Tamás Major
Also Known As: Major Tamás, Тамаш Майор
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Újpest, Austria-Hungary [now in Budapest, Hungary]
Adult: No
Birthday: January 26, 1910
Age: 115 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 13, 1986
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A Hungarian Nabob
Overview: On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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A helyseg kalapacsa
Overview: 13 March 1965 (Hungary)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-03-13
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Deliver Us from Evil
Overview: Winter of 1944, the last days of the war. When the roads and houses ceased to exist and the bottom of the cellars become filled with life, when fortunes were lost and countries burned up, her used coat was only important to Mama, the cloak-room servant of a local dance-school. Her son stole it to sell it for twenty pengő. He did it because Aranka Fussbaum's love cost money. There is no honour left in such a destroyed world. Yet still they start looking for that coat... (Elemér Ragályi won Best camera with this movie in Montreal, 1979, and in Budapest, 1980.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-02-14
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Football of the Good Old Days
Overview: The film is set in Budapest, 1924. Laundryman Ede Minarik's only passion is football. His dream is to see his team, Csabagyöngye, qualify for the first division. For this goal he would be willing to sacrifice everything he has. But he has nothing, even footballers just barely. The team is just like the times. But still, "we need a team!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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Salamon & Stock Show
Overview: "Ripacsok" is a great movie with great soundtrack, acting, cinematography, direction, etc. The world of "artists", hamming actors, good clowns and bad clowns... A unique movie in many ways. Pál Sándor is a very good hungarian director, watch his movies (especially the slightly better "Régi idõk focija") if you have the chance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1981-04-16
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Daniel Takes a Train
Overview: In December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet army. People leave the country in large numbers for fear of revenge. A young soldier (György Angeli) who also took a part in the revolution, takes a train to Vienna together with his friend (Dániel Szerencsés). Written by Tamas Patrovics
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-04-11
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The Corporal and the Others
Overview: PFC Molnár decides his WWII services are over, and with serious money hidden in his hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who also try to wimp out of their duties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Trotta
Overview: Returning from his imprisonment in Russia during the First World War, Franz Ferdinand Trotta, a young KuK officer, discovers how much the defeat has transformed Vienna and his people. He is stunned by the new order of things. Having lost his entire fortune and his wife, who is having a sapphic relationship with a Hungarian artist, he tries to regain his place in a world that appears devastated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-11-16
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Aranyborjú
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-04-25
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Judgement
Overview: The film is a historic parable about the topicality of revolution. 1514. The peasants' uprising is over, Dózsa has been arrested. Werbőczy tries to get the imprisoned peasant leader deny the revolution and offers him the lives of his people in exchange.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-04-16
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Don't Pull My Beard!
Overview: This absurd story, bordering on the drawing-room comedy, portrays the practices of abusing power and the insolence of bureaucracy through the revolting of a young designer-engineer of the Railway Tilting Examination Board. The ambitious Pócsik works persevearingly on how to compensate for the tilting of railway carriages in bends. His jealous bosses, however, use their best efforts to block the development of an innovation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-08-13
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A Pianino in Mid-Air
Overview: Kicsi Dániel, the young virtuoso pianist gets a separate apartment in the ten-storey block of flats. He rehearses all the time, irregularly, day and night, disturbing thus the peace of the dwellers in the thin-walled house. Inquisition begins in the name of equal rights for inhabitants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-08-13
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Gasoline Damage
Overview: "Are you looking to buy a car? Not sure which one to buy? Clueless? We can solve all your problems. Watch our latest film! All your problems will be solved because we'll talk you out of them for the price of a single ticket." - says the comedy's obliging narrator (Ervin Kibédi), who tries to talk the viewer out of buying a car. To do this, he tells the audience some instructive and humorous car-related stories...
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-02-25
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Mephisto
Overview: A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-02-11
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The Murderer is in the House
Overview: A murder has been committed in a block of flats in Pest. Almost all the dwellers of the building behave in a suspicious way at the beginning of the investigation, although it is their everyday lapses they try to hide. In spite of the janitor's unpleasant comments, light is gradually thrown upon the case.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-01-14
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The Elephant
Overview: Just a few days before the foreign delegation arrives at the ZOO, someone scribbled the elephant with unwashable paint.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1978-09-10
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Eternal Dance
Overview: Az Életbe táncoltatott leány is a 1964 Hungarian film directed by Tamás Banovich. It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival where it won a Technical Prize
Genres: Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1964-11-26
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Bespectacled
Overview: The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor apartment.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-06-05
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Moliére - A nők iskolája
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Richard III
Overview: An adaptation of the Shakespeare play: a conniving hunchback plots his rise to power to eventually become King of England.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-01-07
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My First Two Hundred Years
Overview: Divided into two different halves separated by mood and subject matter, this is an uneven drama about the experience of one Hungarian Jew before and during the fascist takeover of Budapest. The hero Pali (Zoltan Bezeredi) arrives back in Budapest from the U.S. and meanders among the intellectual and social elite before he leaves for a brief stay in England. There he has an even briefer affair with a happy-go-lucky aspiring actress (Anna Kubik), and after a few other encounters with movie mavens, he heads back to Budapest -- quite inexplicably. The rest of the film deteriorates into a dark realm of hatred and violence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-02-28
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The Great Generation
Overview: Réb went to the United States about 20 years ago and in the eighties he returns to Budapest with his teenager daughter...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-10-29
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Cold Days
Overview: Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is significant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-09-26
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Colonel Redl
Overview: Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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Alfa Romeo and Julia
Overview: A young man has his hepatic duct replaced with a plastic tube after an accident but starts to get worried how this will affect his manliness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-06-12
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The Lion is Ready to Jump
Overview: SS doctor during the war worked on the serum of cancer, but discovered a terrible poison, one vial is enough to kill 100 000 people. 20 years after the war, the old Nazi gets out of prison, and the hunt for him and his discovery begins.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-05-29
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The Pendragon Legend
Overview: Bátky János a 20th century intellectual studies the secret of the Rosicrucians in London libraries during the day and in the evening takes pleasure in the "decent" everyday joys offered by the fair sex. He gets involved in the wildest ghost-story in the mysterious Wales castle of the Pendragons, where Earl of Gwynnedd from the 18th century is making experiments to prove his ancestors' slogan, "the resurrection of the body". In the meantime St. Claire, a beautiful, demonic woman and her companions try to kill him for the huge legacy.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-09-12
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Mocorgó
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-01-12
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There Was Once a Family
Overview: This film describes the narrator's childhood, the years before and after the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in a burlesque and fabulous style and with the humour of a child's fantasy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-04-20
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A múmia közbeszól
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Fekete macska
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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Changing Clouds
Overview: At the end of World War II, Bálint, a deserter tries to obtain forged papers. He gets involved in funny adventures
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Just a Movie
Overview: Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. Péter leaves for home with his wife, Judit, but as he catches sight of a girl at the station, he cannot resist the temptation and gets off the train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-10-17
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Mrs. Dery Where Are You?
Overview: Dery is a grande dame actress of the Sarah Bernhardt school of big-gesture theater. Her beauty and popularity is fading, and a new school of acting which involves the use of one's own emotions (a-la Eleanora Duse) is emerging in the person of her younger Viennese rival. She thinks of retiring from the stage, and reunites briefly with her estranged husband in a newly-built manor in the country. Finding that life there is boring, she returns to town, the theater, and her old friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-06-02
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Jaguar
Overview: The pseudo crime story honours the bohemian world at the beginning of the century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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All Beginnings Are Hard
Overview: The film is a cabaret style, satirical montage of the political events and everydays
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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A Strange Marriage
Overview: Különös házasság is a 1951 Hungarian drama film directed by Márton Keleti. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-12
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Erkel
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Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1952-08-20
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And Then The Guy...
Overview: In this caricature-like film an old film director offers his memories of his career to his former student, now a studio manager, as an idea for a new film. We can see the director in Berlin in the twenties, where his task is to make a film star of Hungarian origin cry out of homesickness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Az ítélet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Végül
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-02-28
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Dreams of Love
Overview: This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess D'Agoult. A daughter is born in their marriage, Cosima. Liszt is better and better known, Marie introduces him to the circle of artists.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-10-22
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Crime at Dawn
Overview: Private inspector Hável happens to travel on the train which is attacked at Biatorbágy. His attention is drawn to a suspicious man, and in the next few days he confirms that it was indeed him who committed the crime. Yet the police accuses not the lunatic Marschalkó but the communists. Summary justice is declared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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Circus Maximus
Overview: During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team by illegal man-smuggling. In the year of 1944, besides the usual refugees, she even has to take Professor Máté, the renown mathematician to the Yugoslavian partisans. The team is joined by Carlotta's psychotic son who has escaped from an asylum.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-10-16
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Volpone
Overview: The rich love wealth and believe that if they don't keep accumulating it, the world will collapse. It is this human weakness that Volpone, the old con man, builds on, inventing an unexpected trick to play a sickly old man about to die, who, with the help of his servant and skilful apprentice, tricks the hypocritical but wealthy Venetian citizens into doing anything in the hope of a rich inheritance. How things don't turn out as planned...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-02-15
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