25 Hungarian films (1915-1945)
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- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsLili BerkyVictor VarconiMari JászaiBetty (Lili Berky, Duel For Nothing), a young woman living in the country, is told by her dying father that he is really her uncle and raised her as his own when her mother was sent to prison for killing her husband. Alone and not knowing her mother's fate, Betty travels to the city in search of work. There she finds employment as a maid in the house of a wealthy couple and their dashing son, Nick (Victor Varconi, For Whom The Bell Tolls), with whom she falls in love. When Betty is fired from her position after being unjustly accused of theft and escorted from the village, an ironic twist of fate propels the story forward with the sudden appearance of her mother Sarah (Mari Jászai, Bánk Bán) - presumed dead but recently released from prison - on a quest of her own to find her daughter.4/5
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsOscar Beregi Sr.József KürthyLucy DoraineThe family waits for the returning brother. The young revolutionary emerges from behind the brow of the hill holding a fluttering flag. The enemies fight a bloody battle. The hero and his battalion suffers defeat. The young fighter is imprisoned, but the slogan "Proletars of the world, unite!" makes him escape. He raises a new army around the preserved flag. News are read out back home when the young brother comes home. The two brothers embrace each other. A revolutionary mob proceeds on the street.4/5
- DirectorGéza von BolváryStarsPaul LukasHelene von BolvaryFerenc VendreyA husband decides that his wife cannot know which one of the two boys is her child. While the children grow up to be men, a war breaks out and the mother has to face questions about motherly love.3/5
- DirectorBéla GaálStarsPál JávorGusztáv VándoryMártha EggerthTwo war comrades return home to their country village. At the vine feast Katinka, unspoiled niece of one of them, gets engaged to the other, Gyorgy. Then he travels to the city and falls for a flirtatious rich girl, breaking Katinka's heart. He'll soon discover the truth. First (semisilent) Mártha Eggerth film.3/5
- DirectorSteve SekelyStarsGyula CsortosGyula KabosMici HarasztiA butler changes the life of a nouveau-riche entrepreneur's life, while his daughter falls in love with the company's manager instead of a suitor chosen for her.4/5
- DirectorPál FejösStarsAnnabellaIlona DajbukátSteven GerayIt tells the story of Mari, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. Mari is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she works, becomes pregnant and is cast out.5/5
- DirectorBéla GaálStarsZita PerczelElla GombaszögiKlári TolnayA light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever enchanting story of a beautiful girl falling in love with a rich man.4/5
- DirectorPál FejösStarsAntal PágerErnõ ElekesGyula CsortosRomeo and Juliet romance on great Lake Balaton, where rival families each control half the fishing rights.When the girl is suspected of being with the wrong boy, she is set on a boat in a storm to be judged in a trial of survival.4/5
- DirectorSteve SekelyStarsAnna TõkésGyula CsortosFerenc KissIn 1915, after the breakthrough in Gorlice, the Russians emptied the city of Kolomea in East Galicia and moved to the hands of Austrian-Hungarian troops. In the city, however, the town commander, Russian general Szuharov, Verjusa and the assistant general of the general, was caught. The vulnerable woman is hiding in a cafe called Café Moscow.3/5
- DirectorSteve SekelyStarsPál JávorMargit DajkaFerenc KissYoung Hussar captain falls in love-at-first-sight with classy young blonde, who turns out to be the sister of his captain.3/5
- DirectorMárton GarasStarsJenö BalassaSári FedákDezsõ Kertész2/5
- DirectorJenö JanovicsStarsLili BerkyAdorján NagyVilmos LengyelGitta used to be a famous young primadonna before she married. For the sake of the theater she abandons her husband and son, goes to Russia with an actor, Vándori, to perform in cabaret as a dancer and is very popular with the officers.3/5
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsOscar Beregi Sr.Gábor RajnayIca von LenkeffyThe adventures of captain Mihály Tímár, who aids a persecuted Turkish Pasha and his daughter, Tíméa in their escape on the Danube. After the Pasha dies, the captain acquires his fortune and becomes a well regarded gentleman. Seeing how the Pasha's friend and his family mistreat Timéa he purposefully tricks the man into financial ruin and buys his house in the aftermath. Tíméa marries him out of gratitude. She remains faithful but distant to Tímár. During his passage on the Danube, Tímár met Noémi, a girl living on an island with her mother. Tímár decides to go back to this island because he grows tired of his unfulfilling marriage. He and Noémi eventually fall in love and have a child. Every summer Tímár returns and lives on the island with his secret family. How will his double life unfold?4/5
- DirectorGeorge HoelleringStarsJános CinegeFrau CinegeIstván KányásiEssentially a documentary about the lives of the Hungarian Hortobagy plains horsemen and peasants, with a slight fictional storyline to hang it all on. The coming of 'machines' threatens the way of life of these peoples, and most of them want no contact with tractors or even bicycles. But not everyone agrees.4/5
- DirectorÁkos RáthonyiStarsKlári TolnayImre RádayGerö MályBimbi is unemployed and she struggles to make a living. The previous tenant had a letter of recommendation for the director of 'Tormássy' company but she was sent to a madhouse in the meantime. Thus Bimbi can apply for a job with the "unused" letter however the letter says that the "lady is a bit silly" so even though she gets the job she is not entrusted with work until one day she is sent to be the typist for the CEO's son who is living in the countryside.2/5
- DirectorJános VaszaryStarsGyula KabosErzsi OrsolyaÉva LibertinyWhen Gyula Kovács finds out that his love, Nelly, has been promised to another man, out of revenge he dreams of what would have happened 25 years later if they had married: Holly Sebestyén, a brilliant scientist, held back in every way by his unfaithful wife, who only wants cheap entertainment. Two perfectly mismatched people, whose marriage is held together by the fact that they are completely incompatible.4/5
- DirectorLászló KalmárStarsPál JávorKatalin KarádyÉva SzörényiThis adaptation of Lajos Zilahy's novel about a fatal love triangle was the first film of Katalin Karády who became a star overnight.4/5
- DirectorÁkos RáthonyiStarsKlári TolnayManyi KissTivadar Bilicsi3/5
- DirectorIstván SzötsStarsAlice SzellayJános GörbePéterke FerencyA woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in.5/5
- DirectorDezsõ Ákos HamzaStarsKálmán LatabárErnö MihályiRózsi CsikósSóvári, an actor, is in love with the actress Ibolya Pintér. Ibolya is also courted by the poor count Borsay, too, who could only be saved from bankruptcy if he marries the rich Spanish widow. Sóváry is jealous and wants to prove his acting skills too, at the same time, so he shows up in the Budapest Hotel dressed as the previously unseen Spanish widow, and teaches a lesson to the count, who is trying to seduce her (him). But suddenly the real Spanish widow arrives, too.3/5
- DirectorEndre RodríguezStarsÉva AdorjánJános SárdyIván Petrovich3/5
- DirectorÁgoston PacséryStarsKatalin KarádyPál JávorÁgi MednyánszkyVienna, 1848. The celebrated belle of the ball is Éva Szováthy, who at this evening finally decides in favor of her love for Doczy Lénard. History and fate, however, put up partitions between the Viennese courtier and the rebel captain. When Lénard leaves Vienna for Nagydóc because of the revolutionary events, Éva, the daughter of the imperial chamberlain, follows him, where she is not welcome. All the more so because the patriotic family had chosen a like-minded noblewoman, Eszter Girálthy, as Lénárd's fiancée.3/5
- DirectorIstván LászlóStarsLászló PerényiVera SzemereJudit FarkasWartime Hungarian film about the Hungarian Air Force2/5
- DirectorDezsõ Ákos HamzaStarsAlice FényesManyi KissMária Sulyok3/5
- DirectorGusztáv OláhLajos ZilahyStarsPál JávorKlára PápaiGyula KoltaiA happy family's life by the river gets disturbed when a mysterious lady washes ashore.4/5