Alexander Bălănescu Movies

  • 1998
    The Octopus

    The Octopus

    The Octopus

    6.61998HD

    Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire...

    The Octopus
  • 1995
    Angels and Insects

    Angels and Insects

    Angels and Insects

    6.3591995HD

    In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries...

    Angels and Insects
  • 2006
    The Way I Spent the End of the World

    The Way I Spent the End of the World

    The Way I Spent the End of the World

    62006HD

    Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva...

    The Way I Spent the End of the World
  • 1990
    The Garden

    The Garden

    The Garden

    5.61990HD

    A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a...

    The Garden
  • 2010
    Baby

    Baby

    Baby

    42010HD

    A young woman is followed home by a stranger.

    Baby
  • 2000
    Johnny the Partisan

    Johnny the Partisan

    Johnny the Partisan

    62000HD

    After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to...

    Johnny the Partisan
  • 1987
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    01987HD

    Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him...

    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • 1970
    Walking to Paris

    Walking to Paris

    Walking to Paris

    01970HD

    The 27-year-old sculptor Constantin Brancusi walked from Bucharest to Paris in 1903 and 1904 as a preparation and prelude to becoming the most...

    Walking to Paris
  • 2000
    Eisenstein

    Eisenstein

    Eisenstein

    5.52000HD

    A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.

    Eisenstein
  • 2014
    Hipopotamy

    Hipopotamy

    Hipopotamy

    4.82014HD

    A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men who, at one point, decide to approach them...

    Hipopotamy
  • 2023
    The Island

    The Island

    The Island

    62023HD

    Robinson is a doctor and unlike Robinson Crusoe, his solitude is voluntary but his island in the Mediterranean Sea is invaded by migrants, NGOs,...

    The Island
  • 2008
    Tabló

    Tabló

    Tabló

    22008HD

    Karcsi, a Roma policeman, lives with Eva, a Swede. One day he is called to the scene of the murder of a wealthy trafficker named Schulter. He begins...

    Tabló
  • 2015
    The Magic Mountain

    The Magic Mountain

    The Magic Mountain

    6.32015HD

    The film investigates the adventures of mountain climber and photographer Adam J. Winkler, who fought in Afghanistan with the Mujahideen against the...

    The Magic Mountain
  • 2018
    The Call

    The Call

    The Call

    6.32018HD

    An aged woman is taking a bath. While entering the water a new world reveals. The phone, on a chair, connects her with her son and keeps her linked...

    The Call
  • 2018
    What Happens to a Displaced Ant

    What Happens to a Displaced Ant

    What Happens to a Displaced Ant

    02018HD

    A nurse who has just fallen in love sets off to the Mediterranean to help rescue refugees. Her thoughts drift from her new love to the people she...

    What Happens to a Displaced Ant
  • 1997
    Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness

    Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness

    Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness

    01997HD

    Despite his HIV-positive diagnosis in the early 1980s, Russian-born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev continued to dance and work as the director of the...

    Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness