Dan Condurache

Domnișoara Bovary (2021)

A return in time. A look over the shoulder, with irony and humor. A story about a generation that could not guess in those years how close the "change" would be. A world controlled and subordinated to some iron rules that they had to accept in silence and ...

Sechestrați Fără Voie (2017)

A little boy asks you for money. A rich old man calls for health. A supermodel sneezes. Two surgeons endlessly invite each other to make the first cut. A young soprano converts to music a savage sitting in a tree. And so on and and so on - Is there a way o ...

Portraits in the Forest (2017)

The story of a policeman and a mysterious crime that haunts the "cursed forest" as the locals call it and which "seems to swallow those who enter it". Inspired by the novel "Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers" by Dana Dimitriu. ...

Why Me? (2015)

Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve ...

If the Seed Doesn't Die (2010)

Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian p ...

Silent Wedding (2008)

In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence. ...

The Woman in the Dream (2005)

The story of a famous director, Thomas, at the peak of his career, obsessed by the ills of the woman he desires, but also by his creative problems. Although his films are award-winning and he is loved by audiences, actors and friends, Thomas is tormented b ...

The Timișoara Syndrome (2004)

A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara. ...

A Place Among the Living (2003)

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes. ...

Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth (2002)

Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return ...

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 ...

Les 7 vies du docteur Laux (2000)

Fii cu ochii pe fericire (1999)

A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a magnatețs son, who makes it into a talk show, in which he humiliates an expat. ...

Nekro (1997)

Vampire Journals (1997)

A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampiris ...

Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns (1996)

Fairyhill Ireland is a place filled with mysteries and legends,Leprechauns and Magic. And for an American Kid like Mike Dennehy, it's a world of wonderous adventure. Vacationing in Fairyhill for the summer, Mike makes friends with a fascinating group of ra ...

Too Late (1996)

In post-communist Romania, young prosecutor Dumitru Costa is sent to investigate a miner's suspicious death in the Jiu Valley. As he delves deeper, he uncovers a network of corruption and negligence within the local mining community. Costa's pursuit of jus ...

State of Things (1995)

A story of revolution, betrayal, corruption and wrongful imprisonment, as well as human character and strength while facing them. ...

Leapin' Leprechauns (1995)

A man tries to build a theme park on top of land that's secretly the home to friendly Leprechauns. ...

Meurtres par procuration (1995)

Lionel suffers from severe memory loss as a result of an accident. Inspector Corona accuses him of the brutal murder of a law student with whom he had a relationship. ...

Somnul insulei (1994)

The topic of the film points out the condition of an intellectual in time of totalitarian dictatorship, which subjugated an island from where you can not run. The only alternative is collaborating with power and internment in a rehabilitation institute. A ...

The Job of the Ferret (1993)

The film is an adaptation of the dystopian novel by Jean-Pierre Andrevon; Set in a futuristic and overpopulated Paris, where the population must be limited to Six millions citizens. The Ferret is a special unit that "reduces" the population. The hero is ...

Fox: Hunter (1993)

Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu. ...

The Oak (1992)

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. A ...

A Studio Searching for a Star (1988)

Marina, a girl from a stunt team, passively assists to everyone's rush to choose the protagonist without whom the filming cannot begin. After weeks of nothing happening, the director, reviewing the footage on the screen, is struck by the photogenic photo o ...

Bătălia din umbră (1986)

In WWI a group of Romanian soldiers from Transylvania desert the german army and consitute a resistance commando group. ...

Gathering Clouds (1986)

Young lawyer Radu Comșa is confronted with an identity crisis as WWI starts. ...

Dommnișoara Aurica (1985)

This movie is about the loneliness of an older lady at the end of WWII, in Bucharest. Her mental faculties are declining and she is increasingly living in her own mind. ...

Delta Space Mission (1985)

An advanced spaceship called Delta is created to establish dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist boards the ship, she and the captain realize the AI that controls the ship can act on its own. ...

Home (1985)

A peasant went to work in constructions for a few years in Bucharest. He's thinking of returning home, but only after overturning his father's unfair sentence. ...

Emisia continuă (1985)

Based on actual events which happened at the Radio Romania station in Bod-Brasov, during the beginning of the revolution for social liberation and for the country's national liberation, an anti-fascist and anti-imperialist revolution, on August 23, 1944. A ...

I Hope to See You Again (1985)

A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an old mill. ...

Furtună în Pacific (1985)

Ship "Saturn" prepares to return home from the American west coast. The ship is damaged at a very bad time, when a severe storm comes their way, they loose propulsion. The currents are pulling them towards a rocky island and they must try the impossible to ...

The Season of the Seagulls (1985)

In order to get a promotion, a chemical engineer (Dorel Vișan) uses the researches done by his colleague (Dan Condurache) for his doctoral thesis. But when an important damage takes place in the factory where both of them work, the first one's incompetenc ...

Călifar's Mill (1984)

Stoica, a poor man from a small village, asks for Călifar's help to make him rich. Călifar deceives him, offering him only a vision which seems very real for Stoica. ...

Venice Is Beautiful In September (1983)

A man and a woman, eager for happiness and romance, encounter the desired reality, but fail to recognize it, preferring to take refuge in a space on the border between the concrete world and dreaming. ...

For your sake, Anca (1983)

A teenager has problems coping in school in family. She doesn't feel she fits anywhere, but there are still some people that give her hope and strength. ...

Dragostea și revoluția (1983)

Being in an unhappy marriage, the wife of an important director complains to the party when she is threatened by divorce, saying that her husband has an antisocial behavior. This is an occasion for the people present at that meeting to evaluate their own p ...

At the End of the Line (1982)

Crișan and Cicea, two recently released prisoniers, are trying to reintegrate into a society which proves to be a hostile environment. ...

The Computer Testifies (1982)

Economic espionage that involves a Romanian exterior commerce company being the victim. ...

Good Evening, Irina (1980)

Irina is married with a sea captain, that is away for the better part of the year. She is missing his company, so she is vulnerable to the advances of another man. ...

This Above All (1978)

Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. In 1978 it was broadcast only in select cities in Romania for 1 week, being deemed "too harsh" by the government. ...

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. ...

Domnisoara Nastasia (1976)

Nastasia and Vulpasin, two overwhelming wills, two forces, want to get out of their world, both of them are striving towards the light, towards another condition of existence. Their thirst for happiness is total... They both believe that they have found th ...