The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu (dir. Cristi Puiu, 2005).
"One evening, Mr. Lazarescu, who lives alone, feels a bit dizzy. He finally ends up being driven away in an ambulance, which is the start of a tragicomic odyssey. Each doctor who examines him arrives at an entirely different diagnosis, and his emergency treatment is incessantly postponed. The physicians are deaf to the entreaties of the patient and his friends, and they are devoid of sympathy for the elderly Mr. Lazarescu as he again plunges into the Bucharest night."
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12:08 East Of Bucharest (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006).
"It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television post, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?"
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The Way I Spent the End of the World (dir. Catalin Mitulescu, 2006).
"Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu is more and more convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So, with his friends from school, he devises a plan to kill the dictator."
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"Director Andrei Ujica crafted over 1,000 hours of official state broadcasts and intimate home movies into a tour-de-force that depicts how Ceausescu created the country in his own image, regardless of the cost to its citizens."
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The Mozart of the Pickpockets (dir. Philippe Pollet-Villard, 2006)
"Richard and Philippe live hand to mouth, backing up a gang of Romanian pickpockets on the streets of Paris. Against their will, they end up taking care of a deaf Romanian kid. After failing to get rid of him, they decide to make him “work” for them. Despite the language barrier, the kid finds his own method to steal."
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Child's Pose (dir. Călin Peter Netzer, 2013)
"Luminita Gheorghiu stars as a steely, well-to-do Bucharest architect determined to keep her 30-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash."
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