Cinematography: Lajos Koltai

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Tim Roth · Pruitt Taylor Vince · Mélanie Thierry · Bill Nunn

Plot On the 1st of January in 1900, Danny Boodmann (Bill Nunn), the mechanic of the transatlantic liner Virginian bound for America, finds an abandoned baby on board and decides to...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Ildikó Bánsági · Rolf Hoppe · Krystyna Janda

Plot In MEPHISTO, an ambitious and talented actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) on the verge of success marries the daughter of an important official in pre-World War II Germany in order to...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Rosemary Harris · Rachel Weisz · Deborah Kara Unger

Plot The film follows 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...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Ildikó Bánsági · Péter Andorai · Oszkárné Gombik · Károly Csáki

Plot During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Harvey Keitel · Stellan Skarsgard · Moritz Bleibtreu · Birgit Minichmayr

Plot A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the controversial Nazi era. One of the most spectacular and...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Jan Niklas · Hans Christian Blech

Plot Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up...

Direction Luis Mandoki

Cast Liv Ullmann · Norma Aleandro · Robert Loggia · Rachel Chagall

Plot The life story of Gabriela Brimmer, a victim of cerebral palsy. Born in Mexico just after the Second World War, Gaby, as she's called, is for the first several years...

Direction Márta Mészáros

Cast Flora Kadar · Gyöngyvér Vigh · Istvan Szoke · Janos Boross

Plot Single factory worker Kata, 43, wants to have a child with her long-time secret lover, a married man called Joska. He doesn't like the idea. Kata befriends teenage schoolgirl Anna,...

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Monica Bellucci · Giusseppe Sulfaro · Luciano Federico · Matilde Piana

Plot Amid the climax of chaos and tragedy of World War II, the breathtakingly gorgeous Malèna (Monica Bellucci) becomes the target of lust and ferocious gossip by the townsmen and their...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Annette Bening · Jeremy Irons · Shaun Evans · Michael Gambon

Plot London, year 1938. Concerned that her fading youth and beauty will being to affect her career, estranged from her only son and pretending to be ignorant of her husband's philandering,...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Johanna ter Steege · Enikö Börcsök · Péter Andorai · Éva Kerekes

Plot Edes Emma, draga Bobe is a low-budget, realist, almost documentary study of the dilemmas faced by two teachers following the fall of Communism.

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Erland Josephson · Ildikó Bánsági · Walter Schmidinger

Plot A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy...

Direction Albert Brooks

Cast Albert Brooks · Debbie Reynolds · Lisa Kudrow · Rob Morrow

Plot A neurotic, twice divorced sci-fi writer (Albert Brooks) moves back in with his mother (Debbie Reynolds) to solve his personal problems.

Direction Michael Hoffman

Cast Kevin Kline · Emile Hirsch · Embeth Davidtz · Rob Morrow

Plot William Hundert, St. Benedict's assistant headmaster, practices what he teaches. Striving to inspire his students to live rightly, he's the kind of impassioned Classics professor who believes the history of...

Direction Randa Haines

Cast Robert Duvall · Richard Harris · Shirley MacLaine · Sandra Bullock

Plot Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park...

Direction Arne Glimcher

Cast Sean Connery · Laurence Fishburne · Ed Harris · Kate Capshaw

Plot A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight years later, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convicted man on Death Row who swears he's innocent...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Károly Eperjes · András Stohl · Éva Kerekes

Plot A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This is the start...

Direction Luis Mandoki

Cast Susan Sarandon · James Spader · Jason Alexander · Kathy Bates

Plot A waitress in a White Palace fast-food restaurant meets a young, recently widowed, Jewish advertising executive at a bar. They "tentatively" and "uncertainly" start an affair which turns torrid very...

Direction Klaus Maria Brandauer

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Rebecca Miller · Brian Dennehy · Nigel Le Vaillant

Plot The explosive true story that nearly changed world history.

Direction Menno Meyjes

Cast John Cusack · Noah Taylor · Molly Parker · Leelee Sobieski

Plot With the Great War finally over, artist Max Rothman comes home to Munich in the Fall of 1918. Because he has lost an arm in the war, his career as...