Music Box

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Slap-Jack

The story happens in 1989 in the suburbs of Budapest, where the neighbor maintains an underground wo

The Boys of Paul Street

In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. The hostilities escalate yet n

Scorpio Eats Gemini for Breakfast

This is a story of a man who wants to grasp and hold his beloved one by him and a woman who insists

Sweet Anna

The young maid, Anna starts to work for the noble Vizy family. Mrs Vizy is proud of the hard-working

Házasságból elégséges

Blondie and Árpi love each other very much. She is a hairdresser, he is a confectioner. Blondie's pa

Kéktiszta szerelem

Psycho 60

A frame-for-frame remake of the famous Shower Scene of Hitchcock's Psycho with 60 actresses for its

Peer Gynt

Adapted for Hungarian TV. Dreamy Peer Gynt lives in a small Norwegian village high up in the mountai

Electra, My Love

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hat

A nagymama

Májusi körhinta

Rothschild's Violin

1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Ro

Telitalálat

The main character, Béla Hackspacher, is a forklift driver. He lives in a small rented flat with his

A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda

Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to B

Adventure

In 1940 Budapest, a successful doctor leads a perfect life, unaware that his wife and his adopted so

Silence and Cry

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner o

On Tour

This Hungarian comedy depicts the exploits of 8 members of a travelling troupe of actors and musicia

Daniel Takes a Train

In December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet a

Whooping Cough

The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Bu

St. Peter's Umbrella

A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belo

Trotta

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

Be Good All Your Life

A moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school

Nobel

This is the story of writer Alberto's long journey to Stockholm, where the Nobel Prize awaits him, i

Paths of Light

Two stories running in parallel: In one, a model is surrounded by men wanting to use and abuse her t

La Vallée delle ombre

Matteo, a boy from the city, goes to visit his grandfather in a secluded mountain village, where pre

Good Evening, Love

The movie version of Endre Fejes' short story is based on a case that happened in the early 1960s. A

Dead Landscape

This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the c

Ants' Nest

The head of the nunnery is dying, and the members are divided in two groups as the election of the n

Suburban Legend

The film, depicting life in the tenement houses of Angyalföld in the thirties joins the neorealist c

The Lost Paradise

Sebők Zoltán, the brain surgeon, performed a secret abortion on his lover and the woman died. The ma

Diary for My Father and My Mother

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1

Temperate Zone

Kalán Imre, the district doctor lives in a small village surrounded by mountains. One day he is visi

I Dream about Colours

The director has intertwined an old amateur film, shot about the Kosztolányi-family, with the adapta

Eszter's Inheritance

The aging Eszter clarify outstanding relationship.

Eternal Light Inn

The scene of the story taking place in the 18th century is an inn, which is advertised by its owners

N.N. the Angel of Death

The two main characters of this ironic account of the general condition of intellectuals are the cha

A House of Cards

Barta has been investigating for a year in the murder case of a professor of medicine. Keller, the v

Skylark

Based on a novel by Dezso Kosztolani, this Hungarian drama is set at the turn of the 20th century. A

A lőcsei fehér asszony

Sword and Dice

During the freedom fight led by Rákóczi, Schwartzenau carries the wages of the Emperor's soldiers to

Indian Winter

Tamás is trying to escape the meaninglessness of everyday small town life. He becomes an Indian and

Swing

Three women from three generations are forced together, mentored by an old diva and a transvestite,

Dialogue

The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, jus

Deadlock

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

Binding Sentiments

Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as

Those Who Wear Glasses

The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now.

A Journey Around My Skull

The film is a story of a double journey. The main character of the first journey is the author himse

A Houseful of Bliss

A comedy about the dwellers of a newly handed-over building. The sullen doctor Birkás is concerned t

Walking to Heaven

If there has ever been pure and undestroyable love, this is it. That is how Imre and Vera feel. The

Klapka-Legion

1866. The Habsburg monarchy fight a war against the Italians and the Prussians. General Klapka, who

Így, ahogy vagytok

Small-town politics (corruption etc.) in Hungary. In a small eastern Hungarian town, Mayor Gábor Ben

Irodalom

Merry-Go-Round

In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl

Love

Luca, who regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law, hides from her the fact that János, his son,

Long Twilight

A tale about an independent-minded university professor who leaves her family to travel across the c

My First Two Hundred Years

Divided into two different halves separated by mood and subject matter, this is an uneven drama abou

Nemzeti dokumentumfilm

The 'National Documentary' captures the last months of the National Theater led by Róbert Alföldi. T

Noah's Ark

In Budapest’s Sixth District stands the “Noah’s Ark”, a “dirty-beautiful” tenement housing thirteen

Women's Hands

A man becomes acquainted with the mystery of female hands during a trip.

No Love, Please

Nothing is as dangerous to a really good group of friends as a woman and love. At least according to

A Guest of life

'A Guest of life' is inspired by the journey of Alexander Csoma de Koros. The eccentric 19th century

Love, Emilia

Emilia Odor is a young, seventeen year old girl. She end up in a rural girl institute, which has str

A Mad Night

The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store.

Sleepless Years

The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an

Iron Flower

During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own fina

Two Confessions

This easy-to-take Hungarian drama is also known as Two Wishes. The prinicipal characters are a pair

Cat's Play

Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their li

Aurora Borealis: Northern Light

The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of t

Vigilantes

A group of seven friends of different ages and interests meet regularly at Eva's. They have coffee,

Mocorgó

Mocorgó, the well-meaning worker boy, is a tough guy. In his 40s he is still a mechanic's apprentice

Az apostol

"Who are you, wonderful creature, Who are you, man? The garment of your soul A bright robe woven

There Was Once a Family

This film describes the narrator's childhood, the years before and after the Hungarian Soviet Republ

The Bachelor

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

Poor Johnny and Arnika

The poor but carefree vagabond Johnny meets the princess Árnika and they fall in love. An evil witch

Sunshine

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Just Drop Dead!

Drop dead please! Following the sudden death of a mysterious engine driver in his sixties, the Wife,

Fragment

In the closed world of a Catholic monastery shortly after World War II the post-war insecurity exace

Prés

In a castle, the General and Bálint gathered boys for a strange training. They want to select the mo

Sons of Fire

This poetic film presents the ballad of the boys who turned into stags, by the associative means of

Entanglement

This sour and melancholic film recalls a few days of a forty-year-old woman in a crisis. Teréz is al

The Land of Promise

At the beginning of the 50s, Jani, the young pitman, goes to work to a new mine. To his disappointme

Mrs. Dery Where Are You?

Dery is a grande dame actress of the Sarah Bernhardt school of big-gesture theater. Her beauty and p

Just For Kicks

The life of Tamás, antiquities dealer, runs in a normal, everyday way, he is stealing, swindling, ch

No

The turnings of this satirical story are accentuated by the comments of the Director and the Author.

Autumn Star

The scene is a small town in the Hungarian Plain, the time is Summer 1945. The diggers who have been

Jaguar

The pseudo crime story honours the bohemian world at the beginning of the century.

Our Kid

Kölyök, this lovely, ham-handed young woman, has caused many a trouble already in the Dunaújváros Ir

Othello in the Province

An ambitious theatre director arrives in Gyulaháza from the capital. The aim of the young Debrődy is

Zizi

Based on Shirley Jackson's eerie short story The Summer People.

And Then The Guy...

In this caricature-like film an old film director offers his memories of his career to his former st

Vendéglátás

The hero of the film, János Kiss, a Kossuth Prize-winning cylindersmith, is about to be visited by a

The Book of Esther

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

Végül

The Outpost

Gizella Weisz is an middle-aged office worker, who gets a promotion one day. Her boss told her that

Apa győz

Három csillag

The film consists of 3 novellas. 1. On the eve of the Soviet advance into Hungary, workers at a mili

A rejtőzködő

Forbidden Relations

Based on a true story, a love affair develops between a half brother and half-sister. When pregnancy

Four Girls in a Courtyard

Four young primary school teachers live together in a country cottage of a remote village and in a c

Wedding Guests

Törékeny boldogság

Two Stories from the Recent Past

Károly Makk strings together two novellas by Tibor Déry. A téglafal mögött is set in the early 1950s

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