Maria Ploae Movies

Recreating the early twentieth century in Bucharest, leading to an unforgettable journey to the cultural space of Romania bohemia. The film follows...

Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.

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...

Lizuca is only six years old, not much older than her pet dachshund Patrocle, when her mother dies and she is left to live with her grandparents on...

In 1936, a time when Bucharest was known as the "Paris of the East", the three Duduleanu sisters, from a family of prosperous merchants, rule their...

One of the last movies made during the communist era in Romania. The plot : a drawing contest for kids in Bucharest. More important : this is a movie...

There are a small number of people for whom imagery and symbolism alone are sufficient reason to watch an otherwise difficult film such as this one....

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...

A petite Romanian gymnast trains with her teammates for what she hopes will be Olympic perfection.

Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and...

In the fifties, the leaders of the Greek-Catholic church are arrested and sent to the Sighet prison.The soviet regime has banned any church except...

A movie about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.

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

Problems ensue once a girl finds about her biological father which tries to be a part of her life.

Mara, a hard-working widow, brings up her two children in a developing industrial Transylvanian town.

In the 1950s, a party activist travels to rural Transylvania to collec collectivize village farms. A wealthy householder resists attempts to make him...

George Manu, a brilliant Romanian physicist, is sentenced in 1948 by the communist courts to hard labour for life and imprisoned in Aiud prison. Here...

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

A 20 year class reunion, at Snagov, in a villa that belonged to Ceaușescu and now melongs to a media magnate. The reunion is hijacked by a...

A tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.