Márta Mészáros Movies

When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses...

During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's money. So she bribes Irene, a Jewish girl, to...

A modernized version of the famous ballet work by Bela Bartok

After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of...

The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under...

Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, Juli stays at a women's shelter run by...

A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern...

This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need...

A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.

Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her...

Officer Karikas from Petersburg should be in Saratov with her servant,in the way he played cards and losing much,even to stuck in the hotel.Local...

On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and job, and he cannot even find his way back...

Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his...

Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son.

A day in the solitary life of Pista, a single child of divorced parents. The boy skips school and explores the city of Budapest by himself, yet can't...

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist...

Made on the occasion of March 8, it presents a series of brief portraits of women, from various professional fields, of different ages and even of...

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has...

Márta Mészáros' father, the sculptor László Mészáros, was executed during the Stalinist purges of...