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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
During World War II, PFC Molnár decides his military service is over, and with a serious amount of money hidden in hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Hungary | Hungarian, Japanese
Director
Ka¡roly Ujj Mesza¡ros
Writer
Ba¡lint Hegedas, Ka¡roly Ujj Mesza¡ros
Cast
Manika 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?
Movie | Animation, Adventure | Hungary | Hungarian
Director
Marcell Jankovics
Writer
La¡szla Gyaargy, Marcell Jankovics
Cast
Gyaargy Cserhalmi, Vera Pap, Gyula Szaba
Plot
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.
Ga¡bor Oliver Buss, Hilda Ha¡rsing, Iva¡n Kapita¡ny
Cast
Peter Rudolf, Ga¡bor Reviczky, Imre Csuja
Plot
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 ...
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...
'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.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Hungary, Germany | Hungarian, German
Director
Lajos Koltai
Writer
Imre Kertesz
Cast
Marcell Nagy, Bela Dara, Ba¡lint Pentek
Plot
14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
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.
Movie | Animation, Adventure | Hungary, Canada | Hungarian
Director
Attila Dargay
Writer
Attila Dargay, Mar Jakai, Jazsef Nepp
Cast
Andra¡s Kern, Judit Poga¡ny, Hilda Gobbi
Plot
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
Movie | Action, Biography | Hungary | Hungarian, Romanian
Director
Nimrad Antal
Writer
Nimrad Antal
Cast
Bence Szalay, Zolta¡n Schneider, Viktor Klem
Plot
A rootless young man in Ceausescu's Romania crosses the Hungarian border looking for a better future. With his back against the wall in the post-socialist turmoil, he becomes the most successful bank robber in Hungarian history.
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.
Movie | Documentary, Music | Hungary, Canada | Hungarian, English
Director
Ja¡nos 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.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | Hungary, Germany | Hungarian
Director
Ildika Enyedi
Writer
Ildika 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.
Ferenc Zenthe, La¡szla Ungva¡ry, Marianne Krencsey
Plot
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.
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.
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...
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...
Rolla, the daughter of Count Korláthy sneaks out to the village funfair dressed as a maid. There she meets a young engineer, Baracs, and they fell in love almost instantly.
Movie | Crime, Mystery | Hungary | Hungarian, Czech
Director
Gyaargy Pa¡lfi
Writer
Gyaargy Pa¡lfi
Cast
Ferenc Bandi, Jazsefne Ra¡cz, Jazsef Farkas
Plot
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...
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...
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.
Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting.
Movie | Drama, History | Hungary, Germany | Hungarian, German
Director
Istva¡n Szaba
Writer
Peter Dobai, Erik Jan Hanussen, Paul Hengge
Cast
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildika Ba¡nsa¡gi
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...
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.
Movie | Drama, History | Hungary | Hungarian, Russian
Director
Krisztina Goda
Writer
Joe Eszterhas, Eva Ga¡rdos, Geza Beremenyi
Cast
Kata Doba, Iva¡n Fenyaa, Sa¡ndor Csa¡nyi
Plot
At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, the Hungarian water polo team faces off against the Russians in what will become known as one of the bloodiest matches in the sport's history.
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...
Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Hungary | Hungarian, English
Director
Ga¡bor Herendi
Writer
Ga¡bor Herendi, Gyula Ma¡rton
Cast
Tibor Szervet, Csaba Pindroch, Gyaazaa Szaba
Plot
Tamás is a young, Budapest-based director of video clips and commercials who dreams of directing his first feature film with the title 'The Guilty City'. He has already written the script but does not have the means of financing h...
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.
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...
Gyula Kabes and Imre Raday are working at the same factory when Kabes' resignation is allegedly brought about by Raday. The latter goes to the Kabes' home to offer apologies and sees,and falls in love with, Kabes' pretty daughter,...
Movie | Crime, Drama | Hungary, Germany | Hungarian, English
Director
Bela Tarr, agnes Hranitzky
Writer
Georges Simenon, Bela Tarr, La¡szla Krasznahorkai
Cast
Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, Erika Bak
Plot
After witnessing a crime during his night shift as railway switchman near the docks, a man finds a briefcase full of money. While he and his family step up their living standards, others start looking for the disappeared case.
Movie | Drama | France, Hungary | Hungarian, French
Director
Pa¡l Fejaas
Writer
Pa¡l Fejaas, Ilona Falaap
Cast
Annabella, Ilona Dajbuka¡t, Erzsi Ba¡rsony
Plot
It tells the story of Mari, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. Mari is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she work...
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.
Sandor Monori thinks that he can buy everything with his gold. The story takes place after the World War II at the famous Teleki ter where he is the King of the market.
Movie | Adventure, Drama | Hungary | Hungarian, English
Director
Ga¡bor Herendi
Writer
Ba¡lint Hegedas, Ga¡bor Herendi
Cast
Ervin Nagy, Andrea Petrik, Tibor Ga¡spa¡r
Plot
Ernõ Blaskovich lost everything after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Kincsem, a magnificent horse gives a purpose of his meaningless, self-destructing life. He gets a chance to gain everything back: revenge, love and fame.
Movie | Comedy, Action | Hungary | Hungarian, Latin
Director
Attila arpa
Writer
Peter Husza¡r, Bence Trunka
Cast
Lajos Kova¡cs, Sa¡ndor Oszter, La¡szla Gaaraag
Plot
The crew of Tibi Balogh sets out on a journey across Hungary to get the ancient Gold Owl statue, as well as the Milk Man. The treasure is worth millions, who gets there first?
One of the first Hungarian films confronting the communist totalitarianism of the 1940s and 1950s. A young journalist resolves to find out the reasons for a murder of an agricultural farm employee, killed eight years before.
During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall i...
Movie | Comedy, Crime | Hungary, Sweden | Hungarian, English
Director
Attila Gigor
Writer
Attila Gigor
Cast
Zsolt Anger, Andra¡s Ma¡rton Bala, Peter Blaska
Plot
Badly needing money for the treatment of his ill mother, pathologist Tibor Malkáv accepts the proposition of a stranger to murder someone he doesn't know a thing about.
Movie | Drama, Musical | Hungary | Hungarian, English
Director
Miklas Jancsa
Writer
Gyula Herna¡di
Cast
Andrea Drahota, Gyaangyi Baraas, Erzsi Cserhalmi
Plot
Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
Mari Taarocsik, Jazsef Madaras, Zolta¡n Latinovits
Plot
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 ...
In the sequel to the surprise hit Ãœvegtigris (2001), we witness the 6 losers again as they run amok around the roadside buffet, which again fails to make their dreams come true, but which serves as the basis and end station of num...
A farcical retelling of Snow White. Disillusioned Snow White isn't all that pretty or cute, her friends dwarfs aren't all that hospitable, her evil stepmother is an alcoholic and prince charming likes the ladies too much.
