Amza Pellea

Carol I (2009)

The last days of the first Romanian king, Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and the tough decisions he had to make in the summer of 1914 in order to please both Romanian Parliament and his relatives from the German Empire. ...

The Impossible Love (1984)

Calin Surupaceanu is a simple boy, convinced by the engineer Dan to accompany him in building a new city. Along the way, he meets his future wife and subsequently source of unrest and rebellion against fate. The movie is based on a novel by Marin Preda cal ...

Un petic de cer (1984)

The director of a hydropower plant has to deal with conflicts between his subordinates, pressure from the majors and complications in his own personal life. ...

William the Conqueror (1982)

William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom. How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is still a matter of debate among historians, with some suc ...

Sfântul Mitică Blajinul (1982)

A film adaptation of Aurel Baranga. A satire that targets the careerism, licentiousness and imposture of some people with "positions of responsibility", who make their position a means of parvenire. ...

Mercenaries' Trap (1982)

The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Look ...

Stay with You (1982)

A well to do woman in the country wants a husband and an apartment in the city. But thibg do not turn as planned. ...

Ana and the Thief (1981)

A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him. ...

"Concordia" Team (1981)

A communist pyrotechnist lieutenant plans to blow up a Ploiești refinery that fuels the german army in WWII ...

Blackmail (1981)

A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage. ...

The House Between the Fields (1980)

Fresh out of university, agricultural engineer Voica Teodorescu returns to her native village where she joins a local team of engineers in the planning of a dam and an irrigation mega project.Although Voica is engaged to be married to Ilarie she also is ro ...

Gently Was Anastasia Passing (1980)

A border town on the Danube, 1944. The town is occupied by the Germans, and there are plenty of collaborators. A number of the young men join the partisans, kill a Serbian, and throw his body into the village, forbidding anyone to bury it. ...

Michael, the Dog That Sang (1979)

The adventures of the Irish terrier Michael began the moment he ran to the shore during a walk. Here he was picked up by the steward of the schooner McCambo, Dag Daughtry. Dag decided to sell the purebred dog at the nearest port, secretly brought Michael o ...

The Thing in the Castle (1979)

A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore their youth. ...

Arms of Afrodite (1979)

A Romanian construction company is contracted to build a sea port in Morocco. In the process they find some roman artifacts. ...

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire (1979)

At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billi ...

Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1979)

The story of heroine Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the only woman who fought in the Romanian Army during World War 1. ...

Revenge (1978)

"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we meet up with police inspector Tudor Moldovan, once again, who wasn't actually killed and who has returned to ...

Melodii, melodii (1978)

A young light music band accepts the offer of a shady impresario whose "arrangements" can't prevent their triumph on the seaside. ...

The Hussy (1978)

An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it. ...

Shootings Under the Moonlight (1977)

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania. ...

For Motherland (1977)

In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. ...

Accident (1977)

Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The ...

The Punishment (1976)

In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner. ...

The Light on the Gallows (1976)

Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organize a slave revolt. The envoys are Debuisson, the grandson of a Jamaican rum manufacturer, who knows the is ...

Three Days and Three Nights (1976)

In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side. ...

The Romanian Musketeer (1975)

During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is stolen and offered to the highest bidder. ...

Cantemir (1975)

Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight for the manuscript "The History of the Ottoman Empire" and the jewels of the ruler's wife. ...

Sunday Father (1975)

Mircea, an auto-mechanic engineer who has left his wife, attends his son's pioneering Sunday go-kart rallies. There he meets the father of his colleague and rival, a prosecutor. The situation becomes tense and a work accident is investigated by the prosecu ...

The Mock Doctor (1975)

Sganarelle, mistakenly considered a famous doctor because of a prank, is brought in M. Geronte's house to cure his daughter, who went mute overnight. ...

Cadavrul viu (1975)

The Immortals (1974)

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream". ...

Ulzana (1974)

This rather unconventional Western movie is set in the middle of the 19th century in Arizona. The film portrays an Indian tribe, the Mimbreno Appacheans, who are celebrating their Thanksgiving, building an irrigation plant, carrying on commerce, and trying ...

A Police Inspector Calls (1974)

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political ene ...

The Blue Gates of the City (1974)

After recovering in hospital from an assault by one of his subordinates, Second Lieutenant Roșu returns to lead his anti-aircraft artillery unit during the final days of World War II. ...

Captain's Ion Arrow (1973)

In 1462 the Ottoman Turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and replace him with puppet ruler Prince Radu the Handsome. ...

Babusca's Adventures (1973)

In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta. ...

The Last Bullet (1973)

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972). Commissioner Miclovan's last cartridge is still hot in the pocket of Roman. Left without Miclovan's support, dead in action, Commissioner Roman wants to see his murderer, a very powe ...

Ciprian Porumbescu (1973)

This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu. ...

Stejar, extremă urgență (1973)

The secret plan "Margareta II", drawn up by the German General Staff for the intervention of German troops in case of Romania's exit from the war, is discovered by the army and the patriotic forces through a captain who was a schoolmate of the German offic ...

The Power and The Truth (1972)

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks. ...

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (1972)

A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threate ...

Michael the Brave (1971)

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at ...

The War of the Princesses (1970)

Lured by the treasure of Moldavia and supplies, Sobieski, king of the Poles, orders the attack on the fortress of Neamț, and Captain Ghinda organizes the betrayal. In view of the overwhelming majority of the lezs, they send the young Ioana to the king, bu ...

The Column (1968)

The end of Trajan's Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia. ...

The Dacians (1967)

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 y ...

The Uprising (1966)

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine social drama. A peasant woman is raped by a lecherous wealthy lesbian, and chaos breaks out in the rural are ...

The Outlaws (1966)

First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with thei ...

Camera alba (1965)

A simple story about a man who, in saving another man - whom he does not know - suffers all the consequences of an accident and the implications that medicine catalogs in the name of science. ...

The Soimaresti Clan (1965)

Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612. ...

Pisica de mare (1964)

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. ...

Tudor (1963)

Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and Turkey from 18o6 to 1812,for which he was decorated by the Russians. ...

Celebrul 702 (1962)

In the imaginary country of "Allergica", a group of gangsters have made a fat hit by pinning the blame on the Kid, who awaits execution in the terrible "Bing-Bing" prison. At the last moment the electric chair is unplugged because the lawyer has persuaded ...

Darclée (1960)

Darclee is a lead singer for an opera company in Romania with a heavy load of responsibility. It seems the company is in dire need of a decent physical structure for their performances and a brace -- or more -- of good singers to improve their image and sa ...

The Thirst (1960)

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform. ...

Alarm in the Mountains (1955)

An spy film set in a mountainous border area. The grenadiers are confronted with spies parachuted into Romania to retrieve and carry abroad the secret documents of a forestry combine. ...

Blanca (1955)

Adaptation after Fat Frumos din tei by Mihai Eminescu ...

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire (1979)

At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu says he can sneak Marin into the hotel, as one of the rooms is empty awaiting the arrival of an American billi ...