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1. Meseautó (1934)

99 min | Comedy, Romance

A light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever enchanting story of a beautiful girl falling in love with a rich man.

Director: Béla Gaál | Stars: Zita Perczel, Ella Gombaszögi, Klári Tolnay, Jenö Törzs

Votes: 724

4. Inkognitóban Budapesten (1976 TV Movie)

61 min | Comedy

A successful writer approaching his fiftieth birthday is forced to examine his conscience at a rural writer-readers' meeting.

Director: Imre Mihályfi | Stars: Ferenc Kállai, Klári Tolnay, Lajos Öze, Katalin Gombos

6. Rosszemberek (1979)

90 min | Drama, Western

After the 1848/49 War of Independence in the Transdanubian region. János Hegyesi, a late veteran of the War of Independence, is given the task by the chief bailiff Mérei to round up the gangs of outlaws who are rioting in Somogy County.

Director: György Szomjas | Stars: Djoko Rosic, Mari Kiss, János Derzsi, György Dörner

Votes: 138

7. Keresztelö (1968)

91 min | Drama

Two old friends - a famous sculptor and a local schoolteacher - meet at the baptism of a new family member. Courtesy gradually makes way for a full-scale confrontation.

Director: István Gaál | Stars: Zoltán Latinovits, János Koltai, Éva Ruttkai, Mária Majczen

Votes: 44

9. Trip Around My Cranium (1970)

77 min | Biography, Drama

Based on the autobiographical novel by Frigyes Karinthy in which the author shares his experiences on finding out having a brain tumor and undergoing brain surgery in the 1930s.

Director: György Révész | Stars: Zoltán Latinovits, Éva Ruttkai, Mari Törőcsik, Samu Balázs

Votes: 144

11. A hátvéd halála és feltámadása (1981 TV Movie)

61 min

Button football plays such an important role in the lives of five friends that they don't even realize the horrors of the war around them.

Director: György Révész | Stars: Levente Baltay, Koós János, Lajos Sárközi, Zoltán Herczenik

12. Csók, Anyu! (1987)

103 min | Drama

The rather surrealistic story of a middle-class family who seem to communicate with each other mainly by chalking messages on the kitchen blackboard, while the young son observes every ... See full summary »

Director: János Rózsa | Stars: Dorottya Udvaros, Róbert Koltai, Sándor Gáspár, Katalin Lajtai

Votes: 180

13. A nagy generáció (1986)

109 min | Drama

Things fall apart in Makai's life when his old friend Réb comes back from America with opportunistic intentions.

Director: Ferenc András | Stars: György Cserhalmi, Károly Eperjes, Mari Kiss, Róbert Koltai

Votes: 172

16. A miniszter félrelép (1997)

105 min | Comedy

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.

Directors: András Kern, Róbert Koltai | Stars: András Kern, Róbert Koltai, Sándor Gáspár, Judit Hernádi

Votes: 2,727

19. A kõmajmok háza (2014)

80 min | Family

Two 10-year-old boys, who live in the same building, with a story that's set in 1982 and the present day.

Director: Gergely Fonyó | Stars: Erik Járja, Virág Hajdu, Bendegúz Fazakas, Zétény Varga

Votes: 59

20. Biztosítás (1998)

31 min | Short

A shadowy group of men, make a living through insurance fraud, crashing automobiles to order.

Director: Nimród Antal | Stars: Sándor Badár, János Derzsi, István Homonai, Lajos Kovács

Votes: 140

21. The Tyrant's Heart (1981)

96 min | Drama, History

A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: Teresa Ann Savoy, László Gálffi, József Madaras, Ninetto Davoli

Votes: 192

24. Ten Thousand Days (1967)

110 min | Drama

Charts 3 decades of a country family, in which a peasant is able after WWII to amass land but runs into trouble during collectivization, when he will make enemies he hopes he can later turn against.

Director: Ferenc Kósa | Stars: Tibor Molnár, Gyöngyi Bürös, János Koltai, János Rajz

Votes: 338

25. Winter Wind (1969)

80 min | Drama

The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.

Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: Jacques Charrier, Marina Vlady, Ewa Swann, József Madaras

Votes: 208

26. Déryné, hol van? (1975)

98 min | Drama

An aging legend of the stage finds her position threatened by the emerging Stanislavski school of actors.

Director: Gyula Maár | Stars: Mari Törőcsik, Ferenc Kállai, Mária Sulyok, Imre Ráday

Votes: 60

27. Soha, sehol, senkinek! (1988)

95 min | Drama

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Ferenc Téglássy | Stars: Jolanta Grusznic, Ágnes T. Katona, András Kozák, Tibor Antal

Votes: 78

30. Extázis 7-töl 10-ig (1969 TV Movie)

84 min | Documentary, Music

A tableau of the most famous Hungarian beat bands whose fans speak about what music means to them, while some aging people explain why they think this savage type of music should be banned, censored, or at least played without drums.

Director: András Kovács | Stars: János Bródy, Károly Frenreisz, Charlie Horváth, Lajos Illés

Votes: 52

31. The Stud Farm (1978)

102 min | Drama

A new supervisor arrives at a horse ranch, but as he is not at all well-liked, he meets quite an amount of resistance and cannot put across his will.

Director: András Kovács | Stars: József Madaras, Ferenc Bács, Ferenc Fábián, András Ambrus

Votes: 158

32. Szeretök (1984)

84 min | Drama

Quest for love by divorced intellectual girl and her mother. The ending is in fact a precursor of polyamory.

Director: András Kovács | Stars: Mari Kiss, György Cserhalmi, Gábor Reviczky, Nóra Tábori

Votes: 29

33. A vörös grófnö (1985)

180 min | Biography, Drama

The film tells the story of Mihály Károlyi's wife, Katinka Andrássy, who, as a member of one of the country's most prestigious aristocratic families, agreed to marry the left-wing ... See full summary »

Director: András Kovács | Stars: Juli Básti, Ferenc Bács, Ferenc Kállai, Hédi Temessy

Votes: 63

35. Ideiglenes paradicsom (1981)

92 min | Drama, History, War

During WWII French POWs catched by Germans fleing to Hungary -an Allied to Germany-. where civilians welcome them very helpful. The tragig love story beginnig in febr.1943 . A small group ... See full summary »

Director: András Kovács | Stars: André Dussollier, Edit Frajt, László Szabó, Christian Van Cau

Votes: 20

36. The Door (I) (2012)

97 min | Drama

An author forms a strange bond with her eccentric maid that will have a lasting effect on both women.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Helen Mirren, Martina Gedeck, Károly Eperjes, Gábor Koncz

Votes: 2,465

37. Taking Sides (2001)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Music, War

61 Metascore

After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr

Votes: 3,815 | Gross: $0.19M

38. Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe (1992)

90 min | Drama, Romance

The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Johanna ter Steege, Enikö Börcsök, Péter Andorai, Éva Kerekes

Votes: 651

39. Hanussen (1988)

R | 140 min | Drama, History

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of... See full summary »

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger

Votes: 1,894 | Gross: $0.08M

40. Colonel Redl (1985)

R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, History

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ... See full summary »

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe

Votes: 3,344 | Gross: $0.00M

41. Budapesti mesék (1977)

90 min | Drama

A yellow tram lies overturned on the riverbank at the end of the war. Tattered, ragged, homeless men huddle together in a group, load it on rails trying to take it to the remise. Their ... See full summary »

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ági Mészáros, Maja Komorowska, Franciszek Pieczka, András Bálint

Votes: 262

42. Tüzoltó utca 25. (1973)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance

Hungary's postwar history told through the dreams, nightmares, and memories of the inhabitants of an old house on the eve of its destruction.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Károly Kovács, András Bálint

Votes: 348

43. Father (1966)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama

A boy in Budapest loses his father in 1945, when he was the age of six. He does not remember much of the father but fantasizes that he performed various heroic feats.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: András Bálint, Miklós Gábor, Dániel Erdély, Kati Sólyom

Votes: 1,072

45. Harlekin és szerelmese (1967)

87 min | Drama

Lint and his lover are sailing and making fun absent-mindedly at Lake Balaton when the anchor suddenly gets stuck in a bomb in the mud. Lint gets hurt while fussing about under the water. A... See full summary »

Director: Imre Fehér | Stars: István Bujtor, Éva Pap, Anikó Sáfár, Andor Ajtay

Votes: 30

46. Falak (1968)

95 min | Drama

An engineer gets all the blame for reporting a mistake because his bosses are worried about the possible consequences.

Director: András Kovács | Stars: Miklós Gábor, Zoltán Latinovits, Philippe March, László Mensáros

Votes: 72

48. A világ közepe (1980 TV Movie)

85 min | Family

King Matthias reaches Gyevi in disguise, where he faces the overbearing local justice.

Director: Tamás Fejér | Stars: László Helyey, Gábor Koncz, Árpád Gyenge, Károly Vogt

Votes: 30

49. Gyerekrablás a Palánk utcában (1985)

96 min | Comedy, Family

Lajcsi's parents are divorced, and his mother going to marry a man, whom Lajcsi doesn't like. The boy therefore kidnaps himself with his friends and demand that the boy's father return home from abroad immediately.

Director: Sándor Mihályfy | Stars: Ildikó Bánsági, Róbert Koltai, Nóra Tábori, Ádám Szirtes

Votes: 84

50. Meeting Venus (1991)

PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and United Europe. A Hungarian conductor (Arestrup) attempts to mount a bold new production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" ... See full summary »

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Kiri Te Kanawa, René Kollo

Votes: 1,422 | Gross: $1.00M

51. Egy pikoló világos (1955)

87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Marci has long had a crush on Julika, who lives in the same house as him, but before their love could blossom, he is drafted into the army. Juli is sent to work in a factory, where she ... See full summary »

Director: Félix Máriássy | Stars: Éva Ruttkai, Tibor Bitskey, Elma Bulla, Mária Sulyok

Votes: 127

52. Szentjános fejevétele (1966)

88 min | Drama

A story about a young teacher who has great ambitions to work in a village called Szentjános. And since she doesn't just want changes in the school, she will soon come face to face with the locals.

Director: Márk Novák | Stars: Ilona Béres, István Sztankay, Margit Dajka, Ádám Szirtes

Votes: 19

53. ...Hogy szaladnak a fák! (1967)

82 min | Drama

A young historian visits his stepmother in the small village where he grew up. After being away in the city for eleven years he is saddened and grows upset seeing her hardships.

Director: Pál Zolnay | Stars: Manyi Kiss, István Iglódi, János Koltai, Margit Dajka

Votes: 52

54. Megszállottak (1962)

104 min | Drama

László Bene, an engineer, moves from the capital to the countryside to escape his broken marriage and work problems. Here, for the first time, he tries to live as an outsider, distancing ... See full summary »

Director: Károly Makk | Stars: György Pálos, Éva Pap, Ádám Szirtes, Zoltán Makláry

Votes: 92

56. Égrenyíló ablak (1960)

81 min | Crime, Drama

The old woman has three sons. The eldest, Feco is a working boy, the youngest, Cinege is a little hot-headed, but clever and talented. But the middle one is a big jerk.

Director: József Kis | Stars: Margit Dajka, Lajos Cs. Németh, István Sztankay, Sándor Suka

Votes: 20

58. Razzia (1958)

101 min | Drama

János Gere is forced to be a beagle of the police who want to find an illegal communist print house.

Director: László Nádasy | Stars: Ádám Szirtes, János Görbe, Elma Bulla, Tivadar Uray

59. Szakadék (1956)

102 min | Drama

A boy from a peasant family returns grown up to his village as a teacher and tries to use his new role to bridge the gap (abyss of the title) between rich and poor, only to blamed for a death that happens.

Director: László Ranódy | Stars: Margit Bara, Ferenc Bessenyei, József Bihari, Mária Boros

Votes: 18

60. Rokonok (1954)

102 min | Drama

István Kopjáss is elected chief prosecutor in the town of Zsarátnok. The talented young man is full of ideas, big plans and ideas on how to clean the city of corruption. But the town's ... See full summary »

Director: Félix Máriássy | Stars: László Ungváry, Klári Tolnay, Gábor Rajnay, Sándor Pécsi

Votes: 57

61. Semmelweis (1952)

105 min | Drama

The life of a Hungarian physician through his struggles against the leading pragmatic, conservative quacks' party while he becomes the first pioneer of the antiseptic procedures, saving many women's life with his groundbreaking method.

Director: Frigyes Bán | Stars: Imre Apáthi, Margit Thurzó, Tivadar Uray, Jenõ Horváth

Votes: 25

62. Goose Boy (1950)

101 min | Comedy, Drama

A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose.

Directors: Kálmán Nádasdy, László Ranódy | Stars: Imre Soós, Erzsi Pártos, Teri Horváth, György Solthy

Votes: 321

64. Emberek a havason (1942)

88 min | Drama

A woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in.

Director: István Szöts | Stars: Alice Szellay, János Görbe, Péterke Ferency, József Bihari

Votes: 798

66. Dankó Pista (1940)

95 min | Drama, Romance

A Budapest gypsy musician has to sell his beloved family violin and later searches for it in Russia, where he reconnects with his first girlfriend, now a member of high society.

Director: László Kalmár | Stars: Pál Jávor, Erzsi Simor, Margit Lukács, Sándor Tompa

Votes: 55

69. Six Weeks of Happiness (1939)

80 min | Comedy, Romance

Gábor Bozsó is a professional burglar, but his daughter Éva, who knows nothing about it, is raised in an upscale institution. When she falls in love with one of her father's victims, things take a big change.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Klári Tolnay, Ferenc Kiss, László Szilassy, Erzsi Könyves Tóth

Votes: 29

70. Gardez le sourire (1933)

85 min

French version of the Austrian film Sonnenstrahl: a young woman full of despair comforts a lonely unemployed man who was going to drown himself.Together they find ways to make money and they become a couple.

Directors: Pál Fejös, René Sti | Stars: Annabella, Gustav Fröhlich, Marcel Vibert, Robert Ozanne

Votes: 53

71. Én és a nagyapám (1954)

110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Berci wins a bicycle race at the school, beating the older boys. Berci lives with his grandfather, who is a kind of "factory peregrine" and his only passion is drinking. Berci finds it ... See full summary »

Director: Viktor Gertler | Stars: Kálmán Koletár, Éva Ruttkai, Gyula Gózon, Samu Balázs

Votes: 62

74. The Lion Is Ready to Jump (1969)

91 min | Comedy, Crime

While trying to find a cancer cure during WWII, an SS doctor discovered a terrible poison. 20 years after the war, the old Nazi gets out of prison, and the hunt for him and his discovery begins.

Director: György Révész | Stars: Andor Ajtay, Irén Psota, István Bujtor, Ilona Medveczky

Votes: 191

75. Miss President (1935)

98 min | Comedy

The young, immature Zsuzsa Várkonyi becomes the president of the Várkonyi Textile Factory. When the managing director proposes to her she tells him she is in love with a young engineer who she doesn't really know anything about.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Lili Muráti, Pál Jávor, Ella Gombaszögi, Gyula Kabos

Votes: 64

77. Házasság (1942)

88 min

A busy surgeon forgets his wife Mária's birthday. He does not even attend the dinner in her honor. Mária is offended and, in her desperation, accepts the courting of a pianist. But when he ... See full summary »

Director: János Vaszary | Stars: Lili Muráti, Antal Páger, László Perényi, Margit Zsilley

Votes: 22

79. Kölcsönadott élet (1943)

89 min | Drama, Romance, War

Mária, a beautiful lady living a carefree, happy life, is on the brink of tragedy and cannot find a way out. At the request of her seamstress, in her name and role, she visits a wounded ... See full summary »

Director: Viktor Bánky | Stars: Lili Muráti, Katalin Ilosvay, Margit Lánczy, Zoltán Szakáts

Votes: 28

80. Az éjszaka lánya (1943)

72 min | Drama

A young woman is made to forget her past, the men, and that she was 'The Girl of the Night'.

Director: Frigyes Bán | Stars: Lili Muráti, Andor Ajtay, László Perényi, Zoltán Greguss

Votes: 23

81. Ez történt Budapesten (1944)

95 min | Comedy

Dr. Erzsebet Szikszay, lawyer, finds herself in an impossible situation. For the sake of her client, she is forced to play the role of a complete stranger's wife, and to continue the ... See full summary »

Director: Dezsõ Ákos Hamza | Stars: Lili Muráti, Miklós Hajmássy, Margit Ladomerszky, Manyi Kiss

Votes: 77

86. Message in a Bottle (1999)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Romance

40 Metascore

A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.

Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman, John Savage

Votes: 40,381 | Gross: $52.88M

88. Vasvirág (1958)

101 min | Drama, Romance

A shop girl falls in love with a well-meaning but homeless man, but eventually her boss blackmails her into a relationship.

Director: János Herskó | Stars: Mari Törőcsik, István Avar, Zoltán Várkonyi, Margit Dajka

Votes: 76

89. Az aranyember (1962)

107 min | Drama, History, Romance

Michael Tímar, captain of the St. Barbara, marries the daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run. While skilfully managing his wife fortune, Tímar is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization and the ideal of freedom.

Director: Viktor Gertler | Stars: András Csorba, Ilona Béres, Ernö Szabó, Marianne Krencsey

Votes: 628

90. Zöldár (1965)

111 min | Drama

Marci comes to Budapest from the countryside to study and tries desperately to retain his integrity amid fierce political battles.

Director: István Gaál | Stars: Benedek Tóth, Virág Dõry, Gábor Koncz, Judit Meszléry

Votes: 57

92. My Way Home (1965)

108 min | Drama, War

In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform ... See full summary »

Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: András Kozák, Sergey Nikonenko, Béla Barsi, Jurij Bodovszkij

Votes: 790

93. The Red and the White (1967)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War

During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army - aided by Hungarian Communists - and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.

Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: Krystyna Mikolajewska, Mikhail Kozakov, Tatyana Konyukhova, Viktor Avdyushko

Votes: 3,949

94. Silence and Cry (1968)

77 min | Drama

Miklós Jancsó's Silence and Cry is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a ... See full summary »

Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: Mari Törőcsik, József Madaras, Zoltán Latinovits, Andrea Drahota

Votes: 777

95. Red Psalm (1972)

87 min | Drama, Musical, War

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.

Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: Andrea Drahota, Gyöngyi Bürös, Erzsi Cserhalmi, Mari Csomós

Votes: 1,945

96. Electra, My Love (1974)

70 min | Drama

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.

Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: Mari Törőcsik, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras, Mária Bajcsay

Votes: 1,006

97. Adoption (1975)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

A lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.

Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh, Péter Fried, László Szabó

Votes: 1,493

100. Szegény gazdagok (1938)

70 min | Drama

Henriette is in a forced marriage with Baron Hátszegi, and her heart's choice is a poor lawyer, Szilárd Vámhidy. Her hard life is further complicated by a mysterious black masked bandit, ... See full summary »

Director: Jenö Csepreghy | Stars: Tivadar Uray, Zita Szeleczky, László Szilassy, Margit Lukács

Votes: 26



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