Amza Pellea

Acting

Amza Pellea

Born — Died

1931-04-07 — 1983-12-12

Place of birth

Băileşti, Dolj, Romania

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

The Dacians poster
7.1

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.

The Dacians

1967

No artwork available
NR

The events of August 1944, when King Michael I of Romania overthrew the fascist regime.

Un august în flăcări

1974

Ecaterina Teodoroiu poster
7.1

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

Ecaterina Teodoroiu

1979

The Last Bullet poster
7.9

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roman. Left without Miclovan's support, dead in action, Commissioner Roman wants to see his murderer, a very powerful local mafia and smuggler, Mr. Semaca, acquitted by the court for lack of evidence, punished. But before dealing with Semaca, Roman receives a new mission, this time undercover: the capture of a German spy still active in the country, suspected to be hiding in a monastery. In this mission, Commissioner Roman also has a helper, Oarca, a former underwriter who proves good at everything and especially at car chases on serpentine...

The Last Bullet

1973

Gently Was Anastasia Passing poster
7.3

A border town on the Danube, 1944. The town is occupied by the Germans, and there are plenty of collaborators. A number of the young men join the partisans, kill a Serbian, and throw his body into the village, forbidding anyone to bury it. Anastasia refuses to obey the order…

Gently Was Anastasia Passing

1980

Mercenaries' Trap poster
7.4

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

Mercenaries' Trap

1982

Film credits

1980s · 11 titles

Gently Was Anastasia Passing poster
7.3

A border town on the Danube, 1944. The town is occupied by the Germans, and there are plenty of collaborators. A number of the young men join the partisans, kill a Serbian, and throw his body into the village, forbidding anyone to bury it. Anastasia refuses to obey the order…

Gently Was Anastasia Passing

1980

Mercenaries' Trap poster
7.4

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

Mercenaries' Trap

1982

Blackmail poster
7.1

A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.

Blackmail

1981

The Impossible Love poster
7.4

Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by the engineer Dan to accompany him in building a new city. Along the way, he meets his future wife and subsequently source of unrest and rebellion against fate. The movie is based on a novel by Marin Preda called "The Intruder".

The Impossible Love

1984

William the Conqueror poster
7.5

William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom. How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is still a matter of debate among historians, with some such as Richard Southern claiming that the Conquest was the single most radical change in European history between the Fall of Rome and the 20th century. Written by jeff davis, III

William the Conqueror

1982

No artwork available
6.5

The director of a hydropower plant has to deal with conflicts between his subordinates, pressure from the majors and complications in his own personal life.

Un petic de cer

1984

Ana and the Thief poster
6.8

A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.

Ana and the Thief

1981

Sfântul Mitică Blajinul poster
8.0

A film adaptation of Aurel Baranga. A satire that targets the careerism, licentiousness and imposture of some people with "positions of responsibility", who make their position a means of parvenire.

Sfântul Mitică Blajinul

1982

The House Between the Fields poster
7.5

In a farmers’ cooperative in a village on the plains, the cooperative’s president rules with an iron fist, ably assisted by his sycophantic henchmen. However, there is one couple — an agricultural engineer and his wife — who refuse to compromise and, as a result, must be silenced.

The House Between the Fields

1980

"Concordia" Team poster
7.2

A communist pyrotechnist lieutenant plans to blow up a Ploiești refinery that fuels the german army in WWII

"Concordia" Team

1981

No artwork available
6.0

A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned.

Stay with You

1982

1970s · 33 titles

Ecaterina Teodoroiu poster
7.1

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

Ecaterina Teodoroiu

1979

The Last Bullet poster
7.9

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roman. Left without Miclovan's support, dead in action, Commissioner Roman wants to see his murderer, a very powerful local mafia and smuggler, Mr. Semaca, acquitted by the court for lack of evidence, punished. But before dealing with Semaca, Roman receives a new mission, this time undercover: the capture of a German spy still active in the country, suspected to be hiding in a monastery. In this mission, Commissioner Roman also has a helper, Oarca, a former underwriter who proves good at everything and especially at car chases on serpentine...

The Last Bullet

1973

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire poster
8.0

At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billionaire, Mr. Juvett. Marin is amazed by the revealing clothing worn by women at the resort, while the hotel guests are fascinated by his quaint peasant costume. In the hotel room, Marin is perplexed by the various gadgets. Meanwhile, the gangsters learn that Juvett has arrived at the hotel. Juvett is the father of the kidnapped girl, and is coming to pass over a million dollar ransom. A rival gang, who know about the kidnapping, plan to take the ransom for themselves. They follow Marin, believing him to be Juvett.

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

1979

Michael, the Dog That Sang poster
7.1

The adventures of the Irish terrier Michael began the moment he ran to the shore during a walk. Here he was picked up by the steward of the schooner McCambo, Dag Daughtry. Dag decided to sell the purebred dog at the nearest port, secretly brought Michael onto the schooner and hid him in his cabin. Michael was given another name. He became very attached to his new owner, with whom he would have to go through many happy and sad days, break up after a series of dramatic events and meet again.

Michael, the Dog That Sang

1979

Revenge poster
8.2

"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.

Revenge

1978

Ciprian Porumbescu poster
6.2

This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.

Ciprian Porumbescu

1973

Cantemir poster
8.0

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.

Cantemir

1975

Michael the Brave poster
7.2

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.

Michael the Brave

1971

Proprietarii poster
NR

An industrial drama centered on the false reports submitted to higher supervisory authorities by the management of a factory, which had previously secured the protection of a high-ranking party official. These deceptions are accompanied by efforts to suppress the initiatives of a young engineer who proposes replacing mechanical excavators with hydraulic ones. The protagonist fights for his ideas and ultimately succeeds in imposing them when the First Secretary of the County Party Committee intervenes, leading to the exposure of the factory’s failures, the triumph of the “new,” and a proper understanding of the concept of “socialist property.

Proprietarii

1973

Accident poster
7.0

Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience.

Accident

1977

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cadavrul viu

1975

Three Days and Three Nights poster
7.2

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

Three Days and Three Nights

1976

Melodii, melodii poster
8.4

A young light music band accepts the offer of a shady impresario whose "arrangements" can't prevent their triumph on the seaside.

Melodii, melodii

1978

The Hussy poster
7.5

An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.

The Hussy

1978

The Punishment poster
7.3

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.

The Punishment

1976

Shootings Under the Moonlight poster
7.5

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

Shootings Under the Moonlight

1977

Sunday Father poster
6.3

Mircea, an auto-mechanic engineer who has left his wife, attends his son's pioneering Sunday go-kart rallies. There he meets the father of his colleague and rival, a prosecutor. The situation becomes tense and a work accident is investigated by the prosecutor himself...

Sunday Father

1975

The Thing in the Castle poster
7.5

A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore their youth.

The Thing in the Castle

1979

Ulzana poster
5.0

This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying to settle down in a rather constricted territory. But the confrontation with the white Americans changes their situation as the mercantile "gentlemen" want to prevent the Indian tribe to become independent from the white men′s business practices. Thus, they destroy the irrigation plant and chase the Indian tribe in an inhospitable territory where they cannot survive. Led by their chief Ulzana, the Appacheans thus start a bitter fight to preserve their habitat.

Ulzana

1974

A Police Inspector Calls poster
7.7

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...

A Police Inspector Calls

1974

The Immortals poster
7.3

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".

The Immortals

1974

For Motherland poster
7.9

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

For Motherland

1977

Stejar, extremă urgență poster
7.8

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.

Stejar, extremă urgență

1973

The War of the Princesses poster
6.8

Lured by the treasure of Moldavia and supplies, Sobieski, king of the Poles, orders the attack on the fortress of Neamț, and Captain Ghinda organizes the betrayal. In view of the overwhelming majority of the lezs, they send the young Ioana to the king, but the traitor Ghinda also covets her. And so, in the Moldavian camp, new idylls and intrigues keep brewing until all that is left of the fortress are the ruins.

The War of the Princesses

1970

The Light on the Gallows poster
6.5

Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organize a slave revolt. The envoys are Debuisson, the grandson of a Jamaican rum manufacturer, who knows the island very well, his old friend Sasportas, and the sailor Galloudec. After having established contact with the fragmented rebel groups, they receive the surprising news of Napoleon′s takeover in France. Whereas Debuisson, who by now has gotten used to his role as a rich heir, wants to wait for new instructions from home, his companions are determined to press ahead with the revolt. When a slave kills a British guard, the situation escalates.

The Light on the Gallows

1976

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death poster
7.1

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.

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

1972

Arms of Afrodite poster
6.8

A Romanian construction company is contracted to build a sea port in Morocco. In the process they find some roman artifacts.

Arms of Afrodite

1979

The Power and The Truth poster
8.2

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.

The Power and The Truth

1972

The Blue Gates of the City poster
7.3

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 Blue Gates of the City

1974

The Mock Doctor poster
9.0

Sganarelle, mistakenly considered a famous doctor because of a prank, is brought in M. Geronte's house to cure his daughter, who went mute overnight.

The Mock Doctor

1975

Babusca's Adventures poster
7.4

In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.

Babusca's Adventures

1973

Captain's Ion Arrow poster
8.0

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.

Captain's Ion Arrow

1973

The Romanian Musketeer poster
6.4

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.

The Romanian Musketeer

1975

1960s · 11 titles

The Dacians poster
7.1

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.

The Dacians

1967

The White Room poster
8.0

A simple story about a man who, in saving another man - whom he does not know - suffers all the consequences of an accident and the implications that medicine catalogs in the name of science.

The White Room

1965

The Outlaws poster
7.6

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.

The Outlaws

1966

Tudor poster
7.5

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.

Tudor

1963

The Uprising poster
7.3

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.

The Uprising

1966

Sea Cat poster
7.8

The Romanian Ministry of State Security has learned that foreign intelligence is hunting for plans for blue mines, where strategic raw materials are mined. This task is carried out by a gang led by a spy named Sea Cat.

Sea Cat

1964

Darclée poster
6.2

Darclee is a lead singer for an opera company in Romania with a heavy load of responsibility. It seems the company is in dire need of a decent physical structure for their performances and a brace -- or more -- of good singers to improve their image and sales. In other words, they need just about everything except an excellent lead singer; Darclee fills that bill. And so the company rather unfairly leans on her to get the people and the funds they so desperately want.

Darclée

1960

The Thirst poster
6.5

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

The Thirst

1960

The Column poster
7.5

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

The Column

1968

Celebrul 702 poster
6.2

In the imaginary country of "Allergica", a group of gangsters have made a fat hit by pinning the blame on the Kid, who awaits execution in the terrible "Bing-Bing" prison. At the last moment the electric chair is unplugged because the lawyer has persuaded the doomed man to dictate his gangster memoirs for the use of the Books & Books publishing house. Its director offers him a "bonus to life" only if he plays along. But the Kid prefers to write about truth, people and love.

Celebrul 702

1962

The Soimaresti Clan poster
8.0

Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.

The Soimaresti Clan

1965

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