The best Silviu Stănculescu’s drama movies

Silviu Stănculescu

Silviu Stănculescu

24/01/1932- 23/10/1998
Today we present the best Silviu Stănculescu’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 Silviu Stănculescu’s movies.

Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula

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.

Pride

Pride
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/04/1982
  • Character: Constantin Redman
Professor Cristian conducts research on a citostatic. He is still dealing though with the unjust condemning he suffered in the 50s. Some of the people around him try to bring him down with same type of accusations.

Nobody's Children

Nobody's Children
6.9/10
An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

Ora zero

Ora zero
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1979
  • Character: Police Captain
In New Year's Eve night, an emergency team is called to fix a tram power line. One member is missing though, he is involved in a DUI.

The Power and The Truth

The Power and The Truth
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/02/1972
This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.

The Snowstorm

The Snowstorm
4.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/11/1973
  • Character: Ștefu
The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.

Sentimental Summer

Sentimental Summer
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/01/1986
The favorite plot for communist propagandists: a new agronomist comes in the village and gets in conflict with the local cooperative president. Everything ends well. Sprinkled with jokes.

Together Again

Together Again
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/12/1978
  • Character: Mihalcea
An young agronomist insists to start using a new corn variety, but the collective farm chief is against it.

The Beech Forest

The Beech Forest
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/08/1987
  • Character: Colonel
In August 1944 Romania, a group of telephone operators are caught in the events in a new center placed in a forest to evade bombardment.

Prea cald pentru luna mai

Prea cald pentru luna mai
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/12/1984
  • Character: Berindei
At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.

Across de Lifting Gate

Across de Lifting Gate
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1965
  • Character: Luca
Vulpașin is desperatley in love with Nastasia, but she is partial to Luca, which works at a factory outside the slum they live in ("accros the lifting gate").

Streets Have Memories

Streets Have Memories
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1962
  • Character: Ilieș
During the Second World War, a writer meets two young people, a girl and a boy, who are doing actions to undermine the fascist regime in power.

The Last Night of Loneliness

The Last Night of Loneliness
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1976
The movie depicts a peasant with a very strong personality that copes with the changes in the Romanian village.

Uncertain Roads

Uncertain Roads
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1979
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.

Four Steps Away From Infinity

Four Steps Away From Infinity
7.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 28/12/1964
  • Character: Mihai
Per IMDB: A young officer of the Romanian Army performs a sabotage mission against the Nazi regime. Seriously wounded, the officer can not reach the fixed place and finds shelter in a surgeon's home.

Mountains in Flames

Mountains in Flames
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 15/12/1980
  • Character: Andrei Șaguna
1848, Transylvania. Avram Iancu raises a peasant army to defend the rights of the Romanian ethnics, while Nicolae Bălcescu tries a diplomatic approach.

At the Crossroads of Great Storms

At the Crossroads of Great Storms
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 08/12/1980
  • Character: Andrei Șaguna
In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.

Vlashins' Leaving

Vlashins' Leaving
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1982
  • Character: Nicolae Branga
In 18th century Hapsburg ruled Transilvania the Romanian shepherds from the village of Vlașini face the oppression and injustice of imperial authorities, being forced to flee from their place of birth or pay tribute to the Germans of Hermannstadt for grazing sheep on their own pastures.

State of Things

State of Things
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/12/1995
  • Character: Maxențiu's Father
A story of revolution, betrayal, corruption and wrongful imprisonment, as well as human character and strength while facing them.

Operation 'The Bus'

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.

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