A woman wonders if she can forgive the man who ruined her life when she was young in this drama set in Hungary shortly before...
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2008
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Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian cattle dealer who was sympathetic to the fascist cause until September 8, 1943. Perlasca was...
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2005
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For his feature debut, L.A.-born Hungary resident Nimród Antal made Kontroll, a farcical look at the Budapest subway system,...
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2005
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Lonely bar pianist Misu is struggling to pull his life together when he accepts a job as a department store Santa, and meets...
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2005
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Joza
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2004
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Written and directed by Czech filmmaker Péter Bacsó, Hamvadó Cigarettavég is a romantic musical set in Budapest against the...
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2002
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Directed by Miklos Szurdi, Vademberek ("Wild People") chronicles four thirty-something males and their regular trips to an...
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2002
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A middle-class teenaged girl is kidnapped by Albanian truckers who rape her and hold her captive in the back of their rig....
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1997
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1996
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Three disappointed wives, each seeking to divorce her husband, gather together for a wild night of drinking and fun in this...
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1996
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Set during WW II, two Jewish Hungarian youths are sent deep into the countryside by their mother after their father is taken...
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1996
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This Hungarian anthology is comprised of three unconnected short films by different directors that are united in their grim...
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1996
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The evils of totalitarianism provide the central message of this Czech-French drama. The film is set in a quiet, rural...
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Evald
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1994
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This Hungarian satire pokes fun at the capitalistic tendencies of modern Hungary. The film is the sequel to 1969's...
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1994
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In this thriller a man attempts to honor his dying mother's mysterious final wish. Upon her deathbed, Felician's mother asks...
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1994
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Anna (Anna Ráczkevei) has a loving husband and three healthy, cheerful children. It has taken a lot of luck and a lot of work...
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Husband
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1992
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In the 1960s, Imre, along with a huge number of his friends, was what was then called a "radical," which is to say, he was...
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Imre
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1992
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In 1956, there was an uprising of Hungarians against their Russian overlords, which the Russians briefly allowed to flower...
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1991
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Angus is a college student with a problem expressing himself. It runs in his family, since his father is no more likely speak...
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1991
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1989
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The work of renowned Hungarian screenwriter and director Miklos Jancso has grown increasingly enigmatic since his first film...
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1988
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Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr began his career making social realist domestic dramas, similar to the work of John...
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Sebestyen
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1988
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Andras (Gyorgy Cserhalmi) is an artist whose past comes back to haunt him in this political thriller. Sent to a reformatory...
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Andras Hodosi
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1988
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1987
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Zoltai (Andras Balint) is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television...
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Dr. Bardocz
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1987
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In the early 19th century, the dreaded Emperor Napoleon was at large, posing a threat to all of his neighbors. In this...
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Baron Szepessy
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1986
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A man recalls the memory of his late childhood friend in a series of flashbacks in this uneven political drama. Benedict Both...
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Benedek Both
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1986
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Produced in 1969, the year after widespread student demonstrations in Europe, this amateur docudrama (made by students) is...
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1986
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Prince Gabor Bethlen (Ferenc Besenyei) imports the Spanish author Don Diego (Krzysztof Wakulinski) to write a favorable...
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Gabor Bathory
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1986
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This award-winning film by Ferenc Andras is a commentary on the nature of the older and younger generation in Hungary during...
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Reb
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1986
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Vacillating between characters who are real individuals or characters who symbolize archetypes, first-time director...
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Kata
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1985
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In this drama, an idealistic medical student ends up without a diploma because he performed an illegal abortion, and then he...
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1985
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This simple (though visually flawed) story of human tragedy is set around 1900 in Hungary and involves the life of a young...
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Sandor Sebök
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1985
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The seeming hopelessness of combatting an all-powerful government that will not tolerate political dissension is the focus of...
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Ferenc Majlath
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1984
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Vera (Mari Kiss) is at odds with herself over an affair with a married man in this standard romantic fare from Hungarian...
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Tamas
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1984
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In this film, an angel falls from the sky and one on-looker sees him as a means of stopping the aging process, another (an...
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1983
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1982
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A down-and-out, divorced engineer has turned to driving a taxi to make ends meet after he loses his job. On one particular...
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Jozsef Simon
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1982
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It is the 15th c. in Hungary. And young prince Gaspar (Laszlo Galffy) was sent off to Italy when he was just two years old,...
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1981
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Baron
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1981
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Based on Klaus Mann's novel, Mephisto details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange...
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1981
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A rebel leader imprisoned for trying to overthrow Austrian Emperor Franz Josef escapes from jail three years after an...
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Soldier
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1980
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Hungarian Rhapsody (Magyar Rapszodia) is the first chapter of director Miklos Jancso's two-part dramatized history of...
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Istvan
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1978
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Istvan
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1978
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The year 1848 saw a revolution and two governments in France, a revolt in Czechoslovakia, another in Austria, and the...
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Istvan Czordas
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1978
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In a little Hungarian university town, at the turn of the century, there exists a small whorehouse. On an ordinary evening,...
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Kelepey
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1977
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1977
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Three Hungarians find themselves in the American West during the Civil War era, and they discuss love and surveying...
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1977
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The Hungarian The Fifth Seal is a study in depersonalization. The story takes place in the twilight of World War II: the...
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1976
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While awaiting his release from the Soviet detention camp he is being held in, a half-starved refugee (Andras Ambrus) finds...
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Andras Ambrus
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1976
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A police inspector has the unenviable job of tracking down and banishing the ghost of a local wine merchant who simply will...
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1976
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Most movies are composed of many small snippets of film which are spliced together, connected by "wipes," and "dissolves" and...
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Orestes
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1975
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In the Hungarian film Madarkak, two girls leave their country lives to try and find husbands and excitement in the city....
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1971
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A young communist boy is abandoned by his partisans when he is hunted down by the Nazis. Hiding out at the home of a friend,...
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Andy
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1970
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