János Tóth Movies

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

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...

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...

A strange creature visits a very strange planet, where it watches the lives of the beans, the inhabitants of the planet. When the beans notice the...

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...

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...

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

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....

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

Two thieving gloves try to snatch an apple.

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

In memory of Janos Toth. The ciematographer on title is no other than János Tóth, who is still the role model and reference point for...

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

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

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,...

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

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

Religion, ruins. Hungary.

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