ROMANIA – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films

EMA (1992)

Jon W. — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:17:54 +0000

In the winter of 1992, in a small provincial town in Moldova, a young woman named Ema wanders through the drab corners of her surroundings in search of meaning, pleasure, or a way out. Like Flaubert’s Emma Bovary, she dreams of a different life, finding refuge in films, fantasies, and daydreams as she struggles to escape the monotony and emptiness of her everyday existence.

Director: Bogdan-Cristian Dragan.
Writer: Bogdan-Cristian Dragan.
Stars: Ioana Moldovan, Constantin Rădoaca, Bianca Brad, Mara Gregory, Lia Bugnar, Adina Cartianu.
Cinematographer: Emil Stan.

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Language: Romanian | Subtitles: English (hard)

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You can find many more graduation films from former students of the I.L Caragiale University of Theatre and Film all in restored HD quality and with English subtitles on their website.

GADJO DILO (1997)

Jon W. — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:58:58 +0000

Stéphane, a young Parisian, goes to Romania to search for Nora Luca, a Roma singer harshly criticized by Roma activists for allegedly denigrating Roma’s image that his father listened to incessantly in the last days of his life. His search takes him to a gypsy village where he befriends Izidor and witnesses the pains and joys of the Romani experience.

Far from romanticizing Roma communities, Tony Gatlif continues in The Crazy Stranger with the portrait of minorities excluded from cinema’s dominant representation. Therefore, the Roma community is shown in all its vitality, passion, and talent, but also in its tendency towards inebriation, crime and violence, a result of the segregation and xenophobia of the world around them.

Director: Tony Gatlif. AKA The Crazy Stranger
Writers: Tony Gatlif (original screenplay and adaptation), Kits Hilaire (screenplay adaptation), Maigne Jaques (screenplay adaptation).
Stars: Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Izidor Serban, Ovidiu Balan, Angela Serban, Aurica Ursan, Vasile Serban, Ioan Serban, Gheorge Gherebenec, Dan Astileanu, Valentin Teodosiu, Petre Nicolae, Calman Kantor, Florin Moldovan, Adrian Simionescu, Luminita Paun, Jean Paun, Petre Costescu.
Cinematographer: Éric Guichard
Composers: Tony Gatlif, Rona Hartner.

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Languages: French, Romanian, Romany | Subtitles: English (hard)

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MKV | 8.15 GB | 1792×1080 | 23.976 FPS | 10,200 kb/s | FLAC 1280 kb/s
Languages: French, Romanian, Romany | Subtitles: English (soft)

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MOARA LUI CĂLIFAR (1984)

Jon W. — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:51:08 +0000

A poor young man, Stoicea, becomes obsessed with finding Califar, a mysterious miller rumored to grant wealth. When he finally reaches the mill, he experiences a life of sudden prosperity and success. However, this new reality proves to be an illusion crafted by Califar. In the end, the story reveals a dark moral about greed, temptation, and the deceptive nature of material desires.

Director: Serban Marinescu. AKA Călifar’s Mill
Writers: Valeriu Dragusin, Gala Galaction (novel), Petru Maier, Radu Petrescu-Aneste.
Stars: Remus Margineanu, Elena Albu, Vasile Nitulescu, Dan Condurache, Andrei Finti, Ion Marinescu, Jean Lorin Florescu, Petre Tanasievici, Nicolae Praida, George Negoescu, Theodor Danetti, Tudorel Filimon, Radu Pasalega, Radu Coriolan, Cristian Tuta, George Giban, Coleta Nitulescu, Camelia Mocan, Adriana Mocan.
Cinematographers: Calin Ghibu, Dragos Pârvulescu.
Composer: Nicu Alifantis.

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MKV | 4.53 GB | 1920×1080 | 25 FPS | 9249 kb/s | MP2 256 kb/s
Language: Romanian | Subtitles: English (soft)

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ÍTÉLET (1970)

Jon W. — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:29:27 +0000

With his monumental ‘film fresco’ Ferenc Kósa erected a monument to the peasant revolt led by György Dózsa (16th century). Although under the Marxist interpretation of history of the period the revolt was frequently simplified down to an early example of ‘class struggle’, in the screenplay of Ferenc Kósa and Sándor Csoóri the depiction of historical events bears the universally valid formulation of questions about revolution and violence, while the figure of Dózsa – thanks also to the characterization of Ferenc Bessenyei – takes on a more lifelike and human aspect.

Director: Ferenc Kósa. AKA Judgement
Writers: Sándor Csoóri, Ferenc Kósa.
Stars: Ferenc Bessenyei, Tamás Major, George Motoi, János Koltai, Frantisek Török, Sára Kiss, András Csiky, István Török, Péter Blaskó, Zoltán Vadász, Nicolae Radu, Ján Mildner.
Cinematographer: Sándor Sára.
Composer: Cornel Taranu.

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Language: Hungarian | Subtitles: English (hard)

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Language: Hungarian | Subtitles: English, Hungarian (soft)

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LA CHAMPIONNE (1990)

Jon W. — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 03:16:13 +0000

At 10 years old, Corina dreams of being admitted to the famous gymnastics school in Deva, a small town in Romania known for having trained an impressive number of Olympic champions. First refused, Corina manages, through training and sacrifice, to pass the entrance test just like her best friend Maria. From then on, the real test begins for them: becoming the best in the world.

Director: Elisabeta Bostan. AKA Campioana.
Writers: Rock Demers, Vasilica Istrate, Elisabeta Bostan.
Stars: Izabela Moldovan, Mircea Diaconu, Carmen Galin, George Mihaita, Alina Izvoranu, Diana Lupescu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Maria Ploae, Ileana Stana Ionescu, Petricia Nicolae, Aurel Giurumia, Dorina Done, Costel Constantin, Dinu Manolache, Marilena Neacsu.
Cinematographer: Ion Marinescu.
Composer: Doru Caplescu.

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This film was co-produced by Canada and Romania but the cast seems to be completely Romanian, unfortunately the only copy I could find with Romanian audio was much worse quality than this one, it also proved to be a little too complicated and time consuming for me to sync the Romanian audio to this rip at this moment which is why I’m making available this restored French dubbed version instead. There’s also an English dub, you can watch that one here or download it from here. Enjoy!

ASTA E (2001)

Jon W. — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:43:48 +0000

At Sulina, a small town in the Danube Delta, three men and a woman belonging to three different generations survive from one day to the other one. People say that Sulina was called Europolis in the past. But the flourishing town of the past has sunk into oblivion and is surrounded by marshes. Thomas Ciulei has scrutinized the life of three generations of Romanians who try to build their life in this abandoned city as well as they can.

Director: Thomas Ciulei.
Writer: Thomas Ciulei.
Cinematographers: Thomas Ciulei, Antonio Pintus.
Composers: Calistra, Nea Fanasie, Ionut Tarasov.

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REQUIEM FÜR DOMINIK (1990)

Jon W. — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:50:54 +0000

During the anti-communist revolution in Romania in 1989, political exile Paul Weiss struggles to learn the fate of a childhood friend. As he slowly uncovers the truth, he descends into a world of revolutionary chaos, imprisonment and attempted assassination.

Director: Robert Dornhelm.
Writers: Michael Köhlmeier, Felix Mitterer.
Stars: Felix Mitterer, Viktoria Schubert, August Schmölzer, Angelica Schütz, Antonia Rados, Nikolas Vogel, Georg Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Alain Michel, Jean Marc Jouve, Werner Prinz, Regine Ahner, Liselotte Weber, Oscar Shilz, Georg Metzenrad.
Cinematographer: Hans Selikovsky.
Composers: Harald Kloser, Thomas Schobel.

1991 Golden Globes – Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

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TO VLEMMA TOU ODYSSEA (1995)

Jon W. — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:23:20 +0000

A Greek-American filmmaker, known simply as «A», returns to his hometown in northern Greece for a screening of his latest controversial film. His real reason for coming back, however, is to track down three long-missing reels of film by Greece’s pioneering Manakia brothers who in the early years of cinema traveled through the Balkans, ignoring national and ethnic strife and recording ordinary people, especially craftsmen, on film. Their images, he believes, hold the key to lost innocence and essential truth, to an understanding of Balkan history.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos. AKA Ulysses’ Gaze / Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα
Writers: Tonino Guerra, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Petros Markaris, Giorgio Silvagni, Kaii Tsitseli (dialogue translation), Homer (poem) (uncredited).
Stars: Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern, Thanasis Vengos, Giorgos Mihalakopoulos, Dora Volanaki, Mania Papadimitriou, Giorgios Konstas, Thanos Grammenos, Alekos Oudinotis, Angel Ivanov, Ljuba Tadic, Vaggelis Liodakis, Gert Llanaj, Agni Vlahou, Giannis Zavradinos, Vangelis Kazan, Mirka Kalatzopoulou, Dimitris Kaberidis.
Cinematographers: Giorgos Arvanitis, Andreas Sinanos.
Composer: Eleni Karaindrou.

1995 Cannes Film Festival – Winner of the Grand Jury Prize.
1995 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.