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...
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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
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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
Direction Victor Iliu
Cast Constantin Codrescu · Geo Barton · Ioana Bulca · Colea Rautu
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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
Direction Liviu Ciulei
Cast Liviu Ciulei · Irina Petrescu · Lazar Vrabie · Stefan Ciubotarasu
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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
Direction Sergiu Nicolaescu
Cast Ilarion Ciobanu · George Constantin · Amza Pellea · Sebastian Papaiani
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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
Direction Mircea Muresan
Cast Ovidiu Moldovan · Serban Ionescu · Dan Sandulescu · Radu Beligan
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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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