Stumbling over the interwebs, I found a website (which I won’t link) which sells for hundreds of dollars old posters made in Communist Romania to advertise foreign movies at the cinema.
Because of the strong belief that the “Almighty Communism” was better than any other ideology [citation needed], the capitalist movies coming from the West (either Western Europe or America) were either heavily censored, or not imported at all, to properly protect the hard-working Romanian population from the dangers of capitalism.
But because their existence wasn’t easy to conceal, the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu decided to import these movies anyway, along with a ton of Indian movies from Bollywood, to show to the Romanian people, of course after being properly reviewed and edited by the censorship committee. This way, these imperialist movies about sin, wastefulness, debauchery and lack of moral values were sanitized and presented to the Romanian people, to show them a glimpse of the non-existence of moral compass in the West. The list is filled with well-known classic movies, and they seem to be more or less a checkbox for any serious cinephile.
Without further ado, the list is below. You can see the movies’ titles, the year when they were released, as well as the poster format using the International Paper Sizes and Measurements (A-sizes or B-sizes)
1962 • B2 A Very Private Affair
1961 • B2 Accattone
1977 • B3 Alambrista!
1964 • B3 America, America
1964 • B2 America, America
1951 • B2 An American in Paris
1983 • B2 Anna Pavlova
1960 • B2 Battle Beyond the Sun
1925 • B2 Battleship Potemkin
1970 • B2 Bed and Board
1971 • B2 Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1973 • A2 Blackenstein
1972 • B2 Boulevard du rhum
1961 • B3 Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961 • B2 Breakfast at Tiffany's
1950s • B2 Broadway Melody of 1940
1968 • B3 Bullitt
1963 • B3 Cherchez l'idole
1965 • B2 Circus World
1950s • B2 City Lights
1964 • B2 Cleopatra
1965 • B2 Dear Brigitte
1973 • B2 Detroit 9000
1970 • B1 Dodes'ka-den
1961 • B2 El Cid
1966 • B1 El Dorado
1971 • B2 Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1975 • B2 French Connection II
1975 • B2 Funny Lady
1956 • A2 Godzilla
1966 • B2 Goodbye Texas
1968 • B1 Hello, Dolly!
1959 • B1 Hiroshima Mon Amour
1980 • B2 INCIDENT LA GRANITA
1980 • A1 Kagemusha
1962 • B1 L'Eclisse
1960 • B2 La Dolce Vita
1960 • B1 La Dolce Vita
1961 • B2 La Notte
1962 • B2 Le Doulos
1966 • B2 Little Big Man
1963 • B2 Marilyn
1937 • B1 Mister Max
1958 • B2 Mon Oncle
1967 • B2 My Fair Lady
1959 • B2 North by Northwest
1973 • B2 Papillon
1965 • B2 Red Beard
1960s • B3 Red River
1960s • B2 Red River
1959 • B2 Rio Bravo
1976 • B2 Rocky
1979 • B2 Rocky II
1953 • B2 Roman Holiday
1953 • B3 Roman Holiday
1967 • B2 Samurai Rebellion
1963 • B2 Sanjuro
1962 • B3 Sanjuro
1955 • B3 Seven Samurai
1955 • B2 Some Like It Hot
1980 • B2 Somewhere in Time
1957 • B2 Swan Lake
1960 • B2 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1950s • B2 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1967 • B2 The Ambushers
1953 • B2 The Band Wagon
1950s • B2 The Barkleys of Broadway
1960s • B1 The Birds
1960s • B3 The Birds
1950s • B2 The Circus
1972 • B2 The Cowboys
1966 • B2 The Flight of the Phoenix
1971 • B1 The Go-Between
1961 • B2 The Guns of Navarone
1979 • B2 The Muppet Movie
1979 • B3 The Muppet Movie
1966 • B2 The Nun
1950s • B2 The Sea Hawk
1955 • B2 The Seven Year Itch
1970 • B2 The Sicilian Clan
2010 • Book The Silver Screen in the Golden Age
1959 • B2 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
1969 • B2 Tintin and the Temple of the Sun
1963 • B2 To Kill a Mockingbird
1971 • B2 True Grit
