Adoption

$23.95 | 89 minutes

Kati is a 43-year-old widow who wants a child by her married lover, but he refuses. Through her friendship with another woman, they help each other - the friend gets a marriage she wants and Kati adopts a child&hellip…

Being Julia

$7.95 | 104 minutes

As she enters her early 40s, London theater actress Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) starts having a nervous breakdown. She still rules the West End, but is growing too old for ingenue parts. When Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans), an adoring lad half her age, comes into her life, a clandestine affair begins. Though she's happy for a while, Julia&hellip…

Bolshe Vita

$23.95 | 97 minutes

Amidst the political and economic upheaval of newly-democratic 1989 Hungary, Russian friends flee their homeland in search of greater freedom and new opportunity. But as they find a new niche at the titular Western-style rock club, they realize their victory is bittersweet and that friendship is what makes the difference&hellip…

Colonel Redl

$25.95 | 142 minutes

At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls in love with him but cannot marry below her station. Still, they carry on a lifelong affair, though, as she suspects&hellip…

Colossal Sensation

$23.95 | 95 minutes

This offbeat dramedy from director Robert Koltai follows twin brother, circus clowns, through their eventful lives providing a counterpoint to the major events in 20th century Hungarian history. Their paths take them from the gypsy community, to the gulag, to the revolution&hellip…

Damnation

$23.95 | 122 minutes

Legendary Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr's intense, existential 1988 noir follows a depressed loner who can't let go of his former lover and struggles to find meaning in his bleak life. With gorgeous photography and haunting performances, this film cemented Tarr's status as one of the most intriguing and powerful directors around&hellip…

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Divan

$23.95 | 77 minutes

In this charming memoir documentary, director Pearl Gluck uses humor to diffuse her take on the serious topics of alienation from one's family and culture, the legacy of the Holocaust, and the celebrity cult of Hasidic Jewish rabbis. Born into a Brooklyn Hasidic community, Gluck left when her mother divorced her father and chose a secular&hellip…

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Electra, My Love

$23.95 | 70 minutes

The Electra myth and the classic play by Laszlo Gyurko are wildly re-imagined in this film adaptation. Electra (Mari Törocsik) awaits the arrival of her brother and the body of those who killed King Agamemnon. When her brother returns, he has killed another instead. Electra vows revenge, killing her brother only to see him resurrected&hellip…

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Family Nest

$23.95 | 100 minutes

In 1979, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr released FAMILY NEST onto the world. It told the story of life under the opressive Communist regime that ruled over Tarr's country at the time, offering a fascinating insight into a crumbling society. Focusing on a family who are forced to live together in an apartment that is far too small for them&hellip…

Fateless

$11.95 | 140 minutes

An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death&hellip…