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Deserter's Gold (1998)

"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mis ...

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. ...

The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the up ...

Kalina (1991)

Doccumentary about the PRL Icon, Kalina Jędrusik. A renowned theatre and film actress, as well as a singer, stole many people's hearts, although she lived a life full of controversy. ...

Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop (1988)

An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue. ...

Hanussen (1988)

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients ...

Special Mission (1987)

In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland. ...

H.M. Deserters (1986)

Set in 1918, this World War I drama follows a group of Austro-Hungarian soldiers—Czechs, Jews, Italians, and others—confined in a provincial barracks under German officers. Subjected to the cruelty of a sadistic lieutenant, they rebel, humiliate him, a ...

Sons and Comrades (1986)

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests ...

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985)

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterio ...

The Ambulance Will Come (1983)

After being transferred to a new position, the young doctor becomes the target of harassment by her colleagues. ...

Levin's Mill (1980)

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner, secretly opens the dam gates and floods the mill of his Jewish rival Levin. After his business is ruined an ...

Mazepa (1976)

King Jan Kazimierz, Mazepa, a young Cossack from the king's entourage, and Zbigniew, the voivode's son from his first marriage, are all in love with Amelia, the voivode's wife. Dramatic coincidences and misunderstandings lead to a tragic ending. Zbigniew c ...

The Promised Land (1975)

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a facto ...

Nos (1971)

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted. ...

The Woodpecker (1971)

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away. ...

The Pier (1969)

After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves his wife as he engages in a series of drunken escapades. ...

The Doll (1968)

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended t ...

Jowita (1967)

Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed with her, even when he finds seemingly true love in Agnieszka. ...

Where Is the Third King? (1967)

Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves. ...

Odwiedziny o zmierzchu (1966)

A widower confuses the door and accidentally comes to the house of a lady bored of her lover. ...

A Cure for Love (1966)

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to wo ...

Zawsze w niedziele (1966)

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at co ...

Penguin (1965)

A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party. ...

Heat (1964)

Two Elderly Men are asked by the Prime Minister to take care of the city for one day. During this time, they have to deal with the heat, a diplomatic conflict, a love rivalry, and a lack of water. They do it in their style – with a song. ...

How to Be Loved (1963)

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. ...

Spóźnieni przechodnie (1962)

Five short stories. (1) "Czas przybliża, czas oddala" – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Anna and, years later, writes to her sister Zofia, mistaking her for Anna. (2) "Krąg istnienia" – A girl falls for Wacek at an ice rink; pressured by fa ...

Opening Tomorrow (1962)

A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous. ...

Hospital (1962)

Confined to a hospital room, a seemingly healthy man endures a surreal night as his space is invaded by a procession of bizarre, dreamlike visitors—many linked to the imagery of railroads. Blurring reality with hallucination, the film transforms the ward ...

Dziś w nocy umrze miasto (1961)

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945. ...

Księżyc z Alabamy (1961)

Innocent Sorcerers (1960)

A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. ...

The Return (1960)

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him. ...

Signals (1959)

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife. ...

Kalosze szczęścia (1958)

Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situ ...

Free City (1958)

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II. ...

Ewa Wants to Sleep (1958)

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thie ...