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Hungarian
Description
A hauntingly provocative psychological thriller that is Hungary's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Mr̀ta, a 40-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man she loves. But she waits for him at the Liberty Bridge in vain, he does not appear at their rendezvous. Mr̀ta starts to search for him desperately, but when...
2) Confidence
Language
Hungarian
Description
1980's CONFIDENCE was nominated for the Academy Award and Szabó won Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Director. In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion without giving in to their growing feelings for each other?
3) Kontroll
Language
Hungarian
Description
The Budapest subway system, the world's second oldest, is a dark, labyrinthine netherworld as vast and various as the city above it. The beleaguered ticket inspectors or 'controllers', assigned in teams to various sections of the system, have the thankless job to ensure that no passengers ride without paying. This is their story.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Budapest, 1936. The Hungarian prime minister returns from Germany in a coffin, his dream of making Hungary into a fascist state snuffed out—for now. Crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon has other things on his mind. A cynic who thinks he has seen it all, a tip leads him to an unusual crime scene in a seedy part of the city - a beautiful, well-dressed young woman is dead, with only a Jewish prayer book in her purse... Investigating the mystery girl's murder,...
Language
Hungarian
Description
This film about the absurdity and arbitrariness of war is set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918. It details the battles between the Red soldiers of Russia, aided by Hungarian Communists, and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga River.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1215
Language
Hungarian
Description
The mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. In an unknown time in an unnamed village, one day, a mysterious circus complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence.
7) Login
Language
Hungarian
Description
A 21st century take on voyeurism, passion, and revenge. It's a sexy, scary rollercoaster ride that takes you to the heights and depths of human desire.
8) Damnation
Language
Hungarian
Description
Karrer is in love with a cabaret singer and wants to spend the rest of his life with her, but the only way he can do that is to get rid of her husband by getting him involved in a smuggling scheme.
10) Post mortem
Language
Hungarian
Description
A former soldier, who becomes a post mortem photographer following his near-death experience during World War I, visits a disease-stricken village claimed to be overrun by ghosts.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A dancer-turned-impresario returns to his native Hungary after twenty years. He finds that the Communist regime that expelled him is gone, but his brother hasn't changed. He still works with the same cash-strapped dance company they started together and is married to his former sweetheart. The two men's rivalry is triggered with a challenge to revive their last success together, a dance on the ballad.
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