Ildikó Tóth

Prime (2024)

Zsuzsa, a furniture shop assistant, escapes into her daily routine to avoid her monotonous life without human connections. One day something happens that makes her question her choices and reminds her that she is the one responsible for her own happiness. ...

It Will Never End (2023)

A romantic drama in the Hungarian plain in the 19th century. A great love between the bandit and the poor girl, however the jealousy of Kitty the tavern keeper can destroy everything. ...

The Smell of Humans (2022)

The profound depths of Ernõ Szép's life and poetry are revived in a new film adaptation of the poet's novel, 'The Smell of Humans'. This stoic and lyrical narrative of twenty fateful days offers an authentic account of an inhuman era. ...

Blockade (2022)

The fresh president of Hungary find himself in trouble with taxi drivers. The taxi drives are disappointed in the democracy and protesting against the drasticly raising gas prices. The drivers build blockades all over the capital. ...

Heights and Depths (2022)

Hilda is forced to follow helplessly the tragic death of her mountaineer husband Zsolt Eröss. As the heir of the deceased Hilda tries to cope with public expectations with her husband's attitude. It takes time for her to admit, that she needs help in deal ...

The Singer (2022)

In the early 1950s, a talented singer tries to defect to Italy with her football player lover, but is caught by an informant, so they have to pay hard for this anti-system act. Vince Nagy and Vali Szalai are a happy loving couple. Vince is a rising footba ...

Szóló (2022)

Post Mortem (2020)

A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War. ...

Don Juan going bald (2020)

Zoltán Farkas, a well-known constructor, lives his life as Don Juan, while his young wife (Éva) want to divorce and has a lover, who is a young lieutenant. They go there last trip together to Zoltán's birthplace, where no one knows, that they will divor ...

Házasságtörés (2019)

Isti, a junior official in the ministry, is a happy husband and father. He works all day to support his family, and gives his wife all the money she needs to bring home, as a proper husband should. But one day his colleagues are talking about female philan ...

As Up to Now (2019)

For old Margaret, who lives alone, unexpected and tragic news bring positive change in her life. Doctors predict that she has only a few months left, but she starts to live again just now. ...

A színésznő (2018)

Anna, a celebrated Transylvanian actress starring at Hungary's National Theatre in the mid-1960s, falls in love with an Olympic champion she meets at a reception, much to the regime's displeasure, which has other plans for the multilingual star as an offic ...

The Whiskey Bandit (2017)

Between 1993 and 1999, one man robbed 29 financial institutions in Budapest. Banks, post offices and even travel agencies fell victim to his crime spree. The police had no leads and no hope of finding him during his six-year stint. The only clue left behin ...

Aurora Borealis: Northern Light (2017)

The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of the relationship between mother and daughter. A successful lawyer in Vienna, Olga is called back to Hungary when her old mother, Mary suddenly falls into a c ...

A fekete bojtár (2015)

István Sinka, known in the farm world of the Great Plains only as Black Burdock, is a decent, honest fellow. He stands out among his peers with his education and literacy. He and his love, Piroska, are happily planning their lives when an unexpected trage ...

A galamb papné (2013)

The reformed priest of Gát, Pap Énók, gets married. He is engaged to the worthy Miss Ica Zádor from Malomsk and Zádor. At the Easter 'priestess election ball', Énók could have chosen a wife from among thirty-five Gáti girls, but he asked the thirty ...

Pillangó (2012)

Zsigmond Móricz wrote his novel Butterfly in just a few days in 1924. Móricz tells the story of a mighty love that triumphs over adversity and is all-powerful in the language of ordinary people. The love of Zsuzsika and Jóska is presented through the "l ...

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 ...

The Investigator (2008)

Tibor Malkáv is an andaverage 37-year-old man, who though not rich, leads a comfortable and uncomplicated life. All this changes when he finds out his mother is dying of cancer and the cost of surgery is well beyond his means. A one-eyed man known as the ...

Sztornó (2006)

Underrated in light of its current (February 4, 2007) IMDb score of 6.4, this film reminded me of what Joseph Heller's 'Something Happened' could look like if a film was to be made out of it. Our middle-aged character's life is in a fragile balance at the ...

Rokonok (2006)

Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself. ...

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep (2003)

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular epi ...

Cloud Above the River Ganges (2002)

András and Juli meet at a desperate moment in their lives, when they have both made a difficult decision, the consequences of which they cannot bear alone. András, a talented but heavily addicted programmer, decides to end his career, while Juli, a buddi ...

It's Summer at Long Last (2002)

When the home where they grew up and spent the best days of their childhood is threatened, a group of kids bands together to try and save it. ...

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. ...

Citromfej (2001)

Comedy about a man whose face is stuck in a grimace after making a 'lemon face'. ...

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 ...

Dollybirds (1997)

The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place. ...

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 ...

Bastard (1994)

Ambrus, the canon pretender and Gerzson, the stinking rich lawyer, taking advantage of a sect and a fake hospice, are engaged in doing unsuspecting old people out of their money. ...

Mist (1994)

Olga and Márta take possession of the old family estate after the political transition. Márta and Viktor arrive from abroad, Olga and her daughter come from Budapest in order to spend the summer there and have the house renovated. ...

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 ...

Levelek a zárdából (1989)

The film is based on two short stories by Margit Kaffka. Letters from the Convent is about faith in God, the torments of blind faith and love. And in the summer evening episode, "The Peril", two girls raised in a convent come face to face for the first tim ...

Roller Blade (1986)

In a futuristic society, rebels fighting against a fascist state are aided by a group of roller-skating nuns called the Bod Sisters. ...

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 ...