Watchlist Romanian Titles

Matei, a young boy on the verge of adolescence is fascinated by the past of the Transylvanian mining region he lives in. Upon his return from an initiation journey filled with rich discoveries through the big city, he faces the loss of innocence when confronted with the death of his grandfather.

The people in Izbuc, a village in the Romanian Carpathian mountains (Transylvania), think that their fellow villager Gratian Florea is a werewolf.

In a small provincial town everything goes well, apart from sports activities. The local soccer team is on the verge of relegation. But the ones responsible with the team are ready to do "everything for soccer", even match-fixing.

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

A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.

A story of transformation and hope in a time of turmoil and terror.

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

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.

A documentary film about the strike from 15 November 1987, from Brasov, Romania, started by dissatisfied workers from the "Întreprinderea de Autocamioane Brasov ("Steagul Rosu")" factory.

A group of five work colleagues leave for an expedition in the Danube Delta, without letting their wives know anything about it. Going fishing and hunting, the characters end up in the funniest and ridiculous situations.

At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.

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

The film is an adaptation of a novel by Marin Preda, a controversial novelist who died during the Communist rule soon after the book was published. It tells the story of an intellectual, professor of philosophy whose life is crushed after he is imprisoned on false accusations at the end of the Stalinist era. Basically the first part of the film tells the story of his fight for survival in prison, the second describes his tentative to regain his life after being released. His release is actually only apparent, Romania of the 60s asks from him different types of compromises and crimes, but yet his fight for survival is as tough morally as in prison.

The master is Temistocle T. Temistocle. The aprentice is Alecu A. Alecu. Together they formed one of the most funny couple of crooks wich manage to cheat unhappy women and steal their money under the promise of marriage. The film was made in romanian golden comunist age and remains one of the most appreciated comedy till present.

Based on I.L. Caragiale famous romanian novel of the same name, the story explores the fun, bitter and tragic experiences of the main character Lefter Popescu in his desperate attempts to retrieve 2 winning lottery tickets that he lost.

The film is a masterpiece of directing and acting in the same time.In starring brilliant play Serban Ionescu, Amza Pellea,Gheorghe Cozorici and Tora Vasilescu in a realistic vision of the story-communist emblem of culture: young work site which gives answers to the great questions of existence. Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by engineer Dan to accompany him in building a new city. Along the way, he meets his future wife and subsequently source of unrest and rebellion against fate. The movie is based on a novel by Marin Preda called "The Intruder".Scenario, especially frames and inner monologue are very good thought. Review is written and thought by George Ciocirlan.

In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.

In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War that had been fought in 1877. Now, "Restul e tacere" tells us, in a loose and half-fictionalized way, the story of this movie making.

Several urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized.

During the communist era in Romania, a reporter finds an incredibly well organized network of a local winery. The whole movie is a satire of the communist regimes' absurd economical and social rules.

A young graduate tries to get a Bucharest ID card in comunist Romania, by pretending to marry a taxi driver.

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.

A small world of bourgeois intrigues and frivolities lived with intensity by its own protagonists: Pampon's lover, Didina is in love with the barber Nae, who is Mitza's lover, while she is Cracanel's lover. One letter starts the ball rolling and ugly characters start revealing themselves in a burlesque-like fashion.

One evening, a glass of wine, 7 friends enter a dangerous game: they put their phones on the table and decide that everything they receive that evening, calls, messages, wapp, emails, it will be answered by speaker or read aloud.