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Figuranții (1987)
Character: Costi
After 1950, when the comunist regime is fully entrenched, some Bourgeois descendants have to make a living being movie extras. Continuation of "On the Left Bank of the Blue Danube"
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Totul se plătește (1987)
Character: Gonfalone
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
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Punct și de la capăt (1987)
Character: George
Traumatized by the loss of his wife, Vasile, an engineer, joins a new work collective in the provinces, at the ARO factory. Saddened by his loneliness, Cristina overcomes his resistance by becoming close to his little boy.
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Ștefan Luchian (1981)
Character: Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești
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.
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Dincolo de nisipuri (1974)
Character: Nae Caramet
Bad luck and bad judgment follow two generations of men in this Rumanian tragedy, set in the World War II era. Ion (Dan Nutu) seeks to find out why many years ago his father was falsely accused of being a communist, an accusation which led to his execution. He discovers that his father's mistress, now married to a wealthy man, made the accusation for money, as she was deathly afraid of poverty. Ion's own girlfriend seems to be similarly concerned about issues of livelihood, and abandons him for a richer suitor. Frustrated and angry, he burns down these couple's houses and takes up with some anti-communist arms smugglers.
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Singurătatea florilor (1976)
Character: doctorul Danila, coleg cu dr. Pavel
A lonely, selfish and proud doctor receives a bouquet of flowers one day that sets him on fire. An unassuming cab driver, a family man and devoted colleague, helps him to identify the sender and find himself.
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Procesul alb (1966)
Character: Măstăcan
Matei recollects events of the year 1944 in order to prove the innocence of a friend.
Based on "Șoseaua Nordului" (Northern Highway) novel by Eugen Barbu.
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Diminețile unui băiat cuminte (1967)
Character: Tatal lui Vive
A young man leaves home after graduation from high school to make his way in the world and seek his independence. The story is told in flashbacks as the opening scene shows the man suffering injuries from a fall during his construction job as a welder.
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Înghițitorul de săbii (1982)
Character: Col. Măruţă
The movie describes the life of a former circus artist who earns his living from the presentation in villages and towns of a sensational number entitled "Sword Swallower".
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Filip cel Bun (1975)
Character: Ionescu
Young Filip tries to figure out how to live in a world full of compromise and corruption.
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Bietul Ioanide (1980)
Character: dublaj voce Ioanide
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.
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Întunecare (1986)
Character: Alexandru Vardaru
Young lawyer Radu Comșa is confronted with an identity crisis as WWI starts.
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Muntele ascuns (1974)
Character: Eng. Comnea
A young man is taking hard his parents divorce and constant absence, so he decides to work on a hydro dam project. Here he finds some relatives that serve as a family.
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Trei zile și trei nopți (1976)
Character: Piticu (Tiny)
In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.
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Orașul văzut de sus (1975)
Character: Topolniță
Maria Sorescu, director of a re-education school, becomes mayor of a town. She tries to improve the predecessors' record.
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Orgolii (1982)
Character: Prof. Boțan
Professor Cristian conducts research on a citostatic. He is still dealing though with the unjust condemning he suffered in the 50s. Some of the people around him try to bring him down with same type of accusations.
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Dragostea și revoluția (1983)
Character: Manuil Păianu
Being in an unhappy marriage, the wife of an important director complains to the party when she is threatened by divorce, saying that her husband has an antisocial behavior. This is an occasion for the people present at that meeting to evaluate their own personal lives.
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Speranța (1979)
Character: N/A
The film presents the evolution of Ștefan Gheorghiu, from a humble worker in Concordia oil company to a journalist, then a fighter for workers' rights and organizer of the trade union movement in Romania.
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Sezonul pescărușilor (1985)
Character: N/A
In order to get a promotion, a chemical engineer (Dorel Vișan) uses the researches done by his colleague (Dan Condurache) for his doctoral thesis. But when an important damage takes place in the factory where both of them work, the first one’s incompetence comes out.
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Un om în loden (1979)
Character: Amin
Threatening letters, phone calls in the middle of the night... Who is threatening engineer Stamatiad?
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Un surâs în plină vară (1963)
Character: Nea Grigore
Fanita, a young man desirous to earn money as a result of personals initiatives, will fail in all these businesses , is ultimately convinced to enter in the Agricultural Production Comradeship or Community from his village.
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La porțile pămîntului (1965)
Character: George
A group of geologists are in a prospecting expedition. Their personalities are explored as well.
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Escapada (1983)
Character: General Director
A bunch of comrades with ascending ranks from the same factory go on a illegal arranged hunting trip with a few intended 'romantic' mishaps.
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Burebista (1980)
Character: Dacian King Burebista
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.
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Iancu Jianu, haiducul (1981)
Character: Banul Andronache
The movie is set in 1788-1843, a tumultuous era for Walla Wallachia, when the Phanariot regime was exercising its power over the people. In a world marked by oppression, the young Iancu Jianu becomes a symbol of resistance, fighting against abuses. Together with his friend Mereanu, Jianu plans courageous actions to stand up to the tyranny of the Phanariots and bring justice to the country. His journey brings him into contact with Tudor Vladimirescu, the leader of the 1821 rebellion movement, and the two unite in a fierce struggle for freedom and independence.
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Prea cald pentru luna mai (1984)
Character: Cruceanu
At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.
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Răpirea fecioarelor (1968)
Character: Pazvanoglu
In 19th century Wallachia war-bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity, while Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don't oppose them.
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Mușchetarul român (1975)
Character: Mehmet
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.
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Răzbunarea haiducilor (1968)
Character: Pasvanoglu
Second 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.
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Pentru Patrie (1977)
Character: Mihail Kogălniceanu
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.
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Un echipaj pentru Singapore (1981)
Character: N/A
A ship captain loses his ship and most of his crew in a shipwreck in the Caribbean. Returning home, he has a guilty conscience and nightmares about what happened, which drives him away from his wife. He is given command of a new merchant ship bound for Singapore when its captain is injured shortly before departure. On the new ship he is treated with distrust and hostility by the captain, who hopes to be promoted to captain, and by the crew, who are used to lax discipline.
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Galax, omul păpușă (1984)
Character: Rosca
The story of Galax, a robotic 'man-doll', artificially created out of wood and computer circuitry, Appearing to come to life, it becomes a rival for the affections of Marie, a young student and an issue for university authorities.
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Cantemir (1975)
Character: Mehmet
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.
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Iancu Jianu, zapciul (1981)
Character: Banul Andronache
The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich.
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Getting Lucky (1989)
Character: Jock
School nerd Bill just wants to save the world and to score a date with cheerleader babe Chrissie Schackler. Both become real possibilities when he finds an alcoholic Leprechaun in a beer bottle he was about to recycle. Wacky hijinks ensue as the leprechaun, Lepkey, messes up a few of the wishes. Can Bill fight off school jock Tony Chanuka and marry Chrissie so they can fulfill their dream of opening a clinic?
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Cu mâinile curate (1972)
Character: Semaca
A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters.
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Carol I (2009)
Character: Mihail Kogălniceanu
The last days of the first Romanian king, Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and the tough decisions he had to make in the summer of 1914 in order to please both Romanian Parliament and his relatives from the German Empire.
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Ultimul cartuș (1973)
Character: Semaca
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...
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Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni (1993)
Character: N/A
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.
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Cuibul de viespi (1987)
Character: Oncle Michel
In 1936, a time when Bucharest was known as the "Paris of the East", the three Duduleanu sisters, from a family of prosperous merchants, rule their clan with an iron fist. Young journalist Mircea Aldea joins the clan by marrying their daughter, but the union is short-lived.
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Oglinda (1994)
Character: Andrei Vyshinsky
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.
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Vlad Tepes (1979)
Character: Mitropolit of Muntenia
Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.
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Reconstituirea (1968)
Character: the prosecutor
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher take the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.
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Un été inoubliable (1994)
Character: Gen. Tchilibia
In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian frontier where both their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
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Aproape de soare (1961)
Character: Șoni
Petre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel man, having Mihai Solca – a sort of communist industrial hero – as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he soon gets into the team of an old steel man, foreman Tudor Baci.
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Ábel a rengetegben (1994)
Character: Surgyélán
The film is set in Transylvania in the 1920s, a region that was then part of Romania under the peace treaties following the First World War. The protagonist, Abel, is a resourceful teenage boy who is forced to leave his parents and his home because of poverty. His father accompanies him to the snowy mountains, where he is the guardian of a forest owned by the bank of a neighbouring town, where he oversees the firewood that is being harvested. Up there, he has only himself to rely on. Áron Tamási's beautiful story is about the relationship between man and nature, man and man.
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