Ion Caramitru

The life story of Herman, a promising young man who under extreme circumstances changed into Romania's most effective torture machine in the infamous Pitesti Experiment during the Communist Regime

A young American falls hard for a Romanian cellist whose father has recently died -- and whose violent past could bring about his own demise.

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 footage of political events and historical milestones significant to Romania accompanied by a narrator's voice walking the viewer through the events, and also interviews with Romanian politicians and other influential public figures sharing their thoughts and their different views on those events.

A sequel to one of Romanian cinema’s most lauded adaptations, The Moromete Family, film tells the tale of Ilie Moromete and his family and focuses on his youngest son, Niculae. The entire order of the world of the village, where the most important thing is to own land and work it, changes upon the arrival of the Communist regime and collectivization.

Klaus Bernath, a wealthy German citizen, decides, after many years, to visit his birthplace, of the Banat Swabian village Lindenfeld, in Romania. Since the village has been deserted for many decades, his son and his biographer decide to reconstruct the whole space from scratch and present it as a populated place.

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.

Adam and Paul are two young junkies living in Dublin and perpetually on the lookout for their next fix. During their search, they encounter various unsavoury characters and make some futile attempts at petty theft. As their day progresses, Adam and Paul get into a good share of trouble as they do whatever they can to score heroin, eventually running afoul of an imposing thug—who only drags them into more shady activities.

A scientist working in a revolutionary new field of quantum mechanics volunteers for a risky new experiment - despite the strong objections of his wife and misgivings of his colleagues.

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.

While a brutal revolution rampages just outside his mansion, pleasure-seeking doctor Daniel Pavenic hosts a genteel dinner party. When asked about a photograph of a mysterious woman, Pavenic reveals the sordid details of his erotic obsession with the woman, his aging servant Ana Puscasu, and his attempts to dominate her psychologically. As the evening progresses, Pavenic's guests reveal their own dark secrets as well.

Gripping drama about an undercover police officer who infiltrates the Manchester underworld to investigate a brutal murder, and his method of getting to know what's happening is to seduce the gang leader's sexy wife

A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state television company TVR and video taken by numerous amateurs becomes a new media-based form of historiography.

In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board their ship while they go searching for the missing astronaut — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.

Love story of 2 high school students with different social standards, Ioana and Alexandru. They are to form a couple with all the social and familial obstacles encountered.

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.

The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials.

The explosion of a 4300 tones Kauper furnace brings up an inquiry, conducted by Ștefan, a Romanian Communist Party activist. He is trying to get to the truth, even if he is pressured just to assign blame.

Resistance fighters blow up munitions depots on a Danube port in Romania, and attack an armament supply convoy for the German troupes.

The school year is inaugurated by teacher Socrates with an extemporary exam on the theme "How would I like to be the class headmaster?". Socrates' popularity worries the math teacher, Isoscel. But Socrates also has his worries about Anca, his daughter in love.

Romanian army reaches Budapest near the end of WW II. A small group of soldiers block some Nazi units on their way to Tatra mountains.

An untalented writer’s attempts to craft a “lifelike” screenplay result in a run-of-the-mill policier.

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.

Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.

Young lawyer Radu Comșa is confronted with an identity crisis as WWI starts.

The young Alexandru Bota, a former Romanian volunteer in Garibaldi's army, joins the secret organization "Order of the Rose" which initiates an action meant to lead to the liberation of the peoples from the Habsburg tyranny. One of the leaders of the order violates the agreement established with Prince Cuza and plots the assassination of Prime Minister Barbu Catargiu, in order to initiate an outbreak of war on Romanian territory.

Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened communist nicknamed Botticelli, whom he once hid from the police in the attic of his house. He receives commissions for large-scale cultural monuments, although he has "on file" the ballast of his children lost in the legionary adventure and continues to accept, in his entourage, a circle of sycophants from the former elite.

The story of heroine Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the only woman who fought in the Romanian Army during World War 1.

Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.

In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.

Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. In 1978 it was broadcast only in select cities in Romania for 1 week, being deemed "too harsh" by the government.

A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life.

After refusing to compromise at his job, a university professor leaves the city and returns to his native village for the first time in many years.

In New Year's Eve, Dan, a pilot, picks up a stranded woman at the airport and they head together to his cabin, where they will meet unexpectedly his ex and her new partner.

A lunatic conductor-director brings to light a kaleidoscope of characters from a kind of insect. Comedy in "zig-zag" from smile to laugh, inspired by a book by humorist Valentin Silvestru.

Mara, a hard-working widow, brings up her two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town.

Obsessed by greed and the fact that his wife is in love with his brother, innkeeper Stavarache heads towards madness. Based on the I.L.Caragiale novel, "In Times of War"

After recovering in hospital from an assault by one of his subordinates, Second Lieutenant Roșu returns to lead his anti-aircraft artillery unit during the final days of World War II.

The secret plan "Margareta II", drawn up by the German General Staff for the intervention of German troops in case of Romania's exit from the war, is discovered by the army and the patriotic forces through a captain who was a schoolmate of the German officer in charge of completing the plan. In the end, the two officers will fight each other, each leading his own tank unit.

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.

The murder of two workers and a high school student triggers a series of investigations, the conclusions of which are eagerly awaited. After several attempts, a sergeant manages to catch the killer.

A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.

Two couriers from a camp show up to communicate with the communists, when there should be only one. Which one is the impersonator sent by Germans?

After graduating from high school and failing the university entrance exam, young Vive leaves his parents’ home in order to find his own way in life and assert his independence.

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 poverty stricken village in 1947 Moldavia, the obsession for getting rich of Prisac turns the community against him. Based on "La Răzeși" (Yeomans) novel by Valeriu Emil Galan.