Mihály Kertész, Edmund Fritz, 1918. A mystical horror that sparked several scandals.
Ákos Hamza D., 1943. Éva Szörényi, a girl in two roles.
Imre Jelinek, 1942. Much criticised film version of the Zsigmond Móricz novel.
István Székely, 1937. Story of a highwayman starring Pál Jávor on the picturesque Hungarian plain.
Gyula Gál, László Gál, 1921. Film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s mystical narrative.
Sándor Szlatinay, 1938. Military comedy with the heroine played by the brilliant Zita Szeleczky.
Carl Wilhelm, 1917. Adventure romance in mining country.
Emil Martonffy, 1942. Peacetime comedy shot during the war.
Alfréd Deésy, 1918. The first-ever film version of the story of Casanova.
Oszkár Damó, 1916. Realist drama in a peasant setting.
Ákos Ráthonyi, 1940. The adventures of an impudent money collector in Pest.
Adolf Mérei, 1917. Complications with six women in a banned farce.
István Székely, 1934. The consequences of a riding accident and a girl in love in a dual role.
László Kalmár, 1942. Passionate film about a teenage girl who longs to be a dancer.
Carl Wilhelm, 1917. Two doctors and a deadly disease in a remarkable dramatic plot.
Andor Pünkösti, 1939. Modern-style comedy with strong social criticism.
Béla Gaál, 1921. Vörösbegy (Robin), the ginger-haired, one-eyed adventurer is one of the most original fraudsters in Hungarian film history.
Sándor Korda, 1917. The most burlesque of comedies.
László Vajda, 1935. A village girl makes a singing career on radio.
Jenő Janovics, 1918. High stakes spy story shot even before the war had ended.
István György, 1939. The film version of Mihály Erdélyi’s lively operetta.
János Vaszary, 1937. Lively comedy with excellent actors and plenty of music.
Béla Balogh, 1939. Light farce revolving around a supposed jewellery heist.
Ákos Ráthonyi, 1938. An innocent beer in the pub turns into a divorce and then marriage.
Lajos Ágotai , 1937. Wartime romance with original battle scene footage.
Emil Martonffy, 1939. This music comedy involving much switching of outfits preceded Some Like It Hot by 20 years.
Jenő Janovics, Sándor Korda, 1917. The silent movie version of the evergreen comedy, which had the audience laughing as much as with the later ‘talkie’.
Béla Balogh, 1921. Superbly shot silent film about musicians and music.
Sándor Korda, 1917. The first film version of the evergreen operetta.
Sándor Korda, Miklós M. Pásztory , 1915. The daughter of a ‘wonder rabbi’ and a Russian prince meet in the shadow of the First World War.
László Vajda, 1938. A successful comedy with the focus on female characters.
Ákos Ráthonyi, 1943. Complex comedy in which a spoiled gentleman is inducted into the army.
Mihály Kertész, 1917. One of the particularly popular operetta films in Hungary.
Félix Podmaniczky, 1942. A bittersweet story about a talented dancer and her daughter.
Márton Garas, 1920. Mór Jókai’s tale of the French princess in hiding in Hungary.
Mihály Kertész, 1917. Mihály Kertész’s witty comedy had audiences in stitches.
Sándor Korda, 1920. The friendship and tragedy of a Japanese conjurer and a Hungarian baron.
János Vaszary, 1944. Legendary melodrama about the war period.
Pál Fejős, 1920. The first film by Pál Fejős starring the German dancer Claire Bauroff.
Béla Balogh, 1920. One of the biggest hits of the 1920s.
Frigyes Bán, 1943. A comedy evoking the spirit of old film burlesques.
Béla I. Gerőffy , 1922. A talented engineer does everything to tame a wild river.
Béla Balogh, 1919. Artistic drama about a tragic love triangle.
Viktor Gertler, 1937. Film drama about a love triangle with Éva Szörényi, Pál Jávor and Sándor Svéd, opera singer.
Béla Balogh, 1918. Stirring military drama from the days of the Aster Revolution.
László Sipos, 1944. A doctor with big dreams goes to work not in a private sanatorium but in a small village.
Pál Fejős, 1923. The first film adaptation of one of the most popular novels of Hungarian literature.
István György, 1936. French-style film of passion about the consequences of an accident.
Imre Apáthy, 1944. The career of a doctor starring Klári Tolnay.
Sándor Korda , 1917. A clerk finds happiness in love and in her vocation.
Mihály Kertész, 1916. Heart-rending drama about a blind mother that is presumed to include a closeup.
Sándor Korda, 1920. A Dutch tulip connoisseur in the court of the Turkish sultan.
Emil Fenyő, 1920. A complex thriller with hair-raising pursuits and hilarious misunderstandings.
Márton Garas , 1921. Love triangle starring Ica Lenkeffy.
Mihály Kertész, 1916. The film version of the novel by Baron József Eötvös is about flaming passions of a revolutionary era.
Mihály Kertész, 1917. The story of a young doctor that was directed by Mihály Kertész twice.
Jenő Janovics, 1916. Fine acting by Lili Berky in this adaptation of a popular stage work.
Sándor Korda, 1918. Fantastical love story featuring fauns, nymphs and humans.
Carl Wilhelm, 1918. Grandiose Jókai film about a woman who only toyed with men.
Cornelius Hintner, 1919. The tragic tale of a Gypsy girl starring Carmen Cartellieri.
Mihály Fekete, 1917. Lively love comedy with four sisters and their suitors.
Béla Balogh , 1921. Bizarre satire in which the devil Beelzebub works to regain his lost horns.
Mihály Fekete, 1919. Drama on a Russian theme from the golden age of filmmaking in Cluj-Napoca.
Alfréd Deésy, 1917. Spectacular version of the Verdi opera.
László Márkus, 1920. Bubbly comedy about a hatmaker who escapes her aristocratic suitor in order to pursue her passion.
Jenő Janovics, 1913. The film examines an important social issue, emigration.
Lajos Gellért, 1921. Franciska Gaál conquers the heart of a lonely French marquis.
Mihály Kertész, 1917. Family story spanning continents about brotherly love and forgiveness.
Cornelius Hintner, 1920. Carmen Cartellieri is lead actress in this drama set in the countryside.
Béla Gaál, 1934. Lightweight comedy about a Hungarian millionaire girl looking for a marriage partner.
Jenő Janovics, 1917. Lili Berky stars in the film version of the hit stage play.
Márton Garas, 1921. Gripping thriller in which a knight dead for 700 years is brought back to life.
Béla Gaál, 1925. Gizi Bajor in a dual role in this comedy about bohemian travelling comedians.
Márton Garas, 1918. Sári Fedák in the role of the fallen woman.
Mihály Kertész, 1916. The film by Mihály Kertész, who went on to become world famous as Michael Curtiz, stars Mihály Várkonyi, who went on to become world famous as Victor Varconi.
Jenő Csepreghy, 1939. The first Hungarian aviation film prepares for war.
Márton Garas, 1920. Lavish adaptation of the popular novel by Mór Jókai.
Béla Balogh, 1923. Starring Ila Lóth, the ‘Hungarian Mary Pickford’.
Béla Balogh, 1917. Exciting spy movie and passionate love story.
Béla Gaál, 1939. An English girl and an Italian young man learn about Hungarian culture.
Kertész Mihály, 1916. Using early film tricks, actor Mihály Várkonyi appears as three characters at once.
Félix Vanyl, 1913. A Hungarian folk play that garnered success on five continents.
Lajos Lázár, 1918. Story of passion where East meets West.
Márton Keleti, 1937. The world of country houses and much great music in a Romeo and Juliet story set in rural Bihar county.
Béla Balogh, 1922. Love in the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Béla Balogh, 1923. Heart-breaking drama about urban misery.
Béla Balogh, Béla Pásztor, 1939. Musical comedy with fine acting.
Sándor Korda, 1919. European tragedy of an African slave.
Endre Rodriguez, 1940. A young singer finds his voice and love.