Released Date:
1987-09-30
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (226 Reviews)
Director:
Agnieszka HollandGenres:
DramaAgnieszka Holland
Maciej Karpinski
A story of a middle-aged woman, Irena, living alone on the outskirts of Wroclaw with her 8-year old son. They live in a drab apartment. She is a mail carrier and her son is her only pride and joy. She hardly communicates with anybody else in a humanly open and natural way. She also cares for a sick relative. One day when delivering a monthly pension to a crippled young miner Jacek, she faints at his doorsteps. Even though she is determined to live alone after divorcing her drunken first husband, she also knows that her boy needs a male figure to correct his bad habits. She also needs a man badly. The love affair between Jacek and Irena begins however their first physical encounter shatters them both. Irena has a lot of problems: her son makes a lot of trouble at school, and at work her supervisor wants to take her route and give it to somebody else. Finally, the sick relative dies, and she is hit with the funeral bill instead with the expected inheritance. She steals pensioners' money she should be delivering. Tells Jacek that she indeed has received inheritance, places her son in a boaring institution and buys a used car for a trip to West Berlin, opting to immigrate. Now the accident happens...
Released Date:
1987-09-30
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (228 Reviews)
Director:
Agnieszka HollandGenres:
DramaAgnieszka Holland
Maciej Karpinski
A story of a middle-aged woman, Irena, living alone on the outskirts of Wroclaw with her 8-year old son. They live in a drab apartment. She is a mail carrier and her son is her only pride and joy. She hardly communicates with anybody else in a humanly open and natural way. She also cares for a sick relative. One day when delivering a monthly pension to a crippled young miner Jacek, she faints at his doorsteps. Even though she is determined to live alone after divorcing her drunken first husband, she also knows that her boy needs a male figure to correct his bad habits. She also needs a man badly. The love affair between Jacek and Irena begins however their first physical encounter shatters them both. Irena has a lot of problems: her son makes a lot of trouble at school, and at work her supervisor wants to take her route and give it to somebody else. Finally, the sick relative dies, and she is hit with the funeral bill instead with the expected inheritance. She steals pensioners' money she should be delivering. Tells Jacek that she indeed has received inheritance, places her son in a boaring institution and buys a used car for a trip to West Berlin, opting to immigrate. Now the accident happens...
Released Date:
1987-01-10
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (4349 Reviews)
Director:
Krzysztof KieslowskiGenres:
DramaKrzysztof Kieslowski
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Released Date:
1992-11-20
Languages:
Polish, English, German, Russian
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
104 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (2026 Reviews)
Director:
Wladyslaw PasikowskiIn good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side.
Released Date:
1994-04-05
Languages:
Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (991 Reviews)
Director:
Wladyslaw PasikowskiFranz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by the New, his fellow-policeman. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. Wolf and William, two high rank officers, come to Poland in order to organize a network selling and smuggling arms to Yugoslavia by way of Albania. They seek experienced and loyal partners. Franz is not only amenable to the scheme, but he even draws his former partner into the deal. However, security agents are circling them like buzzards...
Released Date:
1995-05-31
Languages:
Polish, Russian
Countries:
UK, Poland, Czech Republic, France
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (74 Reviews)
Director:
Krzysztof LangKrzysztof Lang
Maciej Maciejewski
At the beginning of the 20th century, there's no Poland. Russia occupies Warsaw. Herling, a fearless provocateur, is captured when a bomb he sets off kills two children. Although he's racked by guilt, he manages to escape with a young prisoner, Adam. They reach Adam's home in Austrian-occupied Zakopane. Herling is taken in by Adam's friends, Andrzej Woyda and Marta Moraczewska. Sexual as well as political tensions arise. The men compete and feed their love of danger by rock climbing. A tragic accident is followed by Herling's receiving orders to kill again. How he resolves his feelings about Andrzej and Marta, staying true to the revolution, ends the film.
Released Date:
1998-03-20
Languages:
Polish, Serbo-Croatian
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
93 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (472 Reviews)
Director:
Wladyslaw PasikowskiReleased Date:
2000-01-21
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland, France
Runtime:
147 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (1887 Reviews)
Director:
Andrzej WajdaAdam Mickiewicz (poem)
Jan Nowina-Zarzycki
Andrzej Wajda
Piotr Weresniak
In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one district, is undermined by two families, feuding since the head of one shot the head of the other twenty years before. There are hopes of a reconciliation through a marriage of Pan Tadeusz, a Soplica, whose father, the murderer, is in hiding somewhere, and Zosia, a teen-aged girl, a Horeszko who lives in the household of Pan's uncle. Other cross-currents - of love, family, politics, village traditions, land reform, and what it means to be Polish - give the film texture. It's an exile's story.
Released Date:
2001-09-14
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland, USA
Runtime:
165 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (1481 Reviews)
Director:
Jerzy KawalerowiczGenres:
DramaJerzy Kawalerowicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz (novel)
Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her bodyguard, catches Marcus. After that, Lygia falls in love, but Marcus must go to meet Nero. After the meeting somebody told Marcus that Nero burnt Rome. Marcus decides to go back to Rome and find Lygia.
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