01 A woman exiled from her village for a past secret sets out on a quiet, deliberate revenge mission.
12 Best Hungarian Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 1, 2026
Hungary Arthouse slow and atmosphericthought provoking
Hungarian cinema swings between two extremes, Béla Tarr’s punishingly slow, black-and-white epics and tighter, more urgent recent films that still refuse to look away from the country’s darkest history.
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02 Twin brothers harden themselves against cruelty while surviving with their grandmother during WWII.
03 Budapest subway ticket inspectors navigate absurd bureaucracy and a mysterious figure pushing people onto the tracks.
04 An ambitious actor's Faustian rise through Nazi Germany's theater world costs him everything he claimed to value.
05 Two coworkers discover they've been sharing the exact same dream every night.
06 Two Orthodox Jewish strangers arriving by train unsettle a Hungarian village hiding its wartime collaboration.
07 An abandoned dog leads an uprising of Budapest's mistreated strays against the humans who discarded them.
08 A traveling circus and a stuffed whale trigger unrest in a small Hungarian town, shot in extended unbroken takes.
09 A failing collective farm's residents are manipulated by a man who might be a con artist or a messiah, over seven and a half hours.
10 A concentration camp prisoner risks everything to give one boy a proper burial.
11 A lonely nurse's dream of finding love is complicated by a jealous ghost cursing every suitor who gets close.
12 A directionless thirty-something drifts from one failed relationship and job to the next in Budapest.
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