Mihai Mereuţă

Michael the Brave

Sergiu Nicolaescu

Amza Pellea, Ion Besoiu

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama.

Forest of the Hanged

Liviu Ciulei

Victor Rebengiuc, Anna Széles

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.

Osânda

Sergiu Nicolaescu

Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amza Pellea

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.

Liceenii

Nicolae Corjos

Ștefan Bănică Jr., Oana Sîrbu

The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials.

Codine

Henri Colpi

Alexandru Virgil Platon, Răzvan Petrescu

An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.

With Clean Hands

Sergiu Nicolaescu

Sergiu Nicolaescu, Ilarion Ciobanu

A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters.

Dănilă Prepeleac

Tudor Tătaru

Mircea Diaconu, Diana Lupescu

It is the story of Danila Prepeleac, a silly, clumsy man that does things backwards. Once he took off for the market wanting to sell a pair of nice healthy bulls. On the way to the market he exchanged the bulls for an empty wallet. But this is only the start of Danila's adventures.

Iancu Jianu, Tax Collector

Dinu Cocea

Adrian Pintea, Mihai Mereuţă

The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich.

The Prodigal Father

Adrian Petringenaru

Toma Caragiu, Marga Barbu

This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.

Păcală

Geo Saizescu

Sebastian Papaiani, Mariella Petrescu

Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity, greed or vanity. His attitude and actions always bring damages to the mean, evil and materialistic people. So beside the jokes, the movie has this philosophical layer, undoubtedly because Pacala's independent way of being, free spirit and his love for the nature creates a way of seeing life, bringing joy. Filmed in a very beautiful part of Romania in 1974, the movie had an important success at that time and it is considered one of the most loved movies in Romania ever. Like the hero, found in many stories and jokes, the movie forwards the spirit of true freedom and pure link with the nature, forgetting about times and governments.

Iancu Jianu, Outlaw

Dinu Cocea

Adrian Pintea, Stela Furcovici

The Great Solitary

Iulian Mihu

Toma Caragiu, George Motoi

Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.

Yellow Rose

Doru Năstase

Florin Piersic, Marga Barbu

The second movie in the "Margelatu" series.

The Silver Mask

Gheorghe Vitanidis

Florin Piersic, Marga Barbu

Margelatu has to clear his name.

Haiducii lui Șaptecai

Dinu Cocea

Florin Piersic, Marga Barbu

Vis de ianuarie

Nicolae Oprițescu

Gabriela Cuc, Marcel Iureș

Young Moldovan nobles try to overthrow King Mihail Sturdza. They plot an assassination and spread flyers. On this backdrop, there is a romance story between Franz Liszt, in tournament, and one of the noblemen's daughter, who is close to the plotters.