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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.

Thirteen-year-old Anka navigates adolescence, first love, gossip with friends in working-class town grappling with alcoholism, abuse, depression; film explores her dysfunctional family's impact on youth facing difficult circumstances.

When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.

12-year-old Edek visits his aunt on vacation. Along with his cousins, he meets the charming Monika. They fall for each other until Monika leaves Edka for a rich kid. Cousin Honorka, also in love with Edek, reveals Monika's secret.

Two peasant families, forced from their lands by war, find themselves settled by chance on neighboring farms, reigniting old feuds.

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. Finally they manage to return. Based on great novel, the same title by Nobel receiver (for all his literary output) Henryk Sienkiewicz.

A multi-generational epic saga about problems and joys of the residents of one tenement house in Warsaw against the background of events from the post-war history of Poland under communist rule, stretching from 1945 to 1980.

Karol is a newcomer to the class and instantly called "sissy". He makes himself disliked by correcting his classmates and eating sandwiches, while everybody else eats dry bread and onions. He tries to make friends with class bully called Balon, and eventually succeeds. The group uses him to steal lollipops and later for an assault on a small child. The victim's mother seeks out the responsible and Karol is identified. He eventually confesses to his mother and names his accomplices. Branded now as a "squealer" he is avoided by his former friends. During a concert Karol collapses and is carried off.

Filip and Danka are soulmates. They have enough of their homes and school so they run away to live on an uninhabited island on the river. But one day girl's father comes and takes her back. Does that mean the end for them?

Loosely based on a biography of a famous Polish singer from the 1930's, Hanka Ordonowna. It opens in the Egyptian desert during African campaign in World War II where Hanka's husband is with First Polish Army of General Anders. She is now a nurse working with children and reminisces on her former career.

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 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.

This story, told in flashback of a Russian woman sent to Auschwitz during WWII, and later separated from her son, is one of the first Soviet films to acknowledge the Nazi concentration camps.

Aging Poles Pawlak and Kargul, summoned to Chicago by Pawlak's late brother, search for his illegitimate daughter while experiencing misadventures in late 1970s America before his funeral.

A young country woman emigrates to Canada in order to help her beloved son buy a house in the city.

A single mother, blinded by the love for her trouble-making son Januszek, makes more and more sacrifices for him.

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.

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student uderground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

The story is set in 1830s, shortly after the November Uprising in Poland. Julian, a young man with artistic interests, comes back home from abroad, where he studied history of art and anatomy. He wants to visit his father and meet his new wife, Katarzyna. Julian's mother died 6 years ago and although her husband promised her that he will never get married again, he broke this oath. The woman's ghost has not abandoned the house and is waiting for the punishment for her unfaithful spouse. It also influences Julian, who falls for his attractive stepmother. The doomed events constantly lead to a tragedy, which is about to happen...

A Polish journalist, Maj, who collaborates with a Parisian economic magazine similar to the UN press agencies, finds a trace of the activities of the secret organization "W", established by Nazi criminals who remained at large. The activities of this organization boil down to sabotage, attempts to obtain weapons of mass destruction, murder or drug smuggling. After the first contact in Vienna and Budapest with the activities of the "W" organization, May continues its trail, discovering new connections and carefully prepared actions. The titles of individual episodes are the names of the cities around which the action described in a given episode focuses.

An intimate drama taking place in a small house lost in the forest, inhabited by two people: a woman suffering from anxiety neurosis and persecution mania and a powerless husband against her terrible illness.

Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in his hand, has to figure out the motif for killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranaged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.

In 1370, as he feels the end of his life is coming, one of Poland's greatest kings, Casimir the Great, reflects on his past. He looks back on the memories of his youth, when he was crowned after the death of his father Ladislaus the Short.

The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.