Marcin Dorociński
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Biography: Marcin Grzegorz Dorociński (Polish: [ˈmart͡ɕin dɔrɔˈt͡ɕiɲskʲi]; born 22 June 1973) is a Polish film, television and stage actor. He is known for playing roles in such films as Pitbull(2005), Reverse (2009), Rose (2011), Jack Strong (2014), Hurricane (2018) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), as well as internationally produced TV series Spies of Warsaw (2013) and The Queen's Gambit (2020). Dorociński was born in Milanówek and grew up in a small village, Kłudzienko. His father is a blacksmith, and his mother is a housewife. He has three brothers, all of whom are police officers. He dreamt of becoming a professional football player. However, he was forced to give up the plan after sustaining a significant leg injury. He attended the vocational school in Grodzisk Mazowiecki and obtained a machinist certificate. The first person to notice his talent for acting was his history teacher, who encouraged him to become an actor. In 1993, he enrolled at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy. In his second year at the State Theatre Academy, he was cast as Don Rodrigue in a television adaptation of Le Cid directed by Krystyna Janda. After graduating from the Academy in 1997, he struggled to find acting jobs. He worked as a waiter and a bouncer. He took other casual jobs until he was offered a post at the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw. He has also appeared in several plays at the Ateneum Theatre in Warsaw, where he is currently employed. He played minor roles in multiple television series before his breakthrough came with the role in Patryk Vega's 2005 film Pitbull, which brought him the Zbyszek Cybulski Award. He is a two-time Polish Film Festival award winner for his Reverse (2009) and Rose (2011) roles. The latter also earned him the IFFI Best Actor Award at India's 43rd International Film Festival. In 2012, he appeared in Magdalena Łazarkiewicz's critically acclaimed TV series The Deep End ("Głęboka woda"), which earned him a nomination for Best Actor Award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival. Between 2012 and 2013, Dorociński appeared in a miniseries called Spies of Warsaw, co-produced by the and Telewizja Polska. In 2020, he joined the cast of the Netflix drama miniseries The Queen's Gambit, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. Based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis of the same name, the show explores the life of an orphan chess prodigy named Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two as she struggles with addiction in a quest to become a grandmaster in chess. Dorociński plays Soviet world chess champion Vasily Borgov. He is married to scenic designer Monika Sudół. The couple has a son, Stanisław (born 2006), and a daughter, Janina (born 2008). They also brought up Sudół's son from a previous relationship, Jakub. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Marcin Dorociński, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milanówek, Poland
Birthday: June 22, 1973
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Gender: Male
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Playing Hard
Overview: Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the problem secret and rescues her from many troubles but he slowly loses patience. A respected children surgeon Teresa has lost her family due to drinking problem, all she is left with is her job at the hospital where she is the main doctor. The situation goes out of control when the woman comes drunk to the hospital. A student, Magda, likes to party hard and because she is a good student and has a great job, no-one opposes that. At one moment, the girl loses control. A tragedy happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-01-04
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Klingert's Diving Suit
Overview: Six-year-old Bi has been afraid of water since the flood took her younger brother. Her father, Karl Klingert, dedicated himself to working on the world's first diving suit. Bi thinks the suit is the monster that took over her father. With the help of Peter, a young bully from the river, she tries to destroy it before the whole family leaves Wroclaw forever.
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-20
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Night Conversations
Overview: It is a positive and optimistic story of two thirty-something people who are made for each other, Matylda and Bartek, who are needing and looking for love and closeness, but who are constantly missing each other in the course of their lives.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-02-14
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Reverse
Overview: A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secrets can be kept.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-11-12
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Minghun
Overview: After the loss of his daughter, Jurek, together with his father-in-law Ben, decides to perform the Chinese minghun ritual
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-11-29
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Killer 2
Overview: Jurek Kiler has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, meeting world leaders. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jurek Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations and problems in his love life...
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-01-08
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Vinci
Overview: The sophisticated thief of art Robert "Cuma" Cuminski is released on probation from the local prison by the corrupt Doctor Wiaderny to organize the theft of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting "Lady with Ermine" for the dealer Gruby. Three years ago, Cuma was accidentally arrested by the snoopy detective Wilk after a successful heist in the house of the collector Lehman, but he has not ratted his comrade Julian.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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The Perfect Guy for My Girlfriend
Overview: When Kostek gets in the wrong taxicab and sees Luna, it is love at first sight. But Luna already has a girlfriend named Klara Rojek and is a lesbian so Kostek has more than a few things that are in his way of ever being with her. Kostek does whatever it takes to talk to Luna and tries to get her attention, including trying out for a porn movie Klara's feminist group is making. After some lengthily casting, Klara concludes that Kostek is the ideal guy for Luna to star in the film with.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Pitbull
Overview: Police officers from the Warsaw Homicide Department are trying to arrest a dangerous Armenian criminal.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-04-09
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St. Barbara's Day
Overview: A coal mine director invites Jacob, a TV series star, to add splendor to the celebration of St. Barbara's Day, the patroness of miners. Basia, a worker from the sorting department, is chosen to hand Jakub the welcoming loaf of bread. The two completely different worlds come together: flashy, success oriented strangers from Warsaw and traditional, modest and unwilling to change Silesians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-12-04
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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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Kup teraz
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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Sfora: Bez litości
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Rose
Overview: This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who deserted after he saw his wife raped and murdered by Russian troops and is attempting to hide his identity.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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Francuski numer
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2006-03-17
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Overview: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-08
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Przedwiośnie
Overview: Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses revolution, rebirth of Poland, war with the Soviets and communist plots.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-03-02
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Fear of Falling
Overview: Tomek leads a comfortable life as a TV anchor and family man when he receives a troubling message from the psychiatric hospital in his hometown: his father, whom he has not seen in years, has just been admitted. Against the advice of friends and family, not to mention his own better judgment, Tomek returns home to face the man he hardly knows. After a failed, guilt-ridden attempt to sell his father’s apartment, Tomek decides to make up for lost time. Kidnapping his aging father from the hospital, the two embark on a vacation to the mountains in an effort to restore some semblance of a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-06-06
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Black Mill
Overview: Twelve-year-old Iwo lives in a small, post-communist town that is home to the old and destroyed Black Mill – once a place of work for many parents. Breaking the promise to not approach the old mill, the children accidentally unleash its evil powers. From that moment, nothing will ever be the same again as people and things start to disappear.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-10-15
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Ransomed
Overview: In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-08-02
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The Traffic Department
Overview: Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-01-31
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Manhunt
Overview: Marcin Krysztalowicz's film is both a partisan ballad, showing the real face of German occupation of Poland during WW2 and a startling war thriller. It tells a story of corporal "Wydra", struggling not only with Germans and Polish traitors but also with his own past...
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-10-16
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The Mighty Angel
Overview: Jerzy is a writer and a heavy drinker. We meet him at the point when he believes that he can beat his addiction. He falls in love with a young girl and finally feels that he has got the person and the reason to live for. But soon he yields to his addiction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-01-17
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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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Miłość
Overview: Maria and Tom are in their thirties and have been married ten years. They live in a small town. Both find professional fulfillment in their jobs he in a design company, she at the town hall. They are working together on the decoration of their apartment and are expecting a baby. It seems that nothing is capable of disturbing their peaceful lives. But one day the mayor, who has long lusted after Maria, rapes her. She decides not to report this to the police. Nor does she tell her husband. From that day forth, their love is put to the test.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-10-01
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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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Insatiability
Overview: Zypcio is an idealistic heir to a large brewery in Poland. In the face of Chinese invasion threatening Eastern Europe, he is corrupted by the advances of both Princess Irina, who is after his money, and the court jester, who is after his virginity. The film Nienasycenie / INSATIABILITY, directed by Wiktor Grodecki based on the novel of the same title by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival. The film will be screened as part of the festival's Panorama section.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-11-28
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Wstyd
Overview: A 12-year-old girl is brutally raped. The perpetrator is one of the three 40-year-old men with whom the girl had previously had contacts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Dangerous Men
Overview: Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Witkacy, Joseph Conrad and Bronisław Malinowski, four leading figures among the Zakopane bohemians, wake up after an all-night drunken party. Their hangover headaches are killing them, none of them remembers anything, and finding the corpse of a male stranger on the floor doesn’t help.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Overview: After escaping a calamitous train crash, Ethan realizes The Entity is stashed aboard an old Russian submarine, but a foe from his past named Gabriel is also on the trail.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-21
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The Heart and Sweetheart
Overview: A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage on her road to fulfilling her dream is the entrance exam to the ballet school in Gdansk. To make it there in time, she escapes from the orphanage, taking newly hired educator Kordula with her. They travel all the way across Poland, hiding from the police and meeting people who help them in need.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-08-12
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Love on the Podium
Overview: A story of nineteen years old girl who is trying to become a model.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-07-21
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These Daughters of Mine
Overview: A 40-year old actress (single and strong, yet lonely), her sister (an emotionally unstable schoolteacher whose married-with-kids life appears more orderly) and their domineering father, who gradually loses control over his family due to his wife's sudden illness and his own health troubles; these are the three individuals at the heart of this film, a touching story about the strength of family ties in a situation of imminent danger.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-11-09
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Mayday
Overview: Lieutenant Troy Brennan's reconnaissance mission over Soviet territory goes awry, forcing him to crash-land and survive in Russian wilderness while evading capture or rescue.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
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Louise's Garden
Overview: A young girl meets a gangster at a psychiatric hospital.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-04-11
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Ja jestem
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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You Are God
Overview: The story of the late 90s generation and the three friends behind the music: Magik, Fokus and Rahim. The fact-based film charts the relentless struggle for success of Paktofonika, against the backdrop of crumbling traditional values in dreary 90s Silesia.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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The High Frontier
Overview: A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male bonding adventure. When a lost tourist arrives at the cabin, their male-bonding outing turns into a struggle for survival.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-02-19
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Nie panikuj!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man
Overview: A famous Danish artist and fashion photographer who leads an eventful life and is always travelling, meets a man who immediately awakens strong feelings in her. This unexpected encounter sparks a decisive turning point in her life and they begin a passionate relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2010-01-21
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Small Town Killers
Overview: The two tradesmen Ib and Edward are tired of their lifeless marriages and dream of living the good life from the stash of money they've earned moonlighting for years. After a huge fight with their wives the two men get drunk and hire a Russian contract killer to do a hit on their spouses. But they have badly underestimated their wives, and this becomes the start of an absurd journey where Ib and Edward to their own horror end at the top of a kill list.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2017-01-12
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The Offsiders
Overview: Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train hard to take part in the world championship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-10-10
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Vinci 2
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-07-25
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Anthropoid
Overview: In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
Genres: History Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-12
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Hurricane
Overview: The story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies. Seen through the eyes of a Polish fighter ace and adventurer, it tells how the Poles—driven across Europe by the German war machine—finally make their last stand. Flying Hurricanes for the RAF over Britain, they became a key component in the legend of ‘The Few’. Up against the might of the Luftwaffe they hoped that, by saving Great Britain from Nazi invasion, they were keeping the dream of a free Poland alive.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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Pitbull. Last Dog
Overview: A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime. Meanwhile, a conflict between local gangster groups escalates.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Plan B
Overview: A film about love, full of emotions, humor and life truth. We get to know our heroes before the Valentine's, when something completely unexpected happens in their lives - something that turns them upside down. Situations with which they confront lead to surprising solutions. Natalia, Mirek, Klara and Agnieszka meet on their way people (and animals!), Which give hope that difficult beginnings sometimes lead to finding true feelings and authentic bonds, and in life there is always a plan B.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-02-02
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Na boso
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2007-09-01
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7 Emotions
Overview: Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days when, like most of us, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time – which proves not so carefree after all – to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions. This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical, situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thought.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Pal System
Overview: A group of students of the last year of the local motor technical school is slowly entering adult life. An atmosphere of emptiness and hopelessness reigns around them. Young people have no idea for their future, but they do not want to duplicate the pattern of a poor existence according to which their parents live. One of them, Arek, had a chance to break out of this vicious circle for a moment. The possibility of a brilliant career, fame and a lot of money was opening up to him, the Polish Junior Champion in Kickboxing. Serious heart disease shattered these plans. Arek dreams of renting a flat and freeing himself from his alcoholic father. Together with Lalka, Panicz, Mucha and Renata - his closest friends, he often visits the Kosmos pub, owned by the local mafioso Marsel. One day Marsel offers Arek and Mucha a jump: they are to break into the apartment on the top floor of a skyscraper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2002-11-12
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Dark, Almost Night
Overview: A reporter, Alicja Tabor, after many years returns to her hometown of Wałbrzych to write a report about kidnapped children and also to face her own dark family history.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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Punkt krytyczny. Energia odNowa
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-08-27
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Piotrek trzynastego
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Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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1409. Afera na zamku Bartenstein
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-01-21
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Pigs 3
Overview: After 25 years, Franz Maurer gets out of from prison and came into a new Poland, where nothing is the same as he remembered. Who and what is waiting for a man who has done nothing for the last quarter century? How will he find himself in a world where old principles, roles and loyalty have ceased to apply? We'll find out this when the fate brings Franz and "New" back together. Their meeting will change everything.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Magic Mountains
Overview: Hannah travels through the Polish mountains with her ex-boyfriend Lex. During their journey the young woman finds out that Lex has prepared the perfect crime, with Hannah as his victim.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2020-02-12
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The Yellow Scarf
Overview: The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2000-12-20
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Marlis
Overview: A road movie about a couple’s last two days of holiday in Turkey. Viktor and Marlis follow the same road to reach two different goals.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pl
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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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Show
Overview: Petty thief Czarek takes part in a TV reality show to escape from the mafia. He is sent to a house on a desert island with 9 other contestants. Even the death of one of them does not stop the show.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Solidarność, Solidarność...
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Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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The In-Laws
Overview: Is a party after a canceled wedding a recipe for disaster? It is. And what a disaster it is! Two families differ in everything - origin, status, wallet content, taste. The parents of the groom and bride are initially shocked. What did such a thing happen? Who was at fault? What about the wedding party? Should they welcome the guests? Play music? Pour the vodka? Who will cut the cake? From word to word, polite smiles turn into public washing of dirt. And finally a real bomb goes off... And in the meantime, the wedding party turns into a wild party. And no one is bothered by the absence of the newlyweds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-10
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Biały potok
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2020-12-08
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Jaś i Małgosia - rodzeństwo, które przeżyło
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Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-01-20
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Beautiful
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-06-13
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Teściowie 3
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2025-09-12
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