Dan Condurache

Vampire Journals

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 vampirism as well.

The Oak

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. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.

Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth

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 to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive. Written by Gonz30

If the Seed Doesn't Die

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 peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church up the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited.

Delta Space Mission

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.

The Job of the Ferret

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 one of them, and does this work without any state of mind. Until one day when he starts to think and then gets into troubles. The term ferret is a reference to the title of the novel "The job of the ferret inside the chicken coop"

A Place Among the Living

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

The Season of the Seagulls

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 incompetence comes out.

Portraits in the Forest

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?

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 the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations.

Somnul insulei

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 famous writer returns to his homeland to try to confront the terror of an oppressive regime, but he ends up being himself corrupted-thanks to the aberrant system.

At the End of the Line

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

The Wackos

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 to arrest drug dealers, he lures his colleagues into robbing a bank; he causes a bloodbath but comes out victorious of this heist. For his accomplices, the informant, and pretty peacekeeper Cécile Barko, known as Cyborg, this is the start of a crazy run.

Venice Is Beautiful In September

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.

Domnișoara Bovary

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 resist, because they stubbornly wanted to live. It was their life and they wanted to live it.

Domnisoara Nastasia

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 the saving solution in love and they both make this feeling their only refuge, their only hope. The fact that in this desperate attempt to get out of the darkness, the destinies of the two heroes collide, canceling each other out, emphasizes the tragedy of their existence without a way out, the lack of any possibility of salvation.

Too Late

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 justice pits him against powerful interests, testing his resolve in a society struggling with the aftermath of transition.

Emisia continuă

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. After King Michael I ousts the Nazi-allied dictator Ion Antonescu, Nazi troops struggle to recapture the Radio Romania station, their former headquarters in an attempt to regroup their forces, but are opposed by a determined band of anti-fascist fighters.

The Woman in the Dream

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 by the desire to make the movie of his life.

Fox: Hunter

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.

Silent Wedding

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 Fury

A village celebrates being granted the title of city. During the festivity an old, sick, beat down man shows up. No one seems to recognise him but he claims to be a villager that everyone thought had died in the war 30 years earlier.

Gathering Clouds

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

Good Evening, Irina

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.

For Motherland

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.

State of Things

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

The Computer Testifies

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

A Studio Searching for a Star

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 of a young girl in an extras scene, which no one can identify. Marina doesn't want to reveal the secret to those on the set because, more pragmatically, her goal is different: admission to cybernetics!

Călifar's Mill

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.

De dragul tău, Anca

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

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 personal lives.

Home

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.

Bătălia din umbră

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

Dommnișoara Aurica

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.

I Hope to See You Again

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

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 save themselves.

Fii cu ochii pe fericire

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.

The Timișoara Syndrome

A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara.

Meurtres par procuration

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.

Sechestrați Fără Voie

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 out of this?

Leapin' Leprechauns

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

Spellbreaker: Secret of the Leprechauns

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 rather unlucky leprechaunsby Nula, Queen of the Dead - an unbelievably beautiful and sinister witch. can the Queen destroy centuries of Leprechaun power? Will evil triumph? Gather up your lucky charms(you'll need them!) and get ready for Spellbreaker, the adventure of Mike's lifetime... and yours!

The Dragonfly Bag

Resistance fighters blow up munitions depots on a Danube port in Romania, and attack an armament supply convoy for the German troupes.

Tamara, Echelon

A BLACK SURREAL COMEDY BASED IN EASTERN EUROPE.