Gloomy Sunday

Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restau

Tonight We Kill

A mysterious death occurs in a retirement home for elderly actors. A neglected old actor, once famou

Sarah, My Dear

After his divorce, Bóna Péter, a beginner film director needs a bigger amount of money to settle his

The Martyrdom of St. John

Story of a young teacher starting to work in rural Hungary

Father

The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist

The Moon and the Stars

1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension fa

An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success

Grace is excited for the summer so she can start a business with her friends, but things take an une

Dark Sun

A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explo

Lovefilm

A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers.

Il tunnel della libertà

Producer Carlo Degli Esposti envisioned a trilogy on Liberty, focused on three key moments in the se

Budapest Tales

"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Il

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World

Trotta

Returning from his imprisonment in Russia during the First World War, Franz Ferdinand Trotta, a youn

Variations

Variations on relationships in a New Year Day atmosphere set in a huge and rundown 1980s style hotel

Az elmenetel

Age of Illusions

Jancsi is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre,

Relay Race

This film is a documentaristic dispute about the possibilities of young people to assert themselves,

Film...

Miklós Mészöly's short novel Film aims to show the last few hours of an elderly couple's life. The l

141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence

This lavishly spectacular film focuses on the character of Lőrinc Parcen Nagy from the 1200-page Tib

The Confrontation

In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to

Budapeste

José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is re

A Happy New Year!

Three thirtysomething chemical scientists, Laci, Gyuri and Kati celebrate the success of their devel

Red Psalm

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face ha

Elmondták-e...?

Aglaya

This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the

Impostors

This grotesque historical film is a caricature of the narrow-minded and careerist oligarchs of the 2

Hungarian Dracula

Jupiter's Moon

A young refugee, Aryan, is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border. While tending

Awakening

1952, Budapest. Kati is thirteen years old when her mother dies. Her father works as a founder at th

Citizen X

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 p

Colonel Redl

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of A

Stalin

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of An

A kisfiú meg az oroszlánok

In Ervin Lázár's story, which combines elements of fairy tale and reality, Peti moves the old lion,

Csinszka

In 1894, in Csuča, tragedy-stricken, from a blood-relative marriage, Boncza Berta is born. At the ag

Happy Birthday

What can you expect from a 30-year-old man? Have a good job, car, house, wife, kids. And how is Andr

25 Fireman's Street

On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restless

Season of Monsters

Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a tel

Happy Birthday, Marilyn!

A mediocre countryside actress is invited to a Budapest casting call. She hopes she might become the

Jesus Christ's Horoscope

A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homel

Final Report

A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his hom

Hármasban

Veronika and Tibor are soon to be retired doctors. For Tibor's birthday his wife gives him an unusal

Winter Journey

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his

Reflections

One day Novák Erzsébet kindergarten-teacher destroys her papers, cuts her hair and closes her mouth

The Book of Esther

During World War II Eszter has to choose: she either follows her husband abroad, who is chased by th

Kimaradt körök

As tensions grow between teenager Peti and his mother, the hope of a peaceful family celebration fad

Europa Centrale

A metaphysical kammerspiel about political fight, betrayal, madness, focusing on a exiled communist

Deadlock

The film takes place in the outskirts at the end of the fifties. Gabi and Vince meet at the factory

Pikemen