Explanation for Everything

Explanation for Everything 2023

7.10

It’s summer in Budapest, high school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realisation that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka. The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab—who had a previous confrontation with Abel’s conservative father. The tensions of a polarised society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal.

2023

Well

Well 2016

5.70

At a gas station in the middle of nowhere, a young man arrives to meet his father he hasn't seen for 30 years. On the same day, a van with four prostitutes breaks down at the very same gas station, on the way to Switzerland. The three days they spend together in the station change their lives forever.

2016

Taxidermia

Taxidermia 2006

6.60

Grotesquely surreal offering charting three male generations of the same bizarre family, including a pervert who constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater, and a passionate embalmer.

2006

Son of Saul

Son of Saul 2015

7.10

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper jewish burial.

2015

Satantango

Satantango 1994

8.14

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

1994

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen 2012

7.50

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.

2012

Savior

Savior 1998

7.20

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.

1998

KIX

KIX 2024

6.00

Handheld skate video meets hardcore social realism in a sensational film with the energy of a three-chord punk song and an unruly group of street kids in front of the camera, shot over 10 wild years of their young lives.

2024

Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister Harmonies 2001

7.85

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

2001

Jupiter's Moon

Jupiter's Moon 2017

5.60

A young refugee, Aryan, is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border. While tending him back to health, a doctor at a refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained an extraordinary talent—he can levitate. Aryan is smuggled out by the doctor, who is intent on exploiting his secret.

2017

Post Mortem

Post Mortem 2020

6.70

A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.

2020

Ruben Brandt, Collector

Ruben Brandt, Collector 2018

7.40

Psychotherapist Ruben Brandt becomes the most wanted criminal in the world when he and four of his patients steal paintings from the world's most renowned museums and art collections.

2018

The Turin Horse

The Turin Horse 2011

7.70

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.

2011

The Courtship

The Courtship 2022

7.00

Eighteen year old Ida returns home after being raised by nuns, but her father isn't too pleased. Determined to see her married, he publishes an ad and offers suitors a generous dowry.

2022

Damnation

Damnation 1988

7.60

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 Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...

1988

Sunset

Sunset 2018

5.80

In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.

2018

The Red and the White

The Red and the White 1967

7.10

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.

1967

Fateless

Fateless 2005

7.00

An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

2005

Land of Storms

Land of Storms 2014

6.30

Szabolcs plays in a German football team, as does Bernard. They are roommates, best friends, inseparable. A lost match makes him reconsider his life and he goes back to Hungary in hope for more simplicity. Yet his solitude does not last long. Soon after his arrival he meets Áron and a mutual attraction between the two boys develops when suddenly Szabolcs receives an unexpected phone call from Bernard: he has arrived to Hungary...

2014

On Body and Soul

On Body and Soul 2017

7.23

Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.

2017

Among Friends

Among Friends 1998

4.30

Miklós introduces viewers into the world of Money and Charm.

1998

Szomszédok

Szomszédok 1987

8.40

Szomszédok was a Hungarian television series, occasionally called the Hungarian Dallas, that ran from 1987–1999 and produced 331 episodes, airing its grand finale on December 31, 1999. The series was a soap opera, dealing with the lives of ordinary people, living and working in or around an average lakótelep. Its characters were explored, over time, in equal depth: ranging from elderly pensioners, busy middle aged professionals, up-and-coming young people, and children growing into their teens. Many consider Szomszédok to be the definitive Hungarian television series, being a period piece of sorts that covers the last few years of the communist era, the rendszerváltozás, and nearly a decade of the new market economy Hungary thereafter.

1987

In Treatment

In Treatment 2012

9.20

A successful psychologist battles with problems in his personal life.

2012

The Teacher

The Teacher 2018

7.80

This series shows a school community's everyday life filled with drama and comedy. The episodes treat public and social issues like teenagers' rivalization or the search of identity.

2018

Kisváros

Kisváros 1993

6.25

A Kisváros egy színes, 195 részes magyar akciófilm-sorozat, ami 1993–2001 között futott a Magyar Televízióban. A történet középpontjában egy, a valóságban nem létező határmenti kisváros, Végvár áll. Ebbe a városba érkezik Hunyadi főtörzs, hogy a Határőrség akciószázadát kiképezze. A sorozat a rendőrség és a határőrség határmenti bűncselekmények ügyében való nyomozások terén történő együttműködését mutatja be, minden epizód egy-egy önálló történet, a kiemelt főszereplőkké később Járai rendőr őrnagy és beosztottja, Balogh Máté zászlós válnak. A sorozat jeleneteinek jelentős részét Szigetváron, valamint a bucsui és a bozsoki határátkelőnél forgatták. A sorozatot az MTV-n kívül 2002 táján a Hálózat TV is vetítette, a teljes sorozatot az m1 2007. június 8. és 2008. március 31. között ismételte, 2009. június 1. és szeptember 18. között ismét leadta, de akkor csak a 21. résztől a 157. részig a 156/I-II. rész kihagyásával, 2011. szeptember 5. és szeptember 30. között ismét leadta, de csak az 1. résztől a 25. részig, 2011. október 3-tól 2012. június 1-ig a Duna Televízió folytatta a sorozat ismétlését a 21. résztől a 195. részig, majd 2012. június 11. és 2013. február 11. között a Duna World is műsorra tűzte, szintén a 21. résztől a 195. részig. 2013. január 4. és március 8. között péntekenként a hajnali órákban az m2 is műsorra tűzte a sorozatot, de csak a 21. résztől a 30. részig adta le. 2013. június 17-től ismét műsorra tűzte a Duna Televízió a 21. résztől.

1993

Survivor

Survivor 2003

4.60

Hungarian version of the reality contest where a group of castaways split between two or more “Tribes” are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies. Frequent physical challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for “Immunity”, forcing the other tribe to attend “Tribal Council”, where they must vote off one of their players.

2003

Oltári csajok

Oltári csajok 2017

4.60

Three sisters in their twenties, pursuing success and love in the big city. The story opens with an engagement party that runs astray, leaving the future wedding gift of a real-life fairytale palace up for grabs. Thus, a race begins between the sisters to be the first to find and marry their own Prince Charming.

2017

Hazatalálsz

Hazatalálsz 2023

5.00

Tamás and Rajmund grew up in a children's home, but their lives took a completely different direction after that. Tamás became an outcast from a police officer, while Rajmund made his fortune as a criminal. They both fall in love with the same woman. Rajmund doesn't take kindly to this, so he does everything to drive Tamás out of the city. A story about love, family and redemption...

2023

Gustavus

Gustavus 1966

10.00

Gusztáv, also known as Gustavus, was Hungarian series of animated short cartoons for adults. It was extremely popular in Eastern Europe, where it has achieved cult status. It ran from 1964-1977. Each episode tells an adventure of the main character, Gustav, related to the gray realities of urban life. Characteristic feature of the show was that episodes were independent: for example, Gustav is sometimes a bachelor, sometimes has large family. In Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia the episodes were broadcast on TV in the 80s, usually as airtime filler. The series was also broadcast in Western Europe and even in New Zealand - because it was not using language, other than gibberish sound, it was able to easily transcend boundaries.

1966