The best Costel Constantin’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Costel Constantin’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Costel Constantin.
The Sign of the Serpent
7.3/10
This movie retells the story of a revenge that sweeps over the social and political events of the '40s. Because they sent her son to war and he never came back, his tough mother, Ecaterina Handraburu, decides to have her revenge on those who plotted to leave her heirless and grab her possessions.
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
8.1/10
Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed his heart, and that he is still in love with Florica, not with his wife. It is the curse of love that will be Ion's undoing. Badly mistreated, Ana, his wife, is driven to despair and she hangs herself. Ion, now free and wealthy, believes that the time has come for him to have Florica. Florica's husband, George waylays Ion and savagely murders him with a hoe.
The Man of the Day
6.8/10
Reach for the Sky
6.6/10
A story about young gymnasts in Romania.
Tănase Scatiu
7.1/10
The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.
The Convoy
6.7/10
The Eleventh Commandment
7.4/10
Free adaptation of the book "The Pitesti phenomenon" by Paul Goma.
Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
7.8/10
Based on a theatrical text by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), who was a bitter and funny witness of the turn-of-the-20th-century Romanian bourgeois mores, Carnival Scenes manages to preserve and further enhance the slightly hysteric atmosphere of his plays. Pintilie creates a strange combination of carnival scenes which is brought to the screen as a burlesque, fast-paced, screwball comedy with a meditative undertone. This film was banned in Romania for a decade until the death of Ceausescu in 1989 and was only released after the 1989 revolution.
Ana and the Thief
7.1/10
A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.
The Blue Gates of the City
7.2/10
Special Edition
6.8/10
A journalist in a Bucharest publication, is the accidental witness of the street arrest of a communist. It intervenes in the defense of the young man, who manages to escape, and is arrested. He is obliged to look for the missing woman.
The Last Night of Loneliness
6.1/10
The movie depicts a peasant with a very strong personality that copes with the changes in the Romanian village.
Uncertain Roads
6/10
Octavian Borcea, a middle aged peasant, goes through a social crisis when he decides to re-marry with a widower. He visits all his 5 children, then he returns in the village, where he burned his bridges.
Waiting for a Train
6.1/10
After Romania changed alliances in August 23rd, 1944, a group of soldiers have the mission to stop a military train.
Sfârșitul nopții
7.6/10
A young prosecutor refuses to take the easy way out of an investigation that involves a young man.
The Silence of the Deep
6.2/10
In the times when communism was illegal, one young worker is sentenced to the capital punishment for crimes against the state.
Mountains in Flames
7.6/10
1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach.
At the Crossroads of Great Storms
7.3/10
In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.
A Swan in Winter
7.2/10
Cine iubește și lasă
5.5/10
Andra is a redactor at a women's magazine. The readers are contacting her for help in thir relationships. But Anda has problems on her own.
