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Les maîtres du temps

Les maîtres du temps

René Laloux 1982 1h 20m 7.5

On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well.

Szerelem

Szerelem

Károly Makk 1971 1h 28m 8.5

The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.

Örökbefogadás

Örökbefogadás

Márta Mészáros 1975 1h 28m

A lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.

Egy erkölcsös éjszaka

Egy erkölcsös éjszaka

Károly Makk 1977 1h 34m

The theme of the delightful Hungarian fantasy film "A Very Moral Night," made in 1977 and now playing at the Public Theater, could well be innocence, even if the action does take place in a bordello. It is a good bordello, so sweet and wholesome that it seems a place of pure beauty and Eden-like charm.

Edge of Sanity

Edge of Sanity

Gérard Kikoïne 1989 1h 31m 6.0

When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind...

Germinal

Germinal

Yves Allégret 1963 1h 50m 9.0

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.

Tüzoltó utca 25.

Tüzoltó utca 25.

István Szabó 1973 1h 37m

Hungary's postwar history told through the dreams, nightmares, and memories of the inhabitants of an old house on the eve of its destruction.

Kilenc hónap

Kilenc hónap

Márta Mészáros 1976 1h 34m 7.0

Village-girl (Juli Kovács) arrives in the city to work in a factory. The works manager (János Bodnár) sets his eye on her, but at first the girl refuses his advance.

Hannibál tanár úr

Hannibál tanár úr

Zoltán Fábri 1956 1h 29m 8.0

A school teacher becomes a momentary hero after having rescued a stuffed-bird from a school incident.

80 huszár

80 huszár

Sára Sándor 1978 2h 4m

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.

Frau Wirtin hat auch einen Grafen

Frau Wirtin hat auch einen Grafen

Franz Antel 1968 1h 36m

The German innkeeper Susan, now leading an acting troupe, travels to Italy and uses feminine wiles to undo an assassination plot against Napoleon, and rescue a local count (a great romancer) from his own enemies.

Hanussen

Hanussen

István Szabó 1988 2h 20m

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients.

Napló apámnak, anyámnak

Napló apámnak, anyámnak

Márta Mészáros 1990 1h 59m

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike.

Szevasz, Vera!

Szevasz, Vera!

János Herskó 1969 1h 50m

The family travels to Zebegény for their holiday, and the following day the seventeen-year-old Vera also leaves for Lake Balaton to pick peaches in a voluntary camp there. Her boyfriend, Gyuri, goes to a film shooting. Gyuri would like to make the best of the day in the absence of parents, but Vera refuses him.