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- After his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.
- A young anthropology student stumbles upon the perfectly preserved body of an ancient shaman in a peat bog. As he explores the shaman's history, his girlfriend begins to exhibit uncanny, almost primal behavior that seems to echo the shaman's existence.
- When an art historian finds an ancient Templar cross, he must join forces with an unlikely group of adventurers on a quest to unlock the relic's secrets.
- A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
- When the wedding is canceled at the last minute, the parents of the couple decide that the reception must go on anyway.
- After a two-year disappearance, free-spirited Alicja is reunited with her parents, husband and young son despite having no memory of them. A dizzying psychological puzzle. Mesmerizing from the jaw-dropping first frame to the last.
- What happens when a sexual connection overwhelms all your senses? A woman puts everything on the line in pursuit of a passionate affair with a man she hardly knows.
- Judyta is a middle-aged housewife whose peaceful life suddenly falls apart due to divorce. But soon she finds the strength to carry on fighting for her happiness, a place in the sun and love of her life.
- Despite turning 40 years old, engineer Stefan Karwowski's life, both professional and personal, is still full of challenges and surprises.
- The lives of a famous sexologist Olgierd Pasikonik and his avid reader Anna intertwine when she runs away from the altar following the advice from his press column.
- A country girl Kasia Solska is forced by her family to marry the man she finds unattractive. She secretly gets to university, escapes from her village to Warsaw and starts working as a babysitter there.
- The protagonist, Olga Sawicka, struggles with the demons of the past - traumatic experiences that prevent her from experiencing peace after her husband's death and start working on another novel. Looking for inspiration, he goes to a TV reportage. Zuza, one of the children in the orphanage, disappeared. Intrigued by the subject, the writer decides to visit the institution under the pretext of a copyright meeting. Her attention is drawn by Ewa - a sensitive girl persecuted by her peers, who does not know anything about her own past. To find out more about an intriguing teenager, Olga decides to ask a friendly policewoman, Justyna, for help. This triggers a real avalanche of accidents ... Sawicka finds herself in the middle of a crime mystery, which turns out to be as complicated as the ones she described in her books. Soon the writer will find out that the orphanage hides many dark secrets, and the pupils and educators are reluctant to reveal what is happening behind the closed doors of the institution. Meeting with Ewa will cause that Olga will become entangled in a deadly dangerous investigation related to the mystery from years ago...
- The script was written by Andrzej Zulawski and is his most contemporary story. It's about Poland and her people and is concerned with what is happening here and now. It tells the story of brothers, couples, and friends, all trying to find a place in contemporary Warsaw. Intellectuals, teachers, musicians, and painters, all barely making ends meet, but nevertheless intent on improving their country. The author was unable to make the film, but before his death he passed the script to his son, Xawery Zulawski. The story channels the unrest currently sweeping Poland and Europe. With its depiction of the groundswell of hatred and aggression on the streets and in the media, of people shouting to drown out one another's arguments, and of the virtual civil war bringing a divided society ever closer to its doom.
- A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she 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 secret can be concealed. Successive admirers arrive at the pre-war tenement where the women live, but Sabina is interested in none of them. One day, appearing out of nowhere, comes the charming, intelligent, and terribly good-looking Bronislaw. His presence will spark off a series of unexpected events revealing the darker side of the women's nature.
- Warsaw, 1968. Students are protesting against the unlawful expulsion of their colleagues from the university and in defense of the "Dziady" (Forefathers' Day) poster, directed by Kazimierz Dejmek, and staged at the National Theater. Hania and Janek are also among the protesting youth. Their families are on both sides of the March barricade. Young and madly in love with each other, like in Shakespeare's drama Romeo and Juliet, in a country overwhelmed by rebellion, they fight for their affection. Will their love survive? Will they be able to overcome the adversities that fate presents them?
- Fifteen-year-old Jurek is to spend his holidays at home, in Silesia. After returning from school, he does not find her mother or her things. His father tells him a story about his mother's sudden departure to a sanatorium. The boy does not really believe it. The boy has a bad feeling about his mother. He wants to talk to his father, learn the reasons for his mother's decision, but his father gives him vague explanations. Jurek goes to Warsaw, to his mother's sister, and there he finds the bitter truth.
- An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
- A magic oak tree is struck by lightning and distributed around the country. It is turned into a range of different, magically powered objects waiting to be used by whoever comes across them.
- Karol has everything. He has three mistresses in addition to the bride. He is charming, loves sex and seduces women in the blink of an eye. He's also well aware of what women want and uses it for his own benefits.
- The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.
- A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agata falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.
- A film about a film being made by a group of young directors. Story is divided into three parts. The first follows Anka, a girl from a working- class family. She finishes school, plans to attend screen tests, and has her first love affair during the summer holidays. Her experience with a boy who wants to pass her to his buddy leaves an emotional scar. In the second segment the film follows Pawel, who leaves the children's home and wants to become a theatre actor. He joins a provincial amateur production where he has an affair with a married woman, the wife of his employer. In the final piece the two are found at the screen tests. They make to the final list and have an affair together. During the last screen test they are asked to improvise a scene, and Anka repeats exchanged between them the night before. That angers Pawel and he leaves.
- Ricky is an escapee from a reform school. Julian escaped the anger of a voluntarily fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. They team together in Warsaw. In search for food they break into a villa and Ricky discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They decide to go on a rampage through the city.
- 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.
- The duel between a criminal on the run and a cop who put him behind the bars the first time around.
- Baby Blues is a vintage fashion blog about loneliness. It is about Natalia's baby-boy. His existence shows how easy it is to fulfill teenage needs today. Just like ordering something in a fast food. Like saying: something to love and fries to go. But most importantly it is a blog about egoism.
- Five buddies take part in a crazy bachelor party of one of them. Meanwhile, the bride and her female friends have a nice time with male strippers. The parties get totally wild and out of control.
- Acting abilities help a middle-aged married man to succeed both at work as a supply manager and at leisure as a playboy.
- Kasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia go back to university, but in return Kasia has to look after little Piotr as the docent is leaving for London where he has received a month-long study grant.
- A portrait of the Warsaw Central Railway Station, a flagship development of PZPR in the seventies.
- Disappointed with being a housewife and annoyed by her cheating husband, Maria decides to abandon her family, move to Warsaw and get a well-paid job.
- After a period of dictatorial rule, an imaginary country finds itself in the middle of learning democracy. A., a fervent supporter of this new freedom, finds himself threatened with death by members of the old regime.
- The film is a story of a young man coerced into undercover work for the police, in return for their dropping of charges against him. He is to befriend a leader of a gang of juvenile delinquents who plans big robbery of a jewelry store. The scheme works and the gang is caught in the act except the gang leader.
- Bozena and Piotr are young medical students planning to raise a family together, in spite of their differences. When the boy is caught cheating on his girlfriend, the situation is turned upside down overnight.
- An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is an other love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
- The respected lawyer discovers that his name is on the list of Gestapo informers.
- World War II as seen through the eyes of soldiers and ordinary people in German occupied Poland. It begins in September 1939 when young Ensign Niwinski is ordered to protect a mysterious transport; in four parts.
- How to make big money after the communism collapses in Poland.
- The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war. We can see it from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
- A 17 years young man, a story about child prostitution and pedophilia. The lives of two boys converge on the central train station in Warsaw, the day before Christmas. Senior - prostitute nicknamed "Luxury", and junior - beginner, a beggar child with a dog. A local taxi driver, the pimp i n the sex business, with teenagers, offers Luxury job pimp. Will the boy to exploit his younger friend, or help him escape the clutches of child prostitution ...?
- Troubled girl from the slums gets a job as a cleaner, finds a boyfriend and wants to turn on a new leaf. But life is not a bed of roses, especially for her.
- Twenty years old prostitute and drug addict, Jola, by chance meets Andrzej, a "railway station gay". They try to stay together, in spite of numerous diffculties. They both are carriers of the HIV virus. At the end of their travels they find themselves in the Red Palace - formerly the recreation centre for Party dignitaries, now a home for AIDS sufferers - which is run by father Jan. In the nearby small town aggression begins to grow again the unwanted guests; the house have been promised to the local people for housing purposes... The lives and fates of Jola, Andrzej, and father Jan become increasingly intertwined with one another...
- The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which takes her from Berlin to Romania via Vienna and Warsaw - about losing one's homeland and discovering oneself, about hope and responsibility.
- A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.