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A 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.

Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the attentions of the noisy Takaró Sanyi, although she is more attracted to his silent and modest younger brother.

The story of a young servant girl who comes to work on the construction site of a large-scale industrial settlement. She decides to embark on an independent life, runs away from her foster parents, gets on a train and sets out to earn money. Modest and shy, she joins the factory's group of "Stakhanovites" and soon makes new comrades. Her coworkers accept her into their team.

The story stars teenager Kornél, who is raised alone by his mother and suffers from asthma, which often prevents him from playing with his friends, and Gyuri, who is the same age as Kornél, but lived in the same house 30 years ago. During the summer holidays, a strange little girl turns up and tells Kornél amazing stories about the house's inhabitants and their mysterious past. Iza inhabits a whole little magical universe in which everything and everyone has wonderful properties and abilities. The boy and the girl embark on a joint investigation to find the former Garaboncias, Kornél's father, who has been kidnapped by the evil Shadow Robbers (Peritons)...

Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, Juli stays at a women's shelter run by Mária.

After losing his wife, the aged organist uses music to process the grief.

This light comedy with grotesque elements tells the story of M, the young and beautiful model mother, who seeks happiness and a father for her precocious, but inventive daughter, Tündike.

Vili fakes illness so he doesn't have to take a math test. Instead, he starts shooting at sparrows from the window with an air rifle. The kindly old lady who feeds the birds turns out to be a real-life fairy who tries to turn Vili into a good boy.

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.

A gay affair between an aging middle-aged writer, and a young streetwise hustler.

This drama about a boorish non-conformist takes place in Hungary after the war and is dulled a little by political overtones but is still an engaging story. The setting is the countryside, where an independent, landowning farmer busies himself in his free time by bedding down the women on his farm and then tossing them aside. One such ill-treated lass ends up marrying a young man who is in charge of a communal farm, a farm the womanizing "beast" of the title is later forced to join. The arrogant, formerly independent farmer does not reform his ways and is soon chasing after the young manager's wife, the woman he dropped not that long ago. The results are disastrous.

On the shores of Lake Balaton, a group of people rush to their boats as a storm approaches, notice that a boat has capsized on the water and go to the rescue. They rescue a couple, and the young man who rescues them falls in love with the woman.

Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary – an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.

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.

A pointless, hedonistic guy is sliding down the slope of self-destruction. One day he goes through one of the strangest trips of his life: he finds himself in an alternative world where he has to face his own dark secret.

What happens when two eccentric individuals—a grandfather and his grandson—are forced to spend an entire weekend together? Based on stories and screenplay written by Olivér Gömbös, a young creator on the autism spectrum. For many years, Olivér has been expressing himself and his view of the world through unique film narratives. With a talented creative team and outstanding actors, director Tamás Németh Pákolicz has helped bring Olivér’s greatest cinematic dream to life.

A 12-part nature film series that shows the wildlife of the forests from January to December.

A five part docu-drama following the everyday lives, family conflicts, careers, joys and problems of a married couple of school teachers and their five children.

The adventures of children who live in a small village near the state border.

Documentary series about Transylvania.