List of Romanian films
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A list of the most notable films produced in the Cinema of Romania ordered by year of release. For an A-Z list of articles on Romanian films see Category:Romanian films.
1910s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | ||||||
| Amor fatal | Grigore Brezeanu | Lucia Sturdza-Bulandra, Tony Bulandra | ||||
| 1912 | ||||||
| Independența României | Aristide Demetriade | |||||
| Înșir'te mărgărite | Aristide Demetriade, Grigore Brezeanu | Aristide Demetriade, Ghita Bateria | Fantasy | Released 2 February 1912 | ||
| 1913 | ||||||
| Detectivul | Constantin Radovici, Marioara Voiculescu | Constantin Radovici, Marioara Voiculescu | ||||
| Cetatea Neamțului | Emil Gârleanu | Remus Comăneanu, Coco Demetrescu | ||||
| 1914 | ||||||
| Dragoste la mănăstire | G. Georgescu | Tony Bulandra, Bebe Stănescu, Marioara Voiculescu | English: Love at the Monastery | |||
1920s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | ||||||
| Păcat | Jean Mihail | Drama | ||||
| 1925 | ||||||
| Manasse | Jean Mihail | |||||
| Năbădăile Cleopatrei | Ion Șahighian | Charlotte Brodier, Ion Finteșteanu | Drama | |||
| Legenda celor două cruci | Gheorghe Popescu | Tuchi Eremia, Alexandru Giugaru | Drama | |||
| 1926 | ||||||
| Cererea în căsătorie | Jean Mihail | Alexandru Giugaru | ||||
| 1927 | ||||||
| Lia | Jean Mihail | Ion Armășescu, George Carussy, Aurel Costescu-Duca, Lilly Flohr | Drama | |||
| 1929 | ||||||
| Povara | Jean Mihail | Elvira Godeanu | Drama | |||
1930s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | ||||||
| Aur | Jean Mihail | |||||
1940s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | ||||||
| Floarea reginei | Paul Călinescu | Ioana Călinescu, Ileana Niculescu, Traian Vrajbă | English: The Queen's Flower. Entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival | |||
1950s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | ||||||
| Moara cu noroc | Victor Iliu | Constantin Codrescu, Geo Barton, Ioana Bulcă, Colea Răutu | Drama | English: The Mill of Good Luck. Entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| 1956 | ||||||
| Afacerea Protar | Haralambie Boroș | Radu Beligan, Jenică Constantinescu | Entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| 1958 | ||||||
| Ciulinii Bărăganului | Louis Daquin | Florin Piersic, Nuța Chirlea, Ana Vlădescu | Drama | English: The Thistles of the Bărăgan. Entered in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| The Ball | Andrei Blaier, Sinișa Ivetici | Lazăr Vrabie | Drama | Entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival | ||
| 1959 | ||||||
| Telegrame | Aurel Miheleș, Gheorghe Naghi | Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic, Costache Antoniu, Jules Cazaban | Comedy | Entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival | ||
1960s
1970s
1980s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | ||||||
| A Girl's Tears | Iosif Demian | Screened at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| 1981 | ||||||
| Carnival Scenes | Lucian Pintilie | |||||
| The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians | Dan Pița | Red Western | ||||
| The Pale Light of Sorrow | Iulian Mihu | Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| 1982 | ||||||
| Glissando | Mircea Daneliuc | |||||
| 1983 | ||||||
| Return from Hell | Nicolae Mărgineanu | Entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| 1984 | ||||||
| Life in the romanian Danube Delta (Sosesc păsările călătoare) | Geo Saizescu | Emil Hossu, Tora Vasilescu, Rodica Muresan, Octavian Cotescu, Stefan Mihailescu-Braila, Sebastian Papaiani, Rodica Popescu Bitanescu, Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan | ||||
| 1985 | ||||||
| Pas în doi | Dan Pița | Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| The Ring | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
| 1987 | ||||||
| Pădureanca (The Forest Maiden) | Nicolae Mărgineanu | Victor Rebengiuc, Adrian Pintea, Manuela Harabor | Drama, romance | |||
| 1989 | ||||||
| The Last Ball in November | Dan Pița | |||||
1990s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | ||||||
| The Oak | Lucian Pintilie | Screened at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| 1993 | ||||||
| Oglinda | Sergiu Nicolaescu | Drama | ||||
| The Conjugal Bed | Mircea Daneliuc | Entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| 1994 | ||||||
| An Unforgettable Summer | Lucian Pintilie | Entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| Pepe & Fifi | Dan Pița | |||||
| 1995 | ||||||
| The Snails' Senator | Mircea Daneliuc | Entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| State of Things | Stere Gulea | |||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| Eu Adam | Dan Pița | |||||
| Semne în pustiu | Nicolas Masson | |||||
| Too Late | Lucian Pintilie | Entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| The Man of the Day | Dan Pița | |||||
| Nekro | Nicolas Masson | Thriller | ||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| The Famous Paparazzo | Nicolae Mărgineanu | Entered into the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
2000s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | ||||||
| War in the Kitchen | Marius Barna | |||||
| Stuff and Dough | Cristi Puiu | Drama | The first feature by Cristi Puiu, who went on to make The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Stuff and Dough is a youthful road film. | |||
| 2002 | ||||||
| Filantropica | Nae Caranfil | Comedy | ||||
| Occident | Cristian Mungiu | Alexandru Papadopol as Luci | Comedy | Relationships in the Romanian spiritual crisis. | ||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Niki and Flo | Lucian Pintilie | Drama | The relationship between two neighboring in-laws. | |||
| 2004 | ||||||
| Marele jaf comunist | Documentary | About the Ioanid Gang | ||||
| 2005 | ||||||
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Cristi Puiu | Ioan Fiscuteanu as Dante Lăzărescu | Drama | The odyssey of an ill retired man, screened at Cannes. | ||
| Femeia visurilor | Dan Pița | Drama | ||||
| Ryna | Ruxandra Zenide | Doroteea Petre as Ryna | A teenager in the Danube Delta. | |||
| Second Hand | Dan Pița | |||||
| Tertium non-datur | Lucian Pintilie | Medium length | Located during the Second World War, the dialogue is in French, Romanian and German. | |||
| 2006 | ||||||
| 12:08 East of Bucharest | Corneliu Porumboiu | Comedy | About the actuality of the Romanian Revolution. | |||
| Love Sick | Tudor Giurgiu | Drama | Lesbian teenage drama. | |||
| The Paper Will Be Blue | Radu Muntean | Drama | The first night of the revolution. | |||
| The Way I Spent the End of the World | Cătălin Mitulescu | Doroteea Petre | The last year of the dictatorship as seen by a teenager and her smaller brother. Screened at Cannes | |||
| 2007 | ||||||
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | Abortion in Communist Romania, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes | ||||
| California Dreamin' | Cristian Nemescu | American soldiers meet Romanian villagers. | ||||
| The Rest is Silence | Nae Caranfil | The making of one of the first Romanian films in 1911 | ||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Silent Wedding | Horațiu Mălăele | |||||
| Elevator | George Dorobanțu | Cristi Petrescu, Iulia Verdeș | Drama / Comedy | Low-budget independent film. | ||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Eve | Adrian Popovici | Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Ironside | Drama | |||
| Tales from the Golden Age | Cristian Mungiu | Un Certain Regard section at Cannes | ||||
| Police, Adjective | Corneliu Porumboiu | Un Certain Regard section at Cannes | ||||
| My Beautiful Dacia | Stefan Constantinescu, Julio Soto Gurpide | Documentary / Humor | Dacia, a simple and discreet automobile, but also a mirror of Romanian society | |||
| The Happiest Girl in the World | Radu Jude | |||||
2010s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||||||
| The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu | Andrei Ujică | Shown in the Hors Competition section at Cannes | ||||
| Aurora | Cristi Puiu | Entered into the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes | ||||
| If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle | Florin Șerban | Entered into the 60th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| Tuesday, After Christmas | Radu Muntean | Entered into the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes | ||||
| Morgen | Marian Crișan | |||||
| Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man | Constantin Popescu, Jr. | |||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| Loverboy | Cătălin Mitulescu | Entered into the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| Beyond the Hills | Cristian Mungiu | Entered into the main competition and won the awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. | ||||
| 2013 | ||||||
| Child's Pose | Călin Peter Netzer | Luminița Gheorghiu | Won the Golden Bear for Best Film at 63rd Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Sunt o babă comunistă | Stere Gulea | Luminița Gheorghiu, Marian Râlea, Ana Ularu | ||||
| The Japanese Dog | Tudor Cristian Jurgiu | |||||
| Roxanne | Valentin Hotea | Ingrid Bisu, Cristian Bota | Drama, Family | |||
| When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism | Corneliu Porumboiu | Bogdan Dumitrache, Mihaela Sirbu | Drama | Nominated of the Golden Leopard at the 2013 Locarno Film Festival | ||
| 2014 | ||||||
| A Love Story, Lindenfeld | Radu Gabrea | Victor Rebengiuc, Victoria Cociaș | Drama | |||
| The Second Game | Corneliu Porumboiu | Documentary, History, Sport | ||||
| Selfie | Cristina Jacob | Comedy | ||||
| 2015 | ||||||
| Aferim! | Radu Jude | Won the Silver Bear for Best Director at 65th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||
| Be My Cat: A Film for Anne | Adrian Țofei | Adrian Țofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton, Alexandra Stroe | Psychological Horror | Romania's first found footage horror movie, winner of Best Film at the 2015 A Night of Horror International Film Festival in Sydney and Best Actor for Adrian Țofei at the 2016 Nashville Film Festival | ||
| Box | Florin Șerban | Rafael Florea | Drama | Screened during the 2015 Toronto Film Festival. | ||
| Circle of Love | Ion Marinescu | Calina Epuran, Florian Ghimpu, Ana Udroiu and Silvian Valcu | multimedia show: live concert and movie | The film was made by director and cinematographer Mihai Georgiadi and the characters were played by actors Calina Epuran, Florian Ghimpu, Ana Udroiu, and Silvian Valcu. Artistic directing belongs to Florian Ghimpu and the concept and production of the entire show was made by Petre Marinescu. | ||
| One Floor Below | Radu Muntean | Crime, Drama | Screened during Un Certain Regard at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Selected for Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. | |||
| The Treasure | Corneliu Porumboiu | Toma Cuzin | Awarded Prix Un Certain Talent at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. | |||
| The World is Mine | Nicolae Constantin Tănase | Ana Maria Guran | Coming of age, Drama | |||
| Why Me? | Tudor Giurgiu | |||||
| 2016 | ||||||
| Dogs | Bogdan Mirică | Dragoș Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Gheorghe Visu | ||||
| Graduation | Cristian Mungiu | Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus | Drama | Entered into the Palme d'Or section and Mungiu was awarded Best Director at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. | ||
| The Fixer | Adrian Sitaru | |||||
| Two Lottery Tickets | Paul Negoescu | |||||
| Scarred Hearts | Radu Jude | Comedy, Drama | ||||
| Selfie 69 | Cristina Iacob | |||||
| Sieranevada | Cristi Puiu | Mimi Brănescu, Dana Dogaru, Sorin Medeleni, Ana Ciontea, Bogdan Dumitrache | Drama | Selected as the Romanian entry at the 89th Academy Awards
Selected for Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Awarded Best Film at Gopo Awards. | ||
| 2017 | ||||||
| Ana, mon amour | Călin Peter Netzer | Drama | Selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Octav | Serge Ioan Celebidachi | |||||
| One Step Behind the Seraphim | Daniel Sandu | Stefan Iancu, Vlad Ivanov | Drama | |||
| Soldiers, Story from Ferentari | Ivana Mladenovic | Dan Bursuc, Sorin Comis | Drama | Winner of the Sebastiane Award – Special Mention at the 2017 San Sebastian International Film Awards | ||
| The Dead Nation | Radu Jude | Documentary, History, War | Nominated for Best Film in the Grierson Award at the 2017 Locarno Film Festival | |||
| 2018 | ||||||
| I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians | Radu Jude | Ioana Iacob, Alex Bogdan | Drama | |||
| Infinite Football | Corneliu Porumboiu | Documentary, Sport | ||||
| Several Conversations About a Very Tall Girl | Bogdan Theodor Olteanu | Drama | ||||
| Touch Me Not | Adina Pintilie | Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis | Drama | Awarded the Golden Bear at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| 2019 | ||||||
| Collective | Alexander Nanau | Documentary | Nominated for two Oscars – Best Documentary and Best Foreign Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.
Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the 2020 European Film Awards. | |||
| La Gomera | Corneliu Porumboiu | Vlad Ivanov, Cartinel Marlon | Comedy, Crime, Drama | Selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Selected as the Romanian entry for the 92nd Academy Awards. | ||
| Oh, Ramona | Cristina Jacob | Comedy | ||||
2020s
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||||
| Acasă, My Home | Radu Ciorniciuc | Documentary | Cinematography Award for World Cinema – Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Nominated for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards 2020. | |
| Malmkrog | Cristi Puiu | Agathe Bosch, Ugo Broussot, Marina Palii | Drama, History | Screened at the Encounters section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the prize for Best Director. |
| Poppy Field | Eugen Jebeleanu | Conard Mericoffer, Alexandru Potocean | Drama | |
| Uppercase Print | Radu Jude | Drama, History | ||
| 2021 | ||||
| Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Radu Jude | Katie Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Olimpia Mălai | Comedy, Drama | Winner of the Golden Bear at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival |
| Întregalde | Radu Muntean | Maria Popistașu, Luca Sabin, Ilona Brezoianu, Alex Bogdan | Drama | |
| Snow, Tea and Love | Catalin Bugean | Alecsandra Timofte Revnic, Alex Velea, Alina Pușcău, Anca Dinicu, Andreas Petrescu, Angel Popescu, Carmen Tănase, Catalin Bugean, Cosmin Seleși, Cristian Iacob, Dan Negru, Dorian Popa, Dragos Dumitru, Florin Busuioc, Ioana Mihail Tiberiu, Iuliana Luciu, Levent Sali, Liviu Vârciu, Marin Barbu, Monica Anghel, Paula Chirilă, Pepe, Raluka, Sergiu Costache, Sorin Bontea | Science fiction, Comedy | |
| 2022 | ||||
| Metronom | Alexandru Belc | Mara Bugarin, Servan Lazarovici, Vlad Ivanov, Mihai Călin, Andreea Bibiri, Alina Brezunțeanu, Mara Vicol. | Drama | |
| R.M.N. | Cristian Mungiu | Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Bârlădeanu, Orsolya Moldován, Andrei Finți, Mark Blenyesi, Ovidiu Crișan | Drama | |
| Teambuilding | Alex Cotet, Matei Dima & Cosmin Nedelcu | Matei Dima, Cosmin Nedelcu, Anca Dinicu, Nicu Banea, Șerban Pavlu, Roxana Condurache, Cristi Pulhac, Monica Odagi, Sorina Stefanescu, Bobu Victoria, Vlad Ianus, Adrian Nicolae, Nuami Dinescu | Comedy | |
See also
- List of Romanian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Romanian film and theatre directors
- Cinema of Romania
- Lists of films
- List of years in Romania
