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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. ...

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 ...

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1997)

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

Colonel Kwiatkowski (1996)

Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week's leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB. He and his friend steal a truck bound for Warsaw, where among the ruins of hi ...

Oh, oh Juliet (1996)

Polish teleplay based on Ephraim Kishon's play, concerning the characters of Romeo and Juliet and their alternate fate had they survived the events of Shakespeare's play and grew old together. ...

Deborah (1995)

In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik. ...

Kamień na kamieniu (1995)

A story about the fate of post-war Polish villages. Szymon Pietruszka's life is dominated by Michał, his older brother, who left for the city before the war. There, he became involved in the leftist movement. He returned to his home village after the war ...

Meat (Ironica) (1994)

"Mieso" (Meat) is a satirical and irreverent revision of the most recent history of Poland. ...

Tu stoję... (1994)

A journalist from "Gazeta Wyborcza" recalls his investigative reports and the consequences he suffered while trying to reveal the truth. ...

Pożegnanie z Marią (1993)

On their wedding day in occupied Poland, poet Tadeusz brings Sarah, the Jewish woman he rescued from a Gestapo officer, to the celebration, only for her captor Cieślik to crash the party and force her into an impossible choice: become his lover or betray ...

Balanga (1993)

One night, a teacher is murdered. A police investigation soon leads to the deceased's true nature and two unlikely suspects. ...

Kanalia (1992)

A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge. ...

The Reformatory (1991)

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

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. ...

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. ...

Femina (1991)

The main character is Bogna, a thirty year old woman lost in her surrounding reality and unhappy in her private life. After her husband departs for a foreign scholarship, Bogna learns that her mother died. The trip to her hometown for the funeral becomes a ...

Europa Europa (1990)

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. ...

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 ...

Zmowa (1990)

Christmas Eve night of 1976. In a village in the newly formed Tarnobrzeg province, a local bus hits a young married couple and a twelve-year-old boy. In the presence of numerous witnesses, the victims are beaten to death with a wheel wrench. In the afterma ...

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 ...

Piggate (1990)

The esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig. ...

The Last Ferry (1989)

One of the passengers on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise in December 1981 is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is under surveillance of the secret police, anxious to get their hands on the info that he is carrying. When the s ...

Kornblumenblau (1989)

Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody. ...

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... ...

Decalogue III (1989)

It's Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when thei ...

Męskie sprawy (1989)

Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans. ...

Daze (1989)

An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out. ...

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. ...

Wherever You Are... (1988)

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II. ...

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. ...

King Size (1988)

The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the ...

Cyrk odjeżdża (1988)

The circus leaves 1948. In one of the towns there is a circus organized right after the liberation. A conflict arises between Kossakowski, a lion trainer, and Chamron, a horse trainer, which creates a tense atmosphere in the entire team. ...

Gwiazda Piołun (1988)

The final stage of the great artist's life, a stage in which Witkacy decides to destroy himself. A growing sense of danger, the futility of all actions, and fear of what is to come accompany him constantly during his escape from Warsaw to the East at the o ...

Komediantka (1987)

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters. ...

Jak się pozbyć czarnego kota? (1986)

A young engineer notices that bad luck is haunting him. The man comes to the conclusion that the source of the misfortune is his wife, Christine. He decides to take decisive steps to remedy this. ...

Vabank II (1985)

A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager. ...

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 ...

Fucha (1985)

Stonemasons take part in the restoration of a historic tomb. ...

Fort 13 (1984)

A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War. ...

An Uneventful Story (1983)

A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not l ...

Daimler-Benz Limousine (1983)

Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing with the aftermath in their own way - one resorts to art, ...

Thursdays for the Poor (1982)

A young doctor has been assigned to a hospital in the provinces, in the lakes district of northern Poland. The area is a playground with hunting lodges for the priviledged, the local politicians cover up any leaks to the public. The doctor discovers a case ...

Shivers (1981)

A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts. ...

The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)

Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Idem as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greate ...

Vabank (1981)

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstab ...

Zamach stanu (1981)

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski's country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal's return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski's move spark ...

Wizja lokalna 1901 (1981)

More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish border with Prussia. Poland was partitioned at this time, and a rigidly patriotic Prussian teacher in Wrzesnia f ...

Bołdyn (1981)

Laureat (1980)

Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home. ...

Bezpośrednie połączenie (1979)

The marital argument is interrupted by a phone call with a desperate cry for help. ...

Placówka (1979)

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not ...

Pies (1979)

The short film takes place on the set of a costume drama. The main character is an extra—one of the soldiers climbing a pile of earth in full uniform. The emaciated man steals a hare, for which he is fired from his job. The director believes that he coul ...