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During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army - aided by Hungarian Communists - and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively.

1552, the great Turkish Empire wants to conquer Europe, and the world. The last stand is Hungarian Kingdom, and the castle of Eger. The brave soldiers decides they will fight till the end of their lives.

A film about the coming-of-age of the 60s' youth in Hungary. Less about their everyday struggles and heartbreaks and more about the most up-and-coming beat bands of the country.

In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director's consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power.

Merry hell breaks lose when half of Budapest invades the apartment of a lonely, old fashioned elderly lady who has decided to move.

Miklós Jancsó's Silence and Cry is 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. Due to the generosity of these women and a former childhood pal, who is now a commandant of the local Royal Gendarme outfit, István is safely hidden from the ever-prying eyes of the secret policemen, who relentlessly roam the countryside searching for ex-Red Army men and their sympathisers. However, upon discovering that the women are secretly poisoning the mother-in-law and the husband, the legal owners of the farm, István must make the most difficult decision of his life. As a personal war is waging within his own consciousness over morality and self-preservation, István must decide whether to remain silent about the women's devious secret and preserve his own life, or to report their heinous crime to the Royal Gendarme, which would also mean certain death for him.

On receiving a letter from her mother, a quiet working-class girl leaves the state orphanage in Budapest where she grew up and takes a trip to the rural countryside to visit her.

A family struggle during the 1848 Hungarian revolution against the Habsburg Empire.

The daily routine of a falconry shows the newcomer how order through dictatorship can and cannot work.

Based on the novel by Mór Jókai, the film revolves around several decades of life of a noble family Karpati, during the first half of the XVIII century.

Charts 3 decades of a country family, in which a peasant is able after WWII to amass land but runs into trouble during collectivization, when he will make enemies he hopes he can later turn against.

Based on the novel by Mór Jókai, the film revolves around several decades of life of a noble family Karpati, during the first half of the XVIII century.

A magical pair of red shoes force a girl to dance herself to death.

Marci comes to Budapest from the countryside to study and tries desperately to retain his integrity amid fierce political battles.

The story of the poet and soldier Bálint Balassi. Hungary, at the end of the 16th century. The brave men of Végvár spend their days with anti-Turkish raids, hunting, and combing women's hair. Balassi falls in love with Anna Losonczy, the wife of the Croatian Ban. The man is also attracted to Anna, but she rejects him. Balassi secretly marries his relative, Krisztina Dobó, for which his brother-in-law files a lawsuit against him. Even though Balassi converted to Catholicism, his marriage was annulled (and in the meantime, he also had a child). His love turns to Anna again, unsuccessfully. Count Wesselényi offers him shelter in Poland. In his absence, his love-hungry wife becomes Balassi's, but he wants to return to his country.

This adaptation of the 1947 novel by Laszlo Nemeth follows the story of a lonely woman who is not interested in men but is forced into a marriage, which turns out badly, against her will.

A married couple lives in a deserted Hungarian village. The harshness and loneliness of their existence lead to internal turmoil.

Eszterke, who lives in a small town, loves her husband Zoltan. He has an affair with Alizka, who moves in with him one day. Eszterke wants revenge, but is disgusted when she sees that all men see her as an object of lust. She meets a man from Pest and does what Alizka did: she packs her things and knocks on his door.