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- An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
- At the end of the 16th century Wallachian ruler Prince Michael the Brave overcame the adversity of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires to unite Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania into one country.
- Cethegus, leader of the Roman nobility, travels to Bizantium and its leader Justinian, in an attempt to raise an army to march on the Goths under Narses. Cethegus would like to set the two sides to war against each other, that his own forces might take control at the outcome.
- The Dacian kingdom lies at the eastern border of the Roman Empire.Only the river Danube separates the two mortal enemies.The Dacian king Decebalus knows that soon the vastly superior Roman legions will cross the river and attack Dacia.
- A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.
- Italy during the Napoleonic wars: A French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit get beyond the enemy lines. There they meet Carlotta the resolute daughter of an Italian Count, who cannot withstand the charm of the French.
- 1514. The peasants' uprising is over, Dózsa has been arrested. Werboczy tries to get the imprisoned peasant leader deny the revolution and offers him the lives of his people in exchange. In the breaks between the interrogations, Dózsa's recollections recount the events of the uprising. The battles have been accompanied by his disputes with priest Lorinc about revolution, the necessity of violence and the ruthless discipline employed towards their own people. His memories confirm Dózsa's decision. He denies nothing, accepting his execution and the throne on fire.
- 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.
- In a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. A group of robbers kidnap May to use his magic talent: he feels sick when surrounded by gold, therefore he can feel gold from a long distance.
- The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
- Three paroled inept Romanian convicts dream up get-rich-quick schemes on the Black Sea Riviera where a petty-crime police squad led by Captain Panait is vacationing.
- A large family and it's many generations vie for advantage, seeking to win the inheritance sure to be left behind by a wealthy older man of the clan. Along the way, stories of friendship, love and rivalry emerge.
- Cethegus starts the war between the Ostrogoths and their queen, Amalasuntha, and the Byzantine Empire, but when the Byzantine army invades Italy to reconquer Rome, romance prevails and threatens to ruin the plans for Cethegus.
- Follows the Communist Romanian Militia 'miscellaneous brigade' and the 'diverse' crimes that it solves.
- Comedy/drama the life of an honest man who is pushed by his family to make policy
- The writer Humphrey van Weyden gets overboard in 1906 in a shipwreck in the fog in the Bay of San Francisco and is rescued by a seal catcher, the schooner Ghost under the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.
- The teenager Lucian is at a critical moment in his life. He finished high school and has to enter college. A period of choices, but also of the first thrills of love, awaits him.
- Set in post war Romania, a communist who was tortured by the fascists during the war is now a police detective and sets about clearing his city of gangsters and black marketeers.
- Based on Ion Creanga's book, the story of a child from his childhood to his manhood.
- In 1971 three inept petty Romanian criminals are released from prison but find themselves at the core of two money laundering and burglary cases.
- The tranquility of a Romanian village is shattered by the arrival of a beautiful unknown coinciding with the discovery of a new star by a modest professor of astronomy.
- During the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, a band of outlaws aims to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. Two stepbrothers, Sarbu and Amza, lead this band with their complex and violent relationship.
- In 1462 the Ottoman turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and replace him with puppet ruler Prince Radu the Handsome.
- When a big ocean liner's cargo of fertilizer catches fire, it causes an explosion and pretty soon, the whole ship is ablaze. A helpful newlywed passing by in a canoe and a stowaway help try to fight the fire.
- In order to give his daughter, Miss Ralu, the desired jewelry, Caragea Voda establishes a new brewery. The notorious Anghel Saptecai, the captain of a band of outlaws, stands up in defense of the burdened peasants.
- Young chemist Magdalena imagines how the perfect man should look like. The question is whether her old flame, meteorologist Gore, can fulfil Magdalena's criteria.
- Refusing to give protection to an accomplice to a crime who had provided him with useful information, Major Tache puts his life in danger by being threatened by an old gangster who signs his messages "Death".
- Follows the inner transformation of a man who tried to fight his demon, the love for money, and lost.
- Focused on the August 23rd 1944 coup against Marshal Antonescu, the movie also tackles other topics from the same era such as the Iron Guard rebellion and the execution of political leaders by communists.
- Mihai leads members of the local resistance movement in an attack on a barge carrying weapons and ammunition for the Nazis in this World War II.
- Based on I.L. Caragiale famous romanian novel of the same name, the story explores the fun, bitter and tragic experiences of the main character Lefter Popescu in his desperate attempts to retrieve 2 winning lottery tickets that he lost.
- In late 19th century, a Transylvanian revolutionary fleeing the Imperial authorities goes to Italy where he meets a beautiful soprano who later disappears under mysterious circumstances.
- 'Someplace in the East' is among the first movies made in Romania after the fall of the Communism, dealing with one of the troubled period at the beginning of the Communist rule in Romania. It describes the forced expropriation of land by the Communists and the formation of the Communist farms, which was a real tragic episode in the Romanian history.
- Screenplay based on the short story "Nufarul rosu" by Petre Luscalov.
- A harsh colonel of paratroopers neglects his family after falling in love with a chess player, the sister of one of his paratroopers that got injured because of the jumping punishment given by him.
- In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.
- In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don't oppose them.
- In the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.
- Nea Costel and her consort, Didona, want at all costs for their daughter, Tina, to participate in the Miss Litoral beauty contest, announced in Mamaia. But Tina is in love with Dorel, a shy and jealous boy, who does not see in Tina a beauty of the kind that appears on the covers of magazines and wants to keep her only for himself.
- The last part of the triptych dedicated to the outlaw Saptecai. In the Week of Fools, Anghel's gang exchange the dowry of Miss Ralu for weapons for Tudor's army from Vladimiri, which they decide to join.
- Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.
- After the arrest of Anghel Saptecai, Miss Ralu and Ianuli go to Vienna to buy the jewels. Anghel escapes from the furnace and kidnaps Caliopi, Ianuli's wife, to get the latter to give him the jewels in exchange for his wife's release.
- Based on the story of the same name by Marin Preda. The film tells about the struggle of the poor peasants against the rural rich for the creation of a collective farm.
- In 1917 a village which lies directly on the front line at Marasesti is evacuated. One of the few who decide to stay is an old man together with his 12 year old granddaughter named Mariuca. The girl befriends a Romanian radio operator who had set up an artillery observation post in their yard.
- This movie is a good example of the communist propaganda being advertised in 50-60's Romanian movies. The action takes places in a 30's Romania hit hard by economic crisis. The main character is a school teacher who gets fired from his job and struggles to make ends meet. His four year old cripple son really wants to have a ball(football) to play with. His father really wants to see him happy so he takes some money from his measly life savings and goes to town to look for a ball. Rain starts to pour down and the father finds shelter in a perilous place where he gets robbed of his money. In the next few days he desperately looks for a job but his efforts are in vain. He meets a group of communist party members who attract him to their organization. Along them, he participates in demonstrations on the streets that support the development socialist of the movement. One of his neighbors, also a communist buys a ball for the boy and makes his dream come true.
- The adventures of two brothers in the '80s Romania. Beginning with childish game and joyfull tricks, those two teenagers met another team of pupils and together will learn how to create and lead a spaceship.