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In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.

Ein Polizist begibt sich in den Ruhestand, um den Mord an einem Mädchen aufzuklären.

A couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.

Marie, a beautiful young girl, is in love with Michel. However, her father has promised her hand to the local count. She marries the count only to learn that she has been cheated

Karcsi, a Roma policeman, lives with Eva, a Swede. One day he is called to the scene of the murder of a wealthy trafficker. He begins to investigate the crime, interrogate suspects and untangle a complex situation.

In this surrealistic movie from the director of My 20th Century, the French police seek help from Simon, a visionary living in Budapest to solve a murder case. Whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?

Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's opinion, and the boy finds himself thrown out of his warm home into an orphanage in the woods. He's utterly displeased by what's happening, without knowing he has yet to face much worse. After a hard time getting over the harrassment of his classmates and being accepted as one of them, another obstacle on the way to his peace of mind faces him: His obnoxious teachers. He has no intention of being bad, but it's beyond his ability to blend into the revolting place he's in. The nasty treatment of the teaching crew gets the better of him, and he's not all that calm and passive anymore. But that leads into unpleasant events which Áron himself wouldn't want.

A teenager boy has to grow up in the shifting political and moral landscape of post-1956 Hungary.

This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. There, according to the movie, she feuded with Joseph Heller, a fellow professor with right wing beliefs. In 1933, after Jews were no longer allowed to teach, she became a nun in the Spartan-like Carmelite order, but when World War II heated up, Heller, who had become an important Nazi official, took his revenge; he had her deported to Auschwitz.

A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in love with a stripper and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - his simple task turns into a chaotic nightmare.

A remarkable anti-war film about a 9 year old Jewish boy who is picked up by the police and sent to a concentration camp while his parents do their best under difficult circumstances to find him.

Three young friends, from the Hungarian countryside, want more sex and excitement in their life. Together they undertake a journey to Lake Balaton, where they hope to find plenty of summer fun as well as a temporary job.

Julis Vater war ein Opfer des Stalinismus. Als Juli Ende der 1940er-Jahre bei ihrer Tante Magda unterkommt, verweigert sie sich deren blindem Glauben an Stalins Kommunismus. Nur ihr Onkel Janos hält zu dem trotzigen Mädchen.

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.

Sanyi feels his mother does not love him, and a teacher distinguishes himself by listening to the children, who struck up a friendship with Sanyi. Through the teacher Sanyi realizes how important and loving his mother is to him.

A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.

Film about a child's perception of an adult world. Story centers on a police marksman who is assigned to protect a Russian chess grand master who does not know about his protection. Then the chess master meets the policeman's wife and there's an attraction between them. The child's perception is that of the policeman's daughter. Thriller and fantasy elements included and a parallel story set in medieval times.

A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its ally of many years - Nazi Germany - thus ending the 800 year old, highly successful story of ethnic German immigration at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a great story of young people's blindness to the rise of Fascism, the destruction of bourgeois values, a first love and shattered friendships.

In life, you don't get what you want. You just get what you need.

In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband.

Ivan's best friend, Kamen, is in an American hospital, in coma after an accident. Since he's denied a visa to the USA and can't stay by his side in his last moments, Ivan decides to set off for Bulgaria countryside, taking the camera Kamen has given him. There's a legend in Kamen's place of birth - a small mountain village - that one song could bring people back to life. Ivan starts a journey to find it and record it, collecting a myriad of stories along the way. Will he succeed?

Three people, living on the edge: Imike, Böbe and Irén, a strange little family in the 21st century Hungary. Imike is a gypsy pimp, his girlfriend, the Romanian-Hungarian Böbe and their flatmate Irén, are prostitutes. These three are trying to find their way in the ensuing chaos after the collapse of the Socialist regime, with Imike getting into trouble about owing money to a drug dealer. The film tells the story of the askewed relationship of Imike and Böbe, showing episodes of their life mercilessly realistic and grotesque, full of sex, violence and shady business. However, the film isn't only about social commentary: it tells a story of rage, love, blind instinct and no-way-out situations.