László Bánhidi
Also Known As: László Bánhidy, Ласло Банхиди
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Szatmárnémeti
Adult: No
Birthday: March 10, 1906
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 22, 1984
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The Black City
Overview: Feature film version of the 1971 series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-11-26
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Májusi fagy
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-02-01
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Story of My Foolishness
Overview: The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential playwright, a friend of theirs, has written a play with the main role designed for her, Kati, particularly. Its title is "The Most Intelligent Woman in the World". On the day of the first night performance Kati recalls their past, the times she had together with her husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-01-20
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Csutak and the Grey Horse
Overview: Csutak is just a pain in the neck, the little boy is even excluded from play by his mates. Vacation is spent lonely until one day he sneaks the woman haulier's old, shabby horse, a creature that would be better off in a slaughterhouse, out with himself. Possessing the animal is the key to the children's gang. They all try to find a place for the horse.
Genres: Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-10-27
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Do not Panic, Major Kardos
Overview: There are mysterious murders in the area of Lake Balaton. These places are shrouded in secrecy and constantly attract hunters: during the Second World War, the Germans had hidden a huge treasure here. Investigation of the murders entrusted to Major Kardos. He takes up the case, but in search of treasure he had many competitors. Kardos uses help from his loyal friend - a policeman-superman Etvash aka "Droplet".
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1982-08-19
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The Pagan Madonna
Overview: The unique statue of the ancient fertility goddess Demeter, known as the "Pagan Madonna" is stolen from the museum, located in a small town on Lake Balaton. At the same time seriously wounded a servant of the museum. The abduction of the museum's priceless statues of pure gold is investigated by the then young and inexperienced investigator Kardos and lieutenant "Droplet".
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Love Travelling a Coach
Overview: The top management of the co-operative in the rural community at Lake Balaton goes on coaches everywhere to irritate Mrs. Peczöli, the snobbish wife of the only individual farmer. Peczöli would readily join the co-operative, should it not oppose his apple improving experiments.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Aranyborjú
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-04-25
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Off the Range
Overview: A comedy about a group of children who are spending summer vacation alone in the nature.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Suburban Legend
Overview: The film, depicting life in the tenement houses of Angyalföld in the thirties joins the neorealist currents of Hungarian film. Ambrus Pista, the good humoured, attractive tram conductor is loved by women for his excellent job as well. With his lover, the street-walker Terus they spy upon the neighbour as he beats his wife in jealousy.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1957-08-12
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Summer Rain
Overview: Miskei, the popular and dynamic president of a co-op falls in love with Mari, the attractive wife of the elderly Pató. The deeply feeling woman is fed up with the service beside the haughty land holder, she is longing for tenderness and a child. The passion of Miskei is growing when he sees how crudely, humiliating Pató treats her. During a powerful summer shower, when chance brings them together in an abandoned press house, he storms on Mari confessing love. The woman refuses him bitterly. Miskei calms down and he keeps on expressing his love and high esteem with the woman by steadfast and tiny compliments. Early one morning Mari leaves her husband and sets off to the city to learn and to begin a new life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-01-19
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Smugglers
Overview: In the thirties, the poor living by the Romanian-Hungarian border, were forced to smuggling if they wanted to survive. Mihály, the Hungarian peasant, kills a border guard while fleeing. He is fed up with smuggling and wants to put an end to it, yet he needs money to get a job so he embarks on another turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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The Soil Under Your Feet
Overview: In 1905 Hungary, a young village woman has just undergone a marriage to the spoiled son of a man to whom her father is indebted, in order that the debt be cancelled, only to be spirited away by her true love, a young peasant, by whom she soon becomes pregnant. Together they attempt to find a way to buy up her father's debt and also pay for a divorce from her husband, against various odds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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Raid
Overview: 1932, Budapest. Gere János, an unemployed worker searching for employment in the capital, is organised into the secret police after a raid. Summary justice is declared, and the police wants to find an illegal communist press at any price. Gere, wandering about in the dark city, joins a man, helping him to carry his luggage. Slowly, Gere learns that his companion is a Communist and his task is to keep the press machine hidden from the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-08-18
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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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Song of the Cornfields
Overview: A Hungarian soldier returning from fighting in the Second World War marries the woman he believes to be the widow of a former comrade who he thinks died in the POW camp in which they were held.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1947-03-02
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Sword and Dice
Overview: During the freedom fight led by Rákóczi, Schwartzenau carries the wages of the Emperor's soldiers to Tokaj. A small group of freedom-fighters, led by Captain Árvay, attack the major's escort, then hide in the local inn. Árvay introduces himself to the entering Schartzenau as a Hungarian aristocrat, while Simon Pali rushes to get help. The major has a passion for games, they start throwing dice.
Genres: History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-04-06
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Liberated Land
Overview: Jóska has become a Communist in the Csillag prison in Szeged. In the meantime, Gábor successfully talks people in Jóska's native village out of joining the German-led Hungarian army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1951-03-30
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The Prophet of the Fields
Overview: After the war, Gábor Erőss, released from its captivity, returns home. Abandoned by his love, he finds his house ruined. Nikita, his neighbour, and the roaming Levite come to his assistance by offering him both their friendship and a draught animal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Twenty Hours
Overview: A crusading newspaper reporter covers the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Initially critical of the communists, the feature later espouses the virtues of the social changes implemented since the invasion. The title refers to the period of time the reporter spent interviewing witnesses to the invasion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-03-11
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The Secret of the Old Mine
Overview: A story about the adventures of children who live in a small village near the state border.
Genres: TV Movie Family Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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The Talking Caftan
Overview: The 16th century Kecskemét troubled by both the Kurutses and the Labancs would like a Bey from the Buda pasha to defend them in exchange for four beautiful girls, but only gets a caftan. It was a good deal, however. All Muslims fall on their knees when they see the magic caftan and fulfil its owner's wish.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-06-09
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No Love, Please
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-12-02
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Bálint Fábián Meets God
Overview: 1918. Fábián Bálint is forced to kill humans on the Italian front. At home his sons drown the priest, the lover of their mother, in the river Kraszna. Mrs. Fábián turns insane. Following his arrival home Bálint becomes the liveried coachman of the baron.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-03-20
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Anna Szabó
Overview: A female worker in Socialist Hungary gains the acceptance of her male colleagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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The Upthrown Stone
Overview: An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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The Music's the Thing
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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A Fragrant Way to Pass Away
Overview: Due to complaints, an inspector comes to a small construction industry cooperative in Bihar. The three leaders that committed embezzlement and abuse begin to think about how they could escape from being held accountable. The president knocks down and robs the inspector, but they don't find the compromising documents on him. Therefore, they decide that one of them must sacrifice himself with a poisonous liquid called "fragrant road to nowhere"...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-03-08
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Bunny
Overview: A country family unbounds by the death of the head of family and they set off for a miners' town under construction, just like their forefathers, "to take the land". As an outpost, the eldest daughter, Anna is sent, who has a stormy past.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-08-22
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Iron Flower
Overview: During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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Fourteen Lives
Overview: September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbouring shaft and fourteen miners become trapped. The whole country unites to save them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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Singing Makes Life Beautiful
Overview: "Silver lute", the choral society of the Vác Engine Works, led by Réz, the conductor, is preparing for its 25th anniversary. All the important members of the society, among them Seregély, a magician, are, at the same time, all "fathers" of Zsóka, daughter of a former colleague, who has been killed in an accident, and whom they then adopted.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-08
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Who is in the Egg?
Overview: Zeke, the agile young meteorologist finds out at once that the Szélervé Meteorological Research Institute is dealing exclusively with illegal poultry export. What is more, the genial director Keve invented an artificial hen laying 150 gigantic eggshells at a time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-05-23
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A Bird of Heaven
Overview: Panni, coming from a landless family of ten and Miska have loved each other for a long time. The pretty Panni, however, has another suitor as well: Komáromi, the big farmer. The two men fight from time to time, but then, during the time Miska is serving his military duty, Panni marries Komáromi to end the tremendous squalor of her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-03-20
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I'll Appeal to the Minister
Overview: A comedy about the organisation of agricultural co-operatives. In the village of "Rendes", everybody has already entered the co-op, only the stubborn farmer, Bódog Balogh continues to resist. The leadership plays all their tricks and uses all their efforts, but all in vain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-02-15
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Poor Johnny and Arnika
Overview: The poor but carefree vagabond Johnny meets the princess Árnika and they fall in love. An evil witch casts a spell on them which turns one of them into a duck. In order to be free of the spell they embark on a long journey to meet King Ajahtan Kutarbani, the only one who can lift the spell.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1983-06-09
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Tales of a Long Journey
Overview: On the crowded train, the workers entertain each other by telling stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-03-02
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The Healing Water
Overview: In a little town named Lombos, suddenly a smelly, sulphonic thermal water gush out. Félix Szombathy, a swindler sees a great business opportunity in this. He founded a fraud company and promised to revive the town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-01-26
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Battle in Peace
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Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Until the Day is Breaking
Overview: Mihály Zágon has been struggling with his conservative mother-in-law for a long time. Now, that his wife is pregnant, the old woman wants Piroska to stay in bed. Mihály is elected to be the president of the co-operative, but nobody is happy about this back home. His wife often pretends to be ill to keep him by her side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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A csillagszemű
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Genres: Adventure TV Movie Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-12-22
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Dióbél királyfi
Overview: Animated adaptation of the tale by Ferenc Móra in which the old king, on the advice of his long-serving shepherd, arranges an archery competition to decide which of his three sons will inherit the crown. The competitors have to hit the centre of a copper penny on which there is the image of the old king.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Tüzkeresztség
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1952-02-23
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Goose Boy
Overview: A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1950-02-27
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Rákóczi's Lieutenant
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Genres: Action History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1954-02-04
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Springtime in Budapest
Overview: At Christmas Eve in 1944 the runaway Pintér and Gozsó get through the Soviet blockade around Budapest. Pintér intends to hide in a flat abandoned by his own relatives, but he finds his relatives called the Turnovszkys, who are hiding the Jewish Jutka as well. Love unfolds between Zoltán and Jutka.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-04-02
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The Day of Wrath
Overview: In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power back with the leadership of dr. Máriáss, exploiting the outside attack launched against the Republic of Councils.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1953-11-12
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Keep Your Chin Up!
Overview: On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida, the elephant. They have to play for the Hungarian Fascists, while Peti is hiding the Jew Annuska and Sanyika.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1954-08-19
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A Strange Mark of Identity
Overview: Imre, secretary of the illegal communist party arrives in Budapest secretly in 1942, in order to start the newspaper of the party in the fight against war. Not even his own mother can see him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-13
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Ward No. 9
Overview: The young worker Tóth Gáspár gets into hospital with stomachache. During the night his state is worsening. The doctor on duty, Málnási does not attend the patient despite the call of the nurse, for he spends the night with nurse Margó.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-11-10
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Abyss
Overview: Nagy István, the formerly poor peasant boy returns to his native village as a teacher. His conviction is that the abyss between rich and poor can be diminished by good will. The rich Böröcz Horváth Klári returns his love, and also Böröcz Horváth is willing to help the poorest family, the Bakos. Bakos Jóska, who was sent to serve the tough Böröcz Horváth as a payment, dies of an infected wound and the people in the village hold the teacher liable as well. Nagy István realises, that the abyss cannot be ceased, what is more, it is impassable. He breaks up with his fiancée and stands by the side of the poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-06-05
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Dollar Daddy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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Yesterday
Overview: October, 1956. Colonel lieutenant Szabó sends a platoon with the mission of calming the people demonstrating in the town. The platoon is lined up under the command of Lieutenant Csendes and the soldiers aim at the demonstrators. Szusza Kis changes sides, and Csendes is unable to shoot at his childhood mate. They withdraw.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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Az arc nélküli város
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1960-11-10
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A fürdőigazgató
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-07-06
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Pár lépés a határ
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-11-26
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The Brigade No. 39
Overview: The spring of 1919. Karikás Frigyes reorganises brigade 39 at the Tisza. His most devoted soldiers are Korbély János and his followers, who remain faithful to the political commissioner under all circumstances.
Genres: History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-03-19
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A Window on the Sky
Overview: Mrs. Fazekas and her three sons live in a tenement house in the outskirts. The eldest son, Fecó, is saving money in order to buy a washing machine for his mother, while her other two sons spend time by hanging around and playing tricks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Három csillag
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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