Ida Turay

Acting

Ida Turay

Born — Died

1907-09-27 — 1997-06-02

Place of birth

Rákospalota, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

Giddy Vacations poster
8.0

A family of boisterous children expect their father to organize a really exciting holiday. So when the chance comes up of spending it on a boat, the Ramona, it seems that the problem is solved.

Giddy Vacations

1987

Giddy Vacations poster
8.0

A family of boisterous children expect their father to organize a really exciting holiday. So when the chance comes up of spending it on a boat, the Ramona, it seems that the problem is solved.

Giddy Vacations

1987

Oh, Bloody Life poster
5.8

The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from a high-born family. The government bias against persons of wealth threatens to destroy her career before it begins. As a final blow, she is threatened with deportation. The exasperation inherent in the film's title is only the tip of the iceberg.

Oh, Bloody Life

1984

Moral Stories About Sex poster
9.0

The film is made up of two independent episodes, which only have the basic setting in common. The little schoolteacher in Free Saturday, when she wakes up in a hotel room with 100 marks in her handbag, invents the "quickest way" to get to her flat. The newlyweds in The Council Fairy Tale find the "surest way" to an apartment by moving into the council building. There is no doubt then, what is the common default position, the impossibility of getting an apartment...

Moral Stories About Sex

1989

No artwork available
7.0

The upmarket but financially strapped industrialist catches two burglars red-handed. The younger one soon turns out to be a wealthy man who is robbing millions more just for a gentleman's passport. The manufacturer offers the burglar a partnership in his company...

A nagy ékszerész

1980

1950s · 2 titles

1940s · 16 titles

The Siege of Beszterce poster
7.8

The film evokes count Pongrácz, who, as late as the 19th century, managed to live a life, which reminds one of his medieval ancestor's values. He acts in defiance of the town by fighting his own battle against it, having been offended by the town.

The Siege of Beszterce

1948

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lelki klinika

1941

Three Bells poster
8.0

Kovalszky arrives at the Danube-Bank Hotel as a foreign gentleman. Two members of the staff, Miklós, the waiter and Anna, the house-maid are planning their life together. Kovalszky makes passes at Anna.

Three Bells

1941

Alpine Sunlight poster
8.0

Ágnes, Vass and Kriszt run a sanatorium for consumptives. Fifi, daughter of the institute owner is also here, mortally ill. Feri, the ski trainer relieves her with his courtship every now and then from her boredom and distress.

Alpine Sunlight

1941

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Come On the First

1940

At Last poster
9.0

Julia, a spoiled mistress always looks for trouble After running away from her own engagement, she must stay at the shelter of an engineer in the woods.

At Last

1941

Hétszilvafa poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hétszilvafa

1940

Looking for a husband poster
5.0

Kato is looking for a husband for her sisters so that she can marry. Mari helps her as a counsellor, but all their attempts end in scandal. Kato is left to focus on his own happiness. She is in love with Baron Koltay, but he also wants to win the hand of the actress Palma Nusi. Kató pretends to be Koltay's sister and wins Nusi's trust. The Baron soon forgets Nusi and falls in love with Kato. A tangle of lies and deceit finally leads Koltay and Kato to marriage.

Looking for a husband

1940

Sieben Jahre Pech poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sieben Jahre Pech

1940

És a vakok látnak poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

És a vakok látnak

1943

Könnyű múzsa poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Könnyű múzsa

1947

Egy szoknya, egy nadrág poster
7.7

When the actress he loves seems to be infatuated with a frivolous count, an actor disguises himself as the count's real interest, a wealthy Spanish woman whom the count has never seen before but wants to hoodwink into marrying him.

Egy szoknya, egy nadrág

1943

A gazdátlan asszony poster
7.0

In a chic hotel in the French mountains, a lonely woman is attracting a lot of attention. And yet Eva is married, and thinks back with sad nostalgia to the first happy years of her marriage. She would like Adam to be a loving, attentive husband again. One rueful evening she decided to take a month's 'holiday' and travel to the mountains of France. But away from her husband, she realises that true love and appreciation are not about compliments, flowers or a night of dancing...

A gazdátlan asszony

1944

Janika poster
7.7

After a 15-year absence, the famous actress' expatriate husband returns to Hungary to settle their divorce. The actress is rehearsing the role of a young boy back home when her husband walks in. Seeing the little boy, the husband thinks that Janika is his child, but the actress fails to inform him of the mistake.

Janika

1949

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Muki

1944

Családunk szégyene poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Családunk szégyene

1942

1930s · 17 titles

Hotel Sunrise poster
10.0

Hotel Sunrise is a busy place. Male guests are, almost without an exception, in love with Mária, the directress of the hotel.

Hotel Sunrise

1937

Ida regénye poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ida regénye

1934

Tales of Budapest poster
9.0

Copfos, a milliner working at Annie's, a downtown millinery, is the object of popular despise and mockery. On one day she becomes the inheritor of $650 000.

Tales of Budapest

1937

Villa for Sale poster
10.0

The villa in the story of László Vadnai is for sale. The owner goes away and leaves the house to his butler, who also entrusts its safekeeping to an old friend. The friend immediately moves in with his niece, and two swindlers appear. But who is the seller and who is the buyer, and why the villa has to be sold at all, is a question that is only answered satisfactorily at the end of the film, after a lot of wall-crawling humour.

Villa for Sale

1935

No artwork available
10.0

Ladányi, a landowner of 800 acres lives high in Ádámháza, while his bailiff, Pókai keeps on raiding him.

Keep On Smoking Ladányi!

1938

It Happened in March poster
8.0

Gyozo falls in love with a wealthy banker's daughter, but faces stiff resistance from his family who has already chosen a girl for him. Meanwhile, Gyozo's marriage is opposed by his fiancee's uncle.

It Happened in March

1934

Thirteen Girls Smile at the Sky poster
NR

The landowner, János Karády, is knocked down and robbed on the highway. He comes to in the shabby clothes of one of the robbers. Thirteen pretty young girls take care of the young man thought to be a poor vagabond.

Thirteen Girls Smile at the Sky

1938

Thanks for Knocking poster
7.2

An unemployed singer hits a girl with a car he has just stolen. She has no serious injuries but falls in love with the handsome stanger.

Thanks for Knocking

1935

My Daughter Is Different poster
10.0

Gitta is 20 years old, a girl with modern attitudes, who is courted by Ferenc Fekete. Not particularly liked by Gitta's parents, especially her old-fashioned father, Fekete dates Gitta in secret.

My Daughter Is Different

1937

Rozmaring poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rozmaring

1938

The New Relative poster
7.3

The story takes place in a small village manor-house off Vásárosladány. Sándor leads a quiet life with his wife, son and the now poor relatives of his wife, one which is characterized by the monotony of rural boredom. The arrival of another poor relative, Kitty, a young girl brought up in America, whose way of thinking reflects modern times, puts an end to this overwhelming monotony.

The New Relative

1934

Under Blazing Heavens poster
8.0

In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking.

Under Blazing Heavens

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Alajos, a pharmacist, has just married Klári, a poor tutoresse. Klári finds a diamond ring among the wedding presents, complete with farewell letter to thank her for all those happy hours of love. The husband, a man who has already planned every little thing ten years in advance, is in no mood to accept the idea of a coincidence.

There is No Accident

1939

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A nőnek mindig sikerül

1939

The Borrowed Castle poster
8.5

Among the Gruber family, the rumor spreads like wildfire that their wealthy American relative, Menyhért Gruber, is visiting Hungary with his daughter, Mary. Various plans are devised to exploit the rich relative. The boldest of them all is the plan of Bálint Koltay, who directly pursues Mary's hand. However, the young ones fall in love with each other so deeply that Bálint stands by Mary even when the "wealthy" Gruber informs him that he's bankrupt. At this point, the only thing left to arrange is for Bálint, who poses as a landowner, to actually present a noble castle to his future father-in-law.

The Borrowed Castle

1937

Friday Rose poster
7.0

How can we get rid of our debts in the quickest, but not entirely painless way? If one is celibate, the good old tried and tested recipe is already a given. Marry a rich lady. The girl in question, Edit Zsámbéki, is already available, but there are still a few snags. Our hero, Dr. Géza Gerleszegi Gerle, the supervisor of the Beneficial Ladies' Orphanage in Buda, has a girlfriend, a dancer named Piri Leleményi, who causes such a scandal when she is abandoned that the country and the world will forget her.

Friday Rose

1938

Rakoczi March poster
7.0

Young Hussar captain falls in love-at-first-sight with classy young blonde, who turns out to be the sister of his captain.

Rakoczi March

1933