7 Films & TV Shows Set In Moldova

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  Spectral

  🇲🇩 Moldova

  A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

  Released in 2016 • 109 minutes
• What a Wonderful World

  🇲🇩 Moldova The 2000s

  After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.

  Released in 2014 • 73 minutes
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  Siberian Education

  🇲🇩 Moldova The 1980s

  In the mid-1980s, a Siberian gang leader is exiled to a small town on the Ukrainian border where he teaches his grandson the “honest criminal” code. — The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.

  Released in 2013 • 110 minutes
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  6 Bullets

  🇭🇺 Hungary 🇲🇩 Moldova 🇷🇴 Romania

  The greater the sinner, the greater the saint. — An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.

  Released in 2012 • 115 minutes
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  RED

  New York Ohio Illinois Kansas Virginia Louisiana Alabama Maryland Florida Missouri 🇲🇩 Moldova The 2010s

  Still armed. Still dangerous. Still got it. — When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.

  Released in 2010 • 111 minutes
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  Hellboy

  🇲🇩 Moldova 🇷🇺 Russia Scotland New Jersey New York The 2000s The 1940s

  From the Dark Side to Our Side. — In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon—Hellboy—has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.

  Released in 2004 • 122 minutes
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  Black Sunday

  🇲🇩 Moldova 🇷🇴 Romania The 19th Century The 17th Century

  STARE INTO THESE EYES... discover deep within them the unspeakable terrifying secret of BLACK SUNDAY... it will paralyze you with fright! — A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor stand in her way.

  Released in 1960 • 87 minutes