Cinematography: Lajos Koltai

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

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

Synopsis The Legend of 1900 (1998) tells the enchanting story of Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon 1900, a virtuoso pianist born and raised aboard the SS Virginian, a transatlantic ocean liner. Discovered as an orphan, 1900 spends his entire life at sea,...

Direction István Szabó

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

Synopsis 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 further his career. As the Nazi influence grows, he discards...

Direction István Szabó

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

Synopsis 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 a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions...

Direction István Szabó

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

Synopsis 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 hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin...

Direction István Szabó

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

Synopsis 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 renowned conductors of the 30s, Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of...

Direction István Szabó

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

Synopsis 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 the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only...

Direction Luis Mandoki

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

Synopsis 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 of her life thought to be either a vegetable or,...

Direction Márta Mészáros

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

Synopsis 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, abandoned by her parents at the age of six. Anna...

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

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

Synopsis In Malèna (2000), a coming-of-age tale set in 1940s Sicily, young Renato becomes infatuated with the beautiful and enigmatic Malèna. As World War II rages, the widowed Malèna faces gossip, jealousy, and persecution from the townsfolk, who project their desires...

Direction István Szabó

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

Synopsis Being Julia (2004) follows Julia Lambert, a charismatic but aging stage actress in 1930s London, who feels trapped in her monotonous career and marriage. Seeking excitement, she embarks on a passionate affair with a young American admirer, only to discover...

Direction István Szabó

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After...

Direction Albert Brooks

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 the Greeks and Romans is more than just a lesson...

Direction Randa Haines

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

Synopsis 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 Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts....

Direction Arne Glimcher

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

Synopsis In Just Cause (1995), a Harvard law professor, Paul Armstrong, is drawn into a harrowing case when he's asked to help a death row inmate, Bobby Earl Ferguson, who claims innocence in a brutal murder. As Armstrong investigates, he uncovers...

Direction István Szabó

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

Synopsis 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 of his ordeal: he's confronted with raw reality, which finally...

Direction Luis Mandoki

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

Synopsis 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 rapidly and eventually leads to her leaving town and him...

Direction Klaus Maria Brandauer

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

Synopsis The explosive true story that nearly changed world history.

Direction Menno Meyjes

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

Synopsis 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 a painter is over, so he opens an art gallery...