
Acting
Eszter Ónodi
Born
1973-02-17 (53)
Place of birth
Budapest, Hungary
Known for
Acting
Credits
45 titles
Eszter Ónodi is a Hungarian stage, film and television actress. She's a graduate of the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, Hungary.
Known for
7.0Harry Houdini emerges as America's first bonafide world-renowned superstar.
Houdini
2014
7.5The story of János Hunyadi is the epic tale of a hero born into modest circumstances, who, in 1456, with relentless determination and against all odds, vanquished the much larger Ottoman army, halting its drive to conquer the Vatican and overrun Western Europe. In so doing, Hunyadi not only shaped the history of Hungary, but that of all Europe.
Rise of the Raven
2025
6.3In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, sisters Freja and Anne make a solemn promise to seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. Everything comes to a head in the heart of Stockholm, where the sisters are drawn into a ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark that culminates in a mass execution, presided over by the mad King "Christian the Tyrant," known as the Stockholm Bloodbath.
Stockholm Bloodbath
2024
6.5The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Sunshine
1999
7.2The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
2002
8.0Shamed by his father's dying words, con man Attila Miklosi tries to go straight but eventually succumbs to pressure from his demanding wife Janka and his boss, Endre Hollos, and returns to his life of crime. When his son tries to follow him into the criminal underworld, Attila questions if he will be able to shield the boy.
Golden Life
2015
Film credits
2020s · 9 titles
6.3In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, sisters Freja and Anne make a solemn promise to seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. Everything comes to a head in the heart of Stockholm, where the sisters are drawn into a ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark that culminates in a mass execution, presided over by the mad King "Christian the Tyrant," known as the Stockholm Bloodbath.
Stockholm Bloodbath
2024
6.9Tony has been glowing since the day he was born and it causes him a lot of trouble. Just before the Christmas, a new odd girl with thick glasses moves into Tony’s house. Shelly has a strange way of expressing herself. Tony is fascinated by her but he is also being cautious at first. Together with Shelly’s flashlight, they explore their house and they are slowly getting to know each other. The kids have to join all their efforts to figure out who’s behind the circuit of dark cracks that sucks out all the light bulbs, even the daylight. It must be because of the “Spirit of the house”. A film about being different, about friendship, and first loves… But above all about light and darkness.
Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light
2023
NRLaci, the aging ex-deejay runs a record store. The worn down shop's basement doubles as a club, where Peti, the young DJ plays on the weekends. Or rather he would, if Laci let him.
Disco Dictator
2021
NRA synchronized swimming coach and her daughter prepare for an important performance as the girl struggles more and more under the mounting pressure. When the coach's ex-husband, the club president, asks for their daughter to step back, it becomes clear how far they are willing to go for their dreams.
Reflections
2026
NRA frame-for-frame remake of the famous Shower Scene of Hitchcock's Psycho with 60 actresses for its 60th anniversary, a different actress in each shot.
Psycho 60
2020
After more than 50 years of longing, Marika Barta decides to reach out for her first love, the former dance band member. Marika's six years old granddaughter, Manka persuades her to visit the lost sweetheart.
Manka and Marika
2021
NRHungary’s best chef pushes her cooks to the brink of insanity. Dani has been working relentlessly for many years, and sacrificed everything for recognition… to no avail. In his final desperation, he makes an alliance with a senior colleague and prepares for something radical. Frustration, beetroot purée and terror - SATAN is a high-voltage tale about the price of extreme ambition.
SATAN
2023
NRNightmares submerge into reality and intertwine as we follow the everyday lives of ordinary people living in a parallel reality called The Quarantine Zone during the pandemic lockdown of 2020/21.
A Karantén Zóna
2022
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bereményi kalapja
2022
2010s · 7 titles
NRSome wounds never heal. In a rundown Central European town, the everyday lives of three working people are violently disrupted: a boy goes missing, a woman is stalked, and a man comes face to face with the killer of his child.
Run to Ground
2011
5.5Three women from three generations are forced together, mentored by an old diva and a transvestite, to form a band. They are successful on stage, but off of it they are not getting along at all.
Swing
2014
5.3Over the course of four generations, a family in Hungary confronts poverty, political turmoil and a life that's perpetually on the move.
Mom and Other Loonies in the Family
2015
6.2This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on real-life events, an Eastern European circus artist family that fled to the West. If they want to stay in the circus business they have to make up an exotic act. The mother spends all their money to buy a very dangerous act: hanging by her hair high up in the dome of the circus while juggling with burning torches. Every night Aglaja is terrified by the fear of losing her mother. But, on some day, she has to follow the family tradition and become the "Woman with the Hair of Steel".
Aglaya
2012
4.0Drop dead please! Following the sudden death of a mysterious engine driver in his sixties, the Wife, the Lover, her illegitimate Daughter and an increasing number of shady characters from his spurious past want to know the true identity of the man they loved. They are dying to know which of them was really loved by him, and where he has hidden the fantastic fruit of his double life. In their deadly struggle, our heroes find themselves in the center of a satirical crime comedy, the sinful roots of which stretch back to the eighties, the closing decade of the socialist era.
Just Drop Dead!
2016
6.0Brothers Tamás, Ákos and András find themselves in deeper trouble than ever after swindler Alex drains them into a chase for a priceless stolen stamp. With both the police and rival mafia crews, Baláék and Toniék, on their tail, they’re joined by Eszter and Timi as everyone races against the clock. Their fortunes, and perhaps their lives, depend on whether they can outwit both friends and enemies, and escape unscathed.
A Kind of America 3
2018
7.9Gergő’s mother is obsessed with having a grandchild. She has a serious heart disease and has only days left to live. To give his mum some joy during her final hours, Gergő asks his neighbour Saci, who is five months pregnant, to visit his mother in hospital with him and tell her that she is carrying his child. It all goes smoothly, but a new heart arrives, and his mum is operated. Therefore, Gergő and Saci are forced to play the roles of the loving couple.
Neither with You
2019
2000s · 17 titles
8.5The film takes place in a present-day small Hungarian village in the middle of nowhere. Strangers hardly ever come to this place, everything outside of it seems to be in another world for the inhabitants. But one day everything changes, when a stranger from Budapest enters the pub. He is on his way to a vacation in Portugal and wants to spend some days in this village. He soon starts a love affair with the pub owner's daughter. The ex-policeman of the village doesn't like this at all...
Portugal
2000
6.8Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary – an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.
Hukkle
2002
After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved in by the real estate mafia, an unexpected relationship brings hope into her life again.
The Eighth Day of the Week
2006
6.5The three brothers, Akos, Tamas and Andras - known from the first part - try to get back their 60 million forints stolen by impostor Alex who ran away with the money and the girlfriend of the oldest brother.
A Kind of America 2
2008
Directed, written, and co-produced by Zoltan Kamondi), Kisertesek ("Temptations") illustrates the struggle between ancient traditions and the modern world of restless young Marci (Marcell Miklos), a fatherless young man who is considered somewhat of an outcast within the community.
Temptations
2002
5.3Sacra Corona is a historical feature film released to commemorate the millennium of the state's founding. The story deals with the 11th-century throne struggles of the House of Árpád.
Sacra Corona
2001
6.1Tamás is a young, Budapest-based director of video clips and commercials who dreams of directing his...
A Kind of America
2002
8.5A collage of human fates, where all shown characters are suffering from panic attacks. Stories like a policeman who is willing to come out or a young business woman who achieved her life goals too early.
Panic
2008
6.4János is a 35 years old, rich, succesful single man, who plans to go on a long vacation with his brand new car, but he happens to fall in love at first sight…
The Dream Car
2000
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Rap, revü, Rómeó
2004
5.0Kata, in her 20s, loses her boyfriend and her job on the same day. She's been indulging in fantasies of a more thrilling romantic life, and the cold water of being alone and unemployed doesn't entirely dampen her imagination. She's egged on by three girlfriends who get together to talk about men and sex. Kata has possibilities: she meets David, a medical student; there's Tamás, a stranger on a train who might be good for a relationship and a job. There's also Miki, her brother who's had serious drug problems. Is fulfillment within her grasp?
Stop Mom Theresa!
2004
3.4No one is happier than Ondris, who is celebrating his bachelor party and wedding, as his fondest dream has come true: he has won the hand of his beloved, his father's ward, Jadwiga, who was educated in Germany, and has been able to lure this irresistibly attractive but dangerously mysterious woman home. On the one hand, there is the playful but explosively intense physical and emotional passion of a young puppy, and on the other, the sincere, feminine longing for loving devotion and a joyful marriage, which at first may still inspire hope. But soon the threads begin to become entangled...
Jadviga's Pillow
2000
5.3After a mass-collision in the morning rush, people from different backgrounds are forced to directly interact with each other.
Pile-Up
2009
4.2The tumultuous history of Hungary through the twentieth century is viewed through the saga of the Hungarian-Jewish, furniture-manufacturing family, the Vendels. After taking over the once successful, but now failing, family business in the 1930s, the family patriarch's dashing elder son decides that the family needs an infusion of new blood. A matchmaker presents him with a photo of a pretty German nursery school teacher. When the two meet, they instantly fall in love, but because Hungary has an alliance with Germany, and the Third Reich prohibits marriage between Gentiles and Jews, the couple must hide their union. Their marriage ultimately stands as a dark foreshadowing of rougher times to come as troubles ensue with the advent of World War II, when the family, its employees and servants must retreat to the basement, where the shop emerges increasingly as a refuge in a world growing more violent and less tolerant.
Glamour
2000
6.2A twentysomething girl has lost the love of her life. Or maybe she hasn't.
Lora
2007
10.0What can you expect from a 30-year-old man? Have a good job, car, house, wife, kids. And how is András doing on his 30th birthday? He's an excellent saxophonist and he has a brain, but no money, no wife, no car. In fact, he has never made love to two women at the same time in his life. He decides to make up for it in one day. By the time the candles on his birthday cake are lit at home in the evening, he wants to be done with all the things he should be. With precise plans, he sets off on his big adventure in the morning. The girl for a wife Andrew meets is a real mystery: she plays with men, lies a lot, cheats even more, and sometimes steals a little. No order, but her smile is irresistible...
Happy Birthday
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kész cirkusz
2005
1990s · 4 titles
6.5The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Sunshine
1999
4.0The story is set in the present day. László Sziráki, a womanizer and chemistry professor, is searching for the secret of making gold, but one component is missing. He wants fame and a solution to his financial problems. When he meets Esthena, an eccentric philosopher who wants to lose her virginity, he succeeds in turning plastic into gold. But he, a shrewish and shrewd man, does not recognise the exceptional nature of this encounter and pushes her away. Sophika, the wise grandmother of Syracuse, also meets Esthena: she sees her as a kindred spirit and assigns her to her grandson. But in the meantime, Mr. Maci, Esthéna's bumfordian and buffalo-loving gladiator knight, who will do anything for the girl, begins to pursue the alchemist out of jealousy. Will Syracuse find the answer to the alchemist's question? And is making gold even important?
The Alchemist and the Virgin
1998
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Espresso
1998
7.6A pirate radio, the girl next door, and a test of friendship.
Pirates
1999
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
7.0Harry Houdini emerges as America's first bonafide world-renowned superstar.
Houdini
2014
7.5The story of János Hunyadi is the epic tale of a hero born into modest circumstances, who, in 1456, with relentless determination and against all odds, vanquished the much larger Ottoman army, halting its drive to conquer the Vatican and overrun Western Europe. In so doing, Hunyadi not only shaped the history of Hungary, but that of all Europe.
Rise of the Raven
2025
7.2The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
2002
8.0Shamed by his father's dying words, con man Attila Miklosi tries to go straight but eventually succumbs to pressure from his demanding wife Janka and his boss, Endre Hollos, and returns to his life of crime. When his son tries to follow him into the criminal underworld, Attila questions if he will be able to shield the boy.
Golden Life
2015
6.8Families come in all shapes and sizes Dávid, a 24-year-old ordinary slacker, finds his life turned upside down when he meets the girl of his dreams - Eszter - and her three kids. 'Korhatáros szerelem' is a light-hearted, feel-good family drama which demonstrates one of the realities of modern life - that families come in all different shapes and sizes. In this series, home is where the heart is - even if that home is crammed full of kids, teenagers, ex-mother-in-laws and hangers-on. Can this unconventional relationship survive the age difference and the pressures of the multi-generational household? Can Dávid step up (no pun intended) and be a proper parent? Should he even try to? Can this unruly bunch live happily ever after as one big happy family?
Korhatáros szerelem
2017
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Bogaras szülők
2018
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Puskás Öcsi és Barátai
2020

