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- In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
- When Altan swipes prescription drugs from his brother Nuri's pharmacy, they soon find themselves on a dangerous but funny road trip to get rid of the stuff and escape the mafiosi Altan tried to double-cross. Along the way, the brother who are compete opposites finally bond.
- During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.
- An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.
- 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 head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
- Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Sir Michael Gambon) must write a novel in twenty-seven days in a deal to pay off his gambling debts, and feverishly dictates the novel "The Gambler".
- Juli and Gyorgy, half-brother and half-sister, fall in love and become lovers. Juli becomes pregnant and Gyorgy is sentenced to jail for their illegal relationship. But their love only intensifies as they stand together against the world.
- A group of Hussars stationed at a Polish outpost hear there's a revolution going on in their native Hungary. Their attempt to return home incurs the wrath of the Austrians.
- Portrait of a young unstable man, unable to find happiness with a woman. Once a factory worker and nurse. Plays the violin, get kicked out of music school. Becomes a disc jockey.
- In 1962, while Gagarin flew around the Earth and others prepared for World War III, no event has happened in Hungary since a certain year, and it looked like nothing will for at least 30 years. However, to ensure the certain, Mr. Simon, block-trustee and ever-watching bastion of socialist order and decency steps into action.
- 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.
- A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.
- Vera Angi works as a nurse in a hospital after WWII in communist Hungary. Because she speaks up about the terrible conditions in which the nurses and doctors have to work, she's placed in a six-month education course.
- A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting task is plunged into a web of mystery and intrigue when the watchmaker innocently witnesses the murder of a beautiful woman on his first day in the village.
- In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.
- Balzac's classic novel is brought to life in Hungary in the late sixties. László Sárdi, a young man from the countryside, moves to Budapest. He and his lover, the older, pretty Mrs. Bársony, want to start a new life here, but she is distracted by her own interests and Sárdi is left on his own. His ambitions as a writer, however, keep him in the capital, where he is confident in his talent and wants to get ahead as quickly as possible. He lives in a rented flat, earns his living by delivering newspapers, and works obsessively on his drama at the library during the day. It is here that she meets a young writer, András Dániel, who is also without connections but has friends.
- A number of years after the events of the first movie, Istvan is now in love with Marie and has adopted revolutionary ideas while his brother Gabor has become a minister for the government. How will the shadow of war affect them both?
- The first chapter of a two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II.
- 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 action through a series of strategically placed periscopes.
- A foszereplo egy karmester, aki evekig kulfoldon elt es dolgozott, boldog csaladi hatterrel, de most ismet Budapesten van. Minden megvaltozott, meg a felesege is, aki egzisztenciat teremt, jol meno fogorvos. A Karmester egyre szetesettebb, nem talalja a helyet ebben a zurzavarban es akkor egyszercsak krizishelyzet alakul ki. Ideggyogyintezetbe kerul 6 napi nem alvas utan es beleszeret az orvosnobe ...
- A film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.
- Teenagers try to get to know the opposite sex during Sunday afternoon dance classes in Budapest in 1962.
- In 1970's Hungary, two teen brothers take hostage 20 girls in their dorm to secure safe passage to the West. Based on the true incident of the first modern hostage situation in Hungary.
- This satire on film depicts the micro-climate of a technical vocational school newly established at a housing estate. The construction vocational school holds a name-giving ceremony, thus calling the attention of its supervisory organ to itself. The school-master distributes as well as receives presents from the sponsoring factory, and the pupils sit for a written examination of unheard-of material. The results are devastating, which the despotic school-master attempts to conceal by a staged disciplinary procedure.
- During World War II, Nazi solders encounter a watchmaker in a small Hungarian village who always knows the exact time without needing a clock.
- 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.
- A lonely actress fosters a boy from outer space for the weekends and as their bond deepens, he encourages her to make a career out of singing for children.
- Esma is sent to the village of Kemal, her father's military friend, to spend the summer vacation. Trying to get used to the village life and customs here, the young girl falls in love with Hüseyin, whom she has just met. Meanwhile, Kemal's sister Saliha runs away from her husband and comes to the village.
- Three young research chemists celebrate a few days before New Year's Eve. Their friendship completely falls apart by the end of the night.
- October 1944. Carlotta, a run-down traveling circus proprietress, recurs to smuggling to sustain herself and her band of Yugoslav partisans. In her adventurous journey, she comes across refugees who must live their country for racial, or political persecution. One day, a professor joins the circus...
- In 1966, Antal Bojtár Jr. was appointed as a representative of the Revolutionary Committee of the University College. Anti, in the spirit of his father's will, does not and cannot accept this appointment. Aware of his right, he confronts both his friends and his love.
- Towards the end of World War II, when the Germans once again attempt to hold off advancing Soviet troops, five Hungarian soldiers, a sergeant and four privates, are only hoping to survive, like most Hungarian soldiers. Under fortunate circumstances, they obtain a seal which they use to forge an open order. They try to survive the war in small villages.
- András comes to Budapest because he failed at his school-leaving exam and he would like his aunt, a maths teacher to prepare him for the next exam. The boy wants to be an actor and intends to get to Hollywood once. His cousins and friends are making a film. Sanyi, the cinematographer with a wheelchair records everythings that comes close to his camera. Bélus is caught by the police, so András can take over the leading role...