Ion Besoiu Movies

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous...

Genre: War

Cast: Amza Pellea

Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Anders Hove

Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronit Elkabetz

Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Şerban Ionescu

Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. Luca falls in love with Veli, one of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Pistereanu

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".

Genre: History

Cast: Amza Pellea

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sergiu Nicolaescu

A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).

Genre: Action

Cast: Sergiu Nicolaescu

"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sergiu Nicolaescu

A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot,...

Genre: War

Cast: Amza Pellea

The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dem Rădulescu

The 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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Florent Pagny

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the...

Genre: History

Cast: Sergiu Nicolaescu

"Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More specifically, the film is a night of non-stop life...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gheorghe Ifrim

In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Găitan

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karl Michael Vogler

Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorel Vișan

Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but discovers that the child she was carrying is still...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cecilia Bârbora

In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ioana Pavelescu

After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine...

Genre: History

Cast: Ilarion Ciobanu

The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jean Constantin

Margelatu has to clear his name.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Florin Piersic

Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime...

Genre: History

Cast: Ion Siminie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gheorghe Dinică

Genre: Drama

Cast: Octavian Cotescu

Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ion Besoiu

This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamara Creţulescu

Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and...

Genre: History

Cast: Emanoil Petruţ

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ion Besoiu

First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots...

Genre: Action

Cast: Marga Barbu

Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.

Genre: History

Cast: George Calboreanu

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son,...

Genre: War

Cast: Pierre Brice

The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Calboreanu

The 17-year-old Amalia, the daughter of a widower lumberjack with many children, falls in love with a soldier. An irresponsible young man, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manuela Boboc

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jean Constantin

Attorney Constantin Lipan (Geo Barton) is tasked to investigate the case of an oil magnate, Iordan Hagi-Iordan (George Calboreanu). This will put...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geo Barton

Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Marga Barbu

5th movie in the "Margelatu" series

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Szabolcs Cseh

After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering...

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Cast: Victor Rebengiuc

Dana, a young teacher, loses her husband in a car accident. Her four year old son misses a father a lot. Dragoș appears in their lives to fill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emilia Popescu

Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toma Caragiu

During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is...

Genre: History

Cast: Iurie Darie

Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sebastian Papaiani

The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.

Genre: War

Cast: Mircea Albulescu

The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part...

Genre: War

Cast: Gheorghe Cozorici

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gheorghe Dinică

Sixth "Margelatu" movie

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Florin Piersic

Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sergiu Nicolaescu

Lured by a delusional offer, a young geologist ravels abroad where he falls in the tentacles of an economic spying multinational, that forces him to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Florin Piersic

Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Victor Rebengiuc

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mircea Albulescu

Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ilarion Ciobanu

The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Silviu Stănculescu

How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toma Caragiu

The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.

Genre: Action

Cast: Victor Rebengiuc

In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there he meets a formar army comrade, now a lawyer. An...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor Rebengiuc

A young communist returns to a small provincial town.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ion Besoiu

A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ileana Stana Ionescu

This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sebastian Papaiani

A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of placing a dummy on the side of the road and a dead...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ion Besoiu

When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a counterfeiting ring.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Botta

During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ion Besoiu

A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ilarion Ciobanu

In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vlad Rădescu

Genre: War

Cast: Emil Hossu

This is a thriller based on a theatre play by Horia Lovinescu - „Omul care şi-a pierdut omenia” (The Man Who Lost His Humanity)

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Florin Piersic

Here the author makes a movie after his own novel. Following 3 murders, the investigations will have some unexpected turns.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mircea Albulescu

In 1462 the Ottoman Turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and replace him with puppet ruler Prince Radu the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Vladimir Găitan

A love story sprinkled with spies. A young hero pilot is vulnerable in front of foreign agents due to his love. Based on the novel "Zbor de noapte"...

Genre: War

Cast: Marga Barbu

A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the Lottery. She goes to Bucharest, to find herself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rodica Negrea

Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.

Genre: History

Cast: Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan

Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the...

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Cast: Ion Dichiseanu

A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Valentin Mihail

Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight for the manuscript "The History of the Ottoman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexandru Repan