Movies and TV shows set in budapest hungary

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in budapest hungary ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense and cult classic films and TV shows about / with murder, female nudity, blood, escape, explosion, friendship, dancing, love, danger and death plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres shot in USA, Hungary, France and other countries.
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budapest hungary movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as budapest hungary: Sunshine (1999), Walking with the Enemy (2013), Music Box (1989), Sunset (2018), The Tournament (2015), Gundermann (2018), The Bride (1985), Budapest (2018), The Secret Ways (1961), In July (2000).

List of movies set in budapest hungary

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 7.5
 16K
Sunshine (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK, USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style: costume drama, erotic, family saga, sad, saga ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, fascism, sex scene, nazi, anti semitism, society, political unrest, siblings relations, family life, politics, revolution ...
Time: 19th century, 1940s, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, eastern europe, israel, serbia, sarajevo ...
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Walking with the Enemy (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania, Hungary, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his ...
Style: realistic, bleak, emotional, costume drama, political thriller ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, defiant, family relations, danger, life is a bitch, ss, confined, world war, spy, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 2010, year 1957 ...
Place: europe, hungary, budapest, switzerland, new york ...
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 7.3
 9K
Music Box (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Style: suspenseful, emotional, political, heartbreaking, talky ...
Plot: courtroom drama, court, courtroom, lawyer, legal, twists and turns, betrayal, communism, world war two, conspiracy, politics, anti semitism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: usa, budapest, chicago, hungary
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Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 197 min.
Story: It is the real story of Giorgio Perlasca (Luca Zingaretti). During the 1920s he was an Italian Fascist supporter, fighting in Africa an in the Spanish civil war where he deserved a safe conduct for Spanish embassies. After some years, disillusioned ...
Style: disturbing, serious, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazism, idealism, genocide, hopes, deportation, concentration camp, fighting the system, life is a bitch, wartime life, nazi occupation ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: hungary, italy, budapest, spain
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 6.3
 5K
Sunset (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, France
Duration: 142 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: art house
Plot: world war one, women, young woman, widow, job seeking, noblewoman, attempted rape, bloodbath, orphanage, tram, train, female protagonist ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 2010s
Place: budapest, hungary
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 5.7
 496
The Tournament (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Budapest International Chess Tournament. The most likely winner: Cal Fournier (22), French champion, immature genius, socially awkward, compulsive player. But this time, an unusual 9-years-old Hungarian opponent disrupts this smooth-running routine.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, sincere
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, youth, genius, prodigy, competition, ambition, rivalry, misfit, contests and competitions, bet, coach, professional rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hungary, budapest
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 7.2
 2K
Gundermann (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.
Style: captivating
Plot: stasi, musician, rehearsal, songwriter, rising to stardom, musician's life, music, glory, music band, realism, berlin wall, husband wife conflict ...
Time: year 1975, year 1992
Place: germany, budapest
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 5.4
 4K
The Bride (1985)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Sting is Doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film Bride of Frankenstein. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".
Style: psychotronic, gothic horror, gothic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: frankenstein, laboratory, mad scientist, obsession, experiment gone awry, supernatural, danger, deadly creature, dangerous attraction, zombie, human experiment, friendship ...
Time: year 1985
Place: budapest
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 5.5
 4K
Budapest (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two best friends stuck in boring jobs become bachelor party planners in Budapest.
Style: funny, light, humorous, absurd, not serious ...
Plot: bachelor party, hotel, nightclub, best friend, partner, damsel in distress, female nudity, photography, whore, drug, suicidal tendency, video game ...
Place: budapest, hungary
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Diary for My Father and My Mother (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Directed by Márta Mészáros.
Style: art house
Plot: communism, woman, politics, anti communist, communist, tank, controversy, celebration, party, autobiography, traitor, revolution ...
Time: 1950s
Place: hungary, soviet union, budapest
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The Secret Ways (1961)
Genre: Adventure, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder ...
Style: black and white
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, spy, espionage, escape, prison, refugee, bullet wound, hiding place, car chase, looking for someone, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1956, year 1961, 60s, year 1960, 1950s
Place: vienna, europe, zurich switzerland, budapest, soviet union ...
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 7.6
 23K
In July (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Can Daniel follow the sun from Hamburg to the Bosporus by Friday to meet his love?
Style: offbeat, humorous, road movie, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: on the road, travel, looking for love, hot and sexy, hitchhiker, summer vacation, male female relationship, border crossing, cigarette smoking, true love, summer, fall in love ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: hamburg germany, bulgaria, germany, istanbul turkey, turkey ...
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The Grey Zone (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, factual, emotional ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, redemption, war, nazi concentration camp, moral ambiguity, world war, tragedy, auschwitz ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place: germany, poland, europe, middle east, budapest
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The English Patient (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place: sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
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 6.7
 1K
Claire Dolan (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.
Style: independent film, erotic, cult classic, crying, serious ...
Plot: pimp, mother daughter relationship, rough sex, prostitute, brain tumor, sex, immigrant, interracial sex, making love, prostitution, sex scene, big city ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, dublin ireland, usa, new jersey, chicago ...
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 4.9
 535
Last Run (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Frank Banner used to specialize in helping Soviet spies defect safely to the West. Banner's wife was shot to death aiding such an escape. Now, with the Cold War over, Banner is called upon to safely escort an ex-K.G.B. man who is wanted dead by ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, on the run, undercover, secret agent, danger, vengeance, law enforcement, rivalry, working undercover, haunted by the past, spy, espionage ...
Time: year 1989
Place: hungary, europe, central europe, moscow russia, budapest ...
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 4.5
 5K
8MM 2 (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An American diplomat and his fiancée venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute.
Style: erotic, suspenseful, suspense, sexy, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: pornographic video, couples, strip club, lust, sex club, voyeurism, unsimulated sex, female masturbation, female nudity, female pubic hair, lesbian sex, lesbian cunnilingus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: budapest, europe, hungary
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 5.7
 121K
Gemini Man (2019)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Henry Brogen, an aging assassin tries to get out of the business but finds himself in the ultimate battle: fighting his own clone who is 25 years younger than him and at the peak of his abilities.
Style: action adventure, exciting, captivating, intense, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hitman, cloning, clone, black ops, gunfight, assassin, female warrior, villain, parkour, danger, secret agent, black ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019, near future, 21st century
Place: colombia, georgia, hungary, europe, belgium ...
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Howling V: The Rebirth (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a group of people from different walks of life converge in a Hungarian castle situated in Budapest which has been sealed for 500 years, they bring with them a werewolf which slowly begins to cut their numbers down.
Style: classic horror, independent film, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: werewolf, snow, monster, supernatural, lycanthropy, wolf, killer animal, creature feature, living dead, creature, female villain, supernatural horror ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 15th century
Place: budapest, hungary, europe
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 5.9
 812
Ballet (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, surprise ending ...
Plot: possession, dancing, obsession, ballerina, haunted by the past, ghost, love interest, conspiracy, female ghost, ballet school, rehearsal, american abroad ...
Time: 19th century
Place: budapest, europe, eastern europe, central europe
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The Beautiful Blue Danube (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Serbia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Luxurious Danube river cruiser "Kriemhild", on a 2 day tour from Vienna to Belgrade. The ship "Kriemhild" is a floating sin city. Exhausted, unhappy, frustrated people from western Europe come here to "relax" and ...
Style: erotic
Plot: husband wife relationship, drinking, drinking alcohol, sex scene, making love, nudity, fiance fiancee relationship, groom, sex trafficking, political humor, polish, brothel ...
Place: belgrade, europe, vienna, budapest, balkan
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 5.4
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A Bus Came… (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five episodes connects on a magic bus in the center of Budapest.
Plot: bus, sadness, trip, night, city, bus driver, passenger, mountaineer, travel, man with glasses, accident, love ...
Place: budapest, hungary
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 5.7
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Lily in Love (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sexy, humorous, sexual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: showbiz, deception, fame, stage fright, hotel, producer, casting, love, friendship, writers, actor, marriage ...
Time: 80s
Place: budapest, europe, manhattan new york city, new york, hungary
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Istanbul (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: self discovery, love affair, life turned upside down, family problems, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
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 7.0
 258K
Spy (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
Style: funny, parody, humorous, action comedy, spoof ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, adult
Plot: spy, espionage, undercover agent, female spy, cia agent, cia, assassin, undercover, female protagonist, female killer, female agent, secret service ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, paris france, rome italy, bulgaria, budapest ...
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 6.1
 283K
Van Helsing (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, exciting, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: vampire, werewolf, supernatural, dracula, steampunk, frankenstein, transformation, good versus evil, dark hero, monster, heroic mission, undead ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2004, 15th century, 1880s ...
Place: transylvania, europe, budapest, rome italy, romania ...
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 6.1
 176K
Transporter 3 (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe ...
Style: exciting, road movie, serious, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, one man army, car, martial arts, tough guy, tough heroes, mercenary, chase, driving, fistfight, murder, heroes ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: europe, budapest, france, odessa ukraine, ukraine
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 7.6
 3K
The Round-Up (1966)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.
Style: political, contemplative, experimental, visual, anamorphic ...
Plot: female nudity, prison life, protest, european, anti fascism, capitalism, minimal dialogue, american civil war, reform, snitch, rebellion, life is a bitch ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 1860s
Place: hungary, eastern europe, europe, budapest, central europe
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 6.8
 17K
White God (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: heartbreaking, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, friendship, animal attack, teenager, children, redemption, brutality, dog attack, revenge, betrayal by friend, girl dog relationship ...
Time: year 2014
Place: hungary, eastern europe, europe, budapest, chile ...
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The Phantom of the Opera (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Made for TV Version of the classic story
Style: gothic, psychotronic, gothic horror
Plot: phantom of the opera, opera, insanity, madness, opera singer, singer, fire, ghost, suicide, revenge, orchestra conductor, disfigurement ...
Time: 1910s
Place: budapest
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