Romanian movies

As a football match paralyses Bucharest, Dana boards young Alex's cab. Once in front of her building, despite their obvious differences, Dana asks Alex to stay with her for the night. At any price.

Ana is 30 years old and lives with her parents. As her ex-husband takes their daughter and her nagging mother to the countryside, she prepares for a laidback evening with her friends. Soon she comes to realize she lost her cell phone which prevents her from receiving a much awaited call from her previous night's stand. Her friends, Iulia, Andrei and Marius, arrive and try to watch a movie. The screening is frequently interrupted by an increasingly annoying and rather absurd dialogue that takes place between the thief/finder of the cell phone and Ana.

A man is faced with the consequences of a short moment of inattention.

A woman needs to urgently drive her terminally ill father from a German clinic back to Romania. When at the border, she can’t go further.

'Incurable' is what Romanian call them. They speak about 'the wrong side'. In this short film we follow a young man, fighting against this major taboo.

A couple of thiefs from a battlefield have a strange encounter that will change them forever.

The story of the old Russians began in the XVI century, when the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, supported by the Czar, imposed religious reforms in Russia. Those who have refused to obey were brutally persecuted and forced to seek refuge in Siberia or in faraway places. Many hidden in Europe, and some of them settled down in China, Japan, America and Australia. The Russian Old Believers Community that settled down in Romania is one of the most numerous. The film explores the extraordinary power of this community to preserve their language, customs and religion, finding in their faith in God the source of strength to resist. This film tries to render the patriarchal air of the medieval Russia, from which these people came.

After a staged senators' son death the drug operation behind them begins to unravel.

A young girl organizes a picnic for her boyfriend and her mother, which serves as a trigger for her thoughts regarding the relationships she has with them.

While a gruff inspector mentors a new hire, he flips their usual routine when he investigates a monk with a link to a fatal incident from years ago.

Victor Rebengiuc is an unknown actor from Bucharest. He is called to audition for a "miracle lotion" commercial. A satire about the actors' problems in Romania.

Filmmaker Alina Manolache was born 1990, the year after the fall and execution of Romanian dictator Ceausescu. It marked the beginning of a new, post-communist era. At the start of the film, she calls out to people who had ever been lost on the beach in the nineties to get in touch with her. This seemingly random appeal leads to her traveling around the country and having conversations with a large number of peers about their memories of the experience, and about their life now.

Constructed almost entirely from still photos masterfully synchronized with audio commentaries, this challenging doc tells the story of an adventurous one-man motorcycle expedition that spans over 21, 000 kilometers and 14 countries.

Sorin is very passionate about dinosaurs. At only 8 years old, an unknown object, found in his parents' bedroom, doesn't arouse his questions, but only his desire to play. Other questions arise when the teacher calls the parents to the school.

Two brothers, trying to make sense of a world gripped by a pandemic, grasp at anything to increase their chances of survival.

The mountain running documentary 10.000 Meters Up (La Cota 10.000) brings together two of the most beautiful things that we know: Romania and the mountains. Even though in real life the 10.000 meters mountain altitude mark is a utopia, the documentary follows an expedition among the Carpathians, running through Retezat, Fagaras, Bucegi, Ciucas and Ceahlau mountains, summing up 10.000 altitude gain in less than one week. This adventure became a story of trail running and carries the audience in fairy tales landscapes, revealing how high can we reach if we dare to dream.

1957, communist Romania. Sasa talks about his 45 year long relationship with Petre, in a time when homosexuality was criminalized.

On the day of her first anniversary with Ștefan, Ana offers him an unexpected present – she agrees to be surrogate mother for the baby Ștefan cannot have with his wife. In the end, Ștefan realizes that he wants something else, but it is far too late.

In an attempt to verify the hypothesis that her Aromanian grandfathers were photographed by the famous brothers Milton and Ianaki Manakia, the director embarks on a Balkans journey through Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Greece.

Infidelity drama, male egos, lost dogs in Startsladden favorite Stefan Constantinescu’s arthouse gem about a man consumed by jealousy who risks losing everything while searching for the truth.

A documentary which follows the most important events of Constantin Brâncuși, a Romanian artist.

M is writing a story about himself being cursed by his friend during a game of checkers. Soon he becomes confused with what is real and what is fiction.

A documentary covering the Rebellion of Brașov, from November 15, 1987.