Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: France, Poland • Language: English, German
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Ronald Harwood, Wladyslaw Szpilman
Cast
Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Plot
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
Category: TV • Genre: Animation, Action • Country: Japan, Poland • Language: Japanese, English
Director
na
Writer
Kentaro Miura
Cast
Marc Diraison, Nobutoshi Canna, Carrie Keranen
Plot
Guts, a wandering mercenary, joins the Band of the Hawk after being defeated in a duel by Griffith, the group's leader and founder. Together, they dominate every battle, but something menacing lurks in the shadows.
Category: TV • Genre: Animation, Action • Country: Japan, Poland • Language: Japanese, English
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Vic Mignogna, Aaron Dismuke, Romi Park
Plot
When a failed alchemical ritual leaves brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric with severely damaged bodies, they begin searching for the one thing that can save them: the fabled philosopher's stone.
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.
Category: TV • Genre: Animation, Action • Country: Japan, Poland • Language: Japanese, English
Director
na
Writer
Shin'ichirô Watanabe
Cast
Kazuya Nakai, Ginpei Sato, Ayako Kawasumi
Plot
Fuu, a waitress who works in a teahouse, rescues two master swordsmen, Mugen and Jin, from their execution to help her find the "samurai who smells of sunflowers."
Category: TV • Genre: Animation, Crime • Country: Japan, Poland • Language: English, Japanese
Director
na
Writer
Naoki Urasawa
Cast
Hidenobu Kiuchi, Liam O'Brien, Eiji Hanawa
Plot
Tenma, a brilliant neurosurgeon with a promising future, risks his career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy. The boy, now a charismatic young man, reappears 9 years later in the midst of a string of unusual serial...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Drama • Country: Poland, UK • Language: English
Director
DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman
Writer
DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman, Jacek Dehnel
Cast
Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk
Plot
In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
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...
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Poland • Language: Polish, German
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Poland, France • Language: Polish
Director
Jan Komasa
Writer
Mateusz Pacewicz
Cast
Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel
Plot
Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.
Category: TV • Genre: Animation, Action • Country: Japan, Poland • Language: Japanese
Director
na
Writer
Hiro Mashima, Masashi Sogo
Cast
Cherami Leigh, Todd Haberkorn, Tia Lynn Ballard
Plot
Lucy, an aspiring Celestial Wizard, becomes a friend and ally to powerful wizards Natsu, Gray, and Erza, who are part of the (in)famous wizard guild, Fairy Tail.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Poland • Language: 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: Poland • Language: 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...
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.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Germany, Poland • Language: German, English
Director
Christian Petzold
Writer
Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet
Cast
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Plot
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Denmark, Poland • Language: Danish
Director
Magnus von Horn
Writer
Magnus von Horn, Line Langebek Knudsen
Cast
Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri
Plot
Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: France, Poland • Language: French
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jean-Claude Carrière, Stanislawa Przybyszewska, Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Gérard 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.
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.
Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Horror • Country: Poland • Language: Polish, Latin
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.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA, Poland • Language: English, Polish
Director
Jesse Eisenberg
Writer
Jesse Eisenberg
Cast
Kieran Culkin, Jesse Eisenberg, Olha Bosova
Plot
Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, but their old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Poland • Language: Polish
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Aleksander Scibor-Rylski
Cast
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.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Poland • Language: Polish
Director
Ryszard Bugajski
Writer
Ryszard Bugajski, Janusz Dymek
Cast
Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: Poland • Language: 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.
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.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: Poland • Language: 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.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: France, Poland • Language: French, Polish
Director
Anne Fontaine
Writer
Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial, Anne Fontaine
Cast
Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza
Plot
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, History • Country: Poland, Russia • Language: Polish
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: Poland • Language: Yiddish
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA, Poland • Language: English
Director
Andrew Adamson
Writer
Andrew Adamson, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Cast
Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley
Plot
The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land's throne, Prince Caspian.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, War • Country: Poland • Language: Polish
Director
Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz
Writer
Andrzej Munk, Zofia Posmysz
Cast
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Crime • Country: Poland • Language: Polish, English
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Poland • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Music • Country: Poland • Language: Polish, German
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Music • Country: Poland • Language: Polish
Director
Leon Trystan
Writer
Emanuel Schlechter, Ludwik Starski, Eugeniusz Bodo
Cast
Eugeniusz Bodo, Józef Orwid, Helena Grossówna
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 ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: Poland • Language: Polish
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Poland • Language: Polish
Director
Wojciech Has
Writer
Marek Hlasko, Wojciech Has
Cast
Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Slaska, Teresa Szmigielówna
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: Poland • Language: na
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...
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Poland • Language: Polish
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.
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Poland • Language: Polish
Director
Krzysztof Zanussi
Writer
Krzysztof Zanussi, Edward Zebrowski
Cast
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.
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: Poland, Russia • Language: 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Music • Country: Poland • Language: 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: Poland • Language: 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.
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...
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 ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Poland • Language: Polish, German
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: Poland • Language: Polish, Italian
Director
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Writer
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Cast
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Biography • Country: Poland, USA • Language: English
Director
Ireneusz Dobrowolski
Writer
Stephen Cooper, Ireneusz Dobrowolski
Cast
Stanislav Szukalski, Glenn Bray, Robert Williams
Plot
This documentary chronicles the life of Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) from his early years in Chicago, to his time in Poland and Los Angeles, and his artistic and political contributions to the world.
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Poland • Language: 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.
