Alina se vrací z Německa, kam odešla za prací, s nadějí, že si zpátky odvede Voičitu, jedinou bytost, kterou kdy milovala a která kdy milovala ji. Jenomže v době, kdy tu Alina nebyla, našla Voičita Boha, a to je v lásce soupeř, nad nímž se těžko vyhrává. Cristian Mungiu, který si z Cannes odvezl Zlatou palmu v roce 2007, opět zvolil jako ústřední postavy dvě mladé ženy. Kdysi spolu vyrůstaly v sirotčinci a po delším odloučení se shledávají v klášterní osadě v kopcích. Zatímco pro jednu z nich se staly chatrče kolem kostelíka domovem, druhá touží utéci z místa, kde vládne přísný řád diktovaný knězem, jehož komunita slepě poslouchá. Není těžké objevit paralely s nedávnou historií autorovy vlasti, třebaže interpretace složitého a nejednoznačně vyznívajícího příběhu je ponechána na divákovi. Poslední záběry ovšem výmluvně vyjadřují autorův pohled na současné Rumunsko.
After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast.
Jednoho studeného večera uprostřed března se Barbu řítí ulicemi a překračuje povolenou rychlost. Vzápětí srazí malé dítě a chlapec krátce po nehodě umírá. Viníka čeká trest odnětí svobody od tří do patnácti let. Tehdy vstupuje na scénu Barbuho matka Cornelia, rozhodnutá zasáhnout a pomoci svému synovi vyhnout se vězení. Blahobytně zařízený byt – dílo známého architekta z vyšší společenské třídy Rumunska – zdobí police s nepřečtenými romány Herty Müllerové a dokresluje Corneliina kabelka, plná kreditních karet. Corneliina kampaň za záchranu svého apatického syna nezná hranic. Věří, že úplatky jsou tou správnou cestou, jak přesvědčit svědky, aby nesvědčili v neprospěch jejího syna. Dokonce i rodiče mrtvého dítěte se upokojí, když dostanou nějakou tu peněžní hotovost.
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?"
1999. Kosovo War. In a small Romanian village, the chief of the railway station, who also happens to be a local gangster, stops a NATO train transporting military equipment. Their arrival in this small village dramatically changes its landscape.
On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes). In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife.
A romantic comedy about the first date between two people who have never had a relationship before but who desperately want one. A movie about fear and love.
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva 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 and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes 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.
An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping next room. Waste land on the city outskirts: behind a line of abandoned trailers, the man silently watches what seems to be a family. The same city, the same man: driving through traffic with two hand-made firing pins for a hunting rifle. The man is 42 years old, his name - Viorel. Troubled by obscure thoughts, he drives across the city to a destination known only to him.
A cop named Cristi must go undercover to trail teen Victor who is suspected of selling pot in the north-eastern city of Vasliu.
Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.
A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.
The film follows Doru and Mihai, boys from Iasi, Romania, over the course of a couple of days, during which they smoke weed, eat ciorbă and mistakenly shoot their dealer’s grandmother.
How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team participates for the first time in the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. The film follows the team from the formation of the squad to the end of the championship. The young people are from Timisoara and Arad, runaway children who now live in abandoned houses or who have managed to get a job and live in rented accommodation after going through orphanages or prisons. After taking a beating from many teams, the young Romanians manage to beat the USA. They are happy. They are all thinking of never going "home" again. It's warm and nice here, the people are nice. "In case I stay, I kissed you all!" says one of them cautiously. But after taking pictures of themselves on the beach with the ocean behind them and beautiful girls by their side, the seven return to Romania and get on with their lives.