András Bálint
Also Known As: Bálint András
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pécs, Hungary
Birthday: April 26, 1943
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Gloomy Sunday
Overview: Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-10-21
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Ma este gyilkolunk
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2024-10-31
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Sarah, My Dear
Overview: After his divorce, Bóna Péter, a beginner film director needs a bigger amount of money to settle his financial problems with his ex-wife. He travels to Pécs to see Sárika, an old veteran. He has not seen his aunt for a long time, and she receives him very friendly, but she flatly refuses to lend him any money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-03-18
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The Martyrdom of St. John
Overview: Story of a young teacher starting to work in rural Hungary
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-03-24
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Father
Overview: The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (played first by Dániel Erdély and later, as a young man, by András Bálint) is clearly determined to find out what he can about his father who died young. All he knows is that he was a doctor and perhaps he was an honored victim of fascism. He never really finds out but his relationship with his mother, his friends and his Jewish girlfriend will make him totally independent of this need to find all about Apa or Father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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The Moon and the Stars
Overview: 1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film. The two lead actors, the German woman Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel ace each others' initial antagonism and eventually fall in love. Meanwhile the fascist police are looking for an excuse to arrest the Jewish filmmaker and any other potential "troublemakers." The producer and his crew decide to make one final extraordinary effort to complete the film - against all odds.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-02
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An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success
Overview: Grace is excited for the summer so she can start a business with her friends, but things take an unexpected turn when her mom announces a trip to Paris. There, Grace must learn to get along with her French cousin, Sylvie, and she finds unexpected inspiration for her business. Then, Grace finds out her grandparents bakery, that inspired her to start a business, is closing. Can she and her friends find a way to save it?
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-23
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Dark Sun
Overview: A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Lovefilm
Overview: A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers. Soon after the 1956 Revolution Kata leaves Hungary, Jancsi stays there. After 10 years Jancsi is allowed to visit Kata in France, their love is reborn, but after a short, very happy period Jancsi has to return to Hungary and their love fades as years have gone by.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-10-08
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Il tunnel della libertà
Overview: Producer Carlo Degli Esposti envisioned a trilogy on Liberty, focused on three key moments in the second half of the twentieth century: the repression of Bucharest in 1956, the Prague Spring and the Berlin Wall. The first, and only time delivery of this trilogy, is THE TUNNEL OF FREEDOM. A tunnel that allowed 36 people to circumvent the strict and repressive surveillance of newly erected Berlin Wall.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-01
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Budapest Tales
Overview: "Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-03-02
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
Overview: Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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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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Variations
Overview: Variations on relationships in a New Year Day atmosphere set in a huge and rundown 1980s style hotel awaiting demolition by Lake Balaton, Hungary. Three women and five men in various ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-01
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Az elmenetel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2015-12-13
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Age of Illusions
Overview: Jancsi is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk. They fall in love, and find common memories in the engagement in The Pioneer Railway at the age of 12.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-02-11
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Relay Race
Overview: This film is a documentaristic dispute about the possibilities of young people to assert themselves, to make a career. Zsuzsa is a third-year university student studying pedagogy. She has been dating Zoltán for three years, and her thinking has been fundamentally shaped by this relationship. Yet now she would like to break up with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-02-28
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Film...
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2000-12-14
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141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence
Overview: This lavishly spectacular film focuses on the character of Lorinc Parcen Nagy from the 1200-page Tibor Déry novel interwoven with numerous autobiographical elements. Lorinc Parcen Nagy is the offspring of an upper middle class family, whose life is marked by two violent deaths: the suicide of his father and the slaughter of an innocent worker. He breaks with his family and his mother in disgust; she is of weak character, a person who abandoned her own husband. He is also unable to discover the right tone with his colleagues and his lover who is an illegal party worker.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-02-06
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The Confrontation
Overview: In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to engage in peaceful debate with its students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-02-06
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Budapeste
Overview: José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-05-14
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A Happy New Year!
Overview: Three thirtysomething chemical scientists, Laci, Gyuri and Kati celebrate the success of their development program before New Year's Eve with drinking for several days. But the morning of New Year's Eve does not bring the expected recognition, because the nice, bald, old director is replaced by a young, bald, but disagreeable one. In a sodden atmosphere it becomes clear that everybody has an axe to grind in the informative discussions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1978-08-22
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Red Psalm
Overview: 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, oppression, morality and violence.
Genres: Drama War Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Elmondták-e...?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Aglaya
Overview: This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on real-life events, an Eastern European circus artist family that fled to the West. If they want to stay in the circus business they have to make up an exotic act. The mother spends all their money to buy a very dangerous act: hanging by her hair high up in the dome of the circus while juggling with burning torches. Every night Aglaja is terrified by the fear of losing her mother. But, on some day, she has to follow the family tradition and become the "Woman with the Hair of Steel".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Impostors
Overview: This grotesque historical film is a caricature of the narrow-minded and careerist oligarchs of the 20s. A young military officer stops the young jurist from killing himself and recommends him to his commander, lieutenant-colonel Doborján as a typist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-10-09
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Hungarian Dracula
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Jupiter's Moon
Overview: A young refugee, Aryan, is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border. While tending him back to health, a doctor at a refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained an extraordinary talent—he can levitate. Aryan is smuggled out by the doctor, who is intent on exploiting his secret.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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Awakening
Overview: 1952, Budapest. Kati is thirteen years old when her mother dies. Her father works as a founder at the Miskolc foundry, deprived of his former position of director-engineer. Kati is left alone in their flat, transformed into a place crowded with tenants. That is, not quite: in her imagination her mother is alive again, for she still needs her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1995-10-05
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Citizen X
Overview: Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-25
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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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Stalin
Overview: The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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A kisfiú meg az oroszlánok
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Csinszka
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Happy Birthday
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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25 Fireman's Street
Overview: On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and painstakingly intimate detail, the looming wrecking ball pales in significance to the accumulated experiences each dreamer revisits. Pre-war prejudice, occupying Nazis and Stalinist deprivations all come and go as each tenant’s backward glance yields moments of aching sensuality, infectious exuberance and catastrophic loss.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-09-27
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Season of Monsters
Overview: Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves a note for his longtime friend Dr. Bardocz. The doctor and Zoltai's colleague Komindi join the police in investigating what drove the man to suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1987-09-15
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Happy Birthday, Marilyn!
Overview: A mediocre countryside actress is invited to a Budapest casting call. She hopes she might become the new Marilyn Monroe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Jesus Christ's Horoscope
Overview: A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homeland. Jancsó emphasizes highly evocative and ambiguous imagery over dialog or exposition as he – through visually fascinating imagery – depicts the painful, stunted lives of Hungary's intellectuals who have remained silent and ineffectual during various political crises.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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Final Report
Overview: A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This is the start of his ordeal: he's confronted with raw reality, which finally brings him to his knees. But music has the last word.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2020-02-27
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Hármasban
Overview: Veronika and Tibor are soon to be retired doctors. For Tibor's birthday his wife gives him an unusal gift. A prostitute.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2019-03-27
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Winter Journey
Overview: Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2019-11-23
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Reflections
Overview: One day Novák Erzsébet kindergarten-teacher destroys her papers, cuts her hair and closes her mouth forever. She prepares for suicide namelessly, then somewhere around Normafa she accepts being taken into an asylum.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-09-09
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The Book of Esther
Overview: During World War II Eszter has to choose: she either follows her husband abroad, who is chased by the Gestapo or stays with her daughter from her first marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Kimaradt körök
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2020-02-08
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Europa Centrale
Overview: A metaphysical kammerspiel about political fight, betrayal, madness, focusing on a exiled communist couple during a train journey in the early months of WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-11-24
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Deadlock
Overview: The film takes place in the outskirts at the end of the fifties. Gabi and Vince meet at the factory party. As the man learns that Gabi raises her little son alone, he does no longer want to marry her. An unclear and for Gabi humiliating relationship forms between them until the old suitor of Gabi, Feri appears.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-17
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