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- In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
- When a schoolgirl is found murdered in the woods, a retiring detective tries to find her murderer.
- A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.
- This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. There, according to the movie, she feuded with Joseph Heller, a fellow professor with right wing beliefs. In 1933, after Jews were no longer allowed to teach, she became a nun in the Spartan-like Carmelite order, but when World War II heated up, Heller, who had become an important Nazi official, took his revenge; he had her deported to Auschwitz.
- 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 happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's opinion, and the boy finds himself thrown out of his warm home into an orphanage in the woods. He's utterly displeased by what's happening, without knowing he has yet to face much worse. After a hard time getting over the harrassment of his classmates and being accepted as one of them, another obstacle on the way to his peace of mind faces him: His obnoxious teachers. He has no intention of being bad, but it's beyond his ability to blend into the revolting place he's in. The nasty treatment of the teaching crew gets the better of him, and he's not all that calm and passive anymore. But that leads into unpleasant events which Áron himself wouldn't want.
- A teenager boy has to grow up in the shifting political and moral landscape of post-1956 Hungary.
- Péter and Pál planned to be twins by their daddy, but they have to live in only one body.
- In this surrealistic movie from the director of My 20th Century, the French police seek help from Simon, a visionary living in Budapest to solve a murder case. Whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?
- A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
- Ivan's best friend, Kamen, is in an American hospital, in coma after an accident. Since he's denied a visa to the USA and can't stay by his side in his last moments, Ivan decides to set off for Bulgaria countryside, taking the camera Kamen has given him. There's a legend in Kamen's place of birth - a small mountain village - that one song could bring people back to life. Ivan starts a journey to find it and record it, collecting a myriad of stories along the way. Will he succeed?
- Sanyi feels his mother does not love him, and a teacher distinguishes himself by listening to the children, who struck up a friendship with Sanyi. Through the teacher Sanyi realizes how important and loving his mother is to him.
- In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband.
- A remarkable anti-war film about a 9 year old Jewish boy who is picked up by the police and sent to a concentration camp while his parents do their best under difficult circumstances to find him.
- Direct follow-up to "Diary for my lovers". Juli and the people who she knew throughout her life have to face the events of the 1956 failed revolution in Hungary.
- The year is 1989, the famous year of the collapse of the socialism in Eastern Europe. However, not a single moment in the film suggests the sublimity of this historical moment; on the contrary, the burlesque fuzziness of the moments on the screen satirize the arrogant theatrics of the political upstarts. The film turns, with a mocking gesture, to the unapproachable, profane, everyday mystery of political donkey. The scene is a run-down, food-smelling apartment block pub called the Stork and its immediate surroundings. Insecure, down-and-out existences live here: unemployed and casual laborers, grocers and taxi drivers, warm spirited swindlers and casual lovers. They are ugly and mean, soft spirited and quick-tempered. They're all nice rascals.
- Hungary's postwar history told through the dreams, nightmares, and memories of the inhabitants of an old house on the eve of its destruction.
- A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.
- A sudden decision launches a traveler into a wild adventure. Is there hope for the survivor or is he captive of the torrential rain of a harsh, dark world? An old woman's journey full of secrets and surprises is half the way home.
- The ex-revolutionary Gáspár Noszlopy escapes from prison in 1852. His plan to capture the emperor Franz Joseph and force him to sign the Declaration of Hungarian Independence. He is only able to find four fanatic men.
- Film about a child's perception of an adult world. Story centers on a police marksman who is assigned to protect a Russian chess grand master who does not know about his protection. Then the chess master meets the policeman's wife and there's an attraction between them. The child's perception is that of the policeman's daughter. Thriller and fantasy elements included and a parallel story set in medieval times.
- Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
- At a holiday camp, a group of people play a strange game of war, which eventually turns out to be a fight for the bare survival.
- A furniture designer returns from a trip abroad to find a younger man has usurped his place in the business.
- Irén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together. Unfortunately, Hungary in the 70s is no place for dreams.
- The Indian Story is the kind of newsreel short subjects that Jancso made early in his career, and while it doesn't bear any of his hallmarks as a director, it's still interesting-an examination of the way that Native Americans were displaced by white settlers in North America, from a critical outsider's perspective.
- A widow, whose politician husband was killed in the Communist purge of Hungary, and her ill son are given money by the government to start a foundation for stray dogs.
- In this naturalistic satire enriched with burlesque, Boróka, the hair-cutting artist once cuts a hair so, that the customer has to be shaved bald. Sajtár Dezso wants to kill the barber, who feels to be a victim himself immediately. In his anguish he mixes up his apartment, his wife and everything in the uniform world of the block of flats and like a maniac, tries to find after his pursuer. They find each other at a neurological clinic.
- The adolescent Pisti, spends his summer vacation with his parents and grandmother in a small village. He has a vivid imagination: through old objects found in the attic, conversations of animals, and stories told by his grandmother and his neighbor, the history of his family comes to life, even the world of the betyárs. While committing mischief, Pisti also begins to see the realities of life. He tastes wine and smokes cigarettes for the first time, sees what living with old age and death is like, and also finds his first love.
- The poet Josef K. takes part in opposition meetings, where people deplore the betrayal of communism. He finds Márta, one of his lovers, dead in the kitchen. She was killed by Kata, another of Joseph's mistresses, in order to falsely accuse him of the murder. Someone shoots Kata. Josef then goes to a friend's house with his youngest lover Juli, where they are attacked by a troop. Josef is killed and Juli flees. Strange figures with umbrellas try to erase Juli's memory of what happened, but she is able to visualize the scene with the help of a police officer. However, the house cannot be found, and according to the computer, Josef K. never existed.
- 1951, Budapest. The evacuees are crammed into trucks loaded with all their belongings. They head for Hortobágy, where the State Protection Authority has designated a forced settlement for them. Imre Vendel, a former military officer, is moving in one of the trucks with his pregnant wife and two young sons.
- A powerful, at times shockingly authentic, epic-length film about three contemporary women who also happen to be sisters. The film employs documentary-like style to tell the story which spans about 2 years, and is is notable for memorable performances by a cast of mostly amateurs.
- A writer born in 1951 is abducted and accused by his kidnappers of a murder that occurred in 1949. Not being born is insufficient to convince his captors of his innocence so he must find another way to prove he didn't commit the crime.