Gábor Máté

Unfinished Business (2020)

On the day the Berlin Wall falls, a determined young actress has a job interview at the National Theater. But, while a world-order falls apart outside, she is confronted to an old family-secret that will change everything. ...

On the Quiet (2019)

A coming-of-age story set in the contemporary Hungarian countryside, where teenage soloist Dávid decides to stand up for Nóri, 13, a cellist in their youth orchestra who is having a suspiciously close relationship with their 60-year-old conductor. While ...

A Country Divided (2018)

Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) writers, directors, actors, musicians talk about the regime change and what has happened to us here in the last 30 years. ...

Candide (2018)

As a free adaptation of Voltaire's classic, our Candide tries to win the beloved Cunégonde's heart in different contemporary settings. In the 13 episodes he finds himself in challanging situations, and has to face the cruelty of the world. He follows Mast ...

Black Soup (2014)

After a long night, Dj Feaky D loses a large sum of money on poker. When an old friend offers a "great opportunity of easy money", he calls up on his buddies locked away in a mental institution. ...

Vipera Life – A serpent’s life (2014)

The viper. The word alone fills most people with dread. It calls to mind some kind of huge, writhing monster, lying in wait to bite. The Hungarian meadow viper (Vipera ursinii rakosiensis) however, is not large and doesn't attack. It is rather small and it ...

Szégyen (2012)

TV-adaptation of the two short stories from hungarian writer Ferenc Karinthy. ...

Hungarian Retro (2010)

A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most cheerful barrack" back then - using contemporary music, interviews, adverts and news footages. ...

Taxidermia (2006)

Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child who ...

Fateless (2005)

A Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants se ...

Magyar szépség (2003)

Down by Love (2003)

Eva Kerezkes is a young woman who lives alone in her apartment. After her parents' death, she was adopted by writer Tibor and his wife, Klara. Upon returning from a holiday in Italy, Eva performs various tasks around her apartment that reveal haunting info ...

Happy Birthday (2003)

What can you expect from a 30-year-old man? Have a good job, car, house, wife, kids. And how is András doing on his 30th birthday? He's an excellent saxophonist and he has a brain, but no money, no wife, no car. In fact, he has never made love to two wome ...

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and ...

Loophole (2002)

In the week of the book an interview is made with the writer Péter Simon, whose first book of short stories appeared in the prime of his life. ...

Mayday Mayhem (2001)

A new socialistic city is being built on the Danube's riverbank in the early 50's. The story is about a teacher who's living there. ...

Sunshine (1999)

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. ...

Pirates (1999)

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

Espresso (1998)

Budapest Retro (1998)

Long Twilight (1997)

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

The Wondrous Voyage of Kornel Esti (1995)

Middle-aged writer (Kornél Esti) travels to Germany to deliver a lecture. During the long journey he recalls the memories of an other journey he made thirty years ago. ...

A Valencia rejtély (1995)

Hungarian TV-movie, adaptation of a drama by Géza Ottlik. ...

Vigilantes (1993)

A group of seven friends of different ages and interests meet regularly at Eva's. They have coffee, talk and listen to music. At one of the gatherings, Eva finds a secret agent's badge, "Lookout 123", in the hallway. The accidentally dropped ID card can on ...

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. ...

Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe (1992)

The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again. ...

On Death Row (1990)

Ferenc Gergó met Béla Nagy in the army, who later appeared at his workplace, a rural communications technology factory, as a counterintelligence officer, and played a major role in Gergó being sent to death row in 1958. Here he recalls what happened. Ge ...

My Twentieth Century (1989)

A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a na ...

Before the Bat's Flight Is Done (1989)

A divorced middle-aged woman takes home an ardent suitor, only to discover that he prefers her teenage son. The mother is an overworked coffee-shop attendant, the suitor turns out to be a plain-clothes policeman and the boy is a frustrated flautist. ...

Hülyeség nem akadály (1986)

Lost Illusions (1983)

Via the New York Times: "The Hungarian director Gyula Gazdag has transposed the middle section of Balzac's "Lost Illusions" from Paris in the mid-19th century to the Budapest of 1968... it tells of Laszlo Sardi - Balzac's Lucien Chardon - and his efforts t ...

Heart Tremors (1981)

The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of quick enrichment and return to the capital. Despite Éva and Emma, the two school mistresses longing for love a ...

Circus Maximus (1980)

During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team by illegal man-smuggling. In the year of 1944, besides the usual refugees, she even has to take Professor Máté, the renown mathematician to th ...

Balaton retró (2007)

Scenes from holiday life at Lake Balaton in Hungary during the communism. ...