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21) Time of the Wolf
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Romanian
Description
Michael Haneke’s futuristic vision follows a global cataclysm, Anne (Academy Award Nominee Isabelle Huppert) and her family set out for a safe haven at their holiday home. But, when they arrive, the home is already occupied by other survivors. Their hopes for safety are immediately dashed by a violent tragedy, which serves as a lesson to take nothing for granted and expect the worst in this new, harsh landscape. Accompanied by a fierce young boy...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Romanian
Description
After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps that he can no longer bare, Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) calls for an ambulance, beginning one man's poignant journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. His lone ally, medic Mioara (Luminta Gheorghiu), admirably fights for his life with compassion and decency.
23) Graduation
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Romanian
Description
Blending rigorous naturalism with the precise construction of a thriller, this Cannes award-winning drama from Cristian Mungiu sheds light on the high stakes and ethical complexities of life in contemporary Romania. As his daughter nears high-school graduation, Romeo, an upstanding doctor, counts on her winning a competitive scholarship that will send her to university in England.
Series
Criterion collection volume 923
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Romanian
Description
With this arresting drama based on notorious real-life events, Cristian Mungiu mounts a complex inquiry into faith, fanaticism, and indifference. At a desolate Romanian monastery, a young novice nun, Voichita, reunites with her former companion Alina, who plans to take her to Germany. But Voichita proves unwilling to abandon her calling, and Alina becomes increasingly desperate to reclaim her devotion, putting the outsider at odds with the monastery's...
26) The whistlers
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Romanian
Description
Not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery and deception. A trip to the Canary Islands to learn a secret whistling language might just be what they need to pull it off.
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Romanian
Description
The chronicles of a young thatre director₂s efforts to stage an accurate re-enactment of the Odessa Massacre, in which Romanian soldiers slaughtered tend of thousands of Ukrainian Jews, despite the municipal governmnet₂s attempt to censor the director's efforts. Her choice angers a city official who threatens to close the production because of its anti-Romanian take on history. However, the reaction to the staged play is on that neither anticipated....
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Romanian
Description
1987, Communist Romania. During the course of one day, Otilia helps her friend and roommate Gabita get a late-term abortion. With abortion, let alone any kind of contraceptive, being illegal, the girls have to use illegal means to acheive their goal. Shows the rough and gritty situation in which the girls, particularly Otilia, must make decisions and deal with their consequences.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Romanian
Description
In 2015, a fire at Bucharest's Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt system but...
30) Aferim!
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Romanian
Description
Set in early nineteenth century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
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