Zoltán Mucsi

I Accidentally Wrote a Book (2025)

Nina loves to make up stories, she wants to become a writer. Though she has her creative talent from her filmmaker father, there's just one problem: Her clumsy magician brother Junior is bored of her stories. And since her mother died early, it's difficult ...

We are Azahriah (2024)

Attila Baukó, aka Azahriah is one of Hungary's most famous singer, who filled the biggest sport arena of the country with three consecutive concerts. But this film is not a concert film. It is not a music documentary. Nor is it a traditional portrait film ...

Rebound (2024)

For Kálmán, button football is a serious sport. He and his team are preparing for the European Championship. They could have a good chance of qualifying, but they are disqualified for financial reasons at the last minute. With an unexpected twist, a bill ...

Csendes éj (2024)

The story of the film unfolds in one night. A chance meeting of a young boy and an old woman on Christmas night. From behind the dark clouds of their life full of secrets, the Sun breaks out unexpectedly for them too: the Christmas Eve, which starts out as ...

Skating on the Razor's Edge (2024)

Emergency era, Budapest. A Sagittarius officer rings the doorbell of his former superior's widow in the middle of the night. He suspects that she is harbouring Jewish children. A cruel psychological game begins. 2022, Budapest. After the outbreak of the Ru ...

Hadik (2023)

During the Seven Years War, Austrian Queen Maria Theresa sends her best general, András Hadik and his Hussars to raid Berlin and humiliate the Prussian King, Frederick the Great. ...

Goldilocks and the Glorious Losers (2022)

Eight chapters on the disaster that ensues after a simple man signs a blank piece of paper when handed a pen. ...

Hello, My Life! (2022)

A popular writer with lack of inspiration and his never-seen son meets unexpectedly. From there they have to deal with living with the other in joy, in emtions and with the imagination of the child, this tales goes beyond reality. ...

We Started Together (2022)

A coming of age story, in flashback, of a group of high school students graduating in 2011. Each will take a different path from here on. ...

Escape Room (2021)

We're in a flatlet, in the middle of two young people's relationship crisis. The boy cheated on the girl. They are both in quarantine, right in the middle of a pandemic. The situation gets more complicated by a chat message, which also gives the boy cause ...

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. ...

Open (2018)

Relationship dramedy about an everyday couple adventuring through the confusing thrills of non-monogamy. ...

Jupiter's Moon (2017)

A young refugee, Aryan, is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border. While tending him back to health, a doctor at a refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained an extraordinary talent—he can levitate. Aryan is smuggled out by the docto ...

Budapest Noir (2017)

A murder mystery set in 1936 Budapest, just as Hungary was preparing to align itself with Hitler. A beautiful young girl is found dead and nobody wants to investigate—except Gordon, a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they see ...

Just Drop Dead! (2016)

Drop dead please! Following the sudden death of a mysterious engine driver in his sixties, the Wife, the Lover, her illegitimate Daughter and an increasing number of shady characters from his spurious past want to know the true identity of the man they lov ...

Kills on Wheels (2016)

Two physically handicapped youngsters make friends with a paralysed hitman and are commissioned by a local mafia boss. They have little to lose although things are never as they first appear. The boundaries between fantasy and reality blur as the unlikely ...

Coming Out (2013)

This is the story of present-day Hungary's most famous gay celebrity who openly admits his homosexuality and fights for gay rights in a society where so many alternative values are denied. But then something happens and he is shocked to discover his growin ...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel t ...

Szuperbojz (2010)

A man pretends to be a manager and helps veteran rockstar god, Johnny G. and his ex-band to reunite once more. ...

So Much for Justice! (2010)

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), the film focuses on three eras of the king's life: the young Mátyás fights for the throne, the older Mátyás as king, and the fate of the royal crown ...

The Grave Digger (2010)

Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life. So the story ignites the imagination only to be slowe ...

1 (2009)

A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to humanity in a minute. A police investigation begins and th ...

Paper Dogs (2009)

After they got imprisoned, small-time criminals Kuplung and Csumpi tell their stories to their cell-mate of how they have planned the most imperfect robbery. Their big idea was to rob the Money-liquidation Warehouse. The movie shows how they fielded a team ...

Márió, a varázsló (2008)

An Italian businessman, Mario comes to the country and opens his shoe company in a small village. A middle-aged female worker falls in love with Mario, but she is not the only one whose life will be changed. ...

Tabló (2008)

Karcsi, a Roma policeman, lives with Eva, a Swede. One day he is called to the scene of the murder of a wealthy trafficker named Schulter. He begins to investigate the crime, interrogate neighbours and suspects, and untangle a complex situation - one that ...

Buhera mátrix (2007)

Geri's life flashes before him in the "Buhera Matrix," a cringe-worthy slideshow of childhood photos from Pioneer camp to prom night. He relives the absurd clash between Mickey Mouse and socialist youth rituals, debates the perfect horse-chestnut hole size ...

Ed's Eaten Elevenses (2006)

Jancsó's farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries into a family of mafiosi, with the father-in-law rolling in money. In a joint venture they establish the first Hungarian Prison Limited company, where there is a ...

Egy bolond százat csinál (2006)

László Dömötör, the divorced registrar, cannot get rid of his ex-wife any more than he can get rid of marriages. He is desperate to find new love, with little success. After Dömötör gets drunk as a tension reliever at work and turns one of his wedd ...

Herminafields - Zeitgeist (2006)

The film is composed around a violent incident, happened in 1956. Upon hearing the news that the Russians were approaching, the dwellers of the Home for the Disabled armed themselves. Followed by stares by people living in the area they marched along Hermi ...

De kik azok a Lumnitzer nővérek? (2006)

Olivér and Ficskó are fierce restaurant critics crusading for culinary excellence and mercilessly skewering inept chefs under the pseudonym "the Lumnitzer Sisters." Offended restaurateurs hire resourceful young manager Milica to unmask, neutralize or rec ...

Premier (2006)

A new National Theatre is built, and the director hires a famous Danish director for the premiere performance. The actors rehearse, the tractor and the construction workers work on the almost finished building. Everything seems to be on track, including th ...

BLACKland (2006)

The film is a stage play hybrid showcasing dark and absurd sketches based on contemporary Hungarian news of the 2000's with campy, senseless musical interludes in-between. Highly experimental in nature that - like Marmite - will split its' crowd into ones ...

Egy szoknya, egy nadrág (2005)

Péter Sóvári is a successful actor and notorious womanizer. Director Lajos Borsai, equally fond of the playboy lifestyle but in dire financial straits, aims to secure his fortune by wooing Mexican soap-opera tycoon Dulcinea de la Rosa as both wife and ...

Argo (2004)

The crew of Tibi Balogh sets out on a journey across Hungary to get the ancient Gold Owl statue, as well as the Milk Man. The treasure is worth millions, who gets there first? ...

Montecarlo! (2004)

The suburban school is totally bankrupt. When all hope collapses, Makkosi, a teacher resigned to the disappointing situation, and Annamari, a pretty French teacher, end up in a casino in Szentendre. They are surprised to discover that Makkosi can predict t ...

The Battle of Mohács (2004)

By the notes of Fiáth Pompeiusz, the one-time friend of Kapa and Pepe, Professor Szirtes has solved the secret of the time machine, and he realizes the invention relying on "special" H2O. Kapa and Pepe shall return by it into the past in order to set time ...

Hungarian Vagabond (2004)

A Hungarian historical movie that tells the story of the Hungarian ancestors, the seven leaders, who are looking for their new homeland in the last years of the 9th century. Before they leave their original home in Asia, they have a farewell party. They wa ...

Kontroll (2003)

A subway enforcement officer working in the oppressively gray Budapest metro gets a chance at love — but first he needs to find out why passengers are jumping — or being pushed — to their deaths onto the tracks. ...

Libiomfi (2003)

A satirical tale of the adaptation, casting and rehearsal of a theatrical version of Winnie-the-Pooh. ...

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 ...

Vadkörték - A tihanyi kincsvadászat (2002)

Temptations (2002)

Directed, written, and co-produced by Zoltan Kamondi), Kisertesek ("Temptations") illustrates the struggle between ancient traditions and the modern world of restless young Marci (Marcell Miklos), a fatherless young man who is considered somewhat of an out ...

Legkisebb film a legnagyobb magyarról (2002)

Citromfej (2001)

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

Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse (2001)

Waiters' competition at Heroes' Square in the late thirties. Dressed as waiters, Kapa and Pepe awake in the bronze chariot of the millennial sculpture group. They drive along the Danube promenade, and on the concrete reinforcement of the demolished Budapes ...

Nexxt (2001)

In the 20th live broadcast of Frau Plastic Chicken's TV show entitled Nexxt, the first guest comes from the sixties: it is the hero of Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange, the notorious murderer Alexander Grushkin, that is, Little Alex. With the help of Ego ...

Damn You! the Mosquitoes (2000)

Kapa, Pepe and Mesi would like to buy a scrapyard of trains, to start a nostalgia train and earn a lot of money. The capital to start with they want to get from grandpa, who has come home from America with a suitcase full of money. Everybody wants Mesi to ...

Visszatérés (Kicsi, de nagyon erős 2.) (1999)

The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim ...

Gangster Film (1999)

1979. Gábor H. works in a law enforcement institution. He robs a bank branch, gets into jail. 1989. Gábor H. and the similarly unemployed Sanyi want to get money by robbing. ...

Gulls and Gangsters (1997)

The film has a broken meaning, the last time he was a proofreader for a book publisher, he is now unemployed. Ever since he was a child, he has always been the one who pulls the short one, and he takes the wrong one. At the beginning of the film, he finds ...

Junk Movie (1992)

It is 1989, the year of the demise of socialism in eastern Europe. Nevertheless, the one theme of Junk Movie does not refer to this historical moment of high ideals, quite the contrary, the wild, burlesque of a motif-mozaic seems merely to stick it's tongu ...

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. ...

Fast and Loose (1990)

Margó and Ildi are good friends. Margó lives with her simple, conservative parents, her fiancé is a roadie, her lover has been in prison for two years. Ildi was a pupil of a reformatory school, she buried an Araba husband already and her Rumanian partne ...

Memories of a River (1990)

In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he finds shelter with the family of a Jewish logger. The loggers find the body of a young woman which they bury, ...

Little But Tough (1989)

Paul Bogár is released after a year in custody on suspicion of burglary - due to lack of evidence. The man seems to accept society's declared norms, taking a hard physical job in a factory. In his spare time, however, he resumes burglarising houses, caref ...