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- DirectorBéla GaálStarsZita PerczelElla GombaszögiKlári TolnayA 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.
- DirectorImre MihályfiStarsFerenc KállaiKlári TolnayLajos ÖzeA successful writer approaching his fiftieth birthday is forced to examine his conscience at a rural writer-readers' meeting.
- DirectorGyörgy SzomjasStarsDjoko RosicMari KissJános DerzsiAfter the 1848/49 War of Independence in the Transdanubian region. János Hegyesi, a late veteran of the War of Independence, is given the task by the chief bailiff Mérei to round up the gangs of outlaws who are rioting in Somogy County.
- DirectorIstván GaálStarsZoltán LatinovitsJános KoltaiÉva RuttkaiTwo old friends - a famous sculptor and a local schoolteacher - meet at the baptism of a new family member. Courtesy gradually makes way for a full-scale confrontation.
- DirectorGyörgy Révész
- DirectorGyörgy RévészStarsZoltán LatinovitsÉva RuttkaiMari TörőcsikBased on the autobiographical novel by Frigyes Karinthy in which the author shares his experiences on finding out having a brain tumor and undergoing brain surgery in the 1930s.
- DirectorGyörgy RévészStarsIván DarvasÉva RuttkaiIlona Bencze
- DirectorGyörgy RévészStarsLevente BaltayKoós JánosLajos SárköziButton football plays such an important role in the lives of five friends that they don't even realize the horrors of the war around them.
- DirectorJános RózsaStarsDorottya UdvarosRóbert KoltaiSándor GáspárThe rather surrealistic story of a middle-class family who seem to communicate with each other mainly by chalking messages on the kitchen blackboard, while the young son observes every action through a series of strategically placed periscopes.
- DirectorFerenc AndrásStarsGyörgy CserhalmiKároly EperjesMari KissThings fall apart in Makai's life when his old friend Réb comes back from America with opportunistic intentions.
- DirectorZsolt BaloghStarsErika MarozsánHelga KoltiBéla Piri
- DirectorDagmar KnöpfelStarsCarl AchleitnerTamás JordánÉva Igó
- DirectorAndrás KernRóbert KoltaiStarsAndrás KernRóbert KoltaiSándor GáspárA Minister and the Secretary of the Opposition party go to a 5 star hotel to conduct a secret affair. Their plans are ruined when they discover a corpse lodged in the window of their room.
- DirectorSándor TóbiásStarsCsaba TóthRóbert KoltaiOrsolya Tóth
- DirectorJúlia SáraStarsZsolt TrillAndrás KernIstván Gyuricza
- DirectorGergely FonyóStarsErik JárjaVirág HajduBendegúz FazakasTwo 10-year-old boys, who live in the same building, with a story that's set in 1982 and the present day.
- DirectorNimród AntalStarsSándor BadárJános DerzsiIstván HomonaiA shadowy group of men, make a living through insurance fraud, crashing automobiles to order.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsTeresa Ann SavoyLászló GálffiJózsef MadarasA historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.
- DirectorFerenc KósaStarsTibor MolnárGyöngyi BürösJános KoltaiCharts 3 decades of a country family, in which a peasant is able after WWII to amass land but runs into trouble during collectivization, when he will make enemies he hopes he can later turn against.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsJacques CharrierMarina VladyEwa SwannThe preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.
- DirectorGyula MaárStarsMari TörőcsikFerenc KállaiMária SulyokAn aging legend of the stage finds her position threatened by the emerging Stanislavski school of actors.
- DirectorFerenc TéglássyStarsJolanta GrusznicÁgnes T. KatonaAndrás Kozák1951, Budapest. The evacuees are crammed into trucks loaded with all their belongings. They head for Hortobágy, where the State Protection Authority has designated a forced settlement for them. Imre Vendel, a former military officer, is moving in one of the trucks with his pregnant wife and two young sons.
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsBéla AbodyIlona AgárdyJose Armazendia
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsJános BródyKároly FrenreiszCharlie HorváthA tableau of the most famous Hungarian beat bands whose fans speak about what music means to them, while some aging people explain why they think this savage type of music should be banned, censored, or at least played without drums.
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsJózsef MadarasFerenc BácsFerenc FábiánA new supervisor arrives at a horse ranch, but as he is not at all well-liked, he meets quite an amount of resistance and cannot put across his will.
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsMari KissGyörgy CserhalmiGábor ReviczkyQuest for love by divorced intellectual girl and her mother. The ending is in fact a precursor of polyamory.
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsJuli BástiFerenc BácsFerenc KállaiThe film tells the story of Mihály Károlyi's wife, Katinka Andrássy, who, as a member of one of the country's most prestigious aristocratic families, agreed to marry the left-wing politician and land-distributing Károlyi. The story of an aristocratic girl's development from her affirmation of the monarchy, through the democratic movements of the early years of the century and the Soviet Republic, to the anti-fascist movements between the two world wars and her commitment to the common struggle with the communists.
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsSándor SzakácsiJuli BástiÁgi Szirtes
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsAndré DussollierEdit FrajtLászló SzabóDuring WWII French POWs catched by Germans fleing to Hungary -an Allied to Germany-. where civilians welcome them very helpful. The tragig love story beginnig in febr.1943 . A small group escape from Yugoslavia to Hungary. Among them are two civil-clothed French soldier: Jacques and Laszlo
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsHelen MirrenMartina GedeckKároly EperjesAn author forms a strange bond with her eccentric maid that will have a lasting effect on both women.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsHarvey KeitelStellan SkarsgårdMoritz BleibtreuAfter the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsJohanna ter SteegeEnikö BörcsökPéter AndoraiThe story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerErland JosephsonIldikó BánságiA 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 could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerHans Christian BlechArmin Mueller-StahlSet during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsÁgi MészárosMaja KomorowskaFranciszek PieczkaA yellow tram lies overturned on the riverbank at the end of the war. Tattered, ragged, homeless men huddle together in a group, load it on rails trying to take it to the remise. Their journey is not easy, they have many difficulties to overcome. Each one has its own drama, yet they are united by a common will to reach their goal.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsLucyna WinnickaMargit MakayKároly KovácsHungary's postwar history told through the dreams, nightmares, and memories of the inhabitants of an old house on the eve of its destruction.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsAndrás BálintMiklós GáborDániel ErdélyA 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.
- DirectorImre FehérStarsIstván BujtorÉva PapAnikó SáfárLint and his lover are sailing and making fun absent-mindedly at Lake Balaton when the anchor suddenly gets stuck in a bomb in the mud. Lint gets hurt while fussing about under the water. A strong storm breaks out when they reach the shore. In the local restaurant the man recalls his memories of war.
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsMiklós GáborZoltán LatinovitsPhilippe MarchAn engineer gets all the blame for reporting a mistake because his bosses are worried about the possible consequences.
- DirectorTamás FejérStarsLászló HelyeyGábor KonczÁrpád GyengeKing Matthias reaches Gyevi in disguise, where he faces the overbearing local justice.
- DirectorSándor MihályfyStarsIldikó BánságiRóbert KoltaiNóra TáboriLajcsi's parents are divorced, and his mother going to marry a man, whom Lajcsi doesn't like. The boy therefore kidnaps himself with his friends and demand that the boy's father return home from abroad immediately.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsGlenn CloseNiels ArestrupKiri Te KanawaA deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and United Europe. A Hungarian conductor (Arestrup) attempts to mount a bold new production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" while navigating the snares and pitfalls of artistic egos, rampant nationalism, internal company and union politics, and precarious funding.
- DirectorFélix MáriássyStarsÉva RuttkaiTibor BitskeyElma BullaMarci has long had a crush on Julika, who lives in the same house as him, but before their love could blossom, he is drafted into the army. Juli is sent to work in a factory, where she falls in with the wrong crowd, often partying until dawn consuming "piccolo lights". After a year, Marci returns home and gets deeply disappointed in her and breaks up with her. But Juli loves him too and hopes that he will give her the security she needs to return to her old self.
- DirectorMárk NovákStarsIlona BéresIstván SztankayMargit DajkaA story about a young teacher who has great ambitions to work in a village called Szentjános. And since she doesn't just want changes in the school, she will soon come face to face with the locals.
- DirectorPál ZolnayStarsManyi KissIstván IglódiJános KoltaiA young historian visits his stepmother in the small village where he grew up. After being away in the city for eleven years he is saddened and grows upset seeing her hardships.
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsGyörgy PálosÉva PapÁdám SzirtesLászló Bene, an engineer, moves from the capital to the countryside to escape his broken marriage and work problems. Here, for the first time, he tries to live as an outsider, distancing himself from local problems. But he can only remain passive for a short time. The obsession of Director Kecskés, who is working on a solution to a serious water shortage, captivates him, and soon they are working together to find the best solution, defying the bureaucracy. A friendship soon develops between the two fanatics, who will do anything and sacrifice everything for a good cause, and Bene finally finds his lost love, in the form of Eti, a young pretty lady.
- DirectorJózsef KisStarsMarianna MoórIstván SztankayGyula Bodrogi
- DirectorJózsef KisStarsMargit DajkaLajos Cs. NémethIstván SztankayThe old woman has three sons. The eldest, Feco is a working boy, the youngest, Cinege is a little hot-headed, but clever and talented. But the middle one is a big jerk.
- DirectorFélix MáriássyStarsÉva RuttkaiGéza TordyÉva Vass
- DirectorLászló NádasyStarsÁdám SzirtesJános GörbeElma BullaJános Gere is forced to be a beagle of the police who want to find an illegal communist print house.
- DirectorLászló RanódyStarsMargit BaraFerenc BessenyeiJózsef BihariA boy from a peasant family returns grown up to his village as a teacher and tries to use his new role to bridge the gap (abyss of the title) between rich and poor, only to blamed for a death that happens.
- DirectorFélix MáriássyStarsLászló UngváryKlári TolnayGábor RajnayIstván Kopjáss is elected chief prosecutor in the town of Zsarátnok. The talented young man is full of ideas, big plans and ideas on how to clean the city of corruption. But the town's nobility - and even his own relatives - only want to hustle their own grub in his shadow.
- DirectorFrigyes BánStarsImre ApáthiMargit ThurzóTivadar UrayThe life of a Hungarian physician through his struggles against the leading pragmatic, conservative quacks' party while he becomes the first pioneer of the antiseptic procedures, saving many women's life with his groundbreaking method.
- DirectorKálmán NádasdyLászló RanódyStarsImre SoósErzsi PártosTeri HorváthA young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose.
- DirectorIstván SzötsStarsAlice SzellayJános GörbePéterke FerencyA woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in.
- DirectorÁkos RáthonyiStarsClara TabodyPál JávorGerö Mály
- DirectorLászló KalmárStarsPál JávorErzsi SimorMargit LukácsA Budapest gypsy musician has to sell his beloved family violin and later searches for it in Russia, where he reconnects with his first girlfriend, now a member of high society.
- DirectorÁkos RáthonyiStarsKlári TolnayPál JávorGerö Mály
- DirectorEmil MartonffiStarsGyula CsortosLili BerkyAlice Nagy
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsKlári TolnayFerenc KissLászló SzilassyGábor Bozsó is a professional burglar, but his daughter Éva, who knows nothing about it, is raised in an upscale institution. When she falls in love with one of her father's victims, things take a big change.
- DirectorPál FejösRené StiStarsAnnabellaGustav FröhlichMarcel VibertFrench version of the Austrian film Sonnenstrahl: a young woman full of despair comforts a lonely unemployed man who was going to drown himself.Together they find ways to make money and they become a couple.
- DirectorViktor GertlerStarsKálmán KoletárÉva RuttkaiGyula GózonBerci wins a bicycle race at the school, beating the older boys. Berci lives with his grandfather, who is a kind of "factory peregrine" and his only passion is drinking. Berci finds it difficult to fit into his new school community. He only gets on with Kati Daru, who also longs to leave the town.
- DirectorGyörgy RévészStarsIván DarvasIlona BéresOszkár Ascher
- DirectorGyörgy RévészStarsAndor AjtayIrén PsotaIstván BujtorWhile trying to find a cancer cure during WWII, an SS doctor discovered a terrible poison. 20 years after the war, the old Nazi gets out of prison, and the hunt for him and his discovery begins.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsLili MurátiPál JávorElla GombaszögiThe young, immature Zsuzsa Várkonyi becomes the president of the Várkonyi Textile Factory. When the managing director proposes to her she tells him she is in love with a young engineer who she doesn't really know anything about.
- DirectorEmil MartonffiStarsLili MurátiZoltán SzakátsFerenc Kiss
- DirectorJános VaszaryStarsLili MurátiAntal PágerLászló PerényiA busy surgeon forgets his wife Mária's birthday. He does not even attend the dinner in her honor. Mária is offended and, in her desperation, accepts the courting of a pianist. But when he suddenly proposes, she is forced to rethink her relationship with her husband.
- DirectorLászló SiposStarsLili MurátiPiroska VaszaryMargit Zsilley
- DirectorViktor BánkyStarsLili MurátiKatalin IlosvayMargit LánczyMária, a beautiful lady living a carefree, happy life, is on the brink of tragedy and cannot find a way out. At the request of her seamstress, in her name and role, she visits a wounded soldier with whom the seamstress has corresponded anonymously, and who is believed to have only hours to live.
- DirectorFrigyes BánStarsLili MurátiAndor AjtayLászló PerényiA young woman is made to forget her past, the men, and that she was 'The Girl of the Night'.
- DirectorDezsõ Ákos HamzaStarsLili MurátiMiklós HajmássyMargit LadomerszkyDr. Erzsebet Szikszay, lawyer, finds herself in an impossible situation. For the sake of her client, she is forced to play the role of a complete stranger's wife, and to continue the performance in the man's apartment... The situation is only complicated when it turns out that the man is the opposing lawyer.
- DirectorJános VaszaryStarsTivadar BilicsiLili MurátiAntal Páger
- DirectorÁkos RáthonyiStarsGyula CsortosKlári TolnayMária Mezei
- DirectorTibor HegedüsStarsGizi BajorKálmán ZátonySándor Góth
- DirectorBéla GaálStarsZita PerczelAnni DobosArtúr Somlay
- DirectorLuis MandokiStarsKevin CostnerRobin WrightPaul NewmanA woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.
- DirectorJános HerskóStarsMari TörőcsikIstván AvarZoltán VárkonyiA shop girl falls in love with a well-meaning but homeless man, but eventually her boss blackmails her into a relationship.
- DirectorViktor GertlerStarsAndrás CsorbaIlona BéresErnö SzabóMichael Tímar, captain of the St. Barbara, marries the daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run. While skilfully managing his wife fortune, Tímar is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization and the ideal of freedom.
- DirectorIstván GaálStarsBenedek TóthVirág DõryGábor KonczMarci comes to Budapest from the countryside to study and tries desperately to retain his integrity amid fierce political battles.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsAndrás KozákSergey NikonenkoBéla BarsiIn 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 barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director's consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsKrystyna MikolajewskaMikhail KozakovTatyana KonyukhovaDuring the Russian Civil War, the Red Army - aided by Hungarian Communists - and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsMari TörőcsikJózsef MadarasZoltán LatinovitsMiklós 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 Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women. Due to the generosity of these women and a former childhood pal, who is now a commandant of the local Royal Gendarme outfit, István is safely hidden from the ever-prying eyes of the secret policemen, who relentlessly roam the countryside searching for ex-Red Army men and their sympathisers. However, upon discovering that the women are secretly poisoning the mother-in-law and the husband, the legal owners of the farm, István must make the most difficult decision of his life. As a personal war is waging within his own consciousness over morality and self-preservation, István must decide whether to remain silent about the women's devious secret and preserve his own life, or to report their heinous crime to the Royal Gendarme, which would also mean certain death for him.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsAndrea DrahotaGyöngyi BürösErzsi CserhalmiSet 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.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsMari TörőcsikGyörgy CserhalmiJózsef MadarasIt has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsKatalin BerekGyöngyvér VighPéter FriedA lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.
- DirectorJenö CsepreghyStarsNóra AporJózsef BarnaTivadar Bilicsi
- DirectorJenö CsepreghyStarsPál JávorBella BordyLászló Szilassy
- DirectorJenö CsepreghyStarsTivadar UrayZita SzeleczkyLászló SzilassyHenriette is in a forced marriage with Baron Hátszegi, and her heart's choice is a poor lawyer, Szilárd Vámhidy. Her hard life is further complicated by a mysterious black masked bandit, Fatia Negra, who is rumored by superstitious peasants to be the devil himself.