Hungarian films about amnesia

List of the best Hungarian films about amnesia according to the audience: Inferno, Boy 7, The Notebook, 1945, The Whiskey Bandit, Maigret, Monte Carlo, Archive, BÚÉK, The Childhood of a Leader.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Malta, France, United Kingdom, Hungary
Duration02:03

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
CountryNetherlands, Hungary, Belgium
Duration02:02

When Sam regains consciousness in the middle of a crowded subway, he doesn't know how he got there, where he came from nor his own name. He franticly searches for his identity, using the contents of his backpack. Slowly but surely he realizes his life is in great danger.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military
CountryHungary, Germany, Austria, France

In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryHungary

An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing devious plans and others finding remorse in their hearts.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, drama, crime, biography
CountryHungary
Duration01:40

Between 1993 and 1999, one man robbed 29 financial institutions in Budapest. Banks, post offices and even travel agencies fell victim to his crime spree. The police had no leads and no hope of finding him during his six-year stint. The only clue left behind at the crime scenes was the distinct aroma of whiskey. The media christened him the “Whiskey Bandit”. Never physically harming anyone, many began to eagerly follow his escapades through the media. A Transylvanian immigrant, who also happened to be a goalie for one of the city's largest hockey teams, named Attila Ambrus, was finally identified as the “Whiskey Bandit”. The police had finally captured him... or so they thought.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary

Adaptation of the novels written by Georges Simenon featuring his fictional French police commissioner Jules Maigret.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, Hungary, France
Duration01:44

    Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA

    2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryHungary

    The story takes place on New Year's Eve that a group of friends have been celebrating together for years. The host is the newly divorced psychologist, Aliz, and her guests are her younger brother, Döme, the chemistry teacher, Kristóf, the gynecologist, Gábor, the cook, and Márk, the photographer. They are all childhood best friends. In the meantime, Gábor's wife, Saci, the lawyer, and Márk's girlfriend, Fanni, the young special education teacher joins the group. The topic of the conversation veers in the direction of how nowadays people store many secrets and confidential information on their cell phones, and what kinds of conflicts may arise if the phones fall into unauthorized hands. Each of the seven members of the group insists on not having any secrets, on their lives being an open book, to which Aliz suggests that they should prove it.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Hungary, USA, Canada, Belgium

    The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecrime
    CountryHungary, United Kingdom

    Central London, today; Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. For the two brothers, being Anti-Social is a way of life.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryHungary
    Duration01:24

    A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, crime
    CountryHungary
    Duration01:58

    Drugdealer wants get out of the circle with his pregnant girlfriend and a time loop effect makes it more complicated.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryRomania, Bulgaria, Hungary
    Duration02:03

    Cristian, a young idealistic prosecutor whose career is on the rise, tries to crack a case against a senior colleague accused of corruption. The dilemma of choosing between his career and the truth weighs heavily on his shoulders. Looking further to solve the case, he enters a danger zone paved with unexpected and painful revelations.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, military
    CountryGeorgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Hungary
    Duration01:40

    The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose sunburned face resembles the landscape he has trodden for dozens of years.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Hungary, Italy
    Duration01:54

    Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, cartoon, crime, music
    CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, Hungary, Philippines, Canada, France
    Duration01:34

    Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Hungary
    Duration01:41

    Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary

    Constance, 1410. Marie, daughter of the richest bourgeois of the city, is on the eve of marrying a prestigious lawyer, son of an earl. Although the compromise fills with pride the girl's father, anxious to ennoble, Marie is not just convinced about her fiancé, who she has only seen twice. Her suspicions are confirmed tragically on the eve of the wedding when, after signing the marriage contract, a stranger breaks into the house ensuring that Marie has slept with other men in exchange for gifts, like a vile harlot. From that moment, the life of the girl will give a terrible unexpected turnaround. Alone, with his reputation ruined, she will have no choice to survive than partnering with a prostitute and lying on the roads.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryGermany, Hungary, United Kingdom, Romania

    A mother's struggle to support her child leads her into a surreal netherworld of sex and danger in this drama from Hungarian filmmaker Szabolcs Hajdu. Mona Paparu is a single mother who has been left to raise her daughter Viorica on her own, only to have her fitness as a parent called into question by her aunt Rodica. Forced to answer Rodica's charges in a meeting with Child Protective Service authorities, Mona tells the long, convoluted tale of how she fell in with Viorel, a charming but sinister underworld figure, in order to provide for her daughter. As Mona falls into debt to Viorel, he puts her to work in a variety of illegal enterprises, finally ending up in the Bibliotheque Pascal, an elegant but bizarre house of prostitution in which men can re-enact sexual scenarios inspired by great works of literature for a hefty fee. Bibliotheque Pascal was an official selection at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands
    Duration02:37

    After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama
    CountryGermany, Hungary, Austria, Sweden, United Kingdom, Canada

    In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in...

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryHungary

    In 1960s socialist Hungary, a serial killer targeting young women torments a small town and the determined detective on his trail. Based on true events.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada, Croatia, Hungary

    James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredocumentary
    CountryHungary

    Tobi is a typical 16-year-old, desperate for the end of school and wondering what path in life to take. The hard-working people in Tobi’s tiny village struggle to make ends meet, while the kids can’t wait to escape to Budapest as soon as they turn 18. Against the challenges of an increasingly conservative Hungary, where trans rights are currently being stripped back, this insightful documentary generously shines a light on the journey of Tobi’s mother as much as Tobi themselves. Having come out once as male in his mid-teens, Tobi later shifts towards a non-binary identity. It’s a steep learning curve for the family to re-evaluate the deeply ingrained gender binary in this rural corner of Central Europe, but for this caring and communicative group, love wins the day.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary
    Duration01:51

    Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genredrama, short, music
    CountryHungary

    Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admitted to the school’s famous choir and befriends her popular classmate Liza. Soon, they have to stand up united against their choir master, who isn’t quite the friendly and inspirational teacher they first thought she was.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, Hungary, France, Italy

    A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrefamily
    CountryUSA, Hungary

    Follow the perilous journey to freedom when a young boy and his dog attempt to escape a concentration camp during World War II. Based on true events.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, history
    CountryCanada, Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany

    A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, drama, cartoon, history
    CountryHungary
    Duration02:40

    Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryHungary, United Kingdom
    Duration01:48

    Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Croatia, France, Hungary
    Duration01:51

    A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama
    CountryCanada, Hungary, USA

    When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror
    CountryNew Zealand, USA, Greece, India, Hungary, Austria, Turkey, Poland

    A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, history
    CountryNetherlands, Hungary, Belgium

    While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stubborn closeness.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryHungary, France, Luxembourg, Germany, USA
    Duration02:26

    A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family
    CountryDenmark, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic

    12-year-old Clara is just like any other girl until one day a mysterious black cat scratches her. Clara soon discovers that she can communicate with the cat and that she belongs to a family of Wild Witches with a strong connection to nature and animals. It turns out that Clara is a very special Wild Witch and that her blood can set free the ancient and evil witch, Bravita Bloodyoung. Together with her mentor aunt Isa and her friends, Kahla and Oscar, Clara must face her destiny and embark on a dangerous journey in order to save herself and the Wild World.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Japan, Hungary
    Duration01:59

    Based on the original 1941 movie from Japan, and from ancient Japan’s most enduring tale, the epic 3D fantasy-adventure 47 Ronin is born. Keanu Reeves leads the cast as Kai, an outcast who joins Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), the leader of the 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honor to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryHungary
    Duration02:07

    Liza's a nurse, seeking love. Her only company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly. Can she overcome the curse?

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryNorway, Denmark, Sweden, Republic of Ireland, Hungary
    Duration02:04

    Year 1206. Norway is ravaged by civil war. The King's illegitimate son is guarded in deep secret. A boy that half of the kingdom wants to kill and two men will protect to the death. A boy named Earl Håkonsson. Birkebeiners is the story of the escape that changed Norway's history forever.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
    CountryHungary

    Vampires are among us! But no need to worry: the Hungarian Secret Police are after them, and beyond the usual spy gadgets, they even use garlic to repel the beasts.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, sport
    CountryHungary, Germany

    Szabolcs plays in a German football team, as does Bernard. They are roommates, best friends, inseparable. A lost match makes him reconsider his life and he goes back to Hungary in hope for more simplicity. Yet his solitude does not last long. Soon after his arrival he meets Áron and a mutual attraction between the two boys develops when suddenly Szabolcs receives an unexpected phone call from Bernard: he has arrived to Hungary...

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA, Hungary

    When a deep space fishing vessel is robbed by a gang of pirates, the Captain makes a daring decision to go after a rare and nearly extinct species. His obsession propels them further into space as the crew spins toward mutiny and betrayal.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, Hungary
    Duration01:46

    A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA, Australia
    Duration01:59

    England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountrySpain, USA, Hungary, France
    Duration01:53

    And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryHungary, Germany, France
    Duration02:02

    A young immigrant is shot down while illegally crossing the border. Terrified and in shock, wounded Aryan can now mysteriously levitate at will. Thrown into a refugee camp, he is smuggled out by Dr Stern, intent on exploiting his extraordinary secret. Pursued by enraged camp director Laszlo, the fugitives remain on the move in search of safety and money. Inspired by Aryan's amazing powers, Stern takes a leap of faith in a world where miracles are trafficked for small change...

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryHungary, Turkey

    Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the relationship between nature, animals and human beings.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredrama
    CountryHungary, Germany, Luxembourg
    Duration07:30

    Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.




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