Piotr Machalica
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pszczyna, Polska
Birthday: February 13, 1955
Deathday: December 14, 2020
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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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Brigitte Bardot Forever
Overview: Inspired by the tale of Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey, young Adam’s mother is persecuted by the state police because his father fought in WWII as a pilot before disappearing. Adam fantasizes about his father and one day, while watching Godard’s Contempt in the cinema, finds himself transported into the dressing room of Brigitte Bardot and into a world where he meets a coterie of her contemporary celebrities.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-10-21
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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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Deserter's Gold
Overview: "Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1998-12-03
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Polish Cuisine
Overview: A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Szamanka
Overview: Anthropology professor Michal develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out of a swamp. The second is an enigmatic student he meets by chance at a railway station.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Day of the Wacko
Overview: It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-06-07
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We're All Christs
Overview: Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-04-21
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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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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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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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Art of Loving
Overview: Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering - whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-22
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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 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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Decalogue IX
Overview: Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-05-16
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Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland
Overview: A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capitalism himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-02-12
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111 dni letargu
Overview: A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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Nieznana opowieść wigilijna
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-12-24
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Polski Crash
Overview: Early 90's. The political and economic landscape of Poland, Russia and Germany is changing. Both good and bad sides of freedom are revealed. The mafia is becoming more and more bold, operating without obstacles across borders. One of the more lucrative "businesses" is the trade in luxury cars, stolen in Germany and transferred to Russia by Russia.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-01-25
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Kill Me, Cop
Overview: The story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run and the cop who put him behind the bars the first time around.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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Panny i wdowy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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Got to Love
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-06-03
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The Knight
Overview: A tale of medieval quest for a golden harp called "the Knight".
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-10-06
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Szczęścia chodzą parami
Overview: Malwina, a successful car designer, falls in love with Bruno, a successful couples therapist. While he can save any relationship, his own love stories create a series of spectacular disasters. Handsome and funny, he could be the man of dreams, if not for the fact that he acts like a black cat on women. He brings bad luck to his chosen ones, which ends the most fiery romance with a bang. Unaware of Malwin's risk, she succumbs to his charm at first sight. Despite the fact that a series of unfortunate events begins in her life, Bruno is not going to give up this time. In order to save the love of her life, she must find the cause of her heart failures. However, he will not succeed without a bit of luck.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-09-02
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Polish Legends: Jaga
Overview: Twardowsky opened hellish prison. One of the escaped prisoners is Jaga - delicate but deadly woman.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-12-09
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Polish Legends: Operation Basilisk
Overview: A fishing trip becomes a fight for survival for a cop and his uncle.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-11-09
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Polish Legends. Twardowsky 2.0
Overview: Twardowsky is heading to the border of the Solar System. Can he make it?. The Devil, and he's hunter - Lucy are right behind him. Can desperate Polish astronaut win with his fiendish opponents?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-09-16
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Yes, Yes
Overview: Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-21
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Expecting Love
Overview: A successful Los Angeles lawyer discovers that a short-term affair could have long-term consequences when a woman he had a brief affair with claims that she's currently pregnant with his unborn child.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-02-29
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Kameleon
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Genres: Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Father's Law
Overview: When the ex-racing driver's teenage daughter is brutally raped, her father seeks justice on his own.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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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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1968. Happy New Year
Overview: The events concerning the March 1968 student demonstrations in Poland are seen through the eyes of young people rebelling against the government and the communist politicians trying to halt the protests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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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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Rośliny trujące
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-04-13
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Smacznego, telewizorku
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-03-12
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Hero of the Year
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Mur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-09-04
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The Possessed
Overview: Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-24
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Angel in the Wardrobe
Overview: About a sound designer for films who years ago, while in bed with his mistress, failed to respond to calls for help outside his door. Now during the recording of the audio track for a new film he begins to hear strange noises on his headphones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-02-08
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State of Fear
Overview: Realistic depiction of the Polish martial law in 1981. John Malecki is a young actor with good career prospects in a Warsaw theater, preparing to play Hamlet, his dream role. John plans to go to Sweden. Any involvement with the new Solidarnośc movement might put his visa to Sweden at risk. But staying neutral in these times is not an easy task.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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Funeral Ceremony
Overview: After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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Adwokat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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Powrót po śmierć
Overview: One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when the next day she learns that a gruesome crime has been committed near the place where the mysterious customer accosted her, she reports the night's meeting to the police.
Genres: Crime TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-12-02
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Weryfikacja
Overview: Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-09-07
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Enak
Overview: The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his behaviour, the world enters its biggest crisis since the Cold War. As journalists try to find out more about Enak and his backstory in communist Poland, they discover that he possesses the ability to influence people's sub-consciousness.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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I Died So I Could Live
Overview: Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-09-08
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Błąd w rachunku
Overview: The institute of genetics announced that a dangerous virus had been discovered. What was the motive behind this discovery? The film deals with the quest for fame at all costs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-04-06
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