The best Ernest Maftei’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ernest Maftei’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 Ernest Maftei.
Accident
6.6/10
Three young man run in the rain with a borrowed car. The first accident, whose victim is a girl, gives the signal for a race through the city to escape the police crews. Race ends tragically, with another serious incident, even one victim is involved. The only way out is escape. The film shows the psychological transformation of fugitives, in their desperate attempt to evade the consequences and pressures of their conscience.
The Last Bullet
7.5/10
A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).
Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula
7.5/10
Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.
The Outlaws
7.6/10
First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots and the Ottomans. The story evolves around the two stepbrothers who lead this band, Sarbu and Amza, with their complex and violent relationship.
The Axe
7.4/10
A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband.
Merriment Ward
6.8/10
How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.
Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
8/10
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
The Power and The Truth
7.2/10
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.
The Bone Srewn Road
7.6/10
Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.
The Thirst
6.7/10
The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.
The Punishment
8/10
In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.
For Motherland
7.7/10
In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
The Storm
6/10
The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.
A Certain Kind of Happiness
6.6/10
A story about a group of friends and their choices, how to pursue their careers and personal life.
The Conspiracy
6.2/10
A propaganda movie about the confrontation between the communists and secret police, legionaires in Romania.
Reconstruction
7.8/10
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher bring the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.
Burebista
7.4/10
The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the Black Sea coast.
Last Night of Love
7.4/10
In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's border with Austria-Hungary. Not receiving any news from his wife he persuades the commanding officer, Captain Dimiu, to allow him a short leave to visit his wife. Tudor married Lena two years before but was very jealous and suspected her of infidelity. When his grandfather dies Tudor inherits most of the fortune. Gigolo lawyer Andrei Nicolau is the executor of the will. He also is the man who lustfully desires Tudor's beautiful wife. A contest for Lena's love begins. Romania is plunged into WW1 and ironically Tudor receives his junior Lieutenant commission in the same regiment where gigolo lawyer Nicolau serves as a Major. Their destinies seem intertwined.
The Captain Martens Brothers
7.4/10
Historical movie based on the "fratii Jderi" book. The movie is in the top 20 most watched Romanian movies.
Hot Days
6.1/10
