Miklós Jancsó

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence. (IMDB.com)

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively. (imdb)

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other. Captives are executed or sent running naked into the woods. Neither side has a plan, and characters the camera picks out soon die. A White Cossack officer kills a Hungarian and is executed by his own superiors when he tries to rape a milkmaid. (imdb)

Miklós Jancsó's Silence and Cry is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution... (imdb)

Mycenae. Electra (Mari Töröcsik) is considered mad because she mourns the loss of her father, Agamemnon, and roams the countryside accusing the new king Aegisthus of murder. She constantly claims that her brother Orestes will return to right the injustice and expel the usurper who rules the country with an iron fist. A messenger brings word that Orestes is dead, but soon thereafter he appears, to do exactly what the 'mad' Electra has foretold.

In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. (imdb)

Earning a Golden Palm nod at the Cannes Film Festival, this erotic drama uses the real-life Mayerling affair -- in which Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress committed suicide after being forbidden to wed -- as its jumping off point. In director Miklós Jancsó's reinterpretation, however, it's patriarchal tyranny that leads to tragedy as the young prince refuses to end his extended erotic idyll at his country estate. (Netflix)

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home. (imdb)

Alegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avanges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression. (Francisco Baez)

A group of young communists get into a religious high school in order to convince the pupils about he glories of Communism. (karagarga.net)

The first part of Jancsó's trilogy about jewish customs.

The second part of Jancsó's trilogy about jewish customs.

The final part of Jancsó's trilogy about jewish customs.

This film was made during a time when Jancso was not allowed to make films in his native Hungary. In the middle of the crowd, while covering an Italian political protest by leftists, The Journalist (Monica Vitti), a pacifist, finds herself surrounded by a quite different group of people who jostle her, remove her recording equipment from her and set her car on fire. She complains to the police about this. (All Movie)

It is the 15th c. in Hungary. And young prince Gaspar (Laszlo Galffy) was sent off to Italy when he was just two years old, and now he has come back to his father's castle as a grown man, with a troupe of actors in tow. Once arrived at the castle, he discovers his mother is in a kind of trance state, reportedly drinking the blood of virgins to keep her forever young (just like the infamous Bloody Lady Elizabeth Bathory). (Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide)

A documentary about the Hungarian rock band Omega.

It's very hard to write down the plot of the movie. Small episodes about life and people's ways to live it. The episodes are joined by the two protagonists, Kapa (Hungarian word for "hoe") and Pepe who were atennded the same elementary school but in each episode they're playing various roles from all parts of society, sometimes they are gravediggers, sometimes one of them is a gangster, lawyer, millionaire, policeman, etc. Sometimes they are dying just to resurrect in the next minute. (surrealmoviez)

Kapa, Pepe, and Pepe's wife Emese are taking a trip again in the great Hungarian reality. From poison apple to the lost child, from the false money to the dead resurrrecting to a song - everything can be found in this world while the eyes of the Statue Of Liberty are watching (when it just has got eyes).In the sequel of "Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten" Miklós Jancsó is continuing what he's started in the first movie. (surrealmoviez)

First part of the unfinished trilogy about a period of the hungarian history.

Documentary following the celebrations of a Jewish community and Jehovah's Witnesses, and the small town surrounding them.

Belonging to Jancso's later avant-garde work, this is an allegorical film that deals with universal creation. (mubi.com)

Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid at the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, in this virtuoso exercise of camera motion and sound editing by Miklós Jancsó. (mubi.com)

The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything - with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional (and equally obscure) music-infused rites. (themoviedb)

The third film in Miklós Jancsó's renowned but rarely seen documentary series Message of Stones. (secondrundvd.com)

Set in 15th century Hungary, a young humanist nobleman is declared King, and ushers in an era of prosperity (www.Mubi.com).

The 5th and final adventure of Kapa & Pepe (www.imdb.com).

In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled (www.mubi.com).

Part two of three of a glorious trilogy showing Hungarian history through an abstract lens (www.mubi.com).

A brief look at the decimation of Native Americans and their culture.

A celebration of the culture and the ancient traditions in Badacsony. (www.bergamofilmmeeting.it)

Short documentary about wheat harvesting operations.

The story concentrates on the lives of a group of people living in Hungary as the country goes through a series of crises (www.mubi.com).