Mafilm

Mafilm

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20 titles
1
Mephisto

Mephisto

1981 · 2h 26m · Movie

In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?

7.7
2
The Fifth Seal

The Fifth Seal

1976 · 1h 56m · Movie

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.

8.5
3
Combat Girls

Combat Girls

2011 · 1h 47m · Movie

Marisa hates foreigners; she finds them guilty of the decline of her country. But her convictions will slowly evolve when she accidentally meets a young Afghan refugee.

6.7
4
The Red and the White

The Red and the White

1967 · 1h 30m · Movie

During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army - aided by Hungarian Communists - and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.

7.5
5
Colonel Redl

Colonel Redl

1985 · 2h 24m · Movie

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become e...

7.4
6
The Round-Up

The Round-Up

1966 · 1h 30m · Movie

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them...

7.5
7
The Corporal and Others

The Corporal and Others

1965 · 1h 51m · Movie

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 ...

8.3
8
Stars of Eger

Stars of Eger

1968 · 2h 37m · Movie

1552, the great Turkish Empire wants to conquer Europe, and the world. The last stand is Hungarian Kingdom, and the castle of Eger. The brave soldiers decides they will fight till the end of their lives.

7.3
9
Love

Love

1971 · 1h 28m · Movie

The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.

7.9
10
Red Psalm

Red Psalm

1972 · 1h 27m · Movie

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.

6.8
11
Queen Live in Budapest

Queen Live in Budapest

2012 · 1h 30m · Movie

On 27th July 1986, British stadium rock band Queen broke new ground by playing for the first time in Hungary, a country which was still under a communist dictatorship behind the Iron Curtain.

8.6
12
Confidence

Confidence

1980 · 1h 45m · Movie

During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall i...

7.5
13
Diary for My Children

Diary for My Children

1984 · 1h 46m · Movie

Having lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.

7.4
14
Electra, My Love

Electra, My Love

1974 · 1h 10m · Movie

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.

7.0
15
Lionheart

Lionheart

1987 · 1h 44m · Movie

A young knight intent on joining King Richard's crusaders pledges to lead a group of orphans to safety and to protect them from a notorious slaver.

5.1
16
Another Way

Another Way

1982 · 1h 42m · Movie

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's...

7.1
17
Lovefilm

Lovefilm

1970 · 2h 3m · Movie

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.

7.7
18
Silence and Cry

Silence and Cry

1968 · 1h 17m · Movie

Miklós Jancsó's Silence and Cry is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian ...

6.8
19
Men and Banners

Men and Banners

1965 · 2h 38m · Movie

A family struggle during the 1848 Hungarian revolution against the Habsburg Empire.

7.1
20
My Way Home

My Way Home

1965 · 1h 48m · Movie

In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote ba...

7.5