A Short Film About Love (1988), Ashes and Diamonds (1958), A Short Film About Killing (1988), Kanal (1957), The Double Life of Véronique (1991), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), Knife in the Water (1962), Man of Iron (1981) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Polish Cinema movies.
Storyline: A postal worker (Olaf Lubaszenko) in love with his neighbor (Grażyna Szapołowska) spies on her through a telescope, holds her mail, and makes anonymous phone calls.
Plot Keywords: love, polish cinema, moral dilemma, loneliness, desire, human relationships, psychological drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
Plot Keywords: war, polish cinema, world war ii, film noir, politics, moral dilemma, historical drama ...
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: crime, moral dilemma, violence, social critique, polish cinema, law, murder ...
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: war, world war ii, poland, underground, survival, tragedy, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, fantasy, mystery, art, female, destiny ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the 17th century. A convent in a small town is being visited by high-ranking Catholic official trying to exorcise the nun supposedly posessed by demons. A local priest have been burnt for creating this condition by sexual temptation of the nuns, especially the Mother superior who bring on the collective hysteria of the group. There is another young priest who is to help with the exorcism. His first meeting with the convent head, Mother Joanne of the Angels, has her seemingly posessed by Satan - she yells blasphemies and incites the priest. She begs the priest to save her and to help her to be a saint.—Polish Cinema Database <http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/>
Plot Keywords: religion, exorcism, history, polish cinema, black and white, psychological drama, faith ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Well off Andrzej and Krystyna's marriage is at a stage where familiarity breeds contempt, that contempt which is outwardly shown only behind closed doors and only when an incident of some sort sets off one or the other. While driving through the countryside on a Sunday on their way to the lake to embark on an overnight sailing excursion, they almost run over a young male hitchhiker. Despite the antagonism between Andrzej and the hitchhiker, Andrzej offers him a ride as far as the marina. By the time they reach the lake, their antagonism has dissipated enough that Andrzej asks if he would like to join them on their sailing trip. The hitchhiker accepts despite knowing nothing about sailing. As the sailing trip progresses, the antagonism between the two men begins to increase again, fueled on both sides as each strives to be the alpha male. Andrzej needs to show his superiority, while the hitchhiker needs to show that his young age and inexperience, not only with sailing but with life in...
Plot Keywords: thriller, psychological, marriage, love triangle, suspense, polish cinema, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: history, politics, working class, solidarity, poland, biography, social movement ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After fun-loving Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant, which leads to his status as a national hero and martyr.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, social satire, polish cinema, independent film, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: IN DARKNESS tells the true story of Leopold Socha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the German-occupied town of Lvov (former Poland).—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: world war ii, nazis, jews, underground, hiding, survival, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1668 the Ottoman Empire decides to attack and invade the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which is one of the few major European powers to still stand in the destructive path of the Ottomans.Having recently retired to a monastery,Polish Colonel Michael Wolodyjowski is no longer in active duty.However,the Polish king,Jan Sobieski knows that Colonel Wolodyjowski is an able commander and sends for him,recalling him to active duty.Joining his old comrades in arms,including the English noble Ketling Hassling of Elgin, Colonel Wolodyjowski takes command of the Polish defenses on the Eastern Frontier.He prepares for the arrival of the invading Ottoman armies and Tatar Hordes and waits.The fate of Christian Europe lies in his hands.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: historical, war, action, adventure, drama, novel adaptation, epic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin. (Berber died of tuberculosis in 1928, having achieved significant success and recognition throughout the dance world.) Frau Kutowski is placed in a mental hospital, where in her own mind she acts out Berber's final days, including in her fantasies the hospital's staff and patients, to represent Anita's friends and associates. She relives the adventures, scandals, triumphs, trials and tribulations of Anita Berber, and finally merges her own real existence with that of her imagination, until fantasy actually becomes reality. The film makes use of both color (Expressionist style) and black & white (documentary style) to draw the line between fantasy and reality, respectively. Watch how this line is crossed over!—Jeff <Jeff32262@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: erotic, dance, drama, art, independent film, 1980s, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zajac, a social media celebrity surrounded by loyal employees and admirers, who is really looking for true intimacy.
Plot Keywords: dance, social media, mental health, loneliness, modern life, polish cinema, documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Polish cavalryman (Borys Szyc) is called away on the day of his wedding to a vaudeville singer (Natasza Urbanska) to defend Ukraine from expansionist Russians.
Plot Keywords: war, history, poland, soviet union, independence, battle, military ...
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