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1. A Touch of Sin (2013)
Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao, Lanshan Luo
Votes: 12,910 | Gross: $0.09M
2. 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
Unrated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A local talk show host organizes an alcoholic professor and a pensioner known for playing Santa Claus to decide whether there was ever a revolution in their town Vaslui.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu | Stars: Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Mirela Cioaba
Votes: 8,127 | Gross: $0.09M
3. Psy (1992)
104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In the good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from the secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to a new post-communist environment where they are scorned and ... See full summary »
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Marek Kondrat, Cezary Pazura, Janusz Gajos
Votes: 5,511
4. United States of Love (2016)
106 min | Drama
Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
Director: Tomasz Wasilewski | Stars: Julia Kijowska, Magdalena Cielecka, Dorota Kolak, Marta Nieradkiewicz
Votes: 1,881
5. Bandyta (1997)
102 min | Drama
In the start of the 1990s, the British government decided to send prisoners with short sentences to serve abroad. Some went to Romania, to serve in schools, orphanages, and hospitals. Some were brutal beasts.
Director: Maciej Dejczer | Stars: Til Schweiger, Polly Walker, Pete Postlethwaite, John Hurt
Votes: 1,052
6. Aurora (I) (2010)
Not Rated | 181 min | Drama
Viorel a 42 year old man troubled by obscure thoughts drives across the city to a destination known only to him.
Director: Cristi Puiu | Stars: Afrodita Andone, Geo Aur, Andrei Barbu, Anda Barleanu
Votes: 2,072
7. Next Stop Paradise (1998)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, Gheorghe Visu, Victor Rebengiuc
Votes: 2,407
8. Liceenii Rock 'n' Roll (1992)
98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The two principal characters have a love affair, with highs and lows accompanied by the Rock'n'Roll music played by their band.
Director: Nicolae Corjos | Stars: Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez, Stefan Banica Jr., Oana Sîrbu, Mihai Constantin
Votes: 1,192
9. Offset (2006)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Nicu (Razvan Vasilescu) runs a print shop in Bucharest, Romania, and Brindusa (Alexandra Maria Lara) is his secretary and translator. They were lovers years ago; now they maintain a ... See full summary »
Director: Didi Danquart | Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Felix Klare, Razvan Vasilescu, Manfred Zapatka
Votes: 428
10. Kajínek (2010)
118 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Deals with the most famous criminal in Czech Republic, the lawyer who continuously tries to free him; the circle of people on both sides of the law who want to keep him in jail and his infamous escape from prison.
Director: Petr Jákl | Stars: Tatiana Dyková, Konstantin Lavronenko, Vladimír Dlouhý, Boguslaw Linda
Votes: 937
11. Tango Argentino (1992)
91 min | Drama, Music
A boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.
Director: Goran Paskaljevic | Stars: Mija Aleksic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Nikola Zarkovic, Rahela Ferari
Votes: 877
12. I Feel Good (2018)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
Jacques, a clueless opportunist is obsessed with finding the project that will make him rich; he decides that the only answer lies in offering cut-price quickie cosmetic surgery.
Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Yolande Moreau, Joseph Dahan, Jean-Benoît Ugeux
Votes: 1,441
13. Intimate Bed (1993)
102 min | Comedy
In post-Ceausescu Bucharest, everybody is struggling to make a living. Vasile Potop, a movie theatre manager, tries to find money for an abortion for his wife Carolina, because he cannot ... See full summary »
Director: Mircea Daneliuc | Stars: Gheorghe Dinica, Coca Bloos, Valentin Teodosiu, Lia Bugnar
Votes: 373
14. Psy 2. Ostatnia krew (1994)
100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is ... See full summary »
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Cezary Pazura, Artur Zmijewski, Magdalena Dandourian
Votes: 2,719
15. Poker (I) (2010)
112 min | Comedy
Four boys start neglecting school in order to meet in a hidden location and play poker. As time goes by, their poker games become more and more serious, while at the same time bring them ... See full summary »
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Vladimir Gaitan, Horatiu Malaele, Valentin Teodosiu, Ion Ritiu
Votes: 944
16. Nobody's Children (1994 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
An American couple attempt to overcome the bureaucracy stopping them from adopting a Romanian child.
Director: David Wheatley | Stars: Ann-Margret, Dominique Sanda, Jay O. Sanders, Reiner Schöne
Votes: 87
17. Panna Nikt (1996)
98 min | Drama
A devout Catholic peasant girl is corrupted by two new friends when her family moves to the city. An allegory of traditional Polish values under threat from materialism and decadence in the post-Communist era.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Anna Wielgucka, Anna Mucha, Anna Powierza, Stanislawa Celinska
Votes: 491
18. Il sol dell'avvenire (2008)
77 min | Documentary
Director: Gianfranco Pannone | Stars: Alberto Franceschini, Paolo Rozzi, Tonino Loris Paroli, Annibale Viappiani
Votes: 41
19. Treca zena (1997)
103 min | Mystery, Thriller, War
Reporter Hela Martinic returns home from Australia to wartime Zagreb, only to find herself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Vera Kralj.
Director: Zoran Tadic | Stars: Ena Begovic, Vedran Mlikota, Filip Sovagovic, Alma Prica
Votes: 100
20. Fobos. Klub strakha (2010)
78 min | Horror, Thriller
Rainy summer evening... Young people are arriving at the new trendy club named Phobos which is still under construction. Or re-construction - since it's a former bomb shelter which is ... See full summary »
Director: Oleg Asadulin | Stars: Pyotr Fyodorov, Pyotr Tomashevskiy, Agniya Kuznetsova, Alex Sparrow
Votes: 603
21. Baklava (2007)
106 min | Adventure, Drama, Music
Jore and Kotze hit the road in search of a buried treasure through the intimate secrets of post communist Bulgaria.
Director: Alexo Petrov | Stars: Nikolay Yanchev, Hristo Herun, Tzanko Petrov, Rumen Grigorov
Votes: 224
22. The Maiden Danced to Death (2011)
100 min | Drama
There were two brothers - two dancers - in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.
Director: Endre Hules | Stars: Endre Hules, Zsolt László, Bea Melkvi, Emöke Zsigmond
Votes: 144
23. Tirana, année zéro (2001)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A film tells the story of a young couple in post-communist Albania, at the time when many Albanians left the country in search for a better life abroad. The protagonist is Nik, who lives in... See full summary »
Director: Fatmir Koçi | Stars: Nevin Meçaj, Ermela Teli, Raimonda Bulku, Robert Ndrenika
Votes: 167
24. Trip (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
Dani, Yumi, Ovidiu, Ada and Cristi are youths addicted to one another, yet intent on escaping the pressure of their interconnectedness and frustrating realities by performing mind trips ... See full summary »
Director: Florina Titz | Stars: Marian Adochitei, Laura Iancu, Lana Moscaliuc, Dragos Stefan
Votes: 50
25. Beyond the Wall (2010)
91 min | Documentary, History
Central Europeans describe life under Communism and offer candid assessments of the transition to freedom, capitalism and democracy in the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Directors: Mark Byrne, Rob Dennis | Stars: Jonathan Bady, Hanna Behrend, John Bok, Stefan Bollinger
Votes: 15
26. Prova di memoria (1992)
100 min | Mystery, Thriller
Back in Prague after 15 years, writer Paul Herzog begins an investigation about a woman he loved at that time, who dead mysteriously.
Director: Marcello Aliprandi | Stars: Franco Nero, Karin Giegerich, Peter Davies, Emanuela Carcano
Votes: 45
27. Swamp City (2021)
105 min | Documentary, Music
A study of the underground music scene in the former Eastern Bloc city of Timisoara, Romania, in the first decade following the fall of the Communist regime.
Directors: Bogdan Puslenghea, Ovidiu Zimcea | Stars: Florin Ban, Emil Biebel, Ciprian Costache, Cristian Craciun
Votes: 37
28. Pepe si Fifi (1994)
105 min | Drama, Sport
A story set in Romania around the time after the revolution. An invalid befriends two brothers, Pepe and Fifi, who dream of becoming famous and rich, but neither of them manages to escape the tentacles of the mob.
Director: Dan Pita | Stars: Cristian Iacob, Irina Movila, Liliana Biclea, Mihai Calin
Votes: 109
29. Sandzak (1991 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Interview with three political leaders of the opposition in Sandzak, two Muslims and one Serb, about human rights, rising ethnic tensions, the upcoming census and the first free elections in the newly post-communist Yugoslavia.
Director: Slobodan Praljak | Stars: Rasim Ljajic, Tihomir Petrovic, Slobodan Praljak, Sulejman Ugljanin
30. Den russiske sangerinde (1993)
119 min | Romance, Thriller
A Danish embassy secretary in Moscow and a prostitute are found dead. Both the Danish ambassador and the Russian authorities are eager to close the case that looks like murder involving a general. A diplomat investigates.
Director: Morten Arnfred | Stars: Ole Lemmeke, Elena Butenko, Vsevolod Larionov, Igor Volkov
Votes: 121
31. Not a Love Song (1997)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Jan Ralske | Stars: Anna Thalbach, Lars Rudolph, Matthias Freihof, Chajim Koenigshofen
Votes: 17
32. Stan niewazkosci (1994)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Maciej J. Drygas | Stars: Konstantin Feoktistov, Oleg Gazenko, Georgy Grechko, Anatoli Gregoriev
Votes: 35
33. If Only I Were an Indian... (1995)
81 min | Documentary
Three Native Americans travel to the Czech Republic to visit residents there who are imitating traditional Native American tribal ways.
Director: John Paskievich | Star: John Paskievich
Votes: 25
34. Common Ground (2012)
82 min | Documentary
Bucharest. A block of flats and its inhabitants, snapshots of a life lived.
Directors: Charlotte Grégoire, Anne C. Schiltz
Votes: 7
35. In Mayor's Name (2013)
54 min | Documentary
Piatra Neamt in Romania. In a small office near the Town Hall, people line up to complain to the only staff member, who is present.
Director: Anca Hirte
36. Rumänien - Das Land in dem ich geboren bin (2004)
75 min | Documentary
Directors: Marc Becker, Hansi Breier | Stars: Hansi Breier, Elsa Lüder, Paul Miron, Constantin Puscasu
37. Generatia Desenelor Animate (2008)
26 min | Documentary, Short
No-budget independent documentary about the Romanian cartoon lovers of the late 1980s and early 1990s and the significance of the genre for the communist and post-communist generations.
Director: Alexandru Stanescu | Stars: Viorica Bucur, Mihai Cabel, Georgeta Chira, Irina Margareta Nistor
Votes: 7
38. Pavlovin koirat (2005)
70 min | Documentary
These days, even poverty can be bought.
Director: Arto Halonen | Stars: Sergei Knyazev, Vladimir Viktorovich
Votes: 56
42. Despre noi, la 100 (2019)
Short
Romanians speak about themselves and their country, on the threshold of the 100 years Celebration since The Great Union of 1918.
Director: Alexandru Stanescu
43. Voittajat ja voitetut (2011)
75 min | Documentary
A story about the struggle against the totalitarian regime in Poland, about the victory as well as the expectations and disappointments related to it, as an example the history of the ... See full summary »
Director: Jarmo Jääskeläinen
Votes: 10
44. Albania. Spelniona obietnica (1996 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
Director: Ryszard Jaworski | Star: Joseph Stalin
45. Viron uusi synty (1999 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Lisa Hovinheimo | Stars: Sirje Endre, Mart Laar, Marju Lauristin, Lennart Meri
46. Poslednji Zilnik (2009)
61 min | Documentary
A well-known Serbian filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik (winner of "Golden bear" in Berlin, 1969, for "Early works") goes to Slovenia to present his latest film at a festival. Accidentally he meets ... See full summary »
Director: Dimitar Anakiev | Stars: Gabriella Gabrielli, Zivojin Kitanovic, Silvino Poletto, Mauro Punteri