Ranking All Of Director Cristian Mungiu’s Movies
“What are Cristian Mungiu’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Mungiu’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Cristian Mungiu 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 Cristian Mungiu
6 ) Lost and Found (2005)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 6
Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of “generation”.
5 ) Occident (2002)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
“Occident” is a bitter comedy about the people who want to emigrate from Romania, and about those who stay behind. The movie has a rich, interesting structure: there are three different stories – a weeklong in the film – that cross, interconnect and happen in the same period. The characters influence each others lives, sometimes even without knowing. Main characters from one story become secondary characters in another story. At the same time, scenes from the first part of the movie bring unexpected facts when seen the second or the third time. The stories do not have just one ending: the first story ends in each of the third parts in a different point, suggesting radically different solutions for the characters. The way in which the director fits time and links events together often produces thematically unexpected results.
4 ) Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
Tales from the Golden Age is composed of 5 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alluded “Golden Age” of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu’s regime.
3 ) Beyond the Hills (2012)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
A drama centered on the friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.
2 ) Graduation (2016)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
Romeo Aldea, a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding. Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams – a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter.
1 ) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
Cristian Mungiu’s Best Movies
Cristian Mungiu Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Graduation (2016) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Beyond the Hills (2012) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Tales from the Golden Age (2009) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| West (2002) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Lost and Found (2005) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
