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1. A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

6.8

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A movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956.

Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Barbora Bobulova

Votes: 2,984

2. The Journey (1959)

Approved | 126 min | Drama, Romance, War

6.8

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A British woman trying to escape Hungary with her freedom fighter lover and a group of Westerners, as the Soviet Union moves to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, finds herself the obsession of an enigmatic Communist officer.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Jason Robards, Robert Morley

Votes: 1,846

3. The Silent Revolution (2018)

PG | 111 min | Drama, History

7.4

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A group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.

Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski

Votes: 5,974

4. Szabadság tér '56 (2016)

Documentary, History

1.0

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Stars: Philip Rákay, Gábor Reviczky, László Tõkéczki, Horváth Attila

Votes: 745

5. Freedom's Fury (2006)

90 min | Documentary, Sport

7.6

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A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were in Budapest, stomping out a popular revolt.

Director: Colin K. Gray | Stars: Viktor Ageyev, Antal Bolvári, János Bük, Sándor Csoóri

Votes: 732

6. Szamárköhögés (1987)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

7.1

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The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Budapest. Children do not yet understand what is going on, but they're happy because the ... See full summary »

Director: Péter Gárdos | Stars: Mari Törőcsik, Dezsö Garas, Judit Hernádi, Marcell Tóth

Votes: 491

7. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary, History, War

6.4

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This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick

Votes: 24

8. Cooking History (2009)

88 min | Documentary

7.3

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Interviews with military cooks from various European armies.

Director: Peter Kerekes | Stars: Vassily Nikolaevich Logunov, Franz Weinhart, Klavdia Matveevna Lobanova, Franz Wienhart

Votes: 278

9. A Nap utcai fiúk (2007)

89 min | Drama, History, Romance

5.7

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Some of the most symbolic moments of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary were the tooth-and-nail battles fought by the so-called 'Pest Lads' who dared to defy odds by taking on the panzers of ... See full summary »

Director: György Szomjas | Stars: Sándor Czeczô, Kata Gáspár, Péter Bárnai, Péter Andorai

Votes: 110

10. Rapsodia de sangre (1958)

108 min | Drama

5.8

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Andras Pulac, a young pianist, refuses to perform a concert in honor of a senior Soviet leader, as a sign of rebellion against the 1956 invasion of Hungary. His refusal, although he does ... See full summary »

Director: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi | Stars: María Rosa Salgado, Vicente Parra, Albert Hehn, Tomás Blanco

Votes: 35

11. Torn from the Flag: A Film by Klaudia Kovacs (2007)

97 min | Documentary

9.0

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A sociopolitical historical documentary-thriller about the international decline of communism and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Directors: Endre Hules, Klaudia Kovacs | Stars: János Berecz, Leonid Brezhnev, Csaba Békés, Winston Churchill

Votes: 105

12. Journey Home: A Story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (2007)

88 min | Documentary

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While planning their father's funeral, two sisters try to find out what he did as a freedom fighter in Hungary in 1956. The journey veers off course when they realize their father might not have been the hero they thought he was.

Director: Réka Pigniczky

13. Heritage (IV) (2013)

63 min | Documentary

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Using personal film and photo archives and addressing issues of cultural identity, Heritage portrays the generation who fled Hungary after the Revolution of 1956 and who made their home in the United States.

Director: Réka Pigniczky

14. Memory Project 1956/2021 (2022)

57 min | Documentary

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Eyewitnesses to the first and most significant uprising against the Soviet Union share their personal stories of survival, emigration and resilience.

Directors: Andrea Lauer Rice, Réka Pigniczky

15. 56 | Z (2023 TV Movie)

71 min | Documentary

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What does the Hungarian revolution of 1956 - the Communist bloc's first major uprising against the Soviet Union - mean to young adults whose grandparents were even too young to remember it?

Directors: Réka Pigniczky, Gergö Kiss