Lajos Kovács
Also Known As: Kovács Lajos
Biography: Lajos Kovács was born on February 9, 1944 in Bátaszék, Hungary. He is an actor, known for Control (2003), Woyzeck (1994) and Wings of Desire (1987). He has been married to Zsuzsanna Murvai since July 7, 2006. They have two children. He was previously married to Anna Marie Cseh and Zsuzsanna Murvai.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bátaszék, Hungary
Adult: No
Birthday: February 09, 1944
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
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Kontroll
Overview: A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks, and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale about love.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-11-20
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Hadik
Overview: During the Seven Years War, Austrian Queen Maria Theresa sends her best general, András Hadik and his Hussars to raid Berlin and humiliate the Prussian King, Frederick the Great.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2023-03-19
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Pulzaar
Overview: Csótány, the 30-year-old rocker, works as a locksmith's assistant. He lives with his aunt, who accepted him in her apartment in Pest, but Csótány can no longer contribute to the rent. His two biggest passions in life: his favorite Norwegian metal band, Pulzaar, and his secret love, Évike from the bakery downstairs. When he sees the poster that his beloved band is coming to Budapest, he is struck by lightning, which sets off a whole chain of events. Will he finally manage to get to the concert and gather all his courage to invite Éviké as well?
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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Abandoned
Overview: Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's opinion, and the boy finds himself thrown out of his warm home into an orphanage in the woods. He's utterly displeased by what's happening, without knowing he has yet to face much worse...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2001-08-28
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Before Dawn
Overview: Before Dawn has a single shot which is several minutes in length. Technically this is immaculate, visually it is stunning. The story is set in a field; where the field is we don't know, but a lone truck drives up into the field and stops. A horn beeps and from beneath the long grass thirty of so people appear and proceed to enter the truck. We take it they hiding from something and this is their doorway. The truck leaves, but only to be greeted by a mass of police and even a helicopter blocking their path.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2007-01-30
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Katapult
Overview: During the fall of the Soviet Union a young Hungarian boy falls in love with an American girl, when she comes for a short visit to her parent's old town in Hungary. In order to see her again, the 13 year-old boy decides to create a special machine that could transport him to the USA.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2019-11-02
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Argo
Overview: The crew of Tibi Balogh sets out on a journey across Hungary to get the ancient Gold Owl statue, as well as the Milk Man. The treasure is worth millions, who gets there first?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Wildboar Hunting
Overview: November 1664. The autumnal peace of the Kursanec forest is suddenly shattered by the noise of a hunting party. The leader of the hunters is Miklós Zrínyi, one of the most powerful men in the country. Neither he nor the members of the merry party can imagine how the day will end. The film presents a tragic event in Hungarian history, which is still not fully understood and which will later affect the fate of the whole country. Hunting accident or assassination? There are many theories and explanations, rumours and anecdotes about the events of this autumn day. Is it plausible that the life of a renowned general, an excellent hunter and a respected poet should come to such a fatal end? Who was he whose terrible fate was facilitated even by such potentates as Louis XIV, the Sun King?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2018-05-18
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Rinaldó
Overview: The Hungarian version of the "The Seven Samurai" and "The Magnificent Seven".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-02-27
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Banana Skin Waltz
Overview: A typist girl who is under the influence of nervous breakdown walks out to the street stark naked from the office she works in. A young physician goes by accidentally and tries to help her, spreading his coat over her nude body. From this moment his life changes completely.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1987-02-19
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Paths of Light
Overview: Two stories running in parallel: In one, a model is surrounded by men wanting to use and abuse her though, without realizing it, she is protected by a strange tramp guardian angel. In the other, a blind goldsmith struggles to produce his latest commission in the midst of his alcoholism and depression. Both then descend further and further into their own personal hells until they finally re-find peace with themselves and then their stories briefly merge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2005-02-06
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Love Till Last Blood
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2002-03-21
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Csudafilm
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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Thorn Castle
Overview: Tutajos is an excellent student whose parents decide to reward his academic achievements with a vacation to the countryside. Robbed of his gadgets and easy city-lifestyle, Tutajos finds himself completely out of his element – until a goodhearted ranger named Matula teaches him how to get back to nature. As Tutajos’ best friend Bütyök joins him on his vacation, the two boys learn the joys of camping, hunting, and living off of the land.
Genres: Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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Magasmentés
Overview: Felix, a high rescue specialist, brings down suiciders from bridges in a city in crisis. His son, who secretly makes videos of dangerous rescues and sells them to TV, blames his father for the loss of his mother. As Felix tries to reconnect with his son and help people at any cost, dramatic events unfold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2023-11-16
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The Fall
Overview: On a single day the fate of three couples are joined and some of them sealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Erosion
Overview: The film constructs a strongly conventionalised and symbolic world out of the diary fragments of a man who underwent an alcohol detoxification treatment. The protagonist of this unusual family story, Petunia Joe, lives in a house with his mother and grandfather. One day, he suddenly turns adult. Out in LIFE, he takes his first steps in the Factory. Meaningless work is performed and barren relationships are formed among the rusted walls.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-06
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Semmelweis
Overview: Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2023-11-30
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Cloud Above the River Ganges
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2002-09-26
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Dumapárbaj
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2015-01-15
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Shooting Gallery
Overview: 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 secretly, he keeps on dreaming about it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1990-04-26
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The Great Post Office Robbery
Overview: The heroes of this crime-comedy attempt to get hold of money by a funny trick. They start operating the new post-office of the housing estate a week before the official opening, pocketing the revenue themselves. The inhabitants of the estate do not understand the trick, and loads of money pour to the swindlers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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Argo 2
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2015-04-30
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One Winter Behind God's Back
Overview: In the year of change in Eastern Europe, in a remote village, the regular movie show, scheduled once a week, terminates due to the motor courier’s being killed in an accident. The children find the scattered film containers, and along with the old reels left in their place they play the films they have seen so often before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1998-08-23
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The Curse of The Black Mummy
Overview: Inside a literary cafe, novelists convene to trade ideas, imagine stories and dream of greatness. Inspired by the works of Hungarian writer Jenő Rejtő.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2015-09-19
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The Turin Horse
Overview: A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2011-03-31
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The Witman Boys
Overview: Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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Donkey Xote
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2016-05-16
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School of Senses
Overview: Hungarian erotic thriller based on the novel Erzekek Iskolaja. Lily, a young gypsy girl, falls madly in love with a dashing salesman who introduces her to life's pleasures. When Lili discovers he is engaged to another, her life begins to spiral downward.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1996-01-07
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Maria's Day
Overview: The Hungarian Maria's Day is set in that most fateful of years, 1848. The incredible changes and reverses in European politics and culture exert a potent influence on one aristocratic Hungarian family. Losing virtually everything in the way of creature comforts, the family tries to keep up appearances. Eventually every member of the clan falls victim to illness, syphilis and their own headstrong foolishness. The parallels drawn by director Judith Elek between the dissipation of 19th century Hungarian aristocracy and the corruption of Communist ideology in modern times are inescapable.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1984-03-26
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The Door
Overview: Emerenc, an elderly and private woman, is hired to be the housekeeper of a struggling writer, Magda. An event in the writer's life prompts Emerenc to disclose details of her traumatizing past, which will bond the two women forever. Based on the novel by Magda Szabó.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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The Pregnant Papa
Overview: In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-08-03
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Adventurers
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2008-01-24
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Woyzeck
Overview: Lajos Kovács (WINGS OF DESIRE) stars as the misused Woyzeck, who ekes out a miserable existence sweeping train tracks, running errands for a bullying army captain and acting as a human guinea pig for a local doctor with ideas about free will. When his common-law wife begins an affair with a local cop, Woyzeck's pocket Bible and near-starvation diet point him on a downward spiral of twisted redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1994-02-07
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Wild
Overview: 1859. Exploiting the Austrian-French-Italian conflict, Kossuth sends Batiszy Kristóf back from the emigration to organize the Hungarian Legion. Batiszy's company gets into trouble, Austrians are waiting for them, Hungarian authorities chase them, people stand still. Demolition of the troop is the task of Görgényi László chief district administrator, who used to be an officer in the revolution once.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-10-19
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Bro'
Overview: Romantic hungarian comedy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-05-26
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A Bizarre Romance - Rural Decameron
Overview: Living on the farms of Homoktanya, Józsi spends his time drinking and stealing valuables from others until he finds true love in the form of a blow-up doll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2002-05-30
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Shadow on the Snow
Overview: A man who leads a lonely existence with his young daughter accidentally gets involved with a robbery before a manhunt ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-03-31
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Sunshine
Overview: The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-13
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Fetus
Overview: This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need another mouth to feed. She can barely afford to care for the two she already has so when she discovers that she is six weeks pregnant she readily accepts the cash offer from Terez, her tough boss at the store where she works. If she will isolate herself throughout the pregnancy, secretly bear the child and immediately allow Terez to sign for it, Anna will receive $50,000. Most of the story then focuses upon Anna's emotional processes as she evaluates her choice. Included are dream segments and shots an unborn baby in the womb.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1994-11-10
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Tarr Béla: I Used to Be a Filmmaker
Overview: A documentary about the making of The Turin Horse, the last film directed by Hungarian master Béla Tarr.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-15
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Budakeszi srácok
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2006-11-02
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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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Love Till First Blood
Overview: Füge is studying at a high-school. He rarely visits his divorced parents. He establishes a successful music group with his friends. He falls in love with his class-mate, Ágota.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1986-03-16
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7 Television Commercials
Overview: 7 Television Commercials is a collection of music videos from English alternative rock band Radiohead, covering the period from their The Bends (1995) and OK Computer (1997).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-04
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Faraway, So Close!
Overview: Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Ravine
Overview: The story revolves around Balint, a Hungarian obstetrician and soon-to-be father, who returns to his native village in north-eastern Romania to face the son he abandoned 17 years ago.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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Wings of Desire
Overview: Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-09-23
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Megérdemlem
Overview: Two marriages, two generations, two crises, two solutions...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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