István Avar

Zsaruvér és Csigavér III.: A szerencse fia (2008)

Five-Fingered Dude is no longer on the force, running a yacht club, when a prostitute is found dead. The case is taken over by Doctor Kardos, eager but clumsy. Meanwhile, a kidnapping case becomes entangled. Doctor Kardos is in charge of the "fight" from t ...

Zsaruvér és Csigavér II.: Több tonna kámfor (2002)

This time the story is about car theft. Cars stolen in the same way will never be found again. They disappear like camphor. This time, Twitchy, Dr. Kardos, Havilúd and the others are working on solving this case. ...

God Walks Backwards (1991)

From the film-shooting in the Buda Castle Marci and his friend go to a well-paying job. The scene is a big castle in the middle of a huge park. They enjoy the company of the Kid and the beautiful naked French girl, Nathalie. Their job is to watch the monit ...

Wengler & Sons (1987)

A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer's son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to work for a precision mechanics and optical company, where he soon becomes a master craftsman. Wengler loyally ...

A Fond Farewell to the Prince (1987)

1629, Transylvania: Reigning prince Bethlen Gábor has Don Diego, the Spanish chronicle knight be brought to his court in order to make him record his life and deeds for posterity. ...

The Enchanted Dollar (1986)

Tomboy accidentally found a fake dollar and gave it to detective Droplet. The operation is headed by Maj. Kardos. Now they have to investigate the crime in order to find and neutralize the counterfeiters. ...

Elcserélt szerelem (1983)

II. József császár (1982)

A Hungarian film about Emperor Joseph II ...

A Bright Star at the Stake (1979)

This film takes place in Paris and Geneva in the 1530s and 1550s. Kálvin János and Szervét Mihály are school mates in Paris. The university students celebrate the victory of the Reformation with Kálvin's "Institution", written under a pseudonym. ...

Labyrinth (1976)

The film director starts shooting his film about the manager of a large corporation who committed suicide for mysterious reasons. As the cumbersome process of making a film goes along, everybody involved in it starts having differing opinions of the traged ...

Assume Yourself (1975)

A story about the Hungarian pioneers summer vacations. ...

Dashing Girls (1974)

A musical farce about women in the canning factory. The pretty Brigitta tries to commit suicide, because Laci left her, pregnant, but her mates save her. ...

Cobweb (1974)

The guard of the pond announces to Niklai, the president of the Mezőháti farmers' cooperative, that the agronomist Deczki has shipped one hundred and twenty kilos more fish than the amount on the waybill. The management decides to transfer the agronomist ...

The Last Chance (1973)

The film is based on a true story. Jakus, managing director of a scooter-factory suddenly resigns, since he disagrees with his superiors in the ministry on several points. Disregarding the attacks of his family and friends, he returns to his original job a ...

The Black City (1972)

Feature film version of the 1971 series. On the eve of the 18th century, County Vicecomes Görgey Pál broods alone in his manor while the town of Leutschau celebrates New Year's with lead‐casting omens and a disastrous hunt that sparks a bitter feud. As ...

Agnus Dei (1971)

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented ...

Hi, Junior! (1971)

Everyone loves little Junior, but nobody has time for him. So Junior decides to find Time with the help of his friends - dwarves. ...

A bunker (1971)

The Spell (1970)

Igéző portrays the life of the unsociable stranger , András, who arrives at the place of his exile and slowly makes friends with Miska, the charcoal-burner. ...

Those Who Wear Glasses (1969)

The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor ...

Mocorgó (1969)

Mocorgó, the well-meaning worker boy, is a tough guy. In his 40s he is still a mechanic's apprentice, but he is disappointed by his family, women and friends, and becomes a criminal. He goes to prison several times and tells the story of his life to the w ...

Binding Sentiments (1969)

Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her husband. She lives a wealthy and lonely life amidst false friends, facing one of the last alternatives of her l ...

7 kérdés a szerelemről (és 3 alkérdés) (1969)

Seven stories about love and women. ...

The Valley (1968)

Five deserters hide in a village inhabited only by women. ...

Forbidden Ground (1968)

The dramatically dense film takes place in workers' surrounding in the sixties. It raises the newspaper article serving as the basis for the short story to be a model: in a plastic factory fire breaks out causing enormous damages. ...

Red-Letter Days (1967)

Mihály, a retired foundryman has brought up his sons in a very disciplined and strict way, and as a result they have become a doctor, an engineer, and a teacher. However, his half orphan grandson, Misi, has been spoilt, and become skilled in nothing else ...

Tök az adu (1967)

A barber goes for a walk on an average Sunday morning, and end up winning an other guy's wife on card. ...

Miért beszél annyit Mrs. Piper? (1967)

"Good evening... I'd like to report a murder... Where do I live? In the basement... but I'm not there now... I'm on the top floor, in the boss's room... Ah, I don't know who the body is... You like to know, I'm the cleaning lady... How can I check if he's ...

A múmia közbeszól (1967)

Cold Days (1966)

Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any respons ...

The Round-Up (1966)

After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the authorities do not know the identities of the ...

No Love, Please (1965)

Nothing is as dangerous to a really good group of friends as a woman and love. At least according to Frank, the brigade leader, who not only protects cohesion but also work performance when he gives advice to his colleagues. It's easy for him, of course, b ...

Blow-Ball (1965)

A day in the solitary life of Pista, a single child of divorced parents. The boy skips school and explores the city of Budapest by himself, yet can't escape an unbearable ennui. Like Mészáros's ADOPTION, this early short film explores the themes of brok ...

Másfél millió (1964)

Mihai Toth worked for forty years as a watchman in a timber warehouse. On his last watch, there was a fire: the warehouse burned to the ground. The damage amounted to one and a half million forints. It was a terrible blow to Mihai, who had worked honestly ...

Villa Negra (1963)

A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under construction. Tamburás, the old hobo collects swerved youth: Diák, who desires freedom, the bus driver who is deprived of his license for having run over som ...

Dialogue (1963)

The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and Horváth László, with an illegal past are brought together by the communist movement. They study and make plans t ...

Cantata (1963)

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home. ...

Every Day - Sunday (1962)

Jirka is a composer, his wife, Jana, a pianist. Jana would like to have an own concert, but so far she has only been selected to accompany Valenta during his concerts in Budapest. After some resentments, she accepts the proposal. ...

The Fanatics (1962)

Bene, tired of the professional battles of engineers and trying to escape a ship-wrecked marriage, asks to be transferred to the country. The gravest problem of the sandy region in Nagyalföld (Great Hungarian Plain) is the shortage of water. The tireless ...

Autumn Star (1962)

The scene is a small town in the Hungarian Plain, the time is Summer 1945. The diggers who have been left out of land distribution are demonstrating in front of the City Hall. Upon the advice of an unemployed engineer having returned from captivity, an unc ...

Just a Joke (1961)

The grey hero of grey workdays, the divorced cashier of a cinema who is always willing to sacrifice herself for others, Etelka, is awarded a two-week-holiday at Lake Balaton. Following the advice of her female friend, she tries to live life at full speed. ...

Test Trip (1961)

Vetró János, the lorry driver, is an alcoholic. His marriage is in pieces, his wife has a lover. Their son suffers an accident. The next day his wife moves out. In his desperation, Vetró drinks even more, and leaves his work as well. ...

A Houseful of Bliss (1960)

A comedy about the dwellers of a newly handed-over building. The sullen doctor Birkás is concerned that his wife also has a job so there is nobody to keep the apartment tidy. What is more, it happens that the doctor must cook the dumplings stuffed with pl ...

Walking to Heaven (1959)

If there has ever been pure and undestroyable love, this is it. That is how Imre and Vera feel. The talented chemist loses his best friend for the girl's sake, then gives up his profession, only to be able to stay in the capital with Vera. But the young ac ...

Sleepless Years (1959)

The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and ...

Love on Thursday (1959)

Éva and Árpi are married, but have no home on their own. On Thursdays, they meet in Árpi's long vehicle. Renting a room from a head tenant would be too expensive. The ad of an old lady found in a newspaper, in which she offers a room free of charge to t ...

Iron Flower (1958)

During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss. ...