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- In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
- In 1962, while Gagarin flew around the Earth and others prepared for World War III, no event has happened in Hungary since a certain year, and it looked like nothing will for at least 30 years. However, to ensure the certain, Mr. Simon, block-trustee and ever-watching bastion of socialist order and decency steps into action.
- When Altan swipes prescription drugs from his brother Nuri's pharmacy, they soon find themselves on a dangerous but funny road trip to get rid of the stuff and escape the mafiosi Altan tried to double-cross. Along the way, the brother who are compete opposites finally bond.
- An alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.
- Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
- During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.
- Juli and Gyorgy, half-brother and half-sister, fall in love and become lovers. Juli becomes pregnant and Gyorgy is sentenced to jail for their illegal relationship. But their love only intensifies as they stand together against the world.
- Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Sir Michael Gambon) must write a novel in twenty-seven days in a deal to pay off his gambling debts, and feverishly dictates the novel "The Gambler".
- A Turkish watchmaker is employed to mend a village clock that has not worked for some seven years. However, what seems like a simple and un-exciting task is plunged into a web of mystery and intrigue when the watchmaker innocently witnesses the murder of a beautiful woman on his first day in the village.
- The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
- A husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.
- In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.
- The rather surrealistic story of a middle-class family who seem to communicate with each other mainly by chalking messages on the kitchen blackboard, while the young son observes every action through a series of strategically placed periscopes.
- Portrait of a young unstable man, unable to find happiness with a woman. Once a factory worker and nurse. Plays the violin, get kicked out of music school. Becomes a disc jockey.
- The first chapter of a two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II.
- A number of years after the events of the first movie, Istvan is now in love with Marie and has adopted revolutionary ideas while his brother Gabor has become a minister for the government. How will the shadow of war affect them both?
- A group of Hussars stationed at a Polish outpost hear there's a revolution going on in their native Hungary. Their attempt to return home incurs the wrath of the Austrians.
- Vera Angi works as a nurse in a hospital after WWII in communist Hungary. Because she speaks up about the terrible conditions in which the nurses and doctors have to work, she's placed in a six-month education course.
- Balzac's classic novel is brought to life in Hungary in the late sixties. László Sárdi, a young man from the countryside, moves to Budapest. He and his lover, the older, pretty Mrs. Bársony, want to start a new life here, but she is distracted by her own interests and Sárdi is left on his own. His ambitions as a writer, however, keep him in the capital, where he is confident in his talent and wants to get ahead as quickly as possible. He lives in a rented flat, earns his living by delivering newspapers, and works obsessively on his drama at the library during the day. It is here that she meets a young writer, András Dániel, who is also without connections but has friends.
- A film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.
- A foszereplo egy karmester, aki evekig kulfoldon elt es dolgozott, boldog csaladi hatterrel, de most ismet Budapesten van. Minden megvaltozott, meg a felesege is, aki egzisztenciat teremt, jol meno fogorvos. A Karmester egyre szetesettebb, nem talalja a helyet ebben a zurzavarban es akkor egyszercsak krizishelyzet alakul ki. Ideggyogyintezetbe kerul 6 napi nem alvas utan es beleszeret az orvosnobe ...
- Teenagers try to get to know the opposite sex during Sunday afternoon dance classes in Budapest in 1962.
- Bimbi is unemployed and she struggles to make a living. The previous tenant had a letter of recommendation for the director of 'Tormássy' company but she was sent to a madhouse in the meantime. Thus Bimbi can apply for a job with the "unused" letter however the letter says that the "lady is a bit silly" so even though she gets the job she is not entrusted with work until one day she is sent to be the typist for the CEO's son who is living in the countryside.
- A film about the Balkan in the second half of the last century, or to be more precise, about a town on the Danube, Braila, where Romanians, Turks and Greeks lived together. The story begins with a family falling apart: the hedonist mother and her children - Kyra and Dragomír- are constantly and scandalously by the father and the third sibling, who live separately. The mother, blinded in one eye, leaves her children, Kyra is kidnapped and sold. Dragomír is left on his own. The 17-year-old boy makes friends with Codin, who is a double murderer and a respected and feared figure of the neighborhood. They become "blood brothers". The rest of the film is about their friendship and the story of Codin's destiny.
- October 1944. Carlotta, a run-down traveling circus proprietress, recurs to smuggling to sustain herself and her band of Yugoslav partisans. In her adventurous journey, she comes across refugees who must live their country for racial, or political persecution. One day, a professor joins the circus...
- A new supervisor arrives at a horse ranch, but as he is not at all well-liked, he meets quite an amount of resistance and cannot put across his will.
- Towards the end of World War II, when the Germans once again attempt to hold off advancing Soviet troops, five Hungarian soldiers, a sergeant and four privates, are only hoping to survive, like most Hungarian soldiers. Under fortunate circumstances, they obtain a seal which they use to forge an open order. They try to survive the war in small villages.
- Three young research chemists celebrate a few days before New Year's Eve. Their friendship completely falls apart by the end of the night.
- Budapest, 1989. A group of teenagers is wandering around in the city. They are bored, want to go away, their parents do not care about them. They make their living from breaking cars and stealing. Fugitives, relatives from Transsylvania arrive to Zoli's family. The guys welcome Rita, the young girl in their gang. All of them gets caught by the purity and beauty of the girl, they fall in love and become jealous...
- András comes to Budapest because he failed at his school-leaving exam and he would like his aunt, a maths teacher to prepare him for the next exam. The boy wants to be an actor and intends to get to Hollywood once. His cousins and friends are making a film. Sanyi, the cinematographer with a wheelchair records everythings that comes close to his camera. Bélus is caught by the police, so András can take over the leading role...
- Esma is sent to the village of Kemal, her father's military friend, to spend the summer vacation. Trying to get used to the village life and customs here, the young girl falls in love with Hüseyin, whom she has just met. Meanwhile, Kemal's sister Saliha runs away from her husband and comes to the village.
- During World War II, Nazi solders encounter a watchmaker in a small Hungarian village who always knows the exact time without needing a clock.