THE LATEST ROMANIAN MOVIES

FAMILY TRIP (2017) – drama film online

A young father’s days are spent shuffling between work and family. His son’s anniversary and the promise he made to his family are threatened by the rush against time through the overcrowded city as other people depend on his work.

Directed by: Cătălin Drăghici
Cast: Alexandru Potocean, Silvia Gâscă, Doru Nițescu, Mihai Sîrbu, Ion Niculae, Sasha Cristian Drăghici
Script by: Cătălin Drăghici

SUNDAY AT SIX (1966) – drama film online

Lucian Pintilie’s feature debut can be analyzed not only aesthetically or politically. The cinephile interested in the psychological analysis of the characters will find here significant resources about trauma and PTSD, transposed into film at a time when these psychological notions were not, as they are today, mainstream narratives. (cinepub.ro)

Directed by: Lucian Pintilie
Script: Ion Mihăileanu and Lucian Pintilie
Cast: Irina Petrescu, Dan Nuțu, Graziela Albini, Eugenia Popovici, Dorina-Nila Bentamar, Eugenia Bosînceanu, Marcel Gingulescu, Costel Constantinescu, Constantin Cojocaru, Lidia Gabor, Șerban Holban

4:15 P.M. THE END OF THE WORLD (2016) – drama film online

The first movie of the directorial couple Gabi Șarga & Cătălin Rotaru, followed by successful productions such as “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (2018) and “Where the Elephants Go” (2024). A courier picks up a hitchhiker on the side of the road. When the hitchhiker says the end of the world is near, the courier thinks he’s crazy. What he doesn’t know is that the encounter will change his life fundamentally.

Directed by: Gabi Virginia Șarga, Cătălin Rotaru
Cast: Alexandru Suciu, Elias Ferkin
Script by: Gabi Virginia Șarga, Cătălin Rotaru

TĂNASE SCATIU (1976) – drama film online

Tănase Scatiu is, in essence, the embodiment of the parasite who climbs the social hierarchy without any scruples. Screenization of the novel of the same name by Duiliu Zamfirescu. Drowned in debts, the landlord Murguleț agrees to wed his daughter, Tincuța, to the upstart Tănase Scatiu. The young man seizes the landlord’s property, which facilitates his climb up the social hierarchy.

Directed by: Dan Pița
Script: Mircea Gheorghiu, after „Tănase Scatiu” by Duiliu Zamfirescu
Cast: Victor Rebengiuc, Eliza Petrăchescu, Vasile Nițulescu, Andrei Pintilie, András Csiky, Dan Nuțu, Christina Nuțu, Rodica Tapalagă, Carmen Galin, Aristide Teica, Victor Strengaru, Corina Constantinescu, Ioana Ciomârtan, Ada D’Albon Azimioara, Costel Constantin, Mitică Popescu, Ferenc Bencze, Zoltán Vadász, Ovidiu Schumacher, Dorel Vișan, Constantin Sassu, Boris Petroff, Adrian Georgescu, Cătălina Pintilie, Corneliu Revent, Ileana Iordache, Valer Dellakeza, Cristina Hofman, Florin Zamfirescu, Carmen Galin, Mircea Diaconu

STONE WEDDING (1973) – drama film online

”Stone Wedding” invites us to contemplate human beings in spaces of life and death — in short, to witness cinema in its purest form. The title brings together two medium-length films inspired by short stories by Ion Agârbiceanu, set in the gold-bearing area of the Mountains at the beginning of the 20th century.

Directed by: Dan Pița, Mircea Veroiu
Script: Ion Agîrbiceanu, Dan Pița, Mircea Veroiu
Cast: Leopoldina Bălănuță, Eliza Petrăchescu, Nina Doniga, Adrian Georgescu, Mircea Diaconu, Radu Boruzescu, Petrică Gheorghiu, Ursula Nussbacher, George Calboreanu Jr.

METRONOM (2022) – drama film online

Bucharest, 1972: a group of high school students who would have preferred to attend Woodstock ’69 than a “tea dance” in a communist living room. While Țiriac and Năstase are playing in the Davis Cup Final against the USA in 1972, two high school students fall in love and write letters to the “Metronom” program on Free Europe. When he gets the go-ahead to leave the country for good with his family, they know they have to split up, but they didn’t expect their last days together to become decisive for their whole lives.

Directed by: Alexandru Belc
Script: Alexandru Belc
Cast: Mara Bugarin, Șerban Lazarovici, Vlad Ivanov, Mara Vicol, Mihai Călin, Andreea Bibiri, Alina Brezunțeanu, Mihnea Moldoveanu, Andrei Miercure, Măriuca Bosnea, Eduard Chimac, Tiberiu Zavelea, Claudia Soare, Briana Macovei, Pamela Iobaji, Ana Bodea, Alin Oprea, Alexandru Conovaru, Horațiu Bob, Alexandru Nedelcu, Daniel Tomescu

ICEBERG (2024) – drama film online

Two generations with different mentalities, guided by the same principle. However, their bond is deeply flawed and the truth remains inaccessible.

Directed by: Andrei Inizian
Cast: Theodor Șoptelea, Radu Bânzaru
Script by: Andrei Inizian

THE ALERT (1967) – documentary film online

«The Alert» is one of the most bizarre labor protection movies imaginable. Inspired by the modernism of European art cinema of the 1960s, the movie is divided into 4 chapters and features a boy and a girl couple, who sometimes look like lovers and sometimes like characters from a labor protection movie.

Directed by: Mircea Săucan
Script: Dumitru Cămîrzan, Mircea Săucan
Cast: Gabriela Alexandru, Mihai Creangă

NIGHT PATROL (2022) – comedy film online

The last rehearsal before the premiere runs late into the night. A seemingly insignificant detail disturbs the euphoria of success. The actors’ dressing rooms and toilets are closed, the dresser has disappeared without explanation.

Directed by: Iosif Demian
Script: Iosif Demian
Cast: László Mátray, Ilinca Hărnuț, Zsolt Bogdán, Ada Condeescu, Cuzin Toma, Manuela Hărăbor, Laurențiu Damian, Simona Bondoc, Răzvan Vasilescu, Michaela Prosan, Tudor Istodor, Ioachim Ciobanu, Sara Budrala, Francisc Patakfalvi, Edith Alibec, Sergiu Finiti, Levente Nemes, Cristian Ioan, Carol Ionescu, Judith State, András Demeter, Imola Gáspár, Florin Beciu, Mihai Fusu, Simona Ghiță

BAPTISM (2024) – UBB student film online

“Helping your neighbor, that’s what it’s all about”, said the director about the movie “Baptism”. Vali Nechifor has faith in humanity, he wants to tell us. He trusts that, behind the inevitable social chaos of any historical period, understanding and empathy remain essential qualities of being human.

Directed by: Vali Nechifor
Cast: Mircea Solcanu, Geo Dobre, Gabriel Roșu, Robert Dobre
Script by: Vali Nechifor

LOVE BUS: five love stories from Bucharest

“Love Bus” is an omnibus film made up of five different episodes, each of them taking place in a different district of Bucharest, Romania. The film was shot independently, with a micro budget, by students and recent graduates of the National Film School UNATC “I.L. Caragiale” and it represents their collective debut on the big screen.

Director: Roxana Andrei, Mihai Mincan, Florin Babei, Constantin Radu Vasile, Andrei Georgescu
Scriptwriters: Roxana Andrei, Cristian Delcea, Mihai Mincan, Florin Babei, Roxana Mocanu, Constantin RaduVasile, Paul Negoescu

GLASS FINGERS (2022) – UNATC animation film online

The animation “Glass Fingers” is probably the most successful production of its kind in recent years in Romania. The film has made its way flawlessly through Europe’s biggest animation festivals such as Annecy, Anima Brussels, found a place in the Sarajevo FF competition and was awarded a special mention at Anim’est in Bucharest. (cinepub.ro)

Directed by: Alina Gheorghe
Script: Alina Gheorghe, Andrei Voineag
Producer: U.N.A.T.C. „I.L. Caragiale”, București

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH (1989) – historic film online

“The Moment of Truth” is not just a movie about an important event in Romanian history. The Great Union of 1918 and the political decisions surrounding it are just the general context in which Andrei Blaier creates a love story set in an difficult period between two Shakespearean-inspired characters (coming from two families with different socio-political views)

Directed by: Andrei Blaier
Script: Titus Popovici
Cast: Adrian Păduraru, Ilinca Goia, Alexandru Repan, Mircea Albulescu, Dorina Lazăr, Irina Petrescu, Dorin Varga, Karoly Sinka, Valentin Uritescu, Constantin Diplan, Eusebiu Ștefănescu, Gheorghe Dinică, Bela Buzogany, Anatol Serghiev, Flavius Constantinescu, Ernest Maftei, Teodor Danetti

77 YEARS BACK (2023) – documentary online

When it comes to traveling abroad, Romanians have a predisposition that could be read as ignorance. The tendency was and still is to go West, with variations of South, or even North for the more introverted, but rarely East, which remains a remote and unpenetrated land. In “77 Years Back” we witness just such an atypical journey.

Directed by: Dan Stroie, Alexandru Bodrug
Cast: Victor Stroie
Producer: DSF Media Film

THE KIDNAPPING OF THE MAIDENS (1968) – adventure film online

“The Kidnapping of the Maidens” is not just a tour de force. Its creators understood that in addition to bang-bangs and horse trotters, viewers also look for people in the stories they see. And the people in the movie are not portrayed singularly, but reveal themselves through the tensions, desires and actions they make towards each other – rules of good screenwriting practice, sadly too little heeded in movies of the time. (cinepub.ro)

Directed by: Dinu Cocea
Script: Eugen Barbu, Mihai Opriş, Dinu Cocea
Cast: Emanoil Petruț, Marga Barbu, George Constantin, Toma Caragiu, Olga Tudorache, Gheorghe Ionescu Gion, Florin Scărlătescu, Tanți Cocea, Alexandru Giugaru, Colea Răutu, Marian Hudac, Mihai Pălădescu, Ileana Gurgulescu, Jean Constantin, Elena Caragiu, Draga Olteanu Matei, Telly Barbu, Aimée Iacobescu, Lucia Boga, Marin Moraru, Constantin Guriță, Ernest Maftei

THOU SHALT NOT KILL (2018) – drama film online

The debut movie of directors Gabi Virginia Șarga and Cătălin Rotaru is inspired by a real case, brought to the public’s attention through a journalistic investigation in 2016 – the Hexi Pharma scandal. (cinepub.ro)

Directed by: Gabi Virginia Șarga, Cătălin Rotaru
Script: Gabi Virginia Șarga, Cătălin Rotaru
Cast: Alexandru Suciu, Cristina Flutur, Iulia Verdeș, Codin Mateciuc, Gelu Colceag, Tania Filip, Daniel Popa, Dana Rotaru, Cosmin Seleși, Elias Ferkin, Rolando Matsangos, Olimpia Mălai

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