“What are Corneliu Porumboiu’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Porumboiu’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!

We took all of the movies directed by Corneliu Porumboiu and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, Metacritic User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.

The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page.

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The Top Film’s Of Corneliu Porumboiu

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9 ) The Second Game (2014)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
• Metacritc Critic Score: 6
• Metacritic User Score: 4
• IMDB User Review Score: 8
• Letterboxd User Score: 6

A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the original television images in real time. A Bucharest derby between the country’s leading teams, Dinamo and Steaua, taking place in heavy snow, one year before the revolution that toppled Ceaușescu.

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8 ) Gone with the Wine (2002)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
• Metacritc Critic Score: 6
• Metacritic User Score: 4
• IMDB User Review Score: 3
• Letterboxd User Score: 7

At first glance Costelus hardly resembles his fellow villagers.

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7 ) A Trip to the City (2003)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
• Metacritc Critic Score: 6
• Metacritic User Score: 4
• IMDB User Review Score: 2
• Letterboxd User Score: 7

A Trip to the City’: it’s a little gem. It is witty, it has guts, it has rhythm, it is perfectly balanced: it is making the case like a demonstration at the blackboard; nothing is missing, nothing is superfluous, the perfect demonstration. And above all, you feel the empathy the director has for these petty people with petty lives, the immense pleasure he has in discovering their humanity in anything they’re saying or doing.

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6 ) When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
• Metacritc Critic Score: 4
• Metacritic User Score: 4
• IMDB User Review Score: 8
• Letterboxd User Score: 5

A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress.

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5 ) Liviu’s Dream (2004)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
• Metacritc Critic Score: 6
• Metacritic User Score: 4
• IMDB User Review Score: 1
• Letterboxd User Score: 7

A strange dream forgotten in the morning and an unaccountable feeling cause Liviu to look with resignation upon the world he’s living in. His awakening to reality may coincide with the birth of his child …

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4 ) Infinite Football (2018)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
• Metacritc Critic Score: 5
• Metacritic User Score: 4
• IMDB User Review Score: 5
• Letterboxd User Score: 3

They talk about the beautiful game, but for Laurențiu Ginghină, it’s not enough. Football must be modified, streamlined, freed from restraints; corners are to be rounded off, players assigned to zones and subteams, norms revised.

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2 ) Police, Adjective (2009)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
• Metacritc Critic Score: 2
• Metacritic User Score: 3
• IMDB User Review Score: 6
• Letterboxd User Score: 2

A cop named Cristi must go undercover to trail teen Victor who is suspected of selling pot in the north-eastern city of Vasliu.

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2 ) The Treasure (2015)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
• Metacritc Critic Score: 1
• Metacritic User Score: 2
• IMDB User Review Score: 7
• Letterboxd User Score: 3

Costi leads a peaceful life. At night he likes to read his 6-year-old son stories, to help him sleep. Their favourite is Robin Hood. Costi sees himself as the hero – righter of wrongs and defender of the oppressed. One evening, his neighbour pays him an unexpected visit and shares a secret: there’s treasure buried in his grandparents’ garden, he’s sure of it. If Costi will hire a metal detector to help locate it, he’ll give him half of whatever they get. Skeptical at first, in the end Costi can’t resist. He’s on board. The two accomplices have one weekend to locate the loot. Despite every obstacle in their path, Costi refuses to be discouraged. For his wife and son, he’s a real hero – nothing and no one are going to stop him.

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1 ) 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)

Review Website Ranks:

• Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
• Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
• Metacritc Critic Score: 3
• Metacritic User Score: 1
• IMDB User Review Score: 3
• Letterboxd User Score: 1

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?”

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Corneliu Porumboiu’s Best Movies

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Corneliu Porumboiu Review Website Filmography Rankings

Film	RT Critic	RT User	MC Critic	MC User	IMDB	Letterboxd	Overal Rank
12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)	2	1	3	1	3	1	1
Police, Adjective (2009)	4	4	2	3	6	2	2
The Treasure (2015)	3	5	1	2	7	3	2
Infinite Football (2018)	1	6	5	4	5	3	4
Liviu’s Dream (2004)	6	2	6	4	1	7	5
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013)	5	3	4	4	8	5	6
A Trip to the City (2003)	6	6	6	4	2	7	7
Gone with the Wine (2002)	6	6	6	4	3	7	8
The Second Game (2014)	6	6	6	4	8	6	9