Hands Up!

Hands Up! 1985

5.80

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

1985

A Cure for Love

A Cure for Love 1966

7.39

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.

1966

Walkover

Walkover 1965

6.10

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.

1965

Back to Life Again

Back to Life Again 1965

5.00

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.

1965

The Sun Rises Once a Day

The Sun Rises Once a Day 1972

5.50

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.

1972

Wiano

Wiano 1964

1

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

1964

Jowita

Jowita 1967

6.80

Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed with her, even when he finds seemingly true love in Agnieszka.

1967

Mansarda

Mansarda 1963

1

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

1963

Ewa Wants to Sleep

Ewa Wants to Sleep 1958

6.80

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.

1958

More Than Life At Stake Part One

More Than Life At Stake Part One 1969

1

The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3. In 1941, Polish soldier Stanisław Kolicki escapes German captivity only to be mistaken for the dashing Abwehr lieutenant Hans Kloss and recruited by the Soviets as their secret agent J-23. Under deep cover behind enemy lines, he feeds crucial intelligence to the Red Army while outwitting suspicions and dueling wits with the formidable SS officer Hermann Brunner.

1969

Skinny and Others

Skinny and Others 1967

6.80

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

1967

Rendes-Vous with a Spy

Rendes-Vous with a Spy 1964

6.00

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.

1964

Land

Land 1957

5.00

Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the cooperative and are trying to grow their own land. But it is very difficult - the unemployed mercenaries who paid for them run to cooperatives (where they have better conditions), the environment or the local authorities do not accept him as a kulak. Struggling with the problem of how to make a 40-hectare farm last, he remains alone in the face of a loss of land that he cannot cultivate.

1957