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CINELETTER

CINEPUB is a free online streaming movies platform dedicated to the independent, less known or forgotten Romanian films. We are a legal archive of almost 500 movies from all genres curated by an enthusiastic team of volunteers.

Launched 4 years ago

Jean Georgescu, With and Without Caragiale: Fragments from the Early History of Romanian Cinema

"I conceived Lantern as a remembrance of the old Romanian films, made up to 1944, using the reels preserved at the National Archive" by Jean Georgescu

Recent posts

A Run-of-the-Mill ”Milicer”

Cyanide... and the Raindrop is a respectable crime film, conscientiously hitting the genre’s main tropes.

Jun 18 • CINELETTER

Rural kitsch and sex appeal in Tatos’s fairy tale of an agricultural production cooperative

The main merit of “The House Between the Fields” is that its central archetypes are brought to life to a satisfying degree. In other words, it’s a film…

Jun 11 • CINELETTER

We laugh and joke, but inside

Manole Marcus did not limit himself to a single cinematic genre; throughout his career, he explored various fields and directions, approaching each with…

Jun 4 • CINELETTER

Authenticist Formulas

An atypical film in Stere Gulea’s filmography, starring Adela Popescu and Medeea Marinescu in a tense drama about a mother-daughter relationship marked…

May 28 • CINELETTER

The Dreamers

Dan Chișu explores this mirage of getting rich overnight, which has claimed victims across several generations, thereby revealing society’s immaturity…

May 26 • CINELETTER

A film better than the screenplay it was based on

Lucian Bratu’s filmography remains compelling and manages to break free from the socialist conventions of that era, venturing into fresh and clever…

May 21 • CINELETTER