Henryk Bista
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 12, 1934
Deathday: October 08, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Medium
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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On the Silver Globe
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-02-10
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W cieniu nienawiści
Overview: In 1943, Ewa decides to take care of her Jewish neighbour's daughter and brings her home just for a few days. When the ghetto uprising begins, the woman keeps on looking after the little girl.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-04-18
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Sto koni do stu brzegów
Overview: World War II. Lieutenant Bogdan Mayer is tasked with delivering a sample of valuable metal alloy from Warsaw to London.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-18
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I Love Cinema
Overview: The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Przystań
Overview: Settlers from various parts of Poland come to the Vistula Spit just after WWII. They are learning the difficult profession of fishing. The skipper Bosak and his wife are doing the best, but their peace is broken when their cousin Joanna comes to them, for whom the skipper loses his head .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-01-29
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Na odsiecz Wiedniowi
Overview: Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-09-12
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The Faithful River
Overview: Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-31
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Wizja lokalna 1901
Overview: More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish border with Prussia. Poland was partitioned at this time, and a rigidly patriotic Prussian teacher in Wrzesnia follows the dictates of the Germans in parliament and insists that the children be taught their religion classes in German. When the children refuse to take part in the classes, they are supported by the local priest, but that does not save them from being beaten. They are also kept after school and tormented in other ways as well. Newspapers, parents, and the nation as a whole get involved, transforming a simple children's strike into a national incident.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-01-26
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Apricots in the Baskets
Overview: Greek movie, which won the best screenplay award at the 1992 Thessaloniki Film Festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1992-11-06
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Sérénité
Overview: Poland, 1930s. Agata, a twenty-year-old young woman, a niece of the lady of a small manor, is about to get married. This fact causes dramatic changes for three people: Miss Stawro, a music teacher who cares for Agata, and two sixteen-year-old boys, Witek and Stas, who have their own feelings for the girl. However, the closer the wedding date gets, the more the bride-to-be is haunted by morbidly surreal visions related to her troubled past.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Red Thorns
Overview: A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-01-20
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Komediantka
Overview: A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-05-04
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Sąd nad Braćmi Polskimi
Overview: A docu-fiction movie portraying the Polish Brethren religious group over the years.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes
Overview: Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets. Landing on planet Australia 458, he is given a hero's welcome with all the sex, booze, and violence that any one man can stomach. But as his new caretakers push him towards even more heinous and deplorable acts, Scope finds that his freedom comes with a high price; his own violent demise, broadcast live for the viewing pleasure of Australia 458's inhabitants.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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Inner State
Overview: December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, several people are present that are connected to the new Solidarnośc movement. The guests are filmed by a TV journalist. The introduction of the martial law in Poland leads to problems for all people involved. Can Ewa go back to her home country after these dramatic changes in Poland?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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Soccer Poker
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-03-31
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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Aquarium
Overview: Film based on the book of Viktor Suvorov, a former Soviet military intelligence officer. The story of the strange friendship between the two GRU officers. That relationship began in the Soviet military range where daring young officer Witek action drew the attention of Colonel Kravcov. With the protection of Colonel Witek gets to the interview. Price to be paid for this "favor" is the total loyalty to his patron.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Travels of Mr. Blot
Overview: The second part of adventures of Mr. Blot and the students of his magic school.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-02-03
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30 Door Key
Overview: A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-02
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Kanalia
Overview: A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-03-15
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Kobieta
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-04-16
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Passion
Overview: The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-03-14
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An Immoral Story
Overview: Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-01
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Green, Bygone...
Overview: A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Mr. Blot in Space
Overview: It's Christmas, and children at an orphanage in Maliszewo receive a computer that was given to them by another orphan who used to live there many years ago. During the night, the computer awakes itself and tells the children a story that will happen in 25 years...
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-05
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Doctor Semmelweis
Overview: The story of famous Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-20
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Kartoteka
Overview: A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-15
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Cynga
Overview: A young Varsovian runs away from the Nazi’s attack on the East. He falls into the hands of the NKVD. Suspected of espionage, he ends up in a camp in Siberia. He will spend the war in a psychiatric hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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New York, 4 A.M.
Overview: A sleepy provincial town with only one "Błysk" bar. If it weren't for the nearby prison, it would be forgotten to the world. This is how guests come. Agnieszka works in the bar and dreams of New York . Krzysiek and Józek love the girl. Józek tells her about a militia van carrying money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-10
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Cupid's Bow
Overview: Lavish romantic melodrama, obsessively concerned with sex. Maryska's husband is off to war. He soon is reported missing, and she does not protest much when is seduced by the husband's friend, a seedy professor with sickly wife and other mistresses on the side. However, the love of Maryska's life turns out to be a shy 17-year old, son of friends with whom she goes to stay.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-01-18
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Decalogue X
Overview: Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Ślepy bokser
Overview: A distinguished engineer is informed of being forcibly transferred from his current workplace to another construction site.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-06-20
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Rzeczywistość
Overview: The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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Taranthriller
Overview: Looking for a place to conduct research, docent Marek and his family move into an old villa where strange events take place.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Polonia Restituta
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-05-18
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Stacja
Overview: The 8th Plenum of the PZPR is underway. Passengers waiting for a train learn that their traffic has stopped.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-12-23
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Kraj świata
Overview: TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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Reverted
Overview: Young democracy activist is being chased by police in a very funny way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-03
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King Ubu
Overview: A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Hotel klasy lux
Overview: The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its opening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-12-25
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A Time for Witches
Overview: Twenty years old prostitute and drug addict, Jola, by chance meets Andrzej, a "railway station gay". They try to stay together, in spite of numerous diffculties. They both are carriers of the HIV virus. At the end of their travels they find themselves in the Red Palace - formerly the recreation centre for Party dignitaries, now a home for AIDS sufferers - which is run by father Jan. In the nearby small town aggression begins to grow again the unwanted guests; the house have been promised to the local people for housing purposes... The lives and fates of Jola, Andrzej, and father Jan become increasingly intertwined with one another...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-02-28
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Nie było słońca tej wiosny
Overview: A Jewish woman escaping from a transport helps a family poisoned by carbon monoxide. The young host decides to hide the girl.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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Konsul
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-28
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Death of the Kidmaker
Overview: Januszek - the town's Casanova, returns from the army. Waiting for him at home is Blada, the mother of his future child, the daughter of the head of the local security service, who arranged for the candidate to be a son-in-law to shorten his military service. Januszek, who has had many women's hearts broken on his conscience, is not eager to get married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-01-20
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Farewell to Autumn
Overview: Decadence, homosexuality, excess wealth, infidelity, alcoholism and drugs all played a major role in the decline of aristocracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-09-04
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Nothing Funny
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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Green Years
Overview: World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.
Genres: Family War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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Żelazna obroża
Overview: Kozyra - a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young Błażyce is successful.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-06-04
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Banda
Overview: A group of juvenile delinquents working in a shipyard try to clear themselves of a false accusation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-05
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Porno
Overview: Michał, a mature man and father, is full of bitterness, regret, and longing for unfulfilled youthful dreams of true love. He reminisces about all his past lovers. With his first, Asia, he went on a seaside camping trip. He was 19 at the time, and she was two years younger. Despite his unambiguous advances, the girl resisted for a long time. Eventually, however, she gave in. For Michał, it was the proverbial pebble that caused an avalanche.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-01-26
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Overview: A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-06-19
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Koniec sezonu na lody
Overview: The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by Lieutenant Joanna Szczęsna from the voivodeship headquarters.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-03-01
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Tango
Overview: A TV adaptation of Sławomir Mrożek's play, about a family whose rejection of traditional values leads to erosion of their daily lives and Artur's, the youngest one's efforts to reinstate rules in the house.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-01-06
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Provocateur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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The Last Schoolbell
Overview: As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Bal na dworcu w Koluszkach
Overview: Podczas "zimy stulecia" na dworcu w Koluszkach zniecierpliwieni pasażerowie oczekują na przybycie pociągu. Łączność kolejowa zostaje zerwana. W tym samym czasie niedaleko Koluszek w zaspach śnieżnych utknął pociąg. W jego wagonach panuje wesoła atmosfera. Niektórzy pasażerowie, którym śpieszy się na połączenie z innymi stacjami, wysiadają i idą piechotą do dworca w Koluszkach. Jest wśród nich Andrzej Roszak - młody chłopak śpieszący do Warszawy, oraz prawdopodobnie jego rówieśnica Basia. Niedługo po nich do dworca w Koluszkach docierają pan Walerek - działacz polityczny, który jechał na bal do KC; pan Rozbicki z żoną, tuż po kontrakcie w Iraku; Matyjak - gwiazdor telewizyjny; dziennikarz Przoniak oraz inni. Na wyludnionym dworcu pasażerowie sprawnie organizują sylwestrową zabawę. Podczas wspólnej hulanki jej uczestnicy stopniowo obnażają ukryte kompleksy, frustracje i nadzieje.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-04-02
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Męskie sprawy
Overview: Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans.
Genres: History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-03-20
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Inner Life
Overview: The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out garbage, annoying neighbours, rides in elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell he imposes on himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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The Death of John L.
Overview: Zbigniew Gąsior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with women he can't neglect the emptiness in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-03-07
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Child's Scenes of Provincial Life
Overview: Based on a short story by Andrzej Mencwel. Somewhere in Poland, spring 1980. Julian S. is an intelligent young man with a lot of interests. After another argument with his father, he leaves the house. Comrade R., the mayor of the city, engages Julian as his son's tutor. Krzysztof R. doesn't want to study, to annoy his parents, but Julian wins his friendship and encourages independent thinking. Meanwhile, the Mayor is so preoccupied with his career that he doesn't notice the growing intimacy between his wife and Julian.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-01-12
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Polish Death
Overview: Young man frustrated with his life and pointless job becomes one of the suspects in serial killer investigation, but he suspects someone else...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1995-04-27
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Who Is Joe Louis?
Overview: The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and returned to Poland. Eve is about to marry, but she still loves Joni.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-28
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Czapa, czyli śmierć na raty
Overview: Two death row prisoners willingly confess to more murders to delay their execution. A TV adaptation of Janusz Krasiński's play.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-05-22
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Seksolatki
Overview: Two teenagers try to live together as adults, but new responsibilities overwhelm them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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The Little Apocalypse
Overview: An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-02-10
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Death of a President
Overview: After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-10-10
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Two Moons
Overview: Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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Schindler's List
Overview: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-15
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Przeklęte oko proroka
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-02-18
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Między ustami a brzegiem pucharu
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Genres: History Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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Hospital of the Transfiguration
Overview: Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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Sauna
Overview: A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-11-27
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Les Milles
Overview: In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-22
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Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop
Overview: An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Quiet Is the Night
Overview: A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Thais
Overview: Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed with gaining her love and retrieving her from the spiritual world for himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-09-24
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Dagny
Overview: Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1977-01-26
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe
Overview: The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-04-01
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Placówka
Overview: The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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Ostatni po Bogu
Overview: Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-10-12
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The Return of She-Wolf
Overview: A young couple arrives to the palace, where years ago the Countess Julia, She-Wolf was terrorising its inhabitants. Soon the ghost of the Countess attacks the fiancée.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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The Curse of Snake Valley
Overview: The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Tibetian jungles looking for some mysterious vase that holds a metal container that is of no mundane origin.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-10-03
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Przemytnicy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-09-30
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Yesterday
Overview: Set in the 60's in a provincial town: four high school teenagers approach graduation, but all they think about are The Beatles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-06-10
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W środku Europy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-11-20
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Fik-Mik
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-02-17
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Love Me and Do Whatever You Want
Overview: Młody człowiek mieszka na Suwalszczyźnie, ma się żenić z córką miejscowego bogacza. Jest jednak absolwentem konserwatorium, chciałby zostać kompozytorem. Zatrudnia się jako akompaniator popularnej piosenkarki ,która przybyła do miasteczka na gościnne występy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-06-24
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Lava
Overview: On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-11-06
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The Mother of the Kings
Overview: 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.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Wet Dough
Overview: The protagonist of the film is Wojtek, who works in finding amber. One day, someone attacks him and steals a whole bag of them. Wojtek decides to find the attacker. However, it is going to be very dangerous.
Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-03-17
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To Save the City
Overview: 1945. Soviet offensive is approaching Cracow. Local resistance cooperate despite political differences to save the city from destruction planned by Germans.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-10-11
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Upstairs, Downstairs
Overview: Based on Michał Choromański's novel. Young artist arrives at Zakopane and meets local people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-08
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Oko proroka
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-01-09
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Sonata marymoncka
Overview: Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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Vabank
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Sztos
Overview: Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner - they decide to take revenge. Preparations take many months, but the action ends differently than it was planned.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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Eminent Domain
Overview: A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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Eagle
Overview: Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1959-02-07
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Powstanie listopadowe. 1830 - 1831
Overview: Most important events of November Uprising in Poland.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-12-14
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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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Prywatne niebo
Overview: The nouveau riche chinchilla breeder hires a painter-portraitist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-04-15
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