Jan Peszek

The Doll (2026)

Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. His unfulfilled love leads to many foolish decisions sealing his fate. ...

Grandpa, Let's Go! (2025)

One day Grandpa Jeremi causes such a commotion in the retirement home that he is threatened with transfer to a psychiatric hospital. Marta, his daughter, agrees to take him in, although this is difficult for her, since Jeremi is unpredictable and has a viv ...

Inheritance (2024)

When their rich uncle passes, his mansion of intricate puzzles becomes the backdrop for his estranged family's quest to secure a portion of his wealth. ...

Film for Aliens (2024)

Fourteen-year-old Jeremi is a YouTuber. His father works in a space agency and promised to show him a rocket launch, but plans changed at the eleventh hour, and he called off the trip. Instead, the teenager is sent to his grandpa in the countryside. To dra ...

You Should Not Exist (2023)

Seventeen-year-old Marianna tries to meet the challenge of finding her place in the world of her father, with whom she has had no contact for a long time. The two work to get to know each other again and rebuild their neglected relationship. ...

Letters to Santa 5 (2022)

Wojciech, who does not feel the ubiquitous joyful atmosphere, meets someone who changes his holiday plans. In turn, Karina and Szczepan get embroiled in a fight for an inheritance that may divide even their loved ones. They will see if the only thing that ...

Wrong Approach (2021)

Three generations of one family go for a ride together to teach the youngest how to drive a car. The son cannot control the car, and the father's nervousness makes it even worse. Grandfather decides to take over the role of the teacher, but will this chang ...

The Passage (2021)

A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria's own death reaches her with delay. ...

Clergyman (2019)

Julius (2018)

An organised arts teacher has only one main problem in life, which is his father – a painter always going from one party to the next. When the father lives through his second heart attack and still refuses to change his lifestyle, Julius will have to fin ...

Amok (2017)

A man is murdered, but the person responsible avoids being discovered and arrested. A few years later a police inspector suspects he has found evidence in a newly-published book entitled "Amok". ...

Just Friendship (2017)

A multi-layered, touching comedy about a group of friends whose relationships - in the face of life adversities - are exposed to more than one test. Filip risks his face and career for the whim of a crazy collector of Jadźka buttons. The sedate professor ...

Stanisław Lem: Autor Solaris (2016)

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in science fiction literature involved in mysteries and paradoxes that need to be enlightened. ...

The King of Life (2015)

Edward is a perpetually irritable man - snappish with his wife, impatient with his daughter, and distant from his elderly father - until a serious accident jolts him into abandoning his old life to rediscover his family and the world around him. Without tr ...

Influence (2015)

A story about the key events of the Wielkopolska Uprising - a dramatic arrival of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań, and the people who prepared the uprising, fought in it and won. ...

Polish Shit (2014)

Reactivated music band "The Transistors" sets off for a tour organized by their new manager, debt collector Czeslaw Skandal. Their bus is driven by a friend, Stan Gudeyko, - once a leader of the legendary punk-rock formation "Yperite". On their tour, music ...

Gwiazda Kopernika (2009)

Nicolaus Copernicus, the son of a Toruń merchant, is a bright and curious child. When he is ten years old, the Dutch astrologer Paul van de Volder predicts a great future for him, which develops in the boy an interest in the stars. Paul van de Volder reap ...

Figo Fago (2008)

Ryszard Gaj and Damian Palocion are the pride of the capital's police precinct, hardened by tough cases and equally challenging romances. No one charges into action like they do, no one backs up their partner so fiercely, and with nerves of steel and well- ...

The Welts (2004)

Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has taken the brunt of his stressed father's frustrations with him; the boy frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, bond with him, but soon ...

SPAM (2004)

A young man is hospitalized in a coma. His case is a mystery to the doctors, because the patient, from a medical point of view completely healthy, is close to death. ...

King Ubu (2004)

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country. ...

Eucalyptus (2002)

A story about the search for an ideal in a world devoid of values. It is a surreal parable about human nature, played out in the convention of a Western, in which the myth of the Wild West is put to the ultimate test of endurance. In the Wild West's most d ...

Listy miłosne (2001)

Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of this bitter and disillusioned woman. Teresa doesn't have the courage to tell him how she feels, and he also ...

Darmozjad polski (1998)

A slice of life type movie. A main plot goes around showing common behavior and psychological portraits of inhabitants of a typical little town in Poland. ...

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1997)

A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. ...

The Day of the Big Fish (1997)

A mature man recalls his youthful love and comes to the town where he once met a woman who was important to him. However, it is hard to turn back time. ...

Nocne graffiti (1997)

Marek Kossot, a special forces soldier, discovers that his niece Monica is a drug addict. Wanting to cut the girl off from the source of the goods, he tries to intimidate her dealer and also her boyfriend, a certain Coke. The drug bosses are alarmed by Mar ...

A Gentle Creature (1996)

A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her dead body and bringing back memories from their past. ...

Les Milles (1995)

In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promise ...

Death as a Slice of Bread (1994)

Katowice, the night of December 12-13, 1981. Military units occupy strategic points in the city. A group of Zomovniks, smashing union security, drags the chairman of the Company Commission of the NSZZ Solidarity in the Wujek mine out of his apartment. The ...

Straszny sen Dzidziusia Górkiewicza (1994)

Further fate of Dzidzius Górkiewicz, the protagonist of Andrzej Munk's film "Eroica". After retiring, Górkiewicz moved to a small town near Warsaw. After years filled with doing numerous, not always clean businesses, he leads a quiet, honest life of a pr ...

Guilty of Innocence (1992)

This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead ...

The Reformatory (1991)

Magda, a novice director, makes a film about the behavior of young people in extreme situations - specifically, in a correctional home. ...

V.I.P. (1991)

Roman is a young, talented composer, but he is constantly plagued by bad luck. He earns extra money by anonymously writing music for his less talented colleagues. One day, he meets a friend from school who promises him a generous reward for doing him a sma ...

Panny i wdowy (1991)

Maidens and Widows is an epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events. ...

30 Door Key (1991)

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz. ...

Eminent Domain (1991)

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events. ...

Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe (1991)

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. ...

Wedding Guests (1991)

A female photographer from Western Europe drives through Poland and stops in a village. By chance, her eye is caught by the arrival of a wedding party. This marks the point of departure for several stories which unfold during the course of the wedding. ...

Escape from the Liberty Cinema (1990)

The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities ...

Farewell to Autumn (1990)

Atanazy Bazakbal navigates a destructive love triangle between his innocent fiancée Zofia and the decadent Hela Bertz while seeking meaning through hedonism. As their personal lives unravel, a communist revolution sweeps through Poland, crushing the arist ...

Korczak (1990)

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. ...

Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach (1990)

During the "winter of the century," impatient passengers wait for the train to arrive at the station in Koluszki. Railway communications are disrupted. At the same time, a train is stuck in snowdrifts near Koluszki. The atmosphere in its carriages is cheer ...

Upstairs, Downstairs (1989)

Young artist arrives at Zakopane and meets local people. ...

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988)

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself. ...

Bermuda Triangle (1988)

Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness. ...

Swan Song (1988)

After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success: "The Flame". The tired protagonist goes back to his wife, actress Ewa, who is eagerly awaiting him. Ewa goes ...

Private investigation (1987)

Rafal Skonecki loses his family in a car accident, caused by a drunken driver. When he is informed that the investigation is discontinued, he decides to take justice into his own hand. ...

Zapomniany diabeł (1985)

Zapomniany diabeł (czes. Dalskabáty, hříšná ves aneb Zapomenutý čert) – sztuka teatralna czeskiego prozaika i dramaturga Jana Drdy z 1960 roku. ...

Write and Fight (1985)

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband. ...

Pierwsza miłość (1985)

Story about youthful love ...

Ostrze na ostrze (1983)

The action of the film takes place in the 17th century. Piotr Wolski returns to the country and is appointed juridic governor. A man tries to rule fairly and restore order. He soon falls in love with Konstancja, but his background causes problems. ...

Podróż do Arabii (1980)

Anna is a seemingly content thirty-year-old wife and mother whose orderly life is upended when a rejected young suitor's suicide attempt lands him in the psychiatric ward where she's drawn into his recovery. ...

Epizod (1979)

Żelazna obroża (1976)

Kozyra - a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young Błażyce is successful. ...

Szerokiej drogi, kochanie (1972)

A character study of a group of people stuck in each other's company during a long night in a small roadside garage. ...

Signs on the Road (1970)

A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace. ...