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Adrian Sitaru

Adrian Sitaru is a Romanian director, producer and actor, born in 1971. He is the author of several short films, of which Valuri ("Waves", 2007), the most well-known, has received numerous prizes. Sitaru also worked with Costa Gavras in the making of Amen (2002). His first feature film, Pescuit sportiv for which, besides being the director, he also wrote the script, has been screened in film fest…

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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the WorldDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World · 2023
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
★ 6.92023
MovieComedyDrama
On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.
Kontinental '25Kontinental '25 · 2025
Kontinental '25
★ 6.52025
MovieComedyDrama
Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.
Amen.Amen. · 2002
Amen.
★ 7.02002
MovieDramaHistory
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
IllegitimateIllegitimate · 2016
Illegitimate
★ 6.32016
MovieDrama
At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.
DomesticDomestic · 2012
Domestic
★ 6.12012
MovieComedyDrama
Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying to have a better life, but sometimes death comes unexpectedly. The lives of three characters surrounded by a bunch of extraordinary, funny, absurd but quite realistic events. It is all about us, people who eat the animals that they love and the animals that love people unconditionally.
BlindsightBlindsight · 2025
Blindsight
2025
MovieDrama
Laura (45) suffers from severe amnesia following an accident, so she can’t remember who the people around her are. She is reluctantly persuaded by her family to go on a boat trip to Turkey, but the closer she gets to her destination, the more unclear the purpose of the trip becomes. They are caught up in a series of situations in which they change their minds depending on the context, their own principles seem to be relativized, their choices become irrational.
ArtArt · 2014
Art
★ 6.12014
MovieDrama
A 14-year-old girl auditions for a film role as an abused sex worker, and the director tries to convince her mother of the artistic rationale behind the provocative part.
CounterpartCounterpart · 2014
Counterpart
★ 1.02014
MovieDrama
Counterpart follows Alex, a young estate agent who lives in a flat with his girlfriend, Lily, a former stripper. They spend most of their time sunbathing or having sex. But someone is watching them from a home across the street. The voyeur is a disabled man who helps the young couple make a life changing discovery

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