István Szabó Movies

"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken...

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...

The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (played first by...

Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how...

On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an...

The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and...

A short film directed by István Szabó.

István Szabó and Klaus Maria Brandauer talk about cinema, the repercussions of World War II, art and their films Mephisto (1981) and...

Koncert is a 1962 Hungarian short film directed by István Szabó. In the film, several beach-goers have a go at playing creating an...

Documentary feature about Czech director Jiří Menzel, featuring Menzel himself as well as Miloš Forman, Emir Kusturica,...

Through the personal memories of István Szabó we can became the observers of the life of Budapest.

In a border town two sons of the local commander using stolen arms take hostages of eighteen girls in a dormitory, because they want to go West by...

This film of three parts recalls memories from World War II. The titles of the parts are: Impartially, Terrified and Like a scream.

From a policewoman broken leg seems completely slip out of the soil. Life-threatening love triangle mixed with her husband and their criminal friends.

A playful portrait of a young woman who merrily roams the streets of Budapest. A New Wave love letter in motion.

Jancsi is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new...

A documentary directed by Wolfgang Liemberger.

A young priest visits a barber's shop to get shaved. When he leans back and closes his eyes, the barbers decide to play a prank on him. Instead of a...

Hungarian director Istvan Szabo with "Ten minutes after" tells the family drama of a wife who is about to celebrate her husband's 40th birthday. Ten...