Thanks a lot for all that. Yeah, it's the Pal Fejos who made the silent classic Lonesome. Here's a list i've compiled of what i take to be the most notbale or essential Hungarian films

1932 Tavaszi Zapor (Fejos)

1935 Hortobagy (Hollering)

1939 Deadly Spring (Kalmar)

1947 Valahol Europaban (Radvanyi)

1955 Merry Go Round (Fabri)

1964 My Way Home (Jancso)

1965 The Corporal and Others (Keleti)

1966 Cold Days (Kovacs)
Father (Szabo)
Round Up (Jancso)

1967 The Red and the White (Jancso)

1969 The Toth Family (Fabri)
The Witness (Bacso)

1970 The Falcons (Gaal)

1971 Love (Makk)
Red Psalm (Jancso)
Sindbad (Huszarik)

1975 Adoption (Meszaros)

1976 The Fifth Seal (Fabri)

1978 Angi Vera (P.Gabor)

1980 Confidence (Szabo)
The Fly (Rofusz)
Happy Birthday, Marilyn (Szoreny)

1981 Mephisto (Szabo)
Time Stands Still (Gothar)

1982 Another Way (Makk)
A Diary for my Children (Meszaros)

1984 Colonel Redl (Szabo)
Istvan, a Kiraly (Koltay)

1985 Sound Eroticism (Timar)

1987 A Diary for my Loves (Meszaros)

1990 A Diary for my Father and Mother (Meszaros)
Meteo (Mesz) 

1992 Junk Movie (Szomjas)
Slap-Jack (Timar)

1994 Satantango (Tarr)

1996 Wind (Ivanyi)

2000 Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)

2002 Hukkle (Palfi)

2003 Kontroll (Antal)

2005 Johanna (Mundruczo)

2006 Taxidermia (Palfi)

2007 Connections (H.Gabor)
The Man from London (Tarr)

2008 Delta (Mundruczo)