Ion Besoiu
Also Known As: Ион Бесою
Biography: He was born in Sibiu in 1931 and graduated the city's Theater and Music Academy. After making his debut in 1957, he played for 16 years at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu. He then moved to Bucharest, where he played at the Bulandra Theatre. He later served for 12 years as director of this well-known theatre.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sibiu, Romania
Adult: No
Birthday: March 11, 1931
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 18, 2017
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Michael the Brave
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-02-13
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Subspecies
Overview: Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-08
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Ashes and Blood
Overview: Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see her family for years, Judith, in spite of her fears and secrets, allows herself to be influenced by her children's wishes and accepts an invitation to their cousin's wedding. They set off to spend a summer in the old country, discovering their roots and their past. But Judith's return revives old hatreds between rival clans. The spiral of violence is inexorably set in motion, blood will tell...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
Overview: Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-04-14
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Loverboy
Overview: Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. Luca falls in love with Veli, one of his potential victims. It's summer down the Danube river, in Harsova. The music is loud, the cars are fancy, the girls are tanned and Veli runs away from home in Luca's bed. First love has never felt more dangerous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2011-05-18
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The Immortals
Overview: It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".
Genres: History Action War Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-12-23
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Revenge
Overview: "Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we meet up with police inspector Tudor Moldovan, once again, who wasn't actually killed and who has returned to put an end to Paraipan's actions once and for all. When Paraipan kidnaps Moldovan's kid, the police inspector makes up his mind to punish Paraipan and his bosses and to finish off the fascist movement, lead by Zavoianu and his allies. Together with the communist that fight to gain power, Moldovan takes out his enemies one by one.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-11-12
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The Last Bullet
Overview: A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-05-26
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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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Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Overview: A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-01-24
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Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert
Overview: The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-07-26
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François Villon: The Maverick Poet
Overview: The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who led a troubled life due to the fact that he supported the free expression of people in a coercive climate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Proud Heritage
Overview: After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.
Genres: History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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Bucharest Non-Stop
Overview: "Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More specifically, the film is a night of non-stop life of a store located in a neighborhood blocks. Four drive four different stories linked by a key figure, Achim, known as "the boy from non-stop", played by George Ifrim. The film wants to convey the story of ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2015-06-06
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Last Night of Love
Overview: In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's border with Austria-Hungary. Not receiving any news from his wife he persuades the commanding officer, Captain Dimiu, to allow him a short leave to visit his wife. Tudor married Lena two years before but was very jealous and suspected her of infidelity. When his grandfather dies Tudor inherits most of the fortune. Gigolo lawyer Andrei Nicolau is the executor of the will. He also is the man who lustfully desires Tudor's beautiful wife. A contest for Lena's love begins. Romania is plunged into WW1 and ironically Tudor receives his junior Lieutenant commission in the same regiment where gigolo lawyer Nicolau serves as a Major. Their destinies seem intertwined.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-03-30
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Michael, the Dog That Sang
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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Jacob
Overview: Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama. Under the rule of an oppressive monarchy backed by military force, the miners often resort to stealing gold to compensate for their meager wages. Workers are subjected to strip searches and are forced to take laxatives by the often brutal guards and inspectors as they look for stolen gold, and Jacob raises his vocal objections over the treatment of his fellow workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1988-10-03
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Fed Up
Overview: Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but discovers that the child she was carrying is still alive. Wishing to save its life, the doctor puts the mother on artificial life support. Just then, Bebe, the supposed father of the unborn child, enters the scene. A former teacher and mountain climber, Bebe will soon fall in love with the doctor...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Astray
Overview: In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Uprising
Overview: After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural areas where the poor suffer the most from the oppressive social and economic conditions.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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The Mysteries of Bucharest
Overview: The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret societies are working to chase away the Prince Gheorge Bibescu from his throne, arms are transported on secret ways, preparing the first popular revolts in Bucharest, as the first act of the Revolution of 1848, which revolution is the first impulse of the later act of the Union of the Wallachia with Moldova (Romanian United Principalities in 1862, Kingdom of Romania in 1881 and Kingdom of Greater Romania 1918, with Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-09-12
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The Silver Mask
Overview: Agatha Slatineanu, together with the alleged banker Troianoff, rob the boyar Valcu of a treasure collected in order to buy the throne. However, the gold is recovered by Margelatu for the benefit of the "Brotherhood".
Genres: Adventure History Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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Mirror
Overview: Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime Minister. Focused around 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.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1994-02-11
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Poor Ioanide
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-04-28
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Bariera
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Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-12-11
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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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Ciprian Porumbescu
Overview: This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Tudor
Overview: Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and Turkey from 18o6 to 1812,for which he was decorated by the Russians.
Genres: History War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1963-11-18
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Camera alba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-12-29
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The Outlaws
Overview: First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-04-21
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The Soimaresti Clan
Overview: Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1965-04-12
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The Dacians
Overview: The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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The Thirst
Overview: The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1960-10-20
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Forest Fruit
Overview: The 17-year-old Amalia, the daughter of a widower lumberjack with many children, falls in love with a soldier. An irresponsible young man, the soldier refuses to admit that he is the father of the child to be born, as Amalia was just a fling in his eyes. Amalia decides to raise the kid all by herself, but she soon changes her mind…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-11-21
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Crew for Singapore
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Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Calea Victoriei sau cheia visurilor
Overview: Attorney Constantin Lipan (Geo Barton) is tasked to investigate the case of an oil magnate, Iordan Hagi-Iordan (George Calboreanu). This will put pressure on his superiors to drop the case. Based on "Calea Victoriei" novel by Cezar Petrescu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-02-08
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The Bone Srewn Road
Overview: Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.
Genres: Adventure History Western
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1980-05-19
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The Turquoise Necklace
Overview: The kidnapping of a Viennese banker and his daughter threatens to trigger a diplomatic scandal, which could result in the entry of Austrian armies into the country. Margelatu thwarts this attempt and clears up the story.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1986-03-03
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Lilac Blossoms for the Second Time
Overview: Dana, a young teacher, loses her husband in a car accident. Her four year old son misses a father a lot. Dragoș appears in their lives to fill the void.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-11
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The Castle of the Condemned
Overview: After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering to the soviets.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1970-05-04
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The Actor and the Savages
Overview: Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the interwar period and focuses on the conflict between actor and Iron Guard movement ("savages") offended by a satirizes artistic performances. Film question the artist's freedom of expression and the danger posed by his involvement in social issues existing in a dictatorship world.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-01-20
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The Romanian Musketeer
Overview: During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is stolen and offered to the highest bidder.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-10-13
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Păcală
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-01-09
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Mercenaries' Trap
Overview: The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-05-13
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The Last Assault
Overview: The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.
Genres: War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Secretul lui Nemesis
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-11-02
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Everything is Paid
Overview: Margelatu discovers and annihilates a plot by the Austrians by infiltrating the Fratia organization with a fake envoy of the French revolutionary Alphonse de Lamartine
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-12-12
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The Duel
Overview: Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to catch the man behind Rica Pasarin, the gang leader, by using his brother, who is a pickpocket thief.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-06-14
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The Recruitment
Overview: Lured by a delusional offer, a young geologist ravels abroad where he falls in the tentacles of an economic spying multinational, that forces him to play as its agents sing for him. Well endowed morally and physically, our geologist passes with flying banners the tests, more so, he even resists the charms of an irresistible lady agent, only to be able to return home, where it's very obvious for him what he has to do! —Tudor Caranfil & Mihnea Columbeanu
Genres: Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Cyanide and the Raindrop
Overview: Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-09-25
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The Power and The Truth
Overview: This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1972-02-15
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The Brothers
Overview: Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1971-09-20
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Merriment Ward
Overview: How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1964-10-12
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The Snowstorm
Overview: The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-11-19
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The Storm
Overview: The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1960-06-08
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Doctor Poenaru
Overview: In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there he meets a formar army comrade, now a lawyer. An ideological and philosophical dispute ensues, the two following different paths in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1978-05-22
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Mad Forest
Overview: A young communist returns to a small provincial town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Your Part of the Blame
Overview: This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses discuss his admittance in the Young Worker Union, a communist organization, which can help propel his career forward. Mihai calls to remembrance his early days of his job after leaving his village with dreams of having his own house and a decent life. He first starts low as a unqualified worker and each month he saves all his money. The UTM organization tries to convince him to improve his skills become a qualified worker but he refuses saying that he soon wants to go back to his village and be a shepherd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1963-11-28
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Blackmail
Overview: A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.
Genres: Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-02-23
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Dangerous Turn
Overview: A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of placing a dummy on the side of the road and a dead man found found on the side of the road.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-04-25
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Chess to the King
Overview: When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1966-01-26
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Shootings Under the Moonlight
Overview: During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-12-12
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Asediul
Overview: A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-21
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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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The Convoy
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Strange Agent
Overview: This is a thriller based on a theatre play by Horia Lovinescu - „Omul care şi-a pierdut omenia” (The Man Who Lost His Humanity)
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1974-11-04
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Captain's Ion Arrow
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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Eagle 101
Overview: A love story sprinkled with spies. A young hero pilot is vulnerable in front of foreign agents due to his love. Based on the novel "Zbor de noapte" (Night Flight) by Nicolae Tăutu. Acting debut for Ion Besoiu
Genres: War
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1957-08-21
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Mult mai de preț e iubirea
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Horea
Overview: Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-11-05
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Căruța cu mere
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1983-10-24
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I Hope to See You Again
Overview: A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an old mill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Cantemir
Overview: Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight for the manuscript "The History of the Ottoman Empire" and the jewels of the ruler's wife.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1975-06-11
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Sick Animals
Overview: Following 3 murders, the investigations will have some unexpected turns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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