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Mr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.

En Rumania en los 80 una mujer ayuda a su amiga a abortar ilegalmente.

Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.

Neglected and misunderstood by her family, disgusted by the frivolity of a provincial town's closed world, without any other horizon but casual sex as a pass-time, the sensitive and prude Magdalena Lazar hopes to find her fulfillment in the romance with her platonic boyfriend, the cadet Cezar Juravlea. But, following the intrigues of her so-called "best friend", Doina Agopian, who also has an eye for Cezar, Magda comes to believe that Cezar dumped her - right in the middle of her coming of age party. Distraught, she adds tranquilizers to alcohol and leaves he house unnoticed, soon to be found unconscious on street. Taken for dead, she is deposed to the mortuary - only to be raped by the necrophiliac attendant, Aurica Capatâna. This shock revives Magda, who turns out to have suffered only a clinical death. During the fuss that ensues, the hospital is assaulted by crowds of visitors eager to see the "wonder girl" supposed to have been "ressurected" and now "able to work miracles", while the family and the prosecutor seem unable to build up a case against Aurica: did he commit a rape, or a corpse profanation? To make a bad situation worse, also appears Cezar, full of remorse - only to learn the truth and reject Magda, for not being a virgin anymore! All along this mess, Magda slowly recovers, using the crisis to see those around her in a startling clarity, and then attempt to have a better chance for her future,

Delia, una joven rumana, conduce hasta Bucarest con sus padres para recoger un premio que ganó en un concurso.

A story of the relationship between a young girl and a lighthouse keeper living beside the Black Sea. After the young girl finds herself stranded in the area the two gradually get to know one another but their isolation is eventually broken when the woman's companion comes looking for her.

An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.

Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son's life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody's advice, he's coming hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making his own set of mistakes - throughout with best intentions.

When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now Constantin thinks pickles might go nice with blood.

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

In a gold settlement in the Apuseni Mountains, the characters of the two parts of the film - "Marza" and "Lada" - fall victim to the gold fever, which condemns them to losing their minds or even their lives.

"Somewhere in Palilula" tells the story of Serafim, a fresh graduate of a medical school, in 60's Romania. He is brought by destiny to the strange town of Palilula. Nowhere, that is. Palilula is a ghost town, lost in the middle of the Wallachia. A quarantine area, a sanatorium, an improbable hospital, a gynecological clinic in a settlement where no child is born. A small community of fools, lazies, sluts, vagabonds with angel's hearts is living under the sun in a sweet innocent unconsciousness. A community of Romanians who forgot their language, but not the nostalgia of their traditional music. Romanians with Danubian taste and disorientation. The young doctor Serafim will not get to practice his profession in this childless town. He will be drowning in the sweet and poisoned honey of the place, like a fly caught by a frog.

Una amistad entre dos jóvenes que crecieron en el mismo orfanato; una se ha refugiado en un convento de Rumania y se niega a irse con su amiga, que ahora vive en Alemania.

American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.

Radu and Adina, a young couple of graduates, have just made love. She is profoundly in love with him and cannot wait to move to his place; however, he has reservations. While going shopping in a superstore, he bumps into (or thinks to bump into) his ex-girlfriend Nadia.

In Communist-era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom.

The hero is a retired army officer in the period of transition in Romania from the Communist rule to democracy. As many aged people during these times he loses a lot in position and material situation and is too aged to adapt and start building something from zero. His last resort is the family, but his home and family is also slowly decomposing under the pressure of the times. His elder son dies in a stupid home accident (the film starts with his funeral), than his only other child, a daughter moves to America in the search of a better material life. His life seems to fall under the control of his in-law, a mercantile and much better adapted man, who slowly seems to deprive him not only of his children, but also of his pride and human dignity. The end is unexpected, but if you look back and reflect on what you've seen on screen, it becomes logical.

The Bucharest's suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu, a swineherd, meet and tease each other and starts a beverage competition. Their relationship is not just a one-night stand. It would end with a marriage, if Norica wouldn't want to marry Gili, her 50's boss and boyfriend, and if Mitu wouldn't have to make two years of military service. Mitu's passion for Norica will make him to get in trouble: drove by his obsession for her, he makes something unforgettable. The society's resorts start moving and hunting the couple...

A genius architect is losing both professionally and when it comes to matters of the heart. A film about internal turmoils surfacing, about freedom of thought and action, originality, non-conformism and everything that opposes these things.

The film is an adaptation of a novel by Marin Preda, a controversial novelist who died during the Communist rule soon after the book was published. It tells the story of an intellectual, professor of philosophy whose life is crushed after he is imprisoned on false accusations at the end of the Stalinist era. Basically the first part of the film tells the story of his fight for survival in prison, the second describes his tentative to regain his life after being released. His release is actually only apparent, Romania of the 60s asks from him different types of compromises and crimes, but yet his fight for survival is as tough morally as in prison.

A drama about a woman who seems able to overcome everything for freedom, except for her past mistakes.

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.

Domestic is a story about people who eat the animals they love and animals who love people unconditionally. A rabbit, a hen, a cat, a dog and a dove pass through the lives of the main characters and influence their evolution.

The film is a masterpiece of directing and acting in the same time.In starring brilliant play Serban Ionescu, Amza Pellea,Gheorghe Cozorici and Tora Vasilescu in a realistic vision of the story-communist emblem of culture: young work site which gives answers to the great questions of existence. Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by 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".Scenario, especially frames and inner monologue are very good thought. Review is written and thought by George Ciocirlan.

Felicia expects that her sister will drive her to the Bucharest airport for her flight to Amsterdam. The sister flakes out, triggering a chain of frustrating complications that conspire to keep Felicia waiting with her excessively protective yet well-meaning mother at the airport.