Ştefan Iordache

All important figures, from police officers to the president commit abuses and fight for rights that normal people doesn't dream.

A young TV reporter would like to shoot a program about a former political prisoner nicknamed The Pharaoh, who spent forty years in Siberian exile. She manages to locate a former lover, his sister, and his onetime cellmate, but questions still remain...

A poetic journey through the fantasy short stories of Mircea Eliade.

Фильм описывает положение в Румынии в конце Второй мировой войны, обращаясь к одной из самых драматических и спорных тем в современной истории Румынии - перевороту 23 августа 1944 г. В фильме затронуты и период мятежа легионеров 1941 года, отречение короля Михая, правление, арест и казнь маршала Антонеску, установление правительства Петру Гроза, смерть Маниу и казнь Пэтрэшкану. Большая часть эпизодов основаны на исторических документах того времени.

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.

In an allegorical tale, a luxurious hotel is ruled like a communist country. The ignorant views of leaders and the social stratification are the main focus.

The film is the story of Prince Cantacuzin’s hidden love for his pupil he mentored since early adolescence, until her being married by her stepfather. Daria Mazu, coming from an unfortunate family, with an epileptic brother and a drunker stepfather.

An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.

Too busy to solve an urgent production issue, he fails to notice the women that he keeps bumping into.

After he kills his beloved wife, Puiu Faranga is helped by his father to fake insanity.

The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.

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".

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

In a devastating story rife with visual metaphors, Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc traces the slow mental disintegration of a confirmed gambler, using his disorder as an allusion to a greater national and social disorder. Set in the 1930s, the middle-class gambler meets an elderly man who seems to bring him good luck at the gaming tables. Rather than treasure his friendship and the good fortune it brings, the gambler takes advantage of his friend, and by his actions drives the man to suicide. Unable to reconcile his own mental demons, the gambler wanders through the house of his dead friend, and his experiences there only serve to unsettle his mind more and more and more. In the last reels of the film, the fantasies of the hero's deranged mind take over.

Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution.

A journalist in a Bucharest publication, is the accidental witness of the street arrest of a communist. It intervenes in the defense of the young man, who manages to escape, and is arrested. He is obliged to look for the missing woman.

Irina is married with a sea captain, that is away for the better part of the year. She is missing his company, so she is vulnerable to the advances of another man.

In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there he meets a formar army comrade, now a lawyer. An ideological and philosophical dispute ensues, the two following different paths in life.

When a rich Romanian lawyer aims to find his 2 long-lost sons and inheritors he places an ad in the newspaper but many crooks show up instead.

Начало нашей эры. Рим расширяет свои владения. Государство даков, расположенное на склонах гор вдоль Дуная, — новая цель Империи. Перед императором Домицианом стоит задача — превратить Дакию в провинцию Рима. Храбрый и мужественный народ во главе с царем даков Децебалом готов умереть за свою родину и свободу, не приняв условий захватчиков. Штурм и взятие крепости с непокорными «варварами» дорого обойдутся оккупантам, но последняя битва еще впереди…

Attorney Constantin Lipan (Geo Barton) is tasked to investigate the case of an oil magnate, Iordan Hagi-Iordan (George Calboreanu). This will put pressure on his superiors to drop the case. Based on "Calea Victoriei" novel by Cezar Petrescu.

Ruxandra, a young woman just out of school, decides to become an actress, convinced that personal charm can keep instead of talent.

Для сдачи экзаменов в университет в Клуж приехало много молодых людей. Среди них подружившиеся ещё в пути: Михай — уже в третий раз приехавший на конкурс, Эмиль — юноша, не знающий в жизни неудач, Валерикэ — постоянно боящийся провала, и Иоана — только что окончившая школу, но уверенная в своих знаниях девушка. Эмиль и Иоана полюбили друг друга. В зависимости от характера проявляется и отношение каждого из них к предстоящим конкурсным испытаниям, которые являются в то же время экзаменами на духовную зрелость и истинную ценность человека. Михай, Иоанна и Валерикэ, серьёзно относящиеся к учёбе и жизни, выдержали экзамены, а самоуверенный Эмиль — провалился.

Провинциальный городок Румынии весной 1944 года. Советская Армия наносит сокрушительный удары отступающим фашистским ордам. Среди молодежи многие задумываются над тем, как вести себя дальше? Гордость лицея, талантливый студент Андрей Сабин неожиданно для всех выступает на юбилейном вечере с речью, в которой осуждает войну и германский фашизм. Но его приятели и любимая девушка мыслят иначе и не могут понять стремлений Андрея к правде и справедливости. Андрей оказывается им чужим. И тогда юноша, будучи исключен из лицея за свое выступление, поступает на завод, где включается в активную антифашистскую борьбу. После изгнания фашистов из Румынии Андрей и его дядя коммунист Журка присоединяются к тем, кто смело ведет борьбу с реакцией, за становление новой, подлинно народной демократии.