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- A devout Catholic peasant girl is corrupted by two new friends when her family moves to the city. An allegory of traditional Polish values under threat from materialism and decadence in the post-Communist era.
- During the German occupation of Poland a young priest tries hard to prevent the execution of a local farmer, accused of treason, by a resistance fighter.
- Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France. Despite being tortured, they refuse to divulge their knowledge of the Enigma to the Germans.
- A criminal mastermind responsible for a failed robbery and an accidental petty conman meet inside a prison carriage. Soon they are both going to hear the court verdict.
- A group of Polish officers, former POW camp inmates, stays in a deserted German town. All the Germans have already left with the exception of a doctor and his daughters. How should Poles and Germans treat each other in these circumstances?
- 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.
- How to make big money after the communism collapses in Poland.
- In the life of Ula, a twenty-year-old very pretty girl, nothing good has happened so far. Poverty, her father an alcoholic abuser to his family, finally an illegitimate child, raised alone - it is Ola's everyday life. Prostitution seems to be the best solution.
- In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.
- A documentary about a group of Warsaw tram workers who moonlight in the city orchestra at night.
- This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the older, more conservative residents, many of whom lived through World War II and are confused and somewhat resentful at the changes they're seeing.
- It's February 1945. A Polish rescue team sets out to bring back the wounded Soviet and Slovak partisans who are trapped behind the mountain border as well as behind enemy lines.
- One year in the life of a young country boy who enters adulthood. Franek Wróbel leaves his home village and seeks a new life for his own, while writing a diary.
- Two soldiers notice that their comrade is missing before another battle commences.
- Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
- A look at the poorest district of Warsaw. Targówek looks as if the war ended just yesterday - the place is full of rubble and misery, and devoid of any perspectives for a better future.
- When the war breaks out, renowned Polish-Jewish poet Aleksander Wat leaves German-occupied Warsaw with his wife Ola and their son. In Lviv, however, they are arrested by the Soviets and separated. Ola and her son are sent to Siberia.
- The final stages of alcohol addiction are juxtaposed with the official attitude of Polish authorities towards the success of the ever-growing national alcohol industry.
- The story of an ordinary accountant, Ryszard Siwiec, who set himself on fire during the large harvest festival at the Warsaw stadium in 1968. He did it to protest against the military invasion in Czechoslovakia.
- The violence and high drama of this film is taken directly from recent Polish history. On December 13, 1981 national security forces swoop down on unsuspecting workers of the Wujek mine and arrest a Solidarity leader. Pushed to the limits, the miners call a massive strike, which is specifically forbidden under the martial law. A battle between the heavily armed police and the outnumbered miners ensues, and nine miners are killed.
- Tomasz Piechocki is a young doctor who is looking for his own flat. And one day his dream comes true, he gets an assignment for an apartment. But to get it, he must first get married. Tomasz begins a frantic search for his wife. He has only 30 days for it. I do not want his friend to be indifferent to him. After the initial failures, he meets this one, the only one.
- A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way.
- The film tells about the 8-year-old orphan Romeke, who is adopted for the third time by foster parents, although he is not at all "difficult." Just guardians once again were not ready for adoption, or used it for personal gain.
- Black Sea coast. The old schooner Nadzieja, the pride of Captain Angelov, serves a group of children with dignity, who on board will learn the taste of sailing. However, the Port Authority decides to scrap the ship and retire the captain. Captain Angelov takes it hard, he has a heart attack and ends up in the hospital. But his young friends want to save Hope. Jurek, a teenage sailor from Poland, comes to their aid. Under his command, the children hijack the ship. The great adventure unexpectedly turns dangerous, because there is a criminal below deck, looking for a valuable icon hidden there, stolen from the monastery. Adults rush to rescue the children - including Angelov, who escaped from the hospital after hearing about the hijacking of the ship. The criminal is caught. The children name the renovated yacht Angelowa.
- An impressionistic image of Warsaw rebuilt after the war and its residents. A kind of lyrical film version of a feature article, full of warm humour and enriched with observations of everyday life.
- During World War II, a group of bandits roam the Polish countryside robbing and fighting local militia. When a group is captured, a man is called to idenitfy the leader of the bandits by the commander of a milita group (Krzysztof Kolbasiuk) who also gives the witness protection prior to him testifying against the bandits.
- A Communist supported report of a peace conference held in Poland during the first year of the Korean War, which also documents the destruction launched upon Korea by US bombing .
- Film devoted to the tragically deceased outstanding actor, Zbigniew Cybulski; the installation of fragments of films with his participation consists of a specific biography of the character created by the actor, which became a symbol of the "tragic generation" of war youth. Cybulski was often compared to James Dean.
- A look at the legacy of Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz in terms of his graphic designs.
- A steelworks supply is sent by railway across the whole country. The railway workers do their best to deliver it on time.
- A 40-year-old man summarizes his tough life which brought him nothing but failure and suffering. He gets back to his memories of childhood, concentration camp imprisonment, post-war situation and failed marriage.
- Depicts the life of the socialist underground in Poland during World War II. Devotion, loyalty, suspicion, betrayal, and double agents.
- Newsreel footage of the common struggle of Polish and Soviet soldiers.
- A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.