Screenplay: Titus Popovici

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Titus Popovici. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Forest of the Hanged

1964 · Movie · 165 min. · Romania

Direction Liviu Ciulei

Cast Victor Rebengiuc · Anna Széles · Stefan Ciubotarasu · György Kovács

Plot Romanian actor and director Liviu Ciulei’s Pădurea Spânzuratilor (The Forest of the Hanged) adapted from a novel by Liviu Rebreanu, appeared in competition at Cannes in 1965 where it received...

7.6

54 votes

7.6

54 votes

Michael the Brave

1970 · Movie · 203 min. · Romania

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Amza Pellea · Ion Besoiu · Olga Tudorache · Irina Gardescu

Plot An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pätrascu, known as "Michael the Brave", the prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country...

6.9

57 votes

6.9

57 votes

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

1972 · Movie · 103 min. · Romania

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Amza Pellea · Cristian Sofron · Ion Besoiu · Ioana Bulca

Plot Ipu, the village idiot, lives the last days of the German occupation with a disarming candor and simplicity. After a German is killed, the inhabitants of this Transylvanian hamlet are...

6.7

42 votes

6.7

42 votes

Dacii (Les guerriers)

1967 · Movie · 110 min. · Romania

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Pierre Brice · Marie-José Nat · Georges Marchal · Amza Pellea

Plot The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to...

5.9

47 votes

5.9

47 votes

A Farewell to Fools

2013 · Movie · 90 min. · Romania

Direction Bogdan Dreyer

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Bogdan Iancu · Harvey Keitel · Laura Morante

Plot Set during World War II, somewhere in Transylvania. A German soldier is found dead near the village. The local authorities must find the culprit, or they will be all shot...

5.2

43 votes

5.2

43 votes

Mircea

1989 · Movie · 135 min. · Romania

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Sergiu Nicolaescu · Serban Ionescu · Adrian Pintea · Vlad Nemes

Plot 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.

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The Mill of Good Luck

1955 · Movie · 110 min. · Romania

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The Column

1968 · Movie · 133 min. · Romania

Direction Mircea Dragan

Cast Richard Johnson · Antonella Lualdi · Ilarion Ciobanu · Amedeo Nazzari

Plot The Roman Emperor Trajan has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Rumania. He places a Roman centurion in...

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Valurile Dunarii

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · Romania

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The Immortals

1974 · Movie · min. · Romania

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Amza Pellea · Ion Besoiu · Ilarion Ciobanu · Sergiu Nicolaescu

Plot It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "romanian dream".

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The Last Bullet

1973 · Movie · 100 min. · Romania

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The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians

1981 · Movie · 104 min. · Romania

Direction Dan Pita

Cast Ilarion Ciobanu · Ovidiu Moldovan · Mircea Diaconu · Jean Constantin

Plot The last part in the trilogy follows the three brothers on their way home, but having to settle in Swanton City where the eldest of them finds oil while digging...

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With Clean Hands

1972 · Movie · 95 min. · Romania

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast Sergiu Nicolaescu · Gheorghe Dinica · Ilarion Ciobanu · Alexandru Dobrescu

Plot The plot involves two cops in 1945 Bucharest. Miclovan is a dandy, trigger-happy tough cop who thinks it's better to kill villains rather than bring them to justice. Roman is...

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The Last Assault

1985 · Movie · 156 min. · Romania

Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu

Cast George Alexandru · Anda Onesa · Valentin Uritescu · Ion Besoiu

Plot The Last Assault is a 1986 Romanian drama film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu. It is set during World War II, during the period when Romania joined the Allies against the...

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The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians

1978 · Movie · 97 min. · Romania

Direction Mircea Veroiu

Cast Ilarion Ciobanu · Ovidiu Moldovan · Mircea Diaconu · Rodica Tapalaga

Plot The second film in the trilogy continues the American adventures of the three Transylvanian brothers, throwing in some more gunfights, bar brawls, train ambushes, bandits, Indians and a flamboyant cabaret...

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Horea

1984 · Movie · 122 min. · Romania

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No Trespassing

1975 · Movie · 152 min. · Romania

Direction Doru Nastase

Cast Silviu Stanculescu · Vlad Radescu · Anna Széles · Vladimir Gaitan

Plot It follows the events around the Battle of Paulis, fought during World War II.

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The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians

1978 · Movie · 102 min. · Romania

Direction Dan Pita

Cast Ilarion Ciobanu · Ovidiu Moldovan · Mircea Diaconu · Victor Rebengiuc

Plot Two peasants from Transylvania go to America in order to meet their brother who had left Romania ten years earlier. They meet a prophet in the American state of Utah...

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The Stranger

1964 · Movie · 158 min. · Romania

Direction Mihai Iacob

Cast Stefan Iordache · Irina Petrescu · Serban Cantacuzino · George Calboreanu

Plot The love of two adolescents for the same girl, in 1944, which is disrupted by the demands of war. From the novel by Titus Popovici.

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