A young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956. Based on a novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
In this reenactment of a propaganda documentary, a woman is falling prey to the role assigned to her in slow motion. Upon her arrest, diplomat Mária Kerényi is interviewed by the state television. Her story in espionage confronts the mechanisms of autocracy and the concept of guilt in a closed society.
A champion runner finds himself torn between winning a race and compulsively amassing any object he finds on his way. The film came about from a workshop run by Balázs Lóth in Budapest called Celluloid Műhely. Each participant was given complete freedom to make anything as long as the production didn’t exceed one roll of 16mm film, which was donated by the workshop.
Four men posing as chimney-sweepers are looking for the answer in a goat's stomach after a disastrous afternoon- and they find it!
Four outnumbered hungarian soldiers hold a stand in the woods, against the soviet army, near the end of the second world war.
Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.
Gergő and his high-school friends, the “Pack”, live for sex, parties and racking up views on their online channel. As their videos grow increasingly extreme, a house party turns tragic when they single out Lilla as their next victim. In a single night, their reckless game shatters the illusion of invulnerability in Budapest’s youth scene.
Computers, TVs, cel tels and other telecom devices no longer work and the people are suffering severe withdrawal pains. Three brothers try to overcome their own major personal problems as the society slowly begins to find alternative ways of living.
Dreaming about the Wild West in the 1970s in Eastern Europe is not enough...
Nine-year-old Rózi is bored on the beach with her grandmother when she suddenly has a vision: she must help a pale man die.
The story of three women - a famous prostitute, her housekeeper and their new maid - living in Budapest of 1910s, whose passionate, bizarre and complex relationship can only lead to one thing: murder.
A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the prosecutor to see a man hang.
Different genres of short stories about the lives of the city, the people of Budapest presented an individual point of view.
A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.
A man's thoughts on the female soul, while the woman he covets appears everywhere in the form of famous paintings, and eventually leads him to his doom.
24 hours in the life of a mother, caught in the relentlessness of daily life, between her work, her home and her children.
A man who lost his wife and daughter in the Holocaust and a girl who lost her parents meet. Knowing each other′s emptiness, they become like father and daughter. It is the beginning of a sad love that the world cannot accept.
The movie is a chamber play which takes place in a theater at one night. The main motive is a love triangle involving a married couple and an actor, we can observe the last minutes of their complicated relationship. The casual, the theatrical and the dream-like reality combines in the movie. Its theme is the constant conflict between the sexual desire and faithfulness.
A satirical tale of the adaptation, casting and rehearsal of a theatrical version of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Very loosely based on a traditional Hungarian fairy tale, Peter Strickland's contribution to the omnibus film The Field Guide to Evil, this is an abstract retelling of a folktale about two shoemaker brothers battling for the hand of a beautiful princess.
A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.
Little Árpád steals his father's most precious treasure to give to his beloved as a gift. He tries to cover up his deed, for which he pays a heavy price. It's all in vain, all in vain.
Death does not select, man does. Set in Budapest, Heavenly Shift offers an eerie insight into the everyday lives of a rather extraordinary ambulance crew. The films main character is Milan, a young refugee from the Balkan War, who joins a team of paramedics but inadvertently ends up involved in the funeral business in order to finance his fiancee s rescue from the hostilities.