József Madaras
Also Known As: Madaras József, Joszef Madaras
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rigmani, Romania
Adult: No
Birthday: August 16, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 24, 2007
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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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The Accent
Overview: An adult educator arrives in the small-town factory with loads of books, energy and a freshly received diploma. The honest young man with dreamy eyes humanises the life of the plant, in a way distributing himself among people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Electra, My Love
Overview: It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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The Red and the White
Overview: In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-11-03
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Germinal
Overview: Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-16
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80 Hussars
Overview: The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly ordinary men, have heard news of the uprising and wish to return to the homeland to defend the newly independent country. The Empire, on the other hand, is firmly resolved that all Hungarian troops in the imperial army should be kept as far away from the trouble spot as possible, knowing that most soldiers would be loyal to Budapest rather than Vienna.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1978-09-13
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Silence and Cry
Overview: Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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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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Romanticism
Overview: This film, set at the end of the 18th century, in a provincial and noble environment raises the question of humans forced to lead a meaningless life. The rich Transylvanian noble youth, Kálmán, absorbed the spirit of freedom and enlightened culture in Paris. Returning to his father's estate, he encounters a superstitious backwardness and an orgiastic storming of violence and instincts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Stud Farm
Overview: In 1950, when a young communist director arrives to take charge of a stud farm, his efforts to draw on the experience of the old hands there meet with little success. Indeed, so outraged are they at the changeover to communism that they harass him at every turn, especially after he treats a local barmaid as if she were a whore of some kind. After administering a beating to him, the old hands are nonetheless incensed when he calls on the police. The director doesn't get enough help, however, because the stable hands stab him before running off for the border.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1978-08-23
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The Fortress
Overview: A World War II-style "war game" setting the wealthy customers against skilled mercenaries goes awry when the simulated war gets too real.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Winter Wind
Overview: The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-12-04
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Horizont
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-04-01
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The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary
Overview: A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1981-10-26
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Agnus Dei
Overview: Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avenges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression.
Genres: History War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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The Technique and the Rite
Overview: The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything – with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional (and equally obscure) music-infused rites.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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Othello in the Province
Overview: An ambitious theatre director arrives in Gyulaháza from the capital. The aim of the young Debrődy is to shake up the locals and turn the life of the town upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Unruly Heyducks
Overview: This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd a huge herd of cattle through the country torn to three parts, to the Dalmatian coast, where he can get weapons in exchange, for fighting the Austrians.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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On the Roofs of Budapest
Overview: Gráci has been recently released from a reformatory school. His old gang would like to involve him in a new action, but he hesitates. His past record is bad enough already, and he would not like to get into new trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-08-10
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Blindfold
Overview: The scene is Ukraine. In 1943, after the Hungarian' defeat at the river Don, soldier Balogh decides to visit his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-08-11
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Epidemic
Overview: The film evokes the era of the 1831 cholera epidemic and the peasant uprising which followed it. The way of Doctor Balás, cholera commissioner, and district administrator Hunyor leads through the mountains of Zemplén and is lined by unburied corpses, peasants dying of the illness and of overdoses of bismuth, by the miserably starving population, the healthy digging mass-graves and by uncultivated lands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-08-11
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Beyond Time
Overview: The story of the film takes place in 1929 in a model prison providing a kind of reflection how society works out there. Udvardi, the weakling and indulgent director is experimenting with putting in practice a kind of pseudo-humanist utopia about the institution of a 'civilised prison'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-08-12
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The Last Chance
Overview: The film is based on a true story. Jakus, managing director of a scooter-factory suddenly resigns, since he disagrees with his superiors in the ministry on several points. Disregarding the attacks of his family and friends, he returns to his original job and becomes a welder, which is not very easy because of his records.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-08-13
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Dashing Girls
Overview: A musical farce about women in the canning factory. The pretty Brigitta tries to commit suicide, because Laci left her, pregnant, but her mates save her.
Genres: Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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7 kérdés a szerelemről (és 3 alkérdés)
Overview: Seven stories about love and women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-01-02
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The Land of Angels
Overview: The film is a ballad about the dwellers of a block-of-flats in Angyalföld.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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The Round-Up
Overview: After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the authorities do not know the identities of the partisans, they round up suspects and try to root them out by any means necessary.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-01-06
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A lőcsei fehér asszony
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-12-01
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Film...
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2000-12-14
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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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Spider Football
Overview: This satire on film depicts the micro-climate of a technical vocational school newly established at a housing estate. The construction vocational school holds a name-giving ceremony, thus calling the attention of its supervisory organ to itself. The school-master distributes as well as receives presents from the sponsoring factory, and the pupils sit for a written examination of unheard-of material. The results are devastating, which the despotic school-master attempts to conceal by a staged disciplinary procedure.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-06-05
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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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We're Getting Along
Overview: More than a storyline with a beginning, middle, and end, this tale of a foundry worker who engages a woman -- and fellow worker -- to do housekeeping for him is a tale that holds up the Hungarian social system against the morality of an exploitative male-female relationship. After his wife dies, the rough-cut and intentionally nameless "man" (Jozsef Madaras) eventually coerces the "woman" (Julianna Nyako) into doing his housework for a small remuneration. Everything goes along passably well for awhile, until the man adds in more household responsibility in the form of chickens to raise. Due to extra work at the factory, the woman cannot tend to the chickens as she should and the result is that some of them die. The man is furious, verbally abuses her, and then rapes her. Later, the woman discovers she is pregnant, with dire consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1981-02-12
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A Mad Night
Overview: The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-01-08
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Cobweb
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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A vigyori
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-09-01
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My Father's Happy Years
Overview: Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just after World War II. In the film, Janos Torok is a chemist and an entrepreneur With enormous enthusiasm, he gets loans to purchase a small chemical plant and begins experiments to create innovative products, such as hormones. Meanwhile, the communist party has come to dominate Hungarian life in such a way that his activities are viewed as little more than criminal. He is hauled away to a prison camp, but even then his letters home are full of boundless optimism and his ideas for further experiments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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Identification
Overview: While awaiting his release from the Soviet detention camp he is being held in, a half-starved refugee (Andras Ambrus) finds that an error has been made and his name is not on the to-be-released list. It is then that he is forced to assume the identity of a dead man whose name is on the list. Ambrus at first refuses, but because he was an orphan and cannot produce evidence of his true identity, he has no other choice. However, when he returns to the outer world and the community he was raised in, he is greeted with suspicion. When he tries to claim his part-ownership of a farm from his adopted uncle, he is refused and beaten by farmhands the uncle sets on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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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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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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Ruthless Times
Overview: Hungary, end of World War II. Five Hungarian soldiers desert their troop which has been directed to Germany. They are escaping with the help of a stamp and unfilled travelling warrants, trying to survive until the war ends.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-02-14
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Howling V: The Rebirth
Overview: When a group of people from different walks of life converge in a Hungarian castle situated in Budapest which has been sealed for 500 years, they bring with them a werewolf which slowly begins to cut their numbers down.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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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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My Way Home
Overview: In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with a Russian soldier in a remote prison camp.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-01-14
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The Pacifist
Overview: A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to commit a political assassination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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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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Hi, Junior!
Overview: Everyone loves little Junior, but nobody has time for him. So Junior decides to find Time with the help of his friends - dwarves.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Fake "Isabella"
Overview: Végh Márta, the teacher is looking for her student Vadász Ica in the Buda villa, but she only finds the tenant, Mrs. Paár - dead. The investigation reveals that Mrs. Paár was murdered for an invaluable stamp, the "Fake Isabella".
Genres: Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-06-05
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Hungarian Rhapsody
Overview: The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-10-04
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Allegro Barbaro
Overview: Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. The old friends of Zsadányi have joined with the Nazis, and the landowner living with his peasants in a socialist community grows distant from them. Zsadányi is held responsible for political problems in the country, and will pay with his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-10-11
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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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Fekete macska
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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Nobody's Daughter
Overview: An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adoptive parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-03-04
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Tolerance
Overview: The unskilled, jack-of-all-trades András and his wife, Éva are put in jail for serial work-place thefts, -committed in order to try to ensure a normal living standard for his family - and for aggravated assault committed for self-defence, respectively. Their two small children are put in state care, then given to foster parents. András, still in prison, commits everything to help the released Éva get hold of an apartment and get their children back so that when he will have served his term the family could be together again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Face
Overview: The film take place in Budapest, in the end of The World War II, telling the story of a young Communist who escaped from prison. The boy tries to revitalise his contact with the movement, but he is told to be quiet and wait.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-04-02
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The Bells Have Gone to Rome
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Genres: War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Blue Danube Waltz
Overview: When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation is necessarily swift and comprehensive. This compelling political thriller uncovers two prime suspects: the woman who guns the leader down, and a man who was friends with both the prime minister and his murderer. Using video surveillance footage, as well as other more artful and symbolic imagery, the noted "visualist" director Miklos Jancso, who is known for his craft in getting his points across non-verbally, combines fantasy and reality in a highly ironic manner.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-05-30
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Rokonok
Overview: Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2006-02-09
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God Walks Backwards
Overview: From the film-shooting in the Buda Castle Marci and his friend go to a well-paying job. The scene is a big castle in the middle of a huge park. They enjoy the company of the Kid and the beautiful naked French girl, Nathalie. Their job is to watch the monitors on which they can see the Moscow coup détat. By the time Gorbachev is executed the Communist and the Nationalists have taken turns in occupying the castle and the park.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1991-03-18
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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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Wait a Sec!
Overview: This film shows us around a factory in the seventies in Hungary. In the outskirts factory of Kőbánya workers celebrate the foundation members and want to present the oldest member, Uncle Benda, now a pensioner, with a golden ring. His grandson, Karcsi Merkovics, an industrial apprentice, is in love with the foreman's daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-11-15
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The Triumph of the Concern for the Other Man
Overview: Weird Science Fiction. Directed by Ivan and Igor Buharov.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2000-07-24
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A Galant Story
Overview: It is the story of Bálint Balassi , the poet and warrior. The scene is Hungary at the end of the 16th century. The soldiers stationed at the castles of Hungary's border defence-system spend their days with anti-Turkish raids, hunting and womanising.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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When Time Began
Overview: The film takes place at the end of 1946. Rumours are spread that the food supply will not arrive for it has been robbed. Workers of the metal factory go on strike.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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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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Az utolsó tánctanár
Overview: Géza Böszörményi's 1975 German-Hungarian co-production film stars János Balogh as a dance and etiquette teacher. He learned the craft from his father and now travels the country with his son Simon. They are on their way to Hortobágy to "celebrate" the closing ball of their dance school. But before that, they are teaching the locals the tricks of the art of gentlemanly behaviour in Pest. But the Hortobágy dance exam is not as successful as in the good old days. The young people have only one thing on their minds: to live in the capital as soon as possible, and in the Hortobágy they will soon be nothing but horsemen and cowboys entertaining the western tourists of the National Park. János Balogh and his son also go back to the bleak and soulless prefab housing estate, where Simon tells his father that he no longer wants to be a dance teacher.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Rumbling Silence
Overview: An oil driller falls for the lonely farm wife of a man working in Budapest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1978-01-19
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Három boltoskisasszony
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Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1993-05-12
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