Monica Ghiuță

Dark Angel: The Ascent

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

Nobody's Children

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

Autumn of the Goslings

After graduating from college, three graduates, French teacher Mariella , doctor Ovidiu, and agricultural engineer Geo, set off without knowing each other for the village of Viișoara, 599 km from Bucharest, where they have been assigned jobs.

Owners of stars

The story of love and survival of a young engineer in the days of "transition". Her struggle, unemployed (following the restructuring of the company where she worked), to survive in a society in prolonged transition. She faces undeserved hardships in the environments to which she is forced to resort.

Raliul

Young Thasica Pribeag follows her passion for cars and rallies, despite all the obstacles she faces.

Bless You, Prison

Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics.

Sunday Father

Mircea, an auto-mechanic engineer who has left his wife, attends his son's pioneering Sunday go-kart rallies. There he meets the father of his colleague and rival, a prosecutor. The situation becomes tense and a work accident is investigated by the prosecutor himself...

Mirror

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 topics from the same era such as the Iron Guard rebellion and the execution of political leaders by communists.

Two Men for One Death

The story of a love triangle, in which a romanian and a hungarian love the same woman. Happening during WWII, the two hate each other. The movie was banned shortly after the release.

Philanthropy

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 teacher's salary, Ovidiu plunges into a fabulous world – the beggar mob.

Beyond the Bridge

Mara, a hard-working widow, brings up her two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town.

Stefan Luchian

Recreating the early twentieth century in Bucharest, leading to an unforgettable journey to the cultural space of Romania bohemia. The film follows the life of one of the famous for his landscapes and still lifes most renowned painters of Romania.

With Clean Hands

A story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters.

Winter of the Goslings

A strange phenomenon is taking place in the village of Viișoara: the men have disappeared! Because they couldn't stand the tyranny of Varvara, who runs the agricultural cooperative, they preferred to get a job in a factory, but things don't go according to plan there either...

The Famous Paparazzo

A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.

The Power and The Truth

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.

Snowfall Season

Pavel has to confron his father in law, who is decided to compromise him in front of the village.

The Take-Off

Valedictorian in a flight class, he has to complete 2 years of utility aviation before going into military. He is unhappy about that and he clashes with the old commandant Bărcan.

The Moment

This movie is about a person that was convicted in the 50s by the stalinist policy of the times, then released and re-educated at the workplace in 65, as the policy changed.

Hazelnut Chocolate

Two collective farms compete for an irrigations specialist.

Underneath the Surface

A oil and gas engineer applies a new extraction technology. When something goes wrong, almost everybody are quick to assign blame.

Mountains in Flames

1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach.

Taina jocului de cuburi

Răducu, a little boy, spent most of his time in the mountains with his grandparents. But now he has to go back to his parents in the city and join a kindergarten.

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 Beheaded Rooster

A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its ally of many years - Nazi Germany - thus ending the 800 year old, highly successful story of ethnic German immigration at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a great story of young people's blindness to the rise of Fascism, the destruction of bourgeois values, a first love and shattered friendships.

Humility

In a forgotten village with lazy people and corrupt leadership, Pacoste must suffer for a mistake made in his past. His only friend is a young boy who finds in him a father figure.

Anything for Soccer

In a small provincial town everything goes well, apart from sports activities. The local soccer team is on the verge of relegation. But the ones responsible with the team are ready to do "everything for soccer", even match-fixing.

A Love Story, Lindenfeld

Klaus Bernath, a wealthy German citizen, decides, after many years, to visit his birthplace, of the Banat Swabian village Lindenfeld, in Romania. Since the village has been deserted for many decades, his son and his biographer decide to reconstruct the whole space from scratch and present it as a populated place.

The Outpost

Gizella Weisz is an middle-aged office worker, who gets a promotion one day. Her boss told her that a new outpost is waiting for her. There she would be heading a new section. She travels from place to another and finally arrives at her new outpost. It is a remote shed, where a half-insane co-worker is waiting for her. It is obvious that Weisz has not been promoted, but punished. However Weisz does not realize that herself. Without questioning she just accepts her promotion.