The best George Motoi’s drama movies

George Motoi

George Motoi

22/01/1936- 04/03/2015
Today we present the best George Motoi’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best George Motoi’s movies.

The Poseidon Explosion

The Poseidon Explosion
6.5/10
A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city

The Investigation

The Investigation
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/11/1980
  • Character: Șerban
The explosion of a 4300 tones Kauper furnace brings up an inquiry, conducted by Ștefan, a Romanian Communist Party activist. He is trying to get to the truth, even if he is pressured just to assign blame.

The Great Solitary

The Great Solitary
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/09/1977
  • Character: inginerul horticultor Nicolae Moromete
Nicolae (George Motoi), the intelectual descendant of Moromete family, former communist apparatchik in the 50s, becomes a horticultor due to a political error, and refuses to have any social life, even if he is unhappy with his inactivity. The death of his partner makes him respond to the overtures of his old comrades. Based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.

Seven Days

Seven Days
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/09/1973
  • Character: Mușat
This movie presents 7 days of a secret agent's life. Unlike most other movies that glamorize secret agents, this one shows the routine, nitty gritty work.

The Return of King Lapusneanu

The Return of King Lapusneanu
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 17/03/1980
  • Character: Alexandru Lapusneanu
Alexandru Lapusneanu is one of important Moldavian rulers. A Macbeth figure, who obtains his throne in fight, who reeves any possible danger out of his way, a good "hospodar", husband and father. His reign is result of relation with the Great Powers of the XVIth century. The strain relation with the boyars (noblemen), the economic and spiritual contribution in the country's development, tensions of his own family, the loss of reign and the revenge, the second reign are elements for define the man and the prince like touching character

The Take-Off

The Take-Off
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/12/1971
  • Character: Doctor
Valedictorian in a flight class, he has to complete 2 years of utility aviation before going into military. He is unhappy about that and he clashes with the old commandant Bărcan.

Hyperion

Hyperion
6/10
Thea, a researcher from an institute for nuclear studies, leaves for a vacation but ends up on an adventure at the boundary between fantasy and reality. On the TV screen the image of a man appears who disappeared 20 years ago after a nuclear explosion. She falls in love with this picture and convinces a colleague and close friend that they can bring back the man who disappeared through a strange reverse process. Her only way to communicate with this picture however is via the TV screen, and her love can only be communicated through dreaming.

Terente: The King of Swamps

Terente: The King of Swamps
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/09/1995
  • Character: Un jucător
The story takes place early in the 20th century in Eastern Romania, where a famous outlaw lived kind of a Clyde with many Bonnies legend in the landscape of the Danube Delta.

The Evening Party

The Evening Party
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 08/05/1971
  • Character: Cristea Alexandru
At a party with diverse guests are dealing with the events os August 23rd, 1944. Guests are serving as metaphors for different parts of society.

Fleeting Loves

Fleeting Loves
7.7/10
A Romanian architect who married abroad reunites with his birthplace, with those he met, with the women he loved, with the echoes of what happened once, with the great transformations that are taking place in the Capitol, on construction sites and in Romanian villages. Condemned by an incurable disease, but also overwhelmed by these realities and by the irrepressible longing for his homeland, the hero decides to return home for good.

The Return of Magellan

The Return of Magellan
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 11/02/1974
  • Character: ”Amicul” (Buddy)
A love story between a young communist in illegality and a girl who presents herself as Magellan.

The Silence of the Deep

The Silence of the Deep
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/02/1982
  • Character: Eng. Voinea
In the times when communism was illegal, one young worker is sentenced to the capital punishment for crimes against the state.

The Court Adjourns the Sentencing

The Court Adjourns the Sentencing
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/06/1976
  • Character: Buzescu
A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.

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