A Polish man who returns home after the death of his father unearths a secret about the now-deceased Jewish residents of his village. Read More »
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All Soul’s Day (1961) Tadeusz Konwicki, Ewa Krzyzewska, Edmund Fetting, Elzbieta Czyzewska
A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. Read More »
The Death of Captain Pilecki (2006) Ryszard Bugajski, Marek Probosz, Marek Kalita, Andrzej Niemirski
Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation Read More »
Hardkor Disko (2014) Krzysztof Skonieczny, Marcin Kowalczyk, Jasmina Polak, Agnieszka Wosinska
A contemporary, multi-faceted metropolis. Nouveau-riche parents and their hedonist, live-in-the-moment children Read More »
33 Scenes from Life (2008) Malgorzata Szumowska, Julia Jentsch, Peter Gantzler, Maciej Stuhr
A successful artist, married to a famous composer, must suddenly deal with a number of crises Read More »
Jump (1965) Tadeusz Konwicki, Zbigniew Cybulski, Jerzy Block, Marta Lipinska
A man hops off a train by the small town where he claims he was before. Read More »
Big Animal (2000) Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Dymna, Dominika Bednarczyk
Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple. Read More »
Man of Marble (1977) Andrzej Wajda, Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki
In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer Read More »
Permanent Objections (1975) Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Bogusz Bilewski, Franciszek Trzeciak, Lucyna Winnicka
Franek, a petty criminal and gambler, befriends a man who performs inspections of meat plants. Read More »
Shivers (1981) Wojciech Marczewski, Tomasz Hudziec, Teresa Marczewska, Marek Kondrat
Set in the early 1950’s, during the Stalin’s Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Read More »
Neighborhooders (2014) Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Marek Dyjak, Kamila Wojciechowicz, Andrzej Lipinski
Ogrodowa Street in Lódz – just opposite a crowded shopping center, a state-of-the-art museum and a posh hotel Read More »
At Full Gallop (1996) Krzysztof Zanussi, Maja Komorowska, Bartosz Obuchowicz, Karolina Wajda
In the early 1950s, a 10-year-old boy moves to Warsaw to stay with his bourgeois aunt. Read More »
Ga, Ga – Glory To The Heroes (1986) Piotr Szulkin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Figura
Our main character lands on a supposedly uninhabited strange new world Read More »
Man – Woman Wanted (1973) Stanislaw Bareja, Wojciech Pokora, Jolanta Bohdal, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz
Stanislaw works in an art museum in Warsaw; it’s not a very well-paid job, and his boss is a bit of a martinet. Read More »
The Illumination (1973) Krzysztof Zanussi, Stanislaw Latallo, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Malgorzata Pritulak
A man looks for the meaning of life through science, work, love, marriage, family, death, and spirituality. Read More »