Best Hungarian family movies

The Story of F*** (2010)

A frustrated music business executive accidentally creates a band called F**K and has to find a group of talentless no-hopers to take on the music industry and become rock stars.

Run with Me! (1982)

Kohán Imre, an adolescent kid under state care, is taken to the school resort house in the Bükk mountains with tuberculosis. He falls in love with Nurse Katica, not much older than him, and she makes friends with this open and sincere boy. Imre also finds friends among his class-mates and gains recognition for his brave behaviour.

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The Wizard (1969)

Amazing adventures of a little boy and his friend, the great wizard Chili Chala.

Thorn Castle (2012)

Tutajos is an excellent student whose parents decide to reward his academic achievements with a vacation to the countryside. Robbed of his gadgets and easy city-lifestyle, Tutajos finds himself completely out of his element – until a goodhearted ranger named Matula teaches him how to get back to nature. As Tutajos’ best friend Bütyök joins him on his vacation, the two boys learn the joys of camping, hunting, and living off of the land.

I Accidentally Wrote a Book (2025)

Nina loves to make up stories, she wants to become a writer. Though she has her creative talent from her filmmaker father, there’s just one problem: Her clumsy magician brother Junior is bored of her stories. And since her mother died early, it’s difficult for Nina when a new love comes into her dad’s life. With the guidance of a bohemian writer next door, Nina uses writing to process the loss of her mother and open her heart to a new family member and first love. And suddenly, Nina realizes, her life is becoming a novel!

Partisans (2016)

The film is the story of a childhood friendship tells the story of the fall of 1959, in Budapest. Jancsika and Feri nine years old, lives put them together in the common events: when Feri protect weaker friend when the marbles wins, but the larger ones lost him, and committed with mischief when the lányöltözőbe peephole and coach to shame them in front of the girls, or partizánosdi loud, which annoy the caretaker day. No idea how dangerous terrain that their friendship is born. One day his father conducted by Feri arrested and hauled away Jancsika father, who was a participant in the events of fifty-six. During the house search find the hole in the national flag, which at that time was enough for the death penalty.

Három szabó legények (1982)

A fantasztikus nagynéni (1986)

A Harum-Scarum Family (1981)

The intellectual family Faragó lives a bit busy life, but ensures complete autonomy for its members in a tiny flat in Budapest, while the newly rich Belvizis in the neighbourhood have a luxury apartment and a conventional and purposeful life, sentencing their only daughter for solitude.

Palacsintás király (1973)

Suburban Legend (1957)

The film, depicting life in the tenement houses of Angyalföld in the thirties joins the neorealist currents of Hungarian film. Ambrus Pista, the good humoured, attractive tram conductor is loved by women for his excellent job as well. With his lover, the street-walker Terus they spy upon the neighbour as he beats his wife in jealousy.

Tessék engem elrabolni (1980)

Children's Sicknesses (1965)

An action packed, brightly colored film depicting the adventures of a six-year-old boy attending school for the first time. He befriends a little girl, Zizi, who becomes his constant companion in a child's world of discovery.

Legyél te is Bonca! (1984)

Magyar népmesék 6. A Kékfestőinas (2002)

Pepolino und der Schatz der Meerjungfrau (1996)

Magyar népmesék 2. A Csillagszemű Juhász (1980)

The Greedy Bee (1959)

A naughty worker bee goes against the hive's warnings.

Augusta Makes Herself Beautiful (1983)

Augusta tries everything in order to make herself look beautiful.

Augusta Is in a Hurry (1985)

Time moves rapidly for Augusta, much to her detriment.

Augusta's Presents (1985)

Augusta Christmas special. The gifts she's bought aren't what they seem.

Augusta and Sport (1985)

Augusta watches sport on the television, mimicking the activities in a strange fashion.

Motor Tour (1982)

Animated hijinks of a man whose car just will not start, no matter what he does.

Mesék Mátyás királyról (1984)

Csipike, az óriás törpe (1984)

Telefonpapa (1982)

A közös kutya (1983)

The Secret Echo (1972)

The movie, based on a story by Yuri Nagibin, depicts a young girl Vika enjoying the last days of summer vacations in a sea resort somewhere in the south.

Öcsi, a sztár (1988)