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Hungary Cinema
Top 256 films from Hungary (out of 256 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| WAR | 2,023 | Miklós Horváth Milán | Thriller, War, Drama, Animation, Mystery | 9.4 | 21 | English | A war veteran tells his personal experience in “The War” to a psychiatrist, as a part of a social experiment. But nothing is as it seems… |
| The Witness | 1,979 | Péter Bacsó | Comedy | 8.1 | 62 | Hungarian | Hungary, 1950s. József Pelikán, who works as a dam keeper on the Danube, meets by chance Zoltán Dániel, an old friend whom he saved from death years before and who is now a powerful politician. |
| How Could I Live Without You? | 2,024 | Dénes Orosz | Comedy, Music, Romance | 8.1 | 12 | Hungarian | Lili is a typical girl of our time: she's lonely and tries to convince herself that this is what's good for her. But one day, she finds an old package of letters in her parents' apartment, which her mother apparently didn't want to show her at all. Of course, she doesn't hesitate much, she starts reading, and the past comes alive... an unforgettable summer in the early 1990s, when three good friends are on vacation at Lake Balaton, and of them, only Eszter wants to stay faithful to her boyfriend who left her at home, who swallowed a stake. But her plans, which she usually follows with engineering precision, are slightly messed up when she meets Gergo, easygoing, funny and has another very good quality: he plays in a band and performs with his friends on the beach in Szigliget in the evenings. |
| The Fifth Seal | 1,976 | Zoltán Fábri | Drama, War | 8 | 92 | Hungarian | In 1944 Budapest, one of a group of four friends poses a hypothetical moral question to the others, an act that will unexpectedly alter their lives forever. |
| Love | 1,971 | Károly Makk | Drama | 8 | 38 | Hungarian | Luca, who regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law, hides from her the fact that János, his son, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge. |
| The Corporal and the Others | 1,965 | Márton Keleti | Comedy | 8 | 21 | Hungarian | PFC Molnár decides his WWII services are over, and with serious money hidden in his hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who also try to wimp out of their duties. |
| Semmelweis | 2,023 | Lajos Koltai | History, Drama | 7.8 | 45 | Hungarian | Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital. |
| Johnny Corncob | 1,973 | Marcell Jankovics | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy | 7.8 | 26 | Hungarian | A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death. |
| The Boys of Paul Street | 1,969 | Zoltán Fábri | Family, Drama | 7.7 | 58 | Hungarian | 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 Stationmaster Meets His Match | 1,980 | Sándor Mihályfy | Comedy | 7.7 | 31 | Hungarian | The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him. |
| Two Half-Times in Hell | 1,961 | Zoltán Fábri | War, Drama | 7.7 | 22 | Hungarian | To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organised between the Germans and a group of Hungarian political prisoners, one of whom is a famous pre-war football star. |
| Car Park | 2,015 | Bence Miklauzic | Drama | 7.7 | 13 | Hungarian | In a hidden lot behind Pest’s tenements, loner Légiós has carved out a private refuge in his trailer and will do anything to keep the outside chaos at bay. When wealthy businessman Imre rolls up in his 1968 Ford Mustang seeking a secure spot, the two men launch a fierce duel, each escalating tactics to outwit the other and claim the coveted, corrugated-roof parking space. |
| People of the Mountains | 1,942 | István Szőts | Drama | 7.7 | 12 | Hungarian | A simple, religious Hungarian woodcutter lives with his wife and boy child with a small community of squatters among the peaceful mountains of Transylvania until a lumber company claims their land and forces them all to become company workers or else leave the land. This 1942 Hungarian film takes a detailed and unflinching look at the hardships of mountain living, and the realistic approach proved influential to the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Hungarian master director Istvan Szots won the Biennale Cup at the Venice Film Festival for his auspicious debut, but the film was banned by the Nazis as "too Catholic" and not publicly exhibited until after World War II. |
| The Turin Horse | 2,011 | Béla Tarr | Drama | 7.6 | 405 | Hungarian | A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter. |
| Damnation | 1,988 | Béla Tarr | Drama, Crime | 7.6 | 142 | Hungarian | Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would... |
| Son of the White Mare | 1,981 | Marcell Jankovics | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy | 7.6 | 91 | Hungarian | 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. |
| Sing | 2,016 | Kristóf Deák | Drama, Music | 7.6 | 76 | Hungarian | Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admitted to the school’s famous choir and befriends her popular classmate Liza. Soon, they have to stand up united against their choir master, who isn’t quite the friendly and inspirational teacher they first thought she was. |
| The Little Fox | 1,981 | Attila Dargay | Animation, Family | 7.6 | 72 | Hungarian | A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete. |
| Scenes with Beans | 1,976 | Ottó Foky | Animation, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 35 | Hungarian | Watching from the stars, an all-seeing creature observes a society of sentient beans — the joys, triumphs, and tragedies of day-to-day life on their planet — until the busy inhabitants finally notice the watcher’s leering gaze. |
| The Treasure of Swamp Castle | 1,985 | Attila Dargay | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.6 | 21 | Hungarian | Szaffi is a full-length animated feature based on Mór Jókai’s short books The Gypsy Baron (A cigánybáró) and Szaffi. It has adventure, and treasure, and love, and a little black cat, and a war, and picturesque villains - a governor with a pressure release valve in his skull and a fat pig-loving baron, and of course, the good gypsies. |
| Merry-Go-Round | 1,956 | Zoltán Fábri | Romance, Drama | 7.6 | 20 | Hungarian | 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 and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love. |
| I Like Life a Lot | 1,977 | Kati Macskássy | Animation, Documentary | 7.6 | 19 | Hungarian | The Komló settlement was a typical example of how Roma labour was exploited in the 1970s industrial mass production. This collaboration of Roma pupils and their teachers portrays the children’s everyday lives through their own drawings, often translating cruel facts into fairytales. |
| Cat City | 1,986 | Béla Ternovszky | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 7.5 | 99 | Hungarian | In the year 80 AMM (After Mickey Mouse) on planet X the crime-syndicated Cats try to erase the Mouse-population once and for all. A scientist of the mice, prof. Fushimishi seems to have found the weapon against the threat - so Intermouse calls its best (albeit retired) agent, Nick Grabowsky, to get the plans. As a distraction for the Cats, they also send a second agent - Seargent Lazy Dick - for the mission. |
| Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | 2,012 | György Pálfi | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 83 | Hungarian | A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world. |
| Confidence | 1,980 | István Szabó | Drama | 7.5 | 19 | Hungarian | Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what they truly believe. |
| The Struggle | 1,977 | Marcell Jankovics | Animation | 7.5 | 15 | Hungarian | Metaphor about art, about time, or how art uses the artist's life in his quest to create his work, in which he was pouring his talent, his vigor, and the best years of his life. |
| The Pregnant Papa | 1,989 | Dezső Garas | Comedy | 7.5 | 13 | Hungarian | In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi... |
| Lesson Learned | 2,024 | Bálint Szimler | Drama | 7.5 | 11 | Hungarian | Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system. |
| Slap-Jack | 1,992 | Péter Tímár | Comedy | 7.5 | 10 | Hungarian | The story happens in 1989 in the suburbs of Budapest, where the neighbor maintains an underground worker's guard training base, while the youngsters fall victim to a mistakenly posted letter. |
| Dune | 2,020 | Gábor Ulrich | Animation, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 | 37 | Hungarian | Sounds as witnesses. They blurr into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. A fluctuation between imagination and reality. |
| Chuchotage | 2,018 | Barnabás Tóth | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.4 | 17 | Hungarian | During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener. |
| Hyppolit, the Butler | 1,931 | Steve Sekely | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 | 17 | Hungarian | Evergreen comedy about a typical parvenu, an ignorant transportation entrepreneur who has suddenly found himself very rich. Despite their humble origins, his wife strives to live a sophisticated lifestyle. When she engages a butler, Hyppolit, their whole life is turned upside down. It has remained one of the most viewed Hungarian comedies of all time: it is shown regularly and is still extremely popular |
| Gone Running | 2,024 | Gábor Herendi | Romance, Comedy | 7.4 | 15 | Hungarian | After the death of her husband, a mother decides to fulfill his last wish and runs the marathon in relays with her daughters. A small problem is that none of them are physically and mentally prepared for running. Furthermore, the relatives and friends are also unexpectedly affected by the women's seemingly impossible challenge. |
| Snow White | 1,984 | József Nepp | Animation, Fantasy, Comedy | 7.4 | 10 | Hungarian | 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. |
| On Body and Soul | 2,017 | Ildikó Enyedi | Drama, Romance, Fantasy | 7.3 | 594 | Hungarian | Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream. |
| Liza, the Fox-Fairy | 2,015 | Károly Ujj Mészáros | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.3 | 96 | Hungarian | Liza is a naïve, lonely 30-year-old nurse who wants to fall in love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every man who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse? |
| Glass Tiger | 2,001 | Péter Rudolf | Comedy | 7.3 | 36 | Hungarian | 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 ... |
| Wind | 1,996 | Marcell Iványi | Drama | 7.3 | 36 | Hungarian | During a film course lead by Yvette Biro at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and film in 1995, the director students were shown a black-and-white photo taken by Lucien Herve in 1952, and they were given the task of writing a short film based on it. Three women are standing at the outskirts of a village, looking out of the picture in the same direction. This six-minute one-shot film shows what the Herve photo does not. |
| Cold of Kalandar | 2,016 | Mustafa Kara | Family, Drama | 7.3 | 25 | Turkish | Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the relationship between nature, animals and human beings. |
| The Tragedy of Man | 2,011 | Marcell Jankovics | Animation, Drama, History | 7.3 | 25 | Hungarian | Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history. |
| Zanox | 2,022 | Gábor Benő Baranyi | Romance, Comedy, Crime | 7.3 | 12 | Hungarian | As a result of a drug experiment, Misi will be able to travel through time, but only if he drinks from a special homemade spirit. |
| Stephen, the King | 1,984 | Gábor Koltay | Drama, History, Music | 7.3 | 12 | Hungarian | István, a király ("Stephen, the King") is a Hungarian rock opera written by Levente Szörényi (music) and János Bródy (lyrics), based on the life of Saint Stephen of Hungary. The storyline was based on the play Ezredforduló (Turn of the Millennium) by Miklós Boldizsár, who co-wrote the libretto. The opera was first staged in 1983 on an open-air stage in Budapest. This first performance was also made into a 1984 film, directed by Gábor Koltay, and its music released on an album. The musical became a smash hit and is still very popular in Hungary and among Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries. |
| Halfway Home | 2,022 | Isti Madarász | Romance, Fantasy | 7.3 | 11 | Hungarian | People say the true love lasts longer than life, but they don't mean it, and they are right: love ends when life does, except if it isn't. |
| Kontroll | 2,003 | Nimród Antal | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 | 289 | Hungarian | A subway enforcement officer working in the oppressively gray Budapest metro gets a chance at love — but first he needs to find out why passengers are jumping — or being pushed — to their deaths onto the tracks. |
| Ruben Brandt, Collector | 2,018 | Milorad Krstić | Animation, Action, Thriller, Crime | 7.2 | 173 | Hungarian | Psychotherapist Ruben Brandt becomes the most wanted criminal in the world when he and four of his patients steal paintings from the world's most renowned museums and art collections. |
| Valan: Valley of Angels | 2,019 | Béla Bagota | Crime, Drama | 7.2 | 78 | Hungarian | Peter returns to his Transilvanian hometown, Valan, where a dead body was found in the snow-capped mountains. The investigation about his 22 years missing sister leads him to the maze of grave sins of present and the past, where he has to fight not only with local criminals but his own demons too. |
| The Fly | 1,980 | Ferenc Rófusz | Animation | 7.2 | 56 | Hungarian | A fine day in the life of a fly presented completely from the fly's point of view. A fine day until something dreary happens, that is. |
| The Princess and the Pea | 2,002 | Mark Swan | Animation, Fantasy, Family | 7.2 | 25 | English | "A truly noble heart is sensitive," says the wise old raven, Sebastian, who pokes, prods and analyzes peas seeking the solution that would save the kingdom of Corazion from the revenge of Laird, the king's brother. As Sebastian seeks to solve the mystery, his friend, Prince Rollo, is searching for a truly sensitive heart in the pedigrees of pampered princesses, until a chance encounter with a kind-hearted peasant girl causes Rollo to ponder where true beauty lies. Can Sebastian discover the answer in time to rescue the kingdom from the cruel schemes of Laird? Join in the quest to reveal the heart of true nobility. |
| Mattie the Goose-Boy | 1,977 | Attila Dargay | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 7.2 | 25 | Hungarian | A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend - a goose. |
| The Grandson | 2,022 | Kristóf Deák | Drama, Thriller | 7.2 | 24 | Hungarian | Rudi, a polite and quiet office hand, shares a special bond with his elderly grandpa. When Grandpa falls victim to a uniquely heartless phone scam that breaks his spirit and his health, Rudi decides he’s not going to let the petty criminals get away with it. But in order to get close to them, he needs to step far out of his comfort zone and turn into a different person. With a band of grey-haired allies on his side, he might just get to the scammers before it’s too late… |
| Those Who Remained | 2,019 | Barnabás Tóth | Drama | 7.2 | 23 | Hungarian | A man who lost his wife and daughter in the Holocaust and a girl who lost her parents meet. Knowing each other′s emptiness, they become like father and daughter. It is the beginning of a sad love that the world cannot accept. |
| Stars of Eger | 1,968 | Zoltán Várkonyi | War, History, Romance, Adventure | 7.2 | 23 | Hungarian | This romantic and grandiose historical film depicts the era of the constant incursions and heroic battles fought by the defenders of the castle of Eger, led by captain István Dobó, against the heavy odds of superior numbers through the lives and love of Bornemissza Gergely and Cecey Éva. Gergely is inaugurated as a fighter already at the age of 7, when he escapes the captivity of the half-eyed Turk, Jumurdzsak, with Vica and the war-booty. In thirty years' time he becomes the first assistant of captain Dobó and the brain of the castle in the defence of Eger. |
| Argo 2 | 2,015 | Attila Árpa | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 | 17 | Hungarian | Tibi and his small‐time crook crew haven’t grown wiser in ten years and are hired by a shadowy Japanese syndicate to steal a priceless data drive. Clueless about IT, they drag along a computer‐science teacher, only to trigger revenge from a Roma mafia boss, face off against Japanese hitmen and even anger the Slovak army. As their dream of escaping to a Malibu beach with the loot fades, Tibi’s street smarts might be their only hope. |
| Heroic Times | 1,984 | József Gémes | Animation, History, War | 7.2 | 13 | Hungarian | The tragic medieval tale of a man of inhuman strength, fierce temper and a desire for noble knighthood. While on the run as a murderer, he finds new life as a knight, only to face disillusionment, the horrors of war and ugly human vices. |
| With a Little Patience | 2,007 | László Nemes | Drama | 7.2 | 12 | Hungarian | An office clerk as seen during her daily routine - all the little vibrations of her face. And a man, impatiently waiting for her, beyond the windows. |
| Made in Hungaria | 2,009 | Gergely Fonyó | Music, Romance, Comedy | 7.2 | 10 | Hungarian | Miklós Fenyö's parents returned to Communist Hungary in the mid sixties - when everyone else was fleeing to the West. Miki's old friends don't know... |
| Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris | 1,992 | Anthony Pullen Shaw | Drama, TV Movie | 7.2 | 10 | English | Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but when she has enough, and takes a trip to Paris, she learns that buying an original couture creation is a little harder than simply plunking down cash. Along the way to her goal, she manages to befriend a count, unite young lovers, and dodge customs. |
| Lovefilm | 1,970 | István Szabó | Drama, Romance | 7.2 | 10 | Hungarian | A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers. Soon after the 1956 Revolution Kata leaves Hungary, Jancsi stays there. After 10 years Jancsi is allowed to visit Kata in France, their love is reborn, but after a short, very happy period Jancsi has to return to Hungary and their love fades as years have gone by. |
| Son of Saul | 2,015 | László Nemes | War, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 | 1,152 | Hungarian | In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial. |
| The Man from London | 2,008 | Béla Tarr | Mystery, Crime, Drama | 7.1 | 103 | Hungarian | A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime. |
| The Round-Up | 1,966 | Miklós Jancsó | Drama, History, War | 7.1 | 73 | Hungarian | After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the authorities do not know the identities of the partisans, they round up suspects and try to root them out by any means necessary. |
| Kills on Wheels | 2,016 | Attila Till | Action, Drama, Comedy | 7.1 | 57 | Hungarian | Two physically handicapped youngsters make friends with a paralysed hitman and are commissioned by a local mafia boss. They have little to lose although things are never as they first appear. The boundaries between fantasy and reality blur as the unlikely heroes stumble from one close encounter to the next and we gain an unusual insight into their lives on the periphery of society. |
| Twilight | 1,990 | György Fehér | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 7.1 | 38 | Hungarian | In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession enshrouded by irresolution and despair, even long after he has been taken off the case. What emerges is not a crime story, but a harrowing venture through the darkness of the human soul. |
| Bubble Bath | 1,979 | György Kovásznai | Animation, Music, Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 34 | Hungarian | Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city. |
| Rabbit and Deer | 2,013 | Péter Vácz | Adventure, Animation | 7.1 | 28 | Hungarian | Rabbit and Deer are living happily and careless until their friendship is put to the test by Deer's new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension. After an unexpected accident Deer finds himself in a new world, unknown to him. Separated by dimensions the two characters have to find the way back to each other. |
| Silence and Cry | 1,968 | Miklós Jancsó | Drama | 7.1 | 21 | Hungarian | 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. |
| My Way Home | 1,965 | Miklós Jancsó | Drama, War | 7.1 | 21 | Hungarian | In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with a Russian soldier in a remote prison camp. |
| Wild Roots | 2,021 | Hajni Kis | Drama | 7.1 | 17 | Hungarian | Tibor and Niki, father and daughter. The young girl was only five years old when they last saw each other, before Tibor was sent to prison. He is released seven years later and tries not to think about the past. Yet he can’t erase his daughter from his life and so they are compelled to start over from the beginning. Both are irresistibly charismatic, headstrong and irascible, but also determined to find a way back to one another. |
| White Palms | 2,006 | Szabolcs Hajdu | Drama | 7.1 | 17 | Hungarian | Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils. |
| The Pagan Madonna | 1,980 | Gyula Mészáros | Comedy, Crime | 7.1 | 16 | Hungarian | The 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". |
| Diary for My Loves | 1,987 | Márta Mészáros | Drama | 7.1 | 15 | Hungarian | A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director. |
| Trezor | 2,018 | Péter Bergendy | Thriller, Crime, History | 7.1 | 12 | Hungarian | The police hire a convicted bank robber to crack the Ministry of Interior's vault during the final days of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. But what they find inside is quite different from what they were expecting. |
| The Aga's Testament | 1,967 | Éva Zsurzs | History, Adventure | 7.1 | 10 | Hungarian | In 1585 the Turks and Vallons are looting the Látrány region. |
| The Photographer of Mauthausen | 2,018 | Mar Targarona | Drama, History, Thriller | 7 | 732 | Spanish | Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials. |
| The Red and the White | 1,967 | Miklós Jancsó | War, Drama | 7 | 90 | Hungarian | In 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 and then the other. |
| Autumn Almanac | 1,984 | Béla Tarr | Drama | 7 | 45 | Hungarian | In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities. |
| Argo | 2,004 | Attila Árpa | Action, Comedy | 7 | 21 | Hungarian | 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? |
| Dealer | 2,004 | Benedek Fliegauf | Drama | 7 | 20 | Hungarian | A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients. |
| Hey, You! | 1,976 | Péter Szoboszlay | Animation | 7 | 17 | Hungarian | Set in the allegorical space of an abandoned room, a frustrated mind feels the distorting effects of aggression and paranoia—including visions of butterflies, the Mona Lisa, and nuclear fallout. |
| Passion | 1,998 | György Fehér | Drama, Crime | 7 | 11 | Hungarian | A woman and her lover plot to kill her older husband. |
| Woyzeck | 1,994 | János Szász | Drama | 7 | 10 | Hungarian | Lajos Kovács (WINGS OF DESIRE) stars as the misused Woyzeck, who ekes out a miserable existence sweeping train tracks, running errands for a bullying army captain and acting as a human guinea pig for a local doctor with ideas about free will. When his common-law wife begins an affair with a local cop, Woyzeck's pocket Bible and near-starvation diet point him on a downward spiral of twisted redemption. |
| 1945 | 2,017 | Ferenc Török | Drama | 6.9 | 98 | Hungarian | An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing devious plans and others finding remorse in their hearts. |
| Return Ticket | 1,997 | György Palásthy | Drama | 6.9 | 48 | Hungarian | Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly. |
| Sinbad | 1,971 | Zoltán Huszárik | Drama | 6.9 | 32 | Hungarian | Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád. As the protagonist looks back on his life, past and present, imagination and reality flow inseparably into one another. |
| Diary for My Children | 1,984 | Márta Mészáros | Drama | 6.9 | 31 | Hungarian | After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda. |
| Demimonde | 2,015 | Attila Szász | TV Movie, Mystery, Drama, History, Crime | 6.9 | 29 | Hungarian | The story of three women - a famous prostitute, her housekeeper and their new maid - living in Budapest of 1910s, whose passionate, bizarre and complex relationship can only lead to one thing: murder. |
| Moscow Square | 2,001 | Ferenc Török | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 6.9 | 25 | Hungarian | 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 cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions. |
| Current | 1,964 | István Gaál | Drama | 6.9 | 19 | Hungarian | A group of students cope with the disappearance of their friend. |
| The Toth Family | 1,969 | Zoltán Fábri | Drama, War, Comedy | 6.9 | 15 | Hungarian | The Toth 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. Comedy ensues when the Toths go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier. |
| Hellboy: In Service of the Demon | 2,008 | Javier Soto | Documentary | 6.9 | 13 | English | The making of Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
| FOMO: Fear of Missing Out | 2,019 | Hartung Attila | Drama | 6.9 | 10 | Hungarian | Gergő and his high-school friends, the “Pack”, live for sex, parties and racking up views on their online channel. As their videos grow increasingly extreme, a house party turns tragic when they single out Lilla as their next victim. In a single night, their reckless game shatters the illusion of invulnerability in Budapest’s youth scene. |
| #Sohavégetnemérős | 2,016 | Dániel Tiszeker | Comedy, Music | 6.9 | 10 | Hungarian | Wellhello is a Hungarian music band whose song combine the stories of the movie. This is a generation movie: portrays the feeling of life, thinking, problems and relationships of today's twenty-year-old's. |
| Hukkle | 2,002 | György Pálfi | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.8 | 51 | Hungarian | 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 good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder. |
| Children of Glory | 2,006 | Krisztina Goda | Drama, History | 6.8 | 37 | Hungarian | During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team, is torn between his love for a revolutionary student and his training for the Melbourne Olympics. |
| Eternal Winter | 2,018 | Attila Szász | Drama, History, Romance | 6.8 | 33 | Hungarian | The true story of an unlikely romance in a Soviet labor camp. |
| For Some Inexplicable Reason | 2,014 | Gábor Reisz | Drama, Comedy | 6.8 | 31 | Hungarian | Áron stands in his life as an average 29-year-old weirdo. He has many contemporary complexes, a fresh university degree, and a recent break up. His parents have to support him financially as he is still a job seeker and while Áron is agonizing on his lost love, he is always interrupted by something; it seems like he’s not the main character in his life. |
| Explanation for Everything | 2,023 | Gábor Reisz | Drama | 6.8 | 30 | Hungarian | It’s summer in Budapest, high school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realisation that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka. The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab—who had a previous confrontation with Abel’s conservative father. The tensions of a polarised society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal. |
| White Plastic Sky | 2,023 | Sarolta Szabó | Adventure, Animation, Drama, Science Fiction | 6.8 | 30 | Hungarian | 2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen is gradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs. |
| Búék | 2,018 | Krisztina Goda | Drama, Comedy | 6.8 | 28 | Hungarian | The story takes place on New Year's Eve that a group of friends have been celebrating together for years. The host is the newly divorced psychologist, Aliz, and her guests are her younger brother, Döme, the chemistry teacher, Kristóf, the gynecologist, Gábor, the cook, and Márk, the photographer. They are all childhood best friends. In the meantime, Gábor's wife, Saci, the lawyer, and Márk's girlfriend, Fanni, the young special education teacher joins the group. The topic of the conversation veers in the direction of how nowadays people store many secrets and confidential information on their cell phones, and what kinds of conflicts may arise if the phones fall into unauthorized hands. Each of the seven members of the group insists on not having any secrets, on their lives being an open book, to which Aliz suggests that they should prove it. |
| The Investigator | 2,008 | Attila Gigor | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 | 27 | Hungarian | Tibor Malkáv is an andaverage 37-year-old man, who though not rich, leads a comfortable and uncomplicated life. All this changes when he finds out his mother is dying of cancer and the cost of surgery is well beyond his means. A one-eyed man known as the Cyclops offers Tibor a solution to his financial woes, however, there is a catch and Tibor has to kill someone in return. What follows is a chain reaction that has long-lasting and unexpected results. |
| Tall Tales | 2,019 | Attila Szász | Thriller, Drama, History, Romance, War | 6.8 | 17 | Hungarian | Shortly after the end of World War II, a con man on the run finds himself in a passionate love affair that may well cost him his life. |
| The Ambassador to Bern | 2,014 | Attila Szász | Drama, History | 6.8 | 14 | Hungarian | A fictional account of the 1958 attack against the Hungarian embassy in Bern. Based on a true story about the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. |
| Meteo | 1,990 | András Monory Mész | Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery | 6.8 | 11 | Hungarian | Eckermann (Laszlo Kistamas) is a listless computer whiz who spends most of his time lounging in a bathtub holding imaginary conversations with cartoon characters usually more popular with children than grownups. He has some friends who want to use his skills to steal some money from a local gambling joint. He works out a scheme for his friends and returns to his tub. At some point along the way, he is joined in the water by a lovely Czech refugee, who (perhaps inadvertently) makes it possible for him to die there. |
| Hugo the Hippo | 1,975 | Bill Feigenbaum | Animation, Family, Adventure | 6.8 | 10 | Hungarian | The Sultan of Zanzibar has a harbor infested with sharks, which makes it impossible for ships to trade with him. In an attempt to fix the problem, he brings twelve hippos into the harbor to keep the sharks away. His idea works well enough, but once the hippos are no longer a novelty and the people no longer feed them, they begin to starve. After the hungry hippos rampage through the city looking for food, Aban-Khan, the king's adviser, slaughters all the hippos except one, a little hippo named Hugo. |
| Post Mortem | 2,020 | Péter Bergendy | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 | 238 | Hungarian | A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War. |
| Bet on Revenge | 2,017 | Buda Gulyás | Drama, Adventure, Romance, History | 6.7 | 60 | Hungarian | The new owner of a brilliant race horse finds love while carrying out his revenge on the man who murdered his father. |
| Adoption | 1,975 | Márta Mészáros | Drama | 6.7 | 48 | Hungarian | When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply. But by developing an unlikely friendship with the angst-ridden teenage orphan Anna, who is also involved in a controversial relationship, Kata discovers aspects of herself, and her role as a woman, that have gone unexamined throughout her entire, lonely life. |
| The Courtship | 2,022 | Krisztina Goda | Romance, TV Movie, History | 6.7 | 33 | Hungarian | Eighteen year old Ida returns home after being raised by nuns, but her father isn't too pleased. Determined to see her married, he publishes an ad and offers suitors a generous dowry. |
| The Exam | 2,011 | Péter Bergendy | Drama, History, Thriller | 6.7 | 29 | Hungarian | Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested. |
| Bad Poems | 2,018 | Gábor Reisz | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 | 24 | Hungarian | 33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's practically gone. As he's trying to pick up the pieces, he begins to realize what makes this current society so confused, which gives us a highly subjective view of Hungary's present. |
| Symphony No. 42 | 2,014 | Réka Bucsi | Animation, Mystery | 6.7 | 22 | English | The film applies an unconventional narrative. It presents a subjective world through 47 scenes. The small events, interlaced by associations, express the irrational coherence of our surroundings. The surreal situations are based on the interactions of humans and nature. |
| Libertate | 2,023 | Tudor Giurgiu | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 6.7 | 21 | Romanian | Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, security agents, and civilians. Trying to escape the siege, Captain Viorel of the militia is captured and accused of being a terrorist. |
| Heavenly Shift | 2,013 | Márk Bodzsár | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 | 15 | Hungarian | Death does not select, man does. Set in Budapest, Heavenly Shift offers an eerie insight into the everyday lives of a rather extraordinary ambulance crew. The films main character is Milan, a young refugee from the Balkan War, who joins a team of paramedics but inadvertently ends up involved in the funeral business in order to finance his fiancee s rescue from the hostilities. |
| Brazilok | 2,017 | Csaba M. Kiss | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 14 | Hungarian | The entire village is obsessed with the championship: the establishment team, led by the mayor and his deputy, expects to win, while for the first time the poorest youths from the local Roma settlement, led by a recently released “golden‐footed” ringleader and joined by the juggling church priest, also enter the competition. Both sides hunger for victory, and when a mysterious millionaire offers to fly the top players to Brazil, the stakes skyrocket. The tournament becomes a fight not just for the title but for the village’s social balance. |
| You | 1,963 | István Szabó | Romance, Comedy | 6.7 | 14 | Hungarian | A playful portrait of a young woman who merrily roams the streets of Budapest. A New Wave love letter in motion. |
| White God | 2,014 | Kornél Mundruczó | Drama | 6.6 | 359 | Hungarian | 13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen, and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to save her dog. Failing in his desperate efforts to find his beloved owner, Hagen joins a canine revolt leading a revolution against their human abusers. |
| Family Nest | 1,979 | Béla Tarr | Drama | 6.6 | 43 | Hungarian | A family slowly disintegrates under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary. |
| Glass Tiger 2 | 2,006 | Péter Rudolf | Comedy | 6.6 | 28 | Hungarian | In the sequel to the surprise hit Üvegtigris (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 numerous funny adventures. |
| Glass Tiger 3 | 2,010 | Péter Rudolf | Comedy | 6.6 | 24 | Hungarian | A single gunshot and a pointed toothpick drive Lali to abandon his life and disappear, only to find himself stranding Feri, a high-profile Budapest lawyer, at the Üvegtigris snack bar while Lali hops into Feri’s Bentley convertible. As the pair roar through the city, Lali’s sudden swagger attracts a dazzling woman - and then another - launching him on an outrageous day of living large. What began as an impulsive escape becomes Lali’s wildest adventure yet, filled with fast cars, femme fatales and the thrill of starting over. |
| Father | 1,966 | István Szabó | Drama | 6.6 | 23 | Hungarian | The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (played first by Dániel Erdély and later, as a young man, by András Bálint) is clearly determined to find out what he can about his father who died young. All he knows is that he was a doctor and perhaps he was an honored victim of fascism. He never really finds out but his relationship with his mother, his friends and his Jewish girlfriend will make him totally independent of this need to find all about Apa or Father. |
| Sound Eroticism | 1,986 | Péter Tímár | Comedy | 6.6 | 21 | Hungarian | In the box factory standing in the middle of nowhere only women work, and they themselves only waste their time, as the unmarketable boxes pile up in the yards. The fireman in duty, who stores stolen gasoline in the inflammable plant, sets up cameras in the women's locker room the sake of 'business'. |
| Elegy | 1,966 | Zoltán Huszárik | Documentary | 6.6 | 21 | Hungarian | Often called a “film poem” or a “film symphonie” Huszárik’s masterpiece consists of montages of horses from the dawn of time to the modern times from cave paintings to horse races. |
| Four Souls of Coyote | 2,023 | Áron Gauder | Animation, Drama, Adventure | 6.6 | 17 | Hungarian | This film is a tribute to a humiliated and destroyed nation. "As Long as the Grass Grows" is an alternative, ancient and humble creation story, where man is not the crown of the creation, but the weakest of all creatures. The film takes us back to the beginning of time, where Old Man begins to create the world out of a handful of mud. Everything he creates is new and nameless, and affects the rest of the world. Even feelings and desires are unknown and when they emerge, the world becomes more and more complicated. |
| The Inheritance | 1,980 | Márta Mészáros | Drama | 6.6 | 16 | Hungarian | During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's money. So she bribes Irene, a Jewish girl, to have a child by her husband. |
| Toxikoma | 2,021 | Gábor Herendi | Drama | 6.6 | 14 | Hungarian | Biopoic of actor Győző Szabó's younger years struggling with his drug addiction. |
| We Never Die! | 1,993 | Róbert Koltai | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 12 | Hungarian | In 1960s Hungary, an introverted teenager’s life is turned upside down by a few days in the company of his coat hanger salesman uncle: a roguish charmer with a zest for life and a weakness for horse racing and women. |
| Cantata | 1,963 | Miklós Jancsó | Drama | 6.6 | 11 | Hungarian | A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home. |
| Spectral | 2,016 | Nic Mathieu | Science Fiction, Thriller, Action | 6.5 | 1,913 | English | A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city. |
| The Whiskey Bandit | 2,017 | Nimród Antal | Action, Crime | 6.5 | 100 | Hungarian | Between 1993 and 1999, one man robbed 29 financial institutions in Budapest. Banks, post offices and even travel agencies fell victim to his crime spree. The police had no leads and no hope of finding him during his six-year stint. The only clue left behind at the crime scenes was the distinct aroma of whiskey. The media christened him the “Whiskey Bandit”. Never physically harming anyone, many began to eagerly follow his escapades through the media. A Transylvanian immigrant, who also happened to be a goalie for one of the city's largest hockey teams, named Attila Ambrus, was finally identified as the “Whiskey Bandit”. The police had finally captured him... or so they thought. |
| Rasputin | 1,996 | Uli Edel | History, Drama, TV Movie | 6.5 | 63 | English | Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history. |
| X - The eXploited | 2,018 | Károly Ujj Mészáros | Crime, Thriller | 6.5 | 35 | Hungarian | Would you believe in a policewoman who suffers from such serious panic disorders that she is afraid to get close to any crime scene and has been on permanent office duty for more than a decade? Would you believe a lone mother who is unfit to pay her mortgage and also raise her rebellious teenage daughter? Indeed, no one believes that the troubled ex-detective has discovered a serial murder case. Personal dramas and a murder mystery unfold in present-day Budapest, where demonstrations are part of the pre-election life of a city still trying to cope with the shadows of its historical and recent past. It is a city where nothing seems honest and true, except through the eyes of an emotionally unstable policewoman and her misfit daughter who wants to know who her father truly was. |
| The Prefab People | 1,982 | Béla Tarr | Drama | 6.5 | 33 | Hungarian | Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives. |
| Magic Arch | 2,020 | Vasily Rovensky | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 6.5 | 32 | Russian | A young dolphin with an active imagination saves Fish Town from evil Moray Eels and reunites with his father after discovering a magic arch that makes wishes come true. |
| Hope You Die Next Time :-) | 2,018 | Mihály Schwechtje | Drama | 6.5 | 32 | Hungarian | Eszter, 16, is secretly in love with her English teacher, while Peter, also 16, is hopelessly in love with Eszter. One day, the teacher announces that he is leaving the school to move to London. That same day, Eszter receives a farewell e-mail message from him. An online affair begins and spirals into sexual abuse. |
| Willy the Sparrow | 1,989 | József Gémes | Family, Animation, Fantasy | 6.5 | 23 | Hungarian | Vili fakes illness so he doesn't have to take a math test. Instead, he starts shooting at sparrows from the window with an air rifle. The kindly old lady who feeds the birds turns out to be a real-life fairy who tries to turn Vili into a good boy. |
| A Kind of America 2 | 2,008 | Gábor Herendi | Comedy | 6.5 | 19 | Hungarian | The three brothers, Akos, Tamas and Andras - known from the first part - try to get back their 60 million forints stolen by impostor Alex who ran away with the money and the girlfriend of the oldest brother. |
| Open | 2,018 | Orsi Nagypál | Comedy | 6.5 | 11 | Hungarian | Relationship dramedy about an everyday couple adventuring through the confusing thrills of non-monogamy. |
| It's Not the Time of My Life | 2,016 | Szabolcs Hajdu | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 11 | Hungarian | Eszter, her husband Farkas, and their five-year-old son Bruno are paid an unexpected visit in the middle of the night. Eszter’s sister Ernella, her husband Albert and daughter Laura have returned from a year spent in Scotland where, contrary to expectations, they weren’t able to settle down. It soon becomes clear that the two families had never really been in tune with one another. |
| Strangled | 2,016 | Árpád Sopsits | Thriller, Drama, Crime, Horror | 6.4 | 87 | Hungarian | A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the prosecutor to see a man hang. |
| A Monkey's Tale | 1,999 | Jean-François Laguionie | Adventure, Animation, Family | 6.4 | 47 | French | Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees… |
| Sisyphus | 1,974 | Marcell Jankovics | Animation | 6.4 | 36 | Hungarian | The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sisyphus, the stone, and the mountainside. |
| The Game | 2,022 | Péter Fazakas | Thriller, Drama | 6.4 | 27 | Hungarian | During the Cold War, the secret service of Kádár began a more dangerous state security game than ever before. |
| Maestro | 2,005 | Géza M. Tóth | Animation | 6.4 | 22 | Hungarian | Five minutes before his big performance, the Maestro and his persistent mechanical assistant are getting ready. As the clock ticks, life at the top is not all it seems. |
| The Girl | 1,968 | Márta Mészáros | Drama | 6.4 | 19 | Hungarian | A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle exploitation inherent in the apparently freer existence of young girls in the contemporary city. |
| Dollybirds | 1,997 | Péter Tímár | Comedy, Music | 6.4 | 18 | Hungarian | The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place. |
| Captives | 2,019 | Kristóf Deák | Drama | 6.4 | 11 | Hungarian | In 1951 Communist-era Budapest, the secret police knock on the door of an ordinary family. Instead of arresting them, they decide to move in and hold the family captive in their own home, along with anyone who comes to visit them. |
| Mirage | 2,014 | Szabolcs Hajdu | Western, Action, Thriller, Drama | 6.4 | 10 | Hungarian | Francis is an African soccer player whose life comes spiraling down after he fixes a match. Soon, he's on the run, taking shelter at a mountain ranch led by a deadly crime boss. Soon, Francis inspires revolt among the boss's workers, putting his life on the line for freedom. |
| Forest | 2,003 | Benedek Fliegauf | Drama | 6.4 | 10 | Hungarian | Every day life for young men and women in Budapest is on display. All "teenage savages" at the time when communism disappeared in Eastern Europe, they now view the world in a sinister way. Examples: A woman becomes irritated with a man who has left his dog. A father has an argument with his wife about an alarming (to the parents) arousal of sexuality in their 10 y.o. daughter. A young girl is distressed by her growing realization that she is more and more like her sadistic grandmother. A conversation between two guys, apparently about an old car, takes an unexpected turn. |
| Sirius | 1,942 | Dezső Ákos Hamza | Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction | 6.4 | 10 | Hungarian | Tibor Ákos, an intrepid and dreamy Hungarian count, embarks on an incredible adventure when he accepts the inconceivable challenge set by the eccentric Professor Sirius, who has invented a peculiar machine. |
| The Raven | 2,012 | James McTeigue | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | 6.3 | 1,411 | English | A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories. |
| The Duke of Burgundy | 2,014 | Peter Strickland | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.3 | 362 | English | Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further. |
| Land of Storms | 2,014 | Ádám Császi | Drama | 6.3 | 81 | Hungarian | Szabolcs plays in a German football team, as does Bernard. They are roommates, best friends, inseparable. A lost match makes him reconsider his lif... |
| River Wild | 2,023 | Ben Ketai | Mystery, Thriller, Adventure | 6.3 | 75 | English | Follows a pair of siblings who love but distrust each other as they embark on a white-water rafting trip with a small group. One of their friends from childhood turns out to be more dangerous than he appears. |
| The Seventh Brother | 1,995 | Jenö Koltai | Animation, Adventure, Family, Drama | 6.3 | 22 | Hungarian | After his owners abandon him in the woods, a puppy befriends a family of rabbits. |
| One Day | 2,018 | Zsófia Szilágyi | Drama | 6.3 | 20 | Hungarian | 24 hours in the life of a mother, caught in the relentlessness of daily life, between her work, her home and her children. |
| Macbeth | 1,982 | Béla Tarr | Drama, TV Movie | 6.3 | 15 | Hungarian | Consistent of only two long shots, three witches predict that Macbeth will ascend to the throne of Scotland. To fulfill this prophecy, Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to murder King Duncan, who has come to spend the night at their home. This crime plunges the new ruler into a macabre spiral that will lead him to sink into guilt and madness. |
| Slingshot | 2,024 | Mikael Håfström | Science Fiction, Thriller | 6.2 | 222 | English | An elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon Titan, gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeuvre that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space. |
| 1 | 2,009 | Pater Sparrow | Science Fiction, Thriller | 6.2 | 120 | Hungarian | A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to humanity in a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research. As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book becomes increasingly well-known, raising numerous controversies. Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals. |
| Silent Zone | 2,025 | Peter Deak | Horror, Thriller | 6.2 | 62 | English | In a zombie-ravaged world, a resourceful teen and her protector fight for survival, facing relentless dangers and testing the limits of hope and loyalty. |
| Red Psalm | 1,972 | Miklós Jancsó | Drama, War, Music | 6.2 | 47 | Hungarian | 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. |
| Chameleon | 2,008 | Krisztina Goda | Comedy, Thriller, Mystery | 6.2 | 20 | Hungarian | While cleaning offices at night, Zsolt Kovàcs learns a lot about his invisible employers by examining what they leave behind, carefully choosing his targets, often disillusioned women whom he seduces, methodically taking their money. An artist of manipulation, with a generous dose of humor and the ability to assume different personalities, Zsolt begins to work in a psychologist's practice, where he meets Hanna, a 30-year-old dancer who is physically incapacitated and the daughter of a millionaire. The ideal victim if love doesn't get in the way. |
| Fake Doll | 1,991 | István Bujtor | Comedy, Crime | 6.2 | 17 | Hungarian | The continuation of the series about the adventures of Major Kardos and former police Lieutenant Droplet who are busy now with an investigation of an European drug cartel which operates across Greece, Hungary and Germany. |
| The Prince and the Pauper | 2,000 | Giles Foster | Adventure, Family | 6.2 | 14 | English | An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up in imperial intrigue and scandal. In fleeing from his violent father, Tom stumbles into the palace courtyard, and is seen by young Prince Edward, who takes him in. Each desiring to see what the other's life is like, the boys impulsively switch identities... little knowing what disaster lies ahead at this fault of thought. And soon Thomas becomes a pawn in the hands of Edward's malicious and greedy uncle, who would have the kingdom for himself. |
| The Dream Car | 2,000 | Barna Kabay | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 | 10 | Hungarian | János is a 35 years old, rich, succesful single man, who plans to go on a long vacation with his brand new car, but he happens to fall in love at first sight… |
| Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man | 1,965 | Zoltán Várkonyi | Drama, History | 6.2 | 10 | Hungarian | Based on the novel of Mór Jókai. During the Hungarian independence war 1848-49 mother and her three sons trying to leave the road precisely designated by their conservative, stone-hearted father. The way-seeking and rivalry of brothers, Jókai's masterpiece, the cast, delightful scenes give an unforgettable experience. |
| In Secret | 2,014 | Charlie Stratton | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance | 6.1 | 248 | English | In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin. |
| Budapest Noir | 2,017 | Éva Gárdos | Crime | 6.1 | 30 | Hungarian | A murder mystery set in 1936 Budapest, just as Hungary was preparing to align itself with Hitler. A beautiful young girl is found dead and nobody wants to investigate—except Gordon, a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they seem. |
| Catcher: Cat City 2 | 2,007 | Béla Ternovszky | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.1 | 26 | Hungarian | 20 years after the events of the Cat Catcher, there is only one cat tribe left in Central Africa, who, after learning of what happened at the end of the first part, summon Moloch to help liberate the tamed cats and regain power over Earth. |
| It Happened in Europe | 1,947 | Géza von Radványi | Drama | 6.1 | 17 | Hungarian | 1944. 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 altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements. |
| Time Stands Still | 1,982 | Péter Gothár | Drama | 6.1 | 14 | Hungarian | A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dini suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of Dini’s father, Bodor, is released from prison and moves in with them. Dini and his brother are far from happy about this intrusion on their family life. |
| Before Dawn | 2,007 | Bálint Kenyeres | Action, Drama | 6.1 | 13 | Hungarian | Before Dawn has a single shot which is several minutes in length. Technically this is immaculate, visually it is stunning. The story is set in a field; where the field is we don't know, but a lone truck drives up into the field and stops. A horn beeps and from beneath the long grass thirty of so people appear and proceed to enter the truck. We take it they hiding from something and this is their doorway. The truck leaves, but only to be greeted by a mass of police and even a helicopter blocking their path. |
| Narcissus and Psyche | 1,980 | Gábor Bódy | Drama | 6.1 | 13 | Hungarian | Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a "modern" life. She is an attractive young woman - and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries. |
| Lajko: Gypsy in Space | 2,018 | Balázs Lengyel | Comedy | 6.1 | 12 | Hungarian | In 1957 the Soviet Union decides to give Hungary the chance to choose the world's first cosmonaut, who can be the very first person in space. It seems like the best candidate is Lajkó, the gypsy spraying pilot. |
| 6:3, Play It Again Tutti | 1,999 | Péter Tímár | N/A | 6.1 | 11 | Hungarian | The makers, especially Péter Tímár wanted to invoke the atmosphere of the communist dictatorship of Rákosi era lasted from 1947 to 1956. I think they've managed to reconstruct it very much: if you read the history books about the era and newspapers from that times, if you listened to your parents' and grandparents' tales, you will experience the similarities are shocking. The main character (Tutti - Károly Eperjes) is excellent, Eperjes, acting an eccentric, but likable crank is in his royal spirits. |
| Dear Elza! | 2,014 | Zoltán Füle | War, Drama | 6.1 | 10 | Hungarian | End of 1942, Ukraine, eastern front. The Private Lombos (Gábor Makray), a soldier loyal to his homeland, whose only desire as a freshman is to see his young wife again, serves here. However, due to an administrative error, he misses the train heading home. He thinks it can’t get any worse, but the real hell only begins. Educated young teacher, who speaks 3 languages, desperately fulfills his duty, takes up arms again, and marches on the Eastern Front. He is wounded in an attack and survives the night behind enemy lines in a pit. This is when he meets a mysterious old man (Tamás Varga), and this meeting changes everything. The old man's words shake his unbroken faith in his military family and homeland. At dawn, Russian soldiers find them, and Lombos is captured and then caught among the “tramplers”. The old man then also appears among the enemy's ranks, walks in the shadows, and tries to keep the young soldier alive at all costs with his advice. |
| Eichmann | 2,007 | Robert Young | History, Drama | 6 | 99 | English | Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role in Hitler's plan for the final solution. |
| The Princess and the Goblin | 1,991 | József Gémes | Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy | 6 | 46 | English | The story is about the Princess Irene and a young warrior boy named Curty. Irene must use her magic power to fight off goblins and save the kingdom. |
| A Kind of America | 2,002 | Gábor Herendi | Comedy | 6 | 37 | Hungarian | Tamás is a young, Budapest-based director of video clips and commercials who dreams of directing his... |
| Electra, My Love | 1,974 | Miklós Jancsó | Drama, Fantasy | 6 | 23 | Hungarian | It 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. |
| A Kind of America 3 | 2,018 | Gábor Herendi | Comedy, Music, Crime | 6 | 21 | Hungarian | Brothers Tamás, Ákos and András find themselves in deeper trouble than ever after swindler Alex drains them into a chase for a priceless stolen stamp. With both the police and rival mafia crews, Baláék and Toniék, on their tail, they’re joined by Eszter and Timi as everyone races against the clock. Their fortunes, and perhaps their lives, depend on whether they can outwit both friends and enemies, and escape unscathed. |
| Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | 1,990 | Kjell Grede | Drama, War, History | 6 | 21 | Swedish | Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II. |
| The Enchanted Dollar | 1,986 | István Bujtor | Comedy, Crime | 6 | 15 | Hungarian | Tomboy accidentally found a fake dollar and gave it to detective Droplet. The operation is headed by Maj. Kardos. Now they have to investigate the crime in order to find and neutralize the counterfeiters. |
| Abandoned | 2,001 | Árpád Sopsits | Drama | 6 | 12 | Hungarian | Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happ... |
| Willy and the Guardians of the Lake | 2,018 | Zsolt Pálfi | Animation, Family | 6 | 11 | English | As winter approaches the lake, a common threat rattles the Verdies and Grimps as Willy Whistle looks to seize his chance to become a guardian. |
| Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time | 2,020 | Lili Horvát | Drama | 5.9 | 51 | Hungarian | Márta, a 40-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man she loves. But she waits for him at the Liberty Bridge in vain - he does not appear at their rendezvous. Márta starts to search for him desperately, but when she finally finds him, the love of her life claims that they have never met before. |
| Coyote | 2,017 | Márk Kostyál | Action, Drama | 5.9 | 27 | Hungarian | Muggy heat, small-town bleakness, unspoken social problems, hierarchy fights. This is Tuzko town, somewhere in Hungary, nowadays. Here comes Misi who inherits his grandfather's house and his property. Misi is a disillusioned, frustrated, constantly refugee young man. He can't find his role in his life, his job and relationship. He starts to build and renovate the house with some men from the town, but it violates the local oligarch's interests. Hard struggle begins for the property, for the love and for the life. |
| Cremaster 5 | 1,997 | Matthew Barney | Drama, Music | 5.9 | 24 | Hungarian | Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained. The lamenting tone of the opera suggests that Barney invisions this as a moment of tragedy and loss. The primary character is the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress). Barney, himself, plays three characters who appear in the mind of the Queen: her Diva, Magician, and Giant. The Magician is a stand-in for Harry Houdini, who was born in Budapest in 1874 and appears as a recurring character in the Cremaster cycle. |
| Nine Months | 1,976 | Márta Mészáros | Drama | 5.9 | 17 | Hungarian | Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son. |
| Nobody's Daughter | 1,976 | László Ranódy | Drama | 5.9 | 13 | Hungarian | An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adoptive parents. |
| The Revolt of Job | 1,983 | Imre Gyöngyössy | Drama | 5.9 | 12 | Hungarian | The story of a childless Jewish couple in WWII-era Hungary who adopt a Hungarian boy and raise him with their values and traditions. |
| SAS: Red Notice | 2,021 | Magnus Martens | Drama, Action, Thriller | 5.8 | 577 | English | An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive. |
| Dough | 2,015 | John Goldschmidt | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 64 | English | An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice accidentally drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high. |
| The Annunciation | 1,984 | András Jeles | Drama | 5.8 | 24 | Hungarian | Adam and Eve, after Eden, are granted dreams of the world to come by a deceptively sweet but ultimately contemptuous Lucifer. Adam confronts an endless procession of the horror of the human story... rapists and concubines, betrayal and savagery, mindless cruelty and fanaticism. |
| Curtiz | 2,019 | Tamás Yvan Topolánszky | Drama, History | 5.8 | 22 | Hungarian | Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's intervention in the European war. |
| Hungarian Vagabond | 2,004 | Gábor Herendi | Adventure, Comedy | 5.8 | 17 | Hungarian | A Hungarian historical movie that tells the story of the Hungarian ancestors, the seven leaders, who are looking for their new homeland in the last years of the 9th century. Before they leave their original home in Asia, they have a farewell party. They wake up with a severe hangover after consuming large quantities of kumis. The seven leaders wake up to find that their people have disappeared. |
| Zimmer Feri | 1,998 | Péter Tímár | Comedy, Crime | 5.8 | 12 | Hungarian | The 50 years old Ferenc rents an apartment on the Balaton beach, but it has a lot of debt on it. His plan is to make it profitable. |
| Amok | 2,022 | Balázs Turai | Animation | 5.8 | 10 | English | After losing his fiancée and his good looks in a freak accident involving an evil Santa Claus gnome, Clyde must confront his inner demons. |
| As Far As I Know | 2,020 | Bálint Nagy | Drama | 5.8 | 10 | Hungarian | No equal signs of justice can be drawn between those who are accused of a crime, those who are convicted of a crime and those who are the true offenders. That triangle always contains the accused who are not guilty and true offenders whose guilt cannot be ultimately proven. Throughout history, one of the greatest deviations in the strive towards equality has occurred in the triangle of guilt in sexual crimes, where guilt is largely proven on the basis of a woman’s will. |
| What Ever Happened to Timi | 2,014 | Attila Herczeg | Comedy | 5.7 | 20 | Hungarian | Dani was always the good boy at school and is about to get married. He bumps into Tímea Hajnal, who is now a top model but is trying to get over a humiliating break-up. After a few glasses of wine, they fall into each other’s arms, which wouldn’t be so bad on the face of it, but there’s a tiny problem: Bögöcs, the bad boy of the class, has been recording everything on his mobile phone, and he’s thinking of using it to finally be able to fulfil his teenage dream - to sleep with Tímea. He threatens to show the video to Dani’s fiancée if he doesn’t take steps to set things up for him with Tímea. The pressure very quickly starts to have consequences for Dani’s relationship with his bride-to-be, as she starts to nag him chronically. The wedding is fast approaching, and Dani has to do something… |
| The Vulture | 1,982 | Ferenc András | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 5.7 | 15 | Hungarian | 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. |
| Well | 2,016 | Attila Gigor | Drama | 5.6 | 94 | Hungarian | At a gas station in the middle of nowhere, a young man arrives to meet his father he hasn't seen for 30 years. On the same day, a van with four prostitutes breaks down at the very same gas station, on the way to Switzerland. The three days they spend together in the station change their lives forever. |
| Comrade Drakulich | 2,019 | Márk Bodzsár | Comedy, Horror | 5.6 | 43 | Hungarian | Vampires are among us! But no need to worry: the Hungarian Secret Police are after them, and beyond the usual spy gadgets, they even use garlic to repel the beasts. |
| Unleashed | 2,015 | Áron Mátyássy | Thriller | 5.6 | 26 | Hungarian | A weekend hunting party in Transylvania becomes something darker when the true motives and histories of the hunters are revealed following a shooting. |
| Out of Order | 1,997 | Róbert Koltai | Comedy | 5.6 | 23 | Hungarian | A 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. |
| Hadik | 2,023 | János Szikora | History, Adventure, Drama | 5.6 | 17 | Hungarian | During the Seven Years War, Austrian Queen Maria Theresa sends her best general, András Hadik and his Hussars to raid Berlin and humiliate the Prussian King, Frederick the Great. |
| A Very Moral Night | 1,977 | Károly Makk | Drama, Comedy | 5.6 | 13 | Hungarian | A brothel in a small Hungarian town becomes the home of a medical student after his favorite working girls find out he's out of rent money. Trouble brews as they learn his mother is coming for a visit and they must transform the house. |
| Kölcsönlakás | 2,019 | Buda Gulyás | Romance, Comedy | 5.6 | 11 | Hungarian | Balázs and his wife Anikó share their apartment’s renovation schedule with playboy Henrik and his latest girlfriend, while designer András and his admirer pick the same space for a private moment. When everyone shows up on the same chaotic day, secret plans collide: lovers discover each other, the faithful are tempted, and hidden betrayals come to light. Relationships are tested as each couple faces the fallout of overheard conversations and unexpected meetings. |
| Sniper 2 | 2,002 | Craig R. Baxley | Action | 5.5 | 154 | English | A former Marine sniper is lured back in on a top-secret mission to take out a rogue general accused of running a stealth operation of hit-and-run ethnic cleansing missions in an area known as "No Man's Land." |
| Loop | 2,016 | Isti Madarász | Crime, Thriller, Science Fiction | 5.4 | 29 | Hungarian | Drugdealer wants get out of the circle with his pregnant girlfriend and a time loop effect makes it more complicated. |
| Just Sex and Nothing Else | 2,005 | Krisztina Goda | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 5.4 | 19 | Hungarian | The attractive, 32-year old and single Dora edits scripts for plays and is working on "Dangerous Liaisons." One day when her lover shoves her, half-naked, out on a balcony at the sudden appearance of the wife that Dora didn't know he had, Dora is rescued by a handsome man named Tamas. |
| Hotel Magnezit | 1,980 | Béla Tarr | Documentary | 5.4 | 18 | Hungarian | Documentary about a hostel for workers. An old worker suspected of stealing a motor gets fired from the factory and must leave the hostel. |
| Anti-Social | 2,015 | Reg Traviss | Crime | 5.3 | 47 | English | Central London, today; Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. For the two brothers, being Anti-Social is a way of life. |
| The White King | 2,016 | Alex Helfrecht | Drama, Science Fiction | 5.3 | 46 | English | Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again. |
| Laurin | 1,989 | Robert Sigl | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 5.3 | 42 | German | In a small port town at the end of the 19th century children are disappearing. A mysterious man in black who stalks the town may be Death itself. And nine-year-old Laurin is suffering terrifying dreams and hallucinations of a man carrying a sack and frightened children calling for help from behind closed windows. |
| Opium: Diary of a Madwoman | 2,007 | János Szász | Drama | 5.3 | 20 | Hungarian | A drug-addicted doctor who works in an asylum discovers that one of his patients is a gifted writer. |
| Another Way | 1,982 | Károly Makk | Drama, History | 5.3 | 16 | Hungarian | Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva gets a job as a journalist. There, 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. |
| Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! | 1,970 | Márta Mészáros | Drama, Music | 5.2 | 21 | Hungarian | Savanyú and his friend work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afternoon and the night, i.e. parties and concerts. Savanyú dates Juli, they are already engaged. The young men live as sub-tenants, the young women in workers' hostels. None of these places are suited for spending time together. They are in need of an apartment. Out of the ruinous apartment which they lay siege on, however, they are sent away by the otherwise friendly policeman. At a concert held in the Park of Youth, Juli gets to know Géza. They flirt, then go to the country with a pop-group. Savanyú and his friends follow them. A minor fight cools the atmosphere. |
| Den of Lions | 2,003 | James Bruce | Action, Thriller, Crime | 5.2 | 17 | English | A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI. |
| A Short History of Decay | 2,014 | Michael Maren | Comedy, Drama | 5.2 | 13 | English | A failed Brooklyn writer, Nathan Fisher, visits his ailing parents in Florida. His mother has Alzheimer's and his father has recently had a stroke and his girlfriend has recently broken up with him. |
| Pleasant Days | 2,002 | Kornél Mundruczó | Drama | 5.2 | 13 | Hungarian | Peter returned from prison in his native city, in the hope that it will begin happy days. With surprise he learns that his sister became a foster mother to the newborn boy, but a real mother of the child - extravagant and slutty Maya wants to take it back. Peter falls in love with Maya. He's torn between his girlfriend and trying to manipulate sister. But he has to make a choice, and the happiness was so close, melt into thin air. |
| Bodom | 2,014 | József Gallai | Mystery, Thriller, Horror | 5.2 | 10 | Hungarian | For the 50th anniversary of the Lake Bodom murders, two media students obsessed with the case launch a journalistic investigation. The footage they have left behind only raises new questions. |
| Season of Monsters | 1,987 | Miklós Jancsó | Drama | 5.2 | 10 | Hungarian | Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves a note for his longtime friend Dr. Bardocz. The doctor and Zoltai's colleague Komindi join the police in investigating what drove the man to suicide. |
| Professor Hannibal | 1,956 | Zoltán Fábri | Drama | 5.1 | 29 | Hungarian | A school teacher becomes a momentary hero after having rescued a stuffed-bird from a school incident. |
| Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita) | 2,008 | Gábor Csupó | Comedy, Animation | 5 | 20 | English | Hungarian-born Jóska and his Russian-born friend, Vlad, decide to invade America. It's not an easy task, but in their own special way, they manage. |
| The Black Spider | 2,022 | Markus Fischer | Thriller, Horror | 5 | 12 | German | The courageous young midwife Christine makes a pact with the devil to save her village from the brutal terror of the Teutonic Knights. Punished by a spider plague, Christine goes from savior to hunted. |
| Ether | 2,018 | Krzysztof Zanussi | History, Thriller, War | 5 | 11 | Polish | At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object of his desire. After getting away with his crime, he finds employment in a fortress, where he continues his experiments with ether to manage pain and manipulate human behaviour. Despite his evilness, it is not too late for his soul to be saved from eternal damnation… |
| Whooping Cough | 1,987 | Péter Gárdos | Drama, Comedy | 5 | 11 | Hungarian | The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Budapest. Children do not yet understand what is going on, but they're happy because the schools are closed. But gradually, to adults and children comes the understanding that something terrible is happening. Disappearing relatives, friends, and even killed some. Tips sent an army to put down the counterrevolutionary rebellion. |
| Vacation at Your Own Expense | 1,982 | Viktor Titov | Comedy, Romance | 5 | 10 | Russian | A young girl from the Siberian province arrives in Moscow for her beloved, whom she met during his business trip. He is a test designer for buses a... |
| Daughter of Darkness | 1,990 | Stuart Gordon | TV Movie, Horror | 4.9 | 27 | English | An atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing a young woman is the identity of her father. Unfortunately for her, she becomes drawn into a small Romanian underworld of brooding menace, darkness, torture chambers, and vampires. |
| Felix the Cat: The Movie | 1,988 | Tibor Hernádi | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy | 4.9 | 27 | English | In another dimension, the villainous scientist Duke of Zill, with the help of his mechanical, geometric army, ultimately takes over the golden kingdom of Oriana, where Duke has just escaped exile! But Felix the Cat must bravely save Princess Oriana and restore order once again, from her terrible Uncle Zill and his smoke-belching mechanical troops before he can put his sinister plot into action! |
| Pappa pia | 2,017 | Gábor Csupó | Romance, Comedy, Music | 4.9 | 16 | Hungarian | Papi, a penniless retiree living in a rundown riverside boathouse, owes everyone and has nothing, until Wizy, a flashy super-club owner, threatens to evict him to build yet another party palace. With no other options, Papi enlists his equally hapless but charming grandson Tomi, who rallies his friends for a classic underdog showdown: can crafty David really defeat Goliath? |
| 8MM 2 | 2,005 | J.S. Cardone | Thriller, Mystery, Drama | 4.8 | 135 | English | Entering a seamy underground world of peep shows, nude clubs, and live Internet sex is David Huxley, an aspiring politician who has everything to lose. Secretly filmed in a steamy three-way with his fiancée Tish and a gorgeous young model, David is desperate to find the extortionist who's demanding an exorbitant amount of money for the negatives. But when the blackmail trail ends in murder and David is kidnapped, Tish must come up with $5 million ransom or her fiancé's once-promising career, and life, may come to a dead end. |
| The District | 2,004 | Áron Gauder | Animation, Science Fiction, Comedy | 4.8 | 22 | Hungarian | In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order... |
| Aftermath | 2,024 | József Gallai | Science Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Thriller | 4.8 | 13 | English | After waking up in the middle of a forest with no memories, a young woman is targeted by mysterious strangers with a motive as unclear as her way back home. |
| Mom and Other Loonies in the Family | 2,015 | Ibolya Fekete | Drama | 4.7 | 11 | Hungarian | Over the course of four generations, a family in Hungary confronts poverty, political turmoil and a life that's perpetually on the move. |
| The Phantom of the Opera | 1,998 | Dario Argento | Horror, Romance, Mystery | 4.6 | 188 | Italian | A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld. |
| Cold Meridian | 2,020 | Peter Strickland | Drama | 4.6 | 24 | Hungarian | In this short exploration of sensual audio-visual stimulation, the repeated rituals of an online performer have a transfixing effect on her viewers. What starts as an exploration of tactility, addiction and control soon descends into a nightmarish dance performance where no rules apply. |
| The Basement | 2,017 | László Illés | Horror | 4.6 | 14 | English | A group of international students explores a basement that has been abandoned for years. But what starts off as an exploratory séance ends in bloody mayhem when a malicious entity is summoned. |
| His Master's Voice | 2,018 | György Pálfi | Science Fiction, Drama | 4.6 | 11 | Hungarian | A Hungarian journalist who is about to start a family journeys to the United States in the hopes of finding his own father, a scientist who went missing in the 1970s while working on a top secret military research project that examined 'voices' from outer space. |
| GUO4 | 2,019 | Peter Strickland | Drama | 4.5 | 42 | English | A confrontation between two swimmers in a locker room. |
| The Curse of Styria | 2,014 | Mauricio Chernovetzky | Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 4.5 | 37 | English | In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the castle and the two are drawn into an intoxicating relationship. But when Carmilla mysteriously disappears, and women of the town begin committing suicide, Lara’s psychic wounds erupt into a living nightmare that consumes the entire town of Styria. |
| Requiem | 1,982 | Zoltán Fábri | Drama | 4.5 | 10 | Hungarian | When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes him into the consulting room instead. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and then notes that his manner of eating is just like that of her previous husband, who died in prison many years earlier. It turns out that the young man had been his cell mate for a year, and he tells her the story of how her husband died. She then remembers (in flashbacks) how she had helped her first husband rid himself of his sexual repression, and how she had promised him she would marry her current husband if she were widowed. It seems her doctor-husband was a man who could remain untouched through any political climate, and was much admired by her first husband. Now that her memories have been awakened by the young man's account, she ignores the repeated phone calls of her current husband and decides to rid this young man of his own sexual repressions. |
| Coming Out | 2,013 | Dénes Orosz | Comedy, Romance | 4.4 | 20 | Hungarian | This is the story of present-day Hungary's most famous gay celebrity who openly admits his homosexuality and fights for gay rights in a society where so many alternative values are denied. But then something happens and he is shocked to discover his growing interest in the female of the species. |
| Anarchy Girls | 2,010 | Saulius Drunga | Drama | 4.3 | 12 | LT | Provincial girl tries to understand and get in touch with world of a big town. With world that suddenly shows unpredictable dark sides of its own. |
| Cat's Play | 1,974 | Károly Makk | Drama, Romance | 4.3 | 10 | Hungarian | Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. In this follow-up to the director's internationally acclaimed Love, Makk once again exhibits his extraordinary skills at drawing emotionally compelling performances from his talented female leads. Makk's film opposes the bleakness of the outside world with passion, love, and loyalty. |
| The Conquest | 1,996 | Gábor Koltay | History | 4.2 | 11 | Hungarian | Filmed in commemoration of Hungary's 1100th anniversary and on the sites of the actual events, a cast of thousands authentically recreates the 896 AD arrival of the Magyar chief Arpad (Nero) and his seven tribes into the Carpathian basin from the steppes. |
| Day of Wrath | 2,006 | Adrian Rudomin | Adventure, Drama, Action | 4.1 | 33 | English | At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with alarming frequency and unexplained violence. But can local 16th-century sheriff Ruy de Mendoza discern who's responsible when no one wants to cooperate? After all, before Mendoza can even identify the bodies, the crime scenes are mysteriously cleared - and the villagers pretend the murders never happened. |
| Young, Dumb and Full of Love | 2,006 | Gergely Fonyó | N/A | 3.7 | 10 | Hungarian | At the end‐of‐year assembly, Tibor and two friends are browsing Lady Sandra’s website on a computer when the school radio announces he’s flunked history, dashing his plans for a Croatian holiday, parties and picking up girls. Instead, he’s sent to his father’s Flamingó Hotel in Balatonfüred to cram for the makeup exam. The once‐Soviet-era resort is barely recognizable, save for familiar faces: childhood friend Józsi, caretaker Tunyogi’s daughter Kata and kind Aunt Rózsi. Just as everything seems hopeless, a mysterious beauty arrives, and Tibor is convinced she is Lady Sandra, the woman of his dreams. |
| The Cost of Deception | 2,021 | Keith English | Crime, Drama | 3.5 | 40 | Hungarian | 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. |
| The Poltergeist Diaries | 2,021 | József Gallai | Horror, Mystery, Drama | 3.5 | 10 | English | After moving to an isolated cabin, Jacob Taylor vanishes without a trace. With the help of footage he leaves behind, his family members, friends, and a detective try to find answers to the strange events that are centered around him. |
| Gingerclown | 2,013 | Balázs Hatvani | Comedy, Horror | 3.3 | 27 | English | 1983: A group of high school students are having a great time near Hollywood Hills at the weekend when they bump into the Loser from their school, Sam, who's just on his way home. Sam would do anything in order to get Jenny's attention, one of prettiest girls in school. Unfortunately she's also the girlfriend of the school's bully, Biff, the quarterback of the football team. Biff and his buddies are keen to take Sam to the old abandoned amusement park to make him prove his courage as part of their initiation ceremony. They involve Jenny in their cruel game as the grand prize of the competition. Sam accepts the challenge, but the girl wouldn't let him go in by himself; she follows him into the amusement park and a night they'll never forget. |
| Pinocchio: A True Story | 2,021 | Vasily Rovensky | Animation, Fantasy, Family | 2.9 | 31 | Russian | Young Pinocchio runs away from his genius creator Jepetto. Accompanied by his horse Tibalt, he aims to see the world while joining the traveling circus ran by hustler Modjafocco. |
| Now or Never! | 2,024 | Lóth Balázs | Action, Drama, Adventure, History | 2.9 | 13 | Hungarian | On March 15, 1848, a young firebrand poet, Sándor Petöfi ignites the Hungarian Revolution with his passionate 'National Song', prompting the Austrians to dispatch a ruthless secret agent to assassinate him and suppress the uprising. |
| Magic Boys | 2,012 | Róbert Koltai | Comedy | 2.3 | 13 | English | After witnessing a murder, a hapless pair of misfits escape their own near death experience by posing as male strippers - only to find themselves neck deep in even bigger trouble. |
| Dream.net | 2,009 | Gábor Forgács | Comedy | 1.9 | 24 | Hungarian | Regina, the once popular girl has to make new friends at her new, conservative school. Problems arrive when she becomes enemies with Lívia, the school's queen bee, and falls in love with Márk, a musician. If these wouldn't be enough, she decides to organize a cheerleader team. |
| A Fox's Tale | 2,008 | György Gát | Family, Animation, Adventure | 1.8 | 23 | Hungarian | The film is about Little Vuk, the son of the legendary fox who proves its excellent mind and courage. |
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