Lajos Básti

Abigél (1978)

A szerelem bolondjai (1977)

III. Béla (1974)

Hungarian TV movie about King Béla III of Hungary ...

Burok (1972)

A successful architect meets a university student 30 years younger than him. They start a complicated, whirlwind relationship. ...

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. ...

Dreams of Love (1970)

This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess D'Agoul ...

Face to Face (1970)

The members of a rifle-corps unit gather in a village by the western border ...

Historical Private Affairs (1969)

A light comedy of four love-stories. Mary's search for happiness has always been influenced by history. Her first husband, Halász, makes his point with two slaps in an argument and Mary wants a divorce immediately. But this is not enough to get a divorce, ...

Hasty Marriage (1968)

The protagonists of a comic Romeo and Juliet story full of gags are two widowed pensioners. Nádor and Mrs. Komáromi meet in the cemetery while mourning their dead spouses and they fall in love. ...

One hundred and first senator (1967)

Senator Fromm summoned to court, as it became known that he was involved in the Bobbi Beykera, the Secretary of the Democratic majority in the Senate. He is accused of stealing money from the fund of the party of bribing senators, blackmail, in tax evasion ...

Late Season (1967)

Kerekes believes he is wanted by the police when his friends play a practical joke in this unusual comedy drama. He returns to his hometown where he was accused of turning a Jewish druggist and the druggist's wife over to the Nazis. With his friends follow ...

Changing Clouds (1967)

At the end of World War II, Bálint, a deserter tries to obtain forged papers. ...

A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan (1966)

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati. ...

Story of My Foolishness (1966)

The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential playwright, a friend of theirs, has written a play with the main role designed for her, Kati, particularly. Its title is "The Most Intelligent Woman in the W ...

A Hungarian Nabob (1966)

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati. ...

Othello in the Province (1966)

An ambitious theatre director arrives in Gyulaháza from the capital. The aim of the young Debrődy is to shake up the locals and turn the life of the town upside down. ...

Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man (1965)

Based on the novel of Mór Jókai. During the Hungarian independence war 1848-49 mother and her three sons trying to leave the road precisely designated by their conservative, stone-hearted father. The way-seeking and rivalry of brothers, Jókai's masterpi ...

Darkness in Daytime (1963)

In 1963 in Tihany, somebody addresses the writer Gábor Náday. He is reminded of a night drive in 1944 that saved his life. Painful memories start coming to Náday. ...

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 ...

Military Band (1961)

Merry soldiers arrive in the sleepy Transdanubian town. The cynical woman-hunter, Ferdinándy, learns to know doctor Barlay's beautiful wife at a carnival. She lives a happy married life, and the attentions of the lieutenant are all in vain. ...

Három csillag (1960)

The film consists of 3 novellas. 1. On the eve of the Soviet advance into Hungary, workers at a military plant risk everything to strike in defiance, displaying unwavering courage and solidarity. 2. During a fierce battle, three Soviet soldiers shelter in ...

Crime at Dawn (1960)

Private inspector Hável happens to travel on the train which is attacked at Biatorbágy. His attention is drawn to a suspicious man, and in the next few days he confirms that it was indeed him who committed the crime. Yet the police accuses not the lunati ...

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 ...

Gala Dinner (1956)

Varsa engineer receives the Kossuth award for his excellent work. His career once began at the family enterprise of his wife, so the woman invites her relatives for a dinner party. ...

A Strange Mark of Identity (1955)

Imre, secretary of the illegal communist party arrives in Budapest secretly in 1942, in order to start the newspaper of the party in the fight against war. Not even his own mother can see him. ...

Keep Your Chin Up! (1954)

On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida, the elephant. They have to play for the Hungarian Fascists, while Peti is hiding the Jew Annuska and Sanyika. ...

The Sea has Risen (1953)

March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour ...

Egy asszony elindul (1949)

The story is about a woman who is waiting for the return from the war of her front-line soldier husband. Ilonka and her two children return from the village to their apartment in Budapest. Her husband is held captive by the Americans and awaits the first o ...

Tüz (1948)

The first Hungarian spy film ripped the mask off those ministerial officials who, having sold out to foreign agents, sabotaged the rebuilding of Hungarian factories and plants destroyed by the war. In the film, spies and saboteurs with wallets full of doll ...

The Siege of Beszterce (1948)

The film evokes count Pongrácz, who, as late as the 19th century, managed to live a life, which reminds one of his medieval ancestor's values. He acts in defiance of the town by fighting his own battle against it, having been offended by the town. ...

Hazugság nélkül (1946)

Temporarily Broke (1938)

Comedy in the early 20th century about switching the lives. ...

Azurexpress (1938)

On the night before his wedding Tamás, a young teacher, saves a lonely girl named Teri from committing suicide. Since she has nowhere to go, he takes her back to his apartment and gives her some money. Another chance encounter with the girl complicates Ta ...

120 Kilometers an Hour (1937)

Marianne, the daughter of Banker Turner, is a modern woman, driving her car - as well as through her life - with breathtaking speed. ...

The Man of Gold (1936)

Az Aranyember (The Man of Gold) was based on a novel by Jokai, at one time Hungary's foremost storyteller. Set in the early 19th century, the story revolves around Timar (Ferenc Kiss), a ferryman on a Danish tugboat. Rescuing the daughter (Marisa Kormos) o ...

Tommy (1936)

Her husband, a talented engineer, having been killed in an accident years ago in America, Mrs. Gáldy, a widower, lives in poverty in a small village with Tomi, her little son. ...

The Superior Maiden (1936)

The millionaire grandson of entrepreneur Dénes Bartos is hired as a tutor. Gábor Horváth Horváth of Monori, a doctor, drops his Monori name and goes down to Bartos Castle as Gábor Horváth to earn money to become independent of his industrialist fathe ...

Szent Péter esernyője (1935)

Veronika, the niece of the parish priest of Glogova, came to the priesthood because of the death of her mother. While the priest was praying for a blessing in front of the cross in the field, a grey old man put an umbrella over the little girl. It is still ...