The best Petre Gheorghiu’s drama movies
Today we present the best Petre Gheorghiu’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 Petre Gheorghiu’s movies.
Last Stop Paradise
7.8/10
Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.
The Redhead
7.1/10
During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in order to fight in the front line but he discovers that former police commissioner Potra tortured and beaten prisoners, including his father, who was political detained. Mihai will fight to bring Potra in front of the justice.
The Stone Wedding
7.8/10
Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.
The Great Solitary
7.8/10
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.
The Soimaresti Clan
7.2/10
Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.
The Avalanche
7.1/10
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.
Scopul și mijloacele
5.4/10
MIhai, a young high school graduate, discovers serios problems in the factory where he just got hired, and gets in conflict with his step father, which is the director.
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.
Crumbled Citadel
5.9/10
This movie is a screen adaptation of the eponymous play by Horia Lovinescu. It follows a "bourgeois" family as it copes with the emerging communist regime. Different members of the family take different paths.
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.
Three Days and Three Nights
5.2/10
In 1946, Northern Transylvania, an armed band is annihilated by the local communist organization, which manages to rally the locals on they side.
Happiness Is So Close
6.9/10
Cristina, a girl from a well situated family, falls in love with a young working man, who manages to get into college.
Starting Over
6.3/10
Drama directed by Visarion Alexa.
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.
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.
The City Seen from Above
6.3/10
Maria Sorescu, director of a re-education school, becomes mayor of a town. She tries to improve the predecessors' record.
Horea
7.7/10
Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.
Beyond the Bridge
6.3/10
Mara, a hard-working widow woman brings up his two children in a developing idustrial Transylvanian town.
Taste and Color of Happiness
6.2/10
A nonconformist engineer challenges some stereotypical negative communist characters.
