Between parallel mirrors

This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.

At Bucharest’s famous revue theater “Vox,” director Costică Caratase prepares a bold anti-fascist show despite growing threats from the Iron Guard. As pressure and violence escalate, he and his collaborators face persecution, turning their artistic resistance into an act of courage and sacrifice.

Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. They meet a prophet in the American state of Utah and eventually help the cause of justice in the villages where the prophet proves to be a dictator and exploiter of the coal miners over there.

The woman in red is Ana Cumpanas, a Romanian emigrated to the US, which facilitates the killing of her lover, the famous gangster John Dillinger in Chicago. After an adventurous life, the woman returns to die in her homeland.

The adventures of the three Brad brothers continues when Traian falls in love with Anabelle, a singer. He wants to marry her, not knowing that she is helping someone to rob a bank.

The psychological drama of a mining town in the Apuseni mountains, where the lure of gold acquisition and pathology lead to cruelty, murder and madness.

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

Recreating the early twentieth century in Bucharest, leading to an unforgettable journey to the cultural space of Romania bohemia. The film follows the life of one of the famous for his landscapes and still lifes most renowned painters of Romania.

A young prosecutor refuses to take the easy way out of an investigation that involves a young man.

Pasadia, Pantazi, and Cara team up with the ruffian Pîrgu, because “everything is vanity”. For these princes of lost nights, the only sacred thing is friendship, and “the mutt” is the best guide on a journey through the night.

This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never came back, his tough mother, Ecaterina Handraburu, decides to have her revenge on those who plotted to leave her heirless and grab her possessions.

Two couriers from a camp show up to communicate with the communists, when there should be only one. Which one is the impersonator sent by Germans?

The film was shot in Tudora, Botoșani County, and depicts the life of peasants under the harsh rule of the boyars. It recounts the events that took place in the village of Halunga in 1907, when peasants resorted to violent actions to obtain the property deeds they had acquired. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ion Creangă, adapted for the screen by Constantin Rădulescu-Hodariu.

A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.

The story of two men working with the underground movement in 1934.

In the early 19th century the Romanian Theodor Diamant was inspired by the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier and established one of Fourier's "phalansteries" in Rumania. The film dramatizes the origins and demise of this effort, called the "Scaieni Phalanstery (the term is derived from "phalanx" and "monastery"). Among the socio-political commentary that is conveyed throughout, there is an important collusion between the army and the wealthy landowners of the time, and as the film points out in its own way, neither of these groups has ever been convicted of socialist/utopian tendencies.