Hungary

A Hussar general leads a daring raid on Berlin during the Seven Years’ War in this rip-roaring Hungarian period piece.

A communist on the run finds his loyalties tested in Miklós Jancsó’s claustrophobic portrait of persecution.

The decadence and violence of imperial society collide in this hypnotic period mystery from Son of Saul director László Nemes.

One of Sándor Reisenbüchler’s most playful and political shorts, a parable about scientific arrogance that pays homage to Godzilla.

Dedicated to the memory of Fritz Lang, this rare late short from Sándor Reisenbüchler offers up an eye-popping ecological vision.

Sándor Reisenbüchler’s cult animated short about space travel reimagines science fiction by way of sixties counterculture.

Béla Tarr’s greatest masterpiece portrays a world on the brink of chaos, equal parts mysterious and gripping.

Two homeless people, a trans teenager and an elderly man, build their own private world in this moving documentary.

Zoltán Fábri’s dizzying rural romance set the course for Hungarian cinema in the post-war era.

This eye-popping animated short from the great Sándor Reisenbüchler explodes with colour and drama.

The conclusion to Márta Mészáros’s autobiographical Diary trilogy is a powerful account of failed revolution and artistic resistance.

A soldier returning from war faces a moral test in this tale of grief and hope that proved hugely influential for Hungarian film.

Zoltán Fábri’s wickedly allegorical “nunsploitation” classic is a coming-of-age tale, an anticlerical satire, and a political parable wrapped up into one.

Miklós Jancsó’s early masterpiece is a portrait of male friendship against the odds in postwar Hungary.

István Szabó’s wartime drama is a slow burn thriller charged with suspicion and desire.