Nicolae Praida
Actor · 1933 – 2008 · Samokov, Bulgaria
Movies24
Movie5.4DramaIn a small village in the Danube Delta, where traditions are confronted with new material purposes, a teenage girl is becoming a woman. This is the story of Ryna, a 16-year-old girl working as a motor mechanic in Sulina, who strives to find her identity next to a father who is firmly denying her femininity.
Ryna
2006 · 10 votes
Movie6.2ActionWarThe Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.
Movie7.0DramaThe out-of-time ambiance of Sulina/Europolis between wars is shaken up by the arrival of a former local from America.
Porto-Franco
1961 · 4 votes
Movie7.3DramaAn epic love story set during the troubled moments of Romanian history that culminate in the Great Union of Alba Iulia.
- 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
Movie6.0DramaThree sisters that had a tranquil life in a town suffer dramatic life changes at the end of WW2.
Surorile
1984 · 3 votes
Movie6.5DramaA notorious convict who'd been an undercover agent during the communist regime agrees to return to prison to kill an inconvenient witness against some influential figures. But an unexpected bond forms between the two, and he ends up questioning his mission.
Movie8.2DramaIn 1970s Romania, Laura, a young architect, becomes pregnant by her married lover, Titel. Desperate and alone, she travels to a remote town for an illegal abortion. There, she meets Irina, a local girl who tries to change her mind.
Movie7.0DramaA 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.
Movie7.2ComedyA concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating.
Movie7.0DramaA successful boxer has a difficult time due to the fact that his family feels neglected.
Movie7.2DramaAngela (Liliana Pană) and Dorina (Magda Catone), working at the Match Factory, live in the home and dream of marriage and spouses to give them a decent living. But the illusions are shattered when the men encountered prove their lack of character: Titi (the boy whom Angela is in love with, appears at a time with a kid and is raped), a vendor, is pimp, Emil, an engineer, is a And Radu, an emigrant in Australia, is undistinguished by his Collie dog.
Movie8.0Drama"The Apples" (1955) is the graduation film of two of the most important directors of the following decades, Iulian Mihu and Manole Marcus, and shows a young couple mocked by a nobleman because they had stolen some apples from his estate.
Movie8.2DramaThis is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
Movie7.8FantasyStoica, 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.
Movie5.8DramaDying in the trenches during World War II, Stefan looks back at his own life and that of his father. Through his memories, the film presents a story that embraces two generations and various eras. It is a film about the tragedy of lives dragged into conflicts against their will, of lives violently ruined or ended – a story about the devastating consequences of war. Interweaving past and present, the flashback narrative depicts the war as a perpetual situation where the “little people” always turn out to be on the losing side.
Movie7.2DramaPetre Orsa, a young peasant gets a job at the Hunedoara Steel Mill with the dream of becoming a top-notch steel man, having Mihai Solca – a sort of communist industrial hero – as his role model. He starts low moving dirt around with a shovel but he soon gets into the team of an old steel man, foreman Tudor Baci.
Movie7.1DramaThe action of the movie take place in a factory and presents the conflicts between one engineer and some young workers.
Movie7.2An untalented writer’s attempts to craft a “lifelike” screenplay result in a run-of-the-mill policier.
- Movie5.4
Some party representatives want to make a new football team.
Movie7.3AdventureDramaAfter surviving a shipwreck in the Caribbean, a captain returns home burdened by guilt and haunted by the past. Given command a ship bound for Singapore, he is treated with suspicion and hostility by his new crew.
Movie5.7ComedyRomania had it rough under its last communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, and things are even rougher now. Before, their problems were oppression and poverty. Now, their problem is mostly poverty - and plenty of it. In this grim comedy (to call it a black comedy would be to paint too perky a picture of it), Vasile (Gheorghe Dinica)has a wife whom he's fond of, and a mistress, whom he's fonder of. He manages a nearly abandoned movie theater, and makes just about nothing doing it. When his wife announces she's pregnant, he nearly goes frantic trying to find money to get her an abortion. However, what truly sends him over the edge is when his mistress decides to become a prostitute because, after all, the money is good. These two situations send him straight to the loony bin, and when he gets out, he discovers that his wife has rented their apartment to pornographic filmmakers, and guess who's starring in them?
Movie8.0RomanceAlexandra and The Inferno is a 1975 Romanian film, about a young soldier during World War 2, written and directed by Iulian Mihu. The main roles were played by actors Violeta Andrei, Romeo Partenie and Nicolae Radu. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name written by Laurențiu Fulga. In a complex social context, the film explores the protagonist's dilemmas and inner struggles, shedding light on social and personal issues that test her courage and strength to resist.
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.