Direction: Radu Jude
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Radu Jude. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
2018 · Movie · 140 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Ioana Iacob · Alexandru Dabija · Alex Bogdan · Ion Rizea
Plot A young artist is planning to reconstruct a historical event from 1941, during which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front.
7.2
127 votes
7.2
127 votes
Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World
2023 · Movie · 163 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Ilinca Manolache · Ovidiu Pîrsan · Nina Hoss · Katia Pascariu
Plot Angela, an overworked production assistant, 35 years old, who works for a Romanian company and who will lead through Bucharest to fulfill a mission of a multinational corporation.
7.2
142 votes
7.2
142 votes
Everybody in Our Family
2012 · Movie · 107 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Serban Pavlu · Sofia Nicolaescu · Gabriel Spahiu · Mihaela Sirbu
Plot Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to...
7.0
202 votes
7.0
202 votes
The Tube with a Hat (S)
2007 · Movie · 23 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Gabriel Spahiu · Marian Bratu · Natalia Calin · Alexandru Georgescu
6.7
42 votes
6.7
42 votes
Aferim!
2015 · Movie · 108 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Teodor Corban · Mihai Comanoiu · Toma Cuzin · Alexandru Dabija
Plot Aferim! is set in the 19th century, when a local policeman, Costandin, is hired by Iordache, a boyar, to find Carfin, a Gypsy slave who had run away from the...
6.7
397 votes
6.7
397 votes
Scarred Hearts
2016 · Movie · 136 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Lucian Teodor Rus · Ivana Mladenovic · Ilinca Harnut · Serban Pavlu
Plot "Scarred Hearts" is inspired by Romanian author Max Blecher's novel, which is set in 1937. It centers on Emanuel, a man in his early 20s, who spends his days at...
6.3
136 votes
6.3
136 votes
The Dead Nation
2017 · Documentary · 83 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Plot A film constructed using the opposition of what a huge collection of recently discovered glass-plate photographs from the 30's and 40's tell us about Romania and what they do not...
6.2
75 votes
6.2
75 votes
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
2021 · Movie · 106 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Katia Pascariu · Claudia Ieremia · Olimpia Malai · Nicodim Ungureanu
Plot It explores the relationship between the individual and society by showing what happens when a young secondary-school teacher (Katia Pascariu) posts an amateur porn clip on a website. The consequences...
6.2
955 votes
6.2
955 votes
The Potemkinists (S)
2022 · Movie · 18 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Alexandru Dabija · Cristina Draghici
Plot The film written and directed by Radu Jude starts from the gesture of defiance against Russia made in 1905 by the sailors on the cruiser Potemkin, who received political asylum...
6.2
60 votes
6.2
60 votes
Uppercase Print
2020 · Movie · 128 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Serban Pavlu · Alexandru Potocean · Ioana Iacob · Constantin Dogioiu
Plot Romania, year 1981. It is the story of Mugur Calinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote graffiti messages of protest against the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and was subsequently apprehended,...
6.2
119 votes
6.2
119 votes
The Happiest Girl in the World
2009 · Movie · 100 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Andreea Bosneag · Vasile Muraru · Violeta Haret · Serban Pavlu
Plot When 18-year-old Delia (Andreea Bosneag) wins a shiny new car in a competition, she and her family bundle into it and head to the capital, chasing the chance to appear...
5.8
126 votes
5.8
126 votes
Caricaturana (S)
2021 · Documentary · 9 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Plot Based on an idea by Eisenstein, who dreamt of composing the 101 poses of Robert Macaire – a popular French character epitomizing the unscrupulous swindler – as represented in the...
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Alexandra (S)
2006 · Movie · 24 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Serban Pavlu · Alexandra Pascu · Oana Ioachim · Mimi Branescu
Plot Tavi,a forty-year-old divorced father, comes to his ex-wife's home to repair his four-year-old daughter bike, Alexandra. He realizes with amazement that Alexandra does not call him "Daddy" any more.
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The Exit of the Trains
2020 · Documentary · 175 min. · Romania
Direction Adrian Cioflâncã · Radu Jude
Plot On June 29, 1941, the Jewish residents of the city of Iasi were rounded up and beaten, shops and homes were looted, and most of the men were shot or...
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It Can Pass Through the Wall (S)
2014 · Movie · 17 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Sofia Nicolaescu · Ion Arcudeanu · Marcel Horobet · Gabriel Spahiu
Plot “I am frightened, Grandpa!… Do you hear? […] The people in the house are crying, he said. They miss the one who died, that’s why they are crying.”
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The Marshal’s Two Executions (S)
2018 · Documentary · 10 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Plot The film confronts two different views of the execution of General Ion Antonescu, Romania’s leader during the Second World War.
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Memories from the Eastern Front
2022 · Documentary · 30 min. · Romania
Direction Adrian Cioflâncã · Radu Jude
Plot Features a photo album that traces the path of the 6th Regiment of the Romanian army in the war years of 1941 and 1942, putting the images of everyday military...
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Shadow of a Cloud
2013 · Movie · 30 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Alexandru Dabija · Olga Taisia Podaru · Serban Pavlu · Mihaela Sirbu
Plot In a torrid summer day in Bucharest, the priest Florin Florescu is called to a dying woman's side for saying a prayer.
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A Film for Friends
2011 · Movie · 57 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Cast Serban Pavlu · Gabriel Spahiu
Plot Considering that his life is a failure, a man records himself leaving a video-message to his loved ones.
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Plastic Semiotic (S)
2021 · Movie · 22 min. · Romania
Direction Radu Jude
Plot Collage of scenes in which the toys help us understand better a possible essence of our life.
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