Lajos Balázsovits

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence. (IMDB.com)

Set in the 1940's, in the farm collectives, a young man is refused the grant which would have allowed him to go to a film school, because of an innocent incident relating to his father, later accused of political crime. After trying his hand at many jobs and occupations he will finally be able to go to the film school, and make a film of his experiences. (bfi.org.uk)

Janos and Kata are thrown together during the war forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. As they grow closer, the intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what they truly believe.

Mycenae. Electra (Mari Töröcsik) is considered mad because she mourns the loss of her father, Agamemnon, and roams the countryside accusing the new king Aegisthus of murder. She constantly claims that her brother Orestes will return to right the injustice and expel the usurper who rules the country with an iron fist. A messenger brings word that Orestes is dead, but soon thereafter he appears, to do exactly what the 'mad' Electra has foretold.

Earning a Golden Palm nod at the Cannes Film Festival, this erotic drama uses the real-life Mayerling affair -- in which Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress committed suicide after being forbidden to wed -- as its jumping off point. In director Miklós Jancsó's reinterpretation, however, it's patriarchal tyranny that leads to tragedy as the young prince refuses to end his extended erotic idyll at his country estate. (Netflix)

Alegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avanges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression. (Francisco Baez)

A group of young communists get into a religious high school in order to convince the pupils about he glories of Communism. (karagarga.net)

First part of the unfinished trilogy about a period of the hungarian history.

After the death of Géza, the Hungarian monarch, his son István and his brother Koppány gets in a conflict for the Hungarian throne. Their battle should settle the fate of Hungary: whether it adopts Christianity or remains in Paganism. (imdb)

When a young man goes to see a doctor with a red mark on his face, it is the doctor's wife who receives him. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and comments that his way of eating is like that of her previous husband, who had died in prison many years before. It turns out that the young man has been his cellmate for a year and tells her the story of how her husband passed away. (FILMAFFINITY)

After her husband dies, a woman questions her love for her husband and whether or not to accept money from the insurance policy. Tensions mount when her estranged son returns to the familial home with his girlfriend. - IMDb

Four-part miniseries from a script by novelist Magda Szabó. During WWII a general puts his daughter in a strict religious boarding school in a small town to keep her safe. She rebels against the teachers and tries to escape. (mubi)