Krzysztof Pieczyński
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 27, 1957
Deathday: N/A
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The Pianist
2002-09-17
The Pianist
Overview: The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-17
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Fallout
1998-01-01
Fallout
Overview: NASA and its Soviet-Russian counterpart prepare another mission to the permanent space station.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009-04-19
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Overview: Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-19
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Out of Reach
2004-11-12
Out of Reach
Overview: Vietnam veteran Billy Ray Lancing, a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that he's helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming, Billy heads to Poland to figure out why -- only to discover that the orphanage that Irina was staying in, which is financed by honest -- and unsuspecting -- good-intentioned Samaritans, is a cover for a human trafficking network.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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The General - Attempt at Gibraltar
2009-04-03
The General - Attempt at Gibraltar
Overview: The film presents the last days of Gen. Sikorski, right before the Gibraltar catastrophe. The commander is accompanied by his daughter Zofia and a group of closest collaborators. They are all guests in the palace of the Governor of Gibraltar, Mason Macfarlane, who is supposed to persuade Sikorski to give back documents on the murder of Polish officers in Katyn. When Sikorski refuses, a plan of attempt on his life comes into action. Who stood behind it? Who executed it and how? Was Zofia on board of Liberator too?
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-04-03
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The Career of Nikos Dyzma
2002-03-15
The Career of Nikos Dyzma
Overview: Nikos is a master of funeral ceremonies (that's undertaker to you and me) who doesn't expect much from life. After drunkenly insulting a diplomat at a party, weird things begin to happen for Nikos. The news that a mysterious stranger offended the hated Deputy Prime Minister galvanizes the political elite assembled at the banquet, and a rumor that Nikos can take care of anything spreads like wildfire, making him an idol of the masses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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Suicide Room
2011-03-04
Suicide Room
Overview: Moody, dark and handsome Dominik is tormented by his classmates after video footage of his drunken kiss with bully Alex is spread across the Internet. Grappling with the public humiliation Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based “suicide room” where the pink-haired rebel Sylvia consoles him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-03-04
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Jasminum
2006-06-29
Jasminum
Overview: The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter Eugenia. The legend associated with the monastery bode revelation in him a saint in the near future. Despite initial reluctance, Natasha starts the maintenance of the image stored there. The secrets of the monastery are unraveled: the unhappy lovers bodies placed in the catacombs, the secret elixir of love, created with the smell of the monks.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-06-29
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Keep Away from the Window
2000-11-17
Keep Away from the Window
Overview: In a small village a couple fails to conceive. One day the man brings home to hide a Jewish woman whose family was murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-11-17
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Dzień czwarty
1984-08-04
Dzień czwarty
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-08-04
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Sons and Comrades
1986-09-05
Sons and Comrades
Overview: A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-05
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A Grain of Truth
2015-01-09
A Grain of Truth
Overview: A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-01-09
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The Scream
1983-12-02
The Scream
Overview: A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-12-02
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Chain Reaction
1996-08-02
Chain Reaction
Overview: At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the technology and exonerate themselves.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Provocateur
1995-05-31
Provocateur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Idol
1985-10-07
Idol
Overview: In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-10-07
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Persona
2023-03-01
Persona
Overview: A talented young impersonator falls for a mysterious stranger and is slowly lured into assuming the identity of a missing ivy-league student.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-01
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Afterimage
2016-10-22
Afterimage
Overview: In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-10-22
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Nightwatching
2007-09-06
Nightwatching
Overview: An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Entanglement
2011-06-03
Entanglement
Overview: A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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Temptation
1996-03-15
Temptation
Overview: Poland under Stalinist rule, 1953. A young nun Anna is brought to a prison where an influential priest is kept in. She discovers the priest is the man she loved a few years before. Communist authorities try to make her spy on him now.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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Mr. Jones
2019-10-03
Mr. Jones
Overview: In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-03
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Sword of God
2020-07-23
Sword of God
Overview: In the early Middle Ages, two Christian knights set off to christen a small pagan village hidden deep in the mountains. Despite the differences in their views and perspectives on religion, the two men become travel companions and create a father-son relationship. As they settle into the local community, their faith, belief system and the bond between them are all put to the test. Soon, love is confronted with hate, dialogue with violence, madness with rules and many will have to die.
Genres: History Horror Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-07-23
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Treatment
2001-11-03
Treatment
Overview: A young scientist becomes a victim of his own experiment. Andrzej Majer, a psychiatrist, decides to go to a psychiatric hospital for three months as a patient in order to learn the secrets of his profession.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-11-03
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Reich
2001-02-01
Reich
Overview: Alex and Andre are two hit men who face death and violence every day but also understand the gentleness of love. They would like to start a new life, but their involvement in the criminal underground is too deep. Alex and Andre move about in a world of expensive hotels, cars and discothèques frequented by drug dealers and thieves who would double-cross you as soon as look at you.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-02-01
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Enduro Bojz
2000-09-08
Enduro Bojz
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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The Big Race
1981-12-01
The Big Race
Overview: Set in 1952, the story follows events around the "Peace Run", a propaganda 3-day marathon for peace. The winner is to be presented with a new motorcycle by the country's president. Chief organizer is a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to make sure that the right man wins. There are two runners, Budny and Stolar, who are participating in the race for different reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-12-01
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Fat Man and Little Boy
1989-10-20
Fat Man and Little Boy
Overview: Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Jack Strong
2014-02-07
Jack Strong
Overview: Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-02-07
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Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
2010-01-31
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
Overview: Augustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the age of 69.Much of the content for the scenes of him as a young and middle-aged man come from his Confessions, which is probably the earliest extant autobiography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-31
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Tanie pieniądze
1986-12-01
Tanie pieniądze
Overview: Inmate Adam leaves prison after two years of imprisonment. He returns to his homeland with the decision to take revenge on his uncle, who handed him over to the authorities. Before that happens, however, he will accidentally get a job on the highway construction site.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-12-01
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