Radu Bânzaru

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis (2020)

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling ...

The Cardinal (2019)

In the fifties, the leaders of the Greek-Catholic church are arrested and sent to the Sighet prison.The soviet regime has banned any church except the orthodox. Tortured and dehumanized, the only choices are conversion or death. The bishop Iuliu Hossu stan ...

The Crucifixion (2017)

When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence. ...

All Rivers Run to the Sea (2016)

Radu is having a hard time dealing with his mother's death. ...

Chosen (2016)

An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War. ...

Toni Erdmann (2016)

Convinced that his daughter has forgotten how to laugh, a father shows up unannounced while she's living abroad and bombards her with outrageous jokes. ...

Manhunt: Escape to the Carpathians (2016)

A breathless criminal hunt, which leads into the remote mountain world of Romania, with the portrait of a foreign country, which has remained standing in time. Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder are part of a special unit of the LKA, which traps fugitives a ...

Double (2016)

The drama follows a promising young architect as he tries to balance his personal life with the burdens of his career. ...

6.9 on the Richter Scale (2016)

A humble Romanian actor in his 40's, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father. ...

The Treasure (2015)

Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family's country home in Romania and split the profits. ...

White Gate (2014)

Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania. ...

The Whistleblower (2010)

Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matt ...

Xenophobia (2008)

Beautiful Bitch (2007)

The story opens with Bica, a solvent abusing waif, trying in vain to evade the Romanian police with her infant brother in tow. Separated from her sibling she is taken to Germany, concealed in the trunk of a car. There she is trained as a thief, picking the ...

Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006)

He threw their loved ones into a swamp. Now they want revenge... But when a demon does their dirty work, it comes at a price. ...

Sweeney Todd (2006)

A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 19th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop. ...

7 Seconds (2005)

When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan. ...

Amen. (2002)

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit ...

Diplomatic Siege (1999)

When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica ...

The Death Triangle (1999)

The Romanian army faces the German army in the epic battles of Marasti, Marasesti and Oituz, marking a turning point in World War 1. ...