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Vlad is a famous actor in Bucharest, married to Alina, who has always been tempted to have extra-conjugal relations.
Bobby Svenson, serving 30 years for a revenge gangland murder, is offered the chance of early release and to be reunited with his wife and daughter. Bobby has the dormant ability to enter into people's minds and souls. If he can step into the minds of two serial killers, who have resisted every kind of known interrogation, and reveal their dark murderous secrets, then Bobby goes free. But in doing so Bobby puts his mind, his soul, his life and those he loves in danger of being trapped in a neverending violent nightmare.
Titi and Marius, two friends who fought together during the revolution of 1989, follow very different social and political paths in its aftermath.
Eva, a psychologist specializing in couples therapy, is about to get married and her best friends are organizing her bachelorette party at a discreet tantra-yoga retreat in Vama Veche.
A pair of scientists investigate a mysterious death.
An ambitious young manager's plans to reform and revitalize a fading luxury hotel are abruptly thwarted by his superiors, leading to his demotion and exile to the basement, where he navigates the institution's rigid social hierarchy and rigid system of control.
A poetic journey through the fantasy short stories of Mircea Eliade.
The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly addicted to Bucharest's sleazy night life. This movie chronicles their daily lives while commenting upon the political and economic situation in Romania.
The woman in red is Ana Cumpanas, a Romanian emigrated to the US, which facilitates the killing of her lover, the famous gangster John Dillinger in Chicago. After an adventurous life, the woman returns to die in her homeland.
It is late in the Ceausescu era in Romania, and Cristina is having a difficult time with her boyfriend. He wants her to have sex with him before he goes off to do his obligatory stint in the army. She wants him to marry her first. She also gets involved with a slightly rebellious actor, a would-be ladies' man. He has some vague plans to defect - could those be the reason he is receiving mysterious phone calls? Or are they the work of his anonymous admirer?
In the 1950s, a party activist travels to rural Transylvania to collec collectivize village farms. A wealthy householder resists attempts to make him give up his wealth, refusing to be brought down to the level of those who have never worked. The concept of collectivization is summed up by an indignant villager who, forced to work the land he no longer owns, bombards the party activist who claims that the land is still his: "You cut off my p..., put it in my hand and said, 'take it, it's still yours'.
The son of Pantalone, the honest Venetian merchant, Lelio Bisognosi, the liar, is a brilliant young man wandering the world. For twenty years he lived with an uncle in Naples, then returned to his native city with his servant Arlecchino. Here, he has the opportunity to meet Dr. Balanzoni's daughters, Rosaura and Beatrice, while, in the absence of their father, they enjoy being serenaded by an unknown admirer on the terrace of the house. The author of the serenade is Florindo, a student and tenant of the doctor, who shyly loves Rosaura, not daring to reveal his feelings. Lelio does not miss the opportunity: he introduces himself to the girls in the guise of a rich marquis and claims that he is the author of the serenade, without revealing which of the two he is in love with. But for the sake of the art of "spiritual inventions", Lelio delights in describing himself in various lies, not without undesirable consequences...
A compassionate fiction-documentary about an intelligent but handicapped boy who struggles to stand up against an overprotective father and find his place in the world.
