János Kende Movies

A Jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of World War II is taken to a concentration camp with his parents. Based on the memoir of Holocaust...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade

Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mari Törőcsik

Savanyú and his friend work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afternoon and the night, i.e. parties...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jaroslava Schallerová

Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lili Monori

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Róbert Koltai

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ninetto Davoli

The second film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.

Genre: Documentary

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A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homeland. Jancsó emphasizes highly evocative...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juli Básti

When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation is necessarily swift and comprehensive. This...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ildikó Bánsági

During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to know the lives of the drunkard teacher, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant

A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlton Heston

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mari Törőcsik

The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (played first by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: András Bálint

The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ferenc Kállai

Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead...

Genre: Drama

Cast: György Cserhalmi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacques Charrier

This film, set at the end of the 18th century, in a provincial and noble environment raises the question of humans forced to lead a meaningless life....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ilona Bencze

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Levente Szörényi

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mari Törőcsik

Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: György Cserhalmi

An unsentimental Hungarian film about the edgy relationship between a middle-aged woman and her young, restless daughter-in-law when the son-husband...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lili Monori

Kalán Imre, the district doctor lives in a small village surrounded by mountains. One day he is visited by two young relatives of his and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mari Törőcsik

Using high-school students, Hungarian director Ferenc Kardos re-created the 1848 revolutionary period in that country's history which was dominated...

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Cast: Mihály Kovács

On 27th July 1986, British stadium rock band Queen broke new ground by playing for the first time in Hungary, a country which was still under a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Freddie Mercury

Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: György Cserhalmi

Somewhere in Europe in the twentieth century, a young man decides to change his life by engaging in the army. A modern and quirky tale, with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jérémie Renier

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...

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Cast: Károly Eperjes

The teenage boy, Giuseppe, lives with his mother in Cammarata, a Sicilian mountain village. His father left the family years ago, and has since then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ángela Molina

Two rabbis show the ruins of an abandoned synagogue to a group of primary school-age Jewish children, and stand by as the children dip bread in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dávid Jancsó

To celebrate Sleeping Beauty's awakening, the cruel stepmother organises a dress-ball in the Wonder Castle and invites the characters of all tales...

Genre: Family

Cast: Antal Páger

The scene of the story taking place in the 18th century is an inn, which is advertised by its owners for sale. The inn was namely the scene for...

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Cast: Mari Törőcsik

Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, Juli stays at a women's shelter run by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marina Vlady

The subject-matter of this comedy is age-old: that of the schizophrenic soul. Papa would have liked boy twins years ago, but her wife gave birth to a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dezső Garas

The film director starts shooting his film about the manager of a large corporation who committed suicide for mysterious reasons. As the cumbersome...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Éva Ruttkai

István and Jakab are fire-extinguisher experts. They travel the country to check fire-extinguishers at country factories. During their tours...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Péter Huszti

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: István Bujtor

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...

Genre: History

Cast: József Madaras

It is the story of Bálint Balassi , the poet and warrior. The scene is Hungary at the end of the 16th century. The soldiers stationed at the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: István Sztankay

Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ernõ Lefkovics

Genre: Documentary

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Cast: Éva Kerekes