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1. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Nicodim Ungureanu, Olimpia Malai
Votes: 10,498
2. Freedom (2023)
109 min | Drama, Thriller, War
During Romania's 1989 revolution, Sibiu witnesses a violent attack on a police station that spirals into armed clashes between soldiers, police, protesters and secret police.
Director: Tudor Giurgiu | Stars: Alex Calangiu, Catalin Herlo, Ionut Caras, Iulian Postelnicu
Votes: 1,237
3. Chuck Norris vs. Communism (2015)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
In the oppressive 1980s communist Romania, the smuggled VHS tapes of banned Hollywood films become an inspirational ray of hope. A hybrid feature about the magic of film and the power it has to change lives.
Director: Ilinca Calugareanu | Stars: Irina Margareta Nistor, Teodor Zamfir, Mircea Cojocaru, Vlad Craioveanu
Votes: 2,460
4. How I Celebrated the End of the World (2006)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
In Communist-era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom.
Director: Cãtãlin Mitulescu | Stars: Dorotheea Petre, Timotei Duma, Ioan Albu, Sergiu Anghel
Votes: 3,231
5. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
Not Rated | 180 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.
Director: Andrei Ujica | Stars: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Stefan Andrei, Gheorghe Apostol
Votes: 1,639 | Gross: $0.03M
6. Two Deaths (1995)
R | 99 min | Drama, War
A tale of power, passion, and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Sonia Braga, Patrick Malahide, Ion Caramitru, Sevilla Delofski
Votes: 524
7. Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
106 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu, Mircea Dinescu
Votes: 655
8. 30 de ani de democratie (2019)
181 min | Documentary
Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing ... See full summary »
Directors: Cristian Delcea, Mihai Voinea | Stars: Madeleine Albright, Ilie Alexandru, Ioan Amarie, Crin Antonescu
Votes: 503
9. Requiem for Dominic (1990)
R | 85 min | Drama
A drama between revolution and order, captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they unfolds in Eastern Europe as the "Iron Curtain" collapsed.
Director: Robert Dornhelm | Stars: Felix Mitterer, Viktoria Schubert, August Schmölzer, Angelica Schütz
Votes: 94
10. Piata Universitatii - Romania (1991)
72 min | Documentary
Presentation of the one-month long rally in the University Place of Bucharest, Romania, where students and others demonstrated against the neo-communist government who had taken power after... See full summary »
Directors: Stere Gulea, Sorin Iliesiu, Vivi Dragan Vasile | Stars: Petre Mihai Bacanu, Ana Blandiana, Silviu Brucan, Ion Caramitru
Votes: 168
11. Trading Germans (2014)
90 min | Documentary
A first hand account of one of the biggest cases of human trafficking during the Cold War. A story of greed, courage, hope and remorse.
Director: Razvan Georgescu | Stars: Heinz-Günther Hüsch, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Klaus Kinkel, Horst Teltschik
Votes: 115
12. Kamera und Wirklichkeit (1992 TV Movie)
186 min | Documentary
Filmmakers Harun Farocki und Andrei Ujica discuss footage from their documentary Videograms of a Revolution (1992) about the revolution in Romania 1989 with scientists.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica, Andrei Plesu, Friedrich Kittler
13. 89: Oglinzi si fum (2020)
100 min | Documentary
30 years after, an odyssey through the labyrinth of the 1989 Romanian Revolution memory and through the puzzle of events and coincidences demanding to be solved.
Director: Alexandru Stanescu | Stars: Lavinia Betea, Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu
Votes: 6
14. Détour Ceausescu (1990)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu
Votes: 7
15. Auditions for a Revolution (2015)
24 min | Short, History
Chicago 2006, young people audition for roles in a reenactment of the first televised revolution, the 1989 Romanian revolution. In the piece, the Romanian artist, who witnessed the events, ... See full summary »
Director: Irina Botea
16.
Deutschland 89 (2020)
Episode:
Timisoara Rebellion
(2020)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Thriller
Martin and Nicole follow Lenora, who is looking for shelter in Romania with Grigore.
Directors: Randa Chahoud, Soleen Yusef | Stars: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Sylvester Groth, Corinna Harfouch
Votes: 189
17.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
The Cold War: Part 2
(2019)
TV-14 | 17 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains The Cold War, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 35
18.
Die sieben Todsünden (2004– )
Episode:
Zorn
(2004)
Documentary
The killing of dictatorial Ceausescu-couple banned on rough archive-material and statements of involved people reflecting the happenings of 1989.
Director: Thomas Reider
19.
Beautiful Excursions (2006– )
Episode:
Roumanie, un sourire venu de l'ouest
(2011)
Documentary
A nice journey from Bucharest (the meeting with Michaela in the Cismigu Park, the different architectural styles of the buildings, the People's Palace build in 1984, Anca Petrescu. the ... See full summary »
Director: Frédéric Mianne | Star: Jérôme Pitorin