Hungarian films about the military

List of the best Hungarian films about the military, selected by visitors to our site: Underground, Corn Island, Ether, Outside the Wire, The Enemy, Spectral, The Border Post, Kenau, The Whiskey Bandit, Loop.

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: 8.1
Genrecomedy, drama, military
CountryYugoslavia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria
Duration03:14

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko realizes that the situation is ripe for exploitation.

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
Genrethriller, drama, military, history
CountryPoland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Hungary, Italy

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object of his desire. After getting away with his crime, he finds employment in a fortress, where he continues his experiments with ether to manage pain and manipulate human behaviour. Despite his evilness, it is not too late for his soul to be saved from eternal damnation…

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantastic, action
CountryUSA, Hungary

In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, military
CountrySerbia, Croatia, Hungary
Duration01:48

The story begins a couple days after the war has ended. A group of Serbian soldiers in charge of clearing the fields from mines discovers a man sealed inside a factory's basement. A mysterious man says he is 'ours', he doesn't feel cold, isn't hungry and only asks for cigarettes. As soon as he is brought along, people start disappearing, and the infighting begins. Who is the mystery man?

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA, Hungary
Duration01:59

    A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryCroatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, United Kingdom, Hungary, Austria

    At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.

    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: 7.3
    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: 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
    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: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, military
    CountryUSA, Hungary, Peru
    Duration01:38

    Tough guy Thomas Beckett is an US soldier working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Beckett is notorious for losing his partners on such missions. This time he's accompanied by crack marksman Richard Miller.

    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: 7.1
    Genredrama, detective, history
    CountryHungary

    The story of three women - a famous prostitute, her housekeeper and their new maid - living in Budapest of 1910s, whose passionate, bizarre and complex relationship can only lead to one thing: murder.

    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: 6.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Spain, Hungary, Serbia
    Duration01:50

    A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

    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: 6.3
    Genredrama, detective, history
    CountryHungary, France
    Duration01:58

    Set in Budapest in 1913, when the city was considered to be at the heart of Europe. 20-year-old Irisz Leiter, arrives in the Hungarian capital after spending her younger years in an orphanage, hoping to work as a milliner in the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. She is suddenly confronted with her past and starts searching for answers about her family before stumbling upon dark secrets.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryHungary, Germany, Sweden
    Duration02:01

    Favoring pedigree dogs, a new regulation puts a severe tax on mixed breeds. Owners dump their dogs and shelters become overcrowded. 13-year-old Lili fights desperately to protect her pet Hagen, but her father eventually sets the dog free on the streets. Hagen and his master search desperately for each other until Lili loses faith. Struggling to survive, homeless Hagen realizes that not everyone is a dog’s best friend. Hagen joins a gang of stray dogs, but is soon captured and sent to the pound. With little hope inside there, the dogs will seize an opportunity to escape and revolt against mankind. Their revenge will be merciless. Lili may be the only one who can halt this unexpected war between man and dog.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
    CountryHungary

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    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecartoon, history
    CountryIsrael, Hungary

    Eager to impress the Queen of Sheeba, a young Solomon accidentally releases the devil Asmodeus from his prison. With the Kingdom of Jerusalem in peril, Solomon and Princess Naama work together to find an end to Asmodeus' evil rule.

    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: 7.2
    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: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective, history
    CountryHungary

    A murder mystery set in 1936 Budapest, just as Hungary was preparing to align itself with Hitler. A beautiful young girl is found dead and nobody wants to investigate—except Gordon, a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they seem.

    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: 6.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Canada
    Duration01:25

      After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter named Nissa, and when she finds her, they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, thriller, military
      CountryPoland, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Hungary, France

      A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryHungary, Italy, Germany, France
      Duration02:25

      This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around the circus tent, which is put up in the main square, to see — as the outcome of their wait — the chief attraction, the stuffed carcass of a real whale. The people are coming from everywhere. From the neighboring settlings, even from quite far away parts of the country. They are following this clumsy monster as a dumb, faceless, rag-wearing crowd. This strange state of affairs — the appearance of the foreigners, the extreme frost — disturbs the order of the small town. Ambitious personages of the story feel they can take advantage of this situation. The tension growing to the unbearable is brought to explosion by the figure of the Prince, who is pretending facelessness. Even his mere appearance is enough to break loose destructive emotions...

      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: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryHungary
      Duration01:39

      Inspired by Carmilla, the seminal 19th Century vampire tale by Sheridan LeFanu, STYRIA plunges the viewer into a haunted world of fantasy and obsession. In 1989, Lara Hill (Eleanor Tomlinson), accompanies her art historian father (Stephen Rea) to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the castle and the two are drawn into an intoxicating relationship. But when Carmilla mysteriously disappears, and women of the town begin committing suicide, Lara’s psychic wounds erupt into a living nightmare that consumes the entire town of Styria.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany, Hungary, France
      Duration01:47

      A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryHungary

      Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, comedy
      CountryHungary

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      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryYugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, West Germany
      Duration02:24

      Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.

      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: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryHungary, South Korea, France

      An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and rare imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A woeful burlesque set in the present by one of Europe’s most original contemporary filmmakers.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecartoon, biography
      CountryPoland, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, France

      In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…

      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: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, Netherlands, Luxembourg

      An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.

      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: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryHungary

      In 1957 the Soviet Union decides to give Hungary the chance to choose the world's first cosmonaut, who can be the very first person in space. It seems like the best candidate is Lajkó, the gypsy spraying pilot.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary
      Duration01:00

      Chief Inspector Jules Maigret hunts for a serial killer.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA

      Set at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, military, biography
      CountryUSA, Hungary

      The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountryHungary

      Eszter, 16, is secretly in love with her English teacher, while Peter, also 16, is hopelessly in love with Eszter. One day, the teacher announces that he is leaving the school to move to London. That same day, Eszter receives a farewell e-mail message from him. An online affair begins and spirals into sexual abuse.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryCanada, Hungary, USA

      Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by the memories and his guilt, he attempts to use high-profile fights against boxing legends like Rocky Marciano as a way to find his first love again.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada, Hungary

      Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

      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: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Hungary
      Duration01:42

      A man awakes-- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.

      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.




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