Dinu Manolache

The Calamity

Alexa Visarion

Dorina Lazăr, Cornel Dumitraș

This is a film about love, crime of passion, revenge, happening in the Romanian countryside, late XIX century.

Înghițitorul de săbii

Alexa Visarion

Mircea Albulescu, George Constantin

The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number entitled "Sword Swallower".

The Sign of the Serpent

Mircea Veroiu

Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, Leopoldina Bălănuță

This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never came back, his tough mother, Ecaterina Handraburu, decides to have her revenge on those who plotted to leave her heirless and grab her possessions.

Fii cu ochii pe fericire

Alexandru Maftei

Dragoş Pâslaru, Dan Condurache

A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a magnatețs son, who makes it into a talk show, in which he humiliates an expat.

Dommnișoara Aurica

Șerban Marinescu

Marga Barbu, Marcel Iureș

This movie is about the loneliness of an older lady at the end of WWII, in Bucharest. Her mental faculties are declining and she is increasingly living in her own mind.

Fata Morgana

Elefterie Voiculescu

Dinu Manolache, Diana Lupescu

Virgil, the son of a director, fails to get into college and he is drafted in the army. This "forced" growing up is even more painful as he is followed by a "fata morgana", a lost love.

Ana and the Thief

Virgil Calotescu

Gabriel Marian Oseciuc, Carmen Galin

A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.

Telefonul

Elisabeta Bostan

Magda Catone, Mircea Diaconu

Reach for the Sky

Elisabeta Bostan

Izabela Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu

A story about young gymnasts in Romania.

Rămân cu tine

Mircea George Cornea

Dana Dogaru, Florin Zamfirescu

A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned.

Mult mai de preț e iubirea

Dan Marcoci

Rodica Negrea, Dinu Manolache

A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the Lottery. She goes to Bucharest, to find herself.

Căruța cu mere

Mircea George Cornea

Ion Dichiseanu, Dinu Manolache

Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the communism is knocking at the door, and in these uncertain times, two young people are fighting to get their dream become real artists.

Cine mă strigă?

Letiția Popa

Mărioara Sterian, Iulian Vișan

A young woman is accused of "Immorality" (aka prostitution) and she is sent for re-education to work on a construction site.

Punct și de la capăt

Alexa Visarion

Mircea Albulescu, Leopoldina Bălănuță

Drama directed by Visarion Alexa.

Desene pe asfalt

Elisabeta Bostan

Mădălina Marinescu, Maria Ploae

One of the last movies made during the communist era in Romania. The plot : a drawing contest for kids in Bucharest. More important : this is a movie about childhood, creativity. Strange topics for a country that was about to fall apart. 50 minutes - by Elisabeta Bostan, who made great movies for kids in the 60's and 70's (such as Veronica).