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1. Albert Nobbs (2011)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Director: Rodrigo García | Stars: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Votes: 25,607 | Gross: $3.01M
2. Sunshine (1999)
R | 181 min | Drama, History, Romance
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 15,809 | Gross: $5.10M
3. Being Julia (2004)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in 1930s London, this movie involves stage actors and actresses and their experiences with love and revenge.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Maury Chaykin, Jeremy Irons
Votes: 12,936 | Gross: $7.74M
4. Mephisto (1981)
Unrated | 146 min | Drama
In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda, Rolf Hoppe
Votes: 11,610
5. I Served the King of England (2006)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Marián Labuda
Votes: 8,195 | Gross: $0.62M
6. Taking Sides (2001)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Music, War
After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr
Votes: 3,836 | Gross: $0.19M
7. Colonel Redl (1985)
R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe
Votes: 3,350 | Gross: $0.00M
8. Place Vendôme (1998)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama
Realising a dishonest deal has been found out a diamond merchant commits suicide, leaving the gems in question for his wife. Knowing the business from the time before drink largely took ... See full summary »
Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc
Votes: 2,628 | Gross: $0.48M
9. The Door (I) (2012)
97 min | Drama
An author forms a strange bond with her eccentric maid that will have a lasting effect on both women.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Helen Mirren, Martina Gedeck, Károly Eperjes, Gábor Koncz
Votes: 2,472
10. Hanussen (1988)
R | 140 min | Drama, History
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... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger
Votes: 1,898 | Gross: $0.08M
11. Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
146 min | Drama, Music, Musical
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old ... See full summary »
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Jirí Menzel, Michael Radford, Volker Schlöndorff, István Szabó | Stars: Amit Rayani, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Mark Long, Rudolf Hrusínský
Votes: 1,867
12. Meeting Venus (1991)
PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A deliciously biting satire about both the world of Grand Opera and United Europe. A Hungarian conductor (Arestrup) attempts to mount a bold new production of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Kiri Te Kanawa, René Kollo
Votes: 1,423 | Gross: $1.00M
13. Father (1966)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
A boy in Budapest loses his father in 1945, when he was the age of six. He does not remember much of the father but fantasizes that he performed various heroic feats.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: András Bálint, Miklós Gábor, Dániel Erdély, Kati Sólyom
Votes: 1,072
14. Confidence (1980)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai, Oszkárné Gombik, Károly Csáki
Votes: 1,038
15. Lovefilm (1970)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
Jancsi reminiscences about Kata his childhood friend in WWII Budapest, They are separated as a result of 1956 revolution. Reunited as adults, they struggle with whether they will stay in each others lives.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Judit Halász, András Bálint, Edit Kelemen, András Szamosfalvi
Votes: 872
16. Rokonok (2006)
110 min | Drama
Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Sándor Csányi, Ildikó Tóth, Károly Eperjes, Erika Marozsán
Votes: 688
17. Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe (1992)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Johanna ter Steege, Enikö Börcsök, Péter Andorai, Éva Kerekes
Votes: 650
18. The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards 2005 (2005 TV Special)
Golden Globe Award - American award awarded by the Hollywood association of the foreign press from 1944 for works in movies and television's pictures.
Director: Chris Donovan | Stars: Natalie Portman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hilary Swank, Brooke Adams
Votes: 483
19. Final Report (2020)
118 min | Drama
A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This is the start of his ordeal: he's ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Károly Eperjes, Dorottya Udvaros, András Stohl
Votes: 410
20. Age of Illusions (1965)
95 min | Drama
Jancsi Oláh is in the transitional phase between adolescence and adultness. He is born in 1938, and is now getting his first employment as an electronic engineer. On some TV-screens he ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: András Bálint, Ilona Béres, Judit Halász, Kati Sólyom
Votes: 402
21. The Man Who Was Thursday (2016)
95 min | Mystery, Thriller
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY is inspired by the existentialist novel of the same name by G.K. Chesterton (1908). The novel is considered a metaphysical thriller, and our film could be ... See full summary »
Director: Balazs Juszt | Stars: Ana Ularu, Jordi Mollà, François Arnaud, Mark Ivanir
Votes: 355
22. Tüzoltó utca 25. (1973)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance
Hungary's postwar history told through the dreams, nightmares, and memories of the inhabitants of an old house on the eve of its destruction.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Károly Kovács, András Bálint
Votes: 349
23. Budapesti mesék (1977)
90 min | Drama
A yellow tram lies overturned on the riverbank at the end of the war. Tattered, ragged, homeless men huddle together in a group, load it on rails trying to take it to the remise. Their ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ági Mészáros, Maja Komorowska, Franciszek Pieczka, András Bálint
Votes: 264
24. Durch die Nacht mit... (2002– )
Documentary
Two celebrities meet for the first time to spend an evening in each others and the camera's company.
Stars: Christoph Schlingensief, Jonathan Meese, Helene Hegemann, Till Brönner
Votes: 222
25. Shem (2004)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
Daniel, a young and arrogant Londoner, is bored to death in his life. His jewish grandmother asks him to go through Europe in order to find his grandfather's grave. Not only will Daniel ... See full summary »
Director: Caroline Roboh | Stars: Asier Newman, Hadassah Hungar Diamant, Arturo Brachetti, Cyrielle Clair
Votes: 156 | Gross: $0.01M
26. The 54th Annual Academy Awards (1982 TV Special)
News
Award of the American academy of cinematographic arts and sciences, from 1940 known as "Oscar", - American film award created in 1929 and traditionally handed to the figures of ... See full summary »
Director: Marty Pasetta | Stars: Johnny Carson, Debbie Allen, Karen Allen, Peter Allen
Votes: 156
27. Koncert (1962)
16 min | Short
A trio of young men leave a piano by the beach while chasing love interests. Several beach-goers have a go at playing creating an impromptu concert.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Géza Berczy, Lajos Cs. Németh, Tamás Eröss, Klára Falvay
Votes: 144
28. Bors (1969– )
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Stars: István Sztankay, Imre Antal, István Szilágyi, Károly Gyulai
Votes: 143
29. The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2001 (2001 TV Special)
Golden Globe Award - American award awarded by the Hollywood association of the foreign press from 1944 for works in movies and television's pictures.
Director: Chris Donovan | Stars: Jessica Alba, Gillian Anderson, Javier Bardem, Jason Behr
Votes: 141
30. Te (1963)
11 min | Short
A young couple's marriage is tested when they move to a remote village.
Director: István Szabó | Star: Cecília Esztergályos
Votes: 130
31. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
News
A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
Stars: Bjorn Jiskoot Jr., Isabelle Huppert, Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 120
32. Túsztörténet (1989)
110 min | Drama
In 1970's Hungary, two teen brothers take hostage 20 girls in their dorm to secure safe passage to the West. Based on the true incident of the first modern hostage situation in Hungary.
Director: Gyula Gazdag | Stars: Ari Bery, Gábor Svidrony, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Tibor Bitskey
Votes: 115
33. Forced March (1989)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, History, War
Ben Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star. When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the ... See full summary »
Director: Rick King | Stars: Chris Sarandon, Renée Soutendijk, Josef Sommer, John Seitz
Votes: 111
34. The Fallen Vampire (2007 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary on the life and career of Bela Lugosi.
Director: Florin Iepan | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Forrest J. Ackerman, Carroll Borland, Lon Chaney
Votes: 110
35. Gyerekbetegségek (1965)
79 min | Comedy
Directors: Ferenc Kardos, János Rózsa | Stars: István Géczy, Tünde Kassai, Emil Keres, Judit Halász
Votes: 95
36. Cinéastes de notre temps (1964–1972)
Documentary
In-depth documentaries about the greatest filmmakers from around the world, all in the form of candid face-to-face interviews, conducted, created and produced by former critics for Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe.
Stars: André S. Labarthe, Georges Franju, Jean Renoir, Jacques Rivette
Votes: 94
37. Esti Kornél csodálatos utazása (1995)
99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A middle-aged writer (Kornél Esti) travels to Germany to deliver a lecture. During the long journey he recalls the memories of another journey he made 30 years before.
Director: József Pacskovszky | Stars: Gábor Máté, Éva Igó, Gabriella Németh, Gyula Benkö
Votes: 91
38. Na plovárne (1999– )
23 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Marek Eben, Quincy Jones, Miroslav Ondrícek, Jirí Lábus
Votes: 79
39. Sodankylä Forever (2010)
270 min | Documentary
Sodankyla film festival started at 1986 and was created by Finnish directors Anssi Manttari, Aki and Mika Kaurismaki, along with Peter Von Bagh.
Sodankyla Forever is a great documentary ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Peter von Bagh, Robert Parrish, Roy Ward Baker, Víctor Erice
Votes: 73
40. CzechMate: In Search of Jirí Menzel (2018)
448 min | Documentary
CzechMate - in Search of Jiri Menzel directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, is an in-depth exploration of the work of renowned Czech director Jiri Menzel and the Czech New Wave.
Director: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur | Stars: Jirí Menzel, Eric Abraham, Josef Abrhám, Woody Allen
Votes: 63
41. A hetedik napon (1959)
5 min | Short, Comedy
A young priest visits a barber's shop to get shaved. When he leans back and closes his eyes, the barbers decide to play a prank on him. Instead of a male barber they let a female ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: György Kézdy, György Linka, Éva Tímár, Iván Verebély
Votes: 63
42. Párbeszéd (1963)
130 min | Drama
Director: János Herskó | Stars: Anita Semjén, Imre Sinkovits, István Sztankay, Mari Törőcsik
Votes: 61
43. Der grüne Vogel (1980)
94 min | Romance, Drama
Auf einem Arztekongress in Wien lerne sie sich kennen: Renate, eine junge deutsche Aerztin und Jan, ein Kollege aus Warschau. Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Jan jedoch ist verheiratet ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Péter Andorai, Krystyna Janda, Danuta Szaflarska
Votes: 59
44. The 2004 European Film Awards (2004 TV Special)
The 2004 European Film Awards.
Director: Manuel Huerga | Stars: Juanjo Puigcorbé, Maria de Medeiros, Victoria Abril, Javier Aguirresarobe
Votes: 58
45. Franciska vasárnapjai (1997)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Sándor Simó | Stars: Éva Kerekes, Dénes Ujlaky, Krisztina Bíró, László Görög
Votes: 47
46. A boldogság színe (2003)
87 min | Drama
Director: József Pacskovszky | Stars: Anna Györgyi, Erik Desfosses, Sándor Szakácsi, Teréz Rudolf
Votes: 45
48. Bouillon de culture (1991–2001)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Broth of culture.
Stars: Bernard Pivot, Philippe Sollers, Jean Tulard, Bernard-Henri Lévy
Votes: 40
49. From Europe Into Europe (2003)
36 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Ildikó Enyedi, Benedek Fliegauf, Miklós Jancsó, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Elemér Ragályi, János Rózsa, István Szabó, Pál Sándor, Sándor Sára, Ferenc Török | Stars: Ildikó Enyedi, Dezsö Garas, Zoltán Gulyás Kiss, Gyula Hernádi
Votes: 39
50. Four Seasons in Space (2005)
93 min | Drama
Director: József Pacskovszky | Stars: Nataliya Seliverstova, Dmitry Pavlenko, Marco Bonini, Ferenc Kállai
Votes: 36