138 Films & TV Shows Set In Hungary
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Children of Glory
🇭🇺 Hungary Victoria The 1950sChildren of Glory will commemorate Hungary's heroic Revolution of 1956, and takes place in Budapest and at the Melbourne Olympic Games in October and November of that year. While Soviet tanks were destroying Hungary, the Hungarian water polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in Melbourne, in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history.
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8MM 2
🇭🇺 HungaryAn American diplomat and his fiancée venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a sex tape of them with a prostitute.
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Van Helsing
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇴 Romania 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇮🇹 Italy 🇸🇰 Slovakia The 1880sThe One Name They All Fear. — Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
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Underworld
🇭🇺 HungaryAn immortal battle for supremacy. — Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
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Control
🇭🇺 HungaryThere's no such thing as a free ride — A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, his fellow inspectors, who are all without exception likeable characters, a rival ticket inspection team, and racing along the tracks... And a tale about love.
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Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1940sIt is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned by fascism, he is a fresh supplier for the Italian army. In the war years he is in Budapest for his business. He lives an easy life there, well introduced into the Hungarian high society, without any problem coming from the war situation. When the Nazi occupied Hungary, in 1944, instead to leave (Italy had already surrendered to the Allies) he escaped to the Spanish embassy in Budapest using his old safe conduct and becoming a Spanish citizen, changing name into Jorge Perlasca. He starts working as a diplomat here. When Sanz Briz (Geza Tordy), the Spanish consul, is removed, Perlasca immediately substitutes him, like if he was officially appointed from Spanish authorities... Written by 1felco
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A Kind of America
🇭🇺 HungaryTamás is a young, Budapest-based director of video clips and commercials who dreams of directing his...
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Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer
🇭🇺 Hungary 🇬🇹 GuatemalaAfter a strict upbringing and the death of his beloved sister, Aro Tolbukhin leaves Hungary for Guatemala. Taken in as a political refugee at a mission, Aro grows close to Sister Carmen and becomes part of the community, but a series of misfortunes drive him to arson and murder. Now on death row, Aro is interviewed about his life and motivations by a film crew trying to understand what made him snap.
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An American Rhapsody
California 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1960s The 1950sOne family struggles for survival, for justice, for freedom. — A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.
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Last Run
🇭🇺 HungaryAny moment could be his last — Frank Banner used to specialize in helping Soviet spies defect safely to the West. Banner's wife was shot to death aiding such an escape. Now, with the Cold War over, Banner is called upon to safely escort an ex-K.G.B. man who is wanted dead by both the CIA and the Russian Mafia
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In July
🇩🇪 Germany 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇹🇷 TurkeyA Summer Night's Dream — Can Daniel follow the sun from Hamburg to the Bosporus by Friday to meet his love?
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Gloomy Sunday
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1940s The 1930sBudapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
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Sunshine
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950s The 19th CenturyIn a time of revolution, in a family torn by tradition, one man was consumed by love. — The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
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The Conquest
🇭🇺 Hungary The 9th CenturyFilmed in commemoration of Hungary's 1100th anniversary and on the sites of the actual events, a cast of thousands authentically recreates the 896 AD arrival of the Magyar chief Arpad (Nero) and his seven tribes into the Carpathian basin from the steppes.
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Memoirs of a River
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1880sIn 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, going against local laws. They are charged with her murder and it is believed that they killed her as a ritual murder.
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Music Box
Illinois 🇭🇺 HungaryAs a lawyer all she wanted was the truth. As a daughter all she wanted was his innocence. How well do you really know your father? — A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
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Étoile
🇭🇺 HungaryAn American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
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Howling V: The Rebirth
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1980s The 14th CenturyThe beast returns! — When a group of people from different walks of life converge in a Hungarian castle situated in Budapest which has been sealed for 500 years, they bring with them a werewolf which slowly begins to cut their numbers down.
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My Twentieth Century
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1880s The 1890sA tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year s Eve 1899...
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Before the Bat's Flight Is Done
🇭🇺 HungaryHow far can one person go when love becomes obsession?
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And the Violins Stopped Playing
🇭🇺 Hungary 🇵🇱 PolandThis is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
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Red Heat
Illinois 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sMoscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them mad. Making them partners. — A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
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Hanna's War
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1940sHanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.
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A Hungarian Fairy Tale
🇭🇺 HungaryShot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
🇭🇺 HungaryThe story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
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