Sunshine (2000) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Molly Parker

The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama, with leading man Ralph Fiennes playing three different roles. The story begins in the late 18th century, as Aaron and Josefa Sonnenschein (the name means "Sunshine" in German) die in an explosion while making an herb tonic for ...

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Being Julia (2004) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson

A woman scorned unleashes her fury in this droll comedy based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is a famous and well-respected actress, but though her life in the limelight seems glamorous, things are not going well for her off-stage. Julia's husband is unfaithful to her (and not especially discreet about it), her ...

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Taking Sides (2003) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgĺrd, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr, Oleg Tabakov

Set in Germany in 1946, Taking Sides tells the story of the investigation of Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgĺrd), the renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, by the American occupying army. Major Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) has been told by his superiors that they want Furtwängler convicted of being a ...

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Love Film (1970) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Andras Balint, Judit Halasz, Lucyna Winnicka

Childhood sweethearts are reunited in France after they are separated during the 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary. Jansci (Andras Balint) boards a train bound for Paris to see Kata (Judit Halasz), who fled during the conflict. He recalls his past during the trip as he remembers the dead and the people like Kata who were forced to leave. The two ...

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Hanussen (1989) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Karoly Eperjes

Based on a true story, Istvan Szabo's Hanussen centers on an Austrian soldier (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who becomes clairvoyant after he is shot in the head during World War I. He is able to read minds and predict the future. Before long, he has foreseen Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power, and he soon finds himself in danger. Hanussen is the third ...

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Mephisto (1981) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági, Karin Boyd, Rolf Hoppe

Based on Klaus Mann's novel, Mephisto details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hofgen (Klaus Maria Brandauer, offering an electric performance) is the star of a state-funded theater department who tires of his job. Like his friends, he pays lip service to socialist ideals ...

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Meeting Venus (1991) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Macha Meril

Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated ...

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25, Firemen's Street (1973) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Lucyna Winnicka, Rita Bekes

Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó's moving drama concerns the occupants of an old house who gather on the eve of its demolition to reflect on their lives from World War II to the present. Among the residents are Mrs. Gaskoy (Rita Bekes), a baker's wife who hid people from the Nazis in the house's attic, and Maria (Lucyna Winnicka), who remembers ...

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Colonel Redl (1985) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans-Christian Blech, Gudrun Landgrebe, Dorottya Udvaros

The second film in the trilogy made by director Istvan Szabo and actor Klaus Maria Brandauer -- hammocked between Mephisto and Hanussen -- Colonel Redl continues Mephisto's fascination with a man overwhelmed by history. In that film, Brandauer played an actor who tried to ignore the rise of the Third Reich, and here he's an ambitious military ...

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The Father (1967) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Andras Balint, Miklos Gabor, Klari Tolnay, Daniel Erdelyi, Kati Solyom

In The Father (Apa), Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabo invests a great deal of poetry and warmth in a story that, in lesser hands, might have become a wallow in bathos. After his father is killed in World War II, a young Hungarian boy named Tako concocts a fantasy image of the parent he never really knew. Convincing himself of his father's ...

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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) more movies like this

directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Claire Denis, István Szabó, Jean-Luc Godard, Jirí Menzel, Michael Radford, Mike Figgis, Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Amit Arroz, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Mark Long, Alexandra Staden, Dominic West

Eight master directors of world cinema combine forces for this omnibus film that focuses cumulatively on the subject of time. Bookended by cello interludes, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello presents just one parameter to each of its filmmakers: no final entry can be more or less than ten minutes long. The resulting films run the gamut of styles and ...

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