After his father loses his business and is taken to a labor camp, Gyorgy Koves soon finds himself baffled and alone at Auschwitz-Birkenau, struggling to find meaning in his tragic fate. Gyorgy ... Read more
Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead ... Read more
A small backwater village is the setting for this colossal Hungarian saga. Clocking in at seven hours, Bela Tarr’s film details the plight of the village folk as they prepare to leave. Believing that ... Read more
The year is 1956, the coldest year of the Cold War and Hungary is politically dominated by the Soviet Empire. Yet, Hungary is also a superpower - the Hungarian national water polo team remains ... Read more
Three stories. Three generations. three men. One bizzare and shocking universe.
Orderly Grandfather is a love-craving fantasist who lives off feverish dreams and his fertile imagination. Speed-... Read more
Hukkle is a film that defies genre and has captivated audiences around the world: it is a stunnigly artful and unconventional murder mystery. Set in a Hungarian village, it is the story of how the "... Read more
Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik ... Read more
At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun ... Read more
In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the resistance the army ... Read more
When a young Hungarian woman's husband is arrested by the Secret Police and imprisoned as a dissident, she is left to care for her bedridden mother-in-law. Striving to ease the ailing woman's pain, ... Read more