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- A Romanian peasant, visiting a friend who is working at a hotel on the Black Sea Riviera, is mistaken for a look-alike rich American businessman.
- The 1977 Romanian series 'Toate pînzele sus' follows Moldavian fishermen turned sailors aboard the 'Hope' in the 19th century. Facing challenges at sea, it focuses on friendship, survival, and freedom.
- The movie " Veronica ", a masterpiece of Romanian cinema in 1973 with actors like Dem Radulescu, Lulu Mihaescu and Margareta Paslaru is today a charming film for children. In a magical world made with dream scenery, always put husbands and exuberant energy, Veronica, a girl who grows up in a home for children, receives a birthday present from her fairy godmother, played by Margareta Paslaru a magic bag that will fulfill any desire. Veronica refuses to share this gift with other children and for this is punished by Zana. From this moment the dream adventures of Veronica become very exciting. New characters appear as Puss Danila, played by Dem Radulescu, goody fox (Vasilica Tastaman), cricket, played by Florian Pitis and mouse in which we can see the role of George Michael. Elisabeta Bostan, iconic film director and writer of Romanian children waited for two years for permission to start the movie, filming in 1972 by launching a villa situated in the Prahova Valley, in ruins but gave Giulio Tincu life, high designer of his time.
- Two Romanian Brothers go in a search for their Other Brother who went to the USA 10 years Prior.
- In 1475 when Stephen the Great ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.
- 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.
- It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "romanian dream".
- 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.
- The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.
- The adventures of the three Brad brothers continues when Traian falls in love with Anabelle, a singer. He wants to marry her, not knowing that she is helping someone to rob a bank.
- In 1970s Romania a rebellious and erratic teenager is vying for his older step brother's love and attention while envying his fame and lifestyle.
- Adapted from Mihail Sadoveanu's 1926 novel. Lizuca is a 6 year old girl whose mother died and whose father is married to a nasty woman. She has to leave her grandparents, who she lived with for a while, because her stepmother needs her. Because Lizuca has inherited a forest from her mother. She is neglected and mistreated by her new stepmother and her father is never there. But together with her dog, she knows how to escape.
- In 1916 Romanian Army lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu jealously obsesses over his wife Lena's apparent infidelity and contests against gigolo lawyer Nicolau for Lena's love.
- In 1918 a defeated Austro-Hungarian Baron Colonel Von Görtz returns home to Transylvania which has just been lost to Romania. A vengeful Von Görtz punishes the nearby villagers but Romanian Major Tudor Andrei aids them.
- 'Two Years' Vacation', Jules Verne's novel, adapted into a mini-series, was re-edited for the big screen in two films: Piratii din Pacific and Insula Comorilor. This is the first part where the group of boys find themselves adrift at sea.
- 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.
- Fleeing into the woods to save duckling stolen by Madame Fox, Veronica gives Cricket, the queen ants and Danila dangerous cat who intones that all Popa Themistocles other choruses. Tudor Caranfil - 2002 (Dictionary of Romanian films)
- In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire.
- During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.
- In the period 1944-1945, in the Romanian countryside village, the old administration and the wealthy class from the villages faced the political changes announced by the "democratic forces" and opposed the agrarian reform.
- During the summer of 1944 a Romanian orphaned teenager is coping with the pain of being alone,hungry,homeless and harassed by the police and is suffering the rigors of detention in a juvenile correctional institution.
- Directed by Andrei Blaier, this film was produced in 1989, just a few months before the December revolution. Made in a subtle key with veiled references to the communist system of that time, the film only ran for one week, after which it was censored. Set against the backdrop of the dramatic days that preceded and consecrated the Great Union of 1918, "The Moment of Truth" (1918) is more the story of a fascinating but sad love than the fresco of that era. Following in parallel a love in troubled times and the historical destiny of Romania, the film depicts, equally with poetry and realism, the enthusiasm, but also the anguish of those eras, both on a collective and individual level.
- A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
- 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.
- 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.
- After 20 years in Ottoman Constantinople, Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir completes the written history of the Ottoman Empire and is crowned King of Moldavia in 1710 but his valuable manuscript is stolen by foreign agents.
- At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities.
- Romania in the years 1939 - 40. The very talented and successful architect Ioanide, an idealist, is dreaming that the intellectuals will get the power in Romania. Sequences of the legionary movement, with the life of the intellectuals and the high nobility, are mixed in a tremendous drama.
- In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
- The best workers from various factories in the communist system are rewarded a cruise on the Danube. The people in charge fight for bureaucratic reasons while the young ones are looking for adventure.
- During the 1970s a foreign smuggler is taking hostages and threatening to sabotage a river pumping station if he is not aided in his attempt to smuggle ancient artifacts out of Romania.Two young local boys foil his plans.
- 'Two Years' Vacation', Jules Verne's novel, adapted into a mini-series, was re-edited for the big screen in two films: Piratii din Pacific and Insula Comorilor. This is the second part where the boys find themselves stranded on the island.
- In 1980s Romania chief-agronomist Vasile Candrea asks his boss for a transfer to a more modest position in the countryside with a local agricultural state farm. The village he's sent to is his native village.
- Life in a traditional Romanian village during the 1980s.
- 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.
- Comedy "film in film" in which the morals of Romanian cinema are satirized.
- Death's last frontier is a 1979 Romanian war film, directed by Virgil Calotescu. This film is inspired by the Massacre of Moisei, Maramures, one of the most violent anti-Romanian massacres in Northern Transylvania, which took place on October 14th 1944, when German and Hortist troops executed the majority of the population and set fire to the town, as retaliation organized by the Resistance against the fortifications in the area.
- Light comedy about various Bucharest house dwelling families trading their houses for apartments in a brand new apartment building complex in a new subdivision of a large Bucharest neighborhood.
- This mid-1980s Romanian Communist propaganda film deals with the topic of young high-school graduates and members of the Romanian Communist Youth Union being sent to work at the Danube-Black Sea Canal mega-project.