Favorite Romanian films of all time
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1. Next Stop Paradise (1998)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The Bucharest's suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu, a swineherd, meet and tease each other and starts a beverage competition. Their relationship is not just a ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, Gheorghe Visu, Victor Rebengiuc
Votes: 2,404
2. The Oak (1992)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Visan
Votes: 3,826
3. Too Late (1996)
106 min | Drama, Thriller
Dumitru Costa, a young trainee prosecutor is entrusted with the investigation about the suspicious death of a Jiu Valley coal miner in 1990s Romania. Accident or murder?
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Razvan Vasilescu, Cecilia Bârbora, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Visan
Votes: 719
4. Dupa-amiaza unui tortionar (2001)
80 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Gheorghe Dinica, Radu Beligan, Ioana Ana Macaria, Coca Bloos
Votes: 784
5. Niki and Flo (2003)
99 min | Drama
The hero is a retired army officer in the period of transition in Romania from the Communist rule to democracy. As many aged people during these times he loses a lot in position and ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Razvan Vasilescu, Coca Bloos, Mihaela Caracas
Votes: 845
6. Filantropica (2002)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.
Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Mircea Diaconu, Gheorghe Dinica, Mara Nicolescu, Viorica Voda
Votes: 13,858
7. O secundã de viatã (2009)
Drama
Director: Ioan Cãrmãzan | Stars: Costel Cascaval, Paula Chirila, Antoaneta Cojocaru, Constantin Draganescu
Votes: 43
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean
Votes: 63,301 | Gross: $1.19M
9. Morgen (2010)
100 min | Drama
A low-key satire that takes a droll approach to the serious subject of illegal immigration.
Director: Marian Crisan | Stars: András Hatházi, Yilmaz Yalçin, Elvira Rimbu, Dorin C. Zachei
Votes: 1,170
10. Trip (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
Dani, Yumi, Ovidiu, Ada and Cristi are youths addicted to one another, yet intent on escaping the pressure of their interconnectedness and frustrating realities by performing mind trips ... See full summary »
Director: Florina Titz | Stars: Marian Adochitei, Laura Iancu, Lana Moscaliuc, Dragos Stefan
Votes: 50
11. Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, History
Several urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized.
Directors: Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru | Stars: Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban, Vlad Ivanov, Tania Popa
Votes: 6,075
12. Nunta muta (2008)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In a small isolated village, in 1953, a wedding is interrupted by the news about the death of Stalin. Because any public celebration is forbidden, they decide to turn the happy event into a silent wedding.
Director: Horatiu Malaele | Stars: Meda Andreea Victor, Alexandru Potocean, Valentin Teodosiu, Alexandru Bindea
Votes: 7,023
13. Funeralii fericite (2013)
111 min | Comedy
It's about three lifelong friends. One evening, all three of them go to a fortune teller and are told that they will die in a week, on a specific day and in a certain way.
Director: Horatiu Malaele | Stars: Horatiu Malaele, Crina Semciuc, Igor Caras-Romanov, Sandu Mihai Gruia
Votes: 533
14. Fix Alert (2005)
95 min | Action, Drama
This film is a puzzle, which fits together in many different ways, only one of which is right. And all of which are deadly.
Director: Florin Piersic Jr. | Stars: Petre Fumuru, Dorina Chiriac, Doru Ana, Monica Davidescu
Votes: 166
15. Ryna (2005)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
In a small community in the Danube Delta that wavers between old traditions and new material aspirations, a teenager, Ryna, pays a heavy price in a search of her own identity.
Director: Ruxandra Zenide | Stars: Dorotheea Petre, Valentin Popescu, Matthieu Rozé, Nicolae Praida
Votes: 517
16. WebSiteStory (2010)
82 min | Action, Drama
In a world where any teenager can film with his own mobile phone and post all kinds of things on the Internet, Laura, an 18-year-old girl, spends a night in a club with her friend Mira.
Director: Dan Chisu | Stars: Crina Semciuc, Diana Gursca, Oreste Alexandru Scarlat Teodorescu, Constantin Bojog
Votes: 662
17. The Famous Paparazzo (1999)
82 min | Drama, Action
A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.
Director: Nicolae Margineanu | Stars: Marcel Iures, Maria Ploae, Gheorghe Dinica, Alexandru Repan
Votes: 222
18. A Film for Friends (2011)
58 min | Comedy, Drama
Considering that his life is a failure, a man records himself leaving a video-message to his loved ones. After this message, which tackles, in funny and sad ways, a lot of issues, both ... See full summary »
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Serban Pavlu, Gabriel Spahiu
Votes: 149
19. The Rage (2002)
83 min | Action, Drama
Two street racers must pay a $7000 debt in exactly 24 hours.
Director: Radu Muntean | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Dorina Chiriac, Andi Vasluianu, Adrian Tuli
Votes: 1,147
20. Summer Holiday (2008)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of ... See full summary »
Director: Radu Muntean | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Anamaria Marinca, Mimi Branescu, Adrian Vancica
Votes: 2,223
21. Weekend cu mama (2009)
87 min | Drama
15 years ago, Luiza decided to make a fresh start in Spain. She left her 3-year-old daughter Cristina in the care of her relatives and took off. When she returns to Romania, the woman ... See full summary »
Director: Stere Gulea | Stars: Medeea Marinescu, Adela Popescu, Tudor Istodor, Ion Sapdaru
Votes: 1,118
22. Milionari de weekend (2004)
90 min | Comedy
Romania. The near future. The Russian Federation gives back the Thesaurus to Romania. Three boys and a girl, a dog, thieves, mobsters and a bag with millions. All in a summer weekend. Live the moment, take the money, the car and... Run!
Director: Cãtãlin Saizescu | Stars: Andi Vasluianu, Maria Dinulescu, Mihai Bendeac, Tudor Chirila
Votes: 1,248
23. White Gate (2014)
86 min | Drama
Adrian and Ninel are among the inmates crammed into the freight cars that have just arrived in one of the forced labor camps of the Danube-Black Sea Canal. Among those convicted, there are ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolae Margineanu | Stars: Cristian Bota, Sergiu Bucur, Iulian Burciu, Radu Bânzaru
Votes: 264
24. Schimb valutar (2008)
98 min | Drama
How far can one person go to try and reclaim what they have lost? In a country town, Emil (Cosmin Selesi) becomes unemployed when the factory where he worked closes. After his wife loses ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolae Margineanu | Stars: Cosmin Selesi, Aliona Munteanu, Andi Vasluianu, Doru Ana
Votes: 394
25. Bibliothèque Pascal (2010)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy
In order to regain custody of her daughter, whom she left in the care of her fortune-telling aunt, Mona must tell a social worker her story. The tale she spins---and the movie we watch---is... See full summary »
Director: Szabolcs Hajdu | Stars: Orsolya Török-Illyés, Oana Pellea, Razvan Vasilescu, Andi Vasluianu
Votes: 1,988
26. Priveste înainte cu mânie (1993)
81 min | Drama
Romania after December 1989 ... A shipyard on the banks of the Danube, in the "transition period", insecure and turbulent that confuses, overturns the scale of values, not without leaving ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolae Margineanu | Stars: Remus Margineanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Ion Haiduc, Simona Ciobanu
Votes: 171
27. Intimate Bed (1993)
102 min | Comedy
In post-Ceausescu Bucharest, everybody is struggling to make a living. Vasile Potop, a movie theatre manager, tries to find money for an abortion for his wife Carolina, because he cannot ... See full summary »
Director: Mircea Daneliuc | Stars: Gheorghe Dinica, Coca Bloos, Valentin Teodosiu, Lia Bugnar
Votes: 371
28. Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man (2010)
163 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of anti-communist partisans in post-World War II Romania.
Director: Constantin Popescu | Stars: Constantin Dita, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ionut Caras, Catalin Babliuc
Votes: 896
29. The World Is Mine (2015)
104 min | Drama
'The World Is Mine' is about a teenager's drama in the 2000s, focusing on the story of Larisa (Ana Maria Guran), a regular teenager from Constanta, Romania. Larisa wants a lot from life: ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolae Constantin Tanase | Stars: Ana Maria Guran, Crina Muresan, Mircea Rusu, Ana Vatamanu
Votes: 1,011
30. The Unsaved (2013)
80 min | Drama
The Unsaved is a drama about about a Sancho Panza and not a Don Quijote. It's about the every day's non-hero facing circumstances and not adventures, it's about Viorel, a 25-year-old ... See full summary »
Director: Igor Cobileanski | Stars: Igor Babiac, Sergiu Voloc, Ela Ionescu, Igor Caras-Romanov
Votes: 542
31. Eastern Business (2016)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Two friends begin a journey full of adventures in Eastern Europe, trying to make it in business and fulfill their long-time dreams.
Director: Igor Cobileanski | Stars: Ion Sapdaru, Constantin Puscasu, Daniel Busuioc, Anne Marie Chertic
Votes: 894
32. Love Is a Story (2015)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Near by Christmas, in an old and charming town in Transylvania, Sebastian and Aprilia start a beautiful love story. However, nothing is as simple as it would seem. Being influenced by three... See full summary »
Director: Cristina Jacob | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Raluca Aprodu, Ducu Darie, Raluca Amerine
Votes: 458
33. Love Sick (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
In order to spend more time with her girlfriend, Kiki, the young student Alex decides to give up her room at the student's hostel and move into the house where Kiki lives. A few months ... See full summary »
Director: Tudor Giurgiu | Stars: Maria Popistasu, Ioana Barbu, Tudor Chirila, Catalina Murgea
Votes: 3,245
34. One Step Behind the Seraphim (2017)
150 min | Drama
A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead.
Director: Daniel Sandu | Stars: Stefan Iancu, Vlad Ivanov, Toto Dumitrescu, Cristian Bota
Votes: 3,673
35. Somewhere in Palilula (2012)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama
"Somewhere in Palilula" tells the story of Serafim, a fresh graduate of a medical school, in 60's Romania. He is brought by destiny to the strange town of Palilula. Nowhere, that is. ... See full summary »
Director: Silviu Purcarete | Stars: Anne Marie Chertic, Constantin Chiriac, Paul Chiributa, Mihai Chirila
Votes: 1,112
36. How I Celebrated the End of the World (2006)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
In Communist-era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom.
Director: Cãtãlin Mitulescu | Stars: Dorotheea Petre, Timotei Duma, Ioan Albu, Sergiu Anghel
Votes: 3,231
37. Wedding in Bessarabia (2009)
92 min | Comedy
Love and wedding business in the time of transition.
Director: Nap Toader | Stars: Vlad Logigan, Victoria Bobu, Constantin Florescu, Igor Kistol
Votes: 1,066
38. Un acoperis deasupra capului (2006)
104 min | Drama
The decision taken by the hospitals council board of early releasing the neurotics and depressed, throw Mona 36 and Cathy 30 in the real world., a world which cannot offer them any place to... See full synopsis »
Director: Adrian Popovici | Stars: Marius Bodochi, Gabriela Butuc, Marius Chivu, Andreea Gramosteanu
Votes: 73
39. Several Conversations About a Very Tall Girl (2018)
70 min | Drama
Two girls begin to chat about another girl, a former lover of both. As they grow closer, the gap between them widens, as one them is looking for answers and love while safely closeted. A ... See full summary »
Director: Bogdan Theodor Olteanu | Stars: Silvana Mihai, Florentina Nastase, Denisse Moise, Carol Ionescu
Votes: 397
40. Cel ales (2015)
125 min | Comedy, Drama
A former political police agent that has left communist Romania decades ago in search of freedom has to go back to find it.
Director: Cristian Comeaga | Stars: Gabi Borcila, Laura Cosoi, Eugeniu Cozma, Carmen Fulger
Votes: 285
41. Killing Time (III) (2011)
99 min | Crime, Thriller
Two hit men wait for their next target in an empty apartment. The hours go by. Little by little, they start losing their patience and their temper. Pretty soon, they may even lose their lives. Killing time can be a deadly affair.
Director: Florin Piersic Jr. | Stars: Florin Piersic Jr., Cristian Gutau, Olimpia Melinte, Florin Zamfirescu
Votes: 272
42. Luca (II) (2020)
104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
He wanted to become Someone, and he became somebody else.
Director: Horatiu Malaele | Stars: István Téglás, Andi Vasluianu, Madalina Craiu, Rodica Mandache
Votes: 264
43. Aferim! (2015)
Not Rated | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin, Alexandru Dabija
Votes: 7,775 | Gross: $0.10M
44. Arest (2019)
126 min | Drama
In August 1983, architect Dinu Neagu together with his wife and two children, a boy and a girl, are on a beach of nudists near an industrial area. He is arrested and taken to Bucharest ... See full summary »
Director: Andrei Cohn | Stars: Alexandru Papadopol, Iulian Postelnicu, András Hatházi, Sorin Cocis
Votes: 399
45. Întregalde (2021)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of people on a humanitarian mission arrive in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods. Apart from a few quarrels and conflicts between the group members... See full summary »
Director: Radu Muntean | Stars: Maria Popistasu, Ilona Brezoianu, Alex Bogdan, Luca Sabin
Votes: 1,560
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