Constantin Drăgănescu
Actor · b. 1936 · Constanța, România
Movies24
Movie7.2DramaComedyA former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
Movie5.6HorrorRomanceA bored female demon ventures to the surface world to punish the wicked before they enter her hellish domain.
Dark Angel: The Ascent
1994 · 51 votes
Movie4.4ActionComedyOn a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater Louisiana, a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. The meteor is actually a spaceship containing an alien life form which animates the museum's partially frozen Woolly Mammoth and begins a rampage. Local authorities and Government Investigators join forces with Frank Abernathy, the Museum Curator, and his father Simon, a B-Movie enthusiast, to bring down the giant mammoth in this alien-invasion flick!
Mammoth
2006 · 72 votes
Movie6.9After a devastating flood destroys their home, Costache and Maria struggle to rebuild their lives. As family tensions resurface with the return of their son with his Japanese wife and child, Costache faces the challenge of reconnecting across generations.
Movie7.0ComedyHistoryComposed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaușescu's regime.
- Movie10.0DramaHistory
Poland is invaded by Nazi Germany and entrusts the national treasure to Romania. In September 1939, the Romanian government thus took an enormous risk.
Marea sfidare
1990 · 1 votes
Movie7.7ComedyDramaIn 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.
Movie6.2ComedyDramaThe film tells the story of a generation that cannot adapt to the reality post-revolution. Nostalgic Emilia tries to keep alive the golden age.
Movie5.5AdventureFantasyZack doesn't have your ordinary adolescent problems. Transported back in time to medieval England, he lands in the middle of a vicious battle between an evil witch and Merlin, the master sorcerer, for control of Arthur's kingdom. It's up to Zack to help Merlin and Arthur reclaim the magic sword Excalibur and return Arthur to his rightful place on the throne.
The Excalibur Kid
1999 · 6 votes
Movie8.2DramaThis is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
Movie6.5CrimeDramaA young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.
Movie5.0DramaRobert is a complete loser. He wants nothing from life except one thing; to have enough courage to kill himself. But one day everything changes, because Robert saved a man's life.
Movie7.0DramaA father and son go to town to try to fix a broken TV set.
Movie7.1ComedyDramaIt is late in the Ceausescu era in Romania, and Cristina is having a difficult time with her boyfriend. He wants her to have sex with him before he goes off to do his obligatory stint in the army. She wants him to marry her first. She also gets involved with a slightly rebellious actor, a would-be ladies' man. He has some vague plans to defect - could those be the reason he is receiving mysterious phone calls? Or are they the work of his anonymous admirer?
Movie5.7DramaRomanceAlong the Black Sea coast, we see a man and a woman arguing. They are apparently vacationers. Before long, the man has gotten back into their car and driven off, stranding the woman in a remote area. She hitches a ride with a delivery truck driver. At one of his stops, she gets off his truck to go to get some water. When the driver comes back to his truck and sees her gone, he assumes she has found another ride, and leave her. Once again, she is stranded. This time, the location is a lighthouse. She and the keeper have no recourse but to become acquainted, and for the next few days, that is what they do. Eventually, the man who left her in the lurch comes back to look for her, and finds her at the lighthouse.
MovieDocumentaryThe images of the condemnation and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on Christmas Day in 1989 are etched deeply in the collective unconscious of several generations of television viewers. Exactly 20 years after its occurrence, the famous show trial was re-enacted in a historically reproduced setting. The film interweaves the stage production with interviews conducted with eyewitnesses and archive material, and takes a look backstage in the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest.
Movie5.9DramaBeing forced into prostitution by her father, she finds solace in her friends and her journal.
Margo
2006 · 4 votes
Movie6.9DramaRomanceA subway train is blocked between stations on the morning after the fire in the Colectiv Club in Romania.
Movie6.3DramaEngineer Bunea, a site manager, neglects his personal life in favor of his professional duties. But going through a crisis of conscience, he wants to give up the responsibilities of his job and tries to find a more peaceful job.
Movie6.3DramaComedyOne woman taxi driver in Bucharest is hoping for a conventional relationship.
Movie7.5ComedyDramaWhen 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.
Movie6.4HistoryDramaDepicts 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.
Movie7.0DramaIn a small village close to the mountains, Mariana and Puiu are a young family with two children: Carmen and Mircea. One morning, the mother and the ten year-old daughter leave for Bucharest, having a hospital as their destination. One doctor alone, Sitaru, believes that Carmen, who can no longer smile, stands any chances at survival. He believes he can perform a miracle and save Carmen's life. Struggling for her daughter, abandoned by almost everybody she trusted, Mariana discovers she is pregnant. After dr. Sitaru operates on the little girl, in a risky manner, Carmen begins to feel increasingly worse. Without any hope, Mariana leaves the hospital and rushes to take Carmen home: while one life ends, another one begins to flicker.
Carmen
2013 · 1 votes
Movie7.9ComedyDramaAt Bucharest’s famous revue theater “Vox,” director Costică Caratase prepares a bold anti-fascist show despite growing threats from the Iron Guard. As pressure and violence escalate, he and his collaborators face persecution, turning their artistic resistance into an act of courage and sacrifice.