Best Hungarian western movies

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

  • Poster for Guardian of the Wilderness

    Guardian of the Wilderness 1976

    In 1861, miner Galen Clark learns he has consumption and decides to travel west in his final months. During the journey, he meets naturalist John Muir, who encourages him to live. Along with Native American Teneiya, Galen builds a cabin and settles with his daughter Kathleen. When loggers threaten to destroy their community and the forest, Galen joins forces with Muir and Teneiya to advocate for the area's preservation as Yosemite Park.

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  • Poster for The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet

    The Wind Is Whistling Under Their Feet 1976

    György Szomjas’s first feature—made after a decade of short documentaries—is a bold attempt at a goulash western, set on the puszta, or Great Hungarian Plain, in 1837. Mixing Miklós Jancsó imagery and a Sergio Leone narrative, this ballad-like saga opens with image of a lone horseman on the empty plain, riding past a rude gallows. The film concerns the vengeful return of a legendary betyár (outlaw), briefly a hero to the local herdsmen who oppose the state building a canal across their grazing land. Although Szomjas works from ethnographic records and archival material, it is hardly surprising that this violent, primitivist film would be more popular with Hungarian audiences than critics. Replete with young guns, crooked sheriffs, tavern brawlers and hardbitten plug-uglies, this widescreen film is strikingly shot by Elémer Ragályi (cinematographer for most of Gyula Gazdag’s films)—a feast of loamy, autumnal colors.

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  • Poster for A helység kalapácsa

    A helység kalapácsa 2023

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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 Wrong-doers

    Wrong-doers 1979

    After the 1848/49 War of Independence in the Transdanubian region. János Hegyesi, a late veteran of the War of Independence, is given the task by the chief bailiff Mérei to round up the gangs of outlaws who are rioting in Somogy County.

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  • Western 1989

    A lone eagle guides us towards a secluded canyon where two gunfighters silently face-off, each waiting for an opening.

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