Leopoldina Bălănuță

Provincial atmosphere. The conflicts, customs and morals of a family of merchants from Craiova unwittingly destroy the love and even the life of a vulnerable young girl through her naivety and romanticism.

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A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.

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The survivor of a cursed family seeks revenge on the lover who jilted her.

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Traumatized by the loss of his wife, Vasile, an engineer, joins a new work collective in the provinces, at the ARO factory. Saddened by his loneliness, Cristina overcomes his resistance by becoming close to his little boy.

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Acid political satire with minimal means. In a patriarchal slum, high political issues are debated. As "heroic" as Garibaldi, poor Leonidas hides under the table for fear of the reaction, which turns out to be a simple party of revelers.

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MIhai, a young high school graduate, discovers serios problems in the factory where he just got hired, and gets in conflict with his step father, which is the director.

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This is a film about love, crime of passion, revenge, happening in the Romanian countryside, late XIX century.

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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".

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A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the Lottery. She goes to Bucharest, to find herself.

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This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never came back, his tough mother, Ecaterina Handraburu, decides to have her revenge on those who plotted to leave her heirless and grab her possessions.

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Ioanide, an apolitical and misunderstood artist who dreams of "things that are normal abroad but impossible here", led a difficult life as an architect under the old regime. After 1944, his situation improved thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened communist nicknamed Botticelli, whom he once hid from the police in the attic of his house. He receives commissions for large-scale cultural monuments, although he has "on file" the ballast of his children lost in the legionary adventure and continues to accept, in his entourage, a circle of sycophants from the former elite.

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Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.

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This movie is about a person that was convicted in the 50s by the stalinist policy of the times, then released and re-educated at the workplace in 65, as the policy changed.

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Mara, a hard-working widow, brings up her two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town.

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The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and madness.

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This film is about the changes in the countryside happening in Romania around 1945, when am agrarian reform happens.

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Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

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A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame.

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The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.

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The Romanian Ministry of State Security has learned that foreign intelligence is hunting for plans for blue mines, where strategic raw materials are mined. This task is carried out by a gang led by a spy named Sea Cat.

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