Dénes Ujlaki

The Hungarian Dressmaker (2024)

Ema & Death's-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one's own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hun ...

Not My Skin (2022)

A teenage girl suffering from a traumatizing injury is tangled in a web of lies trying to manage her studies, her prom night and a boy who might be interested in her. ...

A Quiet Neighborhood (2020)

András spent his whole life trying to build a stable home for his son, but when he stumbles upon Kristóf's deepest secret, their relationship is tested. Can they connect with each other for the first time in their life now, when they only have a few mont ...

The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the free ...

Hetedik alabárdos (2017)

A humorous career story in which an overlooked actor is unexpectedly asked to go from being the "eternal extra" to becoming the theatre's leading director. From there, he begins to fight not only for his own dreams, but for the company as a whole. Set in t ...

House of Sounds (2015)

9 year old Sára lives in an old block of flats in downtown Budapest. One day a strange new boy, Balázs moves next door, who can't stand the bizarre noises of the old house. Sára decides to help him out anyway she can. ...

Elment az öszöd (2013)

In 2017, three inmates - a former prime minister, an online journalist and a prison guard - await their sentences at Budapest's Kozma Street Prison, each haunted by the spring 2006 elections, the Őszöd speech leak, the MTV siege and the October 23 protes ...

The Door (2012)

Emerenc, an elderly and private woman, is hired to be the housekeeper of a struggling writer, Magda. An event in the writer's life prompts Emerenc to disclose details of her traumatizing past, which will bond the two women forever. Based on the novel by Ma ...

Death Waltz (2010)

From a policewoman broken leg seems completely slip out of the soil. Life-threatening love triangle mixed with her husband and their criminal friends. ...

Tabló (2008)

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

A Fox's Tale (2008)

The film is about Little Vuk, the son of the legendary fox who proves its excellent mind and courage. ...

Bányató (2007)

The Real Santa (2005)

On 6 December, Misu is hired as a Santa Claus advertiser for a department store. On that same winter day, Liza runs away from the orphanage because once upon a time, her mum promised her that when she turned 8, she would get a bicycle from Santa Claus. Liz ...

After the Day Before (2004)

The details of a young girl's brutal murder are told through manipulated chronology and fragmented storylines. ...

The Man Who Slept at Daylight (2003)

Detective Sebők is shot at by a fleeing criminal and then pushed off the road. Sebők breaks his leg. Left by his wife, pensioned by his boss on the basis of false reports, he has a clash with banker Gömöri at the colonel's party. ...

Love Till Last Blood (2002)

Füge lives with an 18-year-old girl Nina who dances and sings in a disco. Despite their age difference, their relationship is mainly erotic. Füge has a little daughter Fanny from a one-day relationship. Füge adore Fanny, who is often at their place for ...

Jadviga's Pillow (2000)

No one is happier than Ondris, who is celebrating his bachelor party and wedding, as his fondest dream has come true: he has won the hand of his beloved, his father's ward, Jadwiga, who was educated in Germany, and has been able to lure this irresistibly a ...

The Phantom of the Opera (1998)

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld. ...

Passion (1998)

A woman and her lover plot to kill her older husband. ...

Long Twilight (1997)

A tale about an independent-minded university professor who leaves her family to travel across the countryside to visit a friend. ...

Franciska vasárnapjai (1996)

Citizen X (1995)

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetenc ...

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. ...

Ördög vigye (1992)

The devil arrives in Budapest because he has got wind that a hermit scientist has discovered the elixir of eternal life. Soon the lives of oh-so-some upstanding citizens living in the peace of the peaceful little people are in turmoil. Irén Psota, Zoltán ...

Shadow on the Snow (1992)

A man who leads a lonely existence with his young daughter accidentally gets involved with a robbery before a manhunt ensues. ...

The Last Summer (1991)

Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and want Horváth to be much more active politically, but he is more concerned about his affair with his best friend's ...

Stalin's Bride (1991)

At a dusty crossroads in the Soviet Union villagers surrender their possessions - a horse, a samovar, a goat - to the state. The train which takes them away brings to the village a physically and mentally handicapped woman, barely able to speak. She makes ...

Hungarian Requiem (1990)

1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall their pasts and envision their wish-dreams. ...

A revizor (1989)

The corrupt leaders of a small rural town learn that an auditor is coming from St Petersburg. Frightened, they try to put things in order. Hlesztakov, a Petersburg official, has been starving for days in his inn in the small town, having gambled away all h ...

Übü király (1989)

The Empty King created a mythical figure and a whole world from grotesque, archetypal images. The drama was originally conceived as a student tirade against a teacher at Jarry's school, the Lyceum of Rennes. This teacher, Hébert, was the target of public ...

Love Till Second Blood (1988)

The father of Füge goes to Africa to take a job and he leaves his old Mercedes with him to taxi with it. The band of Füge appears in the Tabán with moderate success. ...

Whooping Cough (1987)

The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Budapest. Children do not yet understand what is going on, but they're happy because the schools are closed. But gradually, to adults and children comes the u ...

Cry and Cry Again (1987)

1958, Budapest. Gerencsér is a skilled worker at the abattoir, his wife left in 1956. They falls in love with the beautiful Mrs. Hász at the personnel management department, but they only date secretly because of a former relationship of Mária. They go ...

Professor Vidor Minorka's Great Day (1987)

One day, Dorka, one of the main characters in the fairy tale, goes to the market with her aunt. They buy a big chicken for the soup. The aunt sees a long-coveted white feather duster, but the vendor refuses to sell it, so the feisty aunt snatches it out of ...

Chickenhead (1986)

It is a tragedy, set among low-lifes on the outskirts of Budapest. Dramatic Exchange describes it as "Widely considered to be the most important Hungarian play of the last 20 years". The odd title of the play refers in the first instance to the chicken he ...

A fantasztikus nagynéni (1986)

The protagonist was sent to South America after the war. Now he is back home and wants to meet his old love. At the same time, he takes on the job of looking after his in-laws' children, two very bad boys, while their parents are on holiday abroad. What wi ...

Countdown (1986)

Sanyi is the driver of a co-op bus and lives in tenancy with his wife and son. In order to get along he buys the auctioned truck of the co-op and becomes a transportation entrepreneur. First everything goes well, they start a construction. ...

Love Till First Blood (1986)

Füge is studying at a high-school. He rarely visits his divorced parents. He establishes a successful music group with his friends. He falls in love with his class-mate, Ágota. ...

Wall Driller (1986)

The sad tale of a proletarian malcontent ensconced in a monstrously depressing housing project who—even less effectually than the heroes of Bald-Dog Rock—attempts to change his life. Purchasing a power drill and slinging it across his shoulder like the ...

Tolerance (1986)

The unskilled, jack-of-all-trades András and his wife, Éva are put in jail for serial work-place thefts, -committed in order to try to ensure a normal living standard for his family - and for aggravated assault committed for self-defence, respectively. T ...

Lily in Love (1984)

Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian. ...

The Philadelphia Attraction (1984)

As a last chance in his career, the young acrobat with a broken leg, Sajek Oszkár, attempts to obtain the wonderful secret from the retired old artist, Uncle Binder Lipi, a secret which was a world hit. ...

To See the Light (1984)

1894. The mortal remains of Lajos Kossuth are brought home from abroad, the railways are lined with people with their hats in hand, and among them stands the teenager Imre Tányér. 1910. The grown-up Imre undertakes the task to solve the question unsolve ...

A tranzitutas (1983)

Another Way (1982)

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva gets a job as a journalist. There, she meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesi ...

Narcissus and Psyche (1980)

Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give ...

That Lovely Green Grass (1979)

Misu is spending his summer holiday in an old block of flats in Budapest. The caretaker of the house, Poldi, a park attendant by occupation, is going to retire in a few days and he is afraid to think ahead of the years to come without grass and trees. An i ...

Sunday Daughters (1979)

The characters of this fiction of sociogra-phic accuracy live in the reformatory school for girls in Rákospalota. They are all girls of similar pasts, desires and needs but Juli hates bars more than any of them, trying to make contacts with the world out ...

Katonák (1978)

Set in the 18th century, this tragicomedy depicts the debauchery of aristocratic officers condemned to celibacy, in the fate of a bourgeois girl reduced to a street slum. Marie, the beautiful young daughter of the decorative arts merchant Wesener, already ...

American Torso (1975)

In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation of the enemy. Many veterans of the 1848 War of Independence in Hungary fought on the northern side. Experienced Fiala, Boldogh who struggles wit ...