The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.

Nothing Funny

1995

Polish

7.3

♡ 4

semi autobiographical

sexual frustration

Marek Koterski Director

Cezary Pazura as Adam Miauczynski

Agnieszka Wagner as Adam's Mother

Eugeniusz Priwieziencew as Adam's Neighbour

Henryk Bista as Pyrotechnist

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.

Medium

1985

Polish

6.4

♡ 8

Jacek Koprowicz Director

Henryk Bista as Dr. Mincel

Jerzy Nowak as Ernst Wagner

Michal Bajor as Krank

Wladyslaw Kowalski as Selin

Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.

Matka Królów

1987

Polish

7.3

♡ 2

Janusz Zaorski Director

Andrzej Zaorski as

Henryk Bista as Grzegorz Wiechra

Tadeusz Huk as Renard

Andrzej Szenajch as Volksdeutsch

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.

On the Silver Globe

1988

Polish

7.1

♡ 11

destruction of a civilization

Andrzej Zulawski Director

Wieslaw Komasa as Aktor

Jerzy Trela as Jerzy

Henryk Bista as Malahuda

Andrzej Seweryn as Marek

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

1985

Polish

7.2

♡ 12

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

Piotr Szulkin Director

Henryk Bista as Chubby

Wlodzimierz Musial as Kraft

Krzysztof Majchrzak as Man in Freezer

Leon Niemczyk as Well-Kept Man

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants of humanity who have gathered together as they await rescue from a mysterious craft known only as 'The Ark.' He wanders among the masses, performing his regular daily tasks; keeping morale from plummeting, wooing prostitutes, squashing rebellions, and sometimes feeding the hungry. But as the true and sinister nature of 'The Dome' comes to light, Soft must ask himself if humanity is worth saving...

Vabank

1981

Polish

7.8

♡ 5

Action

Comedy

Crime

Juliusz Machulski Director

Henryk Bista as Jan Rozek

Leon Niemczyk as Jeweler

Ewa Szykulska as Marta Rychlinska

Jan Hencz as Policeman

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.

Mister Blot's Academy

1984

Polish

6.8

♡ 8

academy

Action

based on novel or book

Krzysztof Gradowski Director

Leon Niemczyk as Golarz Filip

Piotr Fronczewski as Pan Kleks

Marian Glinka as Pirate

Henryk Bista as The Nutcracker

Thanks to the powers of magic, Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairy tale land of Mr. Blot – the protagonist of Jan Brzechwa’s classic book. Mr. Blot is a teacher and a magician in one. His lessons cannot be boring. Especially when bIotology is the subject. Adaś learns about the miracles of the enchanted land, but also gets to know its dark secrets.

The Consul

1989

Polish

7.1

♡ 2

Action

Comedy

Crime

Miroslaw Bork Director

Henryk Bista as Company Manager Marian Lugowski

Leon Niemczyk as Jerzy Berger

Danuta Kowalska as Krysia

Milogost Reczek as Wisniak's Lawyer

After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes.

On the Silver Globe

♡ 27

Andrzej Zulawski Director

Wieslaw Komasa as Aktor

Jerzy Trela as Jerzy

Henryk Bista as Malahuda

Andrzej Seweryn as Marek

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They eventually die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. Some time later, a space bureaucrat, running from a broken heart, arrives and finds the colonizer's descendants enslaved by bird-monsters called Cherns. Society is divided into numerous classes, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of a messiah. The newcomer is considered a suitable candidate, and for some time he lives as a god.

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Nothing Funny

Medium

Matka Królów

On the Silver Globe

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

Vabank

Mister Blot's Academy

The Consul

On the Silver Globe