Radu Jude

ActorDirectorWriterCrewProduction Mar 28 (age 49) Bucarest, Romania 1995–2026 (31 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

Radu Jude is a Romanian film director and screenwriter born in Bucharest in 1977, known for his complex, often political, and anarchic films that explore historical memory, labor, and contemporary society. After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director and gained recognition for award-winning short films before directing his feature debut, The Happiest Girl in the World (2009). His work, which blends fact and fiction, uses found footage and contemporary culture, like TikTo…

Known For

Film

Amen.

Assistant Director

Film

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Assistant Director

Film

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Director

Film

Aferim!

Director

Film

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Costume Design

Film

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

Director

Film

The Happiest Girl in the World

Director

Film

Everybody in Our Family

Director

Filmography

Acting (9)

Movies (8)

The Unknown

2026 Upcoming

Aug 26

Dracula

2025

as AI. Judex 0.0 / Phone Camera Tourist

6.5

COOL (News from Belarus)

2023

as Self (segment "A Belarusian Stork")

Caricaturana

as (voice)

I Don't Know

as Himself

Dear Intellectuals

as Narrator (voice)

The Dead Nation

2017

as Himself - Narrator

5.8

Cinemaguerilla

2009

as Self

Television (1)

Kulturzeit

1995

as Self

3.5

Crew (83)

Movies (83)

Shot Reverse Shot

Director

Shot Reverse Shot

Writer

The Diary of a Chambermaid

2026 Upcoming

Director

Oct 23

The Diary of a Chambermaid

2026 Upcoming

Screenplay

Oct 23

Trailer for Dante’s Paradise

2026

Director

Momo 3000

2026

Thanks

Trailer for Dante's Paradise

2026

Director

Yes

Thanks

Kontinental '25

Co-Producer

Kontinental '25

Director

Kontinental '25

Screenplay

Dracula

Co-Producer

Dracula

Director

Dracula

Writer

Little Poems in Prose

2025

Director

Little Poems in Prose

2025

Producer

Little Poems in Prose

2025

Writer

Eight Postcards from Utopia

2024

Director

6.7

Eight Postcards from Utopia

Writer

Sleep #2

Director

Sleep #2

Producer

Sleep #2

Writer

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

2023

Costume Design

6.8

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

2023

Director

6.8

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

2023

Producer

6.8

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

2023

Screenplay

6.8

COOL (News from Belarus)

2023

Director

Greetings from Crîngași

2023

Director

Cinema Almanac: Six Short Films by Radu Jude

2022

Director

The Potemkinists

Director

The Potemkinists

Writer

Memories from the Eastern Front

2022

Director

6.0

Memories from the Eastern Front

2022

Writer

6.0

Lightning

2022

Director

Semiotic Plastic

2021

Director

6.5

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

2021

Director

6.4

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Screenplay

Caricaturana

Director

I Don't Know

Director

I Don't Know

Director of Photography

I Don't Know

Writer

A Fable

Director

Uppercase Print

Director

Uppercase Print

Screenplay

The Exit of the Trains

2020

Director

8.6

The Exit of the Trains

2020

Producer

8.6

The Exit of the Trains

2020

Screenplay

8.6

Dear Intellectuals

2020

Director

Punish and Discipline

2019

Director

6.0

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

2018

Director

6.7

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

2018

Writer

6.7

The Marshal's Two Executions

Director

The Dead Nation

Director

The Dead Nation

Writer

Scarred Hearts

Director

Scarred Hearts

Screenplay

Aferim!

Director

Aferim!

Screenplay

It Can Pass Through the Wall

2014

Director

6.6

Scurt/4: Istorii de inimã neagrã

2014

Director

Shadow of a Cloud

2013

Director

6.3

Everybody in Our Family

Director

A Film for Friends

Director

A Film for Friends

Producer

A Film for Friends

Writer

My Tired Father

Co-Writer

Stanka Goes Home

Writer

The Happiest Girl in the World

2009

Director

6.8

The Happiest Girl in the World

Writer

In The Morning

Director

Alexandra

Director

Alexandra

Producer

Alexandra

Screenplay

The Tube with a Hat

Director

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Assistant Director

Amen.

Assistant Director

The Rage

Assistant Director

Frankenstein in Romania

Director

Frankenstein in Romania

Writer

Heia, Heia, Safari!

Director

Heia, Heia, Safari!

Screenplay

Love Diptych

Director

Love Diptych

Screenplay