: Cristian Nemescu
Script: Cristian Nemescu, Tudor Voican
Cast: Răzvan Vasilescu, Maria Dinulescu, Armand Assante, Jamie Elman, Constantin Drăgănescu, Crina Semciuc, Andi Vasluianu, Alexandru Drăgoi, Ion Sapdaru, Alexandru Margineanu, Constantin Diță, Nicodim Ungureanu, Gabriel Radu, Cătălina Mustață. Gabriel Spahiu, Tomi Cristin

THE EXTRAS (1987) – drama film online

Foreword: 1952. A young woman, the daughter of a bourgeois family, is expelled from the Conservatory and is forced to earn a living as an extra in a film. However, she has the prospect of finding her footing in the new social order.

Directed by: Malvina Urșianu
Script by: Malvina Urșianu
Cast: Mariana Buruiană, Gina Patrichi, Gheorghe Dinică, George Constantin, Stela Popescu, Daniel Tomescu, Val Paraschiv, Maria Rotaru, Emilia Dobrin Besoiu, Sanda Toma, Gilda Marinescu, Simona Bondoc, Ioana Ciomîrtan, Wilhelmina Câta, Anda Caropol, Corneliu Revent, Geo Saizescu, Eusebiu Ștefănescu, Viorel Comănici, Ion Niciu, Theodor Danetti, Jean Lorin Florescu, Constantin Bărbulescu