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- DirectorGreg ZglinskiStarsRobert WieckiewiczLukasz SimlatGabriela MuskalaAlfred and Jerzy take part in a brutal incident: during a train ride, a couple of hooligans harass a young woman. Jerzy stands in her defense. Alfred hesitates and becomes a helpless bystander as his younger brother is thrown off the moving train. 'Courage' is about people whose lives get disturbed by a violent act, which forces them to reveal who they really are.
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsWieslaw MichnikowskiJerzy StuhrOlgierd LukaszewiczTwo scientists are placed into a 3-year hibernation, but when they wake up, it turns out to have been 50 years, and they are the only two males in a new underground society composed exclusively of women.
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsCezary PazuraMalgorzata KozuchowskaJerzy StuhrAn innocent cab driver Jurek Kiler is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs "Killer" for a few more jobs.
- DirectorMarek KoterskiStarsMarek KondratJanina TraczykównaAndrzej Grabowski24 hours in the bitter life of a frustrated divorced teacher who stays in the vicious circle of his numerous obsessions.
- DirectorJan Kidawa-BlonskiStarsTomasz KotJolanta FraszynskaMaciej BalcarThe life of Ryszard Riedel, former leader of cult Polish rock-blues band Dzem, including the history of his family relationships, music career and addiction to alcohol and drugs.
- DirectorRadoslaw PiwowarskiStarsMalgorzata PiorunMonika BollyRobert KowalskiYoung people in Poland of the late 1960s have to face life-changing dilemmas and make tough choices. Some of them are forced to leave their country for having Jewish origins. Others are persecuted for political reasons.
- DirectorOlaf LubaszenkoStarsMaciej StuhrCezary PazuraMichal MilowiczA satirical look at the gangsters of Poland and some teens who accidentally get involved with them.
- DirectorWojciech SmarzowskiStarsMarcin DorocinskiAgata KuleszaMalwina BussRose, a German widow, hides from Russian soldiers who like to rape women and fights off Polish refugees who will steal everything she has. She gets help when Tadeusz, a former Polish officer, arrives looking to hide from his past.
- DirectorWladyslaw PasikowskiStarsBoguslaw LindaMarek KondratCezary PazuraIn the good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from the secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to a new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz will soon find out that some of his friends are on the other side.
- DirectorMaciej SlesickiStarsBoguslaw LindaDorota SegdaOla MaliszewskaA father, who is in the middle of a brutal custody battle with his mentally ill wife, fights relentlessly for the right to take care of his 7-year-old daughter.
- DirectorWladyslaw PasikowskiStarsBoguslaw LindaCezary PazuraArtur ZmijewskiFranz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by the New, his fellow-policeman. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. Wolf and William, two high rank officers, come to Poland in order to organize a network selling and smuggling arms to Yugoslavia by way of Albania. They seek experienced and loyal partners. Franz is not only amenable to the scheme, but he even draws his former partner into the deal. However, security agents are circling them like buzzards...
- DirectorKonrad NiewolskiStarsArkadiusz DetmerAndrzej ChyraJanusz BukowskiA man falsely accused of assaulting an old woman tries to adapt to his new life in prison.
- DirectorRyszard ZatorskiStarsDanuta StenkaJoanna BrodzikJan FryczJudyta is a middle-aged housewife whose peaceful life suddenly falls apart due to divorce. But soon she finds the strength to carry on fighting for her happiness, a place in the sun and love of her life.
- DirectorLech MajewskiStarsKrzysztof SiwczykDominika OstalowskaAndrzej MastalerzEpisodes from the last few years in the life of iconic Silesian poet Rafal Wojaczek. His provocative and scandalous life as well as tragic premature death made him a true literary legend.
- DirectorMarek KoterskiStarsAdam WoronowiczRobert WieckiewiczMalgorzata BogdanskaTwo middle-aged male friends are travelling together by car and expressing their thoughts and emotions connected with women.
- DirectorKatarzyna RoslaniecStarsAnna KarczmarczykDagmara KrasowskaDominika GwitShopping malls are today's places of creating desires with the best jewelry, clothes and shoes. Unaffordable to young girls who decide to "work" to get themselves sponsors for new items.
- DirectorKonrad NiewolskiStarsBorys SzycAndrzej AndrzejewskiTomasz BorkowskiThe film is a set of many popular jokes, and also a story of three friends - Adi, Pele and Chemik, who experience many adventures.
- DirectorRoman ZaluskiStarsGrazyna Blecka-KolskaDariusz SiatkowskiKatarzyna LaniewskaKasia and Pawel, having got married, live in the village of Brzozki, 10 kilometres from Grabow. Kasia wants to return to her pedagogical studies, so she does not want to have children yet. Pawel announces that he wants to break away from the traditional village farm and focus on specialised sheep breeding, which causes a family argument. Kasia's parents anxiously await the birth of their grandchildren. Things get even more complicated when the Wolanskis arrive in Grabow. They offer to help Kasia go back to university, but in return Kasia has to look after little Piotr as the docent is leaving for London where he has received a month-long study grant.
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsMarek KondratStanislawa CelinskaSylwester MaciejewskiThe story follows Tomasz Adamczyk the businessman who decides to leave the industry..
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsRobert WieckiewiczJózef PaleczkaBorys SzycAfter several years of serving his sentence, Cuma - a notorious art thief is released from prison due to his poor health. It was all arranged by dealer Gruby who plans a heist of the famous 'Lady with an Ermine' by Leonardo da Vinci. Cuma is contracted to steal the painting. He invites his former partner Julian to join the team, not knowing that his best friend is now a policeman and will do anything to prevent the heist. Julian seeks cooperation with an old forger Hagen and a beautiful young art student Magda.
- DirectorJaroslaw SypniewskiJacek FilipiakMichal GazdaStarsPawel MalaszynskiRobert WieckiewiczMalgorzata ForemniakAn investigate crime reporter meets at a hotel for a taped interview with a big time gangster who has turned state's witness and says that he's started a new, legitimate life. What the gangster doesn't know is that a bomb that he planted to kill a fellow gangster accidentally killed the reporter's pregnant wife years ago, and the reporter isn't about to reveal this to the gangster until the time is right.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsRobert WieckiewiczBenno FürmannAgnieszka GrochowskaA dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
- DirectorRoman ZaluskiStarsGrazyna Blecka-KolskaEwa KasprzykZdzislaw WardejnA country girl Kasia Solska is forced by her family to marry the man she finds unattractive. She secretly gets to university, escapes from her village to Warsaw and starts working as a babysitter there.
- DirectorPatryk VegaStarsOlga BoladzAgnieszka DygantKatarzyna Warnke"Botoks" is intended to be a record of the authentic history of strong, determined, and expressive physicians who struggle with life's decisions and problems: discrimination, maternity pressures, the pursuit of youth, the fight for the right to free choice, and their own views.
- DirectorWojciech SmarzowskiStarsArkadiusz JakubikMarian DziedzielKinga PreisA zootechnician visits a remote farm, developing relationships with tragic consequences, and 1982 during Martial Law, as investigators reconstruct the 1978 crime scene to solve a multiple murder case involving the zootechnician.
- StarsRyan HurstNatalia RybickaLeslaw ZurekSoap drama about the lives of Poles who settle in the UK capital of London.
- DirectorJuliusz MachulskiStarsCezary PazuraMalgorzata KozuchowskaJanusz RewinskiJurek Kiler (see the prequel to this movie, "Kiler") has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, and stuff. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jurek Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations, and problems in his love life...
- DirectorJacek BromskiStarsPiotr MachalicaJoanna TrzepiecinskaAnna RomantowskaThe lives of a famous sexologist Olgierd Pasikonik and his avid reader Anna intertwine when she runs away from the altar following the advice from his press column.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsStanislaw LatalloMonika Dzienisiewicz-OlbrychskaMalgorzata PritulakTabloid life of a physicist; his work, his love life and his quest for the meaning beyond.
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanStarsDaniel OlbrychskiMalgorzata BraunekTadeusz LomnickiDuring the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
- The oldest existent Polish film deals with the forced Germanisation of western Polish regions and the school protest in Wrzesnia with its harsh repercussions.
- DirectorAndrzej Trzos-RastawieckiStarsMieczyslaw HryniewiczWaclaw RadeckiJerzy BonczakTwo young men from a town near Lodz attack and rob a taxi driver, hoping he will have a lot of cash. Wanted by the Militia, they run away through Poland.
- DirectorJerzy KawalerowiczStarsPavel DelongMagdalena MielcarzBoguslaw LindaMarcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her bodyguard, catches Marcus. After that, Lygia falls in love, but Marcus must go to meet Nero. After the meeting somebody told Marcus that Nero burnt Rome. Marcus decides to go back to Rome and find Lygia.
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanStarsIzabella ScorupcoMichal ZebrowskiAleksandr DomogarovAn epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.