Alexander Bălănescu Movies
- 1998
The Octopus
The Octopus6.61998HD
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...
- 1995
Angels and Insects
Angels and Insects6.3591995HD
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries...
- 2006
The Way I Spent the End of the World
The Way I Spent the End of the World62006HD
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...
- 1990
The Garden
The Garden5.61990HD
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...
- 2010
Baby
Baby42010HD
A young woman is followed home by a stranger.
- 2000
Johnny the Partisan
Johnny the Partisan62000HD
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...
- 1987
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat01987HD
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...
- 1970
Walking to Paris
Walking to Paris01970HD
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...
- 2000
Eisenstein
Eisenstein5.52000HD
A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
- 2014
Hipopotamy
Hipopotamy4.82014HD
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...
- 2023
The Island
The Island62023HD
Robinson is a doctor and unlike Robinson Crusoe, his solitude is voluntary but his island in the Mediterranean Sea is invaded by migrants, NGOs,...
- 2008
Tabló
Tabló22008HD
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...
- 2015
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain6.32015HD
The film investigates the adventures of mountain climber and photographer Adam J. Winkler, who fought in Afghanistan with the Mujahideen against the...
- 2018
The Call
The Call6.32018HD
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...
- 2018
What Happens to a Displaced Ant
What Happens to a Displaced Ant02018HD
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...
- 1997
Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness
Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness01997HD
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...