FR #854 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Poland | Polish, Portuguese
Director
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Cast
Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska
Plot
A naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
FR #918 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Poland, France | Polish, French
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Andrzejewski, Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Plot
As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
FR #1154 | Movie | Thriller, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Jakub Goldberg, Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast
Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
Plot
A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevi...
FR #1162 | Movie | War, Drama | Poland | German, Polish
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Cast
Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Plot
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
FR #2163 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Poland, USA | Polish, English
Director
Wojciech Has
Writer
Tadeusz Kwiatkowski, Jan Potocki
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewska
Plot
Upon finding a book that relates his grandfather's story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.
FR #2862 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr
Cast
Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas
Plot
An ordinary factory worker buys a camera on the occasion of the birth of his child. The authorities order him to make documentaries about the factory's success. But his endeavor to be truthful leads him to opposition against censo...
FR #3112 | Movie | Comedy | Poland, USA | Polish, English
Director
Stanislaw Bareja
Writer
Stanislaw Bareja, Stanislaw Tym
Cast
Stanislaw Tym, Barbara Burska, Christine Paul
Plot
The main character is the manager of a sport club, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a tournament - somebody has torn out a few pages fro...
FR #3142 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Poland | Polish, German
Director
Juliusz Machulski
Writer
Juliusz Machulski
Cast
Jan Machulski, Leonard Pietraszak, Witold Pyrkosz
Plot
The famous safecracker Kwinto, after leaving prison, decided to quit. But the news of the death of a friend abruptly changes his plans. He decides to "take" Kramer's bank. And, of course, he takes. Elegant, fun and twisted.
FR #3172 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Poland, USA | Polish, English
Director
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Writer
Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Lutowski
Cast
Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielowna
Plot
Jerzy enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something, as does the strange woman with whom he must share a sleeping compartment.
FR #3299 | Movie | Animation, Action | Poland, South Korea | English
Director
Kwang IL Han
Writer
Beau Demayo, Andrzej Sapkowski
Cast
Theo James, Mary Mcdonnell, Lara Pulver
Plot
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.
FR #3595 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Poland, France | Polish, English
Director
Juliusz Machulski
Writer
Juliusz Machulski, Pavel Hajn12, Jolanta Hartwig
Cast
Wieslaw Michnikowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Olgierd Lukaszewicz
Plot
Two scientists are placed into a 3-year hibernation, but when they wake up, it turns out to have been 50 years, and they are the only two males in a new underground society composed exclusively of women.
FR #3879 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Poland, France | French, Polish
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jean-Claude Carriere, Stanislawa Przybyszewska, Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Gerard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Plot
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
FR #3915 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Poland, Egypt | Latin, Polish
Director
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Writer
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Tadeusz Konwicki, Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Cast
Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska
Plot
A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
FR #6117 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | Poland, USA | Serbo-Croatian, German
Director
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Writer
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Cast
Marian Kociniak, Janina Boronska, Adam Cyprian
Plot
The adventures of unlucky Polish soldier Franek Dolas during world war II. In September he escapes from Stalag and goes to France. After that he fights in Africa and Europe.
Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Plot
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.
Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.
FR #6860 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Andrzej Zulawski
Writer
Andrzej Zulawski, Jerzy Zulawski
Cast
Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Grazyna Dylag
Plot
A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.
FR #7112 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Poland, India | Polish, Malayalam
Director
Jerzy Hoffman
Writer
Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz, Jacek Fuksiewicz, Jerzy Hoffman
Cast
Jerzy Binczycki, Anna Dymna, Tomasz Stockinger
Plot
Abandoned by his wife and daughter, a famous surgeon starts drinking, hurts his head and loses his memory. His medical knowledge gradually resurfaces and he becomes a village healer, not remembering who he is.
FR #7851 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Poland | Polish, Yiddish
Director
Wojciech Has
Writer
Wojciech Has, Bruno Schulz
Cast
Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska
Plot
Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.
Aleksandra Slaska, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar
Plot
While aboard a transatlantic passenger ship, a German woman, Liza, notices someone who looks like Marta, a former inmate at Auschwitz, where Liza used to be a guard.
FR #8297 | Movie | Comedy, Action | Poland, USA | Polish, English
Director
Juliusz Machulski
Writer
Piotr Weresniak
Cast
Cezary Pazura, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Jerzy Stuhr
Plot
An innocent cab driver Jurek Kiler is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs "Killer" for a few more jobs.
FR #8857 | Movie | History, Adventure | Poland, Russia | Polish, English
Director
Jerzy Hoffman
Writer
Jerzy Hoffman, Adam Kersten, Henryk Sienkiewicz
Cast
Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Plot
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
FR #9406 | Movie | Drama | Poland | Polish, Romanian
Director
Wojciech Has
Writer
Marek Hlasko, Wojciech Has
Cast
Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Slaska, Teresa Szmigielowna
Plot
One day in the life of an alcohol addict. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when she's at work, Kuba is home alone, and it becomes hard not to resist the temptation.
FR #9916 | Movie | Comedy, Short | Poland | English
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Roman Polanski
Cast
Jakub Goldberg, Henryk Kluba, Andrzej Kondratiuk
Plot
Two men emerge from the sea onto the beach carrying a large wooden wardrobe with a mirror on its front. After the two men clean up and rejoice being in this new environment, they proceed to enter the nearby town, they carrying the...
FR #10268 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Poland, China | Polish, English
Director
Lukasz Palkowski
Writer
Krzysztof Rak
Cast
Tomasz Kot, Piotr Glowacki, Szymon Piotr Warszawski
Plot
The early career of cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa. Despite the harsh reality of 1980s Poland, he successfully leads a team of doctors to the country's first human heart transplantation.
Roman Wilhelmi, Bozena Dykiel, Stanislawa Celinska
Plot
The families from various backgrounds move to a newly built block of flats in the suburbs of Warsaw. They have to face the totalitarian methods applied by the block caretaker Stanislaw Aniol.
Barbara Wrzesinska, Jan Myslowicz, Andrzej Zarnecki
Plot
Jan and Marek used to study physics together but after graduation their paths were different. Jan got married and moved to the countryside. Marek stayed in Warsaw and now wants to persuade Jan to follow his path.
FR #10916 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Poland, Russia | Polish
Director
Jerzy Hoffman
Writer
Jerzy Hoffman, Jerzy Lutowski, Henryk Sienkiewicz
Cast
Tadeusz Lomnicki, Magdalena Zawadzka, Mieczyslaw Pawlikowski
Plot
In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, 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.
FR #11113 | Movie | History, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
Cast
Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
Plot
A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
FR #11509 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Michal Gazda
Writer
Marcin Baczynski, Mariusz Kuczewski, Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz
Cast
Leszek Lichota, Maria Kowalska, Ignacy Liss
Plot
A once-respected surgeon professor Rafal Wilczur who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past who can help him find the answers he needs.
Jagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village - a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by adherence to colorful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy.
FR #11536 | Movie | Crime, Action | Poland, Russia | Polish, Russian
Director
Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Writer
Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Cast
Boguslaw Linda, Marek Kondrat, Cezary Pazura
Plot
In the good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from the secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to a new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all privileges. Some, like Franz, ar...
FR #11660 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Aleksander Ford
Writer
Aleksander Ford, Leon Kruczkowski, Henryk Sienkiewicz
Cast
Urszula Modrzynska, Grazyna Staniszewska, Andrzej Szalawski
Plot
In the 15th century the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is facing a hard struggle against the neighboring Teutonic Order.Frequent clashes between the two powers finally culminate in 1410 with the Battle of Grunwald.
FR #11666 | Movie | Musical, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Andrzejewski, Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast
Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczeska
Plot
A young doctor and jazz drummer, is also a womanizer who meets one night another yet finally interesting girl, who all but forces herself into his apartment where they play the game of appearances, both unable to confess their lov...
Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
FR #12169 | Movie | Comedy | Poland, France | Polish, English
Director
Andrzej Munk
Writer
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Cast
Bogumil Kobiela, Maria Ciesielska, Helena Dabrowska
Plot
The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of tu...
FR #12657 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Poland | German, Polish
Director
Andrzej Munk
Writer
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Cast
Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski
Plot
Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II. In the first novel, "Scherzo alla polacca", a shrewd son, trying to preserve his skin, ultimately becomes a hero and finds a reason for fighting. He initially tries to avoid un...
This comedy 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...
FR #13530 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Poland, Germany | Polish, English
Director
Wojciech Smarzowski
Writer
Wojciech Smarzowski
Cast
Marian Dziedziel, Tamara Arciuch, Iwona Bielska
Plot
A wealthy small-town wiseguy organizes the wedding party for his daughter. As the party begins, unexpected events start to occur and disturb the party for the hosts and guests alike.
FR #14116 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Andrzej Zulawski
Writer
Andrzej Zulawski, Miroslaw Zulawski
Cast
Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki
Plot
Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The husband decides to join the resistance but ...
FR #14399 | Movie | Drama | Poland, Italy | Polish, English
Director
Andrzej Munk
Writer
Andrzej Munk, Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Cast
Kazimierz Opalinski, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Zygmunt Zintel
Plot
In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. An inquiry immediately follows. Testimony takes the form of flashbacks. Tuszka, the station master, believes Orzechowski wa...
Kazimierz Witkiewicz, Zygmunt Apostol, Bogusz Bilewski
Plot
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.
The main characters are the same two quarreling pesant 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...
FR #15920 | Movie | Drama, Short | Poland | Polish
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Roman Polanski
Cast
Barbara Lass, Roman Polanski, Henryk Kluba
Plot
A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out -- of illness, assignation, an...
FR #16362 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Andrzej Zulawski
Writer
Andrzej Zulawski
Cast
Leszek Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek
Plot
Young Polish noble Jakub, freed during 1793 Prussian invasion, experiences father's death, betrayal. Traumatized, he follows his savior, committing brutal murders across the country.
Massimo is a member of the Sicilian Mafia family and Laura is a sales director. She does not expect that on a trip to Sicily trying to save her relationship, Massimo will kidnap her and give her 365 days to fall in love with him.
FR #16505 | Movie | Drama | Poland | Polish, Czech
Director
Wojciech Smarzowski
Writer
Wojciech Rzehak, Wojciech Smarzowski
Cast
Arkadiusz Jakubik, Robert Wieckiewicz, Jacek Braciak
Plot
Three Catholic priests meet to celebrate the anniversary of an event which could have taken their lives. Their experiences and motivations to serve as priests are extremely different, and soon each of them will have to face new ch...
FR #17196 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Poland | Yiddish, English
Director
Michal Waszynski
Writer
S. Ansky, S.A. Kacyzna, Andrzej Marek
Cast
Avrom Morewski, Ajzyk Samberg, Mojzesz Lipman
Plot
The mystical love story between Chonen, a poor Talmud student, and Lea, a girl from a wealthy family, depicts the traditional folk culture of Polish Jews before WW2.
Krzysztof Kowalewski, Bronislaw Pawlik, Stanislaw Tym
Plot
What Will You Do When You Catch Me? is a parody of comunist times in Poland. A state-owned company director is having an afair during his delegation. Later on, his mistress turns out to be the daughter of a Communist party bigwig ...
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 c...
FR #18204 | Movie | Musical, Drama | Poland | German, Polish
Director
Leonard Buczkowski
Writer
Jan Fethke, Ludwik Starski
Cast
Danuta Szaflarska, Janina Ordezanka, Jerzy Duszynski
Plot
A Polish musician tells a young soldier about his wartime activity - setting up a street orchestra and taking part in the anti-German resistance movement.
FR #18288 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Wojciech Smarzowski
Writer
Lukasz Kosmicki, Wojciech Smarzowski
Cast
Arkadiusz Jakubik, Marian Dziedziel, Kinga Preis
Plot
A zootechnician visits a remote farm, developing relationships with tragic consequences, and 1982 during Martial Law, as investigators reconstruct the 1978 crime scene to solve a multiple murder case involving the zootechnician.
FR #19440 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Poland, Japan | Polish, Japanese
Director
Leon Trystan
Writer
Emanuel Schlechter, Ludwik Starski, Eugeniusz Bodo
Cast
Eugeniusz Bodo, Jozef Orwid, Helena Grossowna
Plot
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 ...
FR #19616 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | Poland, Italy | Polish, Italian
Director
Piotr Szulkin
Writer
Piotr Szulkin
Cast
Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jedrusik
Plot
A man searches for survival after nuclear war forces people into an underground bunker. The inhabitants await rescue while their refuge decays around them.
A man hops off a train by the small town where he claims he was before. His presence allows to bring out the inner feelings and beliefs of the inhabitants. A man who has hidden through all of the war because he looked Jewish, even...
FR #20913 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Poland | Polish, French
Director
Janusz Morgenstern
Writer
Zbigniew Cybulski, Bogumil Kobiela, Wilhelm Mach
Cast
Zbigniew Cybulski, Teresa Tuszynska, Grazyna Muszynska
Plot
Jacek is a handsome young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful daughter of the French consul, and immediately falls for her.
Krzysztof Kowalewski, Wojciech Pokora, Janina Traczykowna
Plot
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 ti...
Because of the danger involved and the harsh conditions, wood transport drivers, working in the forests of south-east Poland, are going to quit their jobs. A party activist arrives to make them change their minds.
FR #21356 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Poland | English, Polish
Director
Krzysztof Zanussi
Writer
Krzysztof Zanussi
Cast
Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul
Plot
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to student...
FR #21546 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Poland | Polish
Director
Marek Koterski
Writer
Marek Koterski
Cast
Cezary Pazura, Marek Kondrat, Ewa Blaszczyk
Plot
Bumbling film director Adam Miauczynski's calamity-ridden life sees his career and relationships suffering due to his lack of common sense, leaving him clueless on how to fix things.
Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Andrzej Lapicki
Plot
The disappearance of the leading actor from the film's set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor's wife and mistress.
