30 Films & TV Shows Set In Romania During The 20th Century
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The Protรฉgรฉ
England ๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1990s The 2020sWherever you run, the past follows... โ Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the worldโs most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival, is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter.
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There is no way back home
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1950s The 2000sIn 1958, Robert Gottlieb was forced to renounce his Romanian citizenship in order to migrate to Israel. 50 years later, his daughter Yaela (re)builds that route but her fatherโs story does not match the places she knew. Family mandates and ghosts of the past get materialized. Him from Lima and her from Buenos Aires, for the first time, find an undeniable gap that leads her towonder: who her father is
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Hutsul girl Ksenia
๐ท๐ด Romania ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1930s1939 . A young Ukrainian-American man Yaro comes to the Carpathian Mountains, because his father left him a fortune under the condition that he would marry a Ukrainian girl. There Yaro meets a Hutsul girl Ksenya and has to rethink his plan.
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The Nun
England ๐ท๐ด Romania The 1950sPray For Forgiveness โ When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the orderโs unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in โThe Conjuring 2โ as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.
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Captain America: Civil War
New York Massachusetts Ohio England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria Africa - General The 1990s The 2010sDivided We Fall โ Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.
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Quod erat demonstrandum
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1980sA scholar of mathematics would like to publish his research outside Ceaucescu's Romania, but getting it through the border and the State censorship is not easy.
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Silent Wedding
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1950s The 2000sIn a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1980sAt what moment do we begin to live? โ Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
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Youth Without Youth
๐ฒ๐น Malta ๐ท๐ด Romania ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1930s The 1960sA love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
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California Dreamin'
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1990sCristian Nemescu's comedy unfolds against the backdrop of the Kosovo War, 1999. A NATO train rolls through a Romanian hamlet, transporting a plethora of weapons across the country -- without official documents, and equipped only with the verbal consent of the Romanian authorities. The transport thus grows intensely vulnerable.
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The Way I Spent the End of the World
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1980sBucharest 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 before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
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The Defender
District of Columbia ๐ท๐ด Romania The 1990sThe global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
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An Unforgettable Summer
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1920sIn 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian frontier where both their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
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Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
๐ท๐ด Romania California The 1980sIt's not over yet. โ After his sister is turned into a werewolf and subsequently killed, Ben White decides to help the enigmatic Stefan Crosscoe fight the growing population of lupine monsters, along with the lovely Jenny Templeton. Traveling to Transylvania, Ben, Jenny and Crosscoe attempt to hunt down the powerful werewolf queen, Stirba, and must face her furry followers, as well as other supernatural forces.
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The Last Assault
๐ญ๐บ Hungary ๐ท๐ด Romania The 1940sThe film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.
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Nadia
๐ท๐ด Romania Quebec The 1970sStory about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast and how she was discovered by Belya Karolyi. Nadia received 7 perfect 10's in the Montreal Olympics.
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The Keep
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1940sTHEY WERE ALL DRAWN TO THE KEEP. The soldiers who brought death. The father and daughter fighting for life. The people who have always feared it. And the one man who knows its secret... โ Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
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Revenge
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1940s"Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we meet up with police inspector Tudor Moldovan, once again, who wasn't actually killed and who has returned to put an end to Paraipan's actions once and for all. When Paraipan kidnaps Moldovan's kid, the police inspector makes up his mind to punish Paraipan and his bosses and to finish off the fascist movement, lead by Zavoianu and his allies. Together with the communist that fight to gain power, Moldovan takes out his enemies one by one.
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Through the Ashes of the Empire
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1910sA war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu short story. about pain, search of sense in misty times, about roots of evil and price of survive, about a country as shadow and ruins of a empire. all in dark nuances, touching images. a movie like a ballad. heavy, strange, profound, harsh, cruel. with few drops of feelings as steps of rotten ladder. looks, silhouettes, way to ambiguous home. a thief and a young man. across Balkans. among ash of a fragile territory. the impressive aspect - silence. and gestures. the woman, the train. the escape. the bath. and the death of Diplomat. all - fragments of an old way to discover reality. all - words of a new world.
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Young Frankenstein
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1970sThe scariest comedy of all time! โ A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
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A Police Inspector Calls
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1940sThe Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and started a fierce campaign of retaliation against its political enemies. As such, in the night of November 26-27, 1940, the Death Teams executed forty political prisoners in the Jilava prison (in the movie, named "Viraga"), and next day, other two Teams arrested and shot the former minister Virgil Madgearu and the world famous historian Nicolae Iorga. To squash down the political outcry, the Police Prefect Stefan Zรคvoianu conveniently assigns the cases to a commissioner from the "Morals Division" (prostitution, thieves), Tudor Moldovan, hoping that he will fail to get to the bottom of the case. However, Moldovan has communist sympathies, so he quickly comes under the influence of the Bolshevik Pรฎrvu, who had escaped during the Viraga...
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With Clean Hands
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1940sA story of an apolitical police commissar who is using odd methods against the gangsters.
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Catch Me a Spy
Scotland England ๐ท๐ด Romania ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 20th CenturyWhile on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate.
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Annychka
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1940sThe film dwells of the love story in the midst of the Second World War in 1943. A Hutsul girl Annychka finds herself in the middle of hostilities and gets acquainted with a wounded soldier in the forest.
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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1900sHe lives! They die! Christopher Lee as the fanged undead. โ In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the village of Keineneburg to ensnare victims and satisfy his evil thirst.
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