Movies and TV shows set in bucharest
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in bucharest ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out independent film, melancholic, tense, captivating, realistic and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with urban, character study, moral ambiguity, intimate, friendship, bittersweet, satire, realism, female nudity and slice of life plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Action genres shot in Romania, France, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bucharest: 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006), Break of Dawn (2002), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021), Sieranevada (2016), Charlie Countryman (2013), Pepe and Fifi (1994), Poppy Field (2020), 5 Minutes Too Late (2019), Ramon (2023).
Best films
New films
| Kidnapped in Romania (2016) | 2.4 | |
| Ramon (2023) | 6.8 | |
| Cursa (2025) | 7.3 | |
| Everyone Else (2016) | 7.3 | |
| Prowl (2016) | 5.9 |
List of movies set in bucharest
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress.
Style:
postmodern, sincere, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
sexual relations, filmmaking, dishonesty, screenwriter, female nudity, theater, nudity, manipulation, artists and showbiz, under the surface, smoking, director ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bucharest, romania
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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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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of two ex-legionnaires in a mission of political assasination in Romania. A candid portrayal of the human side of assassins.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating
Plot:
friendship, professional killer, scapegoat, bank robber, assassination, camaraderie, released from prison, murder, chase, dying, terminal illness, killer ...
Place:
bucharest, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) is a retired Romanian engineer, spending his time in the company of his cats and booze. When he starts feeling unusually ill, he first seeks painkillers from his neighbors. It soon becomes apparent that Lazarescu is ...
Style:
sincere, black comedy, contemplative, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
hospital, medical, paramedic, doctors and patients, ambulance, character study, storytelling, self discovery, surgery, public health, terminal illness, fighting illness ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
romania, bucharest, eastern europe, transylvania, europe ...
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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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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Back from a professional trip to Paris, a neurologist at the pinnacle of his career has to pick up his wife so that they can attend a family meal to commemorate his father, who died a year before. At his mother's flat, the guests are waiting ...
Style:
suspense, humorous, unusual plot structure, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
family relations, family conflict, dysfunctional couple, bossy wife, three generations, humiliation, alzheimer's disease, infidelity, anti communist, underground, terrorist, relationships ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
bucharest, afghanistan, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.
Style:
visually stunning, atmospheric, stylized, exciting, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, dangerous attraction, chase, gangster, a vision, on the run, supernatural, femme fatale, disorder, danger, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, usa, bucharest, chicago
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Romania
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The grim realities of daily life in post-Communist Romania are described in this dark drama, which was filmed on-location in the poorer areas of Bucharest. Pepe & Fifi are brother and sister. Pepe is a struggling boxer, and Fifi is a barfly ...
Style:
dark drama, bleak, neorealism, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
social realism, boxing, brother sister relationship, organized crime, survival, barfly, addiction, siblings, working class, slice of life, family drama, desperation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bucharest, romania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young Romanian gendarme, Cristi, tries to find the balance between two apparently opposing parts of his identity: that of a man working in a macho hierarchical environment and that of a closeted gay person who tries to keep his personal life a ...
Style:
sexy, touching, romantic, talky, psychological ...
Plot:
gay subtext, gay interest, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, gay, gay slur, police officer, gay lead character, closeted gay, gay couple, lgbt, gay bashing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, bucharest
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The destiny of the man who led the gendarme team after a LGBT film screening in Bucharest, revealed through an investigation by Liliana Calomfir, a young journalist known for her daring reporting.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
gay slur, journalism, investigative reporter, investigation, lgbtq, female journalist, journalist, private investigation, lesbian, crime solving, uncover truth, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
bucharest, romania
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A breathless criminal hunt, which leads into the remote mountain world of Romania, with the portrait of a foreign country, which has remained standing in time. Hanna Landauer and Sven Schröder are part of a special unit of the LKA, which traps ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, detective, dramatic, realistic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cat and mouse, escape, chase, manhunt, fugitive, investigation, police procedural, prison break, border patrol, survival, teamwork, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
romania, bucharest, eastern europe, germany, uruguay
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ramon is a kind person, he tries to do good things, but he is making them much worse. He is looking for that special person and ends up in Bucharest, were troubles are following him.
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, romantic comedy, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
misadventure, fish out of water, loneliness, empathy, character study, bittersweet, urban, social satire, culture clash, personal growth, awkward
Place:
bucharest, romania, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In Bucharest on a winter’s morning, a couple make love. Adina wants to move in with her boyfriend Radu as soon as possible. He, on the other hand, is slightly more reluctant but appears to simply tolerate her plans. Today is New Year’s Eve and ...
Style:
romantic drama, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
love triangle, urban, nightlife, breakup, young couple, male protagonist, realism, character study, jealousy, bittersweet, slice of life, ex girlfriend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, bucharest, thailand
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia, Switzerland, UK, Canada
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
satirical, feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, filmmaking, social commentary, workplace situations, problem, workplace, realism, social realism, dark humor, interview, exploitation, city life ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
bucharest, romania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A night. Dozens of stories. A city. Lică, a taxi driver, is an all knowing guy, while Liviu, his friend, also a taxi driver keeps a lot to himself. They are completely different and their ideas about life and people only meet when they are eating ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, satirical, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
taxi driver, driver, taxi, driving, night, satire, multiple storylines, loneliness, working class, self discovery, friendship, city life ...
Place:
bucharest
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
"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 of a store located in a neighborhood blocks. Four drive four different stories linked by a ...
Style:
independent film, intense, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
ordinary people, slice of life, nightlife, everyday life, neighborhood, social realism, realism, character study, street life, working class, empathy, storekeeper ...
Place:
bucharest, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the ...
Style:
road movie, art house, tragicomedy, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, bear, circus, escape, loyalty, animal rights, moral dilemma, friendship, satire, rescue, poverty, dark humor ...
Place:
bucharest, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A young mother's life is upended when she finds herself hiding behind a secret identity to escape the Bucharest gang responsible for her fiancé's death.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, neo noir, tech noir
Plot:
undercover, organized crime, gang, secret identity, urban, family drama, motherhood, betrayal, identity, cat and mouse, trauma, double life ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
bucharest, romania
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Romania, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, scary, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, stalker, expatriate, voyeurism, women, home invasion, paranoia, woman, missing woman, murder, being followed, american horror ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
romania, bucharest
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, USA, Italy, Poland, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
Style:
realistic, stylized, sincere, captivating, surreal ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, communist, money, secret, deception, impossible love, military, robbery, curse, teacher student relationship, freedom, judaism ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, year 1945, 1950s, post world war two ...
Place:
romania, bucharest, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ivan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan’s unshakeable ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, surreal, moody
Plot:
death, guilt, loneliness, grief, regret, loss, memory, mourning, hotel, obsession, suicide, mature ...
Place:
bucharest, afghanistan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Following a competitive circumstances, Russian Federation returned the Romanian state treasury found in Moscow. Among the items brought into the country is also a bust of the early twentieth century (porcelain bust made in 1915, signed I. ...
Style:
road movie, black comedy, tension, satirical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, greed, money, opportunism, chase, art theft, road trip, mobster, escape, organized crime, corruption, young adult ...
Time:
near future
Place:
romania, bucharest
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the ...
Style:
melancholic, romantic, art house, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
teen romance, loss of innocence, authoritarianism, political repression, secret police, surveillance, cold war, coming of age, intimate, forbidden love, slow burn, youth culture ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Place:
romania, bucharest, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A math teacher from Bucharest and his lover go out for a picnic to relax. The film follows what happens after an accident occurs and the two characters argue about how to handle the situation. Things take a twist and as the victim becomes an part ...
Style:
tense, clever, realistic, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot:
prostitute, manipulation, infidelity, introspection, mysterious character, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, couples, couple relations, woods, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
romania, bucharest
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, thrilling ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, heroic mission, deadly creature, rivalry, murder, danger, escapades, urban, violent, dystopia, creature feature ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
romania, bucharest
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, situational comedy, period piece, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
con artists, forgery, friendship, mistaken identity, police investigation, unhappiness, fish out of water, satire, families, heist, social commentary, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
romania, eastern europe, bucharest, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An ordinary day in Romania. Under a highway exit close to Bucharest, Lidia and Denisa are changing their clothes; warm pullovers and sneakers are exchanged for tight tops and heels. The two are then waiting for clients, an icy wind gusting around ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, slow cinema
Plot:
prostitution, sex work, poverty, social realism, everyday life, working class, survival, character study, desperation, female friendship, resilience, humiliation ...
Place:
romania, bucharest
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends up in murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer. The other is his very own conscience.
Style:
art house, suspenseful
Plot:
conscience, domestic drama, moral dilemma, guilt, moral ambiguity, character study, intimate, realism, witness, murder mystery, apartment building, unsettling ...
Place:
romania, bucharest
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The sweetest girl, Dana (Diana Dumitrescu) has to go out on a date with a broker, Dani (Andi Vasluianu) because her chubby friend, Oana (Antoaneta Zaharia), doesn't have the courage to meet her Facebook lover face to face. A hacker (Marius ...
Style:
humorous, romantic comedy, funny, romantic, light ...
Plot:
dating, relationships, deception, pretending to be someone else, love and romance, couple relations, double life, humour, pretense, dual role, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, first date ...
Place:
bucharest, romania
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the counter-revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.
Style:
emotional, tragicomedy, tense, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
protest, communism, political unrest, oppression, social commentary, bittersweet, desperation, dark humor, cold war era, resilience, urban, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
romania, eastern europe, bucharest, europe
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