Pál Jávor

Assignment: Paris (1952)

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador. ...

Iron Man (1951)

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother. ...

The Great Caruso (1951)

Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Ev ...

The School-Mistress (1945)

The protagonist of the story is Flora, a teacher who wants to teach in the village, in accordance with her vocation and her oath. Her beauty and purity bring her into conflict with the local authorities and with the landowning family of the countryside. Aw ...

Something Is in the Water (1944)

A mysterious woman brings disaster to a small country town. ...

Opium Waltz (1943)

Five friends, a piano-player, an actor, a critic, a doctor and a banker meet again for a twentieth school anniversary in the countryside mansion of the piano player. But the sudden arrival of an attractive woman upsets their peaceful plans... ...

Szováthy Éva (1943)

Taming the Shrew (1943)

Pálma, the spoilt daughter of the rich manufacturer, is a true monster in the house. The house staff flee her and even her father can hardly wait to marry her off. ...

Egy gép nem tért vissza (1943)

Lieutenant Gabor's plane drops intelligence officer Benkov behind enemy lines. Benkov is assisted by his sweetheart Marja, also an intelligence officer and partisan, to carry out his mission. The Gábors' next trip also takes them behind enemy lines, to ph ...

Késő (1943)

Kerek Ferkó (1943)

After a heart attack, landowner Ferdinand Kerekházy summons his son Ferko Kerekházy from abroad, who, to his conservative father's dismay, sends a wagonload of machines ahead to set up an irrigation system and turn the saline, barely productive fields in ...

Carmela (1942)

In 1893, on an island in the Strait of Sicily, a woman is beginning to go crazy due to an officer that she loved leaving. When she believes a newly arrived official to be the man that left her, he plays along. ...

Estélyi ruha kötelező (1942)

You can get anywhere in a tailcoat. Viktor Norton, a young man imprisoned by mistake, also knows this. In Viktor's tailcoat, he can easily get to the Excelsior Hotel, where he will meet the newly wealthy Dupont couple and their daughter Marie. ...

The Talking Robe (1942)

In the 1600s, Hungary is plundered by the Turks and the Laban. Kecskemét, the free royal city, is not exempt from this. Miska, the wily son of Lestyák, a master tailor, suggests to the town council that they should ask for a permanent beacon from Buda, t ...

Az utolsó dal (1942)

The famous singer János Fehér has lost his voice forever. His secretary, Bokros, and his piano accompanist, Elisabeth, conceal the tragic truth from him. One day, during a car trip, János and his wife come across a miners' party where a young man, Peter ...

A láp virága (1942)

The son of a wealthy landowner, Miklós Pálfalvy, who leads a frivolous life, becomes involved in forging bills of exchange. The forged paper falls into the hands of his future father-in-law, banker Mihályi, who blackmails the young man. Miklós breaks u ...

Silent Monastery (1941)

Count Vághelyi Gusztáv is now a member of the Carthusan order. He has to be there at her ex-sweetheart's, Betti's deathbed. Longing for penitence, he recalls his life so far. ...

Sentenced to Life (1941)

In an outbreak of a rightful anger, Péter Keresztessy kills Ágota, his deceased wife's cousin, who, in an attempt to become her successor, speaks ill of her thus trying to malign her character. Péter is prepared for capital punishment but is sentenced ...

Left-handed Angel (1941)

Klári lives in Pest with her widowed mother and works at a china-store. But she is a little clumsy and causes trouble everywhere. ...

A Bowl of Lentils (1941)

A Kiss and That's All (1941)

Anni, a young woman on the verge of divorce, moves into a hotel until the trial, where she meets a charming young man, Albert Sándor. Despite the fact that the lawsuit would prevent Anni from getting involved in a new relationship, she agrees to a comprom ...

Pista Dankó (1941)

Pista Dankó falls in love with Ilonka Jáky, the beautiful blonde lady, so his old love, Rózsi, the wild gypsy girl, puts a curse on him. Ilonka elopes with Pista and they marry. They live in difficult circumstances, but Lajos Pósa takes up the talented ...

A Woman Looks Back (1941)

Tamás Szánthó is conducting a concert, while his young wife and her secret lover play in the same theatre in the Tragedy of Man ...

Three Bells (1941)

Kovalszky arrives at the Danube-Bank Hotel as a foreign gentleman. Two members of the staff, Miklós, the waiter and Anna, the house-maid are planning their life together. Kovalszky makes passes at Anna. ...

Lelki klinika (1941)

Queen Elizabeth (1940)

Emperor Franz Joseph's young wife, Queen Elizabeth, was a popular favourite. After the defeat of the War of Independence, the daughter of the revolutionary General Latkóczy came to her to ask for the Queen's intercession on behalf of her father. Little do ...

Vision by the Lake (1940)

Nothing new under the sun. The famous 'Love Story' is only a faint reminder of the most successful pre-war Hungarian film. The relationship between the painter and the busy girl, as well as the third one, still holds surprises for us today. ...

Love Is Not a Shame (1940)

Yes or No? (1940)

How did a beautiful American divorcee get into the bed of her best friend's fiancé right after returning to Budapest? ...

Donauschiffer (1940)

The Hungarian noble Nikki von Kormendy is traveling incognito as a blind passenger on the Danube ferry "Fortuna". Captain Korngiebel keeps him busy with various tasks. When the young singer Anny Hofer comes on board, both men fall in love with her and co ...

Come On the First (1940)

Fűszer és csemege (1940)

Gül Baba (1940)

Student Gábor and cigarette-smoking student Mujkó sneak into the Buda rose garden of baba Gül and fall in love with Leila, the daughter of baba Gül, who is bathing there and is destined to be the 33rd wife of Ali Basa. The guard captures the student an ...

Deadly Spring (1939)

The subject of this film is Dr. Ivan Egry, a young man, who becomes infatuated with Edit Ralben, the beautiful, but flirtatious, daughter of a prominent man. As the two get involved romantically, problems start to plague their relationship. When they end ...

Tökéletes férfi (1939)

Wedding in Toprin (1939)

Sent on a spy mission to the estate of Count Toprini, Lieutenant Imre is helped by the count's wife who is unhappy in her marriage. ...

Menschen vom Varieté (1939)

In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, ar ...

The Stars of Variety Show (1939)

Theatre Colosseum prepares for the closing performance of the month. The magician Keats wants to avoid having to perform with Jack Carey, the well-known marksman, as the latter has seduced his wife, the beautiful dancer, Silvia Castellani. It is only thank ...

Uz Bence (1938)

László Bagyoni is forced to flee because he published a newspaper in the small Szekler village without permission. His friend Bence Uz, who lives in the mountains, takes him in. The notary's daughter Leticia arrives in the mountains with a hunting party. ...

Two Prisoners (1938)

A Hungarian soldier is taken prisoner by the Russians and sent to a Siberian prison camp. Meanwhile the years of loneliness are too much for his wife to bear. ...

Ihr Leibhusar (1938)

An easy-going hussar officer successfully vies for the love of a millionaire's daughter. ...

Marika (1938)

Marika is adopted by Orbán Sándor after his wife dies. However, when she reaches the age of 19, he discovers she is more attractive than any of the women he knows. There are a few complications before Marika realizes that her foster father, Orbán, will ...

Young Noszty and Mary Toth (1938)

Another winner from Hungarian director Ivan Szekely (aka S.K. Seeley and Steve Sekely), A Nosty fiu Esete Toth Marival was released in English-speaking regions as I Married for Love. Feri Noszty (Paul Javor) is a handsome but irresponsible Hussar officer w ...

Black Diamonds (1938)

Iván Berend works with all his skills in the coal mine he inherited from his father. Fate brings him to fall in love with the beautiful Evila, the daughter of one of the miners. A wealthy Viennese banker, Félix Kaulmann, then buys up the Bondavölgy coal ...

The Torocko Bride (1937)

András and Rózsi have been engaged for years now, but, given the absence of her certificate of baptism, they cannot get married. ...

Viki (1937)

A férfi mind őrült (1937)

Pay Madame (1937)

A baker-turned-millionaire mill owner constantly fires directors who all end up neglecting the business and falling for his daughter Zsuzsi. When Peter returns from abroad to take over as the new director, swearing he won't ask for her hand, Zsuzsi seizes ...

You Will Be My Husband (1937)

Sister Maria (1937)

The title character in Maria Nover (Sister Maria) is played by Eva Szorenyi. A convent-bred lass on the verge of taking her final vows, Maria falls in love with a handsome artist, portrayed by popular operatic baritone Sandor Sved. Due to a silly misunders ...

Nászút féláron (1936)

Havi 200 fix (1936)

The New Landlord (1935)

Az Uj Foldesur (The New Squire) was based on a novel by popular Hungarian author Maurice Jokal, whose many works had previously been largely ignored. After the wars of 1848, a retired Austrian army officer "returns to the soil" as a gentleman farmer in Hun ...

The Ugly Girl (1935)

Dr. Halmi has very strict principles towards women. He only employs ugly women in his office. So what can a poor unemployed secretary do? With the help of a wig and a pair of glasses, disguised as an old ugly woman, she soon becomes the lawyer's indispensa ...

Miss President (1935)

The young, immature Zsuzsa Várkonyi becomes the president of the Várkonyi Textile Factory. When the managing director proposes to her, she tells him she is in love with a young engineer who she doesn't really know anything about. ...

Nem élhetek muzsikaszó nélkül (1935)

Thanks for Knocking (1935)

An unemployed singer hits a girl with a car he has just stolen. She has no serious injuries but falls in love with the handsome stanger. ...

Az iglói diákok (1935)

Emmy (1934)

Ida regénye (1934)

Rakoczi March (1933)

Young Hussar captain falls in love-at-first-sight with classy young blonde, who turns out to be the sister of his captain. ...

Hyppolit, the Butler (1931)

Evergreen comedy about a typical parvenu, an ignorant transportation entrepreneur who has suddenly found himself very rich. Despite their humble origins, his wife strives to live a sophisticated lifestyle. When she engages a butler, Hyppolit, their whole l ...

The Blue Idol (1931)

Baron Lóránt, now bankrupt for reasons for which he cannot be blamed, starts a new life in America, accompanied by Péter, his faithful valet. They both work as waiters in a bar. Things turn nasty when Lóránt recognises his uncle in one of the bar's cu ...