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An old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers that trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.

Returning from America, Andras tries to renew his relationship with Anna, an old flame, but she refuses. His decision to buy a dog for companionship leads to a meeting with a little girl and a new relationship begins.

Children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances in a 19th century German village. A young girl soon becomes haunted by disturbing visions of the missing kids.

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.

A family of boisterous children expect their Father to organise a really exciting holiday. So when the chance comes up of spending it on a boat, the Ramona, it seems that the problem is solved.

It is 1951, and Lucy Sziráky is a pretty, ambitious operetta actress. Her blossoming career has been thwarted by deportation. Because of her ex-husband's count rank, she has to leave the capital. For her, the adjustment to her forced village life is doubly difficult: she is far from her true livelihood, the theater, and must also contend with the resentment of her fellow aristocrats, who see her as an interloper. But Lucy is a real actress and a real no. Soon she finds the right voice for the displaced people and the men who admire her: the village party secretary, the local police captain, but she soon gets fed up.

The first chapter of a two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II.

Many Hungarian migrant workers work in Germany in good conditions and for good wages during WW2. They face the war only once they return home to Hungary.

18 pop songs stitched together into a full-length movie.

Monsters season - a teacher celebrates his 60th birthday at a rural summer house. Existentialism and philosophy is discussed among professors and students. A scary mystery play opens.

A young woman, married to a volatile alcoholic, has a competing claim on her affections from an older woman who tries to protect her and her daughter.

A number of years after the events of the first movie, Istvan is now in love with Marie and has adopted revolutionary ideas while his brother Gabor has become a minister for the government. How will the shadow of war affect them both?

A Swedish journalist disappears in Budapest and Martin Beck takes the case.

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.

A Polish journalist, Maj, who collaborates with a Parisian economic magazine similar to the UN press agencies, finds a trace of the activities of the secret organization "W", established by Nazi criminals who remained at large. The activities of this organization boil down to sabotage, attempts to obtain weapons of mass destruction, murder or drug smuggling. After the first contact in Vienna and Budapest with the activities of the "W" organization, May continues its trail, discovering new connections and carefully prepared actions. The titles of individual episodes are the names of the cities around which the action described in a given episode focuses.

Mr Poldi, a city worker, who works in public parks, is preparing for retirement. During his 52 years of employment the green grass and the flowers became a very important part of his life. He cannot imagine his life without them. Misu, his young nephew organizes the whole community of the apartment complex to put down grass in the middle of the courtyard. Iconic heartwarming Hungarian story where the viewers can experience the atmosphere of life in Budapest in the '70s.

Defoe, lacking fantasy of his own takes home the drunkard sailor from the pub and makes him tell his stories on the uninhabited island he left behind.

Quest for love by divorced intellectual girl and her mother. The ending is in fact a precursor of polyamory.

How far can one person go when love becomes obsession?

A pianist falls in love with Mari, a beautiful blond woman, who happens to be the wife of a deaf-mute animal caretaker. Both men adore Mari, as she loves both of them. Albeit all of them know this situation won't stand.

A young woman's mid-20th-century journey from the exuberant idealism of communist theory to the devastating reality of its implementation.

Zoltán Fábri traces in epic style and more conventional form the fate of the peasants in the period between the wars.