Writing
Károly Nóti
Born — Died
1892-02-01 — 1954-05-28
Place of birth
Tasnád, Austria-Hungary [now Tasnad, Romania]
Known for
Writing
Credits
40 titles
Known for
5.2An aspiring author and the daughter of a wealthy businessman want to get married. The father of the bride agrees on one condition: his potential son-in-law's upcoming romance novel must prove to be a financial success. In order to win the bet, both men come up with their very own schemes to manipulate the book's sales numbers.
Date by the Danube
1936
10.0A Hungarian-Austrian comedy and one of the last emigrant films made in Austria before the industry submitted to pressure from Nazi Germany and ceased to employ Jewish filmmakers.
Four and a Half Musketeers
1935
10.0Paul loves actresses but avoids to get hitched. Businesswoman Katja manages to get a singing part on stage, this way attracting him to her. Deli employee Franz is mistaken for an actor and gets a leading part - with disastrous results.
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
1935
No synopsis available yet.
András
1941
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tokajerglut
1933
6.0A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
Happy
1933
Behind the camera
5.2An aspiring author and the daughter of a wealthy businessman want to get married. The father of the bride agrees on one condition: his potential son-in-law's upcoming romance novel must prove to be a financial success. In order to win the bet, both men come up with their very own schemes to manipulate the book's sales numbers.
Date by the Danube
1936
10.0A Hungarian-Austrian comedy and one of the last emigrant films made in Austria before the industry submitted to pressure from Nazi Germany and ceased to employ Jewish filmmakers.
Four and a Half Musketeers
1935
10.0Paul loves actresses but avoids to get hitched. Businesswoman Katja manages to get a singing part on stage, this way attracting him to her. Deli employee Franz is mistaken for an actor and gets a leading part - with disastrous results.
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten
1935
No synopsis available yet.
András
1941
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tokajerglut
1933
6.0A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
Happy
1933
6.0Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once.
My Cousin From Warsaw
1931
6.3In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.
We Need No Money
1931
8.0The ancient families of Kont and Hadhazy have long been at war with each other. Lord Cont is a supporter of Vienna's rule, while Hadhazy is a follower of the Hungarian revolutionary Kossuth. Lord plans to fight Hadhazy at an approaching county meeting. Vicky, the beautiful and savvy daughter of Hadhazy's family, just before this, returns home from a Swiss boarding school for young girls, expelled because of her behavior. Vicky, dressed in a man's costume, goes to defend her father and with the honor of a nobleman fights the young scion of a family hostile to her. The young man's name is Feri Kont, and he mistakes the young man's introduction to Vicky for her brother Kalman Hadhazy. The political conflicts between the two families are mitigated by love complications. A misunderstanding at a county ball is brought to light, and the two warring camps are reconciled through the love of Vicky and Feri.
Viki
1937
7.0Eva goes to Budapest to visit her friend Tini's wedding but as soon as she arrives, the husband-to-be breaks up with Tini. When Eva decides to take things into her own hand and follows him to the Hotel Atlantik.
Scandal in Budapest
1933
9.0Advertising was already booming in 1933. Rohr, a Berlin soapmaker, was looking for a particularly attractive face to promote his new product. And he finds it in a shot by photojournalist Schmidt, but the problem is that Mr Schmidt has no idea where, when or who he took the photo of. So a private detective agency and the "culprit" himself, the photographer, who is, for understandable reasons, a little "forgetful", start investigating the beautiful lady.
Stolen Wednesday
1933
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The mute of Portici
1931
7.5A baker-turned-millionaire mill owner constantly fires directors who all end up neglecting the business and falling for his daughter Zsuzsi. When Peter returns from abroad to take over as the new director, swearing he won’t ask for her hand, Zsuzsi seizes every chance to make sure he breaks his promise.
Pay Madame
1937
8.5Tóni is a delivery man in a furniture shop. As he has no place to go, he spends the nights in an antique bed in the shop window.
No Entry
1941
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Terror of the Garrison
1931
7.5Thomas Hoffmann arrives totally penniless from the megalopolis of Chicago and settles in the small village of Groditzkirchen. He soon forged a solid reputation there and established himself in the world of business and finance thanks to his charm and his bluff, interpreting with brio and relaxation the role of the nice millionaire.
Don't Need Money
1933
The lively Anny meets the nice Dr. Jack Braun and throws everything in his life into disarray. As Jack is in the middle of divorce proceedings against his wife Renate, his lawyer and best friend Richard doesn't like the idea of a female being in his vicinity. Then Jack's heiress Frieda comes to visit, and when she finds Anny in Jack's house, she mistakes her for his wife - and finds her extremely charming. When the aunt's parrot dies, the relatives believe that the aunt has died and rush to claim the inheritance. Anny emerges victorious from all this.
Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du
1930
7.2An 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
10.0When both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Robert and Annemarie break up to elope with their respective lovers, only to be thrown together again when they show up at the justice of the peace.
Infidelities
1931
10.0Gitta 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
7.3The 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Skandal in der Parkstraße
1932
6.5No synopsis available yet.
You Will Be My Husband
1937
10.0Péter Ilosvay and Lina Vásárhelyi are wife and husband, but don't come along with each other. After the divorce they go on living under the same roof for they are unable to agree on the common wealth.
Biting Husband
1938
Short film about cheap housing
Wie wohne ich gut und billig?
1931
NRPataky Elemér arrives in the capital as a victim in his niece's divorce case. Having to meet the lawyer dr. Orbói István is, however, an alibi in an effort to get away from his quarrelsome wife, and to have some fun at the same time. He takes the lawyer with him.
This Happened in Budapest
1944
7.0A military comedy in which Annemarie is the center of attention.
Annemarie, the Bride of the Company
1932
8.0No synopsis available yet.
He and his servant
1931
8.0Showstar Csibi's mother Maria has a new suitor. In order to make Maria appear younger Csibi poses as a young brat which backfires when she meets the suitor's gorgeous brother and flirts with him while he treats her like a little child.
Csibi, der Fratz
1934
8.2On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida, the elephant. They have to play for the Hungarian Fascists, while Peti is hiding the Jew Annuska and Sanyika.
Keep Your Chin Up!
1954
7.4Evergreen comedy about a typical parvenu, an ignorant transportation entrepreneur who has suddenly found himself very rich. Despite their humble origins, his wife strives to live a sophisticated lifestyle. When she engages a butler, Hyppolit, their whole life is turned upside down. It has remained one of the most viewed Hungarian comedies of all time: it is shown regularly and is still extremely popular
Hyppolit, the Butler
1931
Her rich uncle is coming from America so a woman has a clerk in her father's store act as her husband. Until the fake husband loses his clothes while using a washroom.
The Stork Goes on Strike
1931
6.5Story of a naive kitchen maid who falls in love with a wealthy womanizer.
Catherine the Last
1936
10.0The night before his wedding George gets drunk and marries a chorus girl. Her boyfriend appears, they fight and are believed dead, so she is now "the bridegroom's widow" (die Bräutigamswitwe). When they both come back one after another they must hide from the Police as they believe they have murdered each other, while the inspector believes there are ghosts in the house.
The Bridegroom's Widow
1931
No synopsis available yet.
Es wird geheiratet
1932
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Die Herren vom Maxim
1933
6.0When an attractive maid in a garrison town becomes pregnant, she reveals that one of three soldiers stationed there who had been chasing after her, is responsible.
Three Days in the Guardhouse
1930
7.0Éva Balogh travels to Pest to attend her friend's wedding, but the wedding is cancelled because the groom backs out at the last minute (for the third time). Éva mistakenly blames Paul Murray, the world-famous pianist, for the broken marriage promise. The pianist, who changes his girlfriends frequently, mistakes the temperamental, snappy jazz girl for one of his forgotten old flames. By the time the truth comes out, Eve and Murray are in love, and another slap - now undoubtedly for Murray - can't keep them apart.
Pardon, tévedtem
1933
9.0No synopsis available yet.
A képzett beteg
1952
A mix-up in prison.
Gallows humor
1932
