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Polish Cinema
Top 500 films from Poland (out of 814 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Therion: Live Gothic | 2,008 | Unknown | Music | 9.5 | 18 | English | Live Gothic is the title of a live album recorded in Poland by Swedish symphonic metal band Therion released on July 25, 2008. The album is released on two CDs and one DVD. |
| Faustina: Love and Mercy | 2,019 | Michał Kondrat | Drama, Documentary | 8.5 | 64 | Polish | Docudrama tracing the life of Saint Faustina Kowalska, whose visions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Apostle of Divine Mercy". |
| Loving Vincent | 2,017 | DK Welchman | Animation, Drama, Mystery, History | 8 | 2,567 | English | A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. |
| Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream | 2,019 | Miki Wecel | Documentary | 8 | 15 | English | A documentary detailing the journey it took two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream, creating the world's first fully painted feature film. |
| Forgotten Love | 2,023 | Michał Gazda | Drama, Romance | 7.9 | 342 | Polish | A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past. |
| Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So... | 1,995 | Krzysztof Wierzbicki | Documentary | 7.9 | 13 | Polish | Director and writer Krzysztof Kieslowski shares his views on life, people, politics, and comments a little about some of his films in a very casual conversation. |
| A Short Film About Love | 1,988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 407 | Polish | 19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, an... |
| The Saragossa Manuscript | 1,966 | Wojciech Has | Fantasy, Mystery, History | 7.8 | 147 | Polish | During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather. |
| Our Folks | 1,967 | Sylwester Chęciński | Comedy | 7.8 | 114 | Polish | Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms. |
| Teddy Bear | 1,981 | Stanisław Bareja | Comedy | 7.8 | 94 | Polish | En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages. |
| Talking Heads | 1,980 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary | 7.8 | 84 | Polish | People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life. |
| A Man Thing | 2,001 | Sławomir Fabicki | Drama | 7.8 | 13 | Polish | 13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannized by his soccer coach, the boy finds his only friend in an old dying stray dog. |
| The Champion | 2,021 | Maciej Barczewski | Drama, History, War | 7.7 | 211 | Polish | It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp officers force him to fight in the ring for his and other prisoners’ lives. However, his every win strengthens the hope that Nazis are not invincible. Auschwitz officers notice the growing resistance. The confrontation with the authorities of the camp becomes inevitable. |
| Gods | 2,014 | Łukasz Palkowski | Drama, History | 7.7 | 166 | Polish | Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa. |
| On the Silver Globe | 1,989 | Andrzej Żuławski | Science Fiction, Drama | 7.7 | 163 | Polish | A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. |
| Kanal | 1,957 | Andrzej Wajda | War, Drama | 7.7 | 152 | Polish | In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed. |
| Man - Woman Wanted | 1,973 | Stanisław Bareja | Comedy | 7.7 | 71 | Polish | Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters. |
| 25 Years of Innocence | 2,020 | Jan Holoubek | Drama, History | 7.7 | 43 | Polish | Tomasz Komenda was 23 years old when his normal life was brutally interrupted. Overnight he was arrested, thrown into prison and charged with murder. Subsequent expert opinions confirmed his participation in the crime, and any evidence was against him. For nearly two decades in prison, he was beaten, intimidated, humiliated and on his own. Finally, after 18 years of imprisonment, prosecutors and a policeman appeared on his way, who decided to discover the truth behind the mysterious case of the detainee. |
| Proceder | 2,019 | Michał Węgrzyn | Drama | 7.7 | 36 | Polish | The true story of rapper Tomasz Chada, a block‐born poet whose raw, brutally honest lyrics mirror his talent for falling into serious trouble. His life, defined by music as both passion and refuge, ends in unexplained circumstances, shocking his fans and the girlfriend he loved. |
| Papusza | 2,013 | Krzysztof Krauze | Drama, History | 7.7 | 34 | Polish | The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski. |
| Re - The God of Sun | 1,970 | Henryk Ryszka | Animation | 7.7 | 23 | Polish | A swarm of slaves in ancient Egypt moves massive boulders to erect a statue of Re, the god of the sun. Erecting impressive structures required knowledge and exact measurements. However, the statue's massive hand falls down and crushes the builders. The statue has been awe-inspiring for many centuries. Meditations on the religious nature of man. |
| Paweł & Gaweł | 1,938 | Mieczysław Krawicz | Comedy | 7.7 | 10 | Polish | Two neighbours with similar names, Paweł and Gaweł, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Paweł learns she's not a child anymore, he falls in love with her. And vice versa. |
| A Short Film About Killing | 1,988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Crime, Drama | 7.6 | 388 | Polish | Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive. |
| Day of the Wacko | 2,002 | Marek Koterski | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 | 225 | Polish | It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently. |
| Killer | 1,997 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy, Action, Crime | 7.6 | 168 | Polish | An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs. |
| Vabank | 1,981 | Juliusz Machulski | Crime, Comedy, History | 7.6 | 119 | Polish | 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, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it. |
| Mother Joan of the Angels | 1,961 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Drama, Horror | 7.6 | 110 | Polish | A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons. |
| Small World | 2,021 | Patryk Vega | Crime, Action, Drama | 7.6 | 109 | Polish | After disappearing from a small Polish town, a mother discovers her 4-year old daughter, Ola, has been abducted by the Russian Mafia. In pursuit of her daughter, she is stopped for speeding by a police officer, Robert Goc. His intervention results in the escape of the kidnappers across the Eastern border. Feeling guilt for failing to prevent the abduction, Robert becomes engaged in an international investigation to find the missing girl. |
| Breaking the Limits | 2,017 | Łukasz Palkowski | Drama, History | 7.6 | 101 | Polish | Based on true events. In 1980s Poland, Jerzy Górski is a young man who finds the determination to struggle against his drug addiction through athletic training, with the aim of competing in the US Ironman Triathlon. |
| Night Train | 1,959 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 | 90 | Polish | Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit. |
| How I Unleashed World War II, Part II: Following the Arms | 1,970 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy, Adventure, War | 7.6 | 75 | Polish | After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French Foreign Legion in Beirut, Dolas becoming a cook. |
| How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape | 1,970 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy, War, Adventure | 7.6 | 60 | Polish | On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe. |
| How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends | 1,970 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy, Adventure, War | 7.6 | 41 | Polish | Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis. |
| This is Hel | 2,016 | Katia Priwieziencew | Thriller, Mystery | 7.6 | 17 | Polish | Jack, an unappreciated American writer in his sixties, comes to the off-season peninsula of Hel in the north of Poland and isolates himself to write a script. He meets Kail, a local who earns money by making lie-detector tests. Jack doesn't find any inspiration until some tourists mysteriously disappear - one of them found dead with his tongue cut off. Kail, persuaded by his friend Mila that Jack is the murderer, begins an investigation. The truth turns out to be more twisted when he discovers that Jack is writing about him. |
| There and Back | 2,002 | Wojciech Wójcik | Action, Drama, Crime | 7.6 | 10 | Polish | In the mid-1960s, a respected surgeon dreams of leaving Poland to see his wife and daughter in England. To get the money for his escape, he needs to consider taking part in a bank robbery. |
| Marriageable Girls | 1,972 | Janusz Kondratiuk | Comedy, Drama, TV Movie | 7.6 | 10 | Polish | Three naive girls from the provinces travel to the city to find the men of their dreams. |
| Blind Chance | 1,987 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama | 7.5 | 234 | Polish | Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life. |
| Camera Buff | 1,979 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama | 7.5 | 183 | Polish | Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas. |
| The Peasants | 2,023 | Hugh Welchman | Animation, History, Drama | 7.5 | 149 | Polish | Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence. |
| The Hourglass Sanatorium | 1,973 | Wojciech Has | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.5 | 129 | Polish | Jozef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Jozef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares. |
| The Quack | 1,982 | Jerzy Hoffman | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 104 | Polish | A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients. |
| Vabank II | 1,985 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy, Crime | 7.5 | 84 | Polish | A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager. |
| Room 8 | 2,013 | James W. Griffiths | Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror | 7.5 | 83 | English | Thrown to rot in a narrow and gloomy cell of a hideous Soviet prison, a weary new inmate struggles to come to terms with the new reality. Within the grey cage, an unwelcoming fellow convict cautions the newcomer not to touch the intriguingly mysterious red wooden box which rests on the lower bunk, moreover, not even think of opening it. Why is there so much secrecy about the contents of the box? Could there be hiding the means to his escape? |
| Tell No One | 2,019 | Tomasz Sekielski | Documentary | 7.5 | 36 | Polish | Polish documentary directed by Tomasz Sekielski about child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland. |
| The Balcony Movie | 2,021 | Paweł Łoziński | Documentary | 7.5 | 30 | Polish | Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world. |
| The Children of Leningradsky | 2,005 | Andrzej Celiński | Documentary | 7.5 | 27 | Polish | Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the So... |
| Carol of the Bells | 2,023 | Olesya Morhunets | Drama, History | 7.5 | 26 | Ukrainian | Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy , and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting. |
| How to Be Loved | 1,963 | Wojciech Has | Drama | 7.5 | 23 | Polish | 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. |
| Johnnie Waterman | 1,994 | Jan Jakub Kolski | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 | 17 | Polish | On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal was tortured. In the village lives Jańcio, a philosopher, a man loving life and his young wife, Weronka. Jańcio lives in harmony with God and is not expecting that he will be put to the test by him. He is convinced he has the power to make miracles. He leaves his pregnant wife, and goes to see the world, promising to return before the due date. |
| Samowolka | 1,993 | Feliks Falk | Drama | 7.5 | 16 | Polish | New recruits go to the army and experience nothing but humiliation, cruelty and pure sadism from older soldiers. |
| Janosik | 1,974 | Jerzy Passendorfer | TV Movie, Adventure | 7.5 | 13 | Polish | In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants. |
| Two Crowns | 2,017 | Michał Kondrat | Documentary, Drama | 7.5 | 10 | Polish | Recreation of facts and stories of both experts and people who met Maximilian Kolbe and were shocked by his words and actions. |
| A Gentle Spirit | 1,985 | Piotr Dumała | Animation, Drama | 7.5 | 10 | Polish | A man seated next to the body of his young wife thinks about their brief life together. Suicide has been the only escape for her... Dumala's technique creates a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere, entirely suitable for Dostoyevski's novel "A Gentle Spirit" on which it is based. |
| Hubal | 1,973 | Bohdan Poręba | War, Drama, History | 7.5 | 10 | Polish | Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders. |
| Cold War | 2,018 | Paweł Pawlikowski | Romance, Music, Drama | 7.4 | 1,560 | Polish | A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other. |
| The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf | 2,021 | Han Kwang Il | Animation, Action, Fantasy | 7.4 | 1,060 | English | Escaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past. |
| Ashes and Diamonds | 1,958 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, War, Romance | 7.4 | 265 | Polish | A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales. |
| Boys Don't Cry | 2,000 | Olaf Lubaszenko | Comedy, Crime | 7.4 | 154 | Polish | A young aspiring violinist unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang. |
| Tango | 1,985 | Zbigniew Rybczyński | Animation | 7.4 | 102 | Polish | A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in. |
| Egg Nogg | 1,988 | Roman Załuski | Comedy | 7.4 | 80 | Polish | Following the emotions associated with entrance examinations to the faculty of pedagogy, Catherine Solska returns to his native village. And here she will surprise - the family without their knowledge to begin preparations for engagement with a rich neighbor Kolasa. Girl falls into despair, tries to oppose the decision of the parents, but is closed in his room. On visits to her fiance and flees out the window calling mail to the university. Receives misleading information and is convinced that was not accepted to college. Resigned returns home and agrees to the wedding. Meanwhile, on the eve of the wedding the postman brings the notice of acceptance to the university. |
| Symmetry | 2,003 | Konrad Niewolski | Drama | 7.4 | 64 | Polish | Łukasz, an unemployed geography graduate, is wrongfully arrested for robbery. His alibi is weak, and he is identified during a lineup. The situation gets hopeless when, a few hours later, the alleged victim suddenly dies. The defense lawyer promises to do everything in his power, but Łukasz ends up in custody. He must find his place in a world of harsh prison rules. He chooses the cell of the “grypsujący” (inmates who communicate by coded messages)… |
| Destined for Blues | 2,005 | Jan Kidawa-Błoński | Drama, Music, History | 7.4 | 61 | Polish | The life of Ryszard Riedel, former leader of cult Polish rock-blues band Dzem, including the history of his family relationships, music career and addiction to alcohol and drugs. |
| I Hate Mondays | 1,971 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy | 7.4 | 59 | Polish | An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American. |
| In Desert and Wilderness | 1,973 | Władysław Ślesicki | Adventure, Family, History | 7.4 | 57 | Polish | Fourteen year old Polish boy Stas Tarkowski and eight year old Nel Rawlison from England are kidnapped as the hostages by Arabic fanatics and taken to their religion leader. Then they manage to escape and try to return to their fathers. Children have a lot of dangerous adventures, meet two Black kids; Kali and Mea, who also help them, make a friendship with an elephant and help one Black's tribe. |
| Forbidden Songs | 1,947 | Leonard Buczkowski | Music, War, Drama | 7.4 | 20 | Polish | Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house. |
| Soccer Poker | 1,989 | Janusz Zaorski | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 19 | Polish | Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up. |
| Back to Those Days | 2,021 | Konrad Aksinowicz | Drama | 7.4 | 14 | Polish | Tomek lives only with his mother, because his father, Alek, left for the USA to earn some money. Unexpectedly, the man arrives home with a bunch of presents but no explanation as to why he has come back. Everybody seems happy but something is in the air. |
| A Cure for Love | 1,966 | Jan Batory | Comedy, Crime | 7.4 | 14 | Polish | 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 work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej. |
| A Strong Man | 1,929 | Henryk Szaro | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 7.4 | 14 | Polish | Bielecki becomes determined to become a famous writer, but the means he employs in achieving his goal are far from ethical. Bielecki discourages his friend Jerzy Gorski by telling him his new work is rather poor, driving him into despair. But Bielecki is such a good friend that he even provides Gorski with the morphine so he can overdose too. With Gorski out of the way, Bielecki can now peddle his friend's book as his own. However, it doesn't take long for Bielecki's evil ways to catch up to him. |
| Suicide Room | 2,011 | Jan Komasa | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 474 | Polish | Moody, dark and handsome Dominik is terrorized at school after video footage of his drunken kiss with classmate Aleksandr goes viral. Grappling with public humiliation, Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based 'suicide room' where the pink-haired rebel Sylwia consoles him. |
| Knife in the Water | 1,962 | Roman Polanski | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 | 462 | Polish | On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences. |
| Hatred | 2,016 | Wojtek Smarzowski | War, Drama, History | 7.3 | 146 | Polish | Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side. |
| Life Feels Good | 2,013 | Maciej Pieprzyca | Drama | 7.3 | 116 | Polish | Mateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz’s protected world is shattered when circumstances place him in an institution where he is misunderstood and mistreated. Featuring an astonishing, virtuoso lead performance, Life Feels Good beautifully recounts the true story of one man’s extraordinary efforts to endure in the face of impossible odds. |
| Johnny | 2,022 | Daniel Jaroszek | Drama | 7.3 | 90 | Polish | After a court order sends him to work at a hospice, an ex-criminal strikes up a friendship with a compassionate priest who changes his life. |
| The Promised Land | 1,975 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, History | 7.3 | 80 | Polish | In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town. |
| Knights of the Teutonic Order | 1,960 | Aleksander Ford | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.3 | 47 | Polish | A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights. |
| What Will You Do When You Catch Me? | 1,978 | Stanisław Bareja | Comedy | 7.3 | 46 | Polish | Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring. |
| Paths of Hate | 2,011 | Damian Nenow | Action, Animation | 7.3 | 33 | English | A short tale about the demons that slumber deep in the human soul and have the power to push people into the abyss of blind hate, fury and rage. |
| The Wedding | 1,973 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, Fantasy, History | 7.3 | 24 | Polish | Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. |
| Birth Certificate | 1,961 | Stanisław Różewicz | Drama, War | 7.3 | 22 | Polish | Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage. |
| The Offsiders | 2,008 | Kasia Adamik | Comedy | 7.3 | 19 | Polish | Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train hard to take part in the world championship. |
| Who Will Write Our History? | 2,018 | Roberta Grossman | Documentary, History, War, Drama | 7.3 | 12 | English | Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto. |
| Call Me Marianna | 2,015 | Karolina Bielawska | Documentary | 7.3 | 11 | Polish | Her ex-wife won’t meet her. Her daughter rejects her. Her mother still calls her “son.” As Marianna transitions from male to female, she is abandoned by her loved ones, alone in a world unwilling to accept her true self. This multi-award-winning documentary is an intensely sympathetic and powerful account of one individual’s struggle to gain acceptance—even in the midst of profound physical hardship. |
| Backwards | 2,022 | Jacek Lusiński | Drama | 7.3 | 10 | Polish | Inspired by real events, the story of a young mother of an autistic boy, whose long-term persistence and struggle with bureaucracy and human heartlessness led to significant changes in the Polish education system. |
| Death as a Slice of Bread | 1,994 | Kazimierz Kutz | Drama, History | 7.3 | 10 | Polish | 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 news quickly spreads to the miners. Initially surprised, they soon react with spontaneous protest. On December 14, a strike breaks out at the plant. The miners demand the lifting of martial law and the release of the chairman. When negotiations fail, the army, ZOMO and militia storm the mine. |
| Ida | 2,013 | Paweł Pawlikowski | Drama, History | 7.2 | 1,044 | Polish | In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation. |
| Sexmission | 1,984 | Juliusz Machulski | Science Fiction, Adventure, Comedy | 7.2 | 321 | Polish | Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women. |
| The Devil | 1,988 | Andrzej Żuławski | Horror, History, Drama | 7.2 | 87 | Polish | Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. As he follows his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub is affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption; he goes insane and becomes a mass murderer. |
| The Deluge | 1,974 | Jerzy Hoffman | History, Adventure, War, Romance | 7.2 | 85 | Polish | During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories. |
| Passenger | 1,963 | Andrzej Munk | Drama, War | 7.2 | 65 | Polish | A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life. |
| Imagine | 2,012 | Andrzej Jakimowski | Drama | 7.2 | 52 | English | A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life. |
| Boxer | 2,024 | Mitja Okorn | Drama | 7.2 | 43 | Polish | With only his wife by his side, a promising young boxer flees communist Poland to chase his dream of becoming the greatest fighter in history. |
| Tato | 1,995 | Maciej Ślesicki | Drama | 7.2 | 40 | Polish | Tato is the story of a divorced father fighting for the right to raise his 7-year-old daughter. When his marriage falls apart, he decides to kidnap his daughter rather than let the court award custody to his mentally ill wife, whom he deems unfit to raise their child. But as he quickly finds out, it’s easier to be a real man than it is to be a real father. |
| The Constant Factor | 1,980 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Drama | 7.2 | 32 | Polish | A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm. |
| The Last Stage | 1,948 | Wanda Jakubowska | Drama | 7.2 | 28 | Polish | Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of interpreter, but her loved ones are much less fortunate. |
| Playing Hide and Seek | 2,020 | Tomasz Sekielski | Documentary | 7.2 | 16 | Polish | The documentary follows the story of two brothers who were sexually abused by the same priest of Polish Catholic Church. |
| Simona Kossak | 2,024 | Adrian Panek | Drama, History | 7.2 | 13 | Polish | Simona Kossak - daughter of the painter Jerzy Kossak and granddaughter of Wojciech - deprived of the talent that has defined her family for generations, grows up without knowing the warmth of her despotic mother. When, after graduation, she leaves everything - home, tradition, social conventions - and takes up a job as a scientist in Białowieża, she starts life on her own terms. |
| Konsul | 1,989 | Mirosław Bork | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 | 13 | Polish | After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes. |
| Nights and Days | 1,975 | Jerzy Antczak | Drama, History | 7.2 | 10 | Polish | A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one. |
| 47 Bombs | 2,021 | Patryk Vega | Action, Thriller, Crime | 7.1 | 118 | Polish | When an explosion at a gas station kills a policeman, "Gebbels" from homicide is assigned to the case. The investigation leads him to the trail of a bomb maker and kidnapper, behind dozens of attacks in Poland initiating a confrontation and all-out war. |
| The Last Family | 2,016 | Jan P. Matuszyński | Drama, History | 7.1 | 107 | Polish | Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksi... |
| Killer 2 | 1,999 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy, Action, Crime | 7.1 | 105 | Polish | Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transf... |
| Psy | 1,992 | Władysław Pasikowski | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.1 | 89 | Polish | In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side. |
| The Wedding | 2,004 | Wojtek Smarzowski | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 | 77 | Polish | Wojnar is a wealthy man who is marrying off his beautiful daughter Kasia, in a small town in present day Poland. Wojnar had to bribe the groom with a fancy car, since Kasia was pregnant by another man. At the end of the ceremony, the car is delivered by a gangster, who immediately demands the promised money and the deed to land from Kasia's grandfather. Unfortunately grandpa is unwilling to let go of the land. Meanwhile each of the workers at the reception demand to be paid, so Wojnar, who is very reluctant to part with his money, tries to haggle and bribe his way out of all the situations. |
| Rose | 2,012 | Wojtek Smarzowski | Drama, History, War | 7.1 | 67 | Polish | This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who deserted after he saw his wife raped and murdered by Russian troops and is attempting to hide his identity. |
| Reverse | 2,009 | Borys Lankosz | Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Romance | 7.1 | 35 | Polish | A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept. |
| Over the Limit | 2,018 | Marta Prus | Documentary | 7.1 | 28 | Polish | Margarita Mamun, an elite Russian rhythmic gymnast, is struggling to become an Olympic champion. It is the most important year of her career and her last chance to achieve the ultimate goal, the gold Olympic medal. The film creates a captivating portrait of a young woman who is desperately trying to handle her own ambitions and meet the expectations of the official Russian training system. |
| Black Sheep | 2,021 | Aleksander Pietrzak | Drama, Comedy | 7.1 | 24 | Polish | |
| I Work at the Cemetery | 2,022 | Oleksii Taranenko | Drama | 7.1 | 23 | Ukrainian | Sasha manages a firm that installs tombstones at the local cemetery. His many customers have all experienced personal tragedies, but he is full of cynicism. One day, Sasha's 14-year-old daughter appears to bring him back into her life. |
| Piggies | 2,009 | Robert Gliński | Drama | 7.1 | 22 | Polish | Tomek is 14 and a good student. He's interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, whereas across the river lies Germany with all its relative affluence. Tomek meets Marta at a disco and falls in love with her. He starts to think up ways of earning money in order to keep her interested. He approaches a pimp who seeks out local boys for his German clients. Tomek has no idea of the brutal fate which awaits him. |
| Anything Can Happen | 1,995 | Marcel Łoziński | Documentary | 7.1 | 22 | Polish | A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding his scooter, Tomaszek asks the elderly very adult, though basic, questions, which they are happy to answer. The boy's ideas of future and life are confronted with those of men at the end of their lives. |
| Time to Die | 2,007 | Dorota Kędzierzawska | Drama | 7.1 | 21 | Polish | An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta Szaflarska stars as Aniela, who lives in a massive yet rapidly-deteriorating wooden house, filled with souvenirs and treasures of eras gone by. Aniela runs into conflict in her dealings with others, particularly a nasty neighbor who sees her property as an eyesore and wants to do everything in his reach to buy it up and tear it down, and her married adult son, who - though kindly - triggers paranoia within Aniela (she cannot help but believe that he is scheming and planning to wheedle the property away from her). Driven aback by these individuals, Aniela finds one of her only sources of comfort and reassurance in her daily talks with her dog, Fila - and develops a great affinity for spying on the neighbors' doings whenever boredom creeps in. |
| All Will Be Well | 2,007 | Tomasz Wiszniewski | Drama | 7.1 | 19 | Polish | A teenage boy, whose mother is terminally ill, and his alcohol-addicted sports teacher set out on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa. |
| Tomorrow, We're Going to the Movies | 2,007 | Michał Kwieciński | Drama, History, TV Movie | 7.1 | 19 | Polish | Three high school graduates prepare to start the next chapter of their lives, but the outbreak of World War II may derail their dreams forever. |
| Warsaw Uprising | 2,014 | Jan Komasa | History, War, Drama | 7.1 | 18 | Polish | It tells the story of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 through the eyes of a US airman, escaper from the Nazi Stalag camp and two young reporters, cameramen for the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Polish Home Army. Their mission: documenting the Uprising by shooting newsreels for the “Palladium” cinema. Looking for the right shots, they go deeper and deeper – literally and figuratively – into the heart of the Uprising. Traumatic truth becomes obvious. Aware of being witnesses of indescribable events, they realize their duties: to document them and preserve the rolls of film at any cost… |
| The Apartment Above | 1,937 | Leon Trystan | Comedy, Music, Romance | 7.1 | 18 | Polish | Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music, while the other is a younger man addicted to swing music. The niece of the older man arrives for a visit and gets into the wrong apartment. Complications arise. |
| Photon | 2,017 | Norman Leto | Animation, Drama, Mystery | 7.1 | 17 | Polish | Prepare yourself for a sensory overload of epic proportions. Nothing less than the history of the universe, the formation of the stars and planets, the origins of matter, and the daunting post-human future that lies ahead are explored in this mind-bending experience. Photon is an ultra-ambitious summation of human knowledge that combines stunning phantasmagoric visuals and a dense but engaging, even dryly humorous, voiceover in what you might call an experimental science lesson—a crash course in, well, everything. How did we come to be? How are we as we are? The biggest questions are asked, and answered, with inventiveness and aplomb. Photon even delves into the biological foundations of human behaviours such as violence and alcoholism. Dazzling animation visualizes that which we could otherwise not see, ingeniously illustrating details of quantum physics. It’s a strong dose of eye and brain candy in equal measure. |
| Preserve | 2,007 | Łukasz Palkowski | Comedy | 7.1 | 14 | Polish | A young photographer moves to Praga, the most notorious district of Warsaw, known for common crime and alcoholism as well as unique folklore. This experience will have much impact on both his personal and professional life. |
| 365 Days | 2,020 | Barbara Białowąs | Romance, Drama | 7 | 9,417 | Polish | A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him. |
| The Zone of Interest | 2,023 | Jonathan Glazer | Drama, History | 7 | 2,487 | English | The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. |
| The Way Back | 2,010 | Peter Weir | Drama, Adventure, History | 7 | 1,713 | English | A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival. |
| Karol: A Man Who Became Pope | 2,005 | Giacomo Battiato | Drama, History | 7 | 135 | Italian | The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58. |
| How I Became a Gangster | 2,019 | Maciej Kawulski | Crime, Action | 7 | 119 | Polish | The action of the film begins in the 1970s – even then, the young protagonist knows that adrenaline tastes better than powdered milk. Over time, he also discovers a desire for money, power, and being above the law. A transformation begins, and his gangster talent blossoms. Together with a friend, they build their own army. |
| No End | 1,985 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama | 7 | 114 | Polish | 1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned. |
| Fallen Art | 2,004 | Tomek Bagiński | Animation, Comedy, War, Drama | 7 | 108 | XX | Fallen Art presents the story of General A, a self-proclaimed artist. His art, however, consists of a deranged method of stop motion photography, where the individual frames of the movie are created by photographs made by Dr. Johann Friedrich, depicting the bodies of dead soldiers, pushed down by Sergeant Al from a giant springboard onto a slab of concrete. |
| The Third Part of the Night | 1,972 | Andrzej Żuławski | War, Drama, Horror | 7 | 92 | Polish | Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. |
| Man of Iron | 1,981 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, History | 7 | 89 | Polish | In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. |
| Silent Night | 2,017 | Piotr Domalewski | Drama, Comedy | 7 | 85 | Polish | Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit. |
| Man of Marble | 1,977 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama | 7 | 85 | Polish | A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared. |
| The Cruise | 1,970 | Marek Piwowski | Comedy, Drama | 7 | 74 | Polish | A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship. |
| Interrogation | 1,989 | Ryszard Bugajski | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 7 | 70 | Polish | In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated. |
| Take It Easy | 1,974 | Sylwester Chęciński | Comedy | 7 | 64 | Polish | The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands. |
| The Debt | 1,999 | Krzysztof Krauze | Drama, Crime | 7 | 63 | Polish | Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan. Then one of them runs into a former flat neighbour who offers to lend them the money. The guy turns out to be a thug and starts to extort them. Their life goes downhill from there. |
| Topsy Turvy, or Egg Nogg 2 | 1,989 | Roman Załuski | Comedy | 7 | 61 | Polish | Kasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia go back to university, but in return Kasia has to look after little Piotr as the docent is leaving for London where he has received a month-long study grant. |
| A Generation | 1,955 | Andrzej Wajda | War, Drama | 7 | 59 | Polish | Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war. |
| Colonel Wolodyjowski | 1,969 | Jerzy Hoffman | History, Adventure, War | 7 | 56 | Polish | In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies. |
| The Structure of Crystal | 1,969 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Drama | 7 | 49 | Polish | Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths. |
| Porno | 1,990 | Marek Koterski | Comedy, Romance | 7 | 40 | Polish | Michał, a mature man and father, is full of bitterness, regret, and longing for unfulfilled youthful dreams of true love. He reminisces about all his past lovers. With his first, Asia, he went on a seaside camping trip. He was 19 at the time, and she was two years younger. Despite his unambiguous advances, the girl resisted for a long time. Eventually, however, she gave in. For Michał, it was the proverbial pebble that caused an avalanche. |
| The Noose | 1,958 | Wojciech Has | Drama | 7 | 37 | Polish | A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. |
| Innocent Sorcerers | 1,960 | Andrzej Wajda | Romance, Drama | 7 | 37 | Polish | 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. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her. |
| H.M. Deserters | 1,986 | Janusz Majewski | Comedy, History, War, Adventure | 7 | 33 | Polish | 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, and later attempt escape. Disguised as guards for veterinary surgeons in Budapest, the deserters are eventually recaptured and returned for court-martial, forced once more to face their tormentor. |
| I Never Cry | 2,020 | Piotr Domalewski | Drama | 7 | 32 | Polish | Ola sets off to Ireland to bring her father's body back to Poland after he dies in a building site accident. But never mind her dad, Ola wants to know if he had saved money for the car he had promised her. Dealing with foreign bureaucracy in her own streetwise way, Ola will get to know her father. |
| The Big Animal | 2,000 | Jerzy Stuhr | Comedy, Drama | 7 | 26 | Polish | When the circus leaves town, Zygmunt and Marysia unwittingly adopt a camel into their home. The couple quickly forms a close bond with the nameless camel, but as the bond grows stronger, their neighbors slowly begin to ostracize them. |
| From a Night Porter's Point of View | 1,979 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary | 7 | 23 | Polish | At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view. |
| Home Sweet Home | 2,025 | Wojtek Smarzowski | Drama, Thriller | 7 | 20 | Polish | When Gośka meets Grzesiek online, she's sure he's her Mr. Right. Grzesiek is crazy about her, showers her with flowers, and proposes in Venice, but soon enough, the picture perfect romance starts to crumble, revealing a darker side. |
| Venice | 2,010 | Jan Jakub Kolski | Drama, Romance | 7 | 17 | Polish | An atmospheric coming-of-age story featuring an imaginative young boy named Marek who dreams of escaping an increasingly dangerous Poland on the eve of war for beautiful Venice. |
| Communion | 2,016 | Anna Zamecka | Documentary | 7 | 13 | Polish | When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives apart from them and is mainly heard the phone. Most of all she wants to reunite a family that simply doesn’t work — like a defective TV set. She lives in the hope of bringing her mother back home. Her 13 year old brother Nikodem’s Holy Communion is a pretext for the family to meet up. Ola is entirely responsible for preparing the perfect family celebration. “Communion” reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that failure is not final. Especially when love is in question. |
| The Green Dinosaur | 2,024 | Wojtek Wawszczyk | Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy | 7 | 12 | English | When the world around him is mysteriously erased, a little green dinosaur named Diplodocus must travel through the pages of a comic book and adventure through time to bring color back to his land. Alongside a wizard and two scientists, Diplo’s plans go awry as he learns that there may be a dimension to his world that he never considered. |
| Nad życie | 2,012 | Anna Plutecka-Mesjasz | Drama, Romance | 7 | 11 | Polish | Agata, an internationally celebrated volleyball star, falls head over heels for Jacek and dreams of a fairy-tale life, complete with a beautiful wedding, children, and a mountain home. When a single phone call shatters their plans, she must race against time to fight for herself, the man she loves, and the child she yearns for, testing whether love can truly endure. |
| Crulic: The Path to Beyond | 2,011 | Anca Damian | Animation, Documentary | 7 | 11 | Romanian | An animated feature-length documentary telling the story of the life of Crulic, a 33 year-old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from an important Polish judge. Crulic was brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to start a hunger strike from the day he was arrested, demanding a meeting with somebody from the Romanian Consulate. |
| Cud purymowy | 2,000 | Izabella Cywińska | Drama, Comedy | 7 | 11 | Polish | A family of anti-Semites lives in Lodz. The husband is unemployed and poor. He believes that only true Poles can improve the situation in the count... |
| It's Not My Film | 2,024 | Maria Zbąska | Comedy, Drama | 7 | 10 | Polish | A woman and a man walk down a beach dragging a sled filled with luggage looking like polar explorers. After another row and an attempt to divorce, Janek and his wife give themselves an ultimatum and decide to go on a 400-kilometer hike along the Baltic Sea in the middle of winter. If they can overcome the challenge, they will stay together forever, if not, they will break up. During their journey, they must overcome bad weather conditions and once again learn how to be together. |
| Maska | 2,010 | Timothy Quay | Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 7 | 10 | Polish | The movie is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love. |
| Where is the General? | 1,964 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy, War | 7 | 10 | Polish | Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia. They discover that a German platoon is also hiding in a castle and together they must stop the Nazi soldiers from reuniting with the main army. |
| The Hater | 2,020 | Jan Komasa | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 | 585 | Polish | A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences. |
| In Darkness | 2,011 | Agnieszka Holland | Drama, War | 6.9 | 198 | Polish | A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland). |
| Letters to Santa | 2,011 | Mitja Okorn | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 | 147 | Polish | A romantic comedy set on Christmas Eve in Warsaw and centered around a series of characters. |
| With Fire and Sword | 1,999 | Jerzy Hoffman | War, Romance, Drama | 6.9 | 102 | Polish | In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century. |
| In the Name of... | 2,013 | Małgorzata Szumowska | Drama | 6.9 | 101 | Polish | The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past. |
| Fanfic | 2,023 | Marta Karwowska | Drama | 6.9 | 91 | Polish | Two high school students form an intense connection as they navigate the challenges of discovering and expressing their truest selves. |
| Big Deal | 1,977 | Sylwester Chęciński | Comedy | 6.9 | 56 | Polish | Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral. But first- they need to find his illegitimate daughter. Set in late 70's story of two, charming, Polish villagers' adventures in Chicago is a third installment of Pawlak and Kargul adventures. |
| Illumination | 1,973 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Drama | 6.9 | 56 | Polish | Film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart. |
| Planet Single 3 | 2,019 | Sam Akina | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 | 46 | Polish | Tomek and Ania finally decide to get married. The wedding, according to the wishes of Ania, will take place at the family members of Tomek with whom he has had no contact for years. It turns out that his brothers and his mother are like an Italian family where every conversation threatens to lead to an explosion and where a loving relationship and a quarrel are close together. Also the mother of Ania does not make a good impression on the mother of Tomek when she appears at the wedding with a much younger partner. The unexpected arrival of Tomek's father, whom he has not seen for years, is the drop that makes the bucket overflow . |
| Brunet Will Call | 1,976 | Stanisław Bareja | Comedy | 6.9 | 41 | Polish | Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet. |
| A Jungle Book of Regulations | 1,974 | Stanisław Bareja | Comedy | 6.9 | 37 | Polish | Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that Wanda's ex-husband, Jerzy, already lives in the new apartment. Despite the divorce, as he is registered with Wanda, he has the right to continue living in her apartment. Janek tries to find a way to get rid of the intruder. |
| Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease | 2,000 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Drama | 6.9 | 28 | Polish | Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimenting with both his own life and those of others. |
| Supernova | 2,019 | Bartosz Kruhlik | Thriller, Drama | 6.9 | 25 | Polish | Three men, one place and one event that will change the life of each one of them. |
| Włatcy móch. Ćmoki, Czopki i Mondzioły | 2,009 | Bartek Kędzierski | Comedy, Animation | 6.9 | 17 | Polish | A second-grade class is assigned an essay titled “What I Want to Be When I Grow Up,” and pupils Anusiak, Konieczko, Maślana, and Czesio spend the evening pouring their dreams onto paper. The next morning, as they proudly carry their essays past fortune-teller Jowita’s parlor, she unexpectedly reveals each of their futures thirty years hence, and none of her visions match what they wrote. |
| General Nil | 2,009 | Ryszard Bugajski | Drama, History, War | 6.9 | 17 | Polish | The tale about last years of the legendary Home Army commander, General August Emil Fieldorf "Nil". |
| The Emergency Exit | 1,982 | Roman Załuski | Comedy | 6.9 | 17 | Polish | A provincial town in the early 1980s. Among its residents is the Kolęda family. Mrs. Kolęda is an energetic community leader, her husband, a gentle soul, takes care of raising ducks and cultivating flowers in "tunnels" at home. Their daughter, Dorota, is a pretty and unemployed young woman. The intrigue begins when the community leader finds out that she is going to become a grandmother. Fear of losing authority, scandal, and embarrassment inspires her to come up with a truly diabolical idea - they need to buy a fiancé for Dorota with a pre-arranged divorce. |
| The Stairs | 1,969 | Stefan Schabenbeck | Animation, Fantasy, Drama | 6.9 | 17 | Polish | A figure wanders through a world of endless stairs, seeking purpose to his monotonous existence. |
| The Depot of the Dead | 1,959 | Czesław Petelski | Drama | 6.9 | 16 | Polish | In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence. |
| Roly Poly | 1,968 | Andrzej Wajda | Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie | 6.9 | 15 | Polish | Based on a screenplay by Stanislaw Lem. The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car crash he gets a transplant for one or another internal organ. After a while there is a question: Who really is Ryszard Fox? |
| Millhaven | 2,010 | Bartosz Kulas | Animation | 6.9 | 14 | English | Fifteen-year-old Loretta knows we all have to die. Will she be able to do a "dance" of life? The untold story of the narrator in Nick Cave's dark ballad, boldly performed by Katarzyna Groniec. |
| I Was a Soldier | 1,971 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary | 6.9 | 14 | Polish | A group of veterans recount a horrifying experience when trapped in a minefield, resulting in each losing their sight. |
| Maya Dardel | 2,017 | Magdalena Zyzak | Drama | 6.9 | 13 | English | An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to compete for the position and are challenged intellectually, emotionally, and erotically. |
| Curriculum Vitae | 1,975 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama | 6.9 | 11 | Polish | A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party. |
| A Real Pain | 2,024 | Jesse Eisenberg | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 1,310 | English | Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. |
| Mr. Jones | 2,019 | Agnieszka Holland | Thriller, Drama, History | 6.8 | 450 | English | In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder. |
| The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep | 2,025 | Kang Hei Chul | Animation, Fantasy, Action | 6.8 | 254 | English | When human sailors are attacked by mysterious creatures of the deep, only one person can stop the war between land and sea: the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia. |
| The Cathedral | 2,002 | Tomek Bagiński | Science Fiction, Animation | 6.8 | 107 | Polish | |
| Operation Hyacinth | 2,021 | Piotr Domalewski | Thriller, Crime, Mystery | 6.8 | 100 | Polish | Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation in Warsaw's gay community, an officer in 1980s communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth. |
| King Size | 1,988 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy | 6.8 | 89 | Polish | 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 most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia. |
| Vinci | 2,004 | Juliusz Machulski | Crime, Comedy, Action | 6.8 | 82 | Polish | The sophisticated thief of art Robert "Cuma" Cuminski is released on probation from the local prison by the corrupt Doctor Wiaderny to organize the theft of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting "Lady with Ermine" for the dealer Gruby. Three years ago, Cuma was accidentally arrested by the snoopy detective Wilk after a successful heist in the house of the collector Lehman, but he has not ratted his comrade Julian. |
| O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization | 1,985 | Piotr Szulkin | Drama, Science Fiction | 6.8 | 81 | Polish | 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... |
| Nothing Funny | 1,996 | Marek Koterski | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 77 | Polish | One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life. |
| I'm a Killer | 2,016 | Maciej Pieprzyca | History, Crime, Thriller | 6.8 | 76 | Polish | Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'. |
| Golem | 1,980 | Piotr Szulkin | Drama, Science Fiction | 6.8 | 63 | Polish | Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven. |
| The War of the Worlds: Next Century | 1,981 | Piotr Szulkin | Science Fiction | 6.8 | 53 | Polish | 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 greater than the aliens—the state itself. |
| Filip | 2,023 | Michał Kwieciński | Drama, History, War | 6.8 | 45 | Polish | During World War II, a Polish food server at a luxury German hotel tempts fate as he romances local women while hiding his Jewish identity. |
| Little Rose | 2,010 | Jan Kidawa-Błoński | History, Drama, Romance | 6.8 | 44 | Polish | Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, to insinuate herself into the distinguished older man's life and report on his every move. Not particularly interested in serving communism but eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose." As quick scenes contrast Kamila's crude pleasures with Rozek and her more refined experiences with Warczewski, it becomes clear that the more time the unschooled young woman spends with the professor, the more she comes to have true feelings for him. |
| Carte Blanche | 2,015 | Jacek Lusiński | Drama | 6.8 | 35 | Polish | The true story of a high-school history teacher who decides to hide a progressive sight loss from everyone surrounding him - his colleagues, pupils, even the ones who really care about him, because of the fear of losing his job and trying to save his dignity. Due to a genetic disorder, Kacper is faced with a very real possibility of permanent blindness. Initially heartbroken, he attempts to hide his health problems from his bosses driven by his desire to keep his job and to help his students with the final exams. The only person who knows about Kacper's problem is his best friend Wiktor. Meanwhile, Kacper enters a relationship with his colleague Ewa, and tries to help a rebel student Klara, who hides a secret of her own. |
| Tricks | 2,007 | Andrzej Jakimowski | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 | 35 | Polish | Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a very risky trick. |
| Ewa Wants to Sleep | 1,958 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Comedy | 6.8 | 30 | Polish | 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 thieves and petty troublemakers. |
| The Welts | 2,004 | Magdalena Piekorz | Drama | 6.8 | 26 | Polish | 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 snaps back to his short-fused habits. Apart from Wojciech's friend Bartek, no one does anything to help. Jump to present day, Wojciech is a furrow-browed journalist who spends most of his spare time spelunking alone. Just like his father, he has serious anger management issues. Fellow caver Tania feels inexplicably attracted to him, but the love of a good woman may not be enough. |
| Her Return | 1,975 | Witold Orzechowski | Drama, TV Movie | 6.8 | 23 | Polish | An industrialist's wife announces that she is leaving him, but returns shortly after and tells him that she will only stay with him for appearances. This causes the industrialist to rethink his life choices. |
| Man on the Tracks | 1,957 | Andrzej Munk | Drama, Mystery | 6.8 | 21 | Polish | One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry panel tries to deduce why would a man like Orzechowski jump in front of a moving train several of the people involved in the case are interrogated, each telling their own version of the story. Can the panel arrive at the truth in a world where workers unite, inferior coal is a badge of honor, and the old order is suspect? |
| Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us | 2,009 | Rafał Wieczyński | History, Drama | 6.8 | 19 | Polish | Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police. |
| Double Trouble | 2,017 | Marta Karwowska | Family, Adventure | 6.8 | 17 | Polish | 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. |
| Memoirs of a Sinner | 1,986 | Wojciech Has | Fantasy, Drama | 6.8 | 16 | Polish | A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego. |
| Screw Mickiewicz 2 | 2,025 | Sara Bustamante-Drozdek | Comedy | 6.8 | 14 | Polish | The rebellious IIIB crew and their unconventional teacher Jan Sienkiewicz are back! Love, troubles and school dramas make up everyday life of Dante, Nel and the whole gang. It is joined now by a young mathematical genius - Korek. The guys intend to teach him how to pick up girls, but it turns out that their know-how is rather theoretical… |
| Hello, Fred the Beard | 1,978 | Mieczysław Jahoda | Comedy, Music, Crime | 6.8 | 14 | Polish | The revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers his help. |
| The Calm | 1,980 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 6.8 | 13 | Polish | A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years. |
| Jowita | 1,967 | Janusz Morgenstern | Drama | 6.8 | 13 | Polish | 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. |
| The Law and the Fist | 1,964 | Edward Skórzewski | War, Drama | 6.8 | 11 | Polish | At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people. |
| The Lynx | 1,982 | Stanisław Różewicz | Drama | 6.8 | 10 | Polish | Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator. |
| The Taste of the Black Earth | 1,970 | Kazimierz Kutz | Drama, War | 6.8 | 10 | Polish | During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands. |
| Warsaw 44 | 2,014 | Jan Komasa | Drama, History, War | 6.7 | 279 | Polish | City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom… |
| Katyn | 2,007 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, History, War | 6.7 | 264 | Polish | On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later. |
| Colors of Evil: Red | 2,024 | Adrian Panek | Crime, Thriller, Mystery | 6.7 | 250 | Polish | When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth. |
| Peter & the Wolf | 2,006 | Suzie Templeton | Animation, Family, Music | 6.7 | 104 | English | Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather, his only friend a duck. In town, he's bullied. When a wolf menaces the duck - as well as grandfather's fat cat and an ill-flying bird that Peter has befriended - Peter bravely tries to tree the wolf. Grandfather, the townspeople, and the hunters who have antagonized Peter figure in the dénouement. |
| Stones for the Rampart | 2,014 | Robert Gliński | War, Drama, History | 6.7 | 88 | Polish | To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. Entering adulthood in a very dramatic times, which puts them a choice - to survive at any cost, or to join the fighting for a free homeland, risking everything. The boys brought up in patriotic homes, shaped by the ideals of scouting, they decide to fight. They become soldiers, and although every scrape with death, they can live a full life. |
| Sara | 1,997 | Maciej Ślesicki | Action, Romance | 6.7 | 87 | Polish | Sixteen-year-old Sara's father is a wealthy gangster and has a lot of enemies. Her father makes clear that whoever touches Sara will die and he looks for the right bodyguard to protect her. |
| Pharaoh | 1,966 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | History, Drama | 6.7 | 87 | Polish | Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country. |
| Ambition | 2,014 | Tomek Bagiński | Science Fiction, History, Mystery | 6.7 | 50 | English | A young apprentice struggles to master nanotechnology on an alien world and prove herself to her enigmatic master. Will her herculean goals remain tantalizingly out of reach, or will she fulfill them and in the process, change life as we know it? |
| Money Is Not Everything | 2,001 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy | 6.7 | 48 | Polish | The protagonist of the film is a 50-year-old businessman, Tomasz Adamczyk, who wants to give up running his winery business and devote himself to his lifelong passion for philosophy. This idea does not appeal to his business partner. On top of all this, Tomasz has an accident and is taken hostage by enthusiasts of the wine he produces. |
| Psy 2. Ostatnia krew | 1,994 | Władysław Pasikowski | Action, Crime | 6.7 | 46 | Polish | Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by Nowy, a former police colleague. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. Wolf and William, two high rank officers, come to Poland in order to organize a network selling and smuggling arms to Yugoslavia by way of Albania. |
| Taxing Love | 2,018 | Bartłomiej Ignaciuk | Comedy, Romance | 6.7 | 45 | Polish | Klara, devoted to her work as a tax inspector, becomes infatuated with the dashing but irresponsible and cynical Marian who is about to be charged with tax evasion. |
| Legions | 2,019 | Dariusz Gajewski | Drama, History, War | 6.7 | 43 | Polish | A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarist army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women’s Leage member – Ola, and Tadek, her fiancée, a member of Shooting Team. |
| The Office | 1,966 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary | 6.7 | 43 | Polish | The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window. |
| Fanatyk | 2,017 | Michał Tylka | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 39 | Polish | As a son deals with his own struggles, he must calm his father's obsession with fishing before his outlandish behavior ruins the entire family. |
| Saviour Square | 2,006 | Krzysztof Krauze | Drama | 6.7 | 35 | Polish | A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction. |
| Edi | 2,002 | Piotr Trzaskalski | Drama | 6.7 | 35 | Polish | The film tells a story of two scrap pickers - the title hero Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is wrongly accused of having raped the girl whose brothers have got the control over one of the city areas. Edi is severely punished for that but he accepts his fate taking care of the girl's child. |
| Tomorrow's Weather | 2,003 | Jerzy Stuhr | Drama, Comedy | 6.7 | 31 | Polish | A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years. |
| Colonel Kwiatkowski | 1,996 | Kazimierz Kutz | Comedy, History | 6.7 | 30 | Polish | 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 his former home he meets his prewar neighbor Krysia, instantly falls in love, and, after a brawl with a Russian officer at a dance in the surviving “Polonia” hotel, pretends to be a high-ranking UB colonel to save face. |
| Bad Luck | 1,960 | Andrzej Munk | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 | 28 | Polish | To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck. |
| Black Thursday | 2,011 | Antoni Krauze | Drama, History | 6.7 | 27 | Polish | Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970. |
| My Fat Arse and I | 2,020 | Yelyzaveta Pysmak | Animation | 6.7 | 26 | Polish | One morning, a girl tries on a pair of new pants, but they won’t zip up. In the mirror she sees herself as the fattest piglet the world has ever seen. To change this, she decides to go on a strict diet. Hunger quickly turns her into a kind of zombie, stumbling blindly to the fridge that seems to haunt her at night. In one of those moments, the Angel of the United Bitches of Slimbuttlandia appears, carrying a royal invitation to visit the kingdom and take part in a mysterious royal ceremony. |
| Animated History of Poland | 2,010 | Tomek Bagiński | History, Animation | 6.7 | 25 | Polish | Polish history is filled to the brim with diversity, so the idea transforming it into a gripping tale was a very exciting challenge. We created an exciting trip back in time that takes you through 1000 years of history in about 8 minutes. We picked 140 events that feature 500 animated characters from different historical periods. The film was created to represent Poland at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai. |
| Eroica | 1,958 | Andrzej Munk | Comedy, Drama, War | 6.7 | 25 | Polish | Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own. |
| The Mole | 2,011 | Rafael Lewandowski | Thriller | 6.7 | 24 | Polish | Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his father's picture on the cover of a Polish tabloid newspaper. The headline "traitor" is written next to his name. Zygmunt is a genuine hero of the struggle against totalitarianism and a recognized member of the "Solidarnosc" labor movement of the 80s. But now, Zygmunt is suddenly accused by the paper of having acted as a secret informer called THE MOLE by the communist regime. |
| Big Shar | 1,983 | Sylwester Chęciński | Drama | 6.7 | 24 | Polish | Fresh out of prison, a seasoned poker hustler finds himself teaching the trade to a young cab driver chasing his first big win. |
| Back Then | 2,021 | Kinga Dębska | Comedy, Drama, History | 6.7 | 23 | Polish | Marta is a romantic and a loser in school. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and grandma, who tells her granddaughters insurgency stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, the parents - Tadek and Elżbieta - live their married life. He is an intelligent constantly humiliated by the state, he also makes his own moonshine after work and silently envies his prosperous brother in law. She is the leader of the "Solidarity" union at work, with the need for freedom and a dream to get out of Poland. The real adventure for the family starts when they manage to get their dream orange Fiat 126p. Ela and Tadek discover their appetite for trading and trips abroad, and the growing Marta will fall in love for the first time. |
| Travels of Mr. Blot | 1,986 | Krzysztof Gradowski | Fantasy, Family, Music | 6.7 | 23 | Polish | The second part of adventures of Mr. Blot and the students of his magic school. |
| Barrier | 1,966 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Drama, Romance | 6.7 | 21 | Polish | A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland. |
| Without Anesthesia | 1,978 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama | 6.7 | 15 | Polish | A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence. |
| The Spiral | 1,978 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Drama | 6.7 | 13 | Polish | In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening. |
| Axiliad | 1,986 | Witold Leszczyński | Drama | 6.7 | 12 | Polish | A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect. |
| Love Stories | 1,997 | Jerzy Stuhr | Romance, Comedy | 6.7 | 11 | Polish | Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four females. An attractive student puts the teacher in an awkward spot when she reveals her love for him. An 11-year-old informs the priest that she's his daughter. The army officer is pleased when confronted by a past lover. The drug dealer, taken prisoner, must decide whether or not to trust his wife with his hidden loot. In the wrap-up, the elderly accountant passes judgment on all four men. Stuhr acted in films by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, who had some input here by offering advice to Stuhr on this screenplay. |
| How I Fell in Love with a Gangster | 2,022 | Maciej Kawulski | Crime, Action, Drama | 6.6 | 200 | Polish | A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story. |
| Clergy | 2,018 | Wojtek Smarzowski | Drama | 6.6 | 188 | Polish | The fate of three Catholic priests were linked together through tragic events a few years back. Every year, on the anniversary of the catastrophe, they gather to celebrate their survival of the tragedy. Lisowski works at a curia in a big city, building his career while dreaming of the Vatican. Standing in his way, Mordowicz, the archbishop, a luxurious church dignitary who is making use of his political connections to build the largest sanctuary in Poland. Trybus, is a parish priest and often submits to human weaknesses. Kukuła also is not doing well. Despite his passion for faith, he is losing the trust of his flock. Soon, through new tragic events, the paths of the three priests will cross again. |
| Planet Single | 2,016 | Mitja Okorn | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 | 107 | Polish | He is one of the top celebrities in the country: a fast-talking TV host, who can joke his way out of any situation. Women want to be with him, men want to be like him. He is looking for a new topic to discuss in his popular talk-show. She is a teacher at a musical school - a timid girl looking for Mr. Perfect on an internet dating site. He will help her realise her potential and teach her how to recognise various types of men for what they are, she will teach him what real life is about. The show will become a huge hit. It seems they are destined to fall in love and be together, but one day she actually does meet Mr. Perfect on the net. |
| Coyote's Morning | 2,001 | Olaf Lubaszenko | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.6 | 93 | Polish | Kuba, a young cartoon artist who works as a waiter at sophisticated parties, falls in love with beautiful Noemi and accidentally gets involved in gangster affairs |
| Aftermath | 2,012 | Władysław Pasikowski | Mystery, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 | 92 | Polish | Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them. |
| Heaven in Hell | 2,023 | Tomasz Mandes | Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 88 | Polish | Olga and Maks are 15 years away. She is a successful woman with an established position, the mother of an adult daughter, he is a handsome young man who enjoys his life in a handful and lives only in the moment. It might seem that these two different worlds will never meet, and yet fate put them in the way. |
| Traffic Department | 2,013 | Wojtek Smarzowski | Drama, Crime | 6.6 | 88 | Polish | Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets. |
| Afterimage | 2,016 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, History | 6.6 | 82 | Polish | In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny. |
| The In-Laws | 2,021 | Kuba Michalczuk | Comedy | 6.6 | 63 | Polish | Is a party after a canceled wedding a recipe for disaster? It is. And what a disaster it is! Two families differ in everything - origin, status, wallet content, taste. The parents of the groom and bride are initially shocked. What did such a thing happen? Who was at fault? What about the wedding party? Should they welcome the guests? Play music? Pour the vodka? Who will cut the cake? From word to word, polite smiles turn into public washing of dirt. And finally a real bomb goes off... And in the meantime, the wedding party turns into a wild party. And no one is bothered by the absence of the newlyweds. |
| 7 Emotions | 2,018 | Marek Koterski | Drama, Comedy | 6.6 | 60 | Polish | Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days when, like most of us, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time – which proves not so carefree after all – to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions. This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical, situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thought. |
| Too Old for Fairy Tales 2 | 2,024 | Kristoffer Rus | Family, Comedy, Adventure | 6.6 | 43 | Polish | Your favourite gamer trio is back! This time, Waldek, Staszek and Delfina will spend an adventure-packed summer in the Tatra Mountains. During the trip, Waldek accidentally finds out that his father – the man he has heard so much about from his mum, the person who abandoned his family a long time ago – lives nearby. The boy is determined to find him and ask him about the reasons for his decision. Together with Staszek, under the cover of night, they set out on their mission. The hazards of the mountain trail, however, are nothing compared to what Delfina will have to do. The creative teenager has to hide the truth about the boys’ disappearance from her aunt, the mother of Waldek and… her new partner. How will this secret mission affect the lives of all the characters? Will Waldek find an answer to the questions that haunt him and understand the actions of his father? |
| Camouflage | 1,977 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Drama, Comedy | 6.6 | 36 | Polish | A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp. |
| Controlled Conversations | 1,991 | Sylwester Chęciński | Comedy | 6.6 | 33 | Polish | Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland. |
| Sztos | 1,997 | Olaf Lubaszenko | Crime, Action | 6.6 | 29 | Polish | Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner - they decide to take revenge. Preparations take many months, but the action ends differently than it was planned. |
| The Linnet | 1,982 | Witold Leszczyński | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 | 29 | Polish | Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him. |
| Kroll | 1,991 | Władysław Pasikowski | Drama, Action | 6.6 | 27 | Polish | Marcin Kroll deserts from his military unit that’s headed to the training ground. Lieutenant Arek is sent after him, tasked with bringing Kroll back to the unit before an official investigation begins. The officers fear a scandal: the inquiry could expose the brutal conditions in the unit that drove several soldiers to suicide. |
| The Birch Wood | 1,970 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama | 6.6 | 22 | Polish | A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl. |
| I Am | 2,005 | Dorota Kędzierzawska | Drama | 6.6 | 20 | Polish | A story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a second time by his alcoholic mother, who had earlier abandoned him, the resolute 11-year-old finds a "home" on a deserted old barge on the outskirts of his hometown. He is still an outcast, but he is an outcast on his own terms, rejecting both patronizing charitable gestures and coercion by local thugs. In the process he makes one true friend, a girl from an affluent family who is also an outcast, despite living in material comfort. |
| Top Dog | 1,978 | Feliks Falk | Drama | 6.6 | 18 | Polish | An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career. |
| Seven Women of Different Ages | 1,979 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary | 6.6 | 18 | Polish | Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher. |
| Fear of Falling | 2,011 | Bartosz Konopka | Drama | 6.6 | 13 | Polish | Tomek leads a comfortable life as a TV anchor and family man when he receives a troubling message from the psychiatric hospital in his hometown: his father, whom he has not seen in years, has just been admitted. Against the advice of friends and family, not to mention his own better judgment, Tomek returns home to face the man he hardly knows. After a failed, guilt-ridden attempt to sell his father’s apartment, Tomek decides to make up for lost time. Kidnapping his aging father from the hospital, the two embark on a vacation to the mountains in an effort to restore some semblance of a relationship. |
| Letters to Santa 6 | 2,024 | Łukasz Jaworski | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 | 11 | Polish | As Christmas approaches, ambitious Mel struggles to host a grand Eve dinner for his “Santa” business and, seeing his younger self in hapless employee Grzesiek, vows to save him from repeating old mistakes. Meanwhile, Karina and Szczepan’s quiet holiday is disrupted by a burst pipe that introduces repairman Lucek and stranded traveler Józek into their home. And Wojciech, fresh from London, plans a serene reunion, until he meets mysterious Ewa, who’s flown in to see an internet love. |
| 89 mm from Europe | 1,993 | Marcel Łoziński | Documentary | 6.6 | 11 | Polish | This movie shows the simplest difference between Europe and former Soviet Union. It is the eponymous 89 mm - Russian train tracks are 89 mm wider than tracks in European countries. And because of this fact, it is not easy to go through the Soviet border by train in Brest as the passengers in the film do. |
| A Woman Alone | 1,987 | Agnieszka Holland | Drama | 6.6 | 11 | Polish | Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike. |
| Woman of... | 2,024 | Małgorzata Szumowska | Drama, History | 6.6 | 10 | Polish | Aniela has lived the first half of her life as a man: with an office job, a wife, and two children. But neither her family's opposition nor repression by the government in Poland can stop her from finally becoming the person she's always been. |
| Oszukane | 2,013 | Marcin Solarz | Drama | 6.6 | 10 | Polish | Two very similar teenagers discover that they are sisters. They were separated in the hospital and went to live with two different families. |
| New Book | 1,975 | Zbigniew Rybczyński | Drama | 6.6 | 10 | Polish | Nine cameras set up in a local neighborhood are displayed simultaneously as a man buys a new book. |
| EO | 2,022 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Drama, Adventure | 6.5 | 406 | English | The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence. |
| Jack Strong | 2,014 | Władysław Pasikowski | Drama, History, Thriller | 6.5 | 129 | Polish | Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk. |
| Justice | 2,024 | Michał Gazda | Crime, Drama | 6.5 | 124 | Polish | A young detective seeks the help of a discharged police officer, giving him the chance to reclaim his old life in exchange for solving a bank raid case. |
| The Dark House | 2,009 | Wojtek Smarzowski | Thriller, Crime, History | 6.5 | 103 | Polish | Poland, 1978. Edward Srodon, a zootechnician, makes an accidental stop at the Dziabas family farm, located in the remote area of the Bieszczady Mountains. Years later, on a winter day during Martial Law, a People's Militia investigation team examines a crime scene. |
| The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka | 2,017 | Maria Sadowska | Drama, Comedy, History | 6.5 | 98 | Polish | Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever. |
| Inside Furioza | 2,025 | Cyprian T. Olencki | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.5 | 89 | Polish | In the wake of murder, new Furioza leader Golden claims the reins of his violent and formidable hooligan gang and takes on a new focus across borders. |
| Letters to Santa 3 | 2,017 | Tomasz Konecki | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 74 | Polish | Centered around a group of individuals, who come to experience magical moments over the course of one day. Full of the power of family, love and the spirit of forgiveness. Each individual comes to realize that Christmas, more than any other time of the year, is full of wonder and surprises. |
| We're All Christs | 2,006 | Marek Koterski | Drama | 6.5 | 54 | Polish | Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek. |
| Divorce | 2,024 | Radosław Drabik | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 | 53 | Polish | Two decades after divorcing and taking separate paths in life, a former couple is working to obtain an official declaration of invalidity of their brief marriage. |
| Pigs 3 | 2,020 | Władysław Pasikowski | Action, Crime | 6.5 | 52 | Polish | Having spent years in prison, Franz Maurer is released and goes out into a new Poland, where nothing is as he remembered it to be. Who and what is waiting for the man who, for the last 25 years... hasn’t been doing anything? How will he find himself in a world where old principles and loyalty have ceased to exist? We will get to know that when fate reunites Franz and “Nowy”. Their meeting will change everything. |
| Never in My Life! | 2,004 | Ryszard Zatorski | Romance, Comedy | 6.5 | 50 | Polish | Judyta is a middle-aged housewife whose peaceful life suddenly falls apart due to divorce. But soon she finds the strength to carry on fighting for her happiness, a place in the sun and love of her life. |
| Pussy | 2,016 | Renata Gąsiorowska | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.5 | 48 | Polish | A young woman spends the evening alone at home. She decides to give herself a treat, but not everything works out as smoothly as she imagined. |
| Pitbull | 2,005 | Patryk Vega | Action, Crime | 6.5 | 46 | Polish | Police officers from the Warsaw Homicide Department are trying to arrest a dangerous Armenian criminal. |
| The Scar | 1,976 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama | 6.5 | 41 | Polish | When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction. |
| All That I Love | 2,009 | Jacek Borcuch | Drama | 6.5 | 40 | Polish | Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by social turmoil and outside perceptions. |
| When Angels Fall | 1,959 | Roman Polanski | Drama | 6.5 | 37 | Polish | The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him. |
| Good Bye, Till Tomorrow | 1,960 | Janusz Morgenstern | Drama, Romance | 6.5 | 32 | Polish | Jacek is a handsome, charming young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful, charm... |
| Demons of War | 1,998 | Władysław Pasikowski | War, Drama | 6.5 | 31 | Polish | A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will also replace Keller as CO. When the camp's RTO receives a communication from a downed Norwegian chopper, Keller ignores his standing orders and leads a platoon to rescue the crew. |
| Kill It and Leave This Town | 2,020 | Mariusz Wilczyński | Animation, Fantasy, Drama, Thriller, Horror | 6.5 | 30 | Polish | Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive. |
| My Name Is Sara | 2,020 | Steven Oritt | History, Drama | 6.5 | 27 | English | The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity. |
| Hi, Tereska | 2,001 | Robert Gliński | Drama | 6.5 | 27 | Polish | Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her. |
| The Butler | 2,018 | Filip Bajon | History, Romance, War | 6.5 | 26 | Polish | The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, suffers the consequences of the tragedies that will ravage Europe from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the World War II. |
| The In-Laws 2 | 2,023 | Kalina Alabrudzińska | Comedy | 6.5 | 25 | Polish | Would-be bride and groom Weronika and Łukasz decide to give themselves a second chance and invite their family to the wedding and reception in a seaside town. Among the invited guests are Wanda and Tadeusz – with their dog, Mirelka, and also a divorcee, Małgorzata, accompanied by her much younger partner, Jan , and her mother. The sea, drinks, and nude sunbathers make the family members on both sides more open and ready to shed their masks. |
| The Yellow Scarf | 2,000 | Janusz Morgenstern | Drama, TV Movie | 6.5 | 25 | Polish | The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit. |
| The Last Day of Summer | 1,958 | Tadeusz Konwicki | Drama, Romance | 6.5 | 22 | Polish | A subtle tale of a confrontation between two lonely people, one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result. |
| Labyrinth | 1,963 | Jan Lenica | Animation | 6.5 | 22 | Polish | A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule. |
| It's Me, the Thief | 2,000 | Jacek Bromski | Crime, Drama | 6.5 | 21 | Polish | A teenager works in a car repair shop and makes a living from petty thefts. In order to impress the boss of a gang of car thieves, he decides to steal a jaguar. What’s more, he can realize his grandmother's dream – he can drive her to mass in the basilica. |
| Austeria | 1,983 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Drama, War | 6.5 | 21 | Polish | During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment. |
| Scarborn | 2,024 | Paweł Maślona | History, Drama, Action | 6.5 | 20 | Polish | Spring of 1794, Poland is in a state of unrest. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to the country, planning to ignite an uprising against the Russians by mobilising Polish gentry and peasants. He is accompanied by his faithful friend and former slave, Domingo. Kościuszko is being tracked down by a merciless Russian cavalry captain, Dunin, who wants to do whatever it takes to capture the general before he starts a national revolt. |
| The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober | 1,988 | Wojciech Has | Drama, Fantasy, History | 6.5 | 17 | Polish | 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. |
| The Ashes | 1,965 | Andrzej Wajda | War, Drama, History | 6.5 | 16 | Polish | Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival. |
| Lewandowski - Unknown | 2,023 | Maciej Kowalczuk | Documentary | 6.5 | 15 | Polish | Providing an unprecedented insight into his life on and off the pitch, this is the story of how a young player from Poland became one of the best footballers of all time. Robert's family, and close friends, including world-class footballers and coaches explain how he continues to define the game today. |
| Personnel | 1,976 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 6.5 | 14 | Polish | Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist. |
| Case Unknown | 2,009 | Feliks Falk | Thriller | 6.5 | 13 | Polish | Wroclaw, 1997. The city is threatened by flooding. Hospitals are being evacuated. Young ambitious psychiatrist Konstanty Grot takes a catatonic patient to the bus. He is a severe case, not responding to any attempts at contact. However, when the bus starts moving, he unexpectedly makes a gesture that awakens certain memories in the doctor. The psychiatrist decides to apply an unusual therapy. |
| The Devil from Seventh Grade | 1,960 | Maria Kaniewska | Adventure, Family | 6.5 | 13 | Polish | Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his rivals are very dangerous. |
| Dachau: Death Camp | 2,021 | Kamil Kulczycki | Documentary, History, War | 6.5 | 12 | English | Interviews with those who were there and their family members. A Unique insight into the Nazi's first Concentration Camp. |
| Black Mill | 2,020 | Mariusz Palej | Adventure, Family | 6.5 | 12 | Polish | Twelve-year-old Iwo lives in a small, post-communist town that is home to the old and destroyed Black Mill – once a place of work for many parents. Breaking the promise to not approach the old mill, the children accidentally unleash its evil powers. From that moment, nothing will ever be the same again as people and things start to disappear. |
| Gangsters and Philanthropists | 1,963 | Jerzy Hoffman | Action, Comedy, Crime | 6.5 | 12 | Polish | The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom. |
| The Magic Mountain | 2,015 | Anca Damian | Animation, Drama, Documentary, History | 6.5 | 10 | French | The film investigates the adventures of mountain climber and photographer Adam J. Winkler, who fought in Afghanistan with the Mujahideen against the Soviets in the 1980s. The director employs a highly original artistic technique involving animated collage of period materials. |
| The Supplement | 2,002 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Drama | 6.5 | 10 | Polish | An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee. |
| Sprawa się rypła | 1,985 | Janusz Kidawa | Comedy | 6.5 | 10 | Polish | During the USSR's rule over Poland, highlander Józef Placek and his family have to convince the government that his late mother is, in fact, alive. If successful, they will be able to pocket the gifts that have been issued to her for reaching the ripe old age of 100, thus inspiring his neighbor's, Kadela's, jealousy. |
| Bolek and Lolek in the Wild West | 1,986 | Stanisław Dülz | Animation, Family, Adventure, Western | 6.5 | 10 | Polish | The dangerous thug Pif-Paf escapes from prison. Bolek and Lolek bravely chase after him through the prairie, canyons and rocky mountains. |
| Pedestrian Subway | 1,974 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, TV Movie | 6.5 | 10 | Polish | A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him rather than give him a divorce. |
| Pearl in the Crown | 1,972 | Kazimierz Kutz | Drama, History | 6.5 | 10 | Polish | When it is discovered that the Zygmunt mine in Upper Silesia has been deemed unprofitable and is to be closed by flooding, the miners go on strike and a violent demonstration ensues. |
| Heat | 1,964 | Kazimierz Kutz | Comedy, Music | 6.5 | 10 | Polish | 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. |
| The Next 365 Days | 2,022 | Tomasz Mandes | Romance, Drama | 6.4 | 1,290 | Polish | Laura and Massimo's relationship hangs in the balance as they try to overcome trust issues while a tenacious Nacho works to push them apart. |
| The Mill and the Cross | 2,011 | Lech Majewski | Drama, History | 6.4 | 107 | Polish | What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland's most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill and the Cross is a cinematic re-staging of Pieter Bruegel's masterpiece "Procession to Calvary," presented alongside the story of its creation. |
| Pitbull: Public Orders | 2,016 | Patryk Vega | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.4 | 82 | Polish | Policemen from two precincts are joining forces to fight the Mokotowska Group. |
| You Are God | 2,012 | Leszek Dawid | Drama, Music, History | 6.4 | 65 | Polish | The story of the late 90s generation and the three friends behind the music: Magik, Fokus and Rahim. The fact-based film charts the relentless struggle for success of Paktofonika, against the backdrop of crumbling traditional values in dreary 90s Silesia. |
| Two Men and a Wardrobe | 1,958 | Roman Polanski | Drama, Comedy | 6.4 | 59 | Polish | The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. |
| Servants of War | 2,019 | Mariusz Gawryś | Thriller, Action | 6.4 | 45 | Polish | A seasoned detective teams up with a novice cop to solve the mysterious murder of a world-class bone marrow transplant specialist. |
| The Collector | 2,005 | Feliks Falk | Drama | 6.4 | 40 | Polish | Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens. |
| Freestyle | 2,023 | Maciek Bochniak | Crime, Action, Thriller | 6.4 | 39 | Polish | Trying to check out a recording from his debut album, a street rapper and his friend run into trouble when a major drug deal turns into a total disaster for them. |
| Jak poślubić milionera? | 2,019 | Filip Zylber | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 | 39 | Polish | A comedic guide for anyone dreaming of a happy relationship. Instead of waiting for blind luck to bring them true love, the film’s protagonists take matters into their own hands by enrolling in a course that guarantees they’ll find “the one” - and if he happens to be a millionaire, who would complain? |
| How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? | 2,008 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy, Romance | 6.4 | 39 | Polish | At 40, Zosia has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher in the year 2000, she wishes some things in her youth had happened differently, and she's magically transported back to 1987, when she was still married to her womanizing first husband, Darek and lived in the People's Republic of Poland. |
| ARK | 2,007 | Grzegorz Jonkajtys | Animation, Science Fiction | 6.4 | 37 | English | An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true nature of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape... |
| Identification Marks: None | 1,965 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Drama | 6.4 | 36 | Polish | After being drafted into military service, a Polish student spends his last day coming to terms with his estranged wife, visiting old friends, and savoring some last moments of freedom. |
| Sweet Rush | 2,009 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama | 6.4 | 32 | Polish | 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. |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | 1,984 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Romance, Drama | 6.4 | 30 | Polish | Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both ... |
| Exterminator: Ready To Roll | 2,018 | Michał Rogalski | Comedy, Music | 6.4 | 29 | Polish | With financial backing from local bureaucrats, five friends relive their high-volume glory days by getting their heavy metal band back together. |
| Shivers | 1,981 | Wojciech Marczewski | Drama, History | 6.4 | 24 | Polish | 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 Kinematograph | 2,009 | Tomek Bagiński | Animation, Drama | 6.4 | 22 | Polish | A 19th-century inventor is close to perfecting motion pictures but doesn't want to reveal his invention to the public until he can show films with sound and color. |
| Erratum | 2,010 | Marek Lechki | Drama | 6.4 | 18 | Polish | Michał, a former musician who gave up his dreams and became an accountant, is asked by his boss to retrieve a truck he had shipped from America. The destination is Michael's former hometown, a port town which Michal left in a hurry years earlier. After retrieving the truck, Michał is involved in a serious accident which forces him to stay in town and reconcile several broken relationships. |
| White Courage | 2,024 | Marcin Koszałka | Drama, War, History | 6.4 | 17 | Polish | The film tells the story of two Highlander brothers – Maciek and Andrzej. After the death of their father, which Andrzej contributed to, and the loss of his beloved Bronka, Andrzej leaves the family home. On his way, he meets the mysterious Wolfram, an anthropologist and climber. He shares with him his mountaineering technique and knowledge about the Prague origins of the highlanders. Andrzej returns to Zakopane, war breaks out. To protect the Highlanders from wartime destruction, he wants to persuade them to cooperate with the Germans. Andrzej and Maciek are standing on opposite sides of the barricade. The brothers' confrontation is bloody and painful. |
| Pilecki's Report | 2,023 | Krzysztof Łukaszewicz | History, Drama, War | 6.4 | 17 | Polish | Polish WWII resistance fighter Witold Pilecki infiltrates Auschwitz, is imprisoned and interrogated by communist officials post-war, depicting his wartime experiences, incarceration, torture, and 1948 execution for opposing Soviet regime. |
| Danny Boy | 2,010 | Marek Skrobecki | Fantasy, Animation | 6.4 | 15 | XX | A young poet falling in love. A city that awaits a drama to unfold. A time of sadness and conformity, a time of decisions. There is light, there is hope, there is poetry behind the dark clouds of our world. |
| First Love | 1,974 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary, TV Movie | 6.4 | 15 | Polish | After the doctor's refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their decisions, in spite of numerous hardships facing them. |
| Elephant | 2,022 | Kamil Krawczycki | Drama | 6.4 | 14 | Polish | Bartek lives in a village in the Podhale region, where he runs a small farm and takes care of his lonely and possessive mother. One day he meets Dawid, a slightly older man who comes to visit his family after many years of absence. Affection quickly develops between the two, followed by desire that Bartek suppressed for years. |
| Joanna | 2,013 | Aneta Kopacz | Documentary | 6.4 | 14 | Polish | Joanna is famous because of her blog on confronting a terminal disease. The movie shows her everyday life. |
| Women's Day | 2,012 | Maria Sadowska | Drama | 6.4 | 13 | Polish | Helina, a modest checkout assistant at the Butterfly retail chain, dreams about getting a better life for herself and her daughter. An opportunity presents itself when Helina becomes a store manager. However, she soon discovers that the price for better wages and an improved standard of living is dishonesty, employee exploitation, and fraud. |
| Crime and Punishment | 2,000 | Piotr Dumała | Animation, Crime | 6.4 | 12 | Polish | "It is the story of love and of how love can be destroyed by obsession. In our lives we are subject to two contradictory drives - the drive to be good and bad, the propensity to love and to hate" -Piotr Dumala, director |
| Soulcatcher | 2,023 | Daniel Markowicz | Action, Thriller | 6.3 | 283 | Polish | A military contractor hired to seize a weapon that turns people into savage killers seeks revenge when his brother falls victim to the device. |
| Furioza | 2,021 | Cyprian T. Olencki | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.3 | 206 | Polish | A policewoman makes her ex-boyfriend an offer he can't refuse: either he infiltrates and informs on a gang of hooligans, or his brother goes to jail. |
| Sweat | 2,021 | Magnus von Horn | Drama, Thriller | 6.3 | 106 | Polish | Three days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zając, whose presence on social media has made her a celebrity. Although she has hundreds of thousands of followers, is surrounded by loyal employees and admired by acquaintances, she is looking for true intimacy. |
| Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes | 1,986 | Piotr Szulkin | Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama | 6.3 | 58 | Polish | Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero's welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458's inhabitants. |
| Planet Single 2 | 2,018 | Sam Akina | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 | 57 | Polish | A teacher and a famous TV host must hide their not-so-merry romance from the public when they present a Christmas special live on-air. |
| The Closed Circuit | 2,013 | Ryszard Bugajski | Drama, Crime | 6.3 | 51 | Polish | The film is set in the Tricity in 2003, ten years after the end of communism in Poland. The plot, apparently based on the real-life experiences of Kraków businessmen Lech Jerzorny and Paweł Rey, is about three young, talented businessmen who open a high-tech factory. This comes to the attention of the local state ‘mafia’, the local Prosecutor, played by Janusz Gajos, and tax office boss, played by Kasimierz Kaczor, who are both jealous and would like to make money for themselves. We are in Poland, so success must be punished. |
| All These Sleepless Nights | 2,016 | Michał Marczak | Documentary, Drama | 6.3 | 47 | Polish | What does it mean to be awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep? Kris and Michal push their experiences of life and love to a breaking point as they restlessly roam the city streets in search of answers, adrift in the euphoria and uncertainty of youth. |
| (Nie)znajomi | 2,019 | Tadeusz Śliwa | Drama, Comedy | 6.3 | 37 | Polish | 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... |
| Surfers’ Time | 2,005 | Jacek Gąsiorowski | Comedy, Crime | 6.3 | 35 | Polish | Three young guys got work from unlucky gangster... they try to make a great job but everything goes wrong |
| Love and Dance | 2,009 | Bruce Parramore | Music, Drama, Comedy | 6.3 | 28 | Polish | Hania is a young journalist who suddenly discovers that she is more connected with dancing than she could ever imagine ... |
| Salto | 1,965 | Tadeusz Konwicki | Drama, Fantasy | 6.3 | 25 | Polish | A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd. |
| Courage | 2,011 | Greg Zglinski | Drama | 6.3 | 24 | Polish | Alfred and Jerzy take part in a brutal incident: during a train ride, a couple of hooligans harass a young woman. Jerzy stands in her defense. Alfred hesitates and becomes a helpless bystander as his younger brother is thrown off the moving train. 'Courage' is about people whose lives get disturbed by a violent act, which forces them to reveal who they really are. |
| Purgatory | 2,020 | Michał Kondrat | Drama, Documentary | 6.3 | 23 | Polish | From the earliest times, people have wondered what awaits them after death? And although no one has managed to penetrate the core of the mystery, over the centuries there have been people who... knew and saw more. Fulla Horak, St. Faustina Kowalska, Bl. Father Stanisław Papczyński and St. Padre Pio - these are mystics who received the grace of being visited by the souls in Purgatory and who for a moment could see the final judgment, heaven, hell and what is most mysterious - purgatory. |
| Hospital | 1,977 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary | 6.3 | 23 | Polish | 24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses. |
| The Doll | 1,968 | Wojciech Has | Drama, Romance, History | 6.3 | 19 | Polish | 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 to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. |
| The Christening | 2,010 | Marcin Wrona | Drama | 6.3 | 18 | Polish | Michal has what he always dreamed of: a beautiful wife named Magda, a newborn son, his own firm. He chooses an old friend, Janek, to be the godfather of his child. This is just the beginning of Michal's plan, who asks his friend to take an interest in his wife... At the beginning the plan works out, but it becomes increasingly difficult for Michal to come to terms with it. Michal knows his deeply hidden past will inevitably come back to him, and Janek will have to make a decision, of which he will never forget the consequences. |
| Franz Kafka | 1,992 | Piotr Dumała | Animation, Fantasy, Drama | 6.3 | 18 | Polish | A fantasy biography of Franz Kafka, bringing to life the writer's diaries and photographs. |
| From the City of Lodz | 1,969 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary | 6.3 | 18 | Polish | This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the older, more conservative residents, many of whom lived through World War II and are confused and somewhat resentful at the changes they're seeing. |
| Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz | 2,019 | Maciej Pieprzyca | Drama, History | 6.3 | 17 | Polish | Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At the centre for the blind the boy discovers that music may be his way of seeing the world again and of describing it. Mietek goes on to become a brilliant classical pianist. Once he discovers jazz music, though, he has only one goal left: to become the best jazz pianist in Poland. He is more and more successful, not only in Poland but around the world. He wins the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Unexpectedly, a charismatic vocalist, Zuza, walks into his life. This meeting will change it forever. |
| Blindness | 2,016 | Ryszard Bugajski | Drama, History | 6.3 | 16 | Polish | A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of Warsaw, a place often visited by Cardinal Wyszyński, whose imprisonment in 1953-1956 Brystiger supervised personally. During a difficult and heated discussion with the cardinal, Brystiger denounces the communist ideology and begs for forgiveness for her crimes and for guidance in her search for God. |
| The Conductor | 1,980 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama, Music | 6.3 | 15 | Polish | A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons. |
| Strange Heaven | 2,015 | Dariusz Gajewski | Drama | 6.3 | 14 | Polish | Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an immigrant in Sweden. When a Swedish social worker visits their home, she witnesses Ula’s everyday reality, as seen from the perspective of the local culture. Ula is then taken away from her parents and placed in foster care. Will Basia and Marek stick together and fight for Ula? Will they succeed in rebuilding their bond and their family? |
| The Photographer | 2,014 | Waldemar Krzystek | Thriller | 6.3 | 13 | Polish | The Photographer is an elusive serial killer operating in modern-day Moscow. He leaves numbered tiles at the scenes of his crimes, similar to those placed at crime scenes by forensic teams. The investigation points to the old Red Army barracks in Legnica, and to events dating back to the 1970s. One of the people involved in the investigation is Natasha - the only person to have survived an encounter with The Photographer. |
| Acid Rain | 2,019 | Tomasz Popakul | Animation | 6.3 | 12 | Polish | After running away from her depressing village in eastern Europe, a teenage girl meets a new friend under a bridge. |
| Joanna | 2,010 | Feliks Falk | Drama, War, History | 6.3 | 11 | Polish | In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved one? Are we really as good as we think about yourself? In Joanna's life is given forever. Today's friend suddenly becomes an enemy. Reflex heart turns into a curse. When one of the lonely woman takes care of little girls-czynkę do not know that from now on, her life will be sweet - bitter taste. Fate in this film is everything. Allows people to find that in a moment blow and lead to separation. After-forgives love, for which you have to pay a huge price. Fulfills the promise of happiness loneliness, brittle as glass. |
| The Dybbuk | 1,937 | Michał Waszyński | Drama, Fantasy, Music | 6.3 | 11 | YI | In a Polish shtetl, two young men who have grown up together betrothe their unborn children, ignoring the advice of a mysterious traveler not to pledge the lives of future generations. Soon after, one of them dies, and the wife of the other dies in childbirth. The children grow up in different towns, without ever knowing of the betrothal, but the power of the vow leads them to meet each other when they are marriageable. The young woman, Leah, is promised to another man, but Channon, the son of the father who died, is a practitioner of mysticism, and seeks to win his bride through sorcery. |
| Close-Ups | 2,014 | Magdalena Piekorz | Drama, Romance | 6.3 | 10 | Polish | 37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways. |
| The Coldest Game | 2,019 | Łukasz Kośmicki | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 | 320 | Polish | Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory. |
| The Plagues of Breslau | 2,018 | Patryk Vega | Crime, Action, Thriller | 6.2 | 271 | Polish | Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city. |
| In for a Murder | 2,021 | Piotr Mularuk | Crime, Comedy | 6.2 | 190 | Polish | A stay-at-home mom and avid reader of crime stories discovers the deepest secrets of a small town's residents while investigating a woman's murder. |
| Spoor | 2,017 | Agnieszka Holland | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 | 182 | Polish | A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her. |
| Fierce | 2,020 | Anna Wieczur | Comedy, Music | 6.2 | 128 | Polish | Talent and passion for music can take one to the very top. On the way, however, there are going to be showbiz traps. |
| The Resistance Fighter | 2,019 | Władysław Pasikowski | History, Action, War | 6.2 | 85 | Polish | Based on the true story of Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, who served as a courier between the commanders of the Polish Home Army and the Polish Government in Exile in London. He must return quickly to Warsaw to transmit orders from the Polish PM to the Home Army's commander-in-chief before the start of the Warsaw uprising. |
| Too Old for Fairy Tales | 2,022 | Kristoffer Rus | Family, Comedy | 6.2 | 82 | Polish | In Waldek's life, filled mainly with computer games, there is a real earthquake. During her absence, mum stays under the care of a crazy and unpredictable aunt, who introduces discipline that has been alien to him so far and imposes new duties. But although an extraordinary relative gives Waldek a real survival camp, the boy also receives the most valuable life lesson from her. |
| The Getaway King | 2,021 | Mateusz Rakowicz | Comedy, Crime, Action | 6.2 | 75 | Polish | Comedy about Zdzisław Najmrodzki, most famous polish criminal in the times of Polish People Republic, named "the getaway king", known for stealing cars and escaping prison many times, but never hurting anybody. |
| Body | 2,015 | Małgorzata Szumowska | Drama, Comedy | 6.2 | 70 | Polish | A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga, who is still grieving her recently deceased mother, might try to harm herself, sends her to see a psychiatrist who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way. |
| The Mighty Angel | 2,014 | Wojtek Smarzowski | Drama | 6.2 | 59 | Polish | Jerzy is a writer and a heavy drinker. We meet him at the point when he believes that he can beat his addiction. He falls in love with a young girl and finally feels that he has got the person and the reason to live for. But soon he yields to his addiction. |
| A Grain of Truth | 2,015 | Borys Lankosz | Mystery, Thriller, Crime | 6.2 | 46 | Polish | A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth… |
| Playing Hard | 2,019 | Kinga Dębska | Drama | 6.2 | 40 | Polish | Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the problem secret and rescues her from many troubles but he slowly loses patience. A respected children surgeon Teresa has lost her family due to drinking problem, all she is left with is her job at the hospital where she is the main doctor. The situation goes out of control when the woman comes drunk to the hospital. A student, Magda, likes to party hard and because she is a good student and has a great job, no-one opposes that. At one moment, the girl loses control. A tragedy happens. |
| In Heaven As It Is on Earth | 1,998 | Jacek Bromski | Comedy | 6.2 | 40 | Polish | Russian woman is robbed after crossing Polish border and has to wait until the local policemen catch the thieves. The priest, who is the main authority in the town, orders that she stays at organist's house. |
| Jasminum | 2,006 | Jan Jakub Kolski | Comedy, Family | 6.2 | 34 | Polish | The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter Eugenia. The legend associated with the monastery bode revelation in him a saint in the near future. Despite initial reluctance, Natasha starts the maintenance of the image stored there. The secrets of the monastery are unraveled: the unhappy lovers bodies placed in the catacombs, the secret elixir of love, created with the smell of the monks. |
| Escape from the Liberty Cinema | 1,990 | Wojciech Marczewski | Drama, Fantasy | 6.2 | 34 | Polish | 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 and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur. |
| Playground | 2,016 | Bartosz M. Kowalski | Thriller, Drama | 6.2 | 33 | Polish | It's the end of the school year and today is the last chance for 12-year-old Gabrysia to tell her classmate that she has fallen in love with him. She sets up a secret meeting and blackmails the boy to show up. But what was supposed to be an intimate talk spins out of control and leads to an unexpected ending. |
| The Partisan | 2,025 | James Marquand | History, War, Thriller | 6.2 | 28 | English | A Polish spy working for the British during World War II is betrayed and compromised in Warsaw, leaving her no other choice but to descend into a dangerous world of treachery and deception in order to survive. |
| Beyond Words | 2,018 | Urszula Antoniak | Drama | 6.2 | 26 | English | A young Polish-born, Berlin-based lawyer working on refugee cases is unexpectedly reunited with his father, who is his only tie left with his homeland. |
| Barracuda | 2,017 | Jason Cortlund | Music, Thriller, Drama | 6.2 | 26 | English | Sinaloa hitchhikes into Texas to meet Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. As the two get to know each other, Sinaloa's chaotic influence starts to unravel Merle's quiet, comfortable life. While the family music legacy brought Sinaloa to Austin, she won't leave without taking revenge against the people who stole her daddy away years ago. |
| One Way Ticket to the Moon | 2,013 | Jacek Bromski | Drama | 6.2 | 23 | Polish | The story of youth, friendship and love in a time when man took his first steps on the moon, the streets became saturator, transistors pulsed rock'n'roll, and the fondest dream of every fan of the domestic automotive industry was the Fiat 125p. Film trip to the sixties, colorful era "flower children", hippies and bigbitu. Year 1969. Fascinating in aviation Adam is called to the army. However, much to his own chagrin, she gets an assignment to serve in the ... Navy. In Antek, older brother, embark on the sea. During several days of traveling through Poland to visit old friends and make new friends. Antek - incorrigible womanizer and the king of nightclubs - wants to prepare a shy brother to life. However, the meeting with a beautiful and mysterious woman calls a lot of complications in the life of Adam, initiating a series of surprising events. |
| Squint Your Eyes | 2,003 | Andrzej Jakimowski | Drama, Comedy | 6.2 | 21 | Polish | The story of a spirited ten-year-old girl who has run away from her proudly affluent parents in town and finds grudging refuge with the slightly slovenly caretaker of an abandoned farm, an ex-teacher. |
| Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach | 1,970 | Janusz Majewski | Fantasy, Horror, History | 6.2 | 21 | Polish | A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population. |
| Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe | 1,991 | Krzysztof Zanussi | Drama | 6.2 | 18 | Polish | 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. |
| Refrain | 1,972 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Documentary | 6.2 | 16 | Polish | A story about everyday life funeral in the 70s. |
| The Tenant. You Can't Burn Us All. | 2,021 | Michał Otłowski | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 | 14 | Polish | The peace of mind of a tenement house in Warsaw’s Mokotów district is shattered by the appearance of the alleged legal owner of the building. Using ruthless methods, the man starts forcing more families to move out. Janina Markowska is the most determined in her fight for the right to her apartment. When Janina disappears in mysterious circumstances, the police start investigating. |
| Life Must Go On | 2,015 | Maciej Migas | Comedy, Drama | 6.2 | 14 | Polish | When cancer-stricken alcoholic actor discovers he's only got 3 months to live, he decides to change his life and reconcile with his estranged daughter. |
| The Moth | 1,980 | Tomasz Zygadło | Drama | 6.2 | 13 | Polish | This is psychological drama by Tomasz Zygadlo begins as a straightforward story. Jan is the host of a nightly talk show in which he counsels people who call in with their problems. He is dedicated to helping these lonely souls but becomes increasingly disturbed when his co-workers and supervisors at the radio station do not appreciate his program; they seem unable to grasp the importance of what he is doing. Aside from that, Jan's private life is frayed around the edges. His wife is a heavy drinker and his mistress has no comprehension about who he is or what he is doing. Jan's frustration over this lack of recognition builds to an explosive level, threatening to upset the balance of his daily life. |
| Nightmares | 1,979 | Wojciech Marczewski | Drama | 6.2 | 13 | Polish | Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit. |
| A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw | 1,958 | Andrzej Munk | Music, Fantasy, Drama | 6.2 | 13 | Polish | A young music student strolls through Warsaw’s Old Town as the city’s everyday sounds—children, traffic, machinery, music, and passing jets—shift from background noise into a spontaneous outdoor concert. |
| The In-Laws 3 | 2,025 | Kuba Michalczuk | Comedy | 6.2 | 12 | Polish | Wanda and Tadeusz host a christening for their granddaughter, tension simmering as they reluctantly invite Małgorzata and her psychotherapist friend Grażyna. Just when the family braces for a fraught gathering, Andrzej returns to Poland, stirring old conflicts and transforming the warm celebration into a battleground where no one is willing to back down. |
| Film for Aliens | 2,024 | Piotr Stasik | Family, Adventure, Drama | 6.2 | 11 | Polish | 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 drag Jeremi away from the Internet, his dad gives him a special mission. |
| Feast of Fire | 2,023 | Kinga Dębska | Drama, Comedy | 6.2 | 10 | Polish | The sisters struggle with their own bodies. One, driven by ambitions, seeks the limits of its possibilities, for the other, the body is a prison. One believes that ballet will save her from memories. The second observes the world from the balcony with such attention that she sees and hears more. |
| Mother Teresa of Cats | 2,010 | Paweł Sala | Drama | 6.2 | 10 | Polish | Based on a true story. Two brothers, Artur (22) and Marcin (12), murder their own mother. The film starts with the boys' arrest and then takes us through the last 12 months in a series of flashbacks. |
| The Young Magician | 1,987 | Waldemar Dziki | Fantasy, Family | 6.2 | 10 | Polish | A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally discovers his calling when his parents take him to a magic show. Picked by the magician to be his helper during a trick he is drawn into the world of magic and wants to learn more. He becomes proficient in tricks and also discovers his telekinetic powers. Unfortunately that further alienates him from his peers and his parents are afraid of his powers. Things change when a national emergency arises and the government asks him to help. After success he becomes a hero and is accepted by all. Written by Polish Cinema Database. |
| Hellhole | 2,022 | Bartosz M. Kowalski | Horror, Mystery | 6.1 | 369 | Polish | In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery. |
| Squared Love | 2,021 | Filip Zylber | Romance, Comedy | 6.1 | 329 | Polish | A celebrity journalist and renowned womanizer starts to rethink his life choices after he falls for a mysterious model who leads a double life. |
| The Lure | 2,015 | Agnieszka Smoczyńska | Horror, Music, Romance, Fantasy, Thriller | 6.1 | 280 | Polish | Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man. |
| David and the Elves | 2,021 | Michał Rogalski | Family, Fantasy, Comedy | 6.1 | 91 | Polish | Christmas is drawing near, but it’s not a happy time for David. After moving to a big city, his parents have been bogged down with work and forgotten the meaning of Christmas. David decides to change that. Together with Albert the Elf, who escaped from the land of Santa to figure out what Christmas is all about, David sets off to Tatra Mountains, where his grandparents live, on a journey full of adventures. |
| Letters to Santa 2 | 2,015 | Maciej Dejczer | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 | 88 | Polish | In their pursuit of perfect Christmas well - known characters accompanied by some new faces happen to experience tiny miracles! The adventures they come across help them realize that the most important things in life - hope, acceptance and family - are within their reach and that real love is the best Christmas present! |
| Szamanka | 1,996 | Andrzej Żuławski | Drama, Horror | 6.1 | 64 | Polish | Anthropology professor Michal develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out of a swamp. The second is an enigmatic student he meets by chance at a railway station. |
| Hostages | 2,017 | Rezo Gigineishvili | Drama | 6.1 | 58 | Russian | Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they plot an audacious escape from the Soviet Union. |
| Squared Love Everlasting | 2,023 | Filip Zylber | Romance, Comedy | 6.1 | 57 | Polish | Monika and Enzo's whirlwind romance heads toward a fairy-tale ending until a bombshell revelation changes everything. |
| E=mc² | 2,002 | Olaf Lubaszenko | Action, Comedy | 6.1 | 57 | Polish | The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend. |
| Putin | 2,025 | Patryk Vega | Thriller, War, Crime | 6.1 | 48 | English | A portrait of a formidable political figure, unraveling the contrasting facets of an iron-fisted tyrant and a man haunted by fear. |
| Fluke | 1,999 | Maciej Dutkiewicz | Comedy, Crime | 6.1 | 44 | Polish | Two broken, police, destruction of property by arson with an explosive charge, stealing a car. Not bad for one night! Such is the balance of Alex's eighteenth birthday - the main hero of the film. |
| The Wedding Day | 2,021 | Wojtek Smarzowski | Drama | 6.1 | 38 | Polish | The story of a WWII tragedy in a Polish village mixed with the story of a wedding taking place in the same place 80 years later. A bitter look at a xenophobic community that forgets its own history. |
| These Daughters of Mine | 2,015 | Kinga Dębska | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 38 | Polish | A 40-year old actress (single and strong, yet lonely), her sister (an emotionally unstable schoolteacher whose married-with-kids life appears more orderly) and their domineering father, who gradually loses control over his family due to his wife's sudden illness and his own health troubles; these are the three individuals at the heart of this film, a touching story about the strength of family ties in a situation of imminent danger. |
| Under Electric Clouds | 2,015 | Aleksei German Jr. | Drama, Science Fiction | 6.1 | 36 | Russian | Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. Evolving around an unfinished building, a diverse group of outsiders struggle to find their place in this rapidly changing society, making up the mosaic of existence that is life itself… |
| Lynch | 2,010 | Krzysztof Łukaszewicz | Thriller, Drama | 6.1 | 27 | Polish | The story unfolds about the murder of an old man living in a remote village and six locals who may have been connected with the murder. Things get messy when the dead man turns out to be an ex convict. The accused ones find it very hard to deal with the preconceived attitude. The villagers, led by the families of the accused, have to fight for their innocence. |
| Half a Century of Poetry Later | 2,019 | Jakub Nurzyński | Fantasy | 6.1 | 24 | Polish | Quarter the century after the Rivian Pogrom (the very last events from the Witcher Saga) Kaer Morhen, an old keep of the witchers from the school of the Wolf, is being attacked. Leader of the assault is a mighty warrior - Agaius. A few years later from Aretuza, newly rebuilt school of the sorceress, runs Ornella, who has been suspected of finding the legendary Alzur's Almanac. In pursuit comes Triss Merigold, with help of an old bard, Dandelion, his bastard son Julian and Lambert, the last monster slayer, seeking for revenge. |
| Vinci 2 | 2,025 | Juliusz Machulski | Crime, Comedy, Action | 6.1 | 23 | Polish | Cuma, a retired master thief living peacefully on Spain’s Andalusian coast, rejects one last job, until rival Chudy, Cuma’s former partner turned adversary, plots a massive heist in Kraków with a ruthless new crew and no place for him. Driven by pride and the need to reclaim his title as the world’s greatest burglar, Cuma returns, reunites old allies, assembles a fresh team, and prepares to face Chudy on his own terms. |
| In Desert and Wilderness | 2,001 | Gavin Hood | Adventure, History, Drama | 6.1 | 21 | Polish | In Desert and Wilderness is a 2001 Polish film directed by Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two kids, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan. |
| Walkover | 1,965 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Drama | 6.1 | 21 | Polish | An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde. |
| Lampo, the Travelling Dog | 2,023 | Magdalena Nieć | Family, Adventure | 6.1 | 15 | Polish | The life of Zuzia, whose dad works on the railway, changes massively when Lampo, an extraordinary travelling dog, joins the family. The remarkable shepherd dog, whose train trips are an internet sensation, immediately becomes the best friend of the girl suffering from a heart condition. |
| Louise's Garden | 2,008 | Maciej Wojtyszko | Drama, Romance | 6.1 | 15 | Polish | A young girl meets a gangster at a psychiatric hospital. |
| The Christening | 2,022 | Jakub Skoczeń | Comedy | 6.1 | 14 | Polish | December, 1981. Marianna, a zealous Catholic, decides to use the family celebration - the baptism of the youngest grandson, to reconcile her children who have been quarreling for years. General Jaruzelski, who declares martial law that day, will unexpectedly prevent her from doing so. |
| Smugglers | 1,996 | Jarosław Żamojda | Action, Crime | 6.1 | 14 | Polish | "Ladybug," "Silent" and "Cobra" are 19-year-old young men who have everything, but want even more. They are smugglers working for "Black" - the head of a Szczecin smuggling gang. Unexpectedly, a certain Chmielewski, the richest man in Szczecin and former boss of "Black", gives up his illegal business. The good "deals" with customs officials come to an end. The boys decide that they will continue to manage on their own. However, in order to continue doing "business", they need to hire someone with a "clean" passport. The choice falls on Robert - the class primer. |
| Warszawa 1956 | 1,956 | Jerzy Bossak | Documentary | 6.1 | 14 | Polish | Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population. |
| 1800 Grams | 2,019 | Marcin Głowacki | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 | 13 | Polish | A touching story about the most important human matters: love, loneliness, sacrifice and courage, around the life of Ewa, a woman who works looking for families for orphaned children. |
| Hi Way | 2,006 | Jacek Borusiński | Comedy | 6.1 | 11 | Polish | Two young aspiring filmmakers, director Jaco and cameraman Pablo, travel from Katowice to Warsaw. During their journey, they talk about life and movies. |
| Around the World with Bolek and Lolek | 1,977 | Stanisław Dülz | Family, Animation, Adventure | 6.1 | 11 | Polish | Animated film about two young boys, Bolek and Lolek, who seek to fulfill the last will of Phileas Fogg who decided that his inheritor would be the one who made an identical round the world journey as he had done, using the means of transport generally in use in the nineteenth century. As they journey round the world, a bad character named Jeremiah tries to foil their attempts. |
| Lesson Plan | 2,022 | Daniel Markowicz | Action, Crime | 6 | 183 | Polish | After a teacher dies, his best friend — a former cop — takes a job at the school where he worked to confront the gang he thinks was responsible. |
| Kleks Academy | 2,024 | Maciej Kawulski | Fantasy, Adventure, Family | 6 | 179 | Polish | A seemingly ordinary girl finds her way into the eponymous Academy to explore the world of fairy tales, imagination and creativity. With the help o... |
| Bartkowiak | 2,021 | Daniel Markowicz | Action, Thriller | 6 | 159 | Polish | After his brother dies in a car crash, a disgraced MMA fighter takes over the family nightclub — and soon learns his sibling's death wasn’t an accident. |
| Tonight You're Sleeping with Me | 2,023 | Robert Wichrowski | Romance, Drama | 6 | 109 | Polish | Stuck in a passionless marriage, a journalist must choose between her distant but loving husband and a younger ex-boyfriend who has reentered her life |
| Mug | 2,018 | Małgorzata Szumowska | Drama, Comedy | 6 | 71 | Polish | After fun-loving metalhead Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant. This leads to his status as a media spectacle and martyr, all while battling ensuing identity issues as a consequence. |
| The Career of Nikos Dyzma | 2,002 | Jacek Bromski | Comedy | 6 | 65 | Polish | Nikos is a master of funeral ceremonies (that's undertaker to you and me) who doesn't expect much from life. After drunkenly insulting a diplomat at a party, weird things begin to happen for Nikos. The news that a mysterious stranger offended the hated Deputy Prime Minister galvanizes the political elite assembled at the banquet, and a rumor that Nikos can take care of anything spreads like wildfire, making him an idol of the masses. |
| Heart Parade | 2,022 | Filip Zylber | Comedy, Romance | 6 | 56 | Polish | A careerist from Warsaw, who does not like dogs, has to go to Kraków for professional reasons, where she meets a charming widower, his son and their four-legged pet. |
| Pitbull. Last Dog | 2,018 | Władysław Pasikowski | Action, Crime | 6 | 55 | Polish | 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. |
| The Lullaby | 2,010 | Juliusz Machulski | Comedy, Fantasy | 6 | 47 | Polish | A weird family named Makarewicz moves into a house recently abandoned by its owner, set in an idyllic but isolated Masurian village. Very soon a nu... |
| The High Frontier | 2,016 | Wojciech Kasperski | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6 | 45 | Polish | A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male bonding adventure. When a lost tourist arrives at the cabin, their male-bonding outing turns into a struggle for survival. |
| The Lamp | 1,959 | Roman Polanski | Drama | 6 | 42 | Polish | In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens? |
| Hydro-Puzzle | 1,971 | Andrzej Kondratiuk | Crime, Comedy, TV Movie, Science Fiction | 6 | 36 | Polish | Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As. |
| Tramway | 1,966 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Drama, Romance | 6 | 35 | Polish | A boy leaves a party and gets on a passenger tram. Aboard, he shyly watches a girl, who soon falls asleep. |
| Convoy | 2,017 | Maciej Żak | Thriller, Action, Crime | 6 | 33 | Polish | Director of detention, director Nowacki finds Sergeant Zawada, who is hiding from the world. An experienced officer returns to the game and gets a new task - he becomes the commander of the convoy, who is to transport a very dangerous prisoner to a psychiatric hospital. Members of his team are people with a complicated past. Among them is also Feliks, full of ideals, privately the husband of Nowacki's daughter, who should never have found himself in a prisoner. The prison director, having lost control of the convoy, chases to repair, and may hide the uncomfortable truth for him. The real purpose of the convoy is slowly coming to light. Conflicts arise between men and tension increases, with unexpected twists every minute. From now on, justice can be done on its own. |
| How a Sausage Dog Works | 1,972 | Julian Józef Antonisz | Animation | 6 | 23 | Polish | Polish animated short film that uses unconventional film techniques such as cut-out, drawing, filming miscible fluids and scratched images. Also uses non-camera technique such as drawing directly on film. The film is a humorous lecture on the internal structure of a dachshund. Parodying popular lectures at the same time, it contains a message about the superiority of the products of living organisms' techniques and calls for respect for the environment. |
| Dangerous Men | 2,023 | Maciej Kawalski | Comedy, Crime, History | 6 | 22 | Polish | Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Witkacy, Joseph Conrad and Bronisław Malinowski, four leading figures among the Zakopane bohemians, wake up after an all-night drunken party. Their hangover headaches are killing them, none of them remembers anything, and finding the corpse of a male stranger on the floor doesn’t help. |
| The Battle of Monte Cassino | 2,024 | Krzysztof Łukaszewicz | Drama, History, War | 6 | 21 | Polish | The story of the legendary battle through the eyes of Jedrek - a boy who went through the hell of the gulag and left Russia with the Polish Army as one of thousands of polish orphans. Soon a decisive attack on a monastery located on the hills of Monte Cassino is to take place at the front - this spectacular battle will decide the lives of many soldiers and the fate of the Allied offensive in Italy, and will change Jedrek's life forever. |
| Giuseppe in Warsaw | 1,964 | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Romance, Comedy, War | 6 | 18 | Polish | The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance. |
| Deserter's Gold | 1,998 | Janusz Majewski | Comedy, History, War | 6 | 17 | Polish | "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' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground. |
| Tuning the Instruments | 2,000 | Jerzy Kucia | Animation | 6 | 15 | Polish | Various animated depictions of movement, accompanied by different instrumental and ambient sound arrangements. |
| Bread and Salt | 2,023 | Damian Kocur | Drama | 6 | 12 | Polish | Tymek, a young pianist, student of the Warsaw University of Music, returns to his provincial town on vacation, where his mother, younger brother and friends from the neighborhood are waiting for him. The central meeting point for local youth is the newly opened kebab bar. Tymek witnesses a spiral of tensions between the employees of the Arabian kebab and his buddies. |
| How Far, How Near | 1,972 | Tadeusz Konwicki | Drama | 6 | 12 | Polish | A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way. |
| Through and Through | 1,973 | Grzegorz Królikiewicz | Crime, Drama, History | 6 | 12 | Polish | Jan and Maria become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. They struggle with poverty and extreme humiliation. Their attempt to survive leads to a desperate crime. |
| The Roe's Room | 1,997 | Lech Majewski | Music, Drama, Fantasy | 6 | 11 | Polish | Bound to a suffocating existence, a young man embarks on a marvelous journey of the imagination, transforming ordinary details of his room into fantastic images of natural beauty, where the cycles of life mysteriously play themselves out. |
| Father's Law | 1,999 | Marek Kondrat | Drama, Action, Crime | 6 | 11 | Polish | When the ex-racing driver's teenage daughter is brutally raped, her father seeks justice on his own. |
| Abel, Your Brother | 1,970 | Janusz Nasfeter | Drama | 6 | 11 | Polish | A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences. |
| In Love | 2,000 | Piotr Wereśniak | Romance, Comedy | 6 | 10 | Polish | Beauty Zosia is a “hunter” by nature: she very professionally captivates rich men, draws money from them, and then throws deceived fans and plans a... |
| Matthew's Days | 1,968 | Witold Leszczyński | Drama | 6 | 10 | Polish | A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope. |
| 365 Days: This Day | 2,022 | Barbara Białowąs | Romance, Drama | 5.9 | 1,823 | Polish | Laura and Massimo are back and hotter than ever. But the reunited couple's new beginning is complicated by Massimo’s family ties and a mysterious man who enters Laura’s life to win her heart and trust, at any cost. |
| All My Friends Are Dead | 2,020 | Jan Belcl | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 5.9 | 382 | Polish | A group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party go through a whirlwind of events that exposes secrets, breaks hearts — and leads to a shocking outcome. |
| Essential Killing | 2,010 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Thriller, War | 5.9 | 167 | English | A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside. |
| 303 Squadron | 2,018 | Denis Delić | War, Drama, History | 5.9 | 122 | Polish | After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts. |
| Delivery by Christmas | 2,022 | Aleksandra Kułakowska | Romance, Comedy | 5.9 | 80 | Polish | When a spiteful coworker sabotages her deliveries, a courier and a helpful customer must race to return Christmas presents to their intended recipients. |
| Floating Skyscrapers | 2,013 | Tomasz Wasilewski | Drama, Romance | 5.9 | 76 | Polish | Kuba attends an art opening with his girlfriend of two years and bumps into Mikal. The connection between these two young men is instantaneous and intoxicating, and despite opposition from all sides, he allows Mikal into his life. The results go beyond anything he could have imagined. This intimate and bold second feature from Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski captures the often-complicated consequences of finding love where others do not want it. |
| Just Love Me | 2,006 | Ryszard Zatorski | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 | 55 | Polish | Modern-day Warsaw shines in this romantic comedy about the love life of a young, hip architect. In his break-out role, popular Polish television star Maciej Zakoscielny plays the handsome young professional, who is torn between two women. |
| The Last Spark of Hope | 2,023 | Piotr Biedroń | Drama, Science Fiction | 5.9 | 51 | Polish | A woman, who may be the last human on Earth, struggles to survive with only her robot companion. As she battles the harsh realities of her existence, the stakes intensify when her once-trusted robot turns against her. |
| A Night at the Kindergarten | 2,022 | Rafał Skalski | Comedy | 5.9 | 41 | Polish | A young man crashes a school play rehearsal to prevent a group of teachers and eccentric parents from expelling his girlfriend's son. |
| Mister Blot's Academy | 1,984 | Krzysztof Gradowski | Fantasy, Family, Music | 5.9 | 41 | Polish | Thanks to the powers of magic, Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairy tale land of Mr. Blot – the protagonist of Jan Brzechwa’s classic book. Mr. Blot is a teacher and a magician in one. His lessons cannot be boring. Especially when bIotology is the subject. Adaś learns about the miracles of the enchanted land, but also gets to know its dark secrets. |
| The Curse of Snake Valley | 1,988 | Marek Piestrak | Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror | 5.9 | 33 | Polish | The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Indochina jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin. |
| Amok | 2,017 | Kasia Adamik | Crime, Thriller | 5.9 | 32 | Polish | 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". |
| The Vulture | 2,013 | Eugeniusz Korin | Action, Thriller | 5.9 | 29 | Polish | Imagine that you have the power to decide on people's lives. Who would you condemned, and whom he saved? In the center of Europe suddenly, without a trace, people begin to disappear. The investigation goes into the hands of Vulture (Michal Zebrowski) - a police officer who appears to be devoid of feelings. Tough, incorruptible, no obligations and favors to others. Until he meets Natasha (Anna Przybylska) - a woman other than those that he met so far. Vulture begins a dangerous game with the enemy ahead of him is still a step. Discovers a world in which people are leading a double life. For the first time, logical thinking will drive him into a trap with no way out. Suddenly, the hunter turned into animals. Balancing on the border between passion and reason, the world of logic and clever manipulation, you will have to answer the question: is there anything more important than life? |
| Everything for Sale | 1,969 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama | 5.9 | 28 | Polish | Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up. |
| Drowsiness | 2,008 | Magdalena Piekorz | Drama | 5.9 | 23 | Polish | The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a gay doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations. |
| Breakfast in Bed | 2,010 | Krzysztof Lang | Comedy, Romance | 5.9 | 20 | Polish | Piotr's life is not working out for him until he unexpectedly hits the cover of a popular magazine. |
| Angelus | 2,001 | Lech Majewski | Comedy, Fantasy, History | 5.9 | 15 | Polish | A commune built around the pursuit of spiritual perfection through the occult begins to see its prophecies come true. |
| The Chair | 1,963 | Daniel Szczechura | Animation | 5.9 | 15 | Polish | A story about the fight for power told with the help of simple graphics. The huge building, the huge column hall, one chair around the chairman's board table is empty. We observe the fight for that chair: little men run and fight, all tricks are allowed. |
| The Narrow World | 2,017 | Brent Bonacorso | Science Fiction | 5.9 | 14 | English | The Narrow World examines the sudden appearance of a giant creature in Los Angeles through the eyes of three people with differing ideas of its true significance. |
| Hospital of the Transfiguration | 1,979 | Edward Żebrowski | Drama, War, History | 5.9 | 14 | Polish | Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation. |
| Remember Your Name | 1,974 | Sergey Kolosov | War, Drama | 5.9 | 10 | Russian | Beginning of WWII. Zinaida, a Russian woman, is taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp together with several other women. She is imprisoned with her baby son, Gena, who is learning to walk and takes his first steps in the snow, in the concentration camp. They spend a few years together in the camp until they are separated, first within Auschwitz itself, then, for good, when the Germans are losing the war and decide to evacuate. |
| Mother's Day | 2,023 | Mateusz Rakowicz | Thriller, Action | 5.8 | 244 | Polish | Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago. |
| Mr. Car and the Knights Templar | 2,023 | Antoni Nykowski | Adventure, Drama, Family | 5.8 | 157 | Polish | A well-known art historian, treasure hunter and owner of an unusual car stumbles upon a Templar treasure, which is the key to a great power that can upset the balance of good and evil in the world. Supported by friendly scouts, Mr. Car starts a big race against time and a hostile organization, the stake of which is the heritage of knightly orders. |
| Demon | 2,015 | Marcin Wrona | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.8 | 146 | Polish | A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk. |
| The Last Witness | 2,018 | Piotr Szkopiak | History, Thriller | 5.8 | 85 | English | An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many years. |
| Panic Attack | 2,018 | Paweł Maślona | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 71 | Polish | Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment. |
| Broad Peak | 2,022 | Leszek Dawid | Drama, History | 5.8 | 60 | Polish | After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started. |
| Dovlatov | 2,018 | Aleksei German Jr. | Drama | 5.8 | 51 | Russian | Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery. |
| Let's Make a Grandson | 2,003 | Piotr Wereśniak | Comedy | 5.8 | 42 | Polish | To save the family land from a mysterious millionaire, a farmer hatches a plan to marry off his two children so they can take over the business. |
| God's Little Garden | 2,007 | Jacek Bromski | Comedy | 5.8 | 28 | Polish | The worst graduate of the police school goes to Królowy Most. At the same time, this town is chosen as an asylum for a crown witness in a mafia trial. |
| The Body | 2,003 | Tomasz Konecki | Comedy | 5.8 | 27 | Polish | One day a commuter, who happens to be a burglar, finds a dead body on a train. As he was just returning from a burglary and not wanting to draw att... |
| My Father's Bike | 2,012 | Piotr Trzaskalski | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 26 | Polish | Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them. |
| The Girl from the Wardrobe | 2,013 | Bodo Kox | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 22 | Polish | This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage. |
| The Musicians | 1,960 | Kazimierz Karabasz | Documentary, Music | 5.8 | 22 | Polish | A documentary about a group of Warsaw tram workers who moonlight in the city orchestra at night. |
| The Dress | 2,020 | Tadeusz Łysiak | Drama | 5.8 | 21 | Polish | A woman with limited hopes due to dwarfism toils in a rundown motel in rural Poland, as a maid. Will the repeated visits of an interesting man, a truck driver, change the loneliness of her situation? |
| Operacja Samum | 1,999 | Władysław Pasikowski | Action | 5.8 | 21 | Polish | The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers? |
| Landscape After Battle | 1,970 | Andrzej Wajda | Drama | 5.8 | 21 | Polish | Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities. |
| Our Folks: The Beginning | 2,024 | Artur Żmijewski | Comedy, Drama, History | 5.8 | 20 | Polish | Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours in a village in Podolia before they ended up in the Recovered Territories. Even then, it was one explosive neighbourhood. |
| Summer Solstice | 2,015 | Michał Rogalski | Romance, Drama, War | 5.8 | 20 | Polish | Romek is a Polish railway worker and Guido is a German soldier. They are both 17, in love with jazz and the same pretty girl. But it's 1943 somewhere in German-occupied Poland, and their lives are bound to change soon. |
| Masz ci los! | 2,023 | Mateusz Głowacki | Comedy | 5.8 | 18 | Polish | At their beloved grandfather’s funeral wake, the family learns his lifelong lottery numbers just won, but the winning ticket lies in his jacket buried three meters underground. Racing against time and grief, they and his friends desperately try to exhume him one last time to reclaim the fortune. |
| Entanglement | 2,011 | Jacek Bromski | Crime, Thriller | 5.8 | 18 | Polish | A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death. |
| Całe szczęście | 2,019 | Tomasz Konecki | Comedy | 5.8 | 16 | Polish | Robert is a reserved symphony orchestra musician raising his ten-year-old son alone. His orderly life is disrupted when vibrant fitness star Marta bursts into his summer routine. As their contrasting personalities and views on love collide, they discover affection in the unlikeliest of circumstances. |
| My Nikifor | 2,004 | Krzysztof Krauze | Drama, History | 5.8 | 16 | Polish | In 1960s Krynica, veteran artist Włosiński’s orderly life is disrupted when local outsider Nikifor - deaf, mute, and dismissed as a harmless eccentric - arrives at his studio and begins painting his naïve masterpieces. Their unlikely friendship transforms both men, sparking a late-life creative and personal rebirth that reshapes Włosiński’s world and finally earns Nikifor recognition for his singular talent. |
| One Room Tenants | 1,960 | Wojciech Has | Drama | 5.8 | 16 | Polish | A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s. |
| History of Cinema in Popielawy | 1,998 | Jan Jakub Kolski | Romance, Drama, Fantasy | 5.8 | 15 | Polish | |
| The House of Fools | 1,985 | Marek Koterski | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 15 | Polish | The feature film debut of director Marek Koterski. Thirty-year-old Adaś Miauczyński visits his parents, which ends with his nervous breakdown. |
| A Week in the Life of a Man | 1,999 | Jerzy Stuhr | Drama, Comedy | 5.8 | 13 | Polish | Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral code to himself than he does to others. As Adam Borowski, Stuhr plays a government lawyer prosecuting a variety of cases, including smuggling, theft, child abandonment, and racially motivated assault. However, Adam's own life is hardly a model by which to live. He's overextended himself financially and is trying to figure out how to avoid paying the hospital bills for his terminally ill mother. Adam is married, but he's been having an affair for some time, and, while he breaks off his relationship with his mistress, he's easily tempted into other liaisons. His wife wants to adopt a handicapped child; Adam would prefer not to have another child in the house, and he uses his influence to slow up the paperwork. And in order to reduce his tax bill, Adam has involved himself in a charitable donation scheme of dubious legality. |
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