Béla Tarr Movies

In this hypnotic odyssey, the ancient monasteries of Armenia’s highlands bear traces of epochs past. Landscapes give way to soundscapes, and...

A student film by Béla Tarr, from 1979. Presumed lost until very recently.

Documentary about a hostel for workers. An old worker suspected of stealing a motor gets fired from the factory and must leave the hostel.

A 5 minute dolly shot of people waiting in line for food filmed in beautiful black and white accompanied by music by Mihály Vig. This short...

Miners in a Bosnian coal mine. The camera silently watches over the miners working tirelessly amidst endless noise and the flickering light of...

Video chronicle of a dinner at the iconic Intervilles café in the French town Roubaix, where Béla Tarr is hanging out together with his...

The last ship (Utolsó hajó) is leaving the quay. Sirens are sounding.

Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) writers, directors, actors, musicians talk about...

In the closed world of a Catholic monastery shortly after World War II the post-war insecurity exacerbates the walls. A new world order has arrived....

A man, a child, two wars, a river, a tree. A man and a child meet under a tree on a river bank, sharing the same memory and a secret. They find in...

Presents moving images of society’s outsiders, the impoverished and oppressed, whose lives are contrasted with the opulent surroundings of...

The experiment presents a cinematic poem to filmmaking and film itself. Directed by eleven filmmakers, all under the vision of Bela Tarr's...

Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr and film critic Howard Feinstein discuss his innovative filmography, punctuated by clips from his films.

On her regular day at work, Paola starts to feel that she is missing out something exciting.

Juli (26), an anxious and introverted woman, falls in love with the free-spirited Noá (32), and finds herself in a lesbian relationship for...

Two starving kids find a dead body in the ruins during the apocalypse.

A cowherd, sheep, and the wind, all have an equal presence in the village. Death and life are one and indivisible.

A young boy plays an accordion in a shopping mall. Béla Tarr picks up the camera one more time to shoot his very last scene. It is his anger...

A filthy Con-Man stumbles into an old Balkan village where he tries to win the people by calling himself a doctor.