József Madaras

Michael Strogoff

Captain Michael Strogoff is chosen in Moscow to be the courier of the Tsar, 5,523 km far to Irkutsk, to warn th...

Zsarumeló

The Istambul Train

Set on the Orient Express train, which traveled from Ostend, Belgium, to Istanbul, Turkey, it features several...

Howling V: The Rebirth

When a group of people from different walks of life converge in a Hungarian castle situated in Budapest which h...

The Round-Up

After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent t...

The Pacifist

A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by...

My Way Home

In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with...

Germinal

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal m...

The Red and the White

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery a...

Nobody's Daughter

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adoptive parents.

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...

Film...

Miklós Mészöly's short novel Film aims to show the last few hours of an elderly couple's life. The last moments...

The Stud Farm

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

Silence and Cry

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI...

Rokonok

Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon,...

Hungarian Rhapsody

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

Kántor

Red Psalm

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

A csillagszemű

The powerful, all-powerful lord, Bishop Ambrus, keeps the unfortunate serfs of his county kingdom in fear. But...

The Technique and the Rite

The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the re...

80 Hussars

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

Electra, My Love

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

Winter Wind

Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid for the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia.

The Blue Danube Waltz

When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation is necessar...

A lőcsei fehér asszony

During the Rákóczi War of Independence, noblewoman Julianna Géczy becomes caught between warring factions as th...

The Lion is Ready to Jump

SS doctor during the war worked on the serum of cancer, but discovered a terrible poison, one vial is enough to...

Season of Monsters

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

The Upthrown Stone

An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in ja...

The Black City

Feature film version of the 1971 series. On the eve of the 18th century, County Vicecomes Görgey Pál broods alo...

Unruly Heyducks

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

Cold Days

Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men...

The Confrontation

In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to engage in p...

My Father's Happy Years

Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just after World War...

The Bells Have Gone to Rome

The movie addresses the anti-fascist theme taken from a moral perspective. The movie tells the story of a group...

Agnus Dei

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a...

Epidemic

The film evokes the era of the 1831 cholera epidemic and the peasant uprising which followed it. The way of Doc...