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- In 1475 when Stephen the Great ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.
- Pacala, a character inspired from the Romanian folklore, does not take himself too seriously and neither some of the people interests. After leaving his home village, he experiences a series of adventurous situations.
- Two sisters go to the fairy to help the little inhabitants of the forest. Musical film-tale with animation.
- The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.
- In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
- The kidnapping of a Viennese banker and his daughter threatens to trigger a diplomatic scandal, which could result in the entry of Austrian armies into the country. Margelatu thwarts this attempt and clears up the story.
- Grigore Pintea, a former officer in the Habsburg army, returns to his native village in Maramures.
- After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.
- At an oilfield in the Sahara Desert, a massive derrick blaze is tackled by a team of Romanian oil well firefighters aided by an American specialist but hired saboteurs with ulterior motives imperil the scene.
- 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.
- During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is stolen and offered to the highest bidder.
- The secret of Nemesis reveals the "mechanisms" of the even more sickly drive to seize power, to dominate others, speculating on their naivety, weaknesses, lack of character.
- This mid-1980s Romanian Communist propaganda film deals with the topic of young high-school graduates and members of the Romanian Communist Youth Union being sent to work at the Danube-Black Sea Canal mega-project.
- In 1918 a defeated Austro-Hungarian Baron Colonel Von Görtz returns home to Transylvania which has just been lost to Romania. A vengeful Von Görtz punishes the nearby villagers but Romanian Major Tudor Andrei aids them.
- In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
- In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.
- After 20 years in Ottoman Constantinople, Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir completes the written history of the Ottoman Empire and is crowned King of Moldavia in 1710 but his valuable manuscript is stolen by foreign agents.
- In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire.
- A film about the assassination of Romanian historian and politician Nicolae Iorga.
- 'Two Years' Vacation', Jules Verne's novel, adapted into a mini-series, was re-edited for the big screen in two films: Piratii din Pacific and Insula Comorilor. This is the first part where the group of boys find themselves adrift at sea.
- In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.
- The discovery of a drowned young girl's body makes the local authorities start an investigation.
- Three young people speed through the rain in a borrowed car.
- Directed by Andrei Blaier, this film was produced in 1989, just a few months before the December revolution. Made in a subtle key with veiled references to the communist system of that time, the film only ran for one week, after which it was censored. Set against the backdrop of the dramatic days that preceded and consecrated the Great Union of 1918, "The Moment of Truth" (1918) is more the story of a fascinating but sad love than the fresco of that era. Following in parallel a love in troubled times and the historical destiny of Romania, the film depicts, equally with poetry and realism, the enthusiasm, but also the anguish of those eras, both on a collective and individual level.
- The life of forest workers isolated in the mountains.
- In 1946 Romania's oil rich regions are coveted by unscrupulous foreign oil companies and by the Communists who aim to nationalize Romania's oil industry.
- 'Two Years' Vacation', Jules Verne's novel, adapted into a mini-series, was re-edited for the big screen in two films: Piratii din Pacific and Insula Comorilor. This is the second part where the boys find themselves stranded on the island.
- The story of Galax, a robotic 'man-doll', artificially created out of wood and computer circuitry, Appearing to come to life, it becomes a rival for the affections of Marie, a young student and an issue for university authorities.
- During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.