Radu Mihăileanu

The Source (2011)

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Leïla Bekhti  •  Hafsia Herzi  •  Biyouna  •  Sabrina Ouazani

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Leïla Bekhti  •  Hafsia Herzi  •  Biyouna  •  Sabrina Ouazani

Betrayal (1993)

After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Johan Leysen  •  Alexandru Repan  •  Mireille Perrier  •  Maia Morgenstern

After the war, in Bucharest, a young Romanian poet arrested for having written an article denouncing Stalinist crimes, will save his life by accepting to become a hostage of the regime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Johan Leysen  •  Alexandru Repan  •  Mireille Perrier  •  Maia Morgenstern

The Concert (2009)

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Lionel Abelanski  •  Mélanie Laurent  •  Dmitri Nazarov  •  François Berléand

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Lionel Abelanski  •  Mélanie Laurent  •  Dmitri Nazarov  •  François Berléand

Live and Become (2005)

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Moshe Abebe  •  Moshe Agazai  •  Sirak M. Sabahat  •  Roni Hadar

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Moshe Abebe  •  Moshe Agazai  •  Sirak M. Sabahat  •  Roni Hadar

Train of Life (1998)

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Lionel Abelanski  •  Rufus  •  Clément Harari  •  Agathe de La Fontaine

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Lionel Abelanski  •  Rufus  •  Clément Harari  •  Agathe de La Fontaine

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Derek Jacobi  •  Sophie Nélisse  •  Gemma Arterton  •  Elliott Gould

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Derek Jacobi  •  Sophie Nélisse  •  Gemma Arterton  •  Elliott Gould

Les pygmées de Carlo (2002)

Carlo Ercole, a maestro of Italian cinema, asks his assistants to depart immediately for the Central African rainforest to find some Pygmies, "the incarnation of life", for the film he plans to shoot in Paris. Hardly cut out for such an adventure, Marc and Olivier ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Stéphane Rideau  •  Beppe Chierici  •  Sonia Rolland  •  Yves Verhoeven

Carlo Ercole, a maestro of Italian cinema, asks his assistants to depart immediately for the Central African rainforest to find some Pygmies, "the incarnation of life", for the film he plans to shoot in Paris. Hardly cut out for such an adventure, Marc and Olivier ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Stéphane Rideau  •  Beppe Chierici  •  Sonia Rolland  •  Yves Verhoeven

Opération Moïse (2007)

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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary (2017)

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Selma Dell'Olio
CAST:  Marco Ferreri  •  Isabelle Huppert  •  Andréa Ferréol  •  Roberto Benigni

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Selma Dell'Olio
CAST:  Marco Ferreri  •  Isabelle Huppert  •  Andréa Ferréol  •  Roberto Benigni

Who Is Calling Me? (1979)

A young woman is accused of "Immorality" (aka prostitution) and she is sent for re-education to work on a construction site.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Letitia Popa Schwartz
CAST:  Mărioara Sterian  •  Iulian Vișan  •  Dinu Manolache  •  Tora Vasilescu

A young woman is accused of "Immorality" (aka prostitution) and she is sent for re-education to work on a construction site.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Letitia Popa Schwartz
CAST:  Mărioara Sterian  •  Iulian Vișan  •  Dinu Manolache  •  Tora Vasilescu

Je t'aime, filme-moi! (2022)

This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Messina
CAST:  Christophe Salengro  •  Karine Ventalon  •  Michel Crémadès  •  Zinedine Soualem

This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alexandre Messina
CAST:  Christophe Salengro  •  Karine Ventalon  •  Michel Crémadès  •  Zinedine Soualem

Niki (2024)

French-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, from the age of 23, is a model and an aspiring actor who is married and has a two year old daughter. Together, they flee the U.S. during the oppressive McCarthy era and come to France, where they experience a short-lived ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Céline Sallette
CAST:  Charlotte Le Bon  •  Damien Bonnard  •  John Robinson  •  Quentin Dolmaire

French-American artist Niki de Saint-Phalle, from the age of 23, is a model and an aspiring actor who is married and has a two year old daughter. Together, they flee the U.S. during the oppressive McCarthy era and come to France, where they experience a short-lived ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Céline Sallette
CAST:  Charlotte Le Bon  •  Damien Bonnard  •  John Robinson  •  Quentin Dolmaire

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DIRECTION:  Radu Mihăileanu
CAST:  Elisa Servier  •  Claire Keim  •  Sébastien Lorca  •  Véronique Silver