Adrian Pintea

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.

When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.

In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot which follows the motions of a man in a special control suit. He has offered the invention to the USA, who have sent Smith and Wait from the CIA for inspection. However Zimmer's partner Drago has different plans, wants to sell Mandroid to the military. The night he tries to steal Mandroid, he becomes exposed to the highly toxic Superconn. But he can flee and won't give up on Mandroid, even though he's terribly disfigured.

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Romanian film version of Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.

An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.

In a mystical land torn apart by civil war, a warrior princess must team up with a rival warrior prince to hunt down an evil sorcerer who has summoned a giant flying demon which is terrorizing their land.

A movie about the friendship between Ion Creanga and Mihai Eminescu.

In the early 19th century the Romanian Theodor Diamant was inspired by the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier and established one of Fourier's "phalansteries" in Rumania. The film dramatizes the origins and demise of this effort, called the "Scaieni Phalanstery (the term is derived from "phalanx" and "monastery"). Among the socio-political commentary that is conveyed throughout, there is an important collusion between the army and the wealthy landowners of the time, and as the film points out in its own way, neither of these groups has ever been convicted of socialist/utopian tendencies.

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.

The story of a famous director, Thomas, at the peak of his career, obsessed by the ills of the woman he desires, but also by his creative problems. Although his films are award-winning and he is loved by audiences, actors and friends, Thomas is tormented by the desire to make the movie of his life.

Dan Nichita is a young rock singer who enjoys success, appreciates the pleasures of life, and especially romantic adventures. He lives in the moment, knowing that he has a powerful father behind him, Alexandru Nichita, the owner of a chain of casinos, who would like his son to become more responsible and serious. What his father cannot achieve, perhaps love will? Because Dan will fall in love with Daria, a young orphan who has finished high school and wants to become a ballerina. Thanks to the kindness of a good-hearted man, Gicu Timofte, the old high school librarian, Daria lives in the library. He protects her from the cruelty of the librarian Olivia Muscalu, a mean and sharp-tongued woman. From the moment she meets Dan, Daria will go through a lot of difficult situations caused by his official mistress, Silvia Damian.

Warrior Queen Boudica: With support from an array of scholars, this History Channel documentary profiles one of the most fascinating women you've probably never heard of: Boudica, queen of the Iceni, an ancient Celtic tribe that once inhabited Eastern Britain. When the Romans invaded the Iceni after King Prasutagus' death, they attacked the grieving queen and raped her two daughters. But Boudica's devastating revenge brought the unsuspecting Romans to their knees.