Ladislao Vajda

Directing

Ladislao Vajda

Born — Died

1906-08-16 — 1965-03-25

Place of birth

Budapest, Hungary

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Ladislao Vajda was a Hungarian filmmaker who worked in the United Kingdom, Hungary, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Germany.

Known for

The Miracle of Marcelino poster
7.4

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.

The Miracle of Marcelino

1955

It Happened in Broad Daylight poster
7.4

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

It Happened in Broad Daylight

1958

La zia smemorata poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La zia smemorata

1940

The Man Under the Bridge poster
NR

Visky Andras, a medical professional, gets dejected in life as he is unable to get a job despite his degree. He plans to commit suicide but a chance meeting with a homeless man changes his life.

The Man Under the Bridge

1936

The Man Who Walked Through the Wall poster
7.2

Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him.

The Man Who Walked Through the Wall

1959

The Woman from Beirut poster
5.4

Isabel is a beautiful aspiring singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck convicted of a crime she did not commit. Serving time in prison she is released under parole and lands a singing gig at a dive in Barcelona where she meets Sandro "The Greek" and his partner lover Gloria. The couple is posing as entertainment promoters but they are really running a prostitution ring based in Beirut. They offer Isabel a two-year contract to perform in "night clubs" in the Near and Mideast even after they learn that she cannot travel abroad due to her legal status. Upon arrival in Beirut, Isabel and the other girls are sped away to a luxurious villa where they discover the real intentions of the pseudo-promoters. They are expected to sing and dance but also to engage in sexual activities with the rich clients that patronize the place. Isabel pretends to go along with the situation but she has a plan to get away

The Woman from Beirut

1965

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Miracle of Marcelino poster
7.4

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.

The Miracle of Marcelino

1955

It Happened in Broad Daylight poster
7.4

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

It Happened in Broad Daylight

1958

It Happened in Broad Daylight poster
7.4

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

It Happened in Broad Daylight

1958

La zia smemorata poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La zia smemorata

1940

La zia smemorata poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La zia smemorata

1940

The Man Under the Bridge poster
NR

Visky Andras, a medical professional, gets dejected in life as he is unable to get a job despite his degree. He plans to commit suicide but a chance meeting with a homeless man changes his life.

The Man Under the Bridge

1936

The Man Who Walked Through the Wall poster
7.2

Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him.

The Man Who Walked Through the Wall

1959

The Woman from Beirut poster
5.4

Isabel is a beautiful aspiring singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck convicted of a crime she did not commit. Serving time in prison she is released under parole and lands a singing gig at a dive in Barcelona where she meets Sandro "The Greek" and his partner lover Gloria. The couple is posing as entertainment promoters but they are really running a prostitution ring based in Beirut. They offer Isabel a two-year contract to perform in "night clubs" in the Near and Mideast even after they learn that she cannot travel abroad due to her legal status. Upon arrival in Beirut, Isabel and the other girls are sped away to a luxurious villa where they discover the real intentions of the pseudo-promoters. They are expected to sing and dance but also to engage in sexual activities with the rich clients that patronize the place. Isabel pretends to go along with the situation but she has a plan to get away

The Woman from Beirut

1965

The Woman from Beirut poster
5.4

Isabel is a beautiful aspiring singer with great aspirations but persistent bad luck convicted of a crime she did not commit. Serving time in prison she is released under parole and lands a singing gig at a dive in Barcelona where she meets Sandro "The Greek" and his partner lover Gloria. The couple is posing as entertainment promoters but they are really running a prostitution ring based in Beirut. They offer Isabel a two-year contract to perform in "night clubs" in the Near and Mideast even after they learn that she cannot travel abroad due to her legal status. Upon arrival in Beirut, Isabel and the other girls are sped away to a luxurious villa where they discover the real intentions of the pseudo-promoters. They are expected to sing and dance but also to engage in sexual activities with the rich clients that patronize the place. Isabel pretends to go along with the situation but she has a plan to get away

The Woman from Beirut

1965

Princess Tarakanova poster
10.0

Italian version of 'Princess Tarakanova'. A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.

Princess Tarakanova

1938

Where Is This Lady? poster
9.0

A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury and Ladislao Vajda

Where Is This Lady?

1932

No artwork available
6.8

In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chinese merchant-philanthropist and the agent thinks the merchant is working with the notorious Chinese guerilla warlord General Ling.

The Wife of General Ling

1937

No artwork available
4.5

Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord. It depicts the life of Princess Tarakanoff, the pretender to the throne of Catherine II in Eighteenth Century Russia.

Tarakanova

1930

Condemned to Hang poster
6.1

Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.

Condemned to Hang

1953

Black Diamonds poster
NR

Iván Berend works with all his skills in the coal mine he inherited from his father. Fate brings him to fall in love with the beautiful Evila, the daughter of one of the miners. A wealthy Viennese banker, Félix Kaulmann, then buys up the Bondavölgy coalfield for money, but he cannot acquire Iván Berend's mine for the time being. To defeat his opponent, he comes up with a cunning plan. He takes Evila with him to the Austrian capital, then opens the new mine, luring Berend's best colleagues to him with a little more money. But he doesn't count on one thing.

Black Diamonds

1938

Uncle Hyacynth poster
6.7

Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must participate in a bullfight to be held that same afternoon.

Uncle Hyacynth

1956

Uncle Hyacynth poster
6.7

Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must participate in a bullfight to be held that same afternoon.

Uncle Hyacynth

1956

The Liar poster
6.2

When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the easiest way for her to accept that her mother is now gone. But this was only the beginning of a lot of lies he tells her continuously, mostly about himself and his job. This way he also tries to hide away from her the fact that he had to quit his job as a traveler and is now paid much less than before.

The Liar

1961

The Man Who Wagged His Tail poster
6.8

The owner of a building tyrannizes his immigrant tenants. Transformed into a dog by an old woman's curse, he experiences all the hardships of his situation; when a child's affection turns him back into a man, his soul is radically changed.

The Man Who Wagged His Tail

1957

The Man Who Wagged His Tail poster
6.8

The owner of a building tyrannizes his immigrant tenants. Transformed into a dog by an old woman's curse, he experiences all the hardships of his situation; when a child's affection turns him back into a man, his soul is radically changed.

The Man Who Wagged His Tail

1957

The Man Who Wagged His Tail poster
6.8

The owner of a building tyrannizes his immigrant tenants. Transformed into a dog by an old woman's curse, he experiences all the hardships of his situation; when a child's affection turns him back into a man, his soul is radically changed.

The Man Who Wagged His Tail

1957

No artwork available
9.0

A journalist and his editor discuss stories and the need for sensation in the news. Four different stories are then portrayed including one in which a down-on-his-luck many takes employment in a circus as the assistant to a knife thrower.

Sensation

1936

An Almost Decent Girl poster
8.0

An almost decent girl is a German-Spanish Romance of Ladislao Vajda from 1963. In Spain he was entitled Una chica casi formal on.

An Almost Decent Girl

1963

The Shadows Grow Longer poster
6.0

Christa Andres runs a home for troubled girls. With great dedication, she tries to help girls who have gone astray return to a normal life. She takes special care of Erika, who works as a prostitute and one day runs away from the home. Christa sets out to search for the girl in the red-light district. In doing so, she is haunted by the shadows of her own past. The educator herself used to work as a prostitute. When she meets her former pimp, he tries to exploit his knowledge in a perfidious way and blackmail Christa...

The Shadows Grow Longer

1961

Haut comme trois pommes poster
7.0

Madame Dupin is the most influential character in her village. She is at odds with her daughter because the latter married a showman.

Haut comme trois pommes

1936

The Adventurer of Seville poster
6.2

Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the police chases him as an accomplice of the bandits. Then Figaro decides to join the army as a volunteer to fight in Puerto Rico. He returns covered with glory and his faults are condoned. However, the adventures of Figaro continue in Seville in the false scene of the aristocracy

The Adventurer of Seville

1954

The Woman with No Name poster
8.0

This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.

The Woman with No Name

1950

María, matrícula de Bilbao poster
8.0

Bilbao in the fifties. To continue the family marine tradition, El Viejo, an old sailor, forces his grandson Luiso to follow the profession of their ancestors as skipper of the ship Maria.

María, matrícula de Bilbao

1960

Barrio poster
6.2

A noir detective navigates a poor neighborhood's dark streets, investigating murder and theft. Despite uncooperative locals, he must use wit to expose the truth.

Barrio

1947

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Einen Jux will er sich machen

1928

Giuliano de' Medici poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Giuliano de' Medici

1941

The Seventh Page poster
9.0

Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.

The Seventh Page

1951

Spanish Round poster
8.0

Over a hundred members of the chorus girls and dance groups from the Spanish "Sección Femenina" embark to America to show the richness of their national folklore. The girls have left parked their daily tasks to enjoy this great adventure aboard "Mount Albertia". During the trip, the relationship between the girls and the crew is very lively and in all scenarios where they perform, success always accompanies them.

Spanish Round

1951

No artwork available
7.0

A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.

Call Of The Blood

1948

Three Spinsters poster
10.0

A greedy man is taught a lesson by his three aunts who are tired of his demands for more money, forcing them to hire an actress to flirt with him and learn the truth about his actual inheritance.

Three Spinsters

1936

Doña Francisquita poster
7.2

Francisquita secretly loves Fernando, but he is in love with the beautiful and fickle Aurora.

Doña Francisquita

1952

Wings over Africa poster
8.0

Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body addressed to a clerk in London named Wilkins . Cooper goes to Wilkins in London and tells him that his brother, whose body they had found, has left a map and a deed to a large diamond mine. Wilkins decides to go to Africa with Cooper to find the mine and, in order to speed up and finance their venture, they give a third interest to Carol Reade and her partner John Trevor), who operate a barnstorming airplane service. In Africa, close to the mine location, they are greeted by some tough gentlemen named Collins and Quincy who have terrorized the natives and lorded over the region, who quickly discover the reason for the party's mission. They join, unasked, in the race for the diamonds. The race is interrupted by the death of Trevor who is found knifed in his bunk.

Wings over Africa

1936

Afternoon at the Bulls poster
5.3

The bullfight is about to begin. On the bill are announced the toreros Ricardo Puente, Juan Carmona and Rondeño II, who will take the alternative. Puente is an old bullfighter, famous in earlier times, who, now bitter and full of resentment, lives with Paloma, a woman who is not resigned to continue being the lover of a man who has fallen into oblivion. Carmona, the fashionable bullfighter, has an important contract to fight in America, but his wife Isabel wants him to reject the offer. Anamaría, Carmona's sister, hopes that her brother will approve her relationship with Rondeño II; but Carmona opposes because he considers him a bad bullfighter. In a fourth, hopeful and exciting plot, a young amateur bullfighter has a plan to sneak into the ring and fight a bull, hoping for public acclaim for his feat of bravery.

Afternoon at the Bulls

1956

Das Feuerschiff poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Das Feuerschiff

1963