Maria Ploae
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Department: Acting
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The Cardinal
Overview: In the fifties, the leaders of the Greek-Catholic church are arrested and sent to the Sighet prison.The soviet regime has banned any church except the orthodox. Tortured and dehumanized, the only choices are conversion or death. The bishop Iuliu Hossu stands up in front of the torturers and through courage and stature becomes an inspiration for the other priests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2019-10-01
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Bless You, Prison
Overview: Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Armed and Very Dangerous
Overview: America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy decided to appropriate the land, and succeeded in it by blackmailing Conroy’s wife and his former mistress Julie... Based upon stories by Francis Bret Harte.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-01-09
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Undeva în Est
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Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1990-12-31
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Beyond the Bridge
Overview: Mara, a hard-working widow woman brings up his two children in a developing idustrial Transylvanian town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-02-23
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The Enchanted Grove
Overview: Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on their farm. Before long, Lizuca's father comes to take her away to live with him and his new bride, a vile woman who considers children the bane of all existence. Lizuca and the dachshund escape the wicked stepmother and spend the night in a hollow tree, a tree that changes into an enchanted land where Lizuca (like Alice through the Looking Glass) discovers a world of characters in the form of bees, frogs, the four seasons, Snow White, her dwarves, and other fairy tale creatures. This magic place is threatened by the evil stepmother's plan to sell the grove that protects the secret land to developers -- a decision that puts the woman on trial before this perfidy can be realized.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Return from Hell
Overview: Two men depend on each other for survival in the first world war, but something in their past might prevent them to get along. Will they be able to put everything aside in order to survive?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-08-29
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George Manu - The Rector from Zarca Aiudului
Overview: George Manu, a brilliant Romanian physicist, is sentenced in 1948 by the communist courts to hard labour for life and imprisoned in Aiud prison. Here he becomes an inexhaustible source of knowledge for the other prisoners, whom he helps to survive the grim world of concentration camps by taking refuge in the world of the knowledge.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2013-11-18
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Autumn of the Goslings
Overview: The action takes place in a small Romanian village where three young graduates are sent to fill out the doctor, French teacher , agronomist unfilled jobs. They are regarded with distrust by most of the people in the village, most of them believing that neither of them will stay there. However they will be proved wrong as the young graduates, except the French teacher, want to stay there,do their job the best they know how and try to get used to the ways of that community . After you see this movie you can't help loving all the characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-01-09
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A Clod of Clay
Overview: A movie about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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A Month in Thailand
Overview: In Bucharest on a winter’s morning, a couple make love. Adina wants to move in with her boyfriend Radu as soon as possible. He, on the other hand, is slightly more reluctant but appears to simply tolerate her plans. Today is New Year’s Eve and Radu and Adina have a lot to do: the two have planned a visit to Adina’s parents followed by a party with friends. While buying last-minute gifts at the supermarket, Radu thinks he spots ex-girlfriend Nadja, who he has never forgotten. In one small moment, Radu’s insecurities about Adina come bubbling to the surface. No sooner have the corks begin to pop, the relationship comes to an abrupt end. This is followed by the perfectly timed offer from Radu’s friend Alex to hit the town with him and his friends. Radu accepts the offer in the hope that Nadja is also out. Director Paul Negogescu draws a portrait of Radu with precision and subtle irony – and captures the atmosphere of a New Year’s evening with great authenticity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2012-09-25
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The nest of wasps
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-06-08
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White Gate
Overview: Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2014-06-06
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Drawings on Asphalt
Overview: 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).
Genres: Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1989-05-17
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Reach for the Sky
Overview: A story about young gymnasts in Romania.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Foreboding
Overview: There are a small number of people for whom imagery and symbolism alone are sufficient reason to watch an otherwise difficult film such as this one. In the story, a boy, a woman and a cow seem to be the only survivors of a global catastrophe, except for whoever is following them threateningly in a tank.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1992-03-25
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Stefan Luchian
Overview: Recreating the early twentieth century in Bucharest, leading to an unforgettable journey to the cultural space of Romania bohemia. The film follows the life of one of the famous for his landscapes and still lifes most renowned painters of Romania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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Waiting for a Train
Overview: After Romania changed alliances in August 23rd, 1944, a group of soldiers have the mission to stop a military train.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Martens Brothers
Overview: Historical movie based on the "The Martens Brothers" (Romanian: Frații Jderi) novel. The movie is in the top 20 most watched Romanian movies.
Genres: History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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A Police Inspector Calls
Overview: The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga. To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zävoianu conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the "Morals Division" (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case. However, Moldovan has communist sympathies, so he quickly comes under the influence of the Bolshevik Pîrvu, who had escaped during the Viraga...
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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Pintea
Overview: The movie is set in 18th century Maramureș region of Romania. The Romanian officer Grigore Pintea return to his village and finds out that his parents were killed, and other villagers were tortured because they protested against the unfair treatment of Bartolok Graff. He deserts the Austrian army and he becomes an outlaw. He is joined by many peasants and so his band manages to occupy 2 fortresses.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1976-08-16
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Promisses
Overview: Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Famous Paparazzo
Overview: A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1999-11-09
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Magic Circle
Overview: Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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Hidden Mountain
Overview: A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a hydro dam project. Here he finds some relatives that serve as a family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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At the Crossroads of Great Storms
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-12-08
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Uncertain Roads
Overview: Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he returns in the village, where he burned his bridges.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Mountains in Flames
Overview: 1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-12-15
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Mireasma ploilor târzii
Overview: Paul Vasiliu, a geologist, returns to his native village. Excavating for irrigation works gives him the opportunity to discover some valuable minerals. Now he has to convince the villagers to postpone theirs lifelong dream of having irrigations in their fields to examine if the mineral deposits are economically viable. A common communist propaganda item of those times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Fii cu ochii pe fericire
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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