Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "romanian-history"

1. The Terminal (2004)

PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 496,152 | Gross: $77.87M

2. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Nicodim Ungureanu, Olimpia Malai

Votes: 10,539

3. Closer to the Moon (2014)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Anton Lesser

Votes: 4,339

4. Chuck Norris vs. Communism (2015)

Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Comedy, History

In the oppressive 1980s communist Romania, the smuggled VHS tapes of banned Hollywood films become an inspirational ray of hope. A hybrid feature about the magic of film and the power it has to change lives.

Director: Ilinca Calugareanu | Stars: Irina Margareta Nistor, Teodor Zamfir, Mircea Cojocaru, Vlad Craioveanu

Votes: 2,459

5. That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)

111 min | Comedy, Drama

The story is set in 1968, when a Romanian-German family from the city of Arad starts a journey to the German Democratic Republic.

Director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu | Stars: Alexandru Margineanu, Razvan Enciu, Ovidiu Schumacher, Susanne Bormann

Votes: 659

6. The Rest is Silence (2007)

114 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible ... See full summary »

Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Marius Florea Vizante, Ovidiu Niculescu, Mirela Zeta, Sandu Mihai Gruia

Votes: 2,932

7. Columna (1968)

133 min | Drama, History

The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.

Director: Mircea Dragan | Stars: Richard Johnson, Antonella Lualdi, Ilarion Ciobanu, Amedeo Nazzari

Votes: 767

8. Examen (2003)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

While fully enjoying the life of the 70's, in communist Romania, a young man is arrested and accused of a terrible crime. Freed a few years later and deeply affected by his sinister ... See full summary »

Director: Titus Muntean | Stars: Marius Stanescu, Gheorghe Dinica, Clara Voda, Gheorghe Visu

Votes: 693

9. Si atunci, ce e libertatea? (2020)

133 min | Drama

Inspired by historical facts, this film is a story of love and survival against the background of the 1951 Communist ordered deportation of 40, 000 landowners and people of non-Romanian origins to the Baragan Plain, the "Romanian Siberia".

Director: Andrei Zincã | Stars: Olimpia Melinte, Nicodim Ungureanu, Serban Georgevici, Radu Bânzaru

Votes: 173

10. 30 de ani de democratie (2019)

181 min | Documentary

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing ... See full summary »

Directors: Cristian Delcea, Mihai Voinea | Stars: Madeleine Albright, Ilie Alexandru, Ioan Amarie, Crin Antonescu

Votes: 503

11. Aliyah DaDa (2015)

115 min | Documentary

A documentary about the Jewish people in Romania and their several migrations towards Israel, across history and changing political frames - everything presented in a self-proclaimed dadaist style.

Director: Oana Giurgiu | Stars: Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara

Votes: 145

12. Fata în fata (1999)

Comedy, Drama

A protesting writer finds out that her husband has been a Securitate informant for 20 years. The story makes the media headlines. In 24 infernal hours, the couple reevaluate their lives to decide how and if they can continue.

Director: Marius Barna | Stars: Maia Morgenstern, Serban Ionescu, Serban Pavlu, Mircea Diaconu

Votes: 34

13. Trahir (1993)

103 min | Drama, History

After hard years in prison, a poet accepts a pact with the Securitate so that his volumes will be edited. But the duplicitous relationship established with the agent who obtains his freedom will spoil both his family life and his creation.

Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Johan Leysen, Alexandru Repan, Mireille Perrier, Razvan Vasilescu

Votes: 126

14. At the Crossroads of Great Storms (1980)

86 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.

Director: Mircea Moldovan | Stars: Vlad Radescu, Cornel Ciupercescu, Constantin Codrescu, Silviu Stanculescu

Votes: 42

15. Transylvania Dragon (2015)

40 min | Documentary, Short

Acrobat Flaviu Cernescu travels 2500 miles on a single wheel and discovers Romania.

Director: Sabin Dorohoi | Stars: Flaviu Cernescu, Mihai Constantin

Votes: 15

16. Timisoara: December 1989 (1993)

82 min | Documentary

A documentary inquiry into how the Ceausescu government in Romania was overthrown, focusing on the man who issued the orders to shoot at protesters.

Director: Bose O. Pastina

Votes: 17

17. World's Greatest Palaces (2019)
Episode: Peles Castle (2019)

Documentary, History

The Neo-Renaissance Peles Castle, built in the Carpathian Mountains as a summer home for King Carol I of Romania, is a marvel of the late 19th century technology and a silent witness to the turbulent 20th-century history of Romania.

Stars: Christien Anholt, Roma Agrawal, Liam Burton, James W.P. Campbell