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74
56
7.5
/2734/
74
/90/
77
/71/
3.6
/2164/

Man - Woman Wanted (1973)
Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he takes jobs as a maid for a variety of colorful characters.
poster
73
44
7.5
/2090/
74
/77/
73
/46/
3.5
/1037/

What Will You Do When You Catch Me? (1978)
Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.
poster
67
15
7.3
/473/
66
/8/
59
/14/
3.6
/558/

Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)
Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation.
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10
/1/

Michał (1984)
Michał is among the soldiers quartered in a village near Lublin. By accident, he goes to the palace and visits the magnificent building, where he meets a widow Maria. Meanwhile, local peasants do not want to wait for the start of land reform. They appoint their own committee and want to deal with the division of property themselves.
poster
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10
/1/

Makbet (1969)
A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained popularity in the series "Pan Wołodyjowski". This perverse use of the artists' images by the director was intended to serve an interpretation of the tragedy that emphasizes Shakespeare's question: where does evil in man come from?
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6.6
/27/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Far Is the Road (1963)
After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
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5.1
/10/
10
/1/

Rodzina Milcarków (1962)
The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.
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6.0
/27/
10
/1/

Morning Stars (1980)
A Soviet tank breaks through the front line during the January 1945 offensive.
poster
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4.9
/16/

Zerwane cumy (1979)
Psychological drama; a retired sailor, after 40 years of absence, returns to his native village to spend the rest of his life there. After forty years of work at sea, Petty Officer Ignacy Krzeminski returns to his home village in the Suwałki region. The meeting with his former beloved, now a widow with four children, ends in a fiasco, nothing connects them anymore. Also coming into contact with relatives and former acquaintances make Ignacy realize that he is a stranger here.
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5.8
/14/
90
/1/

Tell-Tale Hearts (1972)
The sight of a wounded neighbor causes anxiety in a young man.
poster
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5.7
/45/
25
/2/

Barwy walki (1964)
Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.
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5.6
/12/
10
/1/

Obok prawdy (1965)
After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.
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3.8
/16/

W chłopskie ręce (1947)
Preparations for a rural folk festival. The shop manager, GS Patyk, quietly resells the goods to a private shopkeeper.
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6.5
/23/

Jeśli serce masz bijące (1981)
A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.
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5.9
/14/
10
/1/

Między brzegami (1963)
A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself.
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6.7
/25/
10
/1/

Trzy kobiety (1957)
Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
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6.5
/102/
42
/4/
63
/3/

Cooked Doves (1966)
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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5.9
/18/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Śpiewy po rosie (1982)
A portrait of a small, contemporary village, shaken by the return of one of its residents from prison. Zdzich returns from prison to a small village on the edge of the Augustów Primeval Forest. He was accused of shooting a militiaman and, despite the clear bias of the witnesses, he was convicted. Now the locals fear that his return will bring revenge for the false accusations. Zdzich hides in the forest. One day, he meets Romanek, the son of Jadźka, whose honor he once defended in a fight with others. Romanek cannot answer who his father is. Their meetings become more frequent and turn into friendship. Zdzich decides to come out of hiding and makes a show of attending church. He proposes to Jadźka and is accepted. He also explains the circumstances of his arrest to the locals. The next day, the forester is killed by a mysterious bullet. Zdzich was the last person seen with him. This causes unrest in the village.
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6.7
/54/
10
/1/
82
/3/

Childish Questions (1981)
A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
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4.9
/27/
10
/1/
40
/1/

Five and Half of Pale Joe (2025)
A young journalist from Warsaw goes to a small town of Kamienica to prepare a report on a motorcycle gang.
poster
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7.7
/95/
50
/2/
50
/1/

Passion (1978)
The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising, determined to fight for the unification of Polish lands and the liberation of the peasants, negotiates with other politicians.
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5.2
/21/
10
/1/

When Love Was a Crime (1968)
A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
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66
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7.1
/261/
70
/6/
58
/6/

The Gorgon Case (1977)
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
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70
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7.4
/628/
65
/16/
71
/9/
3.6
/369/

Nights and Days (1975)
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
poster
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6.9
/36/
60
/1/
20
/1/

Roman and Magda (1979)
A moral action drama showing a crisis and breakup of a married couple from the perspective of the both spouses, Roman and Magda. Through flashbacks the film reveals a shocking study of the disintegration of the relationship between two adult people and their gradual dehumanization.
poster
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6.2
/50/
10
/1/
60
/3/

Zemsta (1957)
Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry.
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61
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6.7
/131/
52
/4/
64
/9/

The First Day of Freedom (1964)
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.
poster
67
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6.8
/289/
67
/7/
67
/8/

Akcja pod Arsenałem (1977)
In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage scouts Alek, Rudy, and Zośka risk their lives pulling down a swastika and hoisting the Polish flag atop the German “Zachęta” cultural center and then blowing up a mobile propaganda cinema.
poster
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6.5
/42/
30
/2/

Koty to dranie (1978)
Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.
poster
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5.7
/35/
30
/3/
50
/2/

Zabawa w chowanego (1984)
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poster
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10
/1/

Podhale w ogniu (1956)
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65
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7.0
/594/
56
/16/
68
/9/
3.5
/283/

Westerplatte Resists (1967)
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
poster
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6.0
/41/
10
/1/
57
/3/

A Slip-Up (1972)
The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors...
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66
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7.3
/331/
63
/6/
58
/9/
3.6
/368/

Quiet Is the Night (1978)
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
poster
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5.4
/36/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Wounded in the Forest (1964)
While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.
poster
52
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6.5
/122/
40
/1/
50
/1/

The Leaves Have Fallen (1975)
Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.
poster
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6.3
/18/
10
/1/

Na odsiecz Wiedniowi (1983)
Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.
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62
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7.3
/341/
55
/9/
62
/6/

The Mother of the Kings (1987)
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
poster
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6.1
/10/
10
/1/
55
/2/

Mężczyźni na wyspie (1962)
Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman.
poster
63
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6.8
/245/
55
/6/
62
/8/
3.5
/225/

Shadow (1956)
A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
poster
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5.4
/34/
10
/1/

The Warsaw Debut (1951)
Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
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47
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6.4
/123/
40
/3/
47
/5/

Nikodem Dyzma (1956)
Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.


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