
Aurel Giurumia
Actor · 1931 – 2004 · Cernauti, Bukovina, Romania [now Chernivtsi, Ukraine]
Movies22
Movie8.2ComedyIn the Free Theater (Teatrul Liber) of Bucharest, the actors and crew prepare a new show, with the play "Disguise" ("Travesti"). After the opening night, which is only partly successful, they reach the conclusion that, along the years, they came to the mistake of also disguising this true feelings, becoming hypocrites, and this has a negative effect to their stage performances too.
Movie7.2CrimeMysteryInvestigation into the death of a modest cashier.
Movie5.6AdventureDramaA circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.
Movie8.2ComedyRomanceSequel to the comedy *Bucharest Identity Card*: After a turbulent marriage and divorce, Silvia and Radu part ways, only to be reunited in Bolintin—she as an agricultural engineer, he as a veterinarian—where they rediscover their bond.
Movie6.6ComedyDramaBased on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution.
Movie8.4MusicComedyA young light music band accepts the offer of a shady impresario whose "arrangements" can't prevent their triumph on the seaside.
Melodii, melodii
1978 · 5 votes
Movie7.7DramaFamilyIn the sequel to Saltimbancii (1981), Fram the polar bear and the performing Marcellonis weather plotting competetors, bumbling kidnappers and family tragedy in this entertaining family film.
Movie7.9ComedyAn important man, always in a hurry, but especially when behind the wheel, runs over a strange pedestrian: a young globe-trotting, absent-minded young man who is treading firmly, but in the wrong place, on the wide road. After hesitating for a moment, the man behind the wheel turns back to the scene and can't find his victim. Out of nowhere, however, the victim appears in the man's life, upsetting an entire family with dramatic and comic-sentimental entanglements.
Movie7.0ActionCrimeIn 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
Movie7.0DramaMaria Sorescu, director of a re-education school, becomes mayor of a town. She tries to improve the predecessors' record.
Movie6.8DramaA young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.
Movie5.3ActionIn summer 1975 at the Constanța Shipyard, director Mihai Coman pushes to cast a massive ship propeller in-house, facing technical failures, internal resistance, and political hesitation. As the casting repeatedly breaks and deadlines loom, he must overcome engineering hurdles and personal sacrifices to see the vessel launched with the home-forged propeller.
Movie7.0DramaFamilyA petite Romanian gymnast trains with her teammates for what she hopes will be Olympic perfection.
Movie6.6In 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.
- Movie8.7MusicComedy
A group of students from an architectural institute, instead of going to the mountains, accidentally end up in a vacation home by the sea. Here, after a series of amusing adventures, they successfully perform with their amateur variety orchestra.
Vacanta la mare
1963 · 3 votes
Movie7.3AdventureAn espionage agency is looking to kidnap Alina, the daughter of the Romanian engineer Muresan, to make her father divulge important secrets. On a trip, Muresan's wife and daughter know a young tourist who accompanies them up to a point where they are hosted by Matthew, a very agile little boy, hard-hitting the mountain.
Movie6.5MusicThe "Sing the country's cities" contest organized on TV is sweeping the province. Facing her baccalaureate and enamored... by cybernetics, Gloria is pushed to take part in the contest. But Gloria doesn't sing.
Gloria nu cîntă
1977 · 4 votes
Movie7.8ComedyProblems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.
Movie9.0ComedyTwo awarded bakers try to make out with girls by lying about their profession, but when they pretend to be doctors they get caught.
Doi Băieți ca Pâinea Caldă
1965 · 2 votes
Movie7.7Resistance fighters blow up munitions depots on a Danube port in Romania, and attack an armament supply convoy for the German troupes.
Movie6.4CrimeActionAfter defeating some Iron Guard gangs in Bucharest, those who survived were hiding somewhere in the mountains. Several bloody events took place in one of the smaller villages. In the unequal struggle with criminals entered the former police commissioner who meanwhile became a Major in Romanian Communist Police, Mihai Roman.
Movie7.1AdventureDramaDuring the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice.
Series2
TV8.8Action & AdventureFull Sail is a TV series aired on Romanian National Television (TVR), based on the eponymous novel by Radu Tudoran. The series follow the adventures of two friends, the Romanian Anton Lupan and the French Pierre Vaillant. Anton Lupan tries to find the L'Esperance schooner, which belonged to them, wiyhout knowing that it was a victim of a pirate attack. But he hopes in particular to find Pierre, so they can start on a trip to an uncharted land, which they attempted several times to explore unsuccessfully. He found the ship, but his friend was nowhere to be found. Anton was forced to leave on a trip across Atlantic, to Tierra del Fuego.
TV8.2FamilyAction & AdventureDuring the times of the Second World War in Royal Romania, a street smart kid accidentally becomes part of an organization which will eventually decide the future of his country.