Advanced search

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.

Ex-guerrilla Kacper, possessed by late wife Maryna's spirit, is pursued by female werewolf. He recognizes werewolf traits in Julia, a countess involved with Austrian officer.

A struggling illustrator and his wife, disliked by his family, drift between jobs before attempting mail fraud. Their scheme leads to the murder of their elderly, disabled landlords.

A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.

Sometimes funny, sometimes sad story of young man who climbs up the social ladder.

Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed with gaining her love and retrieving her from the spiritual world for himself.

Polish schoolboy Janek and his fellow traveler, the Russian girl Tanya, are on the journey to South America. The plane they are flying on is hijacked by a gang of drug dealers led by a former Nazi criminal.

A nine part adaption of Aleksander Minkowski's novel, filmed in the area of Lake Luknajno. A teenage girl named Majka (pronounced Mika) falls out with her father who she believes has treated one his work colleagues unfairly. She runs away from home and hides out in the reeds on the shore of a large lake. She manages to evade the local MO Station commander and his deputy who regularly patrol the lake in a motor boat. Ariel, the commander's son, soon finds Majka's hiding place but keeps it a secret. Like Majka, Ariel also has a strained relationship with his father. His mother died when he was young and he disapproves of his father's blossoming affair with local doctor Badowska. Ariel and Majka find themselves sharing common ground. Ariel does his best to supply shelter and food for Majka but the pair are constantly at risk of being found out as the commander is involved in other investigations around the lake. Ariel and Majka begin to develop a restrained romance. Ariel visits Majka's father in the city and attempts to mend the divisions between father and daughter. Majka, who is now staying in an abandoned old cruiser on a remote part of the lake becomes sick. Ariel is forced to seek help from doctor Badowska who tends to majka on board the boat. Ariel starts to feel that perhaps the doctor is not so bad after all. It becomes apparent that the situation is approaching the point at which a resolution is needed. This is a story about growing up. It's about the realisation that life situations are rarely straightforward, people have different perspectives and compromise is often necessary in order to reach an adequate solution.

An unemployed man goes to Warsaw to look for a job. By accident he gets into the high society circles and starts a spectacular career.

Set in 1939 tells a story of friendship among three 10-year olds, living in town of Sosnowiec: a Polish and Jewish boys and a German girl. The Jewish boy's parents are killed and he is wounded and left for dead, but saved by the other two. Polish boy sees his baby brother taken from his mother to be raised by an Aryan family, after Polish resistance members are found in his home and then shot in the street. The German girl leaves with her parents to live in Germany, after resisiting family pressure to associate only with German-bred companions.

Ricky is an escapee from a reform school. Julian escaped the anger of a voluntarily fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. They team together in Warsaw. In search for food they break into a villa and Ricky discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They decide to go on a rampage through the city.

A series showing the Polish countryside during the German occupation in an original, rhetoric-free way. The film debunks the legend of folk patriotism. It rejects Polish stereotypes about war heroism, sacrifice and sacrifice. It is a record of the state of consciousness "scarred by war", the drama of lost people who are sinking into ever greater decay.

During the German occupation of Poland, several children in a village become very unhappy and then get into deep trouble for drawing a picture of the German Führer hanged from a tree.

Set in Silesia, a coalmining region of Poland in the 20's and 30's, between two world wars. The hero is a street performer. He is a quick- witted con-man belonging to a troupe of wandering actors roaming the countryside.

The film is a story of a young man coerced into undercover work for the police, in return for their dropping of charges against him. He is to befriend a leader of a gang of juvenile delinquents who plans big robbery of a jewelry store. The scheme works and the gang is caught in the act except the gang leader.

A story of a young worker, who is given a flat by his union commission on condition that he gets married.

"Lysy" (Bald) is the leader of a youth gang. Tall, strong boys from the upper grades of primary school use their physical advantage to terrorize younger and weaker students. They extort money from them, beat them, make them carry schoolbags, and humiliate them in various ways. And only one girl - Kaska - dares to oppose them. Intelligent, full of initiative, stubborn and determined to do everything, a girl from a parallel class intends to fight Lysy and his partners. Over time, a group of colleagues gathers around her, who will also be ready to defend the weaker ones. Kaska has two brothers, Andrzej, who is a year younger, and 7-year-old Jarek. They are also involved in the fight against Lysy.

In September 1939, Polish Silesians fight hard against German invaders. The Germans are especially focused on taking over the observation spot in Katowice - the parachute tower.

A spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with "officer's lady" while he is setting up her boyfriend for his sentence of death. In the end, he loses out to a collaborator living next door.