A Hole in the Head

2018

Polish

6.0

♡ 5

Piotr Subbotko Director

Piotr Fede as

Hanna Winiarska as

Bartlomiej Topa as Actor 'Chudy'

Piotr Skiba as Pop

After a particularly embarrassing performance, a struggling Polish actor chooses to quit his acting troupe. In desperation, he returns home, only to find his dying mother has replaced him with a farm hand from a nearby mental institution. Alienated and depressed, he attempts to find his place in the world by driving out his replacement as completely as possible.

Moonlighting

1982

English

7.3

♡ 14

100%

Jerzy Skolimowski Director

Eugene Lipinski as Banaszak

Trevor Cooper as Hire Shop Man

Jeremy Irons as Nowak

Kenny Ireland as Timber Man

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Escape from Sobibor

1987

English

7.3

♡ 32

82%

Jack Gold Director

Rutger Hauer as Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky

Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler

Joanna Pacula as Luka

Hartmut Becker as Sgt. Gustav Wagner

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

Birth Certificate

1961

Polish

7.5

♡ 6

Stanislaw Rózewicz Director

Józef Zbiróg as Banschutz

Mieczyslaw Stoor as German Motocyclist

Józef Nalberczak as Prisoner of War

Janusz Paluszkiewicz as (segment "Kropla krwi")

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.

Talking Heads

1980

Polish

8.0

♡ 11

Krzysztof Kieslowski Director

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

Lesson of a Dead Language

1979

Polish

6.4

♡ 1

Janusz Majewski Director

Marek Kondrat as Lt. von Traut

Eugeniusz Priwieziencew as Miron

Ewa Dalkowska as Olga Diana

Józef Zbiróg as Trau

An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.

Eastern

2019

Polish

5.3

♡ 4

Piotr Adamski Director

Tadeusz Bradecki as Legal Counsel

Marcin Stepniak as Member of the Kowalski Family

Marcin Czarnik as Nowak

Magdalena Kuta as Nowak's Mother

In Poland, behind the gates of an exclusive housing estate, the life of its wealthy residents is regulated by an old code of honor, due to which the Kowalskis and the Nowaks have been embroiled in a bloody family feud for years.

Gierek

2022

Polish

4.6

♡ 5

Michal Wegrzyn Director

Antoni Pawlicki as General Roztocki

Sebastian Stankiewicz as Maslak

Piotr Witkowski as Oldman

Ewa Zietek as Paulina

A film about a man with a breakthrough history of Poland in the background. Edward Gierek is one of the most important figures of the 20th century in the collective memory of Polish people.

The Balcony Movie

2021

Polish

7.5

♡ 2

100%

husband wife relationship

neighbor

poland

talking

Pawel Lozinski Director

Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.

The New World

2015

Polish

5.2

♡ 2

Elzbieta Benkowska Director

Julian Swiezewski as Janek

Konrad Eleryk as Omonowiec

Paulina Galazka as Pawel's Grilfriend

Sebastian Fabijanski as Soldier

Three stories of immigrants trying to start new lives in Poland: an Afghan traumatised by the war, a Ukrainian lost in her own body, and a Belarusian running away from painful love. The Afghan, Azzam, works as a translator for the Polish army. In his homeland he is treated like a traitor. Having been evacuated to Poland, he is unable to shake off the war experiences. The Ukrainian, Wiera, escapes to Poland to undergo sex reassignment surgery in secret from her family. An unexpected visit from her father and little son will make her face the question of her own identity once more. Żanna, the Belarusian, leaves her husband, a dissident, and lives together with her daughter at her sister’s in Warsaw. She wants to move out as soon as possible and make a normal home. Things get complicated when her husband gets arrested again.

1970

2021

Polish

7.3

♡ 3

100%

Tomasz Wolski Director

Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist government organizes a crisis team. Soon after, the police use their truncheons and then their firearms. The story of a rebellion from the point of view of the oppressors.

Eroica

1958

Polish

7.3

♡ 9

82%

Andrzej Munk Director

Edward Dziewonski as Dzidzius Gorkiewicz

Zofia Czerwinska as Jogodka

Leon Niemczyk as Lt. Istvan Kolya

Roman Wilhelmi as Polish Soldier

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.

Taras Bulba

1962

English

6.3

♡ 17

68%

16th century

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

cossack

Drama

father son relationship

J. Lee Thompson Director

Abraham Sofaer as Abbot

Richard Rust as Capt. Alex

Chuck Hayward as Dolotov

Perry Lopez as Ostap Bulba

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

Legions

2019

Polish

5.6

♡ 18

Dariusz Gajewski Director

Antoni Pawlicki as Jerzy 'Topór' Kisielnicki

Jakub Kamienski as Quartermaster

Mateusz Nedza as Uhlan

Piotr Zurawski as 'Zyga'

A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarist army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women’s Leage member – Ola, and Tadek, her fiancée, a member of Shooting Team.

The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

2018

English

7.6

90%

Documentary

effects from the past

poland

Amy Schatz Director

Jack Feldman as Self

Elliott Saiontz as Self

When ten-year-old Elliott asks his 90-year-old great-grandfather, Jack, about the number tattooed on his arm, he sparks an intimate conversation about Jack’s life that spans happy memories of childhood in Poland, the loss of his family, surviving Auschwitz and finding a new life in America.

To Kill A Priest

1988

English

6.1

♡ 3

67%

Agnieszka Holland Director

Tim Roth as Feliks

Timothy Spall as Igor

Philip Whitchurch as SB Officer

Ed Harris as Stefan

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Westerplatte Resists

1967

Polish

7.0

♡ 3

Stanislaw Rózewicz Director

Bogusz Bilewski as Capt. Mieczyslaw Slaby, Medical Officer

Józef Nalberczak as Cpl. Edmund Szamlewski

Stefan Friedmann as Cpl. Stanislaw Trela

Marian Glinka as Pvt. Edward Rokicki

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.

Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf

2022

Ukrainian

6.0

♡ 4

Myroslav Latyk Director

Bogdan Benyuk as Buben

Oleh Prymohenov as Buhay

Mykhailo Illienko as Syvyi

Denys Skrypnyk as Tail

Ukraine - 1636. Someone has attacked a battalion of cossacks that were transporting the gold of the Polish king. A cossack - Maksym Osa - tries to find the missing gold, but soon becomes one of the main suspects.

Hands Up!

1981

Polish

6.5

♡ 4

post-apocalyptic future

refugee train

Jerzy Skolimowski Director

Fred Zinnemann as Self

Alan Bates as Self

Bruno Ganz as Self

David Essex as Self

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Man of Marble

1977

Polish

7.7

♡ 7

75%

Andrzej Wajda Director

Maciej Rayzacher as Chairman

Andrzej Seweryn as Reader

Ewa Zietek as Secretary

Jaroslaw Kopaczewski as Worker

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.

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Moonlighting

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Talking Heads

Lesson of a Dead Language

Eastern

Gierek

The Balcony Movie

The New World

1970

Eroica

Taras Bulba

Legions

The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm

To Kill A Priest

Westerplatte Resists

Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf

Hands Up!

Man of Marble