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83
70
8.5
/7063/
81
/119/
79
/91/
4.3
/13423/

The Fifth Seal (1976)
In 1944 Budapest, one of a group of four friends poses a hypothetical moral question to the others, an act that will unexpectedly alter their lives forever.
poster
79
69
7.5
/4265/
69
/72/
70
/89/
4.0
/6231/
95
/21/
86
/73/

The Red and the White (1967)
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.
poster
73
57
6.9
/4713/
70
/65/
68
/37/
3.3
/775/
92
/12/
76
/59/

Children of Glory (2006)
During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team, is torn between his love for a revolutionary student and his training for the Melbourne Olympics.
poster
AMC+ Amazon Channel
56
51
6.2
/8940/
59
/206/
59
/178/
3.1
/4280/
41
/201/

The Countess (2009)
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
31
7.3
/1126/
66
/19/
69
/31/
3.8
/1816/
100
/1/

Diary for My Children (1984)
After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.
poster
fuboTV
57
26
6.1
/1050/
51
/18/
46
/18/
3.1
/406/
83
/6/
39
/10/

Song Without End (1960)
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
poster
67
25
6.8
/1635/
67
/50/
67
/17/
3.4
/565/

Tall Tales (2019)
Shortly after the end of World War II, a con man on the run finds himself in a passionate love affair that may well cost him his life.
poster
71
20
6.8
/840/
64
/14/
71
/21/
3.6
/862/
83
/1/

Silence and Cry (1968)
Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women.
poster
75
20
8.3
/1213/
74
/39/
73
/12/
3.6
/371/

Stephen, the King (1984)
István, a király ("Stephen, the King") is a Hungarian rock opera written by Levente Szörényi (music) and János Bródy (lyrics), based on the life of Saint Stephen of Hungary. The storyline was based on the play Ezredforduló (Turn of the Millennium) by Miklós Boldizsár, who co-wrote the libretto. The opera was first staged in 1983 on an open-air stage in Budapest. This first performance was also made into a 1984 film, directed by Gábor Koltay, and its music released on an album. The musical became a smash hit and is still very popular in Hungary and among Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries.
poster
62
19
7.0
/992/
58
/10/
53
/16/
3.4
/595/
62
/12/

Another Way (1982)
Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva gets a job as a journalist. There, she meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
poster
53
18
4.5
/1952/
59
/37/
56
/17/
2.7
/415/

Hadik (2023)
During the Seven Years War, Austrian Queen Maria Theresa sends her best general, András Hadik and his Hussars to raid Berlin and humiliate the Prussian King, Frederick the Great.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
17
6.9
/356/
64
/11/
71
/15/
3.6
/683/

Diary for My Loves (1987)
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
poster
Kanopy
62
17
6.4
/556/
50
/5/
62
/9/
3.6
/933/

The Confrontation (1969)
In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to engage in peaceful debate with its students.
poster
32
13
2.3
/17294/
43
/33/
25
/12/
2.1
/1238/
31
/2/

Now or Never! (2024)
On March 15, 1848, a young firebrand poet, Sándor Petöfi ignites the Hungarian Revolution with his passionate 'National Song', prompting the Austrians to dispatch a ruthless secret agent to assassinate him and suppress the uprising.
poster
51
7
4.7
/1035/
57
/16/
40
/4/
3.0
/226/

The Bridgeman (2002)
This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the life one of the greatest Hungarian aristocrats - Count Széchenyi - who was born with extra-ordinary mental and spiritual talents. In the years following the fall of Napoleon the young count Széchenyi irresponsibly seduces his brother's wife, and the consequent scandal ruins his career as an army officer. After the sudden death of his humiliated lover Count Széchenyi drastically changes his character from that of a shallow young man into a responsible nobleman seeking to conquer his fate by creating great achievements in his remaining life.
poster
?
5.8
/30/
10
/1/
72
/2/

Palkó Csinom (1973)
The musical adventure film goes back to the early eighteenth century, the times of the battles between the Hungarian insurrectionists and the pro-Austrians. Palkó and Jankó are about to join the insurrectionist army when they clash with a pro-Austrian troop. Jankó is captured and put in Count Koháry's prison.
poster
43
?
5.8
/190/
20
/1/
53
/3/

Eyes of the Holocaust (2000)
Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation present interviews with survivors of the Nazi death camps in Hungary. Their tragic testimonies are illustrated through newsreels from the era and archival photos.
poster
?
7.3
/35/
50
/3/

The Legend of the Gold Train (2022)
In the endgame of WWII a few hundred bank employees and their family members rescued Hungary's entire gold reserves on a train from the Soviet army and were hiding it in a small Austrian village until the end of the war.
poster
?
6.7
/62/
37
/4/

The Angelmakers (2005)
The Angelmakers is a 2005 documentary that provides insight into the epidemic of arsenic murders by women, known as The Angel Makers of Nagyrév, in 1929. The film is shot on location in the rural Hungarian village of Nagyrév, alternating between portraits of the surrounding landscape and first-hand narrations by the elderly inhabitants.
poster
Cultpix
?
6.1
/26/
62
/4/
40
/4/

Unruly Heyducks (1974)
This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd a huge herd of cattle through the country torn to three parts, to the Dalmatian coast, where he can get weapons in exchange, for fighting the Austrians.
poster
?
1.7
/96/
20
/1/
40
/1/

A pozsonyi csata (2020)
N/A
poster
51
?
6.4
/271/
25
/2/
42
/5/
3.5
/456/

Agnus Dei (1971)
Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avenges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression.
poster
?
6.4
/29/
10
/1/
35
/2/

God Walks Backwards (1991)
From the film-shooting in the Buda Castle Marci and his friend go to a well-paying job. The scene is a big castle in the middle of a huge park. They enjoy the company of the Kid and the beautiful naked French girl, Nathalie. Their job is to watch the monitors on which they can see the Moscow coup détat. By the time Gorbachev is executed the Communist and the Nationalists have taken turns in occupying the castle and the park.
poster
34
?
3.4
/557/
26
/6/
44
/5/

Sacra Corona (2001)
Sacra Corona is a historical feature film released to commemorate the millennium of the state's founding. The story deals with the 11th-century throne struggles of the House of Árpád.
poster
58
?
6.4
/420/
55
/6/
55
/6/

The Unburied Man (2004)
One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by Imre Nagy, and the memories of his daughter, Erzsébet Nagy, as well as authentic documents and records.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
35
?
5.3
/319/
40
/2/
36
/6/
12
/4/

Broken Lullaby (1994)
Rich Hungarian-born orphan Katya Davidov commissions Jordan Kirkland to research her past starting from a photograph, showing her as a child next to an elusive Fabergé music box. Luckily experienced Yankee-Hungarian treasure hunter and womanizer Nick Rostov gently forces his help upon her, although Jordan stubbornly risks dealing with his dodgy competitor Gudrun Kuper and her ruthless employer, count Borodin.
poster
67
?
6.6
/289/
65
/9/
65
/7/
3.5
/509/

Diary for My Father and My Mother (1990)
This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.
poster
34
?
2.6
/1210/
31
/17/
45
/9/

The Conquest (1996)
Filmed in commemoration of Hungary's 1100th anniversary and on the sites of the actual events, a cast of thousands authentically recreates the 896 AD arrival of the Magyar chief Arpad (Nero) and his seven tribes into the Carpathian basin from the steppes.
poster
54
?
7.0
/129/
50
/2/
82
/6/

Rákóczi's Lieutenant (1954)
N/A
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
?
5.0
/899/
50
/31/
41
/17/

Janosik (2009)
The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he becomes the troop's leader and is recognized as a brave and honorable commander, he never kills anyone he robs. Along with the fame he starts enjoying popularity among women. But Janosik's success raises jealousy in one of the troop's members, greedy and brutal Huncaga.


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