The Best Hungarian Movies by GoldRush

Betty (Lili Berky, Duel For Nothing), a young woman living in the country, is told by her dying father that he is really her uncle and raised her as his own when her mother was sent to prison for killing her husband. Alone and not knowing her mother's fate, Betty travels to the city in search of work. There she finds employment as a maid in the house of a wealthy couple and their dashing son, Nick (Victor Varconi, For Whom The Bell Tolls), with whom she falls in love. When Betty is fired from her position after being unjustly accused of theft and escorted from the village, an ironic twist of fate propels the story forward with the sudden appearance of her mother Sarah (Mari Jászai, Bánk Bán) - presumed dead but recently released from prison - on a quest of her own to find her daughter.

A butler changes the life of a nouveau-riche entrepreneur's life, while his daughter falls in love with the company's manager instead of a suitor chosen for her.

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 indispensable secretary.

How to get out of debt as soon as possible? There is a well-proven recipe for this: you have to marry a wealthy, wealthy lady. In the person of Edit Zsámbéki, this would be possible, but then what other problems could arise?

A newly-married couple, stopping in a hotel for the night, discover among the wedding presents a ring with a note thanking the bride for past happiness. The husband accuses his bride of having a past and she sets out to discover why it was sent and who sent it.

Simultaneously filmed Hungarian version of the German film Menschen vom Variete: a marksman and a magician in a show troupe feud backstage over the magician's exotic former wife.

This adaptation of Lajos Zilahy's novel about a fatal love triangle was the first film of Katalin Karády who became a star overnight.

Supposedly the 1st Hungarian biopic: Semmelweiss disagrees with university colleagues that nothing can be done about women dying of childbirth fever, finds a remedy if doctors disinfect after dissecting corpses, lands up put in an asylum.

Szánthó Tamás is conducting a concert, while his young wife and her secret lover play in the same theatre in the Tragedy of Man. On Christmas Eve the wife, Ágnes announces that she is going to leave her husband and their daughter, Buksi and will live with Miklós. After the divorce Ágnes and Miklós get married in France and go to Hollywood. However, only Ágnes is successful, so they move back to Hungary. At home Ágnes is told by a hostile governess that her husband died, By now Buksi has grown to Judit and falls in love with her attractive stepfather. Ágnes steps aside and later dies in an accident.

Dr. Erzsebet Szikszay, lawyer, finds herself in an impossible situation. For the sake of her client, she is forced to play the role of a complete stranger's wife, and to continue the performance in the man's apartment... The situation is only complicated when it turns out that the man is the opposing lawyer.

A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements. However, disgruntled townsfolk want to chase away the gang who has been - in their search for survival - laying waste to their crops. A battle ensues ending in the death of a little boy - and resolution.

The life of a Hungarian physician through his struggles against the leading pragmatic, conservative quacks' party while he becomes the first pioneer of the antiseptic procedures, saving many women's life with his groundbreaking method.

Historical drama about the Austrian occupation at the beginning of the 18th century.

Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting.

Marci has long had a crush on Julika, who lives in the same house as him, but before their love could blossom, he is drafted into the army. Juli is sent to work in a factory, where she falls in with the wrong crowd, often partying until dawn consuming "piccolo lights". After a year, Marci returns home and gets deeply disappointed in her and breaks up with her. But Juli loves him too and hopes that he will give her the security she needs to return to her old self.

In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love.

When a Latin teacher publishes an essay on the Carthaginian General Hannibal, he is quickly hailed as a celebrity genius, but in reality has become an unwitting pawn of far-right politicians.

The old, sickly Demeter Lapussa is a tyrant in the family. He forces his granddaughter, the beautiful Henriette, to marry baron Hátszegi, although the girl loves the penniless Vámhidy Szilárd. The two lovers attempt to commit suicide, then are torn away from each other.

We are in Debrecen in the 1890s. Mihály Nyilas, an eminent student of the local college, receives a parcel from home, which he does not open, but goes to the blind Mr. Pósalaky to read the newspaper to him. The lutrin then does the numbers the old man dreamed up. His fellow students, meanwhile, are consuming the contents of the packet, but for Misi, only his mother's letter is important. Misi then gets another job, teaching the Doroghys' son. Doroghy Bella is courted by Mr. Török and Misi helps with the correspondence. The lutrin pulls out the numbers of old Mr Pósalaky, but Misi has lost the account. This slip is found by Mr. Török, who has Bella elope. Both Doroghy and Pósalaky complain about Misi, but the student tries in vain to defend himself before the malicious committee. In the end, the truth comes out, but Misi no longer wants to be a student in Debrecen.

On Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans.

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.