Grażyna Szapołowska
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Biography: Grażyna Szapołowska (Polish pronunciation: [ɡraˈʐɨna ʂapɔˈwɔfska]; born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress. After passing the baccalauréat she joined at Wroclaw Theatre of Pantomime. In 1977 she graduated from The Theatre Art School in Warsaw. From 1977 until 1984 she was in the theatrical company of the National Theatre, Warsaw. She is best known for starring in A Short Film About Love (1988) by Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski, and in its earlier and shorter form the sixth episode of Dekalog. It was she who suggested to Kieslowski the different ending of the full-length version. She had previously starred in another Kieslowski film, Bez końca.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bydgoszcz, Poland
Birthday: September 19, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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No End
Overview: 1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-06-17
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Visiting Van Gogh
Overview: In the 22nd Century, antiquities command huge prices. A woman uses a time machine to travel back the the 19th Century in order to buy paintings from Vincent Van Gogh before he was famous. Will she be wealthy upon her return?
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-10-10
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Pan Tadeusz
Overview: A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-10-18
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Przyspieszenie
Overview: A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-04
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A Short Film About Love
Overview: 19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-21
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Enclosure
Overview: In one of the developing countries, local and Soviet geologists discovered a tantalum ore deposit. Having learned about this, the CIA now intends to draw the country into the American sphere of influence: to incite discontent among religious communities, organize student unrest and provoke a severance of diplomatic ties with the USSR...
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-03-19
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Talking Heads 2021
Overview: The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Abissinia
Overview: Antonio (Enrico Salimbeni) may not have been the most energetic waiter in the most popular restaurant in this unfashionable Adriatic tourist town, but that is no reason for his boss not to pay him. When he takes the wages that he is owed out of the till, not only does the owner throw him out, but he has him beaten up, to boot. Enzo (Mario Adorf), the owner of a restaurant so far off the beaten track it is widely known as Abissinia rather than being called by its true name, takes him in. The leisurely pace of everything that is done at the restaurant leaves Antonio with plenty of time to put together the story of its owner and the love of his life, and how he, too, fell from culinary glory to his present obscurity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Trick
Overview: Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a lengthy prison term and the agent who arrested him needs his help.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-02-12
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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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Battle of the Sexes
Overview: The story of an unemployed journalist who fights overweight and account shortages more effectively than Bridget Jones, and although she knows a lot about men, finding the right one will require a lot of effort. Especially that her adult daughter not only ruthlessly judges her actions, but also counts on her mother's advice in her love affairs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-02-25
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Just Love Me
Overview: Modern-day Warsaw shines in this romantic comedy about the love life of a young, hip architect. In his break-out role, popular Polish television star Maciej Zakoscielny plays the handsome young professional, who is torn between two women.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-01-20
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First Encounter - Last Encounter
Overview: The story concerns the events in Saint Petersburg on the eve of the First World War. Private detective Petya Chukhontsev, a law student who has not completed his studies, investigates the case of the murdered inventor Kuklin. He was murdered exactly as he predicted during a New Year's visit to Chukhontsev. While investigating the Kuklin case, Petya soon realizes that the central figure in this case is the German Scholz, the owner, who cheaply buys up the inventions of Russian craftsmen and hands them over to the spy Siegfried Gay, an advisor to the German embassy. . However, Petya will soon understand that it is better to mind his own business...
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-06-06
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Warszawa
Overview: On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. They all have something to deal with, and their paths eventually intertwine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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Three Colors: White
Overview: Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-26
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Angel in Love
Overview: Giordano, an angel assigned to an orphan in Krakow, is two years into the job when his celestial overseers, citing budget cuts, initiate "Phase Two" without telling him. Some changes are good - they send him a nanny, the enterprising Irena; some are bad - his phone number to Heaven no longer works nor do his special powers; and some dismay him - he grows a penis. His closest friend tells him to get a woman, and Irena advises him on hygiene. He visits a therapist, Roma, and falls in love with her. She tells him its transference. Meanwhile, Giordano's celestial friends conspire to rid Roma of her boyfriend, clearing the way for Giordano to be his naive and engaging self.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-05-13
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Another Way
Overview: Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva gets a job as a journalist. There, she meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1982-05-01
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Everyone Knows Better
Overview: "Everyone Knows Better" is an original comedy, reminiscent of the best New York tradition of independent cinema, dominated by warm relations and close intimacy with the characters. It tells about the adventures of a couple who try to put together one family from two different worlds. Other people's children, ex-spouses, pushy grandparents. Will Ania and Grzesiek survive the invasion of their families who are trying to fight the relationship of their adult children?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-08-05
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Seychelles
Overview: A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman and soon discovers that the opera doubles as a brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-04-08
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Fort 13
Overview: A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-11-16
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Decalogue VI
Overview: A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-09-04
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Battle of Warsaw 1920
Overview: Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while he is a cavalry officer and poet who believes in socialist ideals
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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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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The Conviction
Overview: A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then she sues the professor for rape. The professor will have to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-02-28
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Nachbarinnen
Overview: The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and gets through everyday life with her dry sense of humor. But her quiet, well-ordered life spins out of control when she has to hide her mysteriously fascinating Polish neighbor Jola – who believes to have accidentally killed someone. Dora is hesitant at first to take her in, but she cannot seem to shake her fascination with Jola. Dora's trust in the direct, impulsive woman grows – Jola seems to ask exactly those questions no one else dares to ask. When Dora finds out that the accusations against Jola have been lifted, she lies about the status of the police investigation in order to keep her Polish neighbor for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-04-28
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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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Custody
Overview: A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-02-15
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The Young Magician
Overview: A 12-year boy feels left out by his classmates because he has no interest in athletics. He finally discovers his calling when his parents take him to a magic show. Picked by the magician to be his helper during a trick he is drawn into the world of magic and wants to learn more. He becomes proficient in tricks and also discovers his telekinetic powers. Unfortunately that further alienates him from his peers and his parents are afraid of his powers. Things change when a national emergency arises and the government asks him to help. After success he becomes a hero and is accepted by all. Written by Polish Cinema Database.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Beautiful stranger
Overview: Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin at a nightclub. He's asked to carry important papers from Petersburg to Stockholm by train in the dead of winter, a dangerous mission. The first-class carriage may be full of spies, and soon after the train embarks, the man in the next compartment searches Obozow's luggage. A beautiful stranger approaches him, a woman older than he, on a concert tour; a game of cat and mouse ensues with patriotism and emotion sometimes on opposite sides. Can Obozow consummate the affair, reach Stockholm, and maintain his ideals?
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-10-14
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Król dopalaczy
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Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: pl
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Fanciful
Overview: After her mother’s death, 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Previously distant and emotionally cold towards the teenager, now driven by fear for his daughter’s life, her father tries to rebuild their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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The Magnate
Overview: This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-12-21
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Polnische Ostern
Overview: Grumpy baker Grabosch can't bear the thought that his granddaughter, now that her mother has died, will live with her Polish father. He must get Mathilda back, by all means.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-05-11
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Hanussen
Overview: A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?
Genres: Science Fiction History Drama Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-05-20
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Nie kłam kochanie
Overview: "Nie kłam, kochanie" nie jest bajką. To miłosna historia, podana lekko, jednak nie pozostająca w oderwaniu od życia, w której wszelkiego rodzaju zawirowania towarzyszące jej bohaterom wypływają z sytuacji realnych. Ma pokazać, w jaki sposób kłamstwo i manipulacja może stanąć w szranki z uczciwością, prostolinijnością i naiwnością. I – kto kogo "przechytrzy", kto wygra ten pojedynek, w którym stawką jest miłość… A co robi w naszej historii kaktus? Cóż, dziewczyna, która kocha kaktusy i mówi do nich po imieniu to chyba jedyna osoba, która potrafi w kłamcy i cyniku dostrzec coś dobrego i zmienić go… A wtedy – nawet kolczasty kaktus potrafi zakwitnąć pięknym kwiatem. W większości miłosnych historii dotąd królowały róże. W naszej – kaktusy. Też z kolcami. Ale z jakim charakterem!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-02-11
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Pokaż kotku, co masz w środku
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-12-24
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Overview: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-02-27
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Run Boy Run
Overview: Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-01-10
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Botoxx
Overview: "Botoks" is intended to be a record of the authentic history of strong, determined and expressive physicians who struggle with life's decisions and problems: discrimination, maternity pressures, the pursuit of youth, the fight for the right to free choice and own views.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-09-29
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Taboo
Overview: Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-09-05
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The Scent of Earth
Overview: The trials and tribulations of a peasant's life in the 30's, finally overshadowed by the destructiveness of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Ivy
Overview: Kinga, a divorced woman raising her daughter Emilka, decides to change her professional life and start writing a book. Personal matters and problems with finding common ground with her child, however, throw her off balance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-05-25
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The Dogcatcher
Overview: A man with OCD is paid to find dogs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-10-12
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The Twenties, the Thirties
Overview: On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-19
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Big Shar
Overview: Released from prison after five years, con-artist Szu is sent packing by his young wife; he heads for the town of Lutyn where he runs a con and attracts the interest of Jurek, a young cab driver who imagines himself a great grifter. Szu ("Sharp") teaches Jurek a few tricks enabling the young man to win some money in Wroclaw, then Sharp departs with Jola, a prostitute who offers him a mark. How that plays out, Jurek's determination to win big, Sharp's cold calculations, and the wages of sin await.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-05-16
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Flowers of Reverie
Overview: The seeming hopelessness of combatting an all-powerful government that will not tolerate political dissension is the focus of this excellent historical drama set in the mid-19th century in Hungary. In the opening scenes, Hungary has just lost its bid for independence from Austria and a Magyar officer, unable to bear the tragedy of defeat and what it means, says an affectionate good-bye to his beloved horse and then shoots the animal and himself. Two years later, Ferenc (Gyorgy Cserhalmi) is trying to eke out a living for his wife and her family -- and at the same time avoid any hint of sympathy for Hungarian independence because the Secret Police are everywhere. Just as life seems to be going well, Ferenc's former commanding officer (Lajos Oze) arrives and begins discussing revolution again -- a futile pursuit at this point in time. The next day, Ferenc is thrown into an insane asylum and everyone else is arrested as well.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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Kill Cruise
Overview: Two British beauties go to Barbados with a yacht captain who does not know what he's in for.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-04-05
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Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Overview: The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-08-15
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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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Our God's Brother
Overview: In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-08
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365 Days
Overview: A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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Home Chronicles
Overview: The protagonist of the film is a 12-year-old boy - Witek, the son of a small-town miller, a former entrepreneur who, after the war, holed up in a small town as a craftsman. The boy's mother is a beautiful and subtle woman, raising children and raising a home. Through the house of Witek's parents there is a gallery of picturesque characters who are perceived by the child warmly and with humor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Asymmetry
Overview: Piotr and his girlfriend Weronika plan their future together. They don't expect one evening to change everything. Not only in their lives.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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The Big Picnic
Overview: Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and decide to go on a rampage through the city.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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Przez dotyk
Overview: Two women meet in the hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-29
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Little Rose
Overview: Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, to insinuate herself into the distinguished older man's life and report on his every move. Not particularly interested in serving communism but eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose." As quick scenes contrast Kamila's crude pleasures with Rozek and her more refined experiences with Warczewski, it becomes clear that the more time the unschooled young woman spends with the professor, the more she comes to have true feelings for him.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-03-12
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Tomorrow, We're Going to the Movies
Overview: Three high school graduates prepare to start the next chapter of their lives, but the outbreak of World War II may derail their dreams forever.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-09-01
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Goodbye Stranger
Overview: Set on the deserted North Sea island of Langeness, a lonely woman begins an affair with a stranger; only after he is identified as a political fugitive and deported does she begin to learn about his true identity and his past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-08-22
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In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
Overview: In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon - her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lifes. Anastasia has a posthumous son Tadeusz, "born" by clambering out of the tree trunk. Anastasia seduces him too, and drives another men so crazy that they kill her another couple of times. Finally, Tadeusz, the arch-rebel, leads a mob on a raid of the old manor.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-04-15
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