Ashes and Diamonds (1958), A Short Film About Killing (1988), Kanal (1957), No End (1985), The Night of the Generals (1967), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Landscape After the Battle (1970), In Our Time (1944) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Warsaw, Poland movies.
Storyline: A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
Plot Keywords: assassin, soldier, commanding officer, barmaid, son, hotel desk clerk, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young lawyer (Krzysztof Globisz) in Warsaw represents a drifter (Mirosław Baka) who killed a malicious cabdriver (Jan Tesarz).
Plot Keywords: troubled youth, taxi driver, defense attorney, girl, wife, judge, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A symbolic depiction of hell on Earth, set in the last days of the Warsaw uprising in 1944. Lieutenant Zadra is commanding a company of 43 men in a desperate battle amidst the ruins. Facing German offense and cut off from their comrades, Zadra is commanded to retreat his men through the sewer system ('kanal'). Zadra and his men are reluctant to do so, as it would indicate that they have lost the battle, but decide to obey the orders. However, as the men (and women) retreat, it becomes clear that their desperate attempt to flee from the hell of battle will result only in more death and suffering...—Heka A.
Plot Keywords: resistance fighter, nazi, soldier, bleak, chilling, dark, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself in her work, in her relationship with her son, in sex, and in hypnosis. In a subplot, Ulla refers the wife of one of her husband's clients - Darek, a jailed Solidarity strike organizer - to Labrador, a world-weary, aging attorney, who works to free Darek by various political manipulations and psychological ploys.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, son, political prisoner, lawyer, activist, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1942 Warsaw, a Polish prostitute is murdered in a sadistic way. Major Grau (Omar Sharif), an Agent from German Intelligence who believes in justice, is in charge of the investigation. An eyewitness saw a German General leaving the building after a scream of the victim. A further investigation shows that three Generals do not have any alibi for that night: General Tanz (Peter O'Toole), Major General Klaus Kahlenberge (Donald Pleasence), and General von Seidlitz-Gabler (Charles Gray). The three avoid direct contact with Major Grau and become potential suspects. As Major Grau gets close to them, he is promoted and sent to Paris. In 1944 Paris, this quartet is reunited, and Major Grau continues his investigation. Meanwhile, a plan for killing Adolf Hitler is plotted by his high command, a romance between Ulrike von Seidlitz-Gabler (Joanna Pettet) and Lance Corporal Kurt Hartmann (Sir Tom Courtenay) is happening and Inspector Morand (Philippe Noiret) is helping Major Grau in his investigation. The story ends in 1965, in Hamburg, with another, similar crime.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: major, general, prostitute, nazi, adolf hitler, thrilling, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, pilot, secret agent, tailor, nazi collaborator, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.—Polish Cinema Database <http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>
Plot Keywords: poet, young woman, survivor, soldier, angry young man, jew, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: aristocrat, count, american, wife, antique dealer, rousing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
Plot Keywords: soldier, touching, sultry, tense, shocking, powerful, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto. Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from "his secret radio." Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. A rather uplifting and slightly humorous film about World War II Jewish Ghetto life.
Plot Keywords: jew, nazi, shop owner, little girl, friend, prisoner, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the midst of World War II, Polish musician Stefan (Anton Walbrook) meets American journalist Carole (Sally Gray) as the Nazis are marching into Poland. Though both are forced to flee the Germans, they fall in love and, after leaving Eastern Europe, get married. Although marriage and a life as a musician bring Stefan joy, he is unable to forget his commitment to his country, and is compelled to return to the fighting, despite Carole's fears and concerns.
Plot Keywords: pianist, reporter, soldier, manager, emotional, rousing, warsaw, poland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the brutal Warsaw uprising in 1944.
Plot Keywords: soldier, touching, sultry, tense, shocking, powerful, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kate, an American at a Parisian boarding school, faces the moral and ethical choices of adulthood. Looking over the wall of her school, she becomes fascinated with a sculptor next door, and she begins a flirtation. Although he needs little encouragement, his mistress urges him to seduce the lass and contrives to leave the two together. The same week this cat-and-mouse game begins, Kate witnesses an early morning hit and run road accident in which a soldier is killed. She doesn't see the car's driver, whom we know to be the sculptor, but the car is distinctive. What will she do when she finds out he was the driver? Will she call off the affair and call in the cops?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: single mother, lover, mistress, father, teen boy, girlfriend, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, Rabbi Adam Heller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and his family struggle to remain safe and sane. His headstrong son, Paul (Don McKellar), chafes against the humiliations he must endure, but the rabbi cautions him against exploding into violence. Tensions come to a head when the rabbi's daughter, Rachel (Elina Lowensohn), is raped by a Nazi officer. Yet out of this act of violence comes a ray of hope when a soldier comes forward and offers to help her escape.
Plot Keywords: jew, rabbi, son, daughter, nazi, tense, rousing ...
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