A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
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Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie / The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) Wojciech Has, Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Upon finding a book that relates his grandfather’s story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.
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Warsaw Dark (2009) Christopher Doyle, Anna Przybylska, Jan Frycz, Adam Ferency, Thriller
Warsaw, night, a club by the river. Ojka – young and beautiful prostitute runs out to the parking lot. Wolski-fat, aging politician follows her, lured by her charm. Read More »
Królowa aniolów (1999) Mariusz Grzegorzek, Gabriela Muskala, Mariusz Jakus, Zofia Rysiówna, Drama, Romance
The film takes place in two spaces of time. Modern history tells the story of a passing relationship crisis doctor James with her teacher Maria. Read More »
Pingwin (1965) Jerzy Stefan Stawinski, Andrzej Kozak, Krystyna Konarska, Zbigniew Cybulski, Drama, Romance
A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.
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Córki dancingu / The Lure (2015) Agnieszka Smoczynska, Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis, Comedy, Drama, Horror
One dark night, at water’s edge, a family of musicians encounter aquatic sirens Silver and Golden. Read More »
Rozwodów nie bedzie / There Will Be No Divorces (1964) Jerzy Stefan Stawinski, Marta Lipinska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Teresa Tuszynska, Comedy, Romance
The protagonists of the first stories are Tom and Alina. We are getting ready for the wedding. He comes to the Registry Office from work. Read More »
Spirala / Spiral (1978) Krzysztof Zanussi, Jan Nowicki, Maja Komorowska, Zofia Kucówna, Drama
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters Read More »
Between Two Fires (2010) Agnieszka Lukasiak, Magdalena Poplawska, Simon Kassianides, Kamila Nowysz, Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young mother with her daughter escapes child trafficking in their home country Belarus just to end up in a refugee camp in northern Sweden. Read More »
Spokój / The Calm (1980) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Izabella Olszewska, Jerzy Trela, Drama
Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years. A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. Read More »
Personel (1975) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Juliusz Machulski, Irena Lorentowicz, Wlodzimierz Borunski, Drama
Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague Read More »
Krótki dzien pracy / Short Working Day (1981) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Tadeusz Bartosik, Zbigniew Bielski, Leon Charewicz, Drama
Based on reportage of the 1976 strike in Radom, which ended with the regional Party Committee headquarters set aflame, Kieslowski’s made-for-TV hybrid film merges archival materials with a dramatization of organized opposition during a single day of conflict. Read More »
Wkreceni (2014) Piotr Weresniak, Piotr Adamczyk, Bartosz Opania, Pawel Domagala, Comedy
Three car factory workers from Silesia, who have just lost their jobs, go to Warsaw to have a fun weekend. On their way there, however, they are mistaken for foreign businessmen.
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Jestem / I Am (2005) Dorota Kedzierzawska, Piotr Jagielski, Agnieszka Nagórzycka, Edyta Jungowska, Drama
An eleven-year-old (Piotr Jagielski) escapes from an orphanage and returns to his hometown where the other kids call him “Mongrel” and his young alcoholic mother (Edyta Jungowska) kicks him out again. Undaunted, he sets up quarters of his own in an abandoned barge.
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Plac Zbawiciela / Saviour Square (2006) Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze, Jowita Budnik, Arkadiusz Janiczek, Ewa Wencel, Drama
Beata and Bartek are a young married couple with two children. As they keep waiting for the key to their own Warsaw apartment, they are living temporarily with Bartek’s overbearing mother near Warsaw’s Saviour Square.
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