Movies

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the...

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold...

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks,...

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the...

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of...

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.

Film about a young man, who wants to become an actor. His rural upbringing is not helpful in achieving his goal, but he overcomes defeat and...

Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered...

Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home. But instead of his village, he...

A factory foreman discovers (to his discontent) that his housewife secretly takes driving lessons in order to get a job and send their son to...

Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various...

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and...

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.

Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.

Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her...

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...