Oana Pellea
Actor · b. 1962 · Bucharest, Romania
Oana Dariana Pellea (born 29 January 1962, Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian actress and daughter of Amza Pellea. She graduated from the "I.L. Caragiale" Theatre and Film Institute in 1984 and has worked in theatre, film, and television for over four decades. Her most internationally recognized film role is Marichka in Children of Men (2006); other credits include High Tension (2003) and The Gambler (2015). She is a long-standing member of the National Theatre Bucharest (since 2019) and also made her directorial debut in 2023. Among her awards are the Grand Cross and Sash of the Order of the Star of Romania, multiple UNITER Best Actress prizes, and Best Actress honors at the Geneva and San Marino film festivals for State of Things (1995).
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Movie7.6Science FictionThrillerIn 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Children of Men
2006 · 8.2K votes
Movie6.8HorrorThrillerBest friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
Movie5.1DramaFantasyPrincess Luisa and knight Gabriel must face a dragon to save their kingdom.
Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles
2008 · 75 votes
Movie6.1DramaA single mother's struggle to support her child leads her into the surreal netherworld of illegal sexual enterprises, with her finally ending up in the Bibliothèque Pascal; an elegant but bizarre house of prostitution in which men can re-enact sexual scenarios inspired by great works of literature for a hefty fee.
Bibliothèque Pascal
2010 · 33 votes
Movie4.0ComedyDramaWhile anticipating the arrival of a famous Hollywood star, five employees at a mediocre restaurant in London's Soho must deal with rats, arguments and kitchen-based power struggles.
I Really Hate My Job
2007 · 27 votes
Movie5.0The story of a wealth Eastern European family in Las Vegas, whose misunderstanding of American ways results in the loss of their dignity and self-respect.
The Gambler
2015 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaHistoryThe film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who led a troubled life due to the fact that he supported the free expression of people in a coercive climate.
Movie5.8DramaHistoryA dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond.
Nostradamus
1994 · 84 votes
Movie7.1DramaHaving suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils.
Movie8.2DramaThis is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
Movie7.0DramaFor years, the carpenter Tillmann Rutenschneider has moved around. In 1932, at the age of thirty, he returns to his village in the Mark Brandenburg with a foreign wife. He builds a house and starts a family. It wasn't long before he became a victim of the new racial laws. His house is set on fire, his wife and child burn to death in the flames. He himself is sent to a concentration camp. After liberation, he returned to his home village, started a new family and built a new house. He joins forces with resettlers to form a cooperative, enforcing the land reform in his very own way. Tillmann falls into debt, gets into trouble and ends up in prison. He has to sell his house to pay off his debts. Released from prison, Tillmann Rutenschneider makes his way back to his village.
Der Mann mit dem Ring im Ohr
1984 · 1 votes
- Movie5.3Drama
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.
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.
Movie7.0DramaA breakdown occurs in a factory on the banks of the Danube and a ministerial team begins an investigation. Alexandru Nedelcu is the inspector who came to investigate and has the complicated mission of finding the truth.
Movie6.7DramaA sequel to one of Romanian cinema’s most lauded adaptations, The Moromete Family, film tells the tale of Ilie Moromete and his family and focuses on his youngest son, Niculae. The entire order of the world of the village, where the most important thing is to own land and work it, changes upon the arrival of the Communist regime and collectivization.
Movie6.6DramaHristea, a surgeon, spends his holidays at the seaside. While on the beach his belongings are stolen. The surgeon tells the policeman that the thief is a young man he had seen nearby. Although the accused doesn't admit to the wrongdoing, Hristea insists he should be punished. His obstinance will affect his marriage with his beautiful wife.
Movie6.7DramaThree youngsters are sent to "re-education through labor" on a hydro dam construction site. They prove in the end to fare much better than some of their colleagues.
Movie8.2DramaThe story of Niculae, Moromete's youngest son, who in the 1950s becomes an acclaimed young writer who lives his life and complicated love stories in a charged atmosphere tainted by suspicion.
Movie7.3DramaSet 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.
Movie7.0DramaAn outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
Movie6.1DramaA story of revolution, betrayal, corruption and wrongful imprisonment, as well as human character and strength while facing them.