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During World War II, PFC Molnár decides his military service is over, and with a serious amount of money hidden in hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who are also trying to wimp out on their duties.

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.

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.

1514. The peasants' uprising is over, Dózsa has been arrested. Werboczy tries to get the imprisoned peasant leader deny the revolution and offers him the lives of his people in exchange. In the breaks between the interrogations, Dózsa's recollections recount the events of the uprising. The battles have been accompanied by his disputes with priest Lorinc about revolution, the necessity of violence and the ruthless discipline employed towards their own people. His memories confirm Dózsa's decision. He denies nothing, accepting his execution and the throne on fire.

A story of summer on the Balaton, first love and the first great disappointment for the protagonist leaving her late teens and standing on the threshold of adulthood.

Romantic film about the great music composer Franz Liszt. Long journeys, great successes, passionate loves and, of course, lots of music in this lavish Soviet-Hungarian co-production with a Hungarian all-star cast.

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 happens to see a young lawyer, Éva Halk, who arrests his attention. In his imagination she is the most interesting woman he ever saw. Jansci is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk. They fall in love, and find common memories in the engagement in The Pioneer Railway at the age of 12. Both of them also chose to stay in Hungary in '56, when many of their friends fled the country. The sudden death of the gang member Laci in leukemia is a hard blow for them all. The fear of death grabs Éva and Jancsi. They start seeing each other as obstacles to their own development, and drift apart.

A a comedy about a boy entering first grade and his classmates. We see their everyday life and their holidays, all through the eyes of a child. We find out that being a child is not as easy as adults make it out to be.

An average worker is chosen by a director to star in a new television adventure series, set in medieval Hungary. The series soon becomes very popular.

Emilia Odor is a young, seventeen year old girl. She end up in a rural girl institute, which has strict rules, a hypocrite faculty and she soon starts to rebel against it. Her schoolmates support her until then the manager announce a competition among the students: the most deserving student will participant in the millenial festival in Budapest.

3 Sixties teenagers in Hungary take shelter from a storm in a Lake Balaton villa, but when the owners arrive only two of them are able to escape.

Just before closing time two black-suit men shows up in the grocery to declare they came from The Office, and have to do a stock-take immediately. But one of them hides a gun.

A young architect learns that building apartments for the working class is more important than designing luxury dwelling places for the rich.

Diversants are being prepared to destroy the military factory. Géza Torday comes as a new engineer and his appearance deeply disturbs the situation, as Toth, the director of the factory, sells goods to the West.

M, the beautiful young model, is searching for happiness in easy summer adventures and a new daddy for her daughter. The precocious little girl devises an interesting way to grab her mother's attention away from the possible husbands.

History has always interfered with Mária's search for happiness. Her first husband, Halász, proves his point with two slaps in the face in an argument, and Mária immediately wants a divorce. But this is not enough for a divorce, so she asks her boss, Endrét Horváth, to prove Mária's adultery with false testimony. A few years later, the party will question Mária for her divorce, but then Comrade Bor comes to her aid and eventually marries the pretty woman. However, László Bor will soon be imprisoned and will then be the victim of a plane crash. At that time, journalist Pál Zalán holds the woman's soul.

An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.