THE LATEST ROMANIAN MOVIES

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

WHERE NO SHIPS GO (2023) – drama film online

Foreword: When their father (Iulian Postelnicu) leaves, the children are left with their imagination. A delicate story about loss, courage, and premature maturity.

Plot summary: A storm in their family and a storm on the sea, happening at once, trigger radical changes in the lives of two young brothers. One discovers the fantastic world of childhood, while the other is struggling to hold on to it.

Directed by: Vlad Buzăianu
Script by: Vlad Buzăianu
Cast: Matei Gorgoș, Codruț Ioniță, Rada Ixari, Iulian Postelnicu

THE JAPANESE DOG (2013) – drama film online

Foreword: Filmed in Giurgiu County, directed by T. Jurgiu, and produced by T. Giurgiu, “The Japanese Dog” is a debut film nominated at Cannes and awarded at Warsaw & San Sebastian.

“Maybe a few extra seconds would have made us say that Wenders definitely saw Jurgiu’s debut, based on a screenplay by Ioan Antoci and cinematography by Andrei Butică. And that he really liked it.” (cinepub.ro)

Director: Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
Scriptwriters: Ioan Antoci, Gabriel Gheorghe, Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
Cast: Victor Rebengiuc, Şerban Pavlu, Laurențiu Lazăr, Ioana Abur, Kana Hashimoto, Toma Hashimoto, Constantin Drăgănescu, Alexandrina Halic, Emilia Dobrin, Toma Cuzin, Doru Ana, Constantin Florescu, Mihai Chirilă, Ion Bechet, Mihai Petru Chinez

POLICE, ADJECTIVE (2009) – drama film online

Foreword: “Police, adjective” is not a “police film” (noun + adjective), but a film about a police officer (Cristi, played by Dragoș Bucur). – Alex. Leo Șerban

Synopsis: A police officer (Dragoș Bucur) refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.

Directed by: Corneliu Porumboiu
Script: Corneliu Porumboiu
Cast: Dragoș Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu, Ion Stoica, Marian Ghenea, George Remes, Cosmin Seleși, Adina Dulcu

BE MY CAT: A FILM FOR ANNE (2015) – horror film online

Foreword: A dizzying meta-horror film about obsession, fanaticism, madness, and narcissism, but also about reality versus fiction versus the realism of fiction, and about this serious game of appearances called Cinema, terribly assumed in its almost suicidal recklessness. – Mihai Chirilov, cinepub.ro

Synopsis: An aspiring filmmaker (played by the director himself) goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film.

Directed by: Adrian Țofei
Script: Adrian Țofei
Cast: Adrian Țofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton, Alexandra Stroe

AN ANGEL HOOKED ON ME(1984) – adventure film online

Foreword: Gheorghe Preda creates a unique type of cinema, one that draws inspiration from David Lynch and Michael Haneke, among others. The protagonist of “An Angel…” (Anca Florea) is a successful, solitary musician who lives in a sterile environment and tries to identify the man who sends her suspicious gifts.

Synopsis: A successful young musician, Ana (Anca Florea) discovers that she has become the object of affection of a stranger who, from a distance, fulfills her most varied desires. But this ritual of seduction is also a demonstration of strength and intelligence on the part of the mysterious admirer.

Directed by: Gheorghe Preda
Script: Gheorghe Preda
Cast: Anca Florea, Constantin Florescu, Emily Daler, Ioana Ginghină

CIREȘARII (1984) – adventure film online

Foreword: The first film in the second series of adaptations based on the famous children’s books written by Constantin Chiriță. First came the series directed by Andrei Blaier in the 1970s, followed by Petringenaru’s films: “Cireșarii” followed by “Aripi de zăpadă” (1985) and “Cetatea ascunsă” (1987).

Synopsis: Seven teenagers set off on a scientific expedition to Peştera Neagră (Black Cave) during their summer vacation. For safety reasons, they divide into two groups — one inside the cave and one outside on the mountain — and communicate using Morse code and two TFF devices.

Directed by: Adrian Petringenaru
Script: Constantin Chiriță
Cast: Ion Marinescu, Petre Gheorghiu-Dolj, Ernest Maftei, Nicolae Dinică, Victorița Dobre-Timonu, Ștefan Velniciuc și copiii: Răzvan Baciu, Alina Croitoru, Alina Dumitrescu, Robert Enescu, Horațiu Medveșan, Alexandru Rotaru, Gabriel Sîrbu, Florin Iordan, Marius Petre

THE NATIONAL CINEMATIC EPIC (2011) – documentary film online

Foreword: The archetypal figures of the Unifier of the Romanian nation combine endlessly, but those who accumulate all these attributes are at opposite poles of national history. They are Burebista and Ceaușescu, both leaders of a unitary, centralized, independent, and non-aligned state, in fact an eternal Romania. – Bogdan Jitea, cinepub.ro

Synopsis: The documentary addresses the issue of historical films during the Ceaușescu regime, a political commission for which enormous material and human resources were mobilized and which represented a formidable propaganda tool.

Directed by: Bogdan Jitea
Script by: Bogdan Jitea
Cast: Adrian Cioroianu, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Victor Rebengiuc, Cristian Tudor Popescu, Valerian Sava, Constantin Vaeni, Liviu Tofan

GATHERING CLOUDS (1985) – drama film online

Foreword: Adapted from Cezar Petrescu’s novel of the same name, “Gathering Clouds” is a war drama directed by Alexandru Tatos (director of “Sequences“) in a difficult period for Romania.

Synopsis: A believer in the idea that war is a means of renewing the world, the film’s main character, the young lawyer Radu Comşa, enrolls in military school and is sent to the front lines of World War I. Ironically, upon his return, marked by his experiences in the trenches, he can no longer find his place in the new post-conflict world, especially since his eyesight has been affected.

Directed by: Alexandru Tatos
Script: Petre Sălcudeanu (based on a novel by Cezar Petrescu)
Cast: Ion Caramitru, George Constantin, Remus Mărgineanu, Tania Filip, Emilia Dobrin-Besoiu, Vladimir Găitan, Dan Condurache, Florin Zamfirescu, Claudiu Stănescu, Valentin Voicilă, Ioana Pavelescu, Doina Tamas, Minodora Condur, Mariana Baboi

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