Doru Ana

One evening, Mr. Lazarescu, who lives alone, feels a bit dizzy. He finally ends up being driven away in an ambulance, which is the start of a tragicomic odyssey. Each doctor who examines him arrives at an entirely different diagnosis, and his emergency treatment is incessantly postponed. The physicians are deaf to the entreaties of the patient and his friends, and they are devoid of sympathy for the elderly Mr. Lazarescu as he again plunges into the Bucharest night.

A drama set in Bucharest during the "golden" years of Communism, about the horrors of the Securitate, and the brutality and absurdness of its methods used. (imdb)

Eager for cash to start his own business, ambitious Ovidiu agrees to deliver a suspicious package for a local gangster. Knowing he'll be paid well for the job, Ovidiu embarks on his journey from Constanta to Bucharest with two friend in tow. But the trio are unprepared for the difficulties ahead, including a mysterious jeep that seems to be following them. (Yahoo! Movies)

Occident tells, in mosaic mode, three different stories which happen at the same time, interconnect and cross each other, with each story adding a new perspective on the previous one. Mungiu uses humour and lightness of touch to make a comment about early post-communist Romania, a depressing landscape resulting from the collision of the former communist world with the new and flamboyant capitalist offer. (Romanian Cultural Centre)

On Stalin's death in 1953 a general mourning period is declared in USSR and all the satellite states. In rural Romania a wedding is caught in the middle of all this.

In an off-kilter Bucharest, people cheer even an inept army and police manhunt. Meanwhile, Mitou and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitou is about to begin military service, Elena is to be married to a fat old lecher. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities (film.com)

In an isolated Orthodox convent in Romania, Alina has just been reunited with Voichita after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other since meeting as children in an orphanage. (mubi.com)

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, and neither of the two worlds (his family and the mafia) knows of the other's existence.