Mandragora Movies

On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists...

Back from a professional trip to Paris, a neurologist at the pinnacle of his career has to pick up his wife so that they can attend a family meal to...

After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one...

Seeking shelter in her work from the pain of a breakup, Lena, a painter turning 40, is commissioned to decorate a brutalist luxury hotel nestled in...

Viorel, a quiet, upright tractor driver from a small town in west Romania meets Mocanu, a high profile politician campaigning for a seat in the...

Ana and Paul are trying to take advantage of a break at work to go shopping at a home and garden store. Paul is on the phone the whole time, while...

A taciturn Romanian divorcee acquires a hunting rifle and initiates a killing spree.

Cristiana is a 30 year old woman, brought up in a "proper", bourgeois middle-class family. Her time is split between writing for her PhD in...

Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979,...

The story of Victor, a 45-year-old rocker, whose love for his son Florin go beyond what is socially and morally acceptable. The father's everyday...

Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his...

While people in Western Europe were used to choose between hundreds of brands, the communist Romanian used to have a different experience: all our...

A trio of quirky lifelong friends create a makeshift family, but their tight bond is tested when one of them falls in love with a writer.

NELU, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket in Salonta, a small town on the Romanian-Hungarian border. This is the...

It's Maxim's birthday. He's 8 years old. He lives together only with his mother in a village not so close to the big city. For his birthday, his...

A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.

For 45-year-old artist Sarah, this is not a hypothetical issue. With her parents' 50th wedding anniversary approaching, they give her an ultimatum:...

A film director undergoes the traumatic experience of the death of his young daughter. But the artistic use of personal life comes with its own cost.

Different portraits, four short stories, four moments in time capturing the wanderings of a few souls, stuck at the crossroads of History.