Cinematography: Elemér Ragályi
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Elemér Ragályi. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Corn Island
2014 · Movie · 101 min. · Georgia
Direction George Ovashvili
Cast Ilyas Salman · Mariam Buturishvili · Tamer Levent
Plot The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Journey of Hope
1990 · Movie · 110 min. · Switzerland
Direction Xavier Koller
Cast Necmettin Çobanoglu · Nur Sürer · Emin Sivas · Erdinç Akbas
Plot In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock...
6.8
171 votes
6.8
171 votes
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (TV Miniseries)
2001 · Series · 189 min. · United States
Direction Robert Dornhelm
Cast Ben Kingsley · Brenda Blethyn · Hannah Taylor Gordon · Tatjana Blacher
Plot When the war began, she was only a little girl. When it ended, she was the voice of a generation... A compassionate and sensitive televisual portrait of the Holocaust's greatest...
6.7
733 votes
6.7
733 votes
1945
2017 · Movie · 91 min. · Hungary
Direction Ferenc Török
Cast Péter Rudolf · Tamás Szabó Kimmel · Dóra Sztarenki · Bence Tasnádi
Plot Adapted by Török and Gábor T. Szántó from the short story 'Homecoming' (written by the latter), the story kicks off in the summer of 1945, as the preparations are being...
6.7
851 votes
6.7
851 votes
Maigret (TV Series)
1992 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Cellan Jones · John Glenister · Stuart Burge · Nicholas Renton
Cast Michael Gambon · Geoffrey Hutchings · Jack Galloway · James Larkin
Plot Maigret was a British television series that ran on ITV for twelve episodes between 1992 and 1993. It was an adaptation of the books by Georges Simenon featuring his fictional...
6.4
47 votes
6.4
47 votes
Jakob the Liar
1999 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Peter Kassovitz
Cast Robin Williams · Alan Arkin · Bob Balaban · Michael Jeter
6.2
3K votes
6.2
3K votes
The Door
2012 · Movie · 97 min. · Hungary
Direction István Szabó
Cast Helen Mirren · Martina Gedeck · Károly Eperjes · Gábor Koncz
Plot This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.
6.2
218 votes
6.2
218 votes
Rasputin (TV)
1996 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Uli Edel
Cast Alan Rickman · Greta Scacchi · Ian McKellen · David Warner
5.8
335 votes
5.8
335 votes
Crime and Punishment (TV)
1998 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Joseph Sargent
Cast Patrick Dempsey · Ben Kingsley · Julie Delpy · Eddie Marsan
5.7
172 votes
5.7
172 votes
An American Rhapsody
2001 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Éva Gárdos
Cast Nastassja Kinski · Scarlett Johansson · Tony Goldwyn · Mae Whitman
Plot This autobiographical coming of age tale from writer-director Eva Gardos begins in 1950s Hungary as Communist oppression forces a pair of aristocratic parents (Nastassja Kinski and Tony Goldwyn) to sneak...
5.7
684 votes
5.7
684 votes
Miss Arizona
1987 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy
Direction Pál Sándor
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Hanna Schygulla · Alessandra Martines · Urbano Barberini
Plot Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.
5.5
29 votes
5.5
29 votes
Mesmer
1994 · Movie · 107 min. · Canada
Direction Roger Spottiswoode
Cast Alan Rickman · Amanda Ooms · Simon McBurney · Donal Donnelly
Plot The 18th-century Viennese medical establishment is threatened by the radical yet successful healing methods of Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer. Blind pianist Maria Theresa Paradies, daughter of a well-to-do businessman,...
5.4
37 votes
5.4
37 votes
David Copperfield (TV)
2000 · Movie · 180 min. · Ireland
Direction Peter Medak
Cast Sally Field · Paul Bettany · Hugh Dancy · Michael Richards
Plot A new adaptation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens. When David Copperfield reaches the age of nine his sickly mother passes away and his spiteful stepfather sends him away...
5.4
255 votes
5.4
255 votes
Sword of Xanten (Ring of the Nibelungs) (TV Miniseries)
2004 · Series · 177 min. · Germany
Direction Uli Edel
Cast Benno Fürmann · Kristanna Loken · Alicia Witt · Max von Sydow
Plot In a time lost to history, when the gods still walked among us... they sent a warrior to reclaim the mystic gold that had plunged the world into endless battle...
5.3
1K votes
5.3
1K votes
Rose's Songs
2003 · Movie · 98 min. · Hungary
Direction Andor Szilágyi
Cast Franco Castellano · David Zum · Ildikó Bánsági · Gabriella Gubás
Plot 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...
5.2
64 votes
5.2
64 votes
Catherine the Great (TV)
1995 · Movie · 180 min. · Germany
Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · John Goldsmith
Cast Catherine Zeta-Jones · Craig McLachlan · Hannes Jaenicke · Paul McGann
Plot In this romanticized biography, a small German principality's unexperienced princess, Catherine, becomes the bride of czarevitch Peter, the mad and abusive son and heir of the Russian czarina Elisabeth, from...
5.1
141 votes
5.1
141 votes
Trilogy of Terror II (TV)
1996 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Dan Curtis
Cast Lysette Anthony · Geraint Wyn Davies · Matt Clark · Geoffrey Lewis
Plot 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...
5.0
42 votes
5.0
42 votes
The Hunchback (TV)
1997 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Peter Medak
Cast Mandy Patinkin · Salma Hayek · Richard Harris · Nigel Terry
Plot In 16th Century in Paris, a deformed foundling named Quasimodo grows up under the care and tutelage of Dom Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Quasimodo...
4.9
454 votes
4.9
454 votes
The Phantom of the Opera
1989 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Dwight H. Little
Cast Robert Englund · Jill Schoelen · Alex Hyde-White · Emma Rawson
Plot Music student Christine Day obtains a piece of music entitled 'Don Juan Triumphant' that is the lost work of 19th Century British composer Erik Destler. But as she sings the...
4.8
252 votes
4.8
252 votes
In the Beginning (TV)
2000 · Movie · 172 min. · United States
Direction Kevin Connor
Cast Martin Landau · Jacqueline Bisset · Bill Campbell · Christopher Lee
Plot Set around the year 2000 B.C., the narrative opens with "Genesis 12," wherein the Lord has kicked Abraham and company out of their country to a land of milk and...
4.7
142 votes
4.7
142 votes