Magasmentés

Felix, a high rescue specialist, brings down suiciders from bridges in a city in crisis. His son, wh

Damnation

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy.

Kontroll

A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboa

Narcissus and Psyche

Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and dir

So Much for Justice!

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), t

A Fond Farewell to the Prince

1629, Transylvania: Reigning prince Bethlen Gábor has Don Diego, the Spanish chronicle knight be bro

Anyegin

Anyegin arrives home in an abandoned castle for his uncle's funeral. He is a misanthropic, tired, cy

Witness Again

The Witness (Hungarian: A tanú, also known as Without A Trace), is a 1969 Hungarian satire film, dir

Electra, My Love

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

The Real Santa

On 6 December, Misu is hired as a Santa Claus advertiser for a department store. On that same winter

As we always planned

A story about a boy and a girl in a mental hospital.

Red Psalm

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

The Vulture

Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are u

A pokol élővilága

80 Hussars

The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly

Just Like America

Frigyes, shortly after immigrating to New York City from Hungary, leaves his family for the pleasure

An Old-Fashioned Story

In the second half of the 1800s, the daughter of a Debrecen family marries a landowner, Kálmán Jablo

The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet

György Szomjas’s first feature—made after a decade of short documentaries—is a bold attempt at a gou

Macbeth

In this powerful film, the renowned William Shakespeare play is stripped down to the bare essentials

A Very Moral Night

A brothel in a small Hungarian town becomes the home of a medical student after his favorite working

Land of Warm Waters

The Buharovs, as the harbingers of a supra-human world, blend their instinctive cosmos with a kind o

Miklós Akli

The hero of the story that takes place at the beginning of the nineteenth century and recalls real h

Paths of Light

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

The Bridgeman

This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the lif

American Torso

In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map th

The Unburied Man

One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regim

The Agitators

After the World War I, enthusiastic young people found the intellectual group of Hungarian Communist

Bereményi kalapja

Végtelenben kettő

Unruly Heyducks

This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai I

An Afternoon Affair

Vera is an engineer and a young divorcée. She is pretty, lonely, and has a boyfriend, Tamás, whom sh

Hungarian Requiem

1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of th

Stalin's Bride

At a dusty crossroads in the Soviet Union villagers surrender their possessions - a horse, a samovar

Smouldering Cigarette

1942. Owing to a stolen mink coat, Süti, the young poet and journalist, gets acquainted with Katalin

So Much for Justice!

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), t

Jesus Christ's Horoscope

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

Allegro Barbaro

Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the fore

Eszter's Inheritance

The aging Eszter clarify outstanding relationship.

Mephisto

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performan

Apricot Island

A captivating story of a woman tested by a life full of passion, the cruelty of fate and unrestraine

Son of the White Mare

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three

An Island Of Their Own

Four good friends remain in touch after graduating from high school. Life has taken them down very d

Johnny Corncob

A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd thro

The Disciples

The heroes of this story, based on real events at the end of the 1930s and during World War II, face

A Thorn under the Fingernail

From the intrigues and slander of the branch the painter Hódosi moves out to a hamlet at Hortobágy.

Roofs At Dawn

1956. Bébé is a painter, but he has not worked for years. The news arriving form Paris about the dea

Last Seen Wearing a Blue Skirt...

The sixteen year old Bea is on her way home from her sports class when a foreign long- vehicle stops

Zelary

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they a

Identification

While awaiting his release from the Soviet detention camp he is being held in, a half-starved refuge

Heavenly Hosts

When hunting, Zrínyi Miklós finds an Angel with a broken wing. He takes him for a heavenly message a

Birdies

The heroines of this lyric comedy full of burlesque elements are two girls from a village who get to

The Phantom on Horseback

A ghost is haunting Lubló: Kaszparek Mihály, trader of wines, does not refrain from haunting his nat

Dead or Alive

1852. Gáspár Noszlopy escapes from prison in order to capture the emperor, who is to visit Hungary,

Hanussen

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in

Dés-Bereményi: Férfi és Nő

"What can happen between a man and a woman? Everything. Anything. Anything from passion to indiffere

The Last Summer

Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of t

Season of Monsters

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

Dead Water

A beautifully painted animation about a deserted holiday resort, an old train, a worn-out old railwa

Jupiter's Moon

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

Hunting for Englishmen

1839. The discontented noblemen assemble at the country estate of count Gábor Falussy, on the pretex

The Great Generation

Réb went to the United States about 20 years ago and in the eighties he returns to Budapest with his

Another Love

A story of a young student of medicine, who arrives in a small mountain village after being accused

Rózsa Sándor

In the 1830s, Hungary, ruled by Vienna, experienced another sad period. The quiet loneliness of the

The Fifth Seal

In 1944 Budapest, one of a group of four friends poses a hypothetical moral question to the others,

Hótreál

Lili's brother is released from prison, and she tries to get him out of the country as quickly as po

Hótreál

Lili's brother is released from prison, and she tries to get him out of the country as quickly as po

Pillangó

Zsigmond Móricz wrote his novel Butterfly in just a few days in 1924. Móricz tells the story of a mi

Anna filmje

One summer morning, Anna tells her husband, the writer, that she is in a blessed state, but that she

K.O.

Chungi, the boxer eternal second in the domestic field. The only one ahead of him is his good friend

Hungarian Rhapsody

The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.

Dés László: Nagy utazás - Aréna koncert

Bastard

Ambrus, the canon pretender and Gerzson, the stinking rich lawyer, taking advantage of a sect and a

Flowers of Reverie

The seeming hopelessness of combatting an all-powerful government that will not tolerate political d

141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence

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

The Face

The film take place in Budapest, in the end of The World War II, telling the story of a young Commun

The Blue Danube Waltz

When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation

Dear Betrayed Friends

Andor Czettl, in his early sixties, visits the secret service archives one day to read into the repo

The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary

A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's

Just Drop Dead!

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

Neither with You

Gergő’s mother is obsessed with having a grandchild. She has a serious heart disease and has only da

The Fortress

Set in the late 80s in a quiet, rural village headed by a suspicious, conspiring group of nasty lead

Házasságtörés

Isti, a junior official in the ministry, is a happy husband and father. He works all day to support

Bitches

Enikős and Dorkas marriage is unbearable. Hysterical, cruel and humiliating scenes are enacted in fr

To See the Light

1894. The mortal remains of Lajos Kossuth are brought home from abroad, the railways are lined with

When Time Began

The film takes place at the end of 1946. Rumours are spread that the food supply will not arrive for

Last Report on Anna

Péter, a literary critic, is tasked by the secret police to persuade Social Democratic politician, A

Tenderness

A wonderful dark tale of coming of age in a country in transformation - then Czechoslovakia (now Slo

Reflections

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

The Forbidden Fruit

The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawa

Így, ahogy vagytok

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

Félálom

In András Jeles' short film, elements of the present are mixed with the world of Honoré de Balzac's

The Man Who Slept at Daylight

Detective Sebők is shot at by a fleeing criminal and then pushed off the road. Sebők breaks his leg.

Rododendron

Is is June 27, 1989. It is after the reburial of Imre Nagy, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the op

Őrült és angyal

On Paths of Dawn

Can we move on if the person we have lived a life with ceases to be with us? Kati moves out of thei

Ki lesz a bálanya

Adapted from István Csurka's play of the same name. Four men often get together in the evenings to