Best Romanian romance movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch romance films from Romania, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Charlie Countryman

    Charlie Countryman 2013

    While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

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  • Poster for Oh, Ramona!

    Oh, Ramona! 2019

    Oh, Ramona! seeks the transformation of Andrew from a teenager into an adult who lives candidly and selflessly his first love story, innocent and uninvolved, alternating with the second, intense and insane story, incapable of making a choice.

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  • Poster for Beyond the Hills

    Beyond the Hills 2012

    Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to best.

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  • Poster for The History of Love

    The History of Love 2016

    The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.

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  • Poster for Tuesday, After Christmas

    Tuesday, After Christmas 2010

    Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.

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  • Poster for Ana, My Love

    Ana, My Love 2017

    Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. But, because of Ana's mental illness, their relationship slowly collapses.

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  • Poster for Poppy Field

    Poppy Field 2022

    A young Romanian gendarme, Cristi, tries to find the balance between two apparently opposing parts of his identity: that of a man working in a macho hierarchical environment and that of a closeted gay person who tries to keep his personal life a secret. Cristi is called in for an intervention at a movie theatre, where an ultra-nationalist, homophobic group has interrupted the screening of a queer film. After one of the protesters threatens to out him, Cristi spirals out of control.

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  • Poster for Occident

    Occident 2002

    "Occident" is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories - a weeklong in the film - that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.

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  • Poster for A Higher Law

    A Higher Law 2023

    Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.

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  • Poster for The High schoolers

    The High schoolers 1986

    The love story of two students in the tenth grade. Mihai is a provincial who reached in a Bucharest high school where his passion for philosophy and mathematics will be eclipsed by love and Dana is a chess enthusiast. Their romance is full of naturalness, but will go through many trials.

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  • Poster for Last Stop Paradise

    Last Stop Paradise 1998

    Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.

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  • Poster for Beside Me

    Beside Me 2018

    A subway train is blocked between stations on the morning after the fire in the Colectiv Club in Romania.

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  • Poster for Test at educational class

    Test at educational class 1987

    The school year is inaugurated by teacher Socrates with an extemporary exam on the theme "How would I like to be the class headmaster?". Socrates' popularity worries the math teacher, Isoscel. But Socrates also has his worries about Anca, his daughter in love.

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  • Poster for #Selfie 69

    #Selfie 69 2016

    Your best friends are also the friends who'll make you do the stupidest things. After parting hardcore, Roxi, Yasmine and Ana meet in a bet that will change their lives: Who gets married first in three days?

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  • Poster for Hello! How Are You?

    Hello! How Are You? 2010

    Musician Gabriel and dimpled dry-cleaning proprietress Gabriela live like two strangers who no longer see each other. But in humorous contrast to their staid, passionless lives, characters in a constant state of sexual arousal surround them. Their libidinous teen son, whose hilarious voiceover commentary intermittently provides important narrative information, prides himself on being the high school stud and aspires to a career in porn. Gabriela's sexy employee switches boyfriends the way she changes clothes. And despite being married, Gabriel's colleague is working his way through the female members of their orchestra. Ultimately, the two Gabys find their virtual affairs reconnect them with their own desires, but in a way less movie-fantasy and more satisfyingly real-life. Written by Palm Springs Internation Film Festival

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  • Poster for High Schoolers: Rock 'n' Roll

    High Schoolers: Rock 'n' Roll 1991

    The adventures of high schoolers, including strict maths teachers, rock 'n' roll music, and first love experiences.

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  • Poster for Monsters.

    Monsters. 2019

    A long time married couple comes to decide within 24 hours, through encounters with strangers, that letting go might be their biggest proof of love.

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  • Poster for A Night in Tokoriki

    A Night in Tokoriki 2016

    In an improvised night club called "Tokoriki" the whole village celebrates Gianina's 18th birthday. Her boyfriend and Alin will give her a most surprising gift, one that nobody will ever forget.

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  • Poster for Ciuleandra

    Ciuleandra 1985

    After he kills his beloved wife, Puiu Faranga is helped by his father to fake insanity.

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  • Poster for Love Is a Story

    Love Is a Story 2015

    Near by Christmas, in an old and charming town in Transylvania, Sebastian and Aprilia start a beautiful love story. However, nothing is as simple as it would seem. Being influenced by three men with strong personalities, Aprilia needs to find the balance between adulthood and the choices of a young girl's heart. It's Christmas time and life holds for this talented beautiful girl only the presents that she is strong enough to grab.

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  • Poster for Confession of Love

    Confession of Love 1985

    Love story of 2 high school students with different social standards, Ioana and Alexandru. They are to form a couple with all the social and familial obstacles encountered.

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  • Poster for Forest of the Hanged

    Forest of the Hanged 1965

    In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.

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  • Poster for Visiting Room

    Visiting Room 2011

    The Romanian penitentiary system allows, from 2006, the marriage of people sentenced to serve time in prison. Most of the inmates cultivate the pre-existing relationships with the concubines or partners who live outside the prison walls. Though, there is a special category, of those who find a life partner during their time in prison. VISITING ROOM follows the stories of some prisoners found in different penitentiaries across the country, who have found their life partner during their sentence time. The one is either a person from outside, or as them, a person who is serving time in prison. Our intention was to talk to the people found in the special situation of being deprived of freedom, to whom love becomes a substitute for freedom and represents maybe their only hope for a better future.

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  • Nunți muzici și casete video 2008

    A "behind-the-scenes" insight of the Romanian wedding industry, with cameramen, photographers and singers from all around the country in the spotlight. Their life stories, their editing styles, their hands-on-approach know-how and, of course, their performances at weddings, mix up in a shortcut-style film. George Stirbat, the 30-something one-man-show singer from the small town of Onesti returned home after a mini-Broadway career and Petru Manici, the coal mine electrician from the mining town of Petrosani, are just two of the most interesting characters the film follows in their quest to achieve perfection for the bride's and groom's memories. Something to remember.

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  • Poster for Love Sorry

    Love Sorry 2022

    "Love Sorry" is a comedic romance where a small-town girl races her friends to meet a visiting celebrity. Laughter, friendship, and unexpected moments ensue in this charming tale of pursuing dreams and connections.

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  • Poster for Puzzle

    Puzzle 2013

    A repressed middle aged man realizes that his life had become one of misery and loneliness. After becoming friends with a blind writer he had to evict from his house, he finds the inspiration and courage he needs to break all the rules he had been forced to abide by and to reconnect with life's joy and excitement.

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  • Poster for The Nest of Wasps

    The Nest of Wasps 1987

    In 1936, a time when Bucharest was known as the "Paris of the East", the three Duduleanu sisters, from a family of prosperous merchants, rule their clan with an iron fist. Young journalist Mircea Aldea joins the clan by marrying their daughter, but the union is short-lived.

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  • Poster for Repeated Wedding

    Repeated Wedding 1985

    This is the second part for the "Buletin de Bucureti" movie.

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  • Poster for Sweet Little Lies

    Sweet Little Lies 2012

    The sweetest girl, Dana (Diana Dumitrescu) has to go out on a date with a broker, Dani (Andi Vasluianu) because her chubby friend, Oana (Antoaneta Zaharia), doesn't have the courage to meet her Facebook lover face to face. A hacker (Marius Damian) is cheating his partner, the computer, with a Facebook profile picture of two exquisite "delicious" girls. The whip cream/ chocolate teacher (Loredana Groza), a French woman who knows the insights of living in Bucharest teaches her pupils the art of Savarin by day and Marquis de Sade's practices by night. No one is what they pretend to be and they all believe that telling lies is the most beautiful truth, and this leads to a series of misunderstandings.

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  • Poster for The Forest Woman

    The Forest Woman 1987

    Busuioc (Victor Rebengiuc), un taran bogat din Curtici isi trimite fiul Iorgovan (Adrian Pintea), impreuna cu servitorul Sofron (Serban Ionescu) in satul vecin pentru a gasi oameni la munca campului. Iorgovan este indragostit de Simina (Manuela Harabor), fiica unui taran sarac, dintr-un sat de munte, in cautarea careia pleaca. Cum si Simina ii impartaseste sentimentele ea accepta sa vina la culesul recoltei impreuna cu tatal sau. Sentimentele lui Iorgovan sunt confuze, este slab si sfasiat intre dragostea sincera pentru Simina si obstacolul prejudecatilor si diferentelor de pozitie sociala. In acest timp Sofron, tanarul servitor al acestuia, se indragosteste la randu-i de Simina. Infruntarea dintre cei doi pretendenti devine din ce in ce mai acuta, fapt care va limpezi atitudinea fiecaruia fata de femeia pe care amandoi o iubesc.

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  • Poster for Orient Express

    Orient Express 2004

    At an old age, prince Andrei Morudzi retreats to his castle in Romania, during the two world wars, after having lead an eventful youth. There he is seen upon as a rare bird by the local folk, due to his strange attitude towards life and his exquisit manners, which don't fit in the way of life of the villagers. But, in the end, despite trying to distance himself from the local people, he can't but influence their humble existences.

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  • Poster for I'm Not Famous But I'm Aromanian

    I'm Not Famous But I'm Aromanian 2013

    Toni Caramusat, a famous film director, is fascinated by the idea of finding the 13th fundamental truth about the Aromanians. According to a myth, this truth is held by Armanamea, the last descendant of this people. Toni goes on dates with young women from all over the world, in hope of finding both the truth and his soul mate. Will he ever find them and, if so, at what cost?

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  • A Winter Night's Dream 1980

    A romantic comedy of the 80s, a remake of a 1946 well-known movie with the same title. He - known writer, mature, tall, handsome, courted women meets her - young, sprightly, naive, dreamy love for him after she read all his books.

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  • Poster for Romina, VTM

    Romina, VTM 2023

    Romina begins to fall in love with Valentin, a tourist on holiday in Costinești with plans to become a musician. Romina helps Valentin to become an artist and, without realizing, he is starting to look a lot like someone from Romina's past.

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  • Poster for The Phantom Father

    The Phantom Father 2012

    American professor Robert Traum embarks on an adventurous and amusing journey through Bucovina to find Sami the projectionist, the only person alive that can tell him anything about his Romanian Jewish descent. His symbolic journey is filled with danger, the unknown and the surreal, but finally rewarded with a double love: on the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naive and generous.

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  • Poster for Love at Zero Degrees

    Love at Zero Degrees 1964

    A comedy love story that takes place at a ski resort during romanian communism time!

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  • Poster for Where It Is Cold in the Sun

    Where It Is Cold in the Sun 1991

    Along the Black Sea coast, we see a man and a woman arguing. They are apparently vacationers. Before long, the man has gotten back into their car and driven off, stranding the woman in a remote area. She hitches a ride with a delivery truck driver. At one of his stops, she gets off his truck to go to get some water. When the driver comes back to his truck and sees her gone, he assumes she has found another ride, and leave her. Once again, she is stranded. This time, the location is a lighthouse. She and the keeper have no recourse but to become acquainted, and for the next few days, that is what they do. Eventually, the man who left her in the lurch comes back to look for her, and finds her at the lighthouse.

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  • Poster for Far from Here

    Far from Here 2017

    A young couple struggles to keep their marriage afloat in a foreign country.

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  • Poster for Iubire elenă

    Iubire elenă 2012

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  • Poster for Angela Goes On

    Angela Goes On 1982

    One woman taxi driver in Bucharest is hoping for a conventional relationship.

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  • Poster for Sweet Little Lies Downtown

    Sweet Little Lies Downtown 2016

    Matters of the heart weave themselves into a love pentagon between five actors as they rehearse for a stage play in Bucharest's historic quarter.

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  • Poster for It Takes Two to Fence

    It Takes Two to Fence 2014

    Alex, a fencing champion turned coach, falls in love with his first student, Anda. Mircea, Anda's lover, who is also a fencer at the same club, witnesses the bond between them growing

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  • Poster for Promise me

    Promise me 2025

    After the death of her best friend, Cleo tries to carry out her dream: publishing a book of poems. Caught between the pressure of the promise she made and her increasingly fragile relationship with her boyfriend, Arthur, Cleo struggles with grief, longing, and the need for meaning. “Promise Me” is an amateur film about loss, obsession, love, and the fragility of adolescence.

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  • Poster for The Night Practice

    The Night Practice 2023

    The new goalkeeper on a youth soccer team faces bullying and hostility from nearly all of his teammates. Only one of the boys, Robert, is nice to him, and they become friends. As the two grow closer, however, unassuming Robert turns out to be guarding a bloody secret.

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  • Poster for Whispery

    Whispery 2021

    When family life becomes monotonous, two normal families find a not-so-normal solution to their problems. But it seems that the problems tend to get worse.

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  • Poster for Love 2. America

    Love 2. America 2018

    Love 2. America tells the story of the final 24 hours of the romance of two lovers, Anton (30) and Beatrice (34). After 24 hours, Anton is going to leave, forever, to a place far away where he will start a new life; Beatrice will return to David (32), her husband. Entwined with memories, dreams and thoughts of the future, their story slowly departs from reality and becomes the universal story of two lovers at the end of their love.

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  • Owners of stars 2001

    The story of love and survival of a young engineer in the days of "transition". Her struggle, unemployed (following the restructuring of the company where she worked), to survive in a society in prolonged transition. She faces undeserved hardships in the environments to which she is forced to resort.

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  • Poster for Black Sea Adventures

    Black Sea Adventures 1972

    A counterespionage office get a mission to go to the Black Sea shore and catch a spy network that got their hands on a secret fuel formula.

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  • Steps in the Sky 1977

    Ion is the head of workers' team who install high-voltage lines in the mountains. He discovers a design error that could put many lives in jeopardy and knows that the chief designer is Valeria, his ex-girlfriend from adolescent days.

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  • Poster for The Hundred Lei Bill

    The Hundred Lei Bill 1973

    Arguing with his parents, Petre, a teenager, moves at his bigger brother, Andrei, a successful actor. There he meets Dora, one of his brother's young fans. When Andrei gives the girl his attention, Petre feels abandoned and runs away without even taking the hundred lei bill his brother had given him. A car runs Petre down. When he learns about this tragic accident, Andrei realizes - while watching his own smiling face in a musical on TV - that underneath his glittering success, he lives an empty life.

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  • Poster for Adela

    Adela 1985

    The story of an impossible love: doctor Emil Codrescu is reunited 20 years later with Adela, the one he had only known as a young girl. The two fall in love, but circumstances and hesitation prevent them from getting closer.

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  • The Telephone 1992

    A young, single engineer divides his time between work and an uneventful schedule at home, where TV is front and center. One rainy evening he is disturbed by a woman's phone call and finds himself drawn into an adventure full of the unexpected.

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  • Poster for The Idle Princes of the Old Court

    The Idle Princes of the Old Court 1995

    A subtile, soft exploration of the relation between love and death.

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  • Poster for Prea cald pentru luna mai

    Prea cald pentru luna mai 1984

    At a party, the class valedictorian gravely injures a passer by with some saucers thrown through the window. Characters are tested by what follows.

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  • Poster for Farewell, Dear Nela!

    Farewell, Dear Nela! 1972

    When a rich Romanian lawyer aims to find his 2 long-lost sons and inheritors he places an ad in the newspaper but many crooks show up instead.

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  • Poster for The Encounter

    The Encounter 1982

    This film si about the sabotage of a Nazi fluvial transport on the Danube during WWII.

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  • Poster for Două inimi

    Două inimi 2022

    Lexi, a 19-year-old girl, poor, with a life full of difficulties, writes lyrics and music in a notebook. Before an important meeting that can change her life and in which her notebook would play a crucial role, Lexi loses the notebook.

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  • O vară cu Mara 1988

    Six carpenters from Maramureș go to a village in Bărăgan to build some stables. These are the head of the family, 4 brothers and their sister, Mara. Her beauty attracts local suitors.

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  • Poster for Those Who Pay with Their Lives

    Those Who Pay with Their Lives 1989

    An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography. Based on three novels by Camil Petrescu.

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  • Poster for Fourth Fence, by the Wharf

    Fourth Fence, by the Wharf 1988

    Mișu and Mitică are two best friends. Everything changes when Cornelia shows up.

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  • Poster for The last incubus

    The last incubus 2014

    A classic Romanian legend, other than the world-wide known myth of Dracula, brought to a modern fantasy love story.

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  • Poster for Through Dusky Ways

    Through Dusky Ways 1972

    When you're a newly divorced woman with two older children, it is very difficult to "rebuild your life". By chance, Monica meets someone new, but will she be able to seize this new oportunity for happiness?

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  • Poster for Open Path

    Open Path 1986

    Love story between two engineers in the Bucharest subway system construction site.

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  • Because They Are in Love 1972

    A judge falls in love with a married woman.

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  • Poster for The White Lace Dress

    The White Lace Dress 1989

    A doctor, a sculptor and a football player trying to win the love of desenatoare models, suffering from incurable disease. But this does not preclude it from working on hand in a clothes factory. Of the three candidate, the young woman prefers the more modest, based with the family.

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  • Poster for Fleeting Loves

    Fleeting Loves 1974

    A Romanian architect who married abroad reunites with his birthplace, with those he met, with the women he loved, with the echoes of what happened once, with the great transformations that are taking place in the Capitol, on construction sites and in Romanian villages. Condemned by an incurable disease, but also overwhelmed by these realities and by the irrepressible longing for his homeland, the hero decides to return home for good.

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