His films, including 'Satantango' and 'The Turin Horse,' with their long takes and stark black-and-white visuals, were a major influence on arthouse cinema, including on Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant.

Béla Tarr, the Hungarian arthouse director best known for his bleak, existential and challenging films, including Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, has died at the age of 70. The Hungarian ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary(AP) — The celebrated Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, director of such works as “Sátántangó” and “The Turin Horse” and the recipient of numerous awards for his long and often darkly ...

Lajos Koltai's period drama tells the story of Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures known as "the savior of mothers." By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau ...

To label the Hungarian movie Fateless a Holocaust drama implies the type of tragic and heartbreaking story that might make audiences wonder why they should — and whether they can — sit through its ...

It’s okay to be slightly afraid of Hungarian movies. Even critics don’t necessarily relish the thought of them, or look upon Budapest as a hotbed of filmmaking. As a matter of fact, it’s hard to ...

This all changed in the early 2010s, when Hungarian-born producer Andy Vajna, the man behind "Terminator," and "Rambo," helped Hungary break into the modern movie business when he took over as the ...