-
The Last Assault
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1940sThe film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.
-
Diary for My Children
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1940sA semi-autobiographical story of a young woman's life in Budapest under Stalin.
-
Princess
🇭🇺 HungaryDownbeat, documentary-style examination of a teenager facing a succession of disappointments.
-
Do not Panic, Major Kardos
🇭🇺 HungaryThere are mysterious murders in the area of Lake Balaton. These places are shrouded in secrecy and constantly attract hunters: during the Second World War, the Germans had hidden a huge treasure here. Investigation of the murders entrusted to Major Kardos. He takes up the case, but in search of treasure he had many competitors. Kardos uses help from his loyal friend - a policeman-superman Etvash aka "Droplet".
-
Another Way
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sPolitical and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
-
The Pagan Madonna
🇭🇺 HungaryThe unique statue of the ancient fertility goddess Demeter, known as the "Pagan Madonna" is stolen from the museum, located in a small town on Lake Balaton. At the same time seriously wounded a servant of the museum. The abduction of the museum's priceless statues of pure gold is investigated by the then young and inexperienced investigator Kardos and lieutenant "Droplet".
-
In Praise Of Older Women
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sThe story that turned on millions of PLAYBOY Magazine readers in the October issue. — Andras Varda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
-
It's Rain and Shine Together
🇭🇺 HungaryThe film condenses the awkwardness of country and functionary existence, consumer thinking based on paternalistic relationships into the sequence of events of 20 August, the feast of the Hungarian new loaf with sentimental irony and documentary credibility. A railwayman's family on the Balaton highlands expects the Budapest relative with his functionary boss and family.
-
25 Fireman's Street
🇭🇺 HungaryOn one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and painstakingly intimate detail, the looming wrecking ball pales in significance to the accumulated experiences each dreamer revisits. Pre-war prejudice, occupying Nazis and Stalinist deprivations all come and go as each tenant’s backward glance yields moments of aching sensuality, infectious exuberance and catastrophic loss.
-
Red Psalm
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1890sSet 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.
-
Countess Dracula
🇭🇺 Hungary The 17th CenturyThe more she drinks, the prettier she gets — Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.
-
Love
🇭🇺 HungaryLuca regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law. Luca's husband, János, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge, and Luca does not know if he is still alive. Luca hides this from his mother by making up letters purporting to be from János who is directing a big film in New York. Luca discovers that János is alive, and is dismissed from her teaching job because of her husband. The dying mother anxiously awaits the return of her son from New York.
-
The Falcons
🇭🇺 HungaryA young man with an interest in ornithology arrives to study the work of falcons and their human trainers. The head falconer is a cold and heartless man who obstinately demands perfection from everyone around him. His work is his life, and he doesn't care if his girlfriend makes love to other men. The young man observes all he can before leaving behind the potentially inhuman situation for brighter horizons.
-
It's Me, Jerome
🇭🇺 HungaryThe main characters of this satiric story poking fun at domestic labour ethic are two cleaners of the mains. Jeromos and his son drop in to doctor Katona's in order to clean the shit pit decorating the end of the garden. During the day work is being done in a very time consuming way, materials are missing, and the boss devotes more attention to his love affairs than to supervision.
-
The Boys of Paul Street
🇭🇺 HungaryThe most extraordinary battle ever fought by the bravest army that ever had to be home for dinner. — 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. Just when things do get out of hand, however, the problem is "solved" by the city government, which takes over the lot for future development.
-
The Red and the White
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1910sIn 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other.
-
Ten Thousand Days
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1930s The 1950s The 1940sThe changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin their story in the 1930s, through World War II, and the decade beyond the communist invasion of 1956.
-
The Aga's Testament
🇭🇺 Hungary The 16th CenturyIn 1585 the Turks and Vallons are looting the Látrány region.
-
The Round-Up
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1860sSet in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.
-
Skylark
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1900sBased on a novel by Dezso Kosztolani, this Hungarian drama is set at the turn of the 20th century. A young, homely woman lives at home with her mother and retired father. Because of all the care the girl provides for her parents, the couple becomes detached from the world outside their home. When the girl leaves for a short visit to her uncle's home, the parents realize the extent of their separation from society and their selfish feelings toward their own daughter.
-
The Gypsy Baron
🇭🇺 HungaryThe young Sandor comes to Timisoara and immediately takes on the pig farmer Zsupan to help the gypsy girl Saffi. As a result, he has bad cards when he spontaneously falls in love with Zsupan's daughter Arsena. In the castle of the Barinkays, which fell in Ungande, Sandor meets a group of gypsies. The old Czipra realizes that Sandor is the son of the Barinkays. Sandor is looking for the family treasure and has to choose between Arsena and Saffi.
-
The Bashful Elephant
🇭🇺 HungaryA Hungarian orphan girl searches for new parents in Austria. In an Austrian circus, she befriends an elephant and a wolfhound.
-
I'll Appeal to the Minister
🇭🇺 HungaryA comedy about the organisation of agricultural co-operatives. In the village of "Rendes", everybody has already entered the co-op, only the stubborn farmer, Bódog Balogh continues to resist. The leadership plays all their tricks and uses all their efforts, but all in vain.
-
The Secret Ways
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1960s The 1950sOn-the-spot realism! — Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn't want to go!
-
I sogni muoiono all'alba
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sFive Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
-
The Journey
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sA Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
-
The Beast of Budapest
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sThe Teenage Legions Of Bloody Glory! — Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political differences, the two can never be together.
-
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1860sAfter a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.
-
Professor Hannibal
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1930sA school teacher becomes a momentary hero after having rescued a stuffed-bird from a school incident.
-
I Often Think of Piroschka
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1920sAndreas, a young German student comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas has to leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return some day.
-
Lily Boy
🇭🇺 HungaryLiliomfi is a 1954 Hungarian comedy film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father, Professor Szilvay, 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 by exposing the professor's hypocrisy, greed, and tyrannical selfishness.
-
The State Department Store
🇭🇺 HungaryKocsis Ferenc excellent staff appointed the new director of public stores. Ilonka a talented fashion designer, Boriska a dear, Daniel, a overzealous, Klimke, a conservative sale and Glauziusz uncle, conscientious, honest book promotes the work. Ilonka initially rather just keep arguing, even though both of their lives off the job. The selfishness will love soon. Dancs Meanwhile, the old manager spreads the rumor that the new socialist trade can not meet the demand. Relatives and friends start buying into action, leading to mass hysteria. However, the new store is borne by the customer siege until the arrival of the supply.
-
The Sea has Risen
🇭🇺 Hungary The 19th CenturyMarch 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour into the national army, and Hajdú Gyurka also escapes from his landlord. Petőfi is there at the camp of the revolutionaries, raising them to enthusiasm with his poetry.
-
Assignment: Paris
🇭🇺 HungaryParis ... a city made for excitement ... excitement on a night made for murder ! — Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
-
Guilty of Treason
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1940sThe story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war.
-
Song of the Cornfields
🇭🇺 HungaryA Hungarian soldier returning from fighting in the Second World War marries the woman he believes to be the widow of a former comrade who he thinks died in the Prisoner of War camp in which they were held. The film was banned in Hungary because of its depiction of the controversial issue of Hungarian prisoners held by the Soviets.
-
Silva
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1910sSilva Varescu, a self-sufficient and professionally successful cabaret performer from Budapest, is about to embark on a tour of America. Three of her aristocratic admirers, named Edwin, Feri and Boni, prefer her to stay. Edwin, unaware that his parents have already arranged a marriage for him back home in Vienna, orders a notary to prepare a promissory note of his expected marriage to Silva within ten weeks.
-
The Big Blockade
🇭🇺 HungaryWartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
-
The Shop Around the Corner
🇭🇺 HungaryTwo employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
-
A Hundred Thousand Dollars
🇭🇺 Hungary -
Woman at the Wheel
🇭🇺 Hungary -
The Baroness and the Butler
🇭🇺 HungaryA Butler (Powell) gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
-
Der Blaufuchs
🇭🇺 HungaryIlona, the bored wife of an easily distracted professor, falls in love with his friend Tibor, a world-traveler and ladykiller. Although she pursues him, he declines to take advantage of the situation, because she's married to his best friend. Only after her husband shows an interest in a co-worker is it possible for a happy ending to take place for the two new couples.
-
Return at Dawn
🇭🇺 HungaryMarried to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital. - Written by jsanchez from IMDB.com
- load more
← swipe for more →