부다페스트 스토리 (2019)

우리가 모르는 수 백년동안 인간 사회의 저편에서는 두 종족간에 세력다툼이 한창이다. 귀족적이고 세련된 뱀파이어와 거칠고 야생적인 라이칸(늑대인간), 이들은 하나의 종족이 살아남을 때까지 끊임없는 암흑의 전쟁을 치르고 있다. 늑대인간을 사냥해 온 아름다운 뱀파이어 여전사 '셀린느'(케이트 베킨세일)는 어느날 '마이클'(스캇 피드만)이란 인간이 라이칸에게 쫓기고 있음을 알고 지하철에서 총격전을 벌이게 된다. 싸움도중 마이클은 라이칸의 지배자인 루시안에게 어깨를 물리게 되고 그 뒤로부터 이상한 환상에 시달리게 된다. 늑대인간의 바이러스를 지닌 마이클의 피를 라이칸이 수혈하면 막강한 힘을 가지게 된다는 사실을 알게 된 셀린느는 뱀파이어의 권력자 크라벤에게 말하지만 오히려 그녀의 말을 일축하고 만다. 불길한 예감을 떨치지 못한 셀린느는 어둠의 지배자 '빅터'를 불러내고, 사건은 더욱 커져 오히려 두 종족으로부터 쫓기게 되는데.... 그녀는 과연 어느 편에 설 것인가?

In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in...

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.

Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.

Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.

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, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.

A Hungarian band plays American rock & roll and blues hits with great enthusiasm and passion, but success seems to avoid them. TV and radio don't play their songs, sometimes even their crowd just sits and sips beer. Something must be done, and the band's leader (Lóránt Schuszter) comes up with the big idea: write and play songs for the people about themselves and not about some exotic, but too distant people's life. "We move from Tobacco Road to Retek street" With the remains of the band and a second singer (Gyula Deák "Bill") they find what they failed to show people before. The rich new sound can finally translate the spirit of blues and rock much more than words from any dictionaries could, this is the Köbánya-blues.

A deep drama about life in Hungary after the WW2 until the revolt against Russians in '56. The main character is the head of the black market in Budapest. He thinks he can buy everyone and everything but at the end he must face that he can't buy life. A must-see for everyone. Casting involves some of the greatest Hungarian actors. The story takes place in the eighth district of Budapest focusing on the market place on Teleki square which is still working. The movie contains some archive footage of real fight during the revolution.

The story of hopelessness, which is independent and politics. Symbolic little people are faced with the absurdly large accelerated world. Resolutely themselves taken up the challenge, bravely struggling against fate ...

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.

A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist party, a woman who is dying of tuberculosis and an astronomer who sings in a punk band.

Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.

"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.

A talented but irresponsible violinist ruins his marriage with his drinking and antisocial behaviour.

In this low-budget thriller, Peter Lorre plays Janos Szabo, an immigrant from Hungary who is a skilled craftsman. After he's caught in a fire, his face is horribly scarred; his terrifying appearance makes it impossible for him to get a job. With nowhere else to turn, Janos begins working for the criminal underworld. Janos begins having second thoughts about his life of crime when he falls in love.

헝가리의 거장 피테르 바쵸의 대표작이지만 당시 헝가리의 사회주의 체제를 통렬히 비판한 탓에 제작한 뒤 10년여 간 상영금지됐던 작품. 한 소시민이 부당한 이유로 거듭 감옥에 끌려가고 곤란한 상황에 놓인다.

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.

János is a 35 years old, rich, succesful single man, who plans to go on a long vacation with his brand new car.

This Traveltalk series short visits Hungary's capital, Budapest.