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- Twin siblings enduring the harshness of WWII in a village on the Hungarian border hedge their survival on studying and learning from the evil surrounding them.
- A journalist is saved by a giant submarine captained by a 200-year-old man who takes him to an underwater paradise city where no one ages. That's when monsters and mutants sent by the captain's rival, a 200-year-old scientist, attack.
- 1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.
- 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.
- A story of how a Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the final months of World War II.
- Returning from America, Andras tries to renew his relationship with Anna, an old flame, but she refuses. His decision to buy a dog for companionship leads to a meeting with a little girl and a new relationship begins.
- Imi, a rebellious teenager and his best friend Tibi live in a suburbs residential complex. Imi start to feel that their relationship starts to turn towards sexuality. Their friendship is in peril because of a woman.
- Sandor Monori thinks that he can buy everything with his gold. The story takes place after the World War II at the famous Teleki ter where he is the King of the market.
- The story of a young starry-eyed shepherd who becomes a hero of his time.
- Set in '60s socialist Hungary, an introverted and somewhat inhibited teenage boy has a life-changing experience as he spends a few days with his uncle full of zest, a love for earthly pleasures, and a weakness for horse racing and betting.
- The film condenses the awkwardness of country and functionary existence, consumer thinking based on paternalistic relationships into the sequence of events of 20 August, the feast of the Hungarian new loaf with sentimental irony and documentary credibility. A railwayman's family on the Balaton highlands expects the Budapest relative with his functionary boss and family.
- 1936. Sylvia a rich but sterile woman, marries Akos but needs an heir to inherit her father's money. She bribes Irene a Jewish girl to have a child by her husband.
- Sóvári, an actor, is in love with the actress Ibolya Pintér. Ibolya is also courted by the poor count Borsay, too, who could only be saved from bankruptcy if he marries the rich Spanish widow. Sóváry is jealous and wants to prove his acting skills too, at the same time, so he shows up in the Budapest Hotel dressed as the previously unseen Spanish widow, and teaches a lesson to the count, who is trying to seduce her (him). But suddenly the real Spanish widow arrives, too.
- A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.
- In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi... Almost 2 decades later, Józsi becomes pregnant...
- A drug-addicted doctor (Thomsen) who works in an asylum discovers that one of his patients (Stubo) is a gifted writer.
- Varjú is a young guy who lives in Köbánya and is dating a girl named Zsozsó. He is a truck driver. He is delivering material for the construction of the nuclear power plant in Paks when a hitchhiker gets in. She is a real stunner, and she doesn't want to go to Paks, but to Boglár.
- A village-girl (Juli Kovács) arrives in the city to work in a factory. The work manager (János Bodnár) sets his eye on her, but at first the girl refuses his advance.
- A hot summer day six young men and two young women meet at the beach beside a deep river. After a while they go for a swim. At a point where the river is 8 meters deep, one of the boys gets the idea of diving to the bottom, and to bring up a handful of clay as a proof of the feat. The others follow his example. Back on dry land one of the girls suddenly wonders where Gabi is. When they figure out that no one has seen him coming up from the river, they get worried. Gabi's clothes are still on the beach, and they start searching for him along the banks and in the water. Finally they have to call the police, who start dragging the river. The corpse isn't found, and the following days Gabi's friends display different reactions to the loss. Some had unsettled matters with him, which now never can be solved. Some have already started to forget his face. At the third day the body is found. Summer is gone, and the circle of friends disbands. Some go to a bigger city for studies, while others have to stay in the small town and work. Left alone in inconsolable grief is Gabi's grandmother. Gabi's father died a long time ago, and now she has lost also her grandson, her only remaining support and joy in life.
- 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 journey is not easy, they have many difficulties to overcome. Each one has its own drama, yet they are united by a common will to reach their goal.
- Young maid Anna starts to work for the noble Vizy family. Mrs Vizy is proud of the hardworking servant but doesn't treat her well. Her nephew seduces Anna with sweet words, but leaves her as soon as she gets pregnant. The humiliations of Anna finally lead to a tragic ending.
- A Hungarian band plays American rock & roll and blues hits with great enthusiasm and passion, but success seems to avoid them. TV and radio don't play their songs, sometimes even their crowd just sits and sips beer. Something must be done, and the band's leader (Lóránt Schuszter) comes up with the big idea: write and play songs for the people about themselves and not about some exotic, but too distant people's life. "We move from Tobacco Road to Retek street" With the remains of the band and a second singer (Gyula Deák "Bill") they find what they failed to show people before. The rich new sound can finally translate the spirit of blues and rock much more than words from any dictionaries could, this is the Köbánya-blues.
- Two Hungarian documentary makers, having heard nothing about their countryman Mickey Hargitay for almost 15 years, embark on a quest for the former body-builder/B-movie star. They cross America and find Mickey, living quietly in Southern California, running his businesses and raising his children, who have names like Mariska (ring a bell?) and Zoltan, speak Hungarian, and look like Jane Mansfield (of course). This movie was shown at the New York Film Festival in 1989.
- The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Budapest. Children do not yet understand what is going on, but they're happy because the schools are closed. But gradually, to adults and children comes the understanding that something terrible is happening. Disappearing relatives, friends, and even killed some. Tips sent an army to put down the counterrevolutionary rebellion.
- The somewhat awkward Mester Lajos works in a leather factory and is in love with Éva, the kindergarten-teacher. Éva would like to become a singer. Vannai, the sly music teacher arranges for her to sing in the night-club "Kakukk", expecting her devotion in return. Éva and Lajos are at the point of confessing their love to each other when the boy (through his friend, the scoundrel Api) gets involved in a theft and is sacked. Éva gets him new employment through Vannai's help. Lajos believes Éva to have given herself to the music teacher and the two lovers quarrel. Vannai, a secret international spy, attempts to get an invention out of the country by using Éva. Incidentally Lajos unmasks and catches the gang. The lovers confess their love to each other and Eva starts her career as a singer. ,
- In a deserted industrial area on the edge of town, somewhere in Eastern Europe, there is a bathtub standing in the middle of an empty workshop. Eckermann, the meteorologist is having a bath in it. He spends most of his time daydreaming which earned him the nickname Little Cloud with his friends. He's got two friends: Berlioz, the restless hedonist and Vero, the strong and silent tough guy of the factories. The industrial area is going to be demolished very soon. The military unit controlling the industrial site orders everyone to evacuate the area which is being closed down - the guys need to move out.
- The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
- 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 himself from local problems. But he can only remain passive for a short time. The obsession of Director Kecskés, who is working on a solution to a serious water shortage, captivates him, and soon they are working together to find the best solution, defying the bureaucracy. A friendship soon develops between the two fanatics, who will do anything and sacrifice everything for a good cause, and Bene finally finds his lost love, in the form of Eti, a young pretty lady.
- A returned prisoner of war, his pretty new wife and his first wife's hunchbacked sister live together in a small isolated house, but none of them can find happiness.
- For seven years his family did not know anything about Gábor. One day he sends a video camera and a message on a video tape to his younger brother, János. They start sending video messages to each other and get on well, until it comes to light that Gábor and Judit, wife of János, had an affair in the past.
- Old vagabond (Tamburás) thinks highly of freedom and independence. That is why he lives in a ramshackle hut with his friends and lives by stealing, cheating and singing. Tamburás takes it too much to heart when his friends leave him and try to lead an honest life.
- A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization.
- Miklos, a magazine photographer, has a hard time finding the girl of his dreams. But in the summer of 1992 in Budapest, he meets Dora at a club and feels a strange attraction to her. But he feels no compulsion in pursuing the relationship. They meet more by chance than by design. When they go to bed, it's out of fatigue, no desire. and when they break up, he doesn't quite know how to feel.
- A photographer and a retoucher are wandering in small villages. They go from house to house offering their services. They try to record the truth, the true faces of these people.
- A soldier escapes from the horrors of World War I by masquerading as a female nurse at an elegant health-spa which seems strangely untouched by outside events.
- British youngsters in Budapest attempt to catch the thieves of the golden bust of Saint László.
- This adaptation of Lajos Zilahy's novel about a fatal love triangle was the first film of Katalin Karády who became a star overnight.
- A look at a man's withdrawal from society. The film draws a highly stylized and symbolic world from the log fragments of a man involved in an alcohol diversion.
- The heroes of the film are 17-year-old high school students. Ági is interested in school, movement work and getting their string quartet into the WFYS. Olga is interested in clothes, money and men. Pali Kaszás, the handsome practical teacher, takes a liking to Ági, but his disappointment drives him to Olga.
- 1863. Etienne Lantier, who has been fired from a railway company for being involved in union activities, lands a miner's job in the North of France. He finds bed and lodging at the Maheus', all of whom being miners themselves and whose daughter Catherine proves susceptible to his charm.The work is hard, ill-paid and dangerous. When the miners hear their wages are going to be cut down they revolt, led by Lantier. The company decides to bring workers in replacement and the authorities repress the rebels ruthlessly. The strike ends in death and suffering but hope for a better future still prevails, in spite of everything...
- Released from prison, a gangster (Michitaro Mizushima) retrieves diamonds sought by fellow yakuza.
- It tells the story of Mari, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. Mari is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she works, becomes pregnant and is cast out.
- Romantic comedy about a singing,drinking, devil may care young man who racks up debt but refuses to marry an heiress whose fortune would restore his family's hopes.
- A 17 year old girl, hustling money as a street musician after being evicted from her family home, is forced to disguise as a boy,is charged with a crime, and causes later confusion due to her double identity.