Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

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.

Mephisto

1981

German

7.7

♡ 6

76%

István Szabó Director

Kati Sólyom as (as Sólyom Katalin)

Christian Grashof as Cesar von Muck

Irén Bordán as Filmszínésznõ

Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik Höfgen

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.

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.

Being Julia

2004

English

7.0

♡ 9

76%

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

stage actress

István Szabó Director

Sheila McCarthy as Grace Dexter

Bruce Greenwood as Lord Charles

Jeremy Irons as Michael Gosselyn

Tom Sturridge as Roger Gosselyn

Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.

Lovefilm

1970

Hungarian

7.6

♡ 1

Drama

István Szabó Director

Flóra Kádár as

Kati Sólyom as

András Bálint as Jancsi

Gizella Ramshorn as Német lány

A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers. Soon after the 1956 Revolution Kata leaves Hungary, Jancsi stays there. After 10 years Jancsi is allowed to visit Kata in France, their love is reborn, but after a short, very happy period Jancsi has to return to Hungary and their love fades as years have gone by.

Sunshine

1999

English

7.4

♡ 23

74%

world war ii russian front

István Szabó Director

Rachel Weisz as Greta

Molly Parker as Hannah Wippler

Ralph Fiennes as Ignatz Sonnenschein / Adam Sors / Ivan Sors

Jennifer Ehle as Valerie Sonnenschein

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Taking Sides

2001

English

7.0

♡ 2

73%

Drama

Music

War

István Szabó Director

Oleg Tabakov as Colonel Dymshitz

Stellan Skarsgård as Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler

Ulrich Tukur as Helmut Alfred Rode, 2nd violinist

Harvey Keitel as Major Steve Arnold

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.

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