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Generał Nil
6.882

Generał Nil

Apr 17, 2009
Generał Nil is a Polish historical film, based on the life of general Emil August Fieldorf, pseudonym "Nil".
Drama
Okruchy wojny
1

Okruchy wojny

Feb 26, 1986
A young partisan named Derkacz is fighting in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. In order to transport the wounded commander, he takes a horse from a nearby village along with its owner, teenage Józek.
War
Menedżer
1

Menedżer

Nov 14, 1986
After the death of the director of the Polish company "Gont", the competition for his position begins. It is attended by the chief accountant Joachim Mackiewicz. However, the fight for the director's chair is skilfully manipulated by a certain Szczurowski. Mackiewicz, who wants to remain honest at all costs, quickly becomes his victim. At the same time, serious problems arise in Joachim's life.
Drama
Bariery
1

Bariery

Oct 29, 1986
A radio journalist is having a heart attack. This event becomes a pretext to summarize life.
Drama
Republika nadziei
1

Republika nadziei

Oct 14, 1988
The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
History
Piłkarski poker
7.2

Piłkarski poker

Mar 31, 1989
Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.
Comedy
Epizod Berlin West
1

Epizod Berlin West

Oct 21, 1986
The 1980s. Jan Bard, Polish intellectual and writer, leaves for West Berlin. He is working on another novel here. In Germany, he meets his old love Iza. He revives the feeling that once connected them. The woman is the ex-wife of the publisher of Bard's novels. The situation gets complicated soon.
Drama
Misja specjalna
4.3

Misja specjalna

Oct 05, 1987
In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.
Comedy
Limuzyna Daimler-Benz
5.7

Limuzyna Daimler-Benz

Jan 24, 1983
Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will have massive ramifications on the two, each dealing with the aftermath in their own way - one resorts to art, the other to direct political action.
Drama
Chłopi
5.6

Chłopi

Dec 07, 1973
In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
Drama
Par le fer et par le feu
6.9
Pologne 17e siècle. Helena, une noble polonaise tombe follement amoureuse d'un guerrier cosaque. Poussée par les événements tragiques qui ravagent son pays, à savoir la révolte des cosaques contre l'aristocratie, Helena va devoir choisir entre la sécurité des bras de son mari et l'aventure aux côtés de son amant. Un choix cornélien qui ne se fera pas sans son lot de sacrifices.
Adventure
Przedwiośnie
5.2

Przedwiośnie

Mar 02, 2001
Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses revolution, rebirth of Poland, war with the Soviets and communist plots.
Drama
Cendres
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Cendres

Sep 25, 1965
Situé au temps des guerres napoléoniennes, le film montre comment les guerres ont balayé le malheureux pays polonais au début du XIXe siècle. L'histoire tourne autour de la légion polonaise sous le commandement du général Dabrowski, qui a ensuite combattu aux côtés de Napoléon dans l'espoir d'une renaissance de la Pologne.
War
Gdzie woda czysta i trawa zielona
1
The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers who want changes for the better.
Drama
Polonia Restituta
1

Polonia Restituta

May 18, 1981
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Drama
Cześć kapitanie
1

Cześć kapitanie

Apr 14, 1968
A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.
Crime
Niedzielne igraszki
5.7

Niedzielne igraszki

Jan 01, 1988
Made in 1983, shelved for four years. A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.
Plus fort que la tempête
7.3
Adaptation du roman Le Déluge (Potop) de Henryk Sienkiewicz (1886). Pendant la Première guerre du Nord en 1655 entre protestants suédois et catholiques de la République des Deux Nations (Pologne-Lituanie), des nobles de la République des Deux Nations se rallient à Charles X Gustave, roi de Suède, pendant que d'autres restent fidèles au polonais Jean II Casimir Vasa.
History
Nie lubię poniedziałku
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An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
Comedy
Pałac
5

Pałac

Nov 10, 1980
Set in 1944. A shepherd boy enters an abandoned palace he has seen only from the distance since he was a boy. Once he enters the palace, strange things begin to happen as though he was dreaming the events rather than living them.
Drama
Westerplatte
6.8

Westerplatte

Sep 01, 1967
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
War
Zofia
5.3

Zofia

Nov 28, 1976
Zofia is an elderly woman living in an retirement home. Separate from the rest, she talks seldom and then only about visiting her daughter's family for Christmas. When she comes to her daughter's home unannounced, her stay is spoiled by the damage to her son-in-law doctorate bookmarks which she removed unknowingly during dusting. She then spends Christmas in an empty restaurant, surrounded by waiters and musicians waiting to be tipped.
Drama
Bilans kwartalny
5

Bilans kwartalny

Jan 21, 1975
The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.
Drama
Quand le soleil était un dieu
4.9
Aux origines légendaires des tribus slaves occidentales et du roi Popiel, mythique tyran manipulé par sa maîtresse, une ancienne esclave. Elle fera tout pour assurer à son fils un avenir en tant que souverain.
Drama
Czerwone węże
1

Czerwone węże

Mar 04, 1983
An adaptation of Helena Boguszewska's well-known novel from 1933. The film takes place two years before Colombian ants take control of a plane flying to the States.
Drama
Beata
6

Beata

Jan 19, 1965
Teenaged Beata, disgusted with hypocrisy around her runs away from home.
Drama
Gniazdo
5.9

Gniazdo

Jul 17, 1974
Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.
History
Śluby panieńskie
4.7

Śluby panieńskie

Oct 08, 2010
Klara and Aniela are two young girls who decide not to get married. This decision makes bachelors even more eager to conquer them. Adaptation of the classic comedy by Aleksander Fredro.
Comedy
Orzeł i reszka
5

Orzeł i reszka

Feb 10, 1975
In spring of 1954, thanks to amnesty, Marcin Nowak - a political prisoner - get released from prison and tries turn his life back to normal
Action
Spirale
6.692

Spirale

Sep 21, 1978
Un étrange touriste arrogant arrive au refuge de montagne Morskie Oko. Le lendemain matin, malgré le danger, il monte seul et commence la quête de lui-même.
Drama
Kobieta i kobieta
5

Kobieta i kobieta

May 06, 1980
A story of a female production manager in a garment factory discovering that an award is being given to the wrong person on purpose. She stands up the injustice. Her best friend backs her up instead of the cultprit, the man she is living with. Later, the former production manager becomes a mayor in a resort town, where she in turn practices malfasance and is caught in the act by her friend.
Drama
Kryminalni
5.8

Kryminalni

May 24, 2008
Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.
Drama
Dom
7.5

Dom

Nov 19, 2000

Dom

Drama
Czarne chmury
7

Czarne chmury

Feb 18, 1974
Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.
Drama
Czarne chmury
7

Czarne chmury

Feb 18, 1974
Polish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.
Drama