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Castel Film Studios is the largest full-service studio and production company in Romania and one of the most important in Central and Eastern Europe with over 300 features in 30 years, TV series, mini series and commercials.
- Romanian Movies That Launched The Romanian New Wave
- Beyond The Hills
- California Dreamin’
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- Graduation
- The Way I Spent The End of The World
- The Rest Is Silence
- Police, Adjective
- 12:08 East of Bucharest
- If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
After decades of censorship and propaganda, Romanian movies started presenting the reality of how communism forever changed the country and its society. A young generation of Romanian directors surprised the audience with their minimalist and realist approach. They set the grounds for the Romanian New Wave with their acclaimed movies. Their focus c...
Director: Cristian Mungiu Beyond the Hills is basedon dramatic real events that shocked Romanian society a few years before. The movie explores the clash between religious indoctrination and religious indifference. The story of the two women, a nun, and her less religious friend, is set in the surreal atmosphere of an isolated Orthodox monastery. T...
Director: Cristian Nemescu California Dreamin’offers a fabulous incursion in yet again post-communist Romania. The action is set in 1999, during the Kosovo war, in a small village in southern Romania. There, the train station chief is a mini-God who steals as much as he can to survive. His life and his daughter’s, who wants to leave as soon and as ...
Director: Cristian Mungiu Maybe the most famous Romanian movie on our list, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Daysis one of the pioneer films of the New Wave. Two best friends face a life-changing decision as they confront the shady and illegal practices of securing an abortion in communist Romania. Far from pro-life moralizing debates, the film presents th...
Director: Cristian Mungiu Nine years after Four Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu delivers another heartbreaking movie, Graduation. A doctor who wants to offer his only daughter a better life and the opportunity to do her university studies abroad has to make a painful decision. He faces a choice between integrity and corruption as an om...
Director: Catalin Mitulescu We go back to the absurd realities of communism. The filmtells the story of Eva and Lalalilu, sister and brother, and how their lives change after a minor incident with dramatic consequences. Lead actress Dorotheea Petre received the Un Certain Regard Award for her role at Cannes Film Festival.
Director: Nae Caranfil The same amazing Nae Caranfil enchanted the public with another masterpiece in 2007, The Rest is Silence. Hilarious, sad at times, and captivating until the end, the film is the story of how another film was madealmost one century ago. The personal dramas and professional struggles of a young director, sponsored by a rich bus...
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective focuses on the moral dilemmas of its main character. A young policeman’s system of values sets him in opposition to his superior and the rigid law system of post-communist Romania. The movie won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival 2009.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu Was there or wasn’t there a revolution in December 1989 in the small city of Vaslui in Eastern Romania? This is the main question of this acclaimed filmby the same Corneliu Porumboiu.
Director: Florin Serban A young man serving his last days in prison is the main character of Florin Serban’s film If I want to Whistle, I Whistle. The closer he gets to freedom, the more complicated things become. He has to deal with his inmates’ aggressivity, the return of his mother after many years, and the presence of a volunteer he falls in lo...
Dec 15, 2023 · All of the most wanderlust-inducing and iconic films set in Romania. Spanning multiple genre, here are our favourite picks to travel to Romania through cinema.
Jan 11, 2018 · Directed by Frederik Bond, starring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood and Mads Mikkelsen, the movie was almost entirely filmed in the Romanian capital, capturing its monumental buildings, communist apartment blocks and quirky nightclubs.
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) Director: Cristian Mungiu. New Wave directors have been intent on telling real, human stories of the indignities of daily life under Ceaușescu, as opposed to the illusions propaganda had sought to propagate.
- California Dreamin’ (Endless) (2007) Director: Cristian Nemescu. An American captain and his troops find themselves stuck for days in a Romanian village after the corrupt, embittered station chief stops their NATO train – which is transporting military equipment to Kosovo in 1999 – demanding paperwork.
- Police, Adjective (2009) Director: Corneliu Porumboiu. The oppressive years of Ceausescu’s regime may be over, but that has not meant an instant transformation of the rot at its core, or of the habits of a corrupt bureaucracy that metes out everyday humiliations and injustices.
- If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (2010) Director: Florin Șerban. Imprisonment is not only literal in If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle. Florin Serban’s film is a rough-edged vision of an economically pressured existence of familial rifts and curtailed choices.
Whether you're a cinephile, looking for something new or curious about Romanian culture, we put together a list of the best Romanian movies and award-winning films from the last 20 years. These will give you a glimpse into Romanian society, values and core beliefs as well as people's lives.
Li Jianhua is a journalist who tells the story of a new community, located just at the beginning of the road. All of these stories take place sometime in 2012 - Year of the Water Dragon, in Romania, a country that shared, at a certain moment, a conjoint dream with China - the socialist dream.
