FR #976 | Movie | Horror, Fantasy | USA | Hungarian, Latin
Director
Tod Browning, Karl Freund
Writer
Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston
Cast
Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Plot
Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
FR #2251 | Movie | Drama | Germany, Hungary | Hungarian, English
Director
Bela Tarr
Writer
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Mihaly Vig, Peter Dobai
Cast
Mihaly Vig, Putyi Horvath, Laszlo Felugossy
Plot
On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.
FR #3096 | Movie | War, Drama | Hungary | Hungarian
Director
Zoltan Fabri
Writer
Zoltan Fabri, Ferenc Santa
Cast
Lajos Oze, Laszlo Markus, Ferenc Bencze
Plot
In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
FR #4158 | Movie | Drama | Hungary, USA | Hungarian
Director
Zoltan Fabri
Writer
Endre Bohem, Zoltan Fabri, Ferenc Molnar
Cast
Mari Torocsik, Sandor Pecsi, Laszlo Kozak
Plot
In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. The hostilities escalate yet never quite boil over into actual violence. The film poignantly portrays the struggles and resilience of youth amid the harsh reali...
FR #4695 | Movie | Comedy | Hungary, Portugal | Hungarian, Portuguese
Director
Steve Sekely
Writer
Karoly Noti, Istvan Zagon
Cast
Gyula Csortos, Gyula Kabos, MICI Haraszti
Plot
A butler changes the life of a nouveau-riche entrepreneur's life, while his daughter falls in love with the company's manager instead of a suitor chosen for her.
FR #4795 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Hungary, USA | Hungarian, Italian
Director
Nimrod Antal
Writer
Nimrod Antal, Jim Adler
Cast
Sandor Csanyi, Eszter Balla, Zoltan Mucsi
Plot
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception likable characters, a rival ticket inspection team and racing along the tracks - and a tale about love.
FR #5157 | Movie | History, Drama | Hungary, Italy | Hungarian, English
Director
Miklos Jancso
Writer
Gyula Hernadi
Cast
Janos Gorbe, Zoltan Latinovits, Tibor Molnar
Plot
In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them...
FR #5912 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Hungary, USA | Hungarian, English
Director
Zoltan Fabri
Writer
Zoltan Fabri, Istvan Orkeny
Cast
Zoltan Latinovits, Imre Sinkovits, Marta Fonay
Plot
The Tót family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comed...
In this dreamlike Hungarian folk myth, a horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.
FR #7942 | Movie | Drama | Hungary, USA | Hungarian, English
Director
Geza Von Radvanyi
Writer
Bela Balazs, Judit Fejer, Felix Mariassy
Cast
Artur Somlay, Miklos Gabor, Zsuzsa Banki
Plot
A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercati...
FR #8166 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Hungary, Italy | Hungarian, Italian
Director
Zoltan Fabri
Writer
Zoltan Fabri, Laszlo Nadasy, Imre Sarkadi
Cast
Mari Torocsik, Imre Soos, Dam Szirtes
Plot
In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields...
A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. S...
FR #8513 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Hungary, Norway | Hungarian, Japanese
Director
Karoly Ujj Meszaros
Writer
Balint Hegedus, Karoly Ujj Meszaros
Cast
Monika Balsai, Szabolcs Bede Fazekas, David Sakurai
Plot
Liza's a nurse, seeking love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?
This film tells the story of a few uneventful days in the life of six pals. Lali, a great fan of America, owns a sandwich stand on the side of the road, called The Glass Tiger. Gaben pinches cars; Fox is a petty swindler; Sanyi a ...
'Sing' is a childhood drama with a lot of music, set in 1990s Budapest, Hungary. Inspired by a true story, it follows an award winning school choir and the new girl in class who just might uncover the ugly secret behind their fame.
FR #11510 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Hungary | Hungarian
Director
Ildiko Enyedi
Writer
Ildiko Enyedi
Cast
Alexandra Borbely, Geza Morcsanyi, Reka Tenki
Plot
When slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover they share the same dreams, where they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love, they decide to make their dreams come true, but it's difficult in real life.
FR #13117 | Movie | Drama | Hungary, Russia | Hungarian, German
Director
Karoly Makk
Writer
Peter Bacso, Tibor Dery
Cast
LILI Darvas, Mari Torocsik, Ivan Darvas
Plot
The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.
A light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever enchanting story of a beautiful girl falling in love with a rich man.
A boy in Budapest loses his father in 1945, when he was the age of six. He does not remember much of the father but fantasizes that he performed various heroic feats.
FR #14356 | Movie | Documentary, Musical | Hungary, Canada | Hungarian, Hindi
Director
Janos Zsombolyai
Cast
Queen, John Deacon, Brian May
Plot
On 27th July 1986, British stadium rock band Queen broke new ground by playing for the first time in Hungary, a country which was still under a communist dictatorship behind the Iron Curtain.
FR #15172 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Hungary, Bangladesh | Hungarian, Bengali
Director
Zoltan Fabri
Writer
Zoltan Fabri, Istvan Gyenes, Ferenc Mora
Cast
Erno Szabo, Noemi Apor, Emmi Buttykay
Plot
When a Latin teacher publishes an essay on the Carthaginian General Hannibal, he is quickly hailed as a celebrity genius, but in reality has become an unwitting pawn of far-right politicians.
In the turmoilous 18th century, young poor Hungarian aristocrat Jonas helps Szaffi, a young pretty gypsy Romani girl and the illegitimate daughter of a Turkish pasha, get the treasure that's owed to her by the right of inheritance.
Hungary during World War II. Georgina, spoiled daughter of General Vitay is not delighted when her father takes her to a religious boarding school in a smalltown. She rebels against the strict rules of the school, alienating most ...
During the Rákóczi's War of Independence in South Baranya, in Vienna, Colonel Eberstein is assigned by the Council of Warriors to dispose of the Kuruc army operating in the vicinity of Siklós.
FR #17665 | Movie | Drama, War | Hungary, Japan | Hungarian, Russian
Director
Miklos Jancso
Writer
Gyula Hernadi, Imre Vadasz
Cast
Andras Kozak, Sergey Nikonenko, Bela Barsi
Plot
In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote ba...
FR #18114 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Cuba, Hungary | Hungarian
Director
Ildiko Enyedi
Writer
Ildiko Enyedi
Cast
Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovskiy, Paulus Manker
Plot
Two twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of the luxurious Orient-Express.
FR #18535 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Hungary | Hungarian
Director
Ferenc Torok
Writer
Ferenc Torok
Cast
Gabor Karalyos, Erzsi Papai, Eszter Balla
Plot
1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy c...
Young maid Anna starts to work for the noble Vizy family. Mrs Vizy is proud of the hardworking servant but doesn't treat her well. Her nephew seduces Anna with sweet words, but leaves her as soon as she gets pregnant. The humiliat...
FR #19603 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Hungary | Hungarian
Director
Zoltan Huszarik
Writer
Zoltan Huszarik, Gyula Krudy, Janos Toth
Cast
Zoltan Latinovits, Eva Ruttkai, Eva Leelossy
Plot
An old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. The little town has a doctor whose wife can not forget the old man, and the waiter who serves h...
A hot summer day six young men and two young women meet at the beach beside a deep river. After a while they go for a swim. At a point where the river is 8 meters deep, one of the boys gets the idea of diving to the bottom, and to...
Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself.
FR #21117 | Movie | Drama | Hungary | Hungarian, English
Director
Bela Tarr
Writer
Bela Tarr
Cast
Hedi Temessy, Erika Bodnar, Miklos Szekely B.
Plot
A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and sav...
When a young, ambitious market researcher finds out her boss is involved in the leaking of a scandalous Prime Minister speech, she decides to investigate the case to gain a position among the big-shots. Based on actual events.
During a heist to steal a golden statue from a museum, one of the robbers is injured and captured. A detective interrogates the thief to identify the gang and recover the statue.
Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no goo...
FR #22356 | Movie | History, Drama | Austria, Hungary | Hungarian, German
Director
Istvan Szabo
Writer
Peter Dobai, Erik Jan Hanussen, Paul Hengge
Cast
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildiko Bansagi
Plot
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that c...
FR #22907 | Movie | Drama | Hungary, Spain | Hungarian, English
Director
Andras Kovacs
Writer
Tibor Cseres, Andras Kovacs
Cast
Zoltan Latinovits, Ivan Darvas, Tibor Szilagyi
Plot
Set in 1946, this movie deals with the planning and execution of the January, 1942 Novi Sad massacre of 4,000 Yugoslavian Serbs and Jews by Hungarian army units. It was undertaken as a reprisal for a partisan ambush (in which 17 s...
FR #23544 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA | Hungarian, Hebrew
Director
Howard Deutch
Writer
Mitchell Kapner, George Gallo
Cast
Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge
Plot
Jimmy the Tulip's quiet new life is shaken up by his old pal Oz, whose wife has been kidnapped by a Hungarian mob. The Tulip and his wife Jill spring into action.
An all-woman crate factory's new fireman installs a hidden camera in the women's dressing room for the male management's pleasure, eventually boosting business.
Miklós Jancsó's Silence and Cry is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian ...
