Andor Lukáts

Kellemes Apokalipszist! (2024)

Solitude (2023)

Tamás, the successful architect is compelled to do his work from home, so he has much more time to pay a lot more attention to himself and also to his surroundings. A couple is moving in next door. Being shut into his own home, listening to the conversati ...

Seeing What You See (2023)

The Longest Night of the Summer (2021)

At 75, Tibor spends his days alone in the house where he lived for many years with his wife Ilona, who died. Ilona has been a ghost in Tibor's everyday life since her death. Tibor and Ilona's apparent peace is interrupted by the appearance of their daughte ...

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020)

Márta, a 40-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man she loves. But she waits for him at the Liberty Bridge in vain - he does not appear at their rendezvou ...

Those Who Remained (2019)

A man who lost his wife and daughter in the Holocaust and a girl who lost her parents meet. Knowing each other′s emptiness, they become like father and daughter. It is the beginning of a sad love that the world cannot accept. ...

Hazug (2019)

The Carer (2016)

Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wi ...

The Wednesday Child (2015)

History sometimes repeats itself. As a nine-year-old, Maja was abandoned by her mother and placed in an orphanage. Now it's ten years later and she keeps returning to the institution – to visit her own four-year-old son. Will she be able to take control ...

The Winner (2014)

An elderly lifeguard gets his medical diagnosis: He has to abstain from all sporting activity. This would not be a problem if he did not happen to be an enthusiastic swimming coach and ex-Olympic champion, who is racing with his younger self night after ni ...

Isztambul (2012)

Housewife Katalin Munk has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János arrives home to tell her that he's leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders about the streets of Budapest in just her dressing ...

Lost Times (2009)

1997. Young car mechanic Iván lives in a godforsaken village in eastern Hungary. He looks after his mentally disabled sister Eszter and earns extra money smuggling diesel oil from Ukraine. The siblings' coexistence is disrupted by a tragic event, Eszter i ...

Prima Primavera (2009)

A 55 year old man loses his mother, his only support and care. A Gypsy girl with questionable past joins him on his desperate cross border journey during which they develop a friendship and "come of age" - each their very own way. ...

Fluke (2008)

In the tradition of "My Sweet Little Village" and "Waking Ned Devine" FLUKE is a satire about a small village full of colorful characters, whose lives radically change due to a miracle. Or a simple crime. ...

Vallomás (2008)

The father goes in search of his daughter, who has long been separated. The father tries to convey the essence of his life's wisdom in a single day. ...

Nosedive (2007)

NOSEDIVE depicts a world of unlimited drugs, wild parties, beautiful people, and no sleep. However, when reality takes a dark turn, a group of characters are forced to step out of the nightclub and into darkness. ...

The Eighth Day of the Week (2006)

After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved ...

White Palms (2006)

Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils. ...

Pirates (1999)

A pirate radio, the girl next door, and a test of friendship. ...

The Smallest Foundation in the World (1997)

A widow, whose politician husband was killed in the Communist purge of Hungary, and her ill son are given money by the government to start a foundation for stray dogs. ...

Red Colibri (1995)

Anna, the divorced pretty young woman works as a taxi driver to support her daughter. One day he meets Andrej, the Ukrainian ballet dancer who wants to get to Paris through Hungary and make a career, but currently he works as an unskilled worker at a fuel ...

Magic Hunter (1994)

A battle-scarred, has-been Hungarian cop, tormented by his memories of nearly killing an innocent woman in his custody, enters into a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for a handful of "magic" bullets that always hit the mark. A mysterious and myth ...

We Never Die! (1993)

In 1960s Hungary, an introverted teenager's life is turned upside down by a few days in the company of his coat hanger salesman uncle: a roguish charmer with a zest for life and a weakness for horse racing and women. ...

Je t'aime (1992)

The story of a love-triangle is recounted through Anitas memories and jagged monologue. Anita is tremendously naive and in love, Laci is a petty small-town gangster with great powers of persuasion and the secret lover of Szilvi. The three of them leave for ...

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II. ...

Memories of a River (1990)

In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he finds shelter with the family of a Jewish logger. The loggers find the body of a young woman which they bury, ...

Just Like America (1988)

Frigyes, shortly after immigrating to New York City from Hungary, leaves his family for the pleasures and gratifications of being a street bum. But as time goes by, the appeal of this lifestyle wanes. A series of adventures with other drifters reaches a dr ...

Hülyeség nem akadály (1986)

Blind Endeavour (1985)

Blind luck ties the fate of two people together. ...

The Annunciation (1984)

Adam and Eve, after Eden, are granted dreams of the world to come by a deceptively sweet but ultimately contemptuous Lucifer. Adam confronts an endless procession of the horror of the human story... rapists and concubines, betrayal and savagery, mindless c ...

Now It's My Turn, Now It's Yours (1984)

Three generations live side by side. The wilful, jack-in-all-pots grandmother blackmails the family with fake faintings, while grandpa suffers from cerebral sclerosis. Mother manages a fashionable hotel, she needs to look smart and unyielding, even when th ...

Eskimo Woman Feel Cold (1984)

The film is about a piano player who falls in love with Mari, a beautiful blond woman, who happens to be the wife of a deaf-mute animal caretaker. Both men adore Mari, as she loves both of them. Albeit all of them know this way won't stand. ...

The History of the Pronuma Clusters (1983)

The film is a series of sketches in the genre of the happening, describing the state of mind of grass-roots intellectuals during the early 80s. In situation games, six people portray their environ-ment purely by the tools of the pantomime, in a visual, met ...

Women's Hands (1981)

A man becomes acquainted with the mystery of female hands during a trip. ...

Maybe Tomorrow (1980)

A couple in love, but sadly married to other partners. What is to be done? A diagnosis of a comfortable but profoundly incapable society, a Hungary suffering from an endemic private life disorder, observable both among the urban middle and the rural lower ...

A három jószívű rabló (1979)

Swap (1978)

This grotesque, micro-realistic film is set in a small village at the end of the seventies. A TV-staff comes to the Petőfi Memorial House. They want to record the comic opera, The Postman of Longjumeau, by Charles Adam, a 19th century French composer. ...

Requiem for a Revolutionary (1975)

The royal summary court sentences Sallai Imre and Fürst Sándor to death on charges of attempting to uproot the state and the social order. The film, the story of which takes place in 1932, enlarges the moment of delivering the death-sentence. Sallai, pre ...

Portugal (2000)

The film takes place in a present-day small Hungarian village in the middle of nowhere. Strangers hardly ever come to this place, everything outside of it seems to be in another world for the inhabitants. But one day everything changes, when a stranger fro ...

The Three Sisters (1991)

The sisters have been living in a Soviet barracks in Hungary for eleven years. They long to go to Moscow, but they are drawn here by habituation and inertia. Their father, the brigade commander, is dead, yet they are unable to act and prefer to remain in t ...

The Tunnel (1980)

He starts going, carrying a dinner-can. His eyes are suddenly arrested by the breasts of the girl on the bicycle, riding towards him. Prompted by the strange movements of the girl as well as by seeing another girl in a wheel-chair, his imagination starts w ...