Henryk Modrzewski

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Dwa żebra Adama
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Dwa żebra Adama

Jan 24, 1964

Dwa żebra Adama
1964 83 min 2 vues
An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
Comedy
Walet pikowy
6.5

Walet pikowy

Oct 16, 1960

Walet pikowy
1960 92 min 2 vues
A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
Comedy
Ósmy dzień tygodnia
5.3

Ósmy dzień tygodnia

Aug 26, 1958

Ósmy dzień tygodnia
1958 83 min 7 vues
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
Drama
Król Maciuś I
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Król Maciuś I

Apr 08, 1958

Król Maciuś I
1958 89 min 3 vues
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
Family
Zakazane piosenki
7.4

Zakazane piosenki

Jan 08, 1947

Zakazane piosenki
1947 97 min 19 vues
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Music
Nikodem Dyzma
4.7

Nikodem Dyzma

Oct 29, 1956

Nikodem Dyzma
1956 107 min 5 vues
Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.
Comedy
Smarkula
6

Smarkula

Jun 07, 1963

Smarkula
1963 102 min 1 vues
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
Comedy
Trzy kobiety
1

Trzy kobiety

May 06, 1957

Trzy kobiety
1957 89 min 1 vues
Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
Drama
O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc
4.6

O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc

Nov 12, 1962

O dwóch takich, co ukradli księżyc
1962 80 min 7 vues
Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
Adventure
Skarb
6.3

Skarb

Feb 15, 1949

Skarb
1949 102 min 6 vues
The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.
Romance
Eva veut dormir
6.8

Eva veut dormir

Mar 17, 1958

Eva veut dormir
1958 95 min 30 vues
Ewa Bonecka est arrivée dans une petite ville. Elle est étudiante. Elle est venue à cette soirée, et elle veut obtenir un appartement. Mais c'est impossible car il n'y a pas de chambres libres à l'Hôtel. Elle passe du temps dans la rue où se trouvent un grand nombre de criminels, des prostituées...
Comedy
Szkice węglem
1

Szkice węglem

Nov 25, 1957

Szkice węglem
1957 92 min 1 vues
The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
Drama
Tysiąc talarów
4

Tysiąc talarów

Feb 22, 1960

Tysiąc talarów
1960 91 min 1 vues
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Comedy
Rozstanie
6.6

Rozstanie

Mar 23, 1961

Rozstanie
1961 72 min 5 vues
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Drama
Pętla
7.1

Pętla

Jan 20, 1958

Pętla
1958 96 min 33 vues
A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.
Drama
Wolne Miasto
6.8

Wolne Miasto

Sep 01, 1958

Wolne Miasto
1958 98 min 4 vues
Nous sommes en 1939. Dans la ville libre de Gdańsk, le harcèlement et la persécution de la population polonaise par les Allemands s'intensifient. Le 1 er septembre, la Seconde Guerre mondiale commence. Les employés de Poczta Polska se sont barricadés dans son bâtiment et ont résisté aux nazis. Ils comptent sur un soulagement rapide. Cependant, les Allemands amènent l'artillerie, les véhicules de combat et les lance-flammes au combat, et les munitions se terminent avec les défenseurs. Il y a aussi de grandes pertes en personnes. Après 12 heures de combats, les postistes abandonnent et meurent des coups de feu.
War
Profesor Wilczur
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Profesor Wilczur

Oct 17, 1938

Profesor Wilczur
1938 88 min 1 vues
Profesor Wilczur is a 1938 Polish romantic drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.
Romance
Świadectwo urodzenia
7.3

Świadectwo urodzenia

Oct 02, 1961

Świadectwo urodzenia
1961 104 min 22 vues
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
Drama
Przygoda na Mariensztacie
5.5

Przygoda na Mariensztacie

Jan 25, 1954

Przygoda na Mariensztacie
1954 93 min 4 vues
While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
Comedy
Dwaj panowie 'N'
6.7

Dwaj panowie 'N'

Mar 21, 1962

Dwaj panowie 'N'
1962 100 min 6 vues
Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
Thriller
Czas przeszły
1

Czas przeszły

Apr 11, 1961

Czas przeszły
1961 96 min 1 vues
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.
Drama
Sprawa pilota Maresza
1

Sprawa pilota Maresza

Apr 07, 1956

Sprawa pilota Maresza
1956 97 min 1 vues
A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in.
Action