Maia Morgenstern
Also Known As: Maia Morgenstern Istodor, Maia Istodor, Maja Morgenstern, 마이아 모건스턴, マヤ・モルゲンステルン, مایا مورگنشترن
Biography: A Romanian film and stage actress, described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as "a symbol of Romanian theater and film". In the English-speaking world, she is probably best known for the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. In Romania, she has been nationally known since her 1992 role as Nela in Balanţa, a film known in the United States as The Oak, set during the waning days of Communist Romania. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maia Morgenstern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Adult: No
Birthday: May 01, 1962
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Female
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The Passion of the Christ
Overview: A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-25
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Ulysses' Gaze
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-10-12
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Damen tango
Overview: Nothing seems to threaten the quiet and happy life of Alexandra and Mircea, a couple who's both admired and envied: love, successful careers, and wealth. And nothing seems to ever threaten the very special relation between a renowned university teacher and one her most gifted student, Alexandra and Corina: two women, two friends who, against the age gap, share the same goals, the same interests. Even the same love interests. Until one day, when the sensibility is stronger than the reason. And all of a sudden, everything that seemed certain, such as friendship, loyalty, love and devotion, turns into a terrible hate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-21
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Betrayal
Overview: After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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Kidnapped in Romania
Overview: A couple of Italo-American journalists go missing during their work assignment in Romania.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-02
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My Mother, My Bride And I
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Oak
Overview: A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1992-09-16
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Eva
Overview: Eva meets Tudor on the day of her 16th birthday. It is Tudor who is to make her feel whole as a woman. He becomes for her a source of both love and suffering through his constant mysterious departures and reappearances.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-01
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The Big Question
Overview: Although it was shot on the set of director Mel Gibson's controversial epic The Passion of the Christ, this thought-provoking documentary is not about the making of the movie. Rather, filmmakers Francesco Cabras and Alberto Molinari delve into the nature of divinity and spiritual beliefs through revealing interviews with Gibson and members of his cast and crew -- including stars Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-25
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15
Overview: A love story that happens in the background Revolution in Timișoara.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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The End of Silence
Overview: Centers on the Klein family, who live in a remote house in the mountains. Considered the black sheep, youngest son Jean is thrown out. Angry and threatening, he arrives at Nils and Ida's chalet for a hunting expedition. The next day, he learns how to kill. The following night, his mother's car is set on fire and he is blamed. He disappears into the mountains with a gun. On the third day, it pours down with rain and, in the evening, a storm brews. Shut up in their house, the Klein family await with dread the return of Jean, who will challenge them, weapon in hand.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-07
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The Seventh Room
Overview: An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-06-06
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The Man Without a Lifeline
Overview: The invention of the first modern robot for table tennis training turns Ionel Sporea into a star in the world of Romanian sports. A trip to Moscow, however, ends with a harsh sentence: 12 years in prison for treason. Who is to blame: destiny, the Ceausescu regime, or himself?
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2023-11-16
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The Earth's Most Beloved Son
Overview: The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1993-03-20
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The Green Moon
Overview: Contemporary story of young people in search of happiness which one imagines coming from unseen meetings with people "hooked" on the Internet, the acquisition of works of art, from driving a luxury car in psychedelic music, theater, of money, for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2010-04-15
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A House in Kosovo
Overview: A Swedish guy, who grew up on the streets, becomes a successful business man, only in risk all he's built, to rescue a young Romanian girl he had wanted to adopt, from being organ harvested.
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Original Language: en
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Miss Christina
Overview: The film is an adaptation of the well known short story "Miss Christina" by Mircea Eliade. Moscu arrived at the mansion with his girlfriend, Sanda, the young artist Egor Paşchievici notes that her entire family worships Miss Christina, her aunt murdered in unclear circumstances when she was just 20 years old, during the riots of 1907. Egor is inexplicably drawn into a portrait of Miss Christina and begins to dream. Soon, however, the boundary between dream and reality is blurred and Miss Christina, love Egor, is brought back to life through occult rituals even by her family. When realized, however, that life is in danger Egor Sanda decides to fight the ghost.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2013-11-01
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Bed of Procust
Overview: The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discovers a mysterious Miss T.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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Fata din Transilvania
Overview: Somewhere in the heart of Transylvania, in remote villages, odd traditions are still present. When a young man traveling to Sibiu for a business meeting makes a wrong turn and gets lost, a surprising chain of events changes his path.
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Original Language: en
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Chained Justice
Overview: Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at the beginning of the last century. The movie sheds light on a Romanian peasant who fights against social injustice.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-09-10
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The Goat and Her Three Kids
Overview: Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer, at all costs.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2022-10-28
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Mihai Viteazul: Prințul intrat în legenda Europei
Overview: Voivode Michael the Brave travels through time, together with his wife, discovering, deeply touched, the new world.
Genres: History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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The Secret of Bacchus
Overview: Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-03-05
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Terezín
Overview: The story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czech violinist, who fall in love with each other during the World War II, in Prague.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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Fool's Song
Overview: The story is about Zoltán Frimont, who is a young French doctor of Hungarian origin. He is on a mission in Romania with his wife, who is also a doctor, when he collapses unexpectedly, and finds himself at a psychiatric institution in Transylvania.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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Doar amintirile...
Overview: Short university film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1989-12-29
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The Resurrection of the Christ: Part II
Overview: Plot TBA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Orient Express
Overview: At an old age, prince Andrei Morudzi retreats to his castle in Romania, during the two world wars, after having lead an eventful youth. There he is seen upon as a rare bird by the local folk, due to his strange attitude towards life and his exquisit manners, which don't fit in the way of life of the villagers. But, in the end, despite trying to distance himself from the local people, he can't but influence their humble existences.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Like Girls
Overview: Best friends Silvia, Cela and Rozana try new things after they discover Sivlia's husband cheating on her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2024-09-15
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Mail life
Overview: The father, in the USA, films his life on tapes for his family in Romania to watch. The mother and the child, in Romania, watch the tapes and film themselves for the father. End of study movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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High Strung
Overview: When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a competition that could change their lives forever.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-08
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The Witman Boys
Overview: Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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The Crucifixion
Overview: When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-27
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Revival
Overview: In 2020, when a French robotics student investigates his mother's guarded secret about his true Armenian identity, he jeopardizes his university AI competition to travel to Artsakh and gets entangled in an unexpected full-scale war where he must rely on the evolving consciousness of his AI creation to save his life and learn the truth.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hy
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Mansfeld
Overview: At 15 he and his family became victims of state terror. At 16 he became a freedom fighter to participate in the 1956 Revolution against Soviet oppression. At 17 he is betrayed and arrested by the dreaded Secret Police (AVH). Now he has to spend the remainder of his life in a political prison, called Hell's Hallway, to reach the legal age of 18 before his death penalty can be carried out. Peter Mansfeld was 18 when he was unjustly executed by the totalitarian regime of Hungary. Today he is remembered as one of the national heroes of Hungary.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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Rose's Songs
Overview: Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Exodus to Shanghai
Overview: Exodus to Shanghai tells the story of two lovers who have to escape from Vienna to China after Dr. Ho, the Chinese Consul in Vienna in 1938, issued Exit Visas to many Jews against the instruction of his superiors. Fannia, a New York Jewish Violin student, falls in love with the Consul's nephew Bruce. Together they must leave Vienna as the Gestapo is chasing them to get the Jews and Hitler's painting.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-09
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Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula
Overview: Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reputation as a bloodthirsty warlord became the basis for the myth of Dracula.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
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The Bra
Overview: Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest to find his “Cinderella”.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-09-11
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What About Love
Overview: Two young lovers change the lives of their parents forever when the parents learn from the joyful experience of their kids, and allow themselves to again find their love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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The Death Triangle
Overview: The Romanian army faces the German army in the epic battles of Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz, marking a turning point in World War 1.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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One second of life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2009-04-17
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L'homme pressé
Overview: An antiques dealer misses out on some of life's pleasures because of his obsession with doing everything fast.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-28
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The Man of the Day
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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The Season of Love
Overview: The action of the movie take place in a factory and presents the conflicts between one engineer and some young workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1987-08-04
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Fault Condition
Overview: Melania, a 15 years old high school student gets pregnant with Emi, a classmate. Melania does not tell anyone she's pregnant, Not even to Emi, or to her parents. The situation is extremely complicated because Emi's mother is the director of the high school where the two lovers study, and Melania's mother is secretary at the same high school. In the fifth month of pregnancy, Melania faints during class hours. She is urgently taken to the hospital by her mother who finds her daughter is 5 months pregnant so it's too late for an abortion. Melanie's mother is forced to tell the truth to Emi's mother. Emi's mother forces Melania's mother to promise to keep the pregnancy secret to everyone, even to Emi. Minor's mothers separates the two lovers and decide to give the baby up for adoption to a family of Romanians living abroad who don't have the right to legally adopt a child from Romania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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Isha
Overview: Rahmi, a Romanian immigrant living in England, creates a new life for himself while trying to keep up appearances with his Muslim family. This moving, evocative drama costars renowned Romanian actress Maia Morgenstern and Game of Thrones’ Lino Facioli alongside newcomer Hora Savescu as Rahmi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-29
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Față în față
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Forgotten by God
Overview: The survivor of a cursed family seeks revenge on the lover who jilted her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Margo
Overview: Being forced into prostitution by her father, she finds solace in her friends and her journal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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Nostradamus
Overview: A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-18
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Maria and the Sea
Overview: The wife of a sea captain has a tough time being alone without her husband which is in a long trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Prea cald pentru luna mai
Overview: At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Iubire elenă
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2012-05-18
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Those Who Pay with Their Lives
Overview: An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1989-10-16
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Casa din vis
Overview: Căpălău, a peasant in a village near Brăila, tries to keep up with the turns of life. Based on "Ningea în Bărăgan” novel by Fănuș Neagu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1992-01-13
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Lucania
Overview: An ancient dying land is brought back to life by the primal force of a young mute girl, who witnesses the fatal clash between two fathers.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-06-20
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Carmen
Overview: In a small village close to the mountains, Mariana and Puiu are a young family with two children: Carmen and Mircea. One morning, the mother and the ten year-old daughter leave for Bucharest, having a hospital as their destination. One doctor alone, Sitaru, believes that Carmen, who can no longer smile, stands any chances at survival. He believes he can perform a miracle and save Carmen's life. Struggling for her daughter, abandoned by almost everybody she trusted, Mariana discovers she is pregnant. After dr. Sitaru operates on the little girl, in a risky manner, Carmen begins to feel increasingly worse. Without any hope, Mariana leaves the hospital and rushes to take Carmen home: while one life ends, another one begins to flicker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2013-08-18
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Far from Here
Overview: A young couple struggles to keep their marriage afloat in a foreign country.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2017-03-31
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The Goat and Her Three Kids
Overview: Secluded from the world, a single mother of three has to defend that what's left of her family, at all cost, from a cold blooded killer. Based on one of the best known Romanian fairy tales (The Goat and Her Three Kids by Ion Creanga), this short film aims to unveil the true nature of the famed bed time story and to treat the audience to a different perspective, one that offers a glimpse at what the tragedy actually looks like beyond the happy songs and colorful characters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2019-06-05
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The New Gospel
Overview: What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? And how would today's society respond to the return of the Son of God? With The New Gospel, Milo Rau is staging a "Revolt of Dignity". Led by political activist Yvan Sagnet, the movement is fighting for the rights of migrants who came to Europe across the Mediterranean to be enslaved on the tomato fields in southern Italy and to live in ghettos under inhumane conditions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2020-09-01
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Black Sea
Overview: It depicts the relationship between an elderly woman and her caregiver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-01-30
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Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait
Overview: On the cusp of adulthood, the world's longest running gay short film series is only getting started. Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait includes eleven complete films: Bassem Ben Brahim's animated "Chromophobia"; Jimi Vall Peterson's "Sleepover" starring Hjalmar Hardestam and Simon Eriksson; Mickey Jones's "Just Me" starring Philip Olivier and Carl Loughlin; Matthew Jacobs Morgan's "Mine" starring Joshua McGuire and John Macmillan; Dale John Allen's "Don't Blame Jack" starring Jordan Tweddle and Kane Surry; Timothy Ryan Hickernell's "Foreign Lovers" co-starring Lucio Nieto; Layke Anderson's "Mankind" starring Ricky Nixon and Alexis Gregory; Christopher Manning's "Isha" starring Horia Săvescu and Dario Coates; Jay Russell's "ruok" starring Peter Mark Kendall, Zachary Booth, and Sydney James Harcourt; Chintis Lundgren's animated "Manivald"; and Zoe McIntosh's "The World In Your Window" starring Joe Folau and David Lolofakangalo Rounds.
Genres: Drama Animation Romance Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-18
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Rusalka
Overview: Five old friends spend a few days together in the resort they used to go in their youth. One of them will bring news that will perturb their holiday.
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Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2024-06-01
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High Grounds
Overview: A recent medical school graduate, Emil Petrescu leaves Romania to take over a retiring doctor's medical practice in the Belgian countryside. During the winter, a meteorite disintegrates in the sky, a phenomenon that will leave an old man mute. The young doctor is called to his aid.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ro
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O zi
Overview: Student short film
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Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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