A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He...

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.

Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.

Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced...

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress'...

Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping...

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...

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.

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...

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she...

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...

A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt...

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their...

Polish film directed by Wieslaw Saniewski.

Adapted from a series of fantasy novels by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher tells the tale of Geralt, one of a few remaining...

Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi...

A film based on a Tolstoy novel about naïveté, idealism and love facing harsh reality.

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman...

Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the...

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit...

On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. They all have something to...

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to...

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each...

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on...

In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and...

Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international...

This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to...

The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.

A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly...

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a...

The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of...

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in...

TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.

A Hong Kong Special Branch cop and a CIA agent reluctantly team up to bring down a major international terrorist.

Young former partisan recalls his war experience during a trip to the sea.

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.

Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.

The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude...

Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.

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...

A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.

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...

The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the...

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.

After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its...

Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by...

The film is set toward the beginning of World War II, at a psychiatric hospital in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several...

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law, Count...