A mysterious death occurs in a retirement home for elderly actors. A neglected old actor, once famous for his Poirot-like roles, begins to investigate. He thoroughly interrogates the suspects, but has no easy task finding the killer among his fellow actors.
In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi...
The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place.
This story shows the two different parts of acting. The father is a strong, ambitious and inconsiderate actor but his son (Tibor) is a sensitive one. This all takes part somewhere in Hungary when socialism "controlled" the country.
János is a 35 years old, rich, succesful single man, who plans to go on a long vacation with his brand new car, but he happens to fall in love at first sight…
Péter Sóvári is a successful actor and notorious womanizer. Director Lajos Borsai, equally fond of the playboy lifestyle but in dire financial straits, aims to secure his fortune by wooing Mexican soap-opera tycoon Dulcinea de la Rosa as both wife and backer for his script. Their paths collide when both men fall in love with rising star Ibolya.
Mr. Schneider became wealthy after the end of the communism, but still remained a simple man. Her wife although wants a lackey.
A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete.
Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.
For more than ten years, Berry and Baby Boy has been one of the most popular cartoon series among nursery and kindergarten children. In Berry and Baby 5 - Tales of the Months, the animated film follows the changing seasons in twelve short stories, as nature invites the characters to play together each month. Their adventures include celebrating together at a special carnival ball in February, jumping rope together in April, making fruit ice cream together in July and surprising each other with exciting gifts in December. And in the thirteenth, encore story, they take part in a cake competition which reveals that anyone, even the ever-conscientious Owl Doctor, can make a mistake.
Rudi, a polite and quiet office hand, shares a special bond with his elderly grandpa. When Grandpa falls victim to a uniquely heartless phone scam that breaks his spirit and his health, Rudi decides he’s not going to let the petty criminals get away with it. But in order to get close to them, he needs to step far out of his comfort zone and turn into a different person. With a band of grey-haired allies on his side, he might just get to the scammers before it’s too late…
Near-broke and desperate, Hungarian entrepreneur Feri decides to put a sleazy spin on tourism. After leasing a Lake Balaton boarding house, he moves in his gang -- wife, nephew, daughter, and the daughter's boyfriend -- and then sets out to scam unsuspecting German tourists.
A priceless archaeological find, the “Mother of Barcika”, is loaded onto a special train to tour Hungary, only for fate to derail it at the sleepy Ivaros station. There, the engine, a gendarme, the relic and its guards all end up stranded in a pigsty, igniting chaos: the relic is gambled away, the station master loses control, and the local mayor’s daughter finds unexpected love. In the ensuing mayhem, rivalries, romances and small-town intrigues all collide until order is somehow restored.
A romantic drama in the Hungarian plain in the 19th century. A great love between the bandit and the poor girl, however the jealousy of Kitty the tavern keeper can destroy everything.
Thirteen new adventures of Peanuts the Snail Boy and Babouca the ladybird.
In 1940 Budapest, a successful doctor leads a perfect life, unaware that his wife and his adopted son are planning to run away together.
Trumpet player Géza Elekes does not play very well in his private life, and his fourth marriage has failed. One day he gets a call from his father, whom he hasn't spoken to in decades. This prompts her and her son, András, who is in the thick of things, to visit her parents, who live across the border. When he arrives in Transylvania, his father says he is fed up with her jealousy and moves in with him. Géza reluctantly accepts the idea, but eventually the three men set off for Budapest. Along the way, they face many trials and tribulations: hit-and-runs, chases, women, corpses and the green border.
In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession enshrouded by irresolution and despair, even long after he has been taken off the case. What emerges is not a crime story, but a harrowing venture through the darkness of the human soul.
A deep drama about life in Hungary after the WW2 until the revolt against Russians in '56. The main character is the head of the black market in Budapest. He thinks he can buy everyone and everything but at the end he must face that he can't buy life. A must-see for everyone. Casting involves some of the greatest Hungarian actors. The story takes place in the eighth district of Budapest focusing on the market place on Teleki square which is still working. The movie contains some archive footage of real fight during the revolution.
The 50 years old Ferenc rents an apartment on the Balaton beach, but it has a lot of debt on it. His plan is to make it profitable.
Young substitute teacher Rómeó Baradlay suddenly inherits homeroom duties for class 4C and struggles to keep order, only to develop feelings for one of his students.
Irén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together. Unfortunately, Hungary in the 70s is no place for dreams.
Like the previous two series, Peanut and Baby 3 - Playmates tells the story of the experiences of Peanut, Baby and their little friends in 13 episodes. In addition to the familiar characters, there are new ones to meet: the hatless Mushroom, the mysterious Star Girl, the horned bunny and the Croissant. The voices of the characters are once again lent by Judit Pogány, so that now there are more than a hundred different voices in the Bogyó und Babóca stories. Episodes: Sunflowers, Pebbles, Fluffy skis, Puppet theatre, Scooter, Spherical tower, Mushroom hat, Football match, Eggs, Bad dream, Mushrooms, Starry house, Parlour game.
The names Berry and Baby will sound familiar to all preschoolers and schoolchildren. The heroes of Erika Bartos's best-selling book series now come to life in the animated film "Bogyó és Babóca - 13 fairy tales". Bogyo the Snail Boy and Babóca the Ladybird are inseparable friends. In 13 short tales, they share many charming adventures together, making new friends and discovering the world around them. Episodes.
In a border town two sons of the local commander using stolen arms take hostages of eighteen girls in a dormitory, because they want to go West by plane.
The story of a mother who now needs the full-time care of her son who struggles to keep giving it.
Mr. Dezső and Rezső are selecting the heroes for their new operetta. They represent different tastes and styles, and keep arguing about the casting of the four men and four women.
The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of quick enrichment and return to the capital. Despite Éva and Emma, the two school mistresses longing for love and Demeter, the dove-keeper obsessed with a desire for flight life is boring in the country.
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.
Two elderly lonely village women fight for the affections of a tomcat. In this love triangle, their rivalry aims to ensure that neither of them stays alone. But to do so, they need to put their weapons down and find a way to overcome their loneliness.
An elderly couple in the traffic. The wife chitchats, warns, controls. She is a policeman, a GPS and a commentator, all at once. The husband growls or strikes out. This is how their world works. But life is a constant replanning...
While awaiting his release from the Soviet detention camp he is being held in, a half-starved refugee (Andras Ambrus) finds that an error has been made and his name is not on the to-be-released list. It is then that he is forced to assume the identity of a dead man whose name is on the list. Ambrus at first refuses, but because he was an orphan and cannot produce evidence of his true identity, he has no other choice. However, when he returns to the outer world and the community he was raised in, he is greeted with suspicion. When he tries to claim his part-ownership of a farm from his adopted uncle, he is refused and beaten by farmhands the uncle sets on him.
The story of a mother who now needs the full-time care of her son who struggles to keep giving it.
Diplomafilm is a short film that Béla Tarr made to graduate from Art School, in 1981. It is the predecessor of The Prefab People, with the same plot and the same actors, but with some changes in the plot.
After a woman dies, the devil allows her to relive a 2 minute period over and over in order to escape her fate.
Between 1993 and 1999, one man robbed 29 financial institutions in Budapest. Banks, post offices and even travel agencies fell victim to his crime spree. The police had no leads and no hope of finding him during his six-year stint. The only clue left behind at the crime scenes was the distinct aroma of whiskey. The media christened him the “Whiskey Bandit”. Never physically harming anyone, many began to eagerly follow his escapades through the media. A Transylvanian immigrant, who also happened to be a goalie for one of the city's largest hockey teams, named Attila Ambrus, was finally identified as the “Whiskey Bandit”. The police had finally captured him... or so they thought.
In 1960s Hungary, an introverted teenager’s life is turned upside down by a few days in the company of his coat hanger salesman uncle: a roguish charmer with a zest for life and a weakness for horse racing and women.
Szaffi is a full-length animated feature based on Mór Jókai’s short books The Gypsy Baron (A cigánybáró) and Szaffi. It has adventure, and treasure, and love, and a little black cat, and a war, and picturesque villains - a governor with a pressure release valve in his skull and a fat pig-loving baron, and of course, the good gypsies.
A new socialistic city is being built on the Danube's riverbank in the early 50's. The story is about a teacher who's living there.
After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved in by the real estate mafia, an unexpected relationship brings hope into her life again.
Gergő’s mother is obsessed with having a grandchild. She has a serious heart disease and has only days left to live. To give his mum some joy during her final hours, Gergő asks his neighbour Saci, who is five months pregnant, to visit his mother in hospital with him and tell her that she is carrying his child. It all goes smoothly, but a new heart arrives, and his mum is operated. Therefore, Gergő and Saci are forced to play the roles of the loving couple.
Hungary in the 1930s. The world suddenly changes around the peaceful office-clerk and regular, average petit-burgeois Kornél Cassius. Friends and relatives turn up in his home, who soon establish themselves there and even take the upper hand. They continue to arrive in increasing numbers, and turn the well-known objects and patterns of relationships upside down.
Budapest, 1948. Gyula Molnár, interpreter to the Supervisory Committee of the Allied Powers, is carried away from a party by plain-cloth police investigators. Recsk, 1950. Molnár, having attempted an escape and with a wound made by a bullet in his neck - is doggedly trying to get into the brigade of brick-layers, as escape is easiest from there.
The TV film based on the novel by Boris Palotai is the story of a teenage girl's coming of age.
In the fourth part of the Berry and Baby series of cartoons, Snail Boy and Ladybird explore the world through new adventures. Find out who has the best shells collected by Ugri and Szellő on the beach, how the wheelchair-bound Moonbird gets to the cricket concert alone, or what happens when big and small play football together. The story "The Drawing of the Hazel" shows that what one person thinks is ugly can be seen as beautiful by another, while the episode "The Bubbles and the Fairy Card" shows how conflicts between kindergarteners can be resolved.
As tensions grow between teenager Peti and his mother, the hope of a peaceful family celebration fades.
On a single day the fate of three couples are joined and some of them sealed.
As with the previous Bogyó és Babóca films, we have put together 13 short stories by Erika Bartos. The most characteristic and recurring motif of the stories is empathy, attentiveness, and the constant striving to fulfil the wishes and desires of others. In addition to the more than 100 characters who are well known to the Hungarian children's audience, new characters appear this time: the copper beetle, who is the master of bells and chimes, Otto the Badger, who gives a red Frisbee to his friend Regő Squirrel, and the millipede, who is invited to an apple harvest by his distant relative, the centipede.The tales are devoid of self-serving violence, are intended to teach "good manners" and are easy to follow and absorb even for the youngest children.
Two marriages, two generations, two crises, two solutions...
The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a welldressed gentleman, disturbs the public order, and hits a policeman. Andreas Pum goes to jail, loses his license and becomes toilet guard in the Cafe Halali after his release. Only at the moment of death he recognizes that he was always too decent and too obedient.