hungarian films to watch

A light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever enchanting story of a beautiful girl falling in love with a rich man.

A successful writer approaching his fiftieth birthday is forced to examine his conscience at a rural writer-readers' meeting.

After the 1848/49 War of Independence in the Transdanubian region. János Hegyesi, a late veteran of the War of Independence, is given the task by the chief bailiff Mérei to round up the gangs of outlaws who are rioting in Somogy County.

Two old friends - a famous sculptor and a local schoolteacher - meet at the baptism of a new family member. Courtesy gradually makes way for a full-scale confrontation.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Frigyes Karinthy in which the author shares his experiences on finding out having a brain tumor and undergoing brain surgery in the 1930s.

Button football plays such an important role in the lives of five friends that they don't even realize the horrors of the war around them.

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.

Things fall apart in Makai's life when his old friend Réb comes back from America with opportunistic intentions.

Reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet, the film is set between Christmas 1899 and the eve of the new century, 1900.

A Minister and the Secretary of the Opposition party go to a 5 star hotel to conduct a secret affair. Their plans are ruined when they discover a corpse lodged in the window of their room.

Two 10-year-old boys, who live in the same building, with a story that's set in 1982 and the present day.

A shadowy group of men, make a living through insurance fraud, crashing automobiles to order.

A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

Charts 3 decades of a country family, in which a peasant is able after WWII to amass land but runs into trouble during collectivization, when he will make enemies he hopes he can later turn against.

The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.