György Cserhalmi

Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man

The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied...

Kontroll

A subway enforcement officer working in the oppressively gray Budapest metro gets a chance at love — but first...

Mephisto

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Fau...

Jupiter's Moon

A young refugee, Aryan, is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border. While tending him back to...

The Fifth Seal

In 1944 Budapest, one of a group of four friends poses a hypothetical moral question to the others, an act that...

Son of the White Mare

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses...

Hanussen

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care o...

Damnation

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up w...

Kántor

Rózsa Sándor

The rise and fame of Sándor Rózsa, the infamous outlaw of 19th century Hungary.

Macbeth

Consistent of only two long shots, three witches predict that Macbeth will ascend to the throne of Scotland. To...

Hungarian Requiem

1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall t...

Zelary

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discover...

Private foxhound

The protagonist of the film is Simon, who comes home for his father’s funeral after having spent two years in A...

Stalin's Bride

At a dusty crossroads in the Soviet Union villagers surrender their possessions - a horse, a samovar, a goat -...

Johnny Corncob

A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, w...

Season of Monsters

Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television int...

Neither with You

Gergő’s mother is obsessed with having a grandchild. She has a serious heart disease and has only days left to...

So Much for Justice!

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), the film foc...

So Much for Justice!

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), the film foc...

American Torso

In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation...

The Agitators

After the World War I, enthusiastic young people found the intellectual group of Hungarian Communist Party. The...

Red Psalm

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisa...

Narcissus and Psyche

Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor...

Paths of Light

Two stories running in parallel: In one, a model is surrounded by men wanting to use and abuse her though, with...

80 Hussars

The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly ordinary m...

Hungarian Rhapsody

The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.

Electra, My Love

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aeg...

The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary

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

Reflections

One day Novák Erzsébet kindergarten-teacher destroys her papers, cuts her hair and closes her mouth forever. Sh...

Bitches

Enikős and Dorkas marriage is unbearable. Hysterical, cruel and humiliating scenes are enacted in front of the...

The Phantom on Horseback

News spreads like wildfire through the streets of Lubló: the ghost of recently deceased Mihály Kaszperek has be...

Apricot Island

A captivating story of a woman tested by a life full of passion, the cruelty of fate and unrestrained love. The...

The Vulture

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

The Unburied Man

One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungar...

Unruly Heyducks

This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István order...