Released Date:
1977-02-25
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
160 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (2501 Reviews)
Director:
Andrzej WajdaGenres:
DramaAleksander Scibor-Rylski
Released Date:
1980-03-18
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (281 Reviews)
Director:
Piotr SzulkinGenres:
Sci-FiPiotr Szulkin (screenplay)
Tadeusz Sobolewski (screenplay)
Gustav Meyrink (novel)
The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future - but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse.
Released Date:
1981-07-27
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
153 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (1838 Reviews)
Director:
Andrzej WajdaAleksander Scibor-Rylski (scenario)
A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.
Released Date:
1982-03-22
Languages:
Hungarian, German, English
Countries:
West Germany, Hungary, Austria
Runtime:
144 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (6733 Reviews)
Director:
Istvèn SzabèGenres:
DramaPèter Dobai (screenplay)
Istvèn Szabè (screenplay)
Klaus Mann (novel)
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
Released Date:
1983-02-01
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (263 Reviews)
Director:
Piotr SzulkinFilm opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders. Then the chaos breaks out: the Martians and police mistreat the populace; things become violent. Idem's own wife is kidnapped and it seems somebody is trying to reduce his effectiveness as a reporter. Idem decides to fight back: he illegally broadcasts a message during the rock concert, but nobody believes him anymore.
Released Date:
1989-12-13
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
118 min
IMDB Ratings:
8.2 (1826 Reviews)
Director:
Ryszard BugajskiTonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.
Released Date:
1985-01-28
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
88 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (482 Reviews)
Director:
Piotr SzulkinSet in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.
Released Date:
2000-09-08
Languages:
French, Polish, English
Countries:
Poland, France
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (570 Reviews)
Director:
Krzysztof ZanussiGenres:
DramaKrzysztof Zanussi
Released Date:
2001-01-18
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, France
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (213 Reviews)
Director:
Wojciech MarczewskiWojciech Marczewski (scenario)
Pawel Huelle (based on the novel by: "Weiser Dawidek")
Maciej Strzembosz (scenario collaborator)
Tony Grisoni (scenario collaborator)
Released Date:
2009-04-24
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
85 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (860 Reviews)
Director:
Andrzej WajdaGenres:
DramaJaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (short story "Tatarak")
Krystyna Janda (monologue "Zapiski ostatnie")
Sèndor Mèrai (short story "Nagle wezwanie")
Andrzej Wajda (screenplay)
An aging woman married to a workaholic doctor meets a young man who makes her feel young again. While having a swim in the river, the man drowns, which causes Marta to reexamine her life.
Released Date:
2009-11-13
Languages:
Polish, English
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1288 Reviews)
Director:
Borys LankoszA story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secret can be concealed. Successive admirers arrive at the pre-war tenement where the women live, but Sabina is interested in none of them. One day, appearing out of nowhere, comes the charming, intelligent, and terribly good-looking Bronislaw. His presence will spark off a series of unexpected events revealing the darker side of the women's nature.
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