Eszter Nagy-Kálózy

Acting

Eszter Nagy-Kálózy

Born 1966-01-25 · Gyöngyös, Hungary

Acting credits

Truants poster
5.0

In the country reformatory school both the teacher and the children are trapped by the circumstances. From among the pupils excels Sanyi, who cannot accept the fact that his mother does not love him and he keeps on escaping after her. From among the teachers it is Mr. Csőrös who distinguishes himself by listening to the children, looking for those who escaped, Sanyi feels affection to him.

Truants

1989

The Midas Touch poster
6.9

A deep drama about life in Hungary after the WW2 until the revolt against Russians in '56. The main character is the head of the black market in Budapest. He thinks he can buy everyone and everything but at the end he must face that he can't buy life. A must-see for everyone. Casting involves some of the greatest Hungarian actors. The story takes place in the eighth district of Budapest focusing on the market place on Teleki square which is still working. The movie contains some archive footage of real fight during the revolution.

The Midas Touch

1989

No artwork available
NR

TV-adaptation of the two short stories from hungarian writer Ferenc Karinthy.

Szégyen

2012

Summer Cold poster
NR

It's Zoé's birthday tomorrow, and she and her boyfriend are planning to go to her parents' holiday home by Lake Balaton. Next day's celebrations are not expected to offer any surprises. Zoé has never made so-called bad decisions, until today.

Summer Cold

2024

Fourth Dimension poster
NR

Hungarian short sci-fi film.

Fourth Dimension

2023

Vigilantes poster
9.0

A group of seven friends of different ages and interests meet regularly at Eva's. They have coffee, talk and listen to music. At one of the gatherings, Eva finds a secret agent's badge, "Lookout 123", in the hallway. The accidentally dropped ID card can only belong to one of the members of the party. From that moment on, the film is a continuous chain of private investigations, suspicions, betrayals, deceptions, the fabrication of hypotheses, the chess game of thinking through all the motives that are supposed to be relevant.

Vigilantes

1993

The Troupe poster
5.5

After a young soldier sides with a troupe of travelling actors in a fist fight that erupted while they are performing a play, he is forced to flee and the troupe decides to take him in.

The Troupe

2018

Curtiz poster
5.8

Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's intervention in the European war.

Curtiz

2019

Keleti Pu. poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Keleti Pu.

2010

Intimate Headshot poster
7.0

The plot of the film takes place in a single day. Four men on the same night, the same night club ends up independently of each other, at the end of a busy day. The four men four separate history of sexuality is the focus.

Intimate Headshot

2009

No artwork available
NR

A dying old woman leaves her apartment to a young man on condition he marry her Romanian niece so that she can legally come to live in Hungary.

Szekelykapu

1994

The Last Manuscript poster
8.0

This sarcastic drama is taken from the popular Hungarian novel by Tibor Dery. A terminally ill writer (Jozef Kroner) of national prominence watches as family and friends gather like vultures for his imminent demise. Relli (Alexander Bardini) smiles and pretends to be the writer's friend as he tries to get his hands on an unpublished manuscript. The opening scene is the highlight of the film. While the dead writer is being laid to rest in a national funeral, he emerges from the coffin and walks into his own grave while the mourners flee in terror.

The Last Manuscript

1987

1945 poster
7.0

An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing devious plans and others finding remorse in their hearts.

1945

2017

No artwork available
NR

The film is based on two short stories by Margit Kaffka. Letters from the Convent is about faith in God, the torments of blind faith and love. And in the summer evening episode, "The Peril", two girls raised in a convent come face to face for the first time in their lives with the "real life" they long for but do not yet truly understand.

Levelek a zárdából

1989

A rózsa vére poster
7.0

Anita and her married boyfriend, András, get involved with some heavy hitters who smuggle from Ukraine into Hungary. The deeper into it they get, the more their relationship is strained; things aren't helped by the unexpected visit that András's pregnant wife pays Anita and her mother. At a nightclub, Anita meets Alex, a Ruthenian who's a collector of folk songs. The two of them begin an affair, and András may be left out in the cold, with the local mob still waiting for him to deliver the goods. How patient will they be, how desperate will András get, and how will Anita sort out loyalty and infatuation?

A rózsa vére

1998

THE INNER SIDE poster
NR

Our film presents the life of a 25-year-old, mute, autistic boy and his parents. The father, long ago, sees the struggle and hatred of his son. The mother is trying to get her family back and she still hopes her baby will talk again. The boy completely excludes the outside world from his life and dedicates his time to reading. A helper coming from outside, unexpectedly opens the door to the boy's inner voice.

THE INNER SIDE

2017

A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda poster
6.0

Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds.

A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda

2003

Három boltoskisasszony poster
NR

The story of three sisters at the beginning of the 20th century who choose different paths to happiness after the death of their parents. While Ilona tries to keep the family business together and help her sisters, Jolánka and Anna see in men and marriage a way out. Three different female destinies, three archetypes and three excellent young actresses appear in Imre Mihályfi's film.

Három boltoskisasszony

1993

Eszter's Inheritance poster
8.0

The aging Eszter clarify outstanding relationship.

Eszter's Inheritance

2008

Adventure poster
7.0

In 1940 Budapest, a successful doctor leads a perfect life, unaware that his wife and his adopted son are planning to run away together.

Adventure

2011

Budakeszi srácok poster
7.0

Hungary, 1950s. Istvánka is a sensitive little boy, longing for a role model and friendship, whose father died in the war before he was born. Before school starts, his mother takes him from the countryside to the capital. One day, he meets Lacy Márity, a 21-year-old big boy from Budakeszi, who from then on not only goes to play football with him, but also answers his most secret questions. He becomes his friend. Istvánka then becomes more tolerant of the local children's digs and the often incomprehensible behaviour of the adults. But the 1956 revolution intervenes. Laci Márity takes the lead in the rebellion.

Budakeszi srácok

2006

Gulls and Gangsters poster
8.0

The film has a broken meaning, the last time he was a proofreader for a book publisher, he is now unemployed. Ever since he was a child, he has always been the one who pulls the short one, and he takes the wrong one. At the beginning of the film, he finds himself in such a "bunbak" situation again, and then he decides to become a professional bunbak...

Gulls and Gangsters

1997

Édes Anna poster
6.5

Sweet Anna is sent as a maid to the Vizys immediately after the fall of the revolution in 1919. Since the death of her daughter, Mrs. Vizyné has devoted all her emotions and energy to the "education" of the servants. Anna is sometimes pampered, sometimes humiliated. Her nephew Jancsika seduces the young girl, who wastes all her repressed love on him. Jancsika leaves him, and when Anna wants to leave the Vizys, Vizyné, in a fit of hysteria, blackmails her and holds her back. The morning after a house party, Anna murders her hosts.

Édes Anna

1989

The Book of Esther poster
10.0

During World War II Eszter has to choose: she either follows her husband abroad, who is chased by the Gestapo or stays with her daughter from her first marriage.

The Book of Esther

1989