Known for Art
Filmography
23 films, 1 show


Alma
2021 · 1h 36m · IS
After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a psych ward for murdering her boyfriend, a crime she can't remember. But when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Alma decides to escape and kill him after all.


Those Who Remained
2019 · 1h 23m · HU
After surviving the Holocaust, a grieving man who lost his wife and two young boys connects with a teenage girl who lost her parents and little sister. Knowing each other's emptiness, they become like father and daughter. It is the beginning of a profound love the world doesn't understand.


Sunset
2018 · 2h 17m · FR
In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.


Son of Saul
2015 · 1h 47m · HU
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.


Mirage
2014 · 1h 26m · HU
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.


The Turin Horse
2011 · 2h 35m · HU
A look at the monotonous daily struggle of a father and daughter in a windswept, desolate landscape. Over six days, their routine of eating boiled potatoes and tending a failing horse crumbles, symbolizing a slow descent into darkness, emptiness, and the end of existence.


The Gentleman Takes His Leave
2010 · 29m · HU
About that time, altogether for no definite reason, I took it into my head to cripple my life, but only in as disgusting a way as possible.
The Counterpart
The Counterpart
2008 · 14m · HU
Two old friends separated by war meet again after many years.


The Man from London
2008 · 2h 19m · HU
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.


With a Little Patience
2007 · 14m · HU
An office clerk as seen during her daily routine - all the little vibrations of her face. And a man, impatiently waiting for her, beyond the windows.


Dracula
2002 · 1h 44m
Healed by the brash young American investment banker Jonathan Harker and his fiancée Mina, a group of young adventurers are seeking new opportunities in Budapest. When the mysterious Count Tepes summons Jonathan to his castle in Romania for an important deal, little does the banker know what horror he is about to unleash upon the world. This is an abridged version of the Dracula's Curse (2002) miniseries starring Patrick Bergin and Giancarlo Giannini.


Crime and Punishment
1998 · 2h · US
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.


When Trumpets Fade
1998 · 1h 35m · US
In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.


Forced March
1989 · 1h 40m · HU
Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was found with his body, buried in one of Hungary’s mass graves. Kline is also the son of a Holocaust survivor and has long resented his father’s refusal to speak about the War. Now given the opportunity to play the role of a hero, but faced with the reality of a victim, the boundaries between truth and illusion begin to blur.


Version
1979 · 51m · HU
A Hungarian Jew is forced to give a false testimony on his relatives in WW2 Hungary.