Joanna Kulig
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Joanna Kulig (born June 24, 1982) is a Polish actress and singer. Noted for performing in different languages, she has worked in film, television and radio as well as on stage. She is the recipient of a European Film Award and two Polish Film Awards, and her work has been recognised at various film festivals. In 2018, Polish magazine Wprost included her among the 50 most influential Poles for her contributions to the cinema of Poland. After an unsuccessful attempt at a career as a jazz singer, Kulig enrolled at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków, graduating in 2007. She began performing on stage while still in drama school, debuting in the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her first starring film role in the 2007 drama Wednesday, Thursday Morning won her the award for Best Debut at the Gdynia Film Festival. She received further acclaim for her performance in the 2011 film Elles, which earned her Best Supporting Actress at the Polish Film Awards and Gdynia Film Festival. Kulig was born on 24 June 1982 in Krynica, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. Her mother worked as a cook at a local kindergarten and her father was a folk poet. She was raised in a musical family along with four siblings—two older brothers and two younger sisters—in Muszynka. One of her sisters, Justyna Schneider, is also an actress and adopted their great-grandmother's surname to avoid confusion as their first names are similar
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Krynica-Zdrój, Poland
Adult: No
Popularity:
Known For:
Janosik
Overview: The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he becomes the troop's leader and is recognized as a brave and honorable commander, he never kills anyone he robs. Along with the fame he starts enjoying popularity among women. But Janosik's success raises jealousy in one of the troop's members, greedy and brutal Huncaga.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2009-09-04
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Overview: After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-17
Popularity:
She Came to Me
Overview: Composer Steven Lauddem is plagued by a creative block which leaves him unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. When his former therapist-turned-wife Patricia suggests he rekindle his creativity by getting lost in the city, Steven sets out in search of inspiration. His epiphany comes after he meets a spirited woman named Katrina and discovers his life has much more potential than he bargained for, or ever could have imagined.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-06
Popularity:
Los numeros
Overview: A young policeman gets into trouble after winning the lottery. Adventure and problems follow, as well as lots of beautiful women. The officer runs danger to fall prey to a large scam, but he also can find true love and realizes: in order to win his fate, he has to take chances and play.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-03-25
Popularity:
The Woman in the Fifth
Overview: An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-11
Popularity:
Dance Marathon
Overview: An event, which main attraction is the dance marathon, has gathered crowds at the market square of the provincial Polish town. Impressive prizes compete with another attraction: the concert of the star singer Jessica. A local outsider Christian falls for the singer. Soon he discovers that her life is far from being a dream and decides to win her heart. In the crowd of marathon contestants we will meet many individuals who dream of winning the main prize for various motivations. Who will turn out to be the winner? Will there be a prize at all? Because two small-time crooks, Simon and Silvio, are lurking around. And why this persistent notion that our life is so often influenced by miracles...?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-06-17
Popularity:
Elles
Overview: A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-09
Popularity:
Everyone Knows Better
Overview: 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
Popularity:
Lasting
Overview: Lasting is an emotional love story about Michał and Karina, a pair of Polish students who meet and fall in love with each other while working summer jobs in Spain. An unexpected nightmare brutally breaks into their carefree time in the heavenly landscape and throws their lives into chaos.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-01-08
Popularity:
Woman of...
Overview: Aniela has lived the first half of her life as a man: with an office job, a wife, and two children. But neither her family's opposition nor repression by the government in Poland can stop her from finally becoming the person she's always been.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2024-04-05
Popularity:
Million Dollars
Overview: Bozenka, a worker from a large bank, believes that only those who buy, truly live their life. And there is always not enough money! The reason for her frustration is also her husband, Stasiunek, who should be a devilish lover of the most beautiful women in the world, but in fact he is a lazy bumbler. And then one day she gets a chance…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2011-05-13
Popularity:
Wednesday, Thursday Morning
Overview: On August 1, the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, two young people, lost and alone, are looking for happiness and their way in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2008-02-10
Popularity:
Ida
Overview: Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2013-10-25
Popularity:
Sophie Seeks 7
Overview: After breaking up with her cheating boyfriend, a 30-year-old woman reconnects with six of her exes while trying to find the love of her life.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2014-02-14
Popularity:
Way Back Home
Overview: Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-12-11
Popularity:
Disco Polo
Overview: Young wannabe musicians from the province decide to write hit song and gain the top of the charts in order to become legends of disco polo
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-02-27
Popularity:
Knox Goes Away
Overview: A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the police closing in on him as well as the ticking clock of his own rapidly deteriorating mind.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-15
Popularity:
The Innocents
Overview: Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-10
Popularity:
Pitbull: Tough Women
Overview: Two new female police officers struggle to survive a force filled with corrupt superiors and the brutal world of the criminal mafia.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2016-11-11
Popularity:
Cold War
Overview: A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.
Genres: Romance Music Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-06-08
Popularity:
Clergy
Overview: A few years back tragic events tied the fate of three Catholic priests. From then on they meet on every anniversary of the disaster to celebrate their survival. On an everyday basis they have their ups and downs. Lisowski works at the curia in a big city, has a career and is dreaming of the Vatican. Problem is, archbishop Mordowicz, an opulent church official who uses his political influence to build the largest sanctuary in Poland, gets in his way. The second priest, Trybus, is a village parson. He ministers to a poor community and gives in to human weaknesses more and more often. Kukuła is not faring well either. Despite his fervent faith, he loses the trust of his parishioners actually overnight. Soon the stories of the three clergymen are going to join once again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-09-28
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Remembrance
Overview: Hannah, a young Jewish girl, is rescued from a concentration camp by her Polish boyfriend, and believes he died after their perilous escape. More than 30 years later, the married Hannah faces an emotional crisis when she learns he's alive.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-24
Popularity:
Love Is Everything
Overview: The Christmas fever of the December time starts with the arrival of an unusual Santa to the city. It will be a storm of exceptional events.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-11-23
Popularity:
I Am Lying Now
Overview: Metaphysical thriller, which takes place in a retro-futuristic world. His characters get caught up in an intricate, dark intrigue in which nothing is as it seems, and a series of dramatic events leads to a completely surprising final.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2019-06-28
Popularity:
Safe Inside
Overview: Young lovers Tom and Ana, travelling through Europe, find work at the estate of the otherworldly Richard. Remote and cut off, they soon realise that they need to escape Richard’s powerful and controlling mind, before he traps them in his imagined world.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-16
Popularity:
Play
Overview: A man consumed by guilt because he did not dare to defend his mother, he plays the role of a murderer and forces ten-year-old self to face trauma.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2018-07-19
Popularity:
Kompromat
Overview: Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the help of the FSB, someone has built up a case to frame him. Isolated, he has no one to turn to. Proving his innocence is impossible: the only solution is to escape.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-07
Popularity:
Warsaw by Night
Overview: Four woman, each with their own theory about love. Iga is married and lives in a happy relationship but deeply fantasies about extreme experiences. In her search she uncovers various shades of loves, like the modern femme fatale (Joanna) and a woman (Agata) who is being cheated on. An attractive 30 year old (Roma) is searching for a man who will turn her life upside and desperate for this life changing moment. Set in modern Warsaw, where one night can change anybodies life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-02-06
Popularity:
Island
Overview: The story follows Joanna, a striking forty-year-old woman trapped in a stifling marriage to a wealthy and controlling man. When she meets Ada, an enigmatic and free-spirited young woman, Joanna is drawn into a journey of self-discovery and rebellion. As their bond deepens, Joanna begins to break free from the life that has imprisoned her but liberation comes at a price she never anticipated.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2025-05-20
Popularity: