Best Hungarian fantasy movies

Halfway Home (2022)

People say the true love lasts longer than life, but they don't mean it, and they are right: love ends when life does, except if it isn't.

Simon, the Magician (1999)

A crime is committed in Paris, and the police are clueless. They call in Simon, a sorcerer with supernatural powers. whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?

Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1989)

Judith arrives at Bluebeard's dark castle hoping her love can convince him to reveal the secrets behind the locked interior doors.

Boglárka (2015)

An unlikely hero sets off to save the beautiful Boglárka from the dragon who kidnapped her.

The Tragedy of Man (1969)

Starting with the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Adam, Eve and Lucifer travel through history, from Ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, into a distant and uncertain future.

A Hungarian Fairy Tale (1987)

Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.

The Fall of Cronus (1990)

Magic Hunter (1994)

A battle-scarred, has-been Hungarian cop, tormented by his memories of nearly killing an innocent woman in his custody, enters into a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for a handful of "magic" bullets that always hit the mark. A mysterious and mythical story.

Farewell, Little Island... (1987)

A short animation that depicts the drowning of a village by modern technology.

Allegro Vivace (1990)

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The Rebellion of the Straw Men (2001)

Buda, 1851. Jeromos Hétszáz, a puppet maker living in Óbuda, and his wife, Óguszta, a childless couple, have given refuge to the orphans of those fallen in the war of liberty or jailed, most recently to Pál Penyige and Borbála Derelye. Overjoyed when the chief of police orders fifty straw puppets, they are distressed on learning that the puppets will be publicly hanged in effigy of Lajos Kossuth and the leaders of the war of liberty.

Song of the Miraculous Hind (2002)

Divided into four sections, "Song" is inspired by the Siberian and Finno-Ugric legends about Creation, in which the world begins with characters who are only half-human, one being half-bird, the other half-bear. The narrator delves into the origins of Hungarian culture, the Iranian and Turkish influences that impacted the society, and finally the story of Stephen, the emperor who brought Christianity to the country and shifted the capital west in an attempt to link with Europe.

Variations on a Dragon (1967)

Seven variations of the traditional fairy tales which the dragon kidnaps the royal - but this time, things are not happening as planned.

Poor Johnny and Arnika (1983)

The poor but carefree vagabond Johnny meets the princess Árnika and they fall in love. An evil witch casts a spell on them which turns one of them into a duck. In order to be free of the spell they embark on a long journey to meet King Ajahtan Kutarbani, the only one who can lift the spell.

A Bit of Immortality (1967)

A bitter fable about Pegasus, the symbol of divine and pure inspiration, and his inability to fit into today's world.