Deborah

Deborah 1995

5.00

In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.

1995

Balanga

Balanga 1993

4.00

One night, a teacher is murdered. A police investigation soon leads to the deceased's true nature and two unlikely suspects.

1993

Warszawa

Warszawa 2003

4.70

On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. They all have something to deal with, and their paths eventually intertwine.

2003

Inner Life

Inner Life 1987

4.60

The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out garbage, annoying neighbours, rides in elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell he imposes on himself.

1987

Passerby

Passerby 1984

6.00

The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentary newsreels and stage productions.

1984

Death of the Kidmaker

Death of the Kidmaker 1991

1

Januszek - the town's Casanova, returns from the army. Waiting for him at home is Blada, the mother of his future child, the daughter of the head of the local security service, who arranged for the candidate to be a son-in-law to shorten his military service. Januszek, who has had many women's hearts broken on his conscience, is not eager to get married.

1991

The House of Fools

The House of Fools 1985

5.70

The feature film debut of director Marek Koterski. Thirty-year-old Adaś Miauczyński visits his parents, which ends with his nervous breakdown.

1985

The School of Lovers

The School of Lovers 1988

3.00

A dramatic adaptation of Mozart's opera Così fan tutte. A man urges two bachelor friends to test their fiancées' fidelity.

1988

Private Town

Private Town 1994

5.30

A town near Warsaw. A group of teenagers rules one of the courtyards: Ali, Pawik, and Małgośka, the object of both boys' fascination. A few years later, these same young people form a typical youth gang. Ali and Pawik gather around them a group of peers who have been unable to find their place in society and want to live an easy life. Robberies and thefts are their idea of a comfortable existence. A few more years pass and the gang transforms into a mafia. After the 1989 elections, it enters into deals with politicians. It also gets into a conflict with Russian gangsters.

1994

Masquerade

Masquerade 1987

4.00

The well-known actor, Michael Barczewski, returns after a long break to the stage. He tells reporter the story of Jack Burda, a young promising actor who took his profession a bit too serious and played his own death...

1987

Dotknięci

Dotknięci 1989

1

Jan weds his mentally ill wife Joanna at her insistence, but her increasing dependence on sedatives, and the clandestine extra pills supplied by Jan, their son Piotr and Jan’s friend Maria, leads to Joanna’s fatal overdose. Accused of murder, Jan endures a trial, psychiatric evaluation and deep depression before the case is dropped; only after reconciling with his children does he finally leave the clinic to return home.

1989

Przystań

Przystań 1997

4.30

Karolina works in an elementary school in the province. She passively waits for a great love. Life seems empty and colorless to her. Karolina's friend Jola, who decides to take fate into her own hands, has a different attitude to reality. This does not always bring positive results. One day Karolina meets Jan, who has come to the town for a seminar of young capitalists. Soon Jan leaves the town, and Karolina goes to Warsaw to meet him.

1997

The Last Schoolbell

The Last Schoolbell 1989

7.40

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.

1989

Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs 1989

1

Based on Michał Choromański's novel. Young artist arrives at Zakopane and meets local people.

1989

Do domu

Do domu 1990

1

A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.

1990

I Love Cinema

I Love Cinema 1988

7.00

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.

1988

Miraculous Place

Miraculous Place 1994

7.20

A young, beautiful, ambitious, but professionally inexperienced priest Jakub comes to a small village. Even the initial contacts indicate that he finds himself in an environment that he not only does not know, but also does not understand.

1994

Kraj świata

Kraj świata 1994

1

The film does not have a linear plot or characters in the traditional sense. It consists of a sequence of episodes from everyday Polish life. Here the militia hunts down innocent passers-by, but election posters of the "Lech team" are already hanging on the walls. Barely have the limousines with wreaths left from under Dzerzhinsky's monument, and already the statue of the "great revolutionary" is hanging on a crane as if on a noose. There are still queues for everything and everyone dreams of getting "equally," and already Janusz Korwin-Mikke is proclaiming the end of socialist "unionism." The guides in this crazy and ironic world are two writers, commenting on the surrounding reality. The film is as much a satire on the era of "communism" as it is of "Solidarity." In place of the old stupidity comes a new one.

1994

Pułapka

Pułapka 1997

3.50

An actor returns to Poland after 12 very unsuccessful years in the United States only to find himself entangled in a noirish situation reminiscent of California in the 1940s.

1997

Postcard from a Journey

Postcard from a Journey 1984

5.50

A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced to work as a street cleaner. He knows what the fate is holding for him in the future, nevertheless he takes it with and implacable calmness.

1984