The best Dumitru Rucăreanu’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Dumitru Rucăreanu’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Dumitru Rucăreanu.
Love at Zero Degrees
7.5/10
A comedy love story that takes place at a ski resort during romanian communism time!
Phalanstery
6.5/10
In the early 19th century the Romanian Theodor Diamant was inspired by the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier and established one of Fourier's "phalansteries" in Rumania. The film dramatizes the origins and demise of this effort, called the "Scaieni Phalanstery (the term is derived from "phalanx" and "monastery"). Among the socio-political commentary that is conveyed throughout, there is an important collusion between the army and the wealthy landowners of the time, and as the film points out in its own way, neither of these groups has ever been convicted of socialist/utopian tendencies.
Strange Agent
5.8/10
This is a thriller based on a theatre play by Horia Lovinescu - „Omul care şi-a pierdut omenia” (The Man Who Lost His Humanity)
Love Begins on Friday
7.2/10
A high school graduate, disappointed by the failure to be accepted in college, finds balance amongst the coworkers at her new job in a factory.
The Man We Need
7/10
A concrete expert is torn between his family, who wants to settle in a city, and his work, which requires constant relocating.
Magic Circle
5.9/10
Two murders initially appear to be motivated by personal interest. However, at a closer look, they appear to be something completely different.
Secretul lui Nemesis
7.2/10
The Secret of Bacchus
7.8/10
Victor, an incisive journalist, discovers a series of irregularities in a State farming enterprise. His investigations will unmask the fraud committed by the person in charge of the wine section, called Bachus. Although aided by an impressive number of cronies, Bachus will not be able to hide forever infamous secret.
The "S" Network
6.5/10
Industrial espionage movie, in communist Romania.
Ana and the Thief
7.1/10
A young man is freed from prison. The communists are reforming him.
Harababura
5.7/10
A few unrelated groups of people leave for vacation from Bucharest for the mountains. They meet by chance in Poiana Brașov.
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.
K.O.
7.1/10
A newly hired engineer is also an amateur boxing star. He also dreams of becoming an actor. He is pushed in different directions, he also wants to get married.
Black Sea Adventures
6.8/10
A counterespionage office get a mission to go to the Black Sea shore and catch a spy network that got their hands on a secret fuel formula.
The Blue Gates of the City
7.3/10
Operation 'The Bus'
7.3/10
In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.
The Migrant Birds Are Coming
7.3/10
In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...
The Castle of the Condemned
7.5/10
After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering to the soviets.
The War of the Princesses
6.8/10
"Concordia" Team
5.6/10
A communist pyrotechnist lieutenant plans to blow up a Ploiești refinery that fuels the german army in WWII
