Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak

Cat (2022)

Daughter comes to her father's apartment to feed the cat and water the flowers in his absence. However, the animal makes trouble, and the teenager discovers a secret hidden from her. ...

The Devil (2022)

According to researches made throughout 1990s by the Institute for Public Opinion Research (OBOP) approximately 95% of Poles identified themselves as a believers. At the same time unemployment rates reached record values. In times of crisis, when people so ...

(Nie)znajomi (2019)

A group of seven friends come together for dinner. What starts out as a normal evening, evolves into something else when they decide to play a game and read all text messages aloud and answer all phone calls on speakerphone... ...

Pitbull. Last Dog (2018)

A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime. Meanwhile, a conflict between local gangster groups escalates. ...

Double Trouble (2017)

A young girl, her new friend and his dog try to find a long-lost Picasso painting in an abandoned house before a gang of burglars seize it. ...

Whisky with Milk (2010)

A story of some love. Is love and life always dependent on chance? Or perhaps from destiny? The problem of the loneliness of the individual among people and the low sensitivity of society towards the underprivileged by fate. ...

Demakijaż (2009)

A feature film consisting of three half-hour films: "Non Stop Color" directed by Maria Sadowska, "Internal Road" directed by Dorota Lamparska, and "Room for Speed Dating" directed by Anna Maliszewska. All three films were made as part of the "30 minutes" p ...

Sweet Rush (2009)

As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama. ...

Scratch (2008)

Joanna and Jan's marriage seems happy. After the birthday party is over, Joanna unwraps the gifts she received. One of them is a videotape with a recording of a regional TV program, during which a historian named Marczak tells about Jan's cooperation with ...

Wednesday, Thursday Morning (2008)

On August 1, the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, two young people, lost and alone, are looking for happiness and their way in life. ...

What the Sun Saw (2006)

Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true. ...

Ode to Joy (2006)

Three stories of young disillusioned Poles of different background and region of origin. What binds them together is that they all meet on the bus to London shortly after Poland's entry into EU. ...

Droga wewnętrzna (2006)

A man awakes in his apartment but is stopped from leaving by an invisible line. ...

Pitbull (2005)

Police officers from the Warsaw Homicide Department are trying to arrest a dangerous Armenian criminal. ...

Happy Man (2000)

The story of three people and their complicated emotional relationship. A mother and her 30-year-old son live in a poor neighborhood in a big city. She is having trouble finding a job, he is having trouble finding his way in modern realities. The mother's ...

The Call (1997)

Based on the facts, the story of Dr. Barbara Makowska-Witkowska, arrested in 1983 by the civil militia. She was accused of beating up and stealing a drunk patient's wallet. ...

The Ring with a Crowned Eagle (1992)

A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power. ...

300 Miles to Heaven (1989)

Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark. ...

Inner State (1989)

December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV journa ...

Art of Loving (1989)

Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist... ...

Kill Me, Cop (1988)

The story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run and the cop who put him behind the bars the first time around. ...

Masquerade (1987)

The well-known actor, Michael Barczewski, returns after a long break to the stage. He tells reporter the story of Jack Burda, a young promising actor who took his profession a bit too serious and played his own death... ...

Hülyeség nem akadály (1986)

Funeral Ceremony (1985)

After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons... ...

Powinowactwo (1984)

1982, martial law is in force. Krzysztof works as a teacher. Since his wife Gosia left for a scholarship in Baltimore, he has been living alone. He misses her and often writes letters to her. He hopes that she will leave Poland and join him, but at the mom ...

Vieras (1984)

A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman. ...

Another Way (1982)

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva gets a job as a journalist. There, she meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesi ...

Exit 7 (1978)

A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airp ...

Sam na sam (1977)

"Alone"- A psychological and moral drama dealing with the crisis of feelings in interpersonal relations. Young heroes, basing their relationship on a program-based resignation from emotional involvement, under the influence of a tragic accident, change th ...

Madame Bovary, That's Me (1977)

Anna, a stay-at-home mom stifled by the tedium of domestic life, becomes obsessed with Flaubert's Madame Bovary and yearns for her own grand romance. In a bid to escape her loneliness she splurges her savings on fashion and cosmetics and arranges a secret ...

Znikąd donikąd (1975)

The Home Army's battles against the communist authorities in the Żywiec region. ...

Nachtdienst (1975)

A young doctor from Yugoslavia takes care of a rich baroness, who in carefully devised ways, attempts to destroy her dignity. An intimate drama about the search for self-esteem by humiliating others. ...

A Girl and the Pigeons (1974)

Edek, a teenager on the cusp of adulthood finds his first crush in Basia. His father, guilt stricken after the war took his wife and two daughters believes that his son falling in love will take his son away from him and desperately tries to put an end to ...

Sobie król (1974)

A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker. ...

Awards and Decorations (1974)

A wartime drama set in a 1944 military hospital where wounded officers and staff from opposing political camps confront ideological conflict and moral uncertainty. ...

Ostatni liść (1973)

A suggestive, lyrical story about friendship, loneliness and illusory hope. ...

To Kill This Love (1972)

A dramatization of problems faced by a young couple in 1970's Poland - job uncertainty, conflicts with parents, living together, unfaithfulness. ...