Ferenc Bács

Gloomy Sunday

Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in...

The Vulture

Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to fi...

Bastard

Ambrus, the canon pretender and Gerzson, the stinking rich lawyer, taking advantage of a sect and a fake hospic...

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

The journalist Alf Mattson gets thoroughly drunk at his birthday party, where his wife announces that she inten...

The Train Killer

Based on a true story, this film is a dramatization of the events that led to the destruction of one of the mos...

The Trumpeter

In the late 17th century, Hungary moved from Turkish to Austrian domination, becoming a key part of the Austro-...

Stop Mom Theresa!

Kata, in her 20s, loses her boyfriend and her job on the same day. She's been indulging in fantasies of a more...

Brady’s Escape

This movie is about the love and protection of a man from another culture for the lowly horsemen of the the pla...

The Mace with Three Seals

At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia...

Another Way

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva g...

Circus Maximus

During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team...

Death in Shallow Water

1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of th...

Az aranyifjú

The penniless but handsome Count Zalavári chooses a rich girl from the countryside for her money. They don't ge...

A Sunday in October

The film is a true account of the drama of "non-action" on 14th and 15th of October, 1944. The Nazis, having a...

Elysium

Film about the Holocaust. A Jewish family is allowed to keep the flat they have always lived in and to live a r...

Temporary Paradise

1943. French POWs escape through Hungary towards the Balkan. Jacques and Gérard are caught and taken to an inte...

The Fortress

A World War II-style "war game" setting the wealthy customers against skilled mercenaries goes awry when the si...

The Stud Farm

In 1950, when a young communist director arrives to take charge of a stud farm near the Hungarian borders, his...

The Émigré: Everything is Different

The final years of Sándor Márai's voluntary exile in San Diego, which led to his suicide in 1989. Based on his...

Gréti...! (egy kutya feljegyzései)

Gréti, a German shepherd, searches for her missing puppy.

Víkendszerelem

Legyél te is Bonca!

Our old friends Bence the Great Hunter, Andris, aka Mr. Doolittle, the Painter and then Bonca the Bird appear i...

The Red Countess

The plot of the film starts at the beginning of the century, in the heyday of the Andrássy and Károlyi families...

Two Stories from the Recent Past

Károly Makk strings together two novellas by Tibor Déry. A téglafal mögött is set in the early 1950s. Comrade B...