Best Hungarian comedy movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch comedy films from Hungary, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Severance

    Severance 2006

    Members of the Palisades Defense Corp. sales group arrive in Europe for a team-building exercise. A fallen tree blocks the route, and they must hike to their destination. However, a psychotic killer lurks in the woods, and he has a horrible fate in mind for each of the co-workers.

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  • Poster for Kontroll

    Kontroll 2003

    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.

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  • Poster for Liza, the Fox-Fairy

    Liza, the Fox-Fairy 2015

    Liza is a naïve, lonely 30-year-old nurse who wants to fall in love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every man who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?

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  • Poster for Cat City

    Cat City 1986

    In the year 80 AMM (After Mickey Mouse) on planet X the crime-syndicated Cats try to erase the Mouse-population once and for all. A scientist of the mice, prof. Fushimishi seems to have found the weapon against the threat - so Intermouse calls its best (albeit retired) agent, Nick Grabowsky, to get the plans. As a distraction for the Cats, they also send a second agent - Seargent Lazy Dick - for the mission.

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  • Poster for Kills on Wheels

    Kills on Wheels 2016

    Two physically handicapped youngsters make friends with a paralysed hitman and are commissioned by a local mafia boss. They have little to lose although things are never as they first appear. The boundaries between fantasy and reality blur as the unlikely heroes stumble from one close encounter to the next and we gain an unusual insight into their lives on the periphery of society.

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  • Poster for Comrade Drakulich

    Comrade Drakulich 2019

    Vampires are among us! But no need to worry: the Hungarian Secret Police are after them, and beyond the usual spy gadgets, they even use garlic to repel the beasts.

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  • Poster for Gone Running

    Gone Running 2024

    After the death of her husband, a mother decides to fulfill his last wish and runs the marathon in relays with her daughters. A small problem is that none of them are physically and mentally prepared for running. Furthermore, the relatives and friends are also unexpectedly affected by the women's seemingly impossible challenge.

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  • Poster for Glass Tiger

    Glass Tiger 2001

    This film tells the story of a few uneventful days in the life of six pals. Lali, a great fan of America, owns a sandwich stand on the side of the road, called The Glass Tiger. Gaben pinches cars; Fox is a petty swindler; Sanyi a half-wit homeless; Coco can't shut up about getting some dough and going to America; Slimmy keeps playing the saxophone, despite the others' frayed nerves. Gaben talks Lali into buying an old Chevrolet Impala, the real American dream. After the long escapade of getting the car, Lali doesn't even get the chance to try the Chevvy out, because a truck completely demolishes it. Fox in the meantime is looking excitedly for the "Wreck", what he has been trying to sell for big money. But Lali has sold what he thought to be scrap, not good for anything. Fox is threatened by some tough guys to bring it back or pay up. He has to get money at all costs...

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  • Poster for The Witness

    The Witness 1979

    Hungary, 1950s. József Pelikán, who works as a dam keeper on the Danube, meets by chance Zoltán Dániel, an old friend whom he saved from death years before and who is now a powerful politician.

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  • Poster for Búék

    Búék 2018

    The story takes place on New Year's Eve that a group of friends have been celebrating together for years. The host is the newly divorced psychologist, Aliz, and her guests are her younger brother, Döme, the chemistry teacher, Kristóf, the gynecologist, Gábor, the cook, and Márk, the photographer. They are all childhood best friends. In the meantime, Gábor's wife, Saci, the lawyer, and Márk's girlfriend, Fanni, the young special education teacher joins the group. The topic of the conversation veers in the direction of how nowadays people store many secrets and confidential information on their cell phones, and what kinds of conflicts may arise if the phones fall into unauthorized hands. Each of the seven members of the group insists on not having any secrets, on their lives being an open book, to which Aliz suggests that they should prove it.

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  • Poster for For Some Inexplicable Reason

    For Some Inexplicable Reason 2014

    Áron stands in his life as an average 29-year-old weirdo. He has many contemporary complexes, a fresh university degree, and a recent break up. His parents have to support him financially as he is still a job seeker and while Áron is agonizing on his lost love, he is always interrupted by something; it seems like he’s not the main character in his life.

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  • Poster for Argo

    Argo 2004

    The crew of Tibi Balogh sets out on a journey across Hungary to get the ancient Gold Owl statue, as well as the Milk Man. The treasure is worth millions, who gets there first?

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  • Poster for A Kind of America

    A Kind of America 2002

    Tamás is a young, Budapest-based director of video clips and commercials who dreams of directing his...

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  • Poster for The Stationmaster Meets His Match

    The Stationmaster Meets His Match 1980

    The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.

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  • Poster for Moscow Square

    Moscow Square 2001

    1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.

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  • Poster for A Kind of America 2

    A Kind of America 2 2008

    The three brothers, Akos, Tamas and Andras - known from the first part - try to get back their 60 million forints stolen by impostor Alex who ran away with the money and the girlfriend of the oldest brother.

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  • Poster for Glass Tiger 2

    Glass Tiger 2 2006

    In the sequel to the surprise hit Üvegtigris (2001), we witness the 6 losers again as they run amok around the roadside buffet, which again fails to make their dreams come true, but which serves as the basis and end station of numerous funny adventures.

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  • Poster for Glass Tiger 3

    Glass Tiger 3 2010

    A single gunshot and a pointed toothpick drive Lali to abandon his life and disappear, only to find himself stranding Feri, a high-profile Budapest lawyer, at the Üvegtigris snack bar while Lali hops into Feri’s Bentley convertible. As the pair roar through the city, Lali’s sudden swagger attracts a dazzling woman - and then another - launching him on an outrageous day of living large. What began as an impulsive escape becomes Lali’s wildest adventure yet, filled with fast cars, femme fatales and the thrill of starting over.

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  • Poster for A Kind of America 3

    A Kind of America 3 2018

    Brothers Tamás, Ákos and András find themselves in deeper trouble than ever after swindler Alex drains them into a chase for a priceless stolen stamp. With both the police and rival mafia crews, Baláék and Toniék, on their tail, they’re joined by Eszter and Timi as everyone races against the clock. Their fortunes, and perhaps their lives, depend on whether they can outwit both friends and enemies, and escape unscathed.

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  • Poster for Zanox

    Zanox 2022

    As a result of a drug experiment, Misi will be able to travel through time, but only if he drinks from a special homemade spirit.

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  • Poster for Hungarian Vagabond

    Hungarian Vagabond 2004

    A Hungarian historical movie that tells the story of the Hungarian ancestors, the seven leaders, who are looking for their new homeland in the last years of the 9th century. Before they leave their original home in Asia, they have a farewell party. They wake up with a severe hangover after consuming large quantities of kumis. The seven leaders wake up to find that their people have disappeared.

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  • Poster for Heavenly Shift

    Heavenly Shift 2013

    Death does not select, man does. Set in Budapest, Heavenly Shift offers an eerie insight into the everyday lives of a rather extraordinary ambulance crew. The films main character is Milan, a young refugee from the Balkan War, who joins a team of paramedics but inadvertently ends up involved in the funeral business in order to finance his fiancee s rescue from the hostilities.

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  • Poster for Open

    Open 2018

    Relationship dramedy about an everyday couple adventuring through the confusing thrills of non-monogamy.

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  • Poster for Argo 2

    Argo 2 2015

    Tibi and his small‐time crook crew haven’t grown wiser in ten years and are hired by a shadowy Japanese syndicate to steal a priceless data drive. Clueless about IT, they drag along a computer‐science teacher, only to trigger revenge from a Roma mafia boss, face off against Japanese hitmen and even anger the Slovak army. As their dream of escaping to a Malibu beach with the loot fades, Tibi’s street smarts might be their only hope.

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  • Poster for Bad Poems

    Bad Poems 2018

    33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's practically gone. As he's trying to pick up the pieces, he begins to realize what makes this current society so confused, which gives us a highly subjective view of Hungary's present.

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  • Poster for Free Fall

    Free Fall 2014

    An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and rare imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A woeful burlesque set in the present by one of Europe’s most original contemporary filmmakers.

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  • Poster for Mattie the Goose-Boy

    Mattie the Goose-Boy 1977

    A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend - a goose.

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  • Poster for Christmas Flame

    Christmas Flame 2021

    A firefighter develops a fear of heights and has strange visions after his wedding proposal goes up in smoke. Will a teacher he meets later cure his vertigo and mend his broken heart?

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  • Poster for Coming Out

    Coming Out 2013

    This is the story of present-day Hungary's most famous gay celebrity who openly admits his homosexuality and fights for gay rights in a society where so many alternative values are denied. But then something happens and he is shocked to discover his growing interest in the female of the species.

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  • Poster for Made in Hungaria

    Made in Hungaria 2009

    Miklós Fenyö's parents returned to Communist Hungary in the mid sixties - when everyone else was fleeing to the West. Miki's old friends don't know what to make of his outrageous clothes, flawless American accent and collection of original Buddy Holly 45s. His childhood sweetheart is cold and distant while local tough guy Röné is unmoved by the challenger to his rock 'n' roll crown. But that's not all. When the authorities see the effect Miki's gyrating hips and lewd music have on teenage girls, they won't stand for it. His father's job is on the line, and, for the first time, Miki must play by the rules. He has no choice but to enter the local talent show...

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  • Poster for Lajko: Gypsy in Space

    Lajko: Gypsy in Space 2018

    In 1957 the Soviet Union decides to give Hungary the chance to choose the world's first cosmonaut, who can be the very first person in space. It seems like the best candidate is Lajkó, the gypsy spraying pilot.

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  • Poster for Dollybirds

    Dollybirds 1997

    The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place.

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  • Poster for Chameleon

    Chameleon 2008

    While cleaning offices at night, Zsolt Kovàcs learns a lot about his invisible employers by examining what they leave behind, carefully choosing his targets, often disillusioned women whom he seduces, methodically taking their money. An artist of manipulation, with a generous dose of humor and the ability to assume different personalities, Zsolt begins to work in a psychologist's practice, where he meets Hanna, a 30-year-old dancer who is physically incapacitated and the daughter of a millionaire. The ideal victim if love doesn't get in the way.

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  • Poster for Brazilok

    Brazilok 2017

    The entire village is obsessed with the championship: the establishment team, led by the mayor and his deputy, expects to win, while for the first time the poorest youths from the local Roma settlement, led by a recently released “golden‐footed” ringleader and joined by the juggling church priest, also enter the competition. Both sides hunger for victory, and when a mysterious millionaire offers to fly the top players to Brazil, the stakes skyrocket. The tournament becomes a fight not just for the title but for the village’s social balance.

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  • Poster for Neither with You

    Neither with You 2019

    Gergő’s mother is obsessed with having a grandchild. She has a serious heart disease and has only days left to live. To give his mum some joy during her final hours, Gergő asks his neighbour Saci, who is five months pregnant, to visit his mother in hospital with him and tell her that she is carrying his child. It all goes smoothly, but a new heart arrives, and his mum is operated. Therefore, Gergő and Saci are forced to play the roles of the loving couple.

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  • Poster for The Investigator

    The Investigator 2008

    Tibor Malkáv is an andaverage 37-year-old man, who though not rich, leads a comfortable and uncomplicated life. All this changes when he finds out his mother is dying of cancer and the cost of surgery is well beyond his means. A one-eyed man known as the Cyclops offers Tibor a solution to his financial woes, however, there is a catch and Tibor has to kill someone in return. What follows is a chain reaction that has long-lasting and unexpected results.

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  • Poster for The Pagan Madonna

    The Pagan Madonna 1980

    The unique statue of the ancient fertility goddess Demeter, known as the "Pagan Madonna" is stolen from the museum, located in a small town on Lake Balaton. At the same time seriously wounded a servant of the museum. The abduction of the museum's priceless statues of pure gold is investigated by the then young and inexperienced investigator Kardos and lieutenant "Droplet".

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  • Poster for Chuchotage

    Chuchotage 2018

    During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener.

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  • Poster for Just Sex and Nothing Else

    Just Sex and Nothing Else 2005

    The attractive, 32-year old and single Dora edits scripts for plays and is working on "Dangerous Liaisons." One day when her lover shoves her, half-naked, out on a balcony at the sudden appearance of the wife that Dora didn't know he had, Dora is rescued by a handsome man named Tamas.

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  • Poster for My Twentieth Century

    My Twentieth Century 1989

    A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...

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  • Poster for Catcher: Cat City 2

    Catcher: Cat City 2 2007

    20 years after the events of the Cat Catcher, there is only one cat tribe left in Central Africa, who, after learning of what happened at the end of the first part, summon Moloch to help liberate the tamed cats and regain power over Earth.

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  • Poster for What Ever Happened to Timi

    What Ever Happened to Timi 2014

    Dani was always the good boy at school and is about to get married. He bumps into Tímea Hajnal, who is now a top model but is trying to get over a humiliating break-up. After a few glasses of wine, they fall into each other’s arms, which wouldn’t be so bad on the face of it, but there’s a tiny problem: Bögöcs, the bad boy of the class, has been recording everything on his mobile phone, and he’s thinking of using it to finally be able to fulfil his teenage dream - to sleep with Tímea. He threatens to show the video to Dani’s fiancée if he doesn’t take steps to set things up for him with Tímea. The pressure very quickly starts to have consequences for Dani’s relationship with his bride-to-be, as she starts to nag him chronically. The wedding is fast approaching, and Dani has to do something…

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  • Poster for The Corporal and the Others

    The Corporal and the Others 1965

    PFC Molnár decides his WWII services are over, and with serious money hidden in his hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who also try to wimp out of their duties.

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  • Poster for Out of Order

    Out of Order 1997

    A Minister and the Secretary of the Opposition party go to a 5 star hotel to conduct a secret affair. Their plans are ruined when they discover a corpse lodged in the window of their room.

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  • Poster for We Never Die!

    We Never Die! 1993

    In 1960s Hungary, an introverted teenager’s life is turned upside down by a few days in the company of his coat hanger salesman uncle: a roguish charmer with a zest for life and a weakness for horse racing and women.

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  • Poster for The Pregnant Papa

    The Pregnant Papa 1989

    In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi...

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  • Poster for Riviera East

    Riviera East 2022

    Gyuri Maurer's family is about to go on holiday, but instead of four passports, only three arrive. Instead of heading west with a German car and the accompanying papers, they will be tourists coming from the west.

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  • Poster for Zimmer Feri

    Zimmer Feri 1998

    The 50 years old Ferenc rents an apartment on the Balaton beach, but it has a lot of debt on it. His plan is to make it profitable.

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  • Poster for The Toth Family

    The Toth Family 1969

    The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the Toths go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.

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  • Poster for Bubble Bath

    Bubble Bath 1979

    Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city.

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  • Poster for Sound Eroticism

    Sound Eroticism 1986

    In the box factory standing in the middle of nowhere only women work, and they themselves only waste their time, as the unmarketable boxes pile up in the yards. The fireman in duty, who stores stolen gasoline in the inflammable plant, sets up cameras in the women's locker room the sake of 'business'.

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  • Poster for Kölcsönlakás

    Kölcsönlakás 2019

    Balázs and his wife Anikó share their apartment’s renovation schedule with playboy Henrik and his latest girlfriend, while designer András and his admirer pick the same space for a private moment. When everyone shows up on the same chaotic day, secret plans collide: lovers discover each other, the faithful are tempted, and hidden betrayals come to light. Relationships are tested as each couple faces the fallout of overheard conversations and unexpected meetings.

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  • Poster for Cream

    Cream 2020

    The love of 34-year-old Dora's life, has broken up with her - or worse: he has remarried. Her only joy, the pastry shop she owns, also appears to be lost. She makes up her mind to get both her ex-boyfriend and her pastry shop back, even if it means she has to lie.

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  • Poster for Slap-Jack

    Slap-Jack 1992

    The story happens in 1989 in the suburbs of Budapest, where the neighbor maintains an underground worker's guard training base, while the youngsters fall victim to a mistakenly posted letter.

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  • Poster for It's Not the Time of My Life

    It's Not the Time of My Life 2016

    Eszter, her husband Farkas, and their five-year-old son Bruno are paid an unexpected visit in the middle of the night. Eszter’s sister Ernella, her husband Albert and daughter Laura have returned from a year spent in Scotland where, contrary to expectations, they weren’t able to settle down. It soon becomes clear that the two families had never really been in tune with one another.

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  • Poster for Hello, My Life!

    Hello, My Life! 2022

    A popular writer with lack of inspiration (Szabolcs Thuróczy) and his never-seen son meets unexpectedly. From there they have to deal with living with the other in joy, in emtions and with the imagination of the child, this tales goes beyond reality.

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  • Poster for Hyppolit, the Butler

    Hyppolit, the Butler 1931

    Evergreen comedy about a typical parvenu, an ignorant transportation entrepreneur who has suddenly found himself very rich. Despite their humble origins, his wife strives to live a sophisticated lifestyle. When she engages a butler, Hyppolit, their whole life is turned upside down. It has remained one of the most viewed Hungarian comedies of all time: it is shown regularly and is still extremely popular

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  • Poster for #Sohavégetnemérős

    #Sohavégetnemérős 2016

    Wellhello is a Hungarian music band whose song combine the stories of the movie. This is a generation movie: portrays the feeling of life, thinking, problems and relationships of today's twenty-year-old's.

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  • Poster for Paper Dogs

    Paper Dogs 2009

    After they got imprisoned, small-time criminals Kuplung and Csumpi tell their stories to their cell-mate of how they have planned the most imperfect robbery. Their big idea was to rob the Money-liquidation Warehouse. The movie shows how they fielded a team to execute the robbing and how everything went wrong.

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  • Poster for The District

    The District 2004

    In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...

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  • Poster for How Could I Live Without You?

    How Could I Live Without You? 2024

    Lili is a typical girl of our time: she's lonely and tries to convince herself that this is what's good for her. But one day, she finds an old package of letters in her parents' apartment, which her mother apparently didn't want to show her at all. Of course, she doesn't hesitate much, she starts reading, and the past comes alive... an unforgettable summer in the early 1990s, when three good friends are on vacation at Lake Balaton, and of them, only Eszter wants to stay faithful to her boyfriend who left her at home, who swallowed a stake. But her plans, which she usually follows with engineering precision, are slightly messed up when she meets Gergo, easygoing, funny and has another very good quality: he plays in a band and performs with his friends on the beach in Szigliget in the evenings.

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  • Poster for Budapest Heist

    Budapest Heist 2020

    Lifelong pranksters who once left summer camps in flames and terrified counselors, a group of old friends - now all but Marcell, the wealthy but unhappy engineer - plots a daring art heist: sneak a bizarre painting into the century’s biggest auction. They even rope in their estranged buddy and a professional thief, but their “perfect” plan quickly unravels into chaos, wild adventures and plenty of frog–eating mayhem, which suits them just fine.

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  • Poster for We Started Together

    We Started Together 2022

    A coming of age story, in flashback, of a group of high school students graduating in 2011. Each will take a different path from here on.

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  • Poster for Fake Doll

    Fake Doll 1991

    The continuation of the series about the adventures of Major Kardos and former police Lieutenant Droplet who are busy now with an investigation of an European drug cartel which operates across Greece, Hungary and Germany.

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  • Poster for Perfect as You Are

    Perfect as You Are 2021

    The film, set in today's Budapest, is a romantic dramedy about the lies of relationships and creation, in which the world of advertising, book publishing and social media collide with the accidental meeting of the two protagonists. As the burnt-out advertiser and the esoteric success author come into ever closer contact with each other, they become entangled in a web of their own emotions and well-constructed lies.

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  • Poster for Dream.net

    Dream.net 2009

    Regina, the once popular girl has to make new friends at her new, conservative school. Problems arrive when she becomes enemies with Lívia, the school's queen bee, and falls in love with Márk, a musician. If these wouldn't be enough, she decides to organize a cheerleader team.

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