Poland, 1990 – American music journalist Ruth takes her father Edek, a Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his childhood haunts, hoping to make sense of her family's troubled past. When Edek, reluctant to face his trauma, undermines their trip with his unpredictable and more eccentric than usual demeanor, Ruth is forced to challenge him and the values with which he raised her.
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112m
Kurier
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Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
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100m
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
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135m
Czuwaj
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Conflicts between the scouts and boys in a reformatory at the common scout camp, are sometimes very strong. One of the scouts dies. Jacek does not trust the police, who recognizes that it was an unfortunate accident. Sam believes in a world of a crystalline division into evil and good. He begins a private investigation. He brings a strict regime to the camp.
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90m
Sugihara Chiune
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Against his country's orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II.
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139m
A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime. Meanwhile, a conflict between local gangster groups escalates.
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124m
Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner workings of an unsolved murder.
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92m
Klara is chasing a cynical tax crook. After a while, she loses control and falls in love with him causing a cascade of unpredictable events.
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101m
Operacja Dunaj
Enemies evolve into allies under unusual circumstances.
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104m
A timid accountant tries to earn his living as a rather unsuccessful hitman, until one stormy night he pulls a trigger for the first time and becomes a target for the vengeful mafia boss, murderous gangsters, trigger-happy cops and a gorgeous blonde from hell – and if he’s not careful his own wife might catch wind of his double life too.
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94m
Bogowie
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The early career of cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa. Despite harsh reality of the 1980s Poland, he successfully leads a team of doctors to the country's first human heart transplantation.
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120m
Dekalog
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Ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.
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572m
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
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128m
GABRIEL is both subtle and cheerful as well as a deeply touching story of friendship and love contrasted with elements of competition and conflict. Dynamic action and an excellent cast create huge potential to attract young spectators.
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90m
This compilation of short stories is an overview of contemporary Warsaw and a story about Polish religiosity, built on empty gestures and false symbols.
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90m
Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei
The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.
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127m
Lauf Junge lauf
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Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.
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112m
Poklosie
A Polish man who returns home after the death of his father unearths a secret about the now-deceased Jewish residents of his village.
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107m
Majka is young, beautiful and intelligent. It is time for her to learn and work, she has wonderful friends. But unfortunately she can't forget Cezary, who had abandoned her a year ago. So Majka's best friend decides to help her to start a new life.
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95m
The story of a small Esterhazy and his research of Bunnies's Paradies that truly existed between East and West part of the Berlin Wall.
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25m
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
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90m
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Boisko bezdomnych
Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train hard to take part in the world championship.
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119m
Nadzieja
Young Franciszek witnesses a church painting theft and films it. He is not going to reveal the perpetrator to the police, however, but to blackmail him.
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101m
Villagers are preparing for the anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw. A local shop owner wants his father-in-law to reveal the inscription plaque but is actually more eager to have his alcohol concession prolonged.
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57m
Unkenrufe
In a new political situation of 1989, just as communism crumbles and the Berlin Wall collapses, a middle-aged Polish woman and German man need to face their memories, feelings and stereotypes while meeting in Gdansk.
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98m
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Zurek
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The dramatic story of a woman's struggle to discover the identity of her grandchild's father. The grandmother becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of the man who fathered her daughter's child.The naive daughter is of little help with her mother with the search, which turns into a dangerous journey, filled with unexpected events. The mother is forced to face and overcome her own dark secrets and deepest fears, and her struggles provide her daughter with a new sense of hope and understanding of her own life.
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72m
A thief accidentally finds a dead man on a train. As he does not wish to call the police, the best way is removing the body himself.
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98m
La petite prairie aux bouleaux
Myriam, a survivor of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, is a filmmaker and journalist who has spent many years living abroad. She takes part in a memorial event at the town hall in Paris commemorating the liberation of the camp, where she wins a flight to Cracow. At first she refuses to accept the prize, then decides to go.
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91m
Lichter
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Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
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105m
Zmruz oczy
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The story of a spirited ten-year-old girl who has run away from her proudly affluent parents in town and finds grudging refuge with the slightly slovenly caretaker of an abandoned farm, an ex-teacher.
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88m
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A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
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150m
Stacja
At a gas station located in the middle of nowhere Banan works during the winter holidays. One frosty day a gangster wounded in the stomach with a bag full of money and a gun turns up.
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96m
Czesc Tereska
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A sensitive teenage girl from a poor family befriends a cynical schoolmate, who shows her how to smoke, drink, have sex and steal. Tereska's life heads towards a catastrophe.
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86m
Pawel Heller returns to his hometown after many years, to try to unravel the mystery of disappearance of his schoolmate.
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95m
Når nettene blir lange
The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their respective families, a dog and in-laws from Poland squeeze inside the frozen cabin walls in 30-below-zero weather.
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102m
Pierwszy milion
Beginning of 1990. Old friends , Frik, Kurtz i Piki, making money on the stock exchange.
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96m
Ogniem i mieczem
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An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
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175m
Kochaj i rób co chcesz
Młody człowiek mieszka na Suwalszczyźnie, ma się żenić z córką miejscowego bogacza. Jest jednak absolwentem konserwatorium, chciałby zostać kompozytorem. Zatrudnia się jako akompaniator popularnej piosenkarki ,która przybyła do miasteczka na gościnne występy.
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94m
Demony wojny wedlug Goi
In Bosnia a squad of peacekeeping soldiers ignores orders and sets off to save the crew of a crashed helicopter.
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93m
A slice of life type movie. A main plot goes around showing common behavior and psychological portraits of inhabitants of a typical little town in Poland.
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96m
23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint
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When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.
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99m
Szczesliwego Nowego Jorku
The story of six Polish emigrants living in New York City, who try to live their American Dream and cope with the realities of the Big Apple.
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95m
Pulkownik Kwiatkowski
In 1945, military doctor Andrzej Kwiatkowski pretends to be a communist army colonel in order to save innocent people from Stalinist imprisonment and to get the heart of the girl he's in love with.
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123m
Zawrócony
Tomasz Siwek unexpectedly changes from an obedient communist party member into an opposition activist. And all that happens during a Solidarity rally where he was sent to spy on the protesters.
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79m
Trois couleurs: Blanc
After his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.
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91m
Three Colors: Blue
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98m
Trois couleurs: Rouge
A model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.
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99m
Three Colors: Blue
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98m
Trois couleurs: Bleu
A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.
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98m
In the 1980s, a group of Polish intellectuals visit Helsinki every year to attend a symposium and then talk about politics in a Finnish sauna.
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92m
Ferdydurke
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II.
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90m
Ucieczka z kina 'Wolnosc'
In the cinema "Liberty" there takes place a screening of the film "Daybreak". The screening is interrupted by an unusual event. Actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur...
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92m
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
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115m
Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach
Podczas "zimy stulecia" na dworcu w Koluszkach zniecierpliwieni pasażerowie oczekują na przybycie pociągu. Łączność kolejowa zostaje zerwana. W tym samym czasie niedaleko Koluszek w zaspach śnieżnych utknął pociąg. W jego wagonach panuje wesoła atmosfera. Niektórzy pasażerowie, którym śpieszy się na połączenie z innymi stacjami, wysiadają i idą piechotą do dworca w Koluszkach. Jest wśród nich Andrzej Roszak - młody chłopak śpieszący do Warszawy, oraz prawdopodobnie jego rówieśnica Basia. Niedługo po nich do dworca w Koluszkach docierają pan Walerek - działacz polityczny, który jechał na bal do KC; pan Rozbicki z żoną, tuż po kontrakcie w Iraku; Matyjak - gwiazdor telewizyjny; dziennikarz Przoniak oraz inni. Na wyludnionym dworcu pasażerowie sprawnie organizują sylwestrową zabawę. Podczas wspólnej hulanki jej uczestnicy stopniowo obnażają ukryte kompleksy, frustracje i nadzieje.
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91m
Sztuka kochania
The lives of a famous sexologist Olgierd Pasikonik and his avid reader Anna intertwine when she runs away from the altar following the advice from his press column.
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97m
Zad wielkiego wieloryba
Roy, who lives abroad, recollects his youth. Soon he receives news about his old friend's death.
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78m
Zabij mnie, glino
The duel between a criminal on the run and a cop who put him behind the bars the first time around.
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122m
Niezwykla podróz Baltazara Kobera
A dream-like odyssey of a young man across plague-ridden 16th century Germany.
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115m
Les possédés
In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.
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116m
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39m
Prywatne sledztwo
Rafal's wife and two children get killed on the road by a drunk truck driver. When police can't find the killer, Rafal starts to work on his own to punish the perpetrator.
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94m
Pierscien i róza
TV series based on William Thackeray's novel.
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99m
Matka Królów
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 new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.