Best Hungarian thriller movies

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

  • Poster for The Debt

    The Debt 2010

    Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.

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  • Poster for Son of Saul

    Son of Saul 2015

    In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper jewish burial.

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  • 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 Ruben Brandt, Collector

    Ruben Brandt, Collector 2018

    Psychotherapist Ruben Brandt becomes the most wanted criminal in the world when he and four of his patients steal paintings from the world's most renowned museums and art collections.

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  • Poster for Strangled

    Strangled 2016

    A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the prosecutor to see a man hang.

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  • Poster for Post Mortem

    Post Mortem 2020

    A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.

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  • Poster for Loop

    Loop 2016

    Drugdealer wants get out of the circle with his pregnant girlfriend and a time loop effect makes it more complicated.

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  • Poster for The Exam

    The Exam 2011

    Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested.

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  • Poster for 1

    1 2009

    A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to humanity in a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research. As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book becomes increasingly well-known, raising numerous controversies. Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.

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  • Poster for The Game

    The Game 2022

    During the Cold War, the secret service of Kádár began a more dangerous state security game than ever before.

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  • Poster for Tall Tales

    Tall Tales 2019

    Shortly after the end of World War II, a con man on the run finds himself in a passionate love affair that may well cost him his life.

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  • Poster for The Grandson

    The Grandson 2022

    Rudi, a polite and quiet office hand, shares a special bond with his elderly grandpa. When Grandpa falls victim to a uniquely heartless phone scam that breaks his spirit and his health, Rudi decides he’s not going to let the petty criminals get away with it. But in order to get close to them, he needs to step far out of his comfort zone and turn into a different person. With a band of grey-haired allies on his side, he might just get to the scammers before it’s too late…

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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 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 Trezor

    Trezor 2018

    The police hire a convicted bank robber to crack the Ministry of Interior's vault during the final days of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. But what they find inside is quite different from what they were expecting.

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  • Poster for Dune

    Dune 2020

    Sounds as witnesses. They blurr into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. A fluctuation between imagination and reality.

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  • Poster for Libertate

    Libertate 2023

    Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault that escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, militiamen, security agents, and civilians. Trying to escape the siege, Captain Viorel of the militia is captured and accused of being a terrorist.

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  • Poster for Unleashed

    Unleashed 2015

    A weekend hunting party in Transylvania becomes something darker when the true motives and histories of the hunters are revealed following a shooting.

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  • Poster for The Vulture

    The Vulture 1982

    Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself.

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  • Poster for Mastergame

    Mastergame 2023

    A young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956. Based on a novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.

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  • Poster for The Mentor

    The Mentor 2018

    Sarah, the lonely teenager joins an Internet group which deals with teenagers' emotional problems. Her mentor, who listens to all her troubles, gives Sarah tasks that she has to fulfil to become stronger. The Mentor's tasks get stranger and crueller.

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  • Poster for Halloween Aftermath

    Halloween Aftermath 0

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  • Last Dracula's blood 2018

    Vlad Dracula is imprisoned in the Hungarian castle. The judge reads the charges to him. The terrible outcome is near.

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  • Poster for Nuremberg

    Nuremberg 2025

    American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, tasked with determining whether Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their war crimes, finds himself in a complex battle of wits with Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Göring.

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  • Poster for Breakdown

    Breakdown 1977

    Gedeon is a young, ambitious detective. Three women have disappeared and he strongly believes that there’s direct connection between them. All three of them were driving lonely and have disappeared in the same region. After a lenghty discussion Gedeon gets the permission from his boss for going on patrol with his colleague in that area.

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  • Poster for SATAN

    SATAN 2023

    Hungary’s best chef pushes her cooks to the brink of insanity. Dani has been working relentlessly for many years, and sacrificed everything for recognition… to no avail. In his final desperation, he makes an alliance with a senior colleague and prepares for something radical. Frustration, beetroot purée and terror - SATAN is a high-voltage tale about the price of extreme ambition.

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  • Poster for Black Soup

    Black Soup 2014

    After a long night, Dj Feaky D loses a large sum of money on poker. When an old friend offers a "great opportunity of easy money", he calls up on his buddies locked away in a mental institution.

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  • Poster for The Unbeatables

    The Unbeatables 2013

    Two river rafting guides lead four thrill-seekers into the wilderness. But past grievances and new rivalries turn the retreat into a fight for survival.

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  • Poster for Mirage

    Mirage 2014

    Francis is an African soccer player whose life comes spiraling down after he fixes a match. Soon, he's on the run, taking shelter at a mountain ranch led by a deadly crime boss. Soon, Francis inspires revolt among the boss's workers, putting his life on the line for freedom.

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  • Poster for Death Waltz

    Death Waltz 2010

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

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  • Poster for Login

    Login 2013

    The world of online dating becomes a site for pleasures, fantasies, and tragedy in LOG IN.

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  • Poster for La Vallée delle ombre

    La Vallée delle ombre 2009

    Matteo, a boy from the city, goes to visit his grandfather in a secluded mountain village, where preparations for a local ancient festival are under way. Matteo spends the eve of the festival with Lidia and three other boys from the village. The group of kids begins a dangerous game, bringing up obscure mysteries that are rooted in the past of that mountain valley. Matteo thus goes through a sort of initiation, at the end of which he is able to exorcise his fears, but only after becoming uncomfortably conscious of the existence of evil.

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  • Poster for Ravine

    Ravine 2021

    The story revolves around Balint, a Hungarian obstetrician and soon-to-be father, who returns to his native village in north-eastern Romania to face the son he abandoned 17 years ago.

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  • Poster for Pinprick

    Pinprick 2009

    A criminal gradually integrates himself into a broken household by methodically asserting control over a teenage girl and her lonely mother.

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  • Poster for Bodom

    Bodom 2014

    For the 50th anniversary of the Lake Bodom murders, two media students obsessed with the case launch a journalistic investigation. The footage they have left behind only raises new questions.

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  • Poster for Distant Cousins

    Distant Cousins 1993

    Kate's husband Richard hasn't seen his cousin Harry for 20 years. So when he comes to stay with his fiancee Connie they are welcomed. But Kate senses her family is at risk when they start behaving suspiciously.

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  • Poster for Run to Ground

    Run to Ground 2010

    Some wounds never heal. In a rundown Central European town, the everyday lives of three working people are violently disrupted: a boy goes missing, a woman is stalked, and a man comes face to face with the killer of his child.

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  • Poster for The Oval Portrait

    The Oval Portrait 2019

    Disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau

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  • Poster for A Család

    A Család 2025

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  • R.E.M. 2016

    Two addicts discover that exploring other people's dreams with the help of a machine can beat any drug. But the process holds more danger for both dreamer and "dreamwalker" than they could imagine.

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  • Poster for A kilépő

    A kilépő 2021

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  • Poster for Café Marylin

    Café Marylin 2023

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  • Poster for 129

    129 2023

    In 2063 a soldier named 129 escapes from Medrocorp. The company is chasing him. They have serious technological developments: cloned organs, robots, flying cars. The soldier does not remember anything, but he wants to know his past.

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  • Poster for Frozen May

    Frozen May 2017

    1990, after the fall. A man struggles to survive in the forest, living alone in a small cabin. One day he spots a mysterious child in an abandoned summer camp.

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  • Wabi-Sabi 2015

    This story tells about a woman in her mid-twenties who tries to revive her childhood memories. In order to relive the last moments with her mother, she rapes and murders another woman. The story inquires, not judges, the imperfect soul. Beauty tainted by unusual parental love.

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  • Poster for Innocent Assassins

    Innocent Assassins 1973

    Two arts students, András and Viktor who are writing their thesis on detective stories, make up a story and keep nagging the famous film-director, who just came back from Hollywood, until he undertakes the job. At night they work on the film, in which two youths kill a director returning from the US. In the morning the director is found dead - a knife in his back.

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  • Poster for Nyugati övezet

    Nyugati övezet 1952

    Prof. Laurent Akush from the Institute of Geophysics is working on a device that can be used to locate coal underground. For successful work he needs a tube XCX13, it is available in the West, but foreign firms sabotage the supply of the device. In his institute there is an enemy engaged in sabotage, but the professor does not believe in enemies. He believes that this is propaganda, science is above ideology, and that "scientists are made of a different dough." Laurent Akush receives an invitation to the international geological congress in Berlin, there he hopes to meet an old American friend, the scientist McLane. He takes with him his assistant Ferenc Ervish and a young Stakhanovite worker, Ishvan Kadosh. The professor does not yet know that in Berlin, Colonel Thompson of American intelligence is preparing a trap for him.

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  • Poster for Falcatus

    Falcatus 2023

    The tired traveler visits an old establishment, but he is not prepared for the horror that awaits him!

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