The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Władysław Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three...

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his...

When his grandson is beaten by gangsters, a Warsaw veteran gathers his war buddies to take them on.

Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work...

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by...

Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years...

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.

A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with...

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main...

A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.

Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the...

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can...

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar...

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays...

Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is...

A renowned actor, Rafal Nawrot, is invited to play the main part in a theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet" in a backwater town. Upon arriving he...

Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison....

The final film produced by Warsaw’s Documentary Film Studio is an epic re-enactment of a treacherous mission by the Voluntary Tatra Mountain Rescue...

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

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW...

1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Nobody but Kros, a policeman, notices, and he must organize a rescue before...

Antek is an inexperienced seaman favored by his teachers. On his first trip to the sea he learns the hardships of the work and almost causes a...

1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is...

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

Tadeusz Krzakoski (Krzysztof Kowalewski), the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a...

Movie from 1969.

The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the...

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appeared in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.

Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the handsome and loving husband Bogumił. The man was...

King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs of Spring.

The story of famous Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.

Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after...

A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is...

Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses...

A smart teenager Adam Cisowski is asked by his teacher to help him solve the mysterious case of robbed house doors in his mansion.

Children of the Leśniewski family decide to help their mother in daily chores so she can have more time for herself.

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...

Three stories centered around sports.

A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

Psychological drama: a teacher's internal moral conflict, who wins the students' sympathy and respect by devising a heroic war life story.

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the...

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on...