Constantin Drăgănescu

Love Locker (2021)

Otto the Barbarian (2020)

Otto, a seventeen-year-old punk, becomes involved in the social services investigation of his girlfriend Laura's death. He is caught up in a vicious circle created by his parents, his mute grandpa and Laura's mother. Laura is still part of his life through ...

Beside Me (2018)

A subway train is blocked between stations on the morning after the fire in the Colectiv Club in Romania. ...

The Japanese Dog (2013)

After a devastating flood destroys their home, Costache and Maria struggle to rebuild their lives. As family tensions resurface with the return of their son with his Japanese wife and child, Costache faces the challenge of reconnecting across generations. ...

I'm an Old Communist Hag (2013)

The film tells the story of a generation that cannot adapt to the reality post-revolution. Nostalgic Emilia tries to keep alive the golden age. ...

Carmen (2013)

In a small village close to the mountains, Mariana and Puiu are a young family with two children: Carmen and Mircea. One morning, the mother and the ten year-old daughter leave for Bucharest, having a hospital as their destination. One doctor alone, Sitaru ...

The Last Days of the Ceaușescus (2010)

The images of the condemnation and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on Christmas Day in 1989 are etched deeply in the collective unconscious of several generations of television viewers. Exactly 20 years after its occurrence, the ...

The Concert (2009)

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, ...

Tales from the Golden Age (2009)

Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of ...

One second of life (2009)

Robert is a complete loser. He wants nothing from life except one thing; to have enough courage to kill himself. But one day everything changes, because Robert saved a man's life. ...

Tache (2007)

Tacke, an old graveyard digger, finds out he has only two months left to live. This is the moment he discovers he does want something out of life: a glamorous funeral service in the cemetery's « downtown » area, where he had spotted for a long time an sp ...

The Tube with a Hat (2006)

A father and son go to town to try to fix a broken TV set. ...

Margo (2006)

Being forced into prostitution by her father, she finds solace in her friends and her journal. ...

Mammoth (2006)

On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater Louisiana, a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. The meteor is actually a spaceship containing an alien life form which animates the muse ...

Never Enough (2004)

Sebastian (Rutger Hauer) sets up an ingenious plan to transform a woman from an unknown to a star by appearing together in the television show "Hidden Camera Live". ...

The Wackos (2002)

When his credit card has just been swallowed by distributor Bruno Lussac, State Inspector Débé crosses the limits of home ethics when he learns that he has just been banned from banking. Disguised as a Southerner for a costume party where he was supposed ...

Philanthropy (2002)

In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unassuming high school teacher, never could afford it. Looking for a source of income more substantial than a t ...

Stuff and Dough (2001)

A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources. ...

The Man of the Day (1997)

Andrei is the head of a political party, a member of parliament and, at the same time, a prosperous businessman. He stopped being young a good number of years ago, but his love affair with the beautiful dancer Ana gives him the feeling of a second youth. O ...

Brâncuși (1996)

A documentary which follows the most important events of Constantin Brâncuși, a Romanian artist. ...

Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994)

A bored female demon ventures to the surface world to punish the wicked before they enter her hellish domain. ...

Mirror (1994)

Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime Minister. Focused around the August 23rd 1944 coup against Marshal Antonescu, the movie also tackles other topic ...

Sundays on Leave (1993)

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 wi ...

Where It Is Cold in the Sun (1991)

Along the Black Sea coast, we see a man and a woman arguing. They are apparently vacationers. Before long, the man has gotten back into their car and driven off, stranding the woman in a remote area. She hitches a ride with a delivery truck driver. At one ...

Fourth Fence, by the Wharf (1988)

Mișu and Mitică are two best friends. Everything changes when Cornelia shows up. ...

Sequences... (1982)

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they j ...

Angela Goes On (1982)

One woman taxi driver in Bucharest is hoping for a conventional relationship. ...

Glissando (1982)

In a devastating story rife with visual metaphors, Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc traces the slow mental disintegration of a confirmed gambler, using his disorder as an allusion to a greater national and social disorder. Set in the 1930s, the middle-cla ...

Stele de iarnă (1980)

Together Again (1978)

An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it. ...

Last Days of Summer (1976)

Engineer Bunea, a site manager, neglects his personal life in favor of his professional duties. But going through a crisis of conscience, he wants to give up the responsibilities of his job and tries to find a more peaceful job. ...

The Actor and the Savages (1975)

At Bucharest's famous revue theater "Vox," director Costică Caratase prepares a bold anti-fascist show despite growing threats from the Iron Guard. As pressure and violence escalate, he and his collaborators face persecution, turning their artistic resist ...

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. ...