Elemér Ragályi

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 seem.

Na Hungria, em agosto de 1945, moradores se preparam para um casamento no vilarejo onde vivem. Enquanto isso, dois judeus ortodoxos chegam à estação de trem local com misteriosas caixas. Os habitantes do povoado temem que os homens possam ser herdeiros dos judeus deportados da aldeia e que mais sobreviventes possam vir, representando uma ameaça às propriedade e bens que adquiriram durante a guerra.

It is Dr. Borlai's job to tell the patients that they just have a few days left. But one day his colleauge tells him this story. So the sample husband the best father and doctor comes up with a devilish plan. To ruin every relationship that he is in so the loved ones will let him go easily. And when he achieves this he is still alive but he should be in the cemetery long ago.

As cheias da primavera formam uma pequena ilha com solo fértil no meio de um rio, uma nova terra sem dono. Com a ajuda da neta adolescente órfã, um idoso toma posse da ilha, constrói uma cabana simples e planta milho.

Uma jovem escritora, lutando pelo seu sucesso, contrata uma mulher idosa chamada Emerenc para ser sua empregada. Apenas um drama na vida da escritora faz com que Emerenc revele o seu passado traumático -- um passado que lança luz sobre o seu comportamento peculiar.

O ano é 1939, a Europa passa pela Segunda Guerra Mundial. Apesar da tensão social, o produtor Davide Rieti (Alfred Molina), decide rodar um filme épico nos estúdios da Cinecittà. Nesta efervescente atmosfera, começam as filmagens, mas fora dos sets os protagonistas se apaixonam e procuram formas de escapar da realidade da guerra através do álcool e das drogas. Porém, com a guerra batendo à porta, Rieti começa a sofrer pressão psicológica de todos os lados - pelo governo, pelos bancos, e principalmente pela imprensa, que descobre que Rieti se relaciona com um homem. Rodeado pelo escândalo sexual e político, o grande épico é ameaçado pela polícia secreta, mas determinado a continuar e enfrentar a ameaça da polícia, Rieti e seu elenco decidem fazer um final extraordinário para a realização do filme, em apenas uma noite.

Siegfried (Benno Fürmann) é um jovem ferreiro que, desconhecendo ser o herdeiro de um reino, ganha popularidade entre o seu povo após matar o dragão Fafnir. Como recompensa, o ferreiro recebe um anel que lhe confere poderes extraordinários, mas também o torna alvo de uma maldição que pode ser capaz de ameaçar seu romance com a rainha e guerreira Norse Brunhild (Kristanna Loken).

Szarka and Barbi, two 17 years old girl travel to Europe to find love and happiness. The vacation starts bad, they lose all their money, but they don't wanna go home.

Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds.

Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room.

Eva Kerezkes is a young woman who lives alone in her apartment. After her parents' death, she was adopted by writer Tibor and his wife, Klara. Upon returning from a holiday in Italy, Eva performs various tasks around her apartment that reveal haunting information about her past sexual relationship with Tibor.

After the death of his father and a second wedding of his mother, David Copperfield suffers from his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. The mother dies shortly after the death of another child, whereupon Mr. Murdstone sends David to London, where he has to work for a starvation wage.Here he makes some new friends, but soon flees from the capital of England to his aunt Traddles in Canterbury, where he is adopted by her.

Nastassja Kinski e Tony Goldwyn são Margit e Peter, um casal de húngaros que tem dois filhos. A família é obrigada a fugir do regime repressivo da Hungria a fim de buscar liberdade em outro lugar. A terra escolhida é os EUA. A luta acontece já quando eles tentam atravessar a fronteira e, para conseguir fazer isso, têm de abandonar a filha Suzanne (Scarlett Johansson), que vai ser clandestinamente entregue aos cuidados de um casal de camponeses. Em terra americana, Peter luta por uma vida saudável enquanto que Margaret tenta recuperar a filha abandonada

Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.

Na Polônia ocupada pelos nazistas, em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, Jakob (Robin Williams), um comerciante empobrecido, traz esperança e humor num gueto judeu, ao reportar boletins fictícios sobre os passos das tropas da Aliança para derrotar o exército de Hitler. Mas quando os soldados alemães tomam conhecimento da fictícia rádio, eles partem em busca do suposto herói que vem mantendo acesa a chama da resistência.

Uma cientista bem-humorada obtém sucesso com uma de suas invenções mais ousadas: ela consegue viajar através do tempo e vai parar na Inglaterra da Idade Média. Lá, se mete em muitas confusões e ainda conhece Merlin e o rei Artur.

Rodya Raskolnikov é um jovem estudante de direito arrogante que acredita que algumas pessoas - incluindo ele - estão acima da lei. Entre alguns infortúnios da vida, Raskolnikov acaba cometendo dois assassinatos a fim de ajudar Sonia, uma prostituta por quem é apaixonado. Chamado pela polícia para depor na investigação, ele consegue se desvencilhar do crime e da punição formal. O problema é que o jovem começa a ser atormentado pela própria consciência, que acaba se tornando sua maior inimiga.

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.

Quasímodo é perseguido e incompreendido pelo povo, mas ao se apaixonar pela bela Esmeralda, ele enfrenta todos pondo sua vida em perigo para defender sua amada, a qual é assediada pelo sacerdote local. .

Three tales of terror: in "The Graveyard Rats" lovers murder the woman's older husband and encounter horror when they attempt to rob his grave; "Bobby" is the story of a woman who summons her son back from the dead; and in "He Who Kills" an African doll goes on a murderous rampage.

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.

Em uma era fervendo em guerra e revolução, um homem chega com um poder incrível para curar uma nação... ou destruí-la. Baseado na história real de uma das figuras mais poderosas e misteriosas da história da Rússia.

A prominent conductor's nervous breakdown leads to love in this thoughtful Hungarian romantic drama. For sometime, Landos, a noted conductor, has suffered anxiety and a lack of confidence about his work. The problem is made worse by his wife's successful dental practice. Eventually it becomes too overwhelming and the conductor is sent to a mental hospital for rest. There he encounters clinical psychologist Andrea Novak. At first she seems colder than alpine snow, but when he sneaks out to return to work and she finds him there, things quickly turn hot. The two become engulfed in passion that they ignore their own spouses and professions, causing Novak to be formally reprimanded. Eventually Landos finds himself forced to choose between his wife and Novak. Unfortunately, he loves them both. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Sarah Taylor (Rebecca De Mornay) é uma psiquiatra que, ao fazer compras, conhece um homem (Antonio Banderas) que diz vender sistemas de segurança e que já foi policial. Entre eles surge um envolvimento, mas ela passa a ser ameaçada de forma cada vez mais assustadora por um desconhecido. Ela resolve então investigar seu namorado e descobre que nem tudo que ele diz é verdade.

O jovem Calvin Fuller (Thomas Ian Nicholas) vive no mundo atual e acaba vivendo a aventura dos sonhos de qualquer garoto de sua idade. Ele é mandado à lendaria corte do rei Arthur pelo mago Merlin (Ron Moody) com uma missão: salvar o reino de Camelot. Para tal, o garoto deve derrotar o vilão Lorde Belasco (Art Malik), treinar para ser um cavaleiro e resgatar a princesa Katey (Paloma Baeza), que se apaixonou por ele.

Para alguns ele era um mago, um milagreiro; para outros era um charlatão, uma fraude. Suas teorias eram revolucionárias, mas ele foi rejeitado por seus contemporâneos e deportado de sua terra natal, Viena. Ele incendiou Paris, se tornou um renegado na medicina, um visionário, um vilão. Franz Anton Mesmer Nasceu em 23 de maio de 1734, em Iznang, aldeia próxima do lago de Constança, filho do casal Franciscus Antonius Mesmer e Maria Ursula Michel, membros de uma grande família católica da Suábia, região que hoje pertence à Alemanha. Mesmer desencarnou em 5 de março de 1815.

For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.

Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder

Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.

Num vilarejo paupérrimo do interior da Turquia, as histórias de sucesso econômico de turcos que foram viver na Suíça inspiram Haydar a fazer o mesmo. Ele convence a mulher, Meryem, e assim vende o pouco que tem para poder comprar as passagens. Mas ele deverá deixar com parentes seus sete filhos. O pai de Haydar, no entanto, diz ao filho que ele precisa levar ao menos uma das crianças para estudar na Europa. Eles embarcam e tudo parece seguir tranquilamente. Mas durante a viagem eles são enganados por um homem que se diz guia, são abandonados nos Alpes e Haydar e o filho ainda se perdem de Meryem.

In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated by the war.

The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.

Uma cantora de ópera em ínicio de carreira se vê transportada para Londres na época vitoriana e aos braços de um maestro solitário e desfigurado, determinado a transformá-la em uma estrela. Christine (Jill Schoelen) a cantora "Garganta de Ouro", consegue atingir o sucesso através dos arranjos de seu protetor (Robert Englund)... Até que ela descobre que ele tem cometido vários assassinatos obscuros e inexplicáveis em sua honra, e que ele não vai parar até completar sua grande obra-prima... de sangue!

In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves so her father "the king of thieves" gets the gangster arrested.

In a border town two sons of the local commander using stolen arms take hostages of eighteen girls in a dormitory, because they want to go West by plane.

A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)

Hanna'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.

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

Shot 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.

Em 27 de julho de 1986, a banda britânica de rock de estádio Queen inovou ao tocar pela primeira vez na Hungria, um país que ainda estava sob uma ditadura comunista atrás da Cortina de Ferro.

Contemporary genre-painting of a Hungarian "middle class" family of four. The scene is the villa apartment almost finished, where the tourist guide mother, father who also works for the second economy and the lonely big girl preparing for her maturity examination turn up alternatively. It is only the teen-ager boy who really "lives" in this place: instead of attending school he stays home all day and observes the life of the surrounding by a self-made periscope. Internal communication of the family is accomplished in writing, on the pin-up board in the kitchen.

Réb went to the United States about 20 years ago and in the eighties he returns to Budapest with his teenager daughter...

Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. Péter leaves for home with his wife, Judit, but as he catches sight of a girl at the station, he cannot resist the temptation and gets off the train.

In December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet army. People leave the country in large numbers for fear of revenge. A young soldier (György Angeli) who also took a part in the revolution, takes a train to Vienna together with his friend (Dániel Szerencsés). Written by Tamas Patrovics

The seeming hopelessness of combatting an all-powerful government that will not tolerate political dissension is the focus of this excellent historical drama set in the mid-19th century in Hungary. In the opening scenes, Hungary has just lost its bid for independence from Austria and a Magyar officer, unable to bear the tragedy of defeat and what it means, says an affectionate good-bye to his beloved horse and then shoots the animal and himself. Two years later, Ferenc (Gyorgy Cserhalmi) is trying to eke out a living for his wife and her family -- and at the same time avoid any hint of sympathy for Hungarian independence because the Secret Police are everywhere. Just as life seems to be going well, Ferenc's former commanding officer (Lajos Oze) arrives and begins discussing revolution again -- a futile pursuit at this point in time. The next day, Ferenc is thrown into an insane asylum and everyone else is arrested as well.

This movie is about the love and protection of a man from another culture for the lowly horsemen of the the plains in Hungary during World War II.

Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself.

The parents of Kabala (Lucky Charm) and Facsiga (Wooden Top) are divorced. Kabala, an adolescent girl was awarded to the father, while Facsiga, the younger brother was awarded to the mother, but they do not really belong to anyone. The two children want to live together at all costs.

"Ripacsok" is a great movie with great soundtrack, acting, cinematography, direction, etc. The world of "artists", hamming actors, good clowns and bad clowns... A unique movie in many ways. Pál Sándor is a very good hungarian director, watch his movies (especially the slightly better "Régi idõk focija") if you have the chance.

During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's money. So she bribes Irene, a Jewish girl, to have a child by her husband.

Film by Judit Elek.

Dini goes to Sweden illegally and abandons his fiancée, Mari. After several months a young Finnish businessman called Pekka arrives in Budapest, carrying a letter and package from Dini. The sympathetic Pekka is judged by the friends of Mari to be suitable for the task of a nominal marriage, by which Mari could get out legally to Dini.

In the late 17th century, Hungary moved from Turkish to Austrian domination, becoming a key part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In this story, which takes place shortly after that time, three outlaws murder a group of people on their way to a wedding. One young man was a slave travelling with the group to entertain them with his skills as a trumpeter. The outlaws spare him for the same reason. He allows himself to believe that they are really an unattached group of independence-fighters, but after seeing their brutal and callous ways, he cannot believe that they are good men, and he turns them in to the authorities. At that point, he is unnerved to discover how nobly they bear the rigors of captivity. ~

The characters of this fiction of sociogra-phic accuracy live in the reformatory school for girls in Rákospalota. They are all girls of similar pasts, desires and needs but Juli hates bars more than any of them, trying to make contacts with the world out there in order to leave the school behind forever.

The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.

Winter of 1944, the last days of the war. When the roads and houses ceased to exist and the bottom of the cellars become filled with life, when fortunes were lost and countries burned up, her used coat was only important to Mama, the cloak-room servant of a local dance-school. Her son stole it to sell it for twenty pengő. He did it because Aranka Fussbaum's love cost money. There is no honour left in such a destroyed world. Yet still they start looking for that coat... (Elemér Ragályi won Best camera with this movie in Montreal, 1979, and in Budapest, 1980.)

At the station of Almamellék the semaphore turns red unexpectedly and the conductor shows a stowaway - with no money nor ticket - off the train. The stowaway has to undergo a serious and long investigation that tries to uncover the reasons for his "deed". In the meantime he can watch, like a spectator in a movie-theatre, how Kerek József, the strutting stationmaster rules his ridiculous empire through office bureaucracy, indifference, servility and negligence.

This grotesque, micro-realistic film is set in a small village at the end of the seventies. A TV-staff comes to the Petőfi Memorial House. They want to record the comic opera, The Postman of Longjumeau, by Charles Adam, a 19th century French composer.

The film is a lyrical series of associations compiled from documentaries. Márkus, the actor is shut in his own flat by his wife by accident. While learning his part, on the wings of poetic intuition his imagination tours the great landscapes of the soul, the mystery of human existence.

György Szomjas’s first feature—made after a decade of short documentaries—is a bold attempt at a goulash western, set on the puszta, or Great Hungarian Plain, in 1837. Mixing Miklós Jancsó imagery and a Sergio Leone narrative, this ballad-like saga opens with image of a lone horseman on the empty plain, riding past a rude gallows. The film concerns the vengeful return of a legendary betyár (outlaw), briefly a hero to the local herdsmen who oppose the state building a canal across their grazing land. Although Szomjas works from ethnographic records and archival material, it is hardly surprising that this violent, primitivist film would be more popular with Hungarian audiences than critics. Replete with young guns, crooked sheriffs, tavern brawlers and hardbitten plug-uglies, this widescreen film is strikingly shot by Elémer Ragályi (cinematographer for most of Gyula Gazdag’s films)—a feast of loamy, autumnal colors.

This satire on film depicts the micro-climate of a technical vocational school newly established at a housing estate. The construction vocational school holds a name-giving ceremony, thus calling the attention of its supervisory organ to itself. The school-master distributes as well as receives presents from the sponsoring factory, and the pupils sit for a written examination of unheard-of material. The results are devastating, which the despotic school-master attempts to conceal by a staged disciplinary procedure.

After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young Hungarian, wanted by the police for political crimes, escapes to just this side of the Austrian border. When he discovers that his escape contact has been shot, he disguises himself as a woman and, posing as a maid, takes refuge at a tuberculosis sanatorium. He lives there as a woman for the entire winter before resuming his journey in the spring.

The royal summary court sentences Sallai Imre and Fürst Sándor to death on charges of attempting to uproot the state and the social order. The film, the story of which takes place in 1932, enlarges the moment of delivering the death-sentence. Sallai, preparing for his death, envisions the people and the events that have been decisive for his life.

Mr. Dezső and Rezső are selecting the heroes for their new operetta. They represent different tastes and styles, and keep arguing about the casting of the four boys and four girls.

Hungarian short film.

The film is set in Budapest, 1924. Laundryman Ede Minarik's only passion is football. His dream is to see his team, Csabagyöngye, qualify for the first division. For this goal he would be willing to sacrifice everything he has. But he has nothing, even footballers just barely. The team is just like the times. But still, "we need a team!"

Marci, an impertinent crook buries his drunk parents and chooses to wander instead of becoming an apprentice.

This rhapsodic, grotesque and realistic film describes one and a half days of Gyula.

The heroines of this lyric comedy full of burlesque elements are two girls from a village who get totally engrossed in their day-dreaming. Ida and Rozi escape to the city to catch husbands for themselves.

After his divorce, Bóna Péter, a beginner film director needs a bigger amount of money to settle his financial problems with his ex-wife. He travels to Pécs to see Sárika, an old veteran. He has not seen his aunt for a long time, and she receives him very friendly, but she flatly refuses to lend him any money.

This film is a documentaristic dispute about the possibilities of young people to assert themselves, to make a career. Zsuzsa is a third-year university student studying pedagogy. She has been dating Zoltán for three years, and her thinking has been fundamentally shaped by this relationship. Yet now she would like to break up with him.

A short film made with endearing irony about a working class woman who hopes to see herself and her family on photography look better than she sees them in real life.

The Monarchy leads a repressive campaign against a Serb village, where an Austrian officer was killed.

A young man with an interest in ornithology arrives to study the work of falcons and their human trainers. The head falconer is a cold and heartless man who obstinately demands perfection from everyone around him. His work is his life, and he doesn't care if his girlfriend makes love to other men. The young man observes all he can before leaving behind the potentially inhuman situation for brighter horizons.

The film take place in Budapest, in the end of The World War II, telling the story of a young Communist who escaped from prison. The boy tries to revitalise his contact with the movement, but he is told to be quiet and wait.

Persuaded by the janitor's wife, a lively, but lonesome old woman, who is only attached to the world through her cherished objects and memories, decides to exchange her two-room apartment for a smaller one. For a little while her everyday life is changed. She meets and entertains new people every day.