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Másik bolygó 2008

Glamour 2000 star_border 4
The tumultuous history of Hungary through the twentieth century is viewed through the saga of the Hungarian-Jewish, furniture-manufacturing family, the Vendels. After taking over the once successful, but now failing, family business in the 1930s, the family patriarch's dashing elder son decides that the family needs an infusion of new blood. A matchmaker presents him with a photo of a pretty German nursery school teacher. When the two meet, they instantly fall in love, but because Hungary has an alliance with Germany, and the Third Reich prohibits marriage between Gentiles and Jews, the couple must hide their union. Their marriage ultimately stands as a dark foreshadowing of rougher times to come as troubles ensue with the advent of World War II, when the family, its employees and servants must retreat to the basement, where the shop emerges increasingly as a refuge in a world growing more violent and less tolerant.

Simon, the Magician 1999 star_border 6
A crime is committed in Paris, and the police are clueless. They call in Simon, a sorcerer with supernatural powers. whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?

Natasha 1998
Romantic drama set in Moscow university. Hungarian student Ferenc falls in love with strange Siberian beauty, Natasha - who is accompanied in Moscow by her grandmother and pet lynx.

Nitrate Base 1997 star_border 5.9
This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical, Lyric, politic...). Beside it we have a kind of resume of the historic contest in which cinema lived till now, events and movements (neo-realism, classical etc.). All the aspects are taken in consideration: fashion, star system till the end, the sad end, of cinema in the theaters.

Stalin 1992 star_border 5.3
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

Twilight 1990 star_border 7
In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession enshrouded by irresolution and despair, even long after he has been taken off the case. What emerges is not a crime story, but a harrowing venture through the darkness of the human soul.

Forget About Me 1990
Two Scottish soldiers stationed in Germany head to Budapest to see a Simple Minds concert and fall for a local girl.

Labdaálmok 1989 star_border 6

Peer Gynt 1988
Adapted for Hungarian TV.

Egy gazdag hölgy szeszélye 1988 star_border 3

The Baby and the Rascals 1984 star_border 4.5
A group of Hungarian children and a taxicab driver try to return a lost baby to his sightseeing Swedish parents.

The Revolt of Job 1983 star_border 5.9
The story of a childless Jewish couple in WWII-era Hungary who adopt a Hungarian boy and raise him with their values and traditions.

Napos oldal 1983 star_border 6

Cha-Cha-Cha 1982 star_border 4.5
Gruber is a normal 16-year-old growing up in Budapest in 1962, but he has a problem -- how does he get to know the opposite sex? At the Sunday afternoon dance classes the young "ladies and gentlemen" hold each other while dancing, and that makes the lessons worth something. Otherwise, the pianist's attention wanders and the orchestra does not exactly play with a single-minded dedication. In fact, everybody seems to have other things on their minds, except for the enthusiastic dance instructor and his ever-smiling assistant.

The Trumpeter 1979
In the late 17th century, Hungary moved from Turkish to Austrian domination, becoming a key part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In this story, which takes place shortly after that time, three outlaws murder a group of people on their way to a wedding. One young man was a slave travelling with the group to entertain them with his skills as a trumpeter. The outlaws spare him for the same reason. He allows himself to believe that they are really an unattached group of independence-fighters, but after seeing their brutal and callous ways, he cannot believe that they are good men, and he turns them in to the authorities. At that point, he is unnerved to discover how nobly they bear the rigors of captivity. ~

Vacations on the Dead Street 1978 star_border 10
A group of children are spending their summer in the newly built district which doesn't have any attractions...

Örkény István: Tóték 1978 star_border 9

Last Desk 1975 star_border 1
A story about a gipsy girl Kati who moves from Hungarian province to Budapest and starts going to school.

The Secret Echo 1972 star_border 4.5
The movie, based on a story by Yuri Nagibin, depicts a young girl Vika enjoying the last days of summer vacations in a sea resort somewhere in the south.

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The Istambul Train 1980
Italian miniseries.

Vivat Beňovský! 1975

Adventures of Captain Pirx 1973 star_border 5
Based on "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" - a science fiction stories collection by Polish author Stanisław Lem.