János Tóth Movies

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

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....

Luca regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law. Luca's husband, János, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge, and Luca does...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Religion, ruins. Hungary.

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

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,...

Locations of László Ranódy’s film Pacsirta (Skylark) appear in the experimental etude. János Tóth’s...

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

Two thieving gloves try to snatch an apple.

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

The extreme forms of light experiments conducted with candles in the intersection of early cinema and avant-garde experiments. The film image is the...