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- DirectorKrisztina DeákStarsEszter ÓnodiBabett JávorPiroska MógaThis film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on real-life events, an Eastern European circus artist family that fled to the West. If they want to stay in the circus business they have to make up an exotic act. The mother spends all their money to buy a very dangerous act: hanging by her hair high up in the dome of the circus while juggling with burning torches. Every night Aglaja is terrified by the fear of losing her mother. But, on some day, she has to follow the family tradition and become the "Woman with the Hair of Steel".
- DirectorSzabolcs HajduStarsZoltán Miklós HajduKyle ShewfeltGheorghe DinicaHaving suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils.
- DirectorGuy FerlandStarsKevin BaconBrad RenfroMaximilian SchellA loner befriends a local celebrity, Billy Magic, but he soon begins to tell lies in order to maintain the friendship and the newfound status.
- DirectorDiana GroóStarsGyörgy Bajomi NagyRodrigó BaloghRudolf BaloghA boy's secret trek from his country town to Budapest to claim a prize evolves into the hopeful search for his missing father. Lali, a Roma boy, wins a chocolate bar from a friend in a card game and discovers that the wrapper makes him the lucky winner of a red motor scooter. How to claim the prize in person, as required, when you're only twelve and look much younger? First-time director Groó creates a sure and realistic depiction of childhood on the cusp of manhood in this sensitive and lovingly crafted coming-of-age story.
- DirectorCsaba BollókStarsMária VargaRózsika VargaMarian Rusache
- DirectorPéter BacsóStarsTibor OrbánNóra KáldiLászló Tahi TóthWhen András, Albert and Bence are on a cycling tour around Lake Balaton, their dreams come true. Sunshine, beach and pretty girls. András and his younger brother run after the same girl, Eszter. András persuade his brother not to pinch the girl. András pick her up one night and split up with her next day. Eszter follows the boy, but András sends her away.
- DirectorViktor GertlerStarsMiklós GáborKálmán LatabárKamill FelekiKocsis Ferenc excellent staff appointed the new director of public stores. Ilonka a talented fashion designer, Boriska a dear, Daniel, a overzealous, Klimke, a conservative sale and Glauziusz uncle, conscientious, honest book promotes the work. Ilonka initially rather just keep arguing, even though both of their lives off the job. The selfishness will love soon. Dancs Meanwhile, the old manager spreads the rumor that the new socialist trade can not meet the demand. Relatives and friends start buying into action, leading to mass hysteria. However, the new store is borne by the customer siege until the arrival of the supply
- DirectorMárton KeletiStarsTamás MajorImre SinkovitsIván DarvasDuring World War II, PFC Molnár decides his military service is over, and with a serious amount of money hidden in hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who are also trying to wimp out on their duties.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMargaret SullavanJames StewartFrank MorganTwo employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
- DirectorIldikó EnyediStarsDorota SegdaOleg YankovskiyPaulus MankerTwo twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of the luxurious Orient-Express.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsAndrás BálintIlona BéresJudit HalászJancsi Oláh is in the transitional phase between adolescence and adultness. He is born in 1938, and is now getting his first employment as an electronic engineer. On some TV-screens he happens to see a young lawyer, Éva Halk, who arrests his attention. In his imagination she is the most interesting woman he ever saw. Jansci is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk. They fall in love, and find common memories in the engagement in The Pioneer Railway at the age of 12. Both of them also chose to stay in Hungary in '56, when many of their friends fled the country. The sudden death of the gang member Laci in leukemia is a hard blow for them all. The fear of death grabs Éva and Jancsi. They start seeing each other as obstacles to their own development, and drift apart.
- DirectorBéla GaálStarsFerenc KissTivadar UrayGyula Csortos
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsOscar Beregi Sr.Gábor RajnayIca von LenkeffyThe adventures of captain Mihály Tímár, who aids a persecuted Turkish Pasha and his daughter, Tíméa in their escape on the Danube. After the Pasha dies, the captain acquires his fortune and becomes a well regarded gentleman. Seeing how the Pasha's friend and his family mistreat Timéa he purposefully tricks the man into financial ruin and buys his house in the aftermath. Tíméa marries him out of gratitude. She remains faithful but distant to Tímár. During his passage on the Danube, Tímár met Noémi, a girl living on an island with her mother. Tímár decides to go back to this island because he grows tired of his unfulfilling marriage. He and Noémi eventually fall in love and have a child. Every summer Tímár returns and lives on the island with his secret family. How will his double life unfold?
- DirectorViktor GertlerStarsAndrás CsorbaIlona BéresErnö SzabóMichael Tímar, captain of the St. Barbara, marries the daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run. While skilfully managing his wife fortune, Tímar is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization and the ideal of freedom.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsMari TörőcsikImre SoósÁdám SzirtesIn a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love.
- DirectorÁron MátyássyStarsJózsef KádasTeréz VassEszter Földes1997. Young car mechanic Iván lives in a godforsaken village in eastern Hungary. He looks after his mentally disabled sister Eszter and earns extra money smuggling diesel oil from Ukraine. The siblings' coexistence is disrupted by a tragic event, Eszter is raped. A police investigation gets under way; in the meantime, Iván starts up a relationship with young Ilus, who has just finished school and is planning on going to the university. Iván plainly wants to leave his old life behind him, but will he be able to fulfill this ambition?
- DirectorAndrás Vágvölgyi B.StarsZsolt NagyLilla SárosdiTibor GáspárIn the summer of 1959 Béla Kreuzer - a loader and gambler - is handcuffed and arrested. He is placed in detention and at first he thinks this is because his dubious activities on the racecourse but it soon turns out that the reason is his participation in the revolution in 1956. During the investigation old friends turn their backs on him as does his girlfriend. The only person he can trust is his cellmate. The ruthless prosecutor would rather have him hanged, but the detective, who is more of a Svejk-ish character, just wants the case off his hands. The prosecutor asks for capital punishment, but the judge opts for a sentence of 15 years in jail, which Béla Kreuzer serves to the last day. When he comes out is 1974 and finds the world is no longer the same.
- DirectorLili HorvátStarsKinga VecseiZsolt AntalSzabolcs ThuróczyThe Wednesday Child is a coming-of-age story - how can someone who grew up without a mother become one herself?
- DirectorSzabolcs HajduStarsImre GelányiLujza HajduSzabolcs HajduA year ago Ernella, Albert and their 10 year old daughter, Laura, left the country for a better life. They haven't managed to succeed in Scotland, so they came back. In the middle of the night they turn up at Eszter's place, the sister of Ernella. Eszter, her husband Farkas and their 5-year-old son, Bruno, live in better circumstances than Ernella's family, who struggle with serious financial problems. The two families have never been in real harmony with each other and only Eszter's family can feel that. Ernella's family loves to be at Eszter's, although they can't agree on anything. The question is, how the two families are able to get along with each other at Eszter's sublet and for how long?
- DirectorGyörgy KristófStarsSándor TerhesÉva BandorJudit BárdosOUT is an odyssey about a 50-year-old family man Agoston wandering through East Europe. After losing his lifelong job in a power plant of a small Slovak village, Agoston takes the shady but alluring opportunity to work as a welder in a shipyard in Latvia. The journey in hopes of a new job in reality turns into an accelerating whirlwind of absurd events of short encounters, newly found-and-lost-again friendships subtracting from Agoston all his possessions and everything he once believed to be his whole life. However Agoston doesn't give up his search for income and decides to pursue his dream of catching a big sea fish.
- DirectorMárton SzirmaiStarsZsolt AngerTamás AscherMihály Buzás
- DirectorBenedek FliegaufStarsKatalin ToldiGyöngyi LendvaiLajos SárkányUnknown racist murderers have already attacked four families. Some of them died. Who will be the next on this ordinary day? Inspired by a true story.
- DirectorLajos KoltaiStarsMarcell NagyBéla DóraBálint Péntek14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsKatalin BerekGyöngyvér VighPéter FriedA lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.
- DirectorPéter LichterBori MátéStarsSzabolcs HajduThe Rub is a psychedelic retelling of Shakespeare's play from within the mind of the protagonist. The film was created with hand painted and rotted 35 mm and 16 mm celluloid strips, to create a new vision of the brooding Dane's experience.
- DirectorAlbert Hanan KaminskiStarsOri PfefferHana LasloNitzan SitzerKing Solomon, son of King David of Jerusalem, is in a journy to find his place as king while facing a demonic creature and queen Sheeba.
- DirectorIván KapitányPéter RudolfStarsPéter RudolfGábor ReviczkyImre CsujaThis film tells the story of a few uneventful days in the life of six pals. Lali, a great fan of America, owns a sandwich stand on the side of the road, called The Glass Tiger. Gaben pinches cars; Fox is a petty swindler; Sanyi a half-wit homeless; Coco can't shut up about getting some dough and going to America; Slimmy keeps playing the saxophone, despite the others' frayed nerves. Gaben talks Lali into buying an old Chevrolet Impala, the real American dream. After the long escapade of getting the car, Lali doesn't even get the chance to try the Chevvy out, because a truck completely demolishes it. Fox in the meantime is looking excitedly for the "Wreck", what he has been trying to sell for big money. But Lali has sold what he thought to be scrap, not good for anything. Fox is threatened by some tough guys to bring it back or pay up. He has to get money at all costs. Coco can think of only one solution. They have to rob the nearby bank. They all get into a car, but the big heist does not work out perfectly.
- DirectorLili HorvátStarsPéter OrthGyula HorváthJúlia VillányiA small town somewhere in Hungary. Teenage kids spend their summer holiday at the old swimming pool. Rigó, the local champion, and Gyuszi, who follows Rigó wherever he goes, are hanging out together day and night. The film is about the end of their friendship.