Gelencsér Gábor's Recommended Film List for Hungarian Film History

Captain Mihály Tímár aids a Turkish Pasha and his daughter, Tíméa, in escape on the Danube. After death, he gains fortune, marries Tíméa, and returns to an island with secret family.

The 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.

A 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.

It 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.

A 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.

Gyula Kabes and Imre Raday are working at the same factory when Kabes' resignation is allegedly brought about by Raday. The latter goes to the Kabes' home to offer apologies and sees,and falls in love with, Kabes' pretty daughter, Zita Perczel. Raday becomes a boarder in the manage already residing there, while Kabes is away. The romance blooms and the strategic Raday also installs himself firmly in his approval-rating from the mother.

This adaptation of Lajos Zilahy's novel about a fatal love triangle was the first film of Katalin Karády who became a star overnight.

A woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in.

Sóvári, 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.

A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements. However, disgruntled townsfolk want to chase away the gang who has been - in their search for survival - laying waste to their crops. A battle ensues ending in the death of a little boy - and resolution.

A young peasant girl wants to marry her love, but due to the pressure of her parents she ends up with a wealthier man. Their real hardships begin when they escape together from her wedding.

A movie about the first Hungarian opera singer Rosa Széplaky Déry, who was active as an actress in a travelling theatre era in the beginning of the 19th century in Hungary, the eastern part of the then Austrian empire.

Kocsis Ferenc excellent staff appointed the new director of public stores. Ilonka a talented fashion designer, Boriska a dear, Daniel, a overzealous, Klimke, a conservative sale and Glauziusz uncle, conscientious, honest book promotes the work. Ilonka initially rather just keep arguing, even though both of their lives off the job. The selfishness will love soon. Dancs Meanwhile, the old manager spreads the rumor that the new socialist trade can not meet the demand. Relatives and friends start buying into action, leading to mass hysteria. However, the new store is borne by the customer siege until the arrival of the supply

In the coal mine of the fictitious village called Sajókút, the tunnel collapses on the people there due to a botched explosion. Those trapped try to fight for survival, while those left on the surface try with all their might to save them.

Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting.

Every member of a small community in the snow-capped Bükk Mountains is trying to help the doctor get to István Simon forester's house where his wife is about to give birth to their first child.

Marci has long had a crush on Julika, who lives in the same house as him, but before their love could blossom, he is drafted into the army. Juli is sent to work in a factory, where she falls in with the wrong crowd, often partying until dawn consuming "piccolo lights". After a year, Marci returns home and gets deeply disappointed in her and breaks up with her. But Juli loves him too and hopes that he will give her the security she needs to return to her old self.

Set during Christmas Eve in 1944, the film follows the story of Pintér and Gozsó, who manage to get through the Soviet blockade around Budapest. Pintér seeks refuge in a flat he believed was abandoned by his relatives, only to discover that the Turnovszkys are hiding there, along with a Jewish woman named Jutka. As the narrative unfolds, a love story develops between Zoltán and Jutka amidst the backdrop of war-torn Budapest.

In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love.