List of Romanian films

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	Grigor Brezeanu	Lucia Sturza-Bulandra, Tony Bulandra
1912
Independenţa României	Aristide Demetriade
Înşir'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 Neamţului	Emil Girleanu	Remus Comaneanu, Coco Demetrescu
1914
Dragoste la mănăstire	G. Georgescu	Tony Bulandra, Bebe Stanescu, Marioara Voiculescu		English: Love at the Monastery

1920s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1924
Pacat	Jean Mihail		Drama
1925
Manasse	Jean Mihail
Nabadaile Cleopatrei	Ion Sahighian	Charlotte Brodier, Ion Fintesteanu	Drama
Legenda celor doua cruci	Gheorghe Popescu	Tuchi Eremia, Alexandru Giugaru	Drama
1926
Cererea în căsătorie	Jean Mihail	Alexandru Giugaru
1927
Lia	Jean Mihail	Ion Armasescu, 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, Taian Vrajba		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 Boros	Radu Beligan, Jenica Constantinescu		Entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival
1958
Ciulinii Bărăganului	Louis Daquin	Nuta Chirlea, Ana Vladescu	Drama	English: The Thistles of the Bărăgan. Entered in the 1958 Cannes Film Festival
The Ball	Andrei Blaier, Sinisa Ivetici		Drama	Entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival
1959
Telegrame	Gheorghe Naghi		Comedy	Entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival

1960s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1960
1961
Darclee	Mihai Iacob	Silvia Popovici, Victor Rebengiuc		Entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival
A Bomb Was Stolen	Ion Popescu-Gopo			Entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
Thirst	Mircea Drăgan, Mihai Iacob			Entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival
1962
Lupeni 29	Mircea Drăgan			Entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival
Tudor	Lucian Bratu	Emanoil Petruţ (Tudor Vladimirescu), George Vraca, Alexandru Giugaru	Historical biography	Black and white. The life of the 1820s Wallachian leader Tudor Vladimirescu.
1963
Codine	Henri Colpi			Entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival
1964
Forest of the Hanged	Liviu Ciulei	Victor Rebengiuc, Anna Széles	Drama	Won the Best Director Award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival
1965
Răscoala	Mircea Mureşan	Matei Alexandru, Ion Besoiu		Won the Best First Work at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival
The White Moor	Ion Popescu-Gopo			Entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival
1966
Sunday at Six	Lucian Pintilie	Irina Petrescu, Dan Nuțu, Graziela Albini, Eugenia Popovici, Constantin Cojocaru		Entered into the Mar del Plata International Film Festival
1967
The 25th Hour	Henri Verneuil	Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Grégoire Aslan		International co-production
Dacii	Sergiu Nicolaescu			Entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival
The Subterranean	Virgil Calotescu			Entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival
1968
The Last of the Mohicans	Sergiu Nicolaescu
1969
A Woman for a Season	Gheorghe Vitanidis			Entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival

1970s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1970
Mihai Viteazul	Sergiu Nicolaescu		Biographical	Entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival
Sick Animals	Nicolae Breban			Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival
1972
Veronica	Elisabeta Bostan
Cu mâinile curate	Sergiu Nicolaescu
1973
Explosion	Mircea Drăgan			Entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival
Veronica se întoarce	Elisabeta Bostan
Ultimul cartuş	Sergiu Nicolaescu
1975
The Actor and the Savages	Manole Marcus			Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival
1976
The Doom	Sergiu Nicolaescu			Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival
1977
Ma-ma	Elisabeta Bostan		Musical
1978
The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians	Dan Piţa		Red Western
1979
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians	Mircea Veroiu		Red Western
Uncle Marin, the Billionaire	Sergiu Nicolaescu
The Moment	Gheorghe Vitanidis			Entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival

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 Piţa		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
1985
Pas în doi	Dan Piţa			Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival
The Ring	Sergiu Nicolaescu			Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival
1987
Padureanca (The Forest Maiden)	Nicolae Margineanu	Victor Rebengiuc, Adrian Pintea, Manuela Harabor	Drama, romance
1989
The Last Ball in November	Dan Piţa

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 Piţa
Semne în pustiu	Nicolas Masson
Too Late	Lucian Pintilie			Entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival
1997
The Man of the Day	Dan Piţa
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
Marfa si banii (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. Lăzărescu	Cristi Puiu	Ioan Fiscuteanu as Dante Lăzărescu	Drama	The odyssey of an ill retired man, screened at Cannes.
Femeia visurilor	Dan Piţa		Drama
Ryna	Ruxandra Zenide	Doroteea Petre as Ryna		A teenager in the Danube Delta.
Second Hand	Dan Piţa
Tertium non datur	Lucian Pintilie		Medium length	Located during the Second World War, the dialogue is in French, Romanian and German. 15
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	Horatiu Malaele
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 the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Police, Adjective	Corneliu Porumboiu			Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
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 of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Aurora	Cristi Puiu			Entered into the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle	Florin Şerban			Entered into the 60th Berlin International Film Festival
Tuesday, After Christmas	Radu Muntean			Entered into the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival
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 at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
2013
Child's Pose	Călin Peter Netzer			Won the Golden Bear for Best Film at 63rd Berlin International Film Festival
The Japanese Dog	Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
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	Horror, Psychological Thriller	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
Why Me?	Tudor Giurgiu
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.

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

External links and sources

• Romanian film at the Internet Movie Database