Romanian revolution movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant romanian revolution movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, tense, atmospheric and emotional films and TV shows about / with romanian revolution, dictatorship, communism, revolution, artist, society, family relations, politics, totalitarian regime and photograph plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres shot in Romania, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as romanian revolution: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006), Two Deaths (1995), Requiem for Dominic (1990), The Oak (1992), Betrayal (1993), Fox: Hunter (1993), The Paper Will Be Blue (2006), Tales from the Golden Age (2009), Aglaya (2012).

List of romanian revolution movies

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, sexy, tense, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: abortion, friendship, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, rape, communism, communist, realism, doctor, brutality, female pubic hair, female nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 2000s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: romania, eastern europe, transylvania, europe, california
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12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: communism, politics, holiday, friendship, state affairs, elderly, small town, dictatorship, international relations, husband wife relationship, revolution, communist ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: balkan, eastern europe, romania, europe, bucharest
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The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: youth, friendship, hopes, warning, coming of age, rebelliousness, human spirit, exile, siblings relations, reform, family relations, totalitarian regime ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: romania, eastern europe, europe
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 6.4
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Two Deaths (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
Style: sensual, political, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: romanian revolution, obsession, vengeance, forbidden love, revolution, couples, introspection, dangerous attraction, rebelliousness, soldier, love and romance, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: romania, europe, bucharest, eastern europe, new york ...
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Requiem for Dominic (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Romania
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Requiem for Dominic powerfully portrayed the upheaval in that liminal space between revolution and order. This drama is captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they were unfolding in ...
Style: bleak, serious, tense, political drama
Plot: revolution, social realism, uncertainty, grief, iron curtain, civil unrest, political violence, identity crisis, repression, protest, alienation, family conflict ...
Place: eastern europe, romania
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 7.8
 4K
The Oak (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her ...
Style: black comedy, parody, semi serious, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot: politics, doctor, teacher, soldier, blackmail, male nudity, rape, train, murder, hospital, satire, unsettling ...
Time: year 1992, 80s
Place: romania, balkan, europe
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 7.0
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Betrayal (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Switzerland, Spain, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime.
Plot: romanian revolution, communism, artist, totalitarian regime, family relations, agent, released from prison, desertion, typist, police station, informant, police inspector ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: romania, paris france, bucharest
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 7.2
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Fox: Hunter (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu. -- BFI
Style: thought provoking, historical drama, tense, art house, bleak ...
Plot: dictatorship, totalitarianism, oppression, revolution, fear, surveillance, guilt, protest, atonement, revolt, anxiety, reconciliation ...
Time: 80s
Place: eastern europe, romania
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The Paper Will Be Blue (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, rough, realistic ...
Plot: soldier, political unrest, danger, idealism, military, terrorism, daring rescue, state affairs, artist, romanian revolution, media, dictatorship ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: romania, europe
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Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Tales from the Golden Age is composed of 5 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alluded ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, dark comedy ...
Plot: communism, society, life is a bitch, family relations, social decay, dictatorship, life changing experience, urban legend, summer, totalitarian regime, artist, mission ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: eastern europe, romania, europe
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 6.6
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Aglaya (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, touching, serious ...
Plot: circus, dysfunctional family, desire for fame, ambition, self discovery, performer's life, eccentric family, artists and showbiz, youth, parents and children, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: hungary
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 7.4
 2K
Freedom (2023)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Romania, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, ...
Style: historical drama, intense, political, period piece, political thriller ...
Plot: soldier, revolution, freedom, oppression, secret police, civil unrest, conflict, protest, liberation, chaos, militia, accusation ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: romania, eastern europe
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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. Radu Jude (Aferim!) delivers an ...
Style: captivating, intellectual, ironic, independent film, freeze frame ...
Plot: explicit sex, oral sex, erection, penetration, bare breasts, lechery, sex tape, female masturbation, unsimulated sex, teacher, close up of a penis, female teacher ...
Time: future
Place: bucharest, romania, rome italy
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