
Birthday:
06-06-1963
(61 years)
Birthplace:
Bistrița, România
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The Master of Silence
event2022 star_border 7.7
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A grand old house has seen generations of war and change, but as demolition looms, its tenants must face corrupt interests that govern this new world.
The Son
Act like Glas sa TV-a (voice)
event2019 star_border 2.8
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Arman is about to turn 18. He was adopted as a baby by Jasna and Senad, who were unable to have children of their own. However, four years after the adoption, Jasna gives birth to Dado. Throughout his life, Arman has had a hard time coping with being an adopted child. Full of explosive energy, he constantly gets in trouble together with his schoolmates. Despite being very intelligent, he is labelled as a problem child. The only place he feels safe and loved is with Jasna’s parents. At the same time, Arman does all he can to save Dado from self-destructing. However, despite everything he does to support his brother, his parents interpret Arman’s involvement incorrectly, and blame him for every trouble with Dado.
The Windseeker
Act like Nea Pavel
event2022 star_border 8.7
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Radu lives a solitary, sterile life. A promising job interview seems to give him a chance of breaking free from depression, but after some medical tests required by the company, he finds out that he only has a few more months left to live.
The Headlight
Act like Radu Iovan
event2018 star_border 7
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Radu Iovan and his high moral principles become the target of a ten thousand souls wager between God and Satan.
Wild Romania
Act like Narrator
event2021 star_border 9
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Recorded over 10 years, România Sălbatică shows the colorful beauty of Romanian nature accompanied with wildlife.
Parallel Worlds
event2019 star_border 6
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During the protests that are taking place on August 10, 2018 in Bucharest, Alex's parents are holding a party for celebrating his University admission. But he will be trying to escape it and meet the reality from the streets.
Familiar
Act like Emil Binder
event2023
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Dragos Binder is doing research in order to write a fiction film based on the true event of his parents fleeing the country in the 80s communist Romania, but then he changes the subject, moving the camera lens on himself.
Dear Santa Claus
Act like Santa Claus
event2018 star_border 7.7
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When a couple returns to their apartment building on Christmas Eve, they find a man dressed as Santa Claus trying to break into their neighbor's apartment.
Best Intentions
Act like doctor Crișan
event2011 star_border 6.7
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Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son's life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody's advice, he's coming hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making his own set of mistakes - throughout with best intentions.
Chasing rainbows
Act like Tocitu
event2012 star_border 6.9
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A story about the illusion of getting rich in Romania. In a country where stories of striking it rich are everywhere, anyone thinks such a thing is not only possible, but it's easily achievable. The storyline follows two destinies: one is of a young couple, Marius and Cosmina. Marius wrote an imaginary name on a lottery promotion ticket just to drag Cosmina. And the draw makes him the winner. The other is of two adults. Because of their lack of knowledge when it comes to modern technology, they get fooled by e-mail spam, fall for a false online lottery and loose their last savings. The stories meet at the end, when they loose all hope and refuse their only chance of getting rich. Finally we realize that the illusion of becoming rich puts ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
Kiddo
Act like Father
event2012 star_border 6
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Children who are born in family feuds, automatically become grown men, from very early ages. Just because it is a traumatic reality, precisely because we don't read on their faces innocence, happiness or desire to live his childhood, but the weight that burdened his life. The 19 years old young girl is the only source of income support and family. Kiddo is passionate about boxing and the ring is her only refuge.
Domestic
Act like mr. Lazăr
event2012 star_border 6.2
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Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying to have a better life, but sometimes death comes unexpectedly. The lives of three characters surrounded by a bunch of extraordinary, funny, absurd but quite realistic events. It is all about us, people who eat the animals that they love and the animals that love people unconditionally.
Child's Pose
Act like Traian Angheliu
event2013 star_border 6.7
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Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept that her son is a grown-up man.
Waves
Act like Victor
event2007 star_border 5.9
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A beautiful Western woman asks a Gypsy to watch her four-year-old child while she is taught how to swim by a flirtatious married man, before she disappears into the sea.
Oli's Wedding
Act like Dorel
event2009 star_border 6.3
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Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his son’s wedding which takes place in the United States. Dorel is going to watch the wedding through a webcam, together with two of his son’s friends. On a small screen, they are about to meet the bride and her father, and witness the ceremony.
Nine Stories of Love and Hate in Isolation
Act like Self (segment "Pesimistul")
event2020 star_border 8
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Dan Chisu made a new film, while in isolation. Some of the most famous Romanian actors performed, by filming themselves with their mobile phones.
To Paris with the Identity Card
Act like Police Officer
event2015 star_border 8
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Drăgan Niță is a humble French teacher from Romania that has always dreamt of visiting Paris one day. To make his dream come true, he saves 1 lei every day.
Bed of Procust
Act like Căpitan aeroclub
event2001 star_border 6.2
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The poet and journalist Ladima commits suicide and his friend, Fred Vasilescu, tries to find out the reasons of those actions. In his search he discovers a mysterious Miss T.
Sabina - Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years
Act like Uncle Jakob
event2021 star_border 6
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A story of transformation and hope in a time of turmoil and terror
03.ByPass
Act like tatal lui Florin
event2016 star_border 6.8
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During a night shift, an emergency ambulance with a team of three, a doctor, a paramedic and a driver, is called to an old man's apartment. The event will change their lives forever.
5 Minutes Too Late
Act like Tudose
event2019 star_border 5.9
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The destiny of the man who led the gendarme team after a LGBT film screening in Bucharest, revealed through an investigation by Liliana Calomfir, a young journalist known for her daring reporting.
The Pill of Happiness
event2012 star_border 7
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Revenge. Feels so good. Are you ready to pay the price for it?
Hooked
event2008 star_border 5.8
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A math teacher from Bucharest and his lover go out for a picnic to relax. The film follows what happens after an accident occurs and the two characters argue about how to handle the situation. Things take a twist and as the victim becomes an part of the story.
Three Kilometres to the End of the World
Act like The Priest
event2024 star_border 6.2
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Adi a gay teenager is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.
Graduation
Act like Romeo Aldea
event2016 star_border 6.8
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After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.
Broken Youth
Act like Ilie
event1991 star_border 4
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Two parallel stories about unhappy marriages that take place during inter-war period in the Banat village within Romanian ethnic minority in Serbia.
S.B.C.R.D.F.
Act like Dominik
event2024
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1920s, Romania. After living abroad for several years, young Mihail comes back to his home village to ask for the hand of the newly widowed Elena. The courage to confess his love quickly disappears and Mihail seeks guidance from the village's old priest. Things get complicated when Mihail discovers that Elena has another suitor, Mândru. Meanwhile, the villagers organize a wedding for the newlyweds who have yet to declare their feelings. Although she decided to leave with Mândru, Elena finds out about Mihail's feelings for her, and the two become bride and groom at the wedding prepared by the villagers.
Illegitimate
Act like Victor Anghelescu
event2016 star_border 6.5
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At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.
Excursion
event2014 star_border 6.7
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Following a TV News which announce the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works as a guard and starts filming his everyday life and then disappears. When he is found, the little boy's footage is misinterpreted by the media.
The Cage
Act like Father
event2010 star_border 6.5
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Parents squabbling over a sick bird that was brought in by their son Alex.
The Fixer
event2017 star_border 6.5
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Romanian-born Radu Patru is a trainee at a prestigious French news network. Serving as a translator and general problem solver, or "fixer," for the headlining journalists during his trial period, he's looking to make his big break. He sees his opportunity when two underage Romanian prostitutes are repatriated from France, creating an international scandal. Taking advantage of his language skills and local connections, Radu is prepared to do whatever it takes to interview one of the young girls. But as he ventures into tricky moral ground, he must stop to ask himself if, as an aspiring journalist, he can live with the consequences of his actions, and if, as a father, he's setting a good example for his son.
Ana, My Love
Act like Psychoanalyst
event2017 star_border 6.7
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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.
Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things
Act like Descalul
event2017 star_border 6.1
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A lumberjack, Doru, whose wife dies leaving the child she was looking after, Meda, at risk of being sent to an orphanage, decides to fight for adoption, against the odds.
Jacob
Act like Engineer
event1988 star_border 6.8
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Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama. Under the rule of an oppressive monarchy backed by military force, the miners often resort to stealing gold to compensate for their meager wages. Workers are subjected to strip searches and are forced to take laxatives by the often brutal guards and inspectors as they look for stolen gold, and Jacob raises his vocal objections over the treatment of his fellow workers.
Ceata
Act like Sami
event2017 star_border 5.7
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Sami and Dora are husband and wife, they have an age-gap marriage filled with compromises. Now they are waiting the social worker from the adoption agency to come at their home to decide if they are eligible to adopt a child. But they are caught in a moral dilemma: can buying a life be the price of saving their own relationship?
Lord
Act like Blackmailer
event2011 star_border 7.4
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Although he hates dogs, Toni is engaged in finding lost animals and then sentimentally blackmails the masters in order to obtain beautiful large amounts of money. Because of an old and ugly Pekinese that Toni cannot succeed of getting rid of, feelings of affection awake in him that surprise even Toni.
Live
Act like Ricu
event2015 star_border 6.8
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Ema is the successful TV anchor of a national TV broadcaster, the star of a popular tabloid show. A perfectionist, she has no hesitation in putting at steak her health or money for higher ratings.
15 July
event2011 star_border 4.5
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A young couple visits the girl's grandmother and also meets the girl's father who has a birthday.
Fox: Hunter
event1993 star_border 7.1
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Set in the period prior to the revolt in Timisoara in December 1989 and mirroring the events that led to the downfall of the dictator Ceausescu. -- BFI
Cărturan
Act like The Priest
event2019 star_border 7
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With little time to live, Carturan, a 60 year old man, tries to fix the most important aspects of his life.
Puzzle
Act like Stefan Manea
event2013 star_border 6.3
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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.
Lilac Blossoms for the Second Time
Act like Dragoș
event1988 star_border 6
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Dana, a young teacher, loses her husband in a car accident. Her four year old son misses a father a lot. Dragoș appears in their lives to fill the void.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Act like Dr. Dragoș Popescu
event2005 star_border 7.3
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After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast.
Marita
event2017 star_border 6.3
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Costi (30) suddenly comes up with the idea of visiting his father, Sandu, and arrange a surprise reunion with the rest of the family that Sandu has neglected all his life. It's Costi's way of running away from his own couple issues for a day.
Queen Marie of Romania
Act like Prime Minister Ion Brătianu
event2019 star_border 7.2
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Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its Queen on her mission to Paris, to lobby for its great unification's international recognition at the 1919 Peace Talks.
Expediția
Act like Vlad Crângu
event1988 star_border 6
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A history professor decides to take kids from his class in a trek across the country so they can experience various places and people.
A Smile Of The Sun
event1987 star_border 6.4
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Several students spend their last days of high school in a cheerful and musical atmosphere. Petrica and 'Sunny Smile', who has become a fairy tale princess in the meantime, find their way back to each other, from the real world to the dream one and the other way around, in order to meet their love halfway between the two realms.
The Ditch
Act like Vasile
event2012 star_border 7.2
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On a hot summer day, Vasile, a 50-something year old peasant, refuses to accompany his wife Lucretia to a religious ceremony arguing he has to finish the ditch in front of their house to avoid paying a fine. Scared by the hard work ahead of him, he tries to find somebody to help him. Petre, a Gypsy young man seems to be the right person. After changing a few words with him, Vasile notices that Petre is upset because none of the villagers wants to be the Godfather for his kid. Vasile decides to baptize the child himself asking Petre in exchange to help him finish the ditch. In the evening, Lucretia learns about Vasile's decision and a new ordinary domestic fight starts between them.
Sindromul Timișoara
event2004 star_border 5.5
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A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara.
Carmen
Act like Dr. Sitaru
event2013 star_border 7
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In a small village close to the mountains, Mariana and Puiu are a young family with two children: Carmen and Mircea. One morning, the mother and the ten year-old daughter leave for Bucharest, having a hospital as their destination. One doctor alone, Sitaru, believes that Carmen, who can no longer smile, stands any chances at survival. He believes he can perform a miracle and save Carmen's life. Struggling for her daughter, abandoned by almost everybody she trusted, Mariana discovers she is pregnant. After dr. Sitaru operates on the little girl, in a risky manner, Carmen begins to feel increasingly worse. Without any hope, Mariana leaves the hospital and rushes to take Carmen home: while one life ends, another one begins to flicker.
Bucharest Non-Stop
Act like Giani
event2015 star_border 7.2
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"Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More specifically, the film is a night of non-stop life of a store located in a neighborhood blocks. Four drive four different stories linked by a key figure, Achim, known as "the boy from non-stop", played by George Ifrim. The film wants to convey the story of ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
Before I Leave
event2019
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To follow in his father’s and older brother’s footsteps, Mihai, a seventeen-year-old Romanian, gets ready for a mission that he must go to France to finish. During the last night with his family, little by little, he is overcome with doubt and fear.
Moon Hotel Kabul
event2018 star_border 6.4
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Ivan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan’s unshakeable lifestyle. After Ivan’s arrival back to Bucharest, Ioana is found dead, with her wrists cut. Ivan starts living in the absent presence of Ioana, who is starting to be more vivid in death than in life.
Horse Power
Act like Mihai
event2014 star_border 6.2
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Every year Mihai carries his motorcycle in his tenth floor apartment during the winter and bring it back downstairs in spring with the help of his friends. But this year Mihai finds out how fragile friendships can become.
Otto the Barbarian
event2020 star_border 4.6
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Otto, a seventeen-year-old punk, becomes involved in the social services investigation of his girlfriend Laura’s death. He is caught up in a vicious circle created by his parents, his mute grandpa and Laura’s mother. Laura is still part of his life through video recordings that he edits constantly, trying to make sense of the events. Through this process, Otto must take his portion of the responsibility for what happened.
The Tower of Pisa
Act like Yue Lao
event2020 star_border 6
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A fantasy and comedy short fiction film about a parking valet suffering from OCD who stumbles upon love.
In Perfect Health
Act like Procuror
event2017 star_border 4.9
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A young man trying to solve the puzzle of his father's last moments rattles the life of a quiet town and unburies unwanted truths. His compulsive quest becomes a downward spiral of love, lust and lies.
Caps
event2017 star_border 6
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Radu, 45, rich and single, manages his business with a strong, unwavering hand and no scruples. His competition is now leading a charge against him on the stock market, which prompts Radu to remember a childhood game of beer bottle caps, a game that required risk-taking, effort and skill. A heart attack and the news that he might need a heart transplant determines him to head to a remote place, where the Danube river meets the sea, a place of simple people and age-old customs.
A Decent Man
event2018 star_border 6.3
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Petru is a drilling engineer living in a community of oil industry workers. He has mixed feelings. On the one hand he is about to marry his pregnant girlfriend Laura, on the other he is involved with the wife of one of his colleagues, Sonia, the victim of a serious accident at work. His new life seems about to begin while she feels hers is ending. When Laura finds out about his relationship with Sonia, all hell breaks loose. Petru feels terrible guilt, but also responsibility for the baby-to-be.
The Father Who Moves Mountains
Act like Mircea
event2021 star_border 5.9
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Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.
Enescu, Skinned Alive
Act like Bernard
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Brilliant composer and violinist George Enescu is at the peak of his career and wants to compose an opera. He falls in love with a princess, Maruca, who inspires and challenges him. She is fascinated by Enescu and his music, she loves him passionately, but has a duty towards her husband and her two children. Destiny will release her from the chains of marriage, but will that be enough for the genius and the princess to live happily ever after?
Timing
Act like Dad
event2024
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Tomas, a young actor, tries to balance the young adult lifestyle: relationships, parties and a career. At a party he randomly reconnects with his first love, Emma. Strong feelings of love and regret return for both of them. The timing of their meeting leaves him questioning what growing up means and how our decisions affect us.
The Cement Mixer
Act like Site Supervisor
event2013
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For the people living on a street in downtown Bucharest, the torture has started a few days previous, when a construction site was set up on their street.
Tuff Money
(6 ep.)
event2020 star_border 6.2
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After two hapless stoplight technicians make an offhand joke about an imaginary heist, everyone in their small Romanian town suddenly wants a piece of the pie – forcing the pair to make a decision that could change their lives forever.
Vlad
Act like Iordache (13 ep.)
event2019 star_border 8.2
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Adrian, a young man who was unjustly jailed after his friends betrayed him during a heist, gets the chance at a new life, guided by Caesar, his mentor.
Shadows
Act like Andronache (4 ep.)
event2014 star_border 8.4
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Relu is a family man. He has two children, a wife and a double life. Seen through the eyes of his family, Relu Oncescu appears to be an ordinary taxi driver. No one suspects that Relu works as a collector for Capitanu', a local mobster. Neither of the two worlds (his family and the mafia) knows of the other's existence. Relu manages to keep everything under control, but not for long. After accidentally killing a man, he tries to get out of the underworld, but he can't find his way back. Day by day, the secrets he keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface, one by one.
Lara
Act like Agent poliție (10 ep.)
event2017 star_border 4
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In a complex city, a lost teen with amnesia meets a series of allies and foes as she tries to rediscover her past and find a way home.
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