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104) The cave
Pub. Date
2006
Description
While on a dig in a Romanian forest, a group of scientists make a startling find. Dating back to the 13th century, they find a huge abbey, which was built over the entrance to a massive network of subterranean caves. Eager to learn what lies within the caves, the scientists discover to their peril that a large part of the cave system is under water. The scientists hire a team of American spelunkers who are trained in exploring underwater caves. The...
105) Youth without youth
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Romania is on the brink of war with Germany and linguistics professor Dominic Matei has little left to live for. On Easter Day 1938, he crosses the street and is struck by a bolt of lightning. Badly burned and nearly dead, he amazes the doctors by healing in only a short time. He defies science and ages in reverse from 70 to 40. There's seemingly no limit to the wonder and love he can find in his new youth. He pursues lost dreams, endless knowledge...
106) Fortunes Of War
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Mini-series that chronicles the lives of an English couple who live in Bucharest when WWII breaks out.
107) The whistlers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery and deception. A trip to the Canary Islands to learn a secret whistling language might just be what they need to pull it off
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Pub. Date
2000.
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Description
"A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian castle by his mysterious host. Back at home his fiancee and friends are menaced by a malevolent force which seems intent on imposing suffering and destruction. Can the devil really have arrived on England's shores? And what is it that he hungers for so desperately?"-NoveList.
109) Collective: Colectiv
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In 2015, a fire at Bucharest's Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt system but...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
By day Gerri Dandridge is a sexy professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. So when a group of high school students travel abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in Gerri's chilling web of lust and terror. Charley and 'Evil' Ed must stop Gerri from drinking and bathing in the blood of a 'new moon virgin,' which just so happens to be Charley's ex-girlfriend, Amy.
113) Toni Erdmann
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
114) Out of the ashes
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...