Hungarian Passion

The Face Behind the Mask

A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hot

1941

White Palms

Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start -

2006

An American Rhapsody

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges

2001

The Usual Suspects

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also res

1995

Metamorphosis

In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in the Carpathian Mountains faces the evil Countess

2007

Damnation

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be

1988

The Cost of Deception

When a young, ambitious market researcher finds out her boss is involved in the leaking of a scandalous Prime Minister speech, she decides to investig

2021

Car Park

In a hidden lot behind Pest’s tenements, loner Légiós has carved out a private refuge in his trailer and will do anything to keep the outside chaos at

2015

The Prefab People

Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.

1982

Elment az öszöd

In 2017, three inmates - a former prime minister, an online journalist and a prison guard - await their sentences at Budapest’s Kozma Street Prison, e

2013

The Annunciation

Adam and Eve, after Eden, are granted dreams of the world to come by a deceptively sweet but ultimately contemptuous Lucifer. Adam confronts an endles

1984

Vagabond

Karesz has been raised in an institution, his mother has a new family, and her husband does not tolerate that she meets her first-born son. Karesz tra

2003

A kis utazás

2000

Shooting Gallery

Three people live together without having anything to do with each other. The macho father used to have a shooting gallery which he had to sell. Yet s

1990

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

1990

Family Nest

A family slowly disintegrates under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary.

1979

Son of Saul

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body

2015

Autumn Almanac

In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.

1984

Hungary 2011

Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.

2012

Mancs

In a 1990s Hungarian town, tram mechanic Zoltán secretly inherits a hyperactive German shepherd puppy, “Mancs,” which he trains into a rescue dog in h

2015