Movies like Queen Marie of Romania (2019)
The best movies like Queen Marie of Romania (2019) are Forest of the Hanged (1965), Aferim! (2015) and Malmkrog (2020). If Queen Marie of Romania hooked you with its drama and history, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)7.4/10 from 207 votes
- NewestFiume o morte! (2025)Released 2025
Forest of the Hanged (1965)
In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Aferim! (2015)
Set in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMalmkrog (2020)
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 wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUppercase Print (2020)
In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. Mugur Călinescu was behind them, who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this material.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
The New Year That Never Came (2024)
The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSunset (2018)
In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
SnoozefestMovies like thisSilent Wedding (2008)
In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTales from the Golden Age (2009)
Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaușescu's regime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChild's Pose (2013)
Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept that her son is a grown-up man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGraduation (2016)
After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018)
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPolice, Adjective (2009)
A cop named Cristi must go undercover to trail teen Victor who is suspected of selling pot in the north-eastern city of Vaslui.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with his debts. Jderescu, the owner of a local television post, seems not to be so interested in the upcoming holidays. For him, the time to face history has come. Along with Manescu and Piscoci, he is trying to answer for himself a question which for 16 years has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?"
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Step Behind the Seraphim (2017)
A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that's not the way one's life should be lead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMoromete Family: On the Edge of Time (2018)
A sequel to one of Romanian cinema’s most lauded adaptations, The Moromete Family, film tells the tale of Ilie Moromete and his family and focuses on his youngest son, Niculae. The entire order of the world of the village, where the most important thing is to own land and work it, changes upon the arrival of the Communist regime and collectivization.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Philanthropy (2002)
In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unassuming high school teacher, never could afford it. Looking for a source of income more substantial than a teacher's salary, Ovidiu plunges into a fabulous world – the beggar mob.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSieranevada (2016)
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 commemorate his father, who died a year before. At his mother's flat, the guests are waiting for the priest to arrive while arguing about all kinds of things connected and unconnected with the world’s events and wars.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEverybody in Our Family (2012)
Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control with all the family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisÎntregalde (2021)
The suspense story follows three humanitarians whose mission in a remote village called Întregalde, in the Apuseni Mountains, in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods. Apart from a few quarrels and conflicts between the group members, everything seems to be going well for Maria and Dan. But soon after they stumble upon a disoriented local and try to help him, things go wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Beyond the Hills (2012)
Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to best.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Oak (1992)
A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become like her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucharest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing at everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Father Who Moves Mountains (2021)
Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDogs (2016)
Roman returns to the land near the Ukrainian border he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land - and their smuggling business - without a fight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Fiume o morte! (2025)
Through dramatic reconstruction and documentary asides, the spirit of Italian poet, playwright, journalist, aristocrat and army officer Gabriele D’Annunzio is captured, presenting the nascent fascism in his attempts to forge a new state in the aftermath of the First World War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both history
The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
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 and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva's decision to leave. So with his friends from school he devises a plan to kill the dictator.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Whistlers (2019)
A Romanian police officer, determined to free from prison a crooked businessman who knows where a mobster's money is hidden, must learn the difficult ancestral whistling language (Silbo Gomero) used on the island of Gomera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have been robbed and need a place to stay. But are these strangers really who they say they are?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSometimes in April (2005)
Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWalking with the Enemy (2014)
Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his country to the Nazis, who quickly move Hungarians to ghettos and death camps, with no hope in sight. But the despair changes when a young man named Elek emerges. Separated from his family during the relocations and aided by the woman he loves , Elek defies the enemy by becoming one of them. In a race against time, disguised as a Nazi Officer he embarks on a mission to save his family and thousands of his countrymen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & history
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Queen Marie of Romania?
The closest matches to Queen Marie of Romania are Forest of the Hanged (1965), Aferim! (2015) and Malmkrog (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Queen Marie of Romania?
People who watched Queen Marie of Romania most often go on to Forest of the Hanged (1965), Aferim! (2015) and Malmkrog (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like Queen Marie of Romania?
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), rated 7.4/10 by 207 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Queen Marie of Romania?
Fiume o morte! (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Queen Marie of Romania chosen?
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