Assignment: Paris

1952

English

6.2

♡ 5

50%

Robert Parrish Director

Paul Birch as Colonel Mannix

Leon Askin as Franz

Hal Taggart as Herald Tribune Staffer

Paul Frees as Radio Budapest Announcer

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race is sent by his boss behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Control

2003

Hungarian

7.6

♡ 13

95%

Nimród Antal Director

Veronika Varjasi as

Géza Schramek as

Péter Bergendy as Cameo

Livius Varga as Passenger

A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks, and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale about love.

Ballet

1989

Italian

5.9

♡ 4

Peter Del Monte Director

Donald Hodson as (as Donal Hodson)

Jennifer Connelly as Claire Hamilton / Natalie Horvath

Gary McCleery as Jason Forrest

Charles Durning as Zio Joshua

An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.

Confidence

1980

Hungarian

7.5

♡ 3

István Szabó Director

Gyöngyi Dorogi as

Béla Éless as (as Béla Éles)

László Littmann as Dr. Czakó

Danielle du Tombe as Elza

Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what they truly believe.

The Door

2012

English

6.5

♡ 5

44%

István Szabó Director

Helen Mirren as Emerenc

Erika Marozsán as Évike Grossmann

Ferenc Elek as Television Director

Károly Eperjes as Tibor

Emerenc, an elderly and private woman, is hired to be the housekeeper of a struggling writer, Magda. An event in the writer's life prompts Emerenc to disclose details of her traumatizing past, which will bond the two women forever. Based on the novel by Magda Szabó.

An American Rhapsody

2001

English

6.7

♡ 5

56%

Éva Gárdos Director

Nastassja Kinski as Margit

Tony Goldwyn as Peter

Emmy Rossum as Sheila - at 15

Scarlett Johansson as Suzanne - at 15

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.

Gloomy Sunday

1999

German

7.8

♡ 5

Rolf Schübel Director

András Bálint as Ilonas Sohn

Joachim Król as László / husband

Denis Moschitto as Lehrling Inas

Adolf Hitler as Self

Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.

Freedom's Fury

2006

English

7.5

♡ 1

100%

Colin K. Gray Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Nikita Khrushchev as Self

Joseph Stalin as Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were in Budapest, stomping out a popular revolt.

8MM 2

2005

English

4.5

♡ 18

18%

J.S. Cardone Director

Bruce Davison as Ambassador Harrington

Máté Haumann as Fabian

Julie Benz as Lynn

Robert Cavanah as Richard

Entering a seamy underground world of peep shows, nude clubs, and live Internet sex is David Huxley, an aspiring politician who has everything to lose. Secretly filmed in a steamy three-way with his fiancée Tish and a gorgeous young model, David is desperate to find the extortionist who's demanding an exorbitant amount of money for the negatives. But when the blackmail trail ends in murder and David is kidnapped, Tish must come up with $5 million ransom or her fiancé's once-promising career, and life, may come to a dead end.

The Miracle of Bern

2003

German

6.7

♡ 3

82%

football (soccer) coach

hungary

Sport

sports

Sönke Wortmann Director

Peer Jäger as Ahrens

Katharina Wackernagel as Annette Ackermann

Johanna Gastdorf as Christa Lubanski

Lucas Gregorowicz as Paul Ackermann

The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011

English

7.0

♡ 119

84%

Tomas Alfredson Director

Colin Firth as Bill Haydon

Gary Oldman as George Smiley

Benedict Cumberbatch as Peter Guillam

Tom Hardy as Ricki Tarr

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

The Good Fairy

1935

English

7.4

♡ 6

88%

84%

Action

based on play or musical

William Wyler Director

Beulah Bondi as Dr. Schultz

Alan Hale as Maurice Schlapkohl

Lillian Lawrence as Teacher in Orphanage

Reginald Owen as The Waiter

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.

The Spider Labyrinth

1988

Italian

6.3

♡ 9

Gianfranco Giagni Director

Valeriano Santinelli as

Margareta von Krauss as Celia Roth

Stéphane Audran as Mrs. Kuhn

William Berger as Mysterious Man

A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.

Budapest Noir

2017

Hungarian

6.1

♡ 1

67%

Éva Gárdos Director

Aladár Laklóth as Gazdag ötvenes

Franciska Töröcsik as Szöllõsy Fanny

Norbert Kovács as Támadó

Ágnes Bánfalvy as Valéria

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.

Underworld: Evolution

2006

English

6.7

♡ 203

17%

Len Wiseman Director

Scott Speedman as Michael

Kate Beckinsale as Selene

Andrew Kavadas as Selene's Father

Bill Nighy as Viktor

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.

Fateless

2005

Hungarian

7.0

♡ 7

95%

Lajos Koltai Director

Daniel Craig as Amerikai õrmester

Gábor Máté as Miklós

Sándor Zsótér as SS isztszelektáló t

Máté Haumann as SS katona

A Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

Blade of the 47 Ronin

2022

English

4.7

♡ 25

25%

Ron Yuan Director

Mark Dacascos as

Chikako Fukuyama as

Dustin Nguyen as

Dan Southworth as Yurei

A new class of warriors emerges among the Samurai clans to keep a sought-after sword from falling into the wrong hands.

Spy

2015

English

7.0

♡ 188

94%

78%

Action

budapest, hungary

central intelligence agency (cia)

Paul Feig Director

Jude Law as Bradley Fine

Morena Baccarin as Karen Walker

Rose Byrne as Rayna Boyanov

Jason Statham as Rick Ford

A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.

I Spy

2002

English

5.4

♡ 57

15%

liberation of hostage

secret agent

Thriller

Betty Thomas Director

Eddie Murphy as Kelly

Keith Dallas as Lunchbox

Bill Mondy as McIntyre

Famke Janssen as Rachel

When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson, on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world's most successful arms dealers.

Underworld

2003

English

7.0

♡ 249

30%

Len Wiseman Director

Andreas Patton as Death Dealer Captain

Scott Speedman as Michael Corvin

Kate Beckinsale as Selene

Bill Nighy as Viktor

Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.

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The Good Fairy

The Spider Labyrinth

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Underworld: Evolution

Fateless

Blade of the 47 Ronin

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