János Tóth Movies

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

A brothel in a small Hungarian town becomes the home of a medical student after his favorite working girls find out he's out of rent money. Trouble...

Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of...

Watching from the stars, an all-seeing creature observes a society of sentient beans — the joys, triumphs, and tragedies of day-to-day life on...

Luca, who regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law, hides from her the fact that János, his son, has been arrested on a trumped up...

Most of her colleagues take Mária, the new teacher to be a communist party-worker, only Irma and the drawing teacher Zoli treat her kindly....

Following his wedding, Feri left the co-operative and is now working on the land of his father-in-law. Tóth is extremely wilful and thrifty,...

Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned...

About the life of young people in Hungary in the late 50s, their joys, hopes and dreams. When Joly entered the factory, she wanted to be as cheerful...

The triumphant adventures of the Hungarian baron Münchausen are recounted in the form of a musical.

In 1963 in Tihany, somebody addresses the writer Gábor Náday. He is reminded of a night drive in 1944 that saved his life. Painful...

Ragyogás is a polyphonic series of studies on film and light; it creates and reshapes cinema’s mythical world and language.

This audio-visual universe peppered with Laozi quotations and made in Balázs Béla Studio represents the culmination of artistic...

Often called a “film poem” or a “film symphonie” Huszárik’s masterpiece consists of montages of horses from the...

Ostensibly a non-narrative study of various aspects of a rural winter, this short film by one of modern Hungarian cinema’s greatest visual...

The candle as light, photography using light, refraction, motion picture, that is, the film poem-like recollection of the magical world of...

Poézis is, via the sculptures of a simple woodcarver, a cultural imprint of the life of the peasantry.

The film recounts the adventures of three lovable animals, a Viszla, a Dachshund and a northern goshawk. The animals are accidentally taken to the...

Aréna is nothing less than an attempt at spatial-temporal filming. It is an associative, avant-garde universe, the entire universe of the...