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The most popular Hungarian movies on IMDb
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Hungarian films On Body and Soul and Kincsem have taken the world (and critics) by storm last year, but there are many other great Hungarian films you should know about. These are the highest rated Hungarian movies on IMDb.
1. On Body and Soul
Year: 2017 Genre: drama, fantasy, romance IMDb score: 7.6 Director: Ildikó Enyedi Stars: Géza Morcsányi, Alexandra Borbély, Zoltán Schneider, Ervin Nagy
Plot: Slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover that they share the same dreams in which they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love. They decide to make their dreams come true in real life, which proves to be much more difficult than they have imagined.
2. 1945
Year: 2017 Genre: drama IMDb score: 7.3 Director: Ferenc Török Stars: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Dóra Sztarenki
Plot: Two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, dressed in black, arrive in a Hungarian village on 12 August 1945. Soon after, everything changes.
3. Son of Saul
Year: 2015 Genre: drama, war IMDb score: 7.5 Director: László Nemes Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont
Plot: In the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, a prisoner called Saul Ausländer is forced to burn the corpses of his own people, but he finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames a boy’s body he takes for his son.
4. Sunset
Year: 2018 Genre: drama IMDb score: 6.7 Director: László Nemes Stars: Susanne Wuest, Björn Freiberg, Vlad Ivanov, Juli Jakab
Plot: A young girl grows up to become a strong and fearless woman in Budapest before World War I.
5. The Whiskey Bandit
Year: 2017 Genre: action, adventure, biography IMDb score: 7.7 Director: Antal Nimród Stars: Bence Szalay, Zoltán Schneider, Viktor Klem, Piroska Móga
Plot: The Whiskey Bandit was one of the most famous bank robbers in Hungary. He was known for drinking whiskey before every bank job. The movie tells his story.
6. White God
Year: 2014 Genre: drama, fantasy, horror IMDb score: 6.9 Director: Kornél Mundruczó Stars: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth, Szabolcs Thuróczy
Plot: Mixed-breed dog Hagen befriends 13-year old Lili, and comforts her as she goes to live with her strict, estranged father. Because Hagen is a mixed-breed, he is subject to a large “mongrel” fee imposed by the Hungarian government, which Lili’s father is unwilling to pay. Lili fights to protect her dog, and she is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.