Hungary Movies

Via the New York Times: "The Hungarian director Gyula Gazdag has transposed the middle section of Balzac's "Lost Illusions" from Paris in the...

The film, depicting life in the tenement houses of Angyalföld in the thirties joins the neorealist currents of Hungarian film. Ambrus Pista, the...

Hawk and Berry are standing on a high-stand, looking for game. It would be a funny joke, if it weren't so sad.

When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses...

Before Dawn has a single shot which is several minutes in length. Technically this is immaculate, visually it is stunning. The story is set in a...

As a free adaptation of Voltaire's classic, our Candide tries to win the beloved Cunégonde's heart in different contemporary settings. In the...

Nándor Lerner, a successful building contractor, is plunged into a completely alien world and in a single minute loses his car, his papers...

Csendkút is a historical film drama made for the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle and dedicated to the poet...

A man's struggle in the market

Léna and Lili are a pair of identical 14-year-old twins living in an orphanage. The twins are very attached to their mother, and they wait...

One morning two men set off walking along the tram lines. They have no destination, but this could well mark the beginning of a new journey.

When a runaway prisoner’s taste for power wipes out his mission to lead his fellow inmates to freedom, their path to a much-desired liberation...

The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of...

The 18-year-old Julia lives in a poor mining town with her brother. One day she tries her luck at a modell casting in the hope of starting a new life...

As Hungary’s political climate becomes increasingly radicalized, Virág, a former green politician, loses faith in the democratic...

A handsome new guest arrives at Nelly’s place on a seemingly ordinary Tuesday. They instantly hit it off but she soon finds out that...