The best Radu Beligan’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Radu Beligan’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 Radu Beligan.
Oil
6.1/10
When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.
The Poseidon Explosion
6.5/10
A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city
Horea
7.7/10
Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.
The Protar Affair
7.5/10
The Protar Affair (Romanian: Afacerea Protar) is a 1956 Romanian comedy film directed by Haralambie Boroș. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
Two Lottery Tickets
8.3/10
1957 film adaptation of Romanian playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's novella “Două loturi” (Two Lottery Tickets, 1901). The scenario was written by director Jean Georgescu, one of the most skilled Romanian filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, while the directing belongs to Aurel Miheleş and Gheorghe Naghi, at that time both recently graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. This is the second feature film in colour from Romania. Despite the great public success, the film was often criticized by reviewers, mostly for its unhandy directing from the two debutants. Miheleş and Naghi would however continue their collaboration and release another two Caragiale adaptations, of which “Telegrame” (Telegrams, 1959) was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1960 edition of the Cannes festival.
Iancu Jianu, Tax Collector
7.6/10
The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as he's torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich.
Celebrul 702
7.9/10
Our Director
7.7/10
Over at the fictional DRGBP institution, events take a settling turn after a mutinied prize festivity.
The Valley Resounds
5.8/10
Famous Romania communist propaganda movie, one of the templates to what followed. It is about the volunteers that built the Bumbești-Livezeni railroad.
Premiera
8.2/10
Singurătatea florilor
7/10
Stormy Night
7.4/10
Bucharest, 1876. Don Dumitrache instructs his trusted man, Chiriac, to watch his young wife, Veta. Dumitrache is sure that Veta having an affair, she does not know is that her lover is Chiriac own...
The Castellans
6.3/10
Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with socialist expanding ideals comes with the initiative to drain it and use the land for grains. They hatch a plan to make the pond a natural monument, so an expert is summoned, but foolish beliefs betray them.
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)
The Story of Love
6.5/10
A sci-fi fairy tale love story adventure about a young boy, who lands in a UFO, and the princess he falls in love with as an adult.
Arms of Afrodite
6.6/10
A Romanian construction company is contracted to build a sea port in Morocco. In the process they find some roman artifacts.
The Afternoon of a Torturer
7.6/10
A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.
The Return of Magellan
6.2/10
A love story between a young communist in illegality and a girl who presents herself as Magellan.
The Court Adjourns the Sentencing
7/10
A judge is tasked to investigate a mining accident.
Return to First Love
Young diplomat Petre returns to Romania after a long time spent abroad.
