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- In an idyllic working class community, 13 year old Anka grows up, going through stages of adolescence, dreaming, first love and gossiping with girlfriends. Roughly disturbed by the shame and disgrace of alcoholism - leaves unwashable stains upon the community, that tries to cope with abuse and depression, and the system (including school teachers) who try to avoid the subject. This story was aimed at parents, to give them morally an insight into what happens when a young girl has to deal with the disgrace of an alcoholic father and a mentally instable mother. Very well acted by Grazyna Michalska as Anka. [translated from Polish by ALIPTES]
- When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.
- 12-year-old Edek visits his aunt on vacation. Along with his cousins, he meets the charming Monika. They fall for each other until Monika leaves Edka for a rich kid. Cousin Honorka, also in love with Edek, reveals Monika's secret.
- Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral. But first- they need to find his illegitimate daughter. Set in late 70's story of two, charming, Polish villagers' adventures in Chicago is a third intallment of Pawlak and Kargul adventures.
- One day in the life of an alcohol addict. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when she's at work, Kuba is home alone, and it becomes hard not to resist the temptation.
- Fourteen year old Polish boy Stas Tarkowski and eight year old Nel Rawlison from England are kidnapped as the hostages by Arabic fanatics and taken to their religion leader. Then they manage to escape and try to return to their fathers. Children have a lot of dangerous adventures, meet two Black kids; Kali and Mea, who also help them, make a friendship with an elephant and help one Black's tribe. Finally they manage to return. Based on great novel, the same title by Nobel receiver (for all his literary output) Henryk Sienkiewicz.
- Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighbouring farms.
- Karol is a newcomer to the class and instantly called "sissy". He makes himself disliked by correcting his classmates and eating sandwiches, while everybody else eats dry bread and onions. He tries to make friends with class bully called Balon, and eventually succeeds. The group uses him to steal lollipops and later for an assault on a small child. The victim's mother seeks out the responsible and Karol is identified. He eventually confesses to his mother and names his accomplices. Branded now as a "squealer" he is avoided by his former friends. During a concert Karol collapses and is carried off.
- "The Countess Cosel" is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia von Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704. Against the backdrop of life at Augustus' court the movie follows the arrival at Dresden of 24-year-old Anna Constantia von Brockdorff, who is an inordinately beautiful and scrupulously devout young married woman; her romance with the king and her "ten year reign" as his mistress - a role she consents to in the belief that she has won the king's love and commitment; and finally, her heartbreak, disillusion and struggle against him. The conflict between Anna and the king arises from the fact that Anna takes seriously not only the relationship, but the written promise of marriage which she manages to secure from him during their courtship. Neither the relationship nor the contract is held in much esteem by Augustus, who replaces her, as he has always done, with another mistress, as soon as she loses for him the charm of novelty. Her valiant refusal to return the marriage promissory note upon request enrages him and delivers her to her miserable fate.
- The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.
- The main characters are the same two quarreling pesant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.
- The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore and decides to steal from homes where he pays scheduled visits to lonely housewifes. The girl works a nurse but is too sensitive in extreme cases. Running parallel to their story is a metaphor involving a castaway on a junkyard, who tries every means possible to get rid of the dog which becomes attached to him. In the end he attaches sticks of dynamite to the dog, but he breaks loose and the explosion wipes them both.
- Ewa is so desperate to become a well-known journalist that she can sacrifice anything and anyone to achieve her goal.
- Detective thriller about a killer loose in the crowds. The film follows a sniper on his rounds looking for victims, while a police inspector, with few clues in his hand, has to figure out the motif for killings as well as who the psychopath is and where he might strike next. He uncovers that the mentally deranaged sniper can't stand seeing people happy together in public places.
- This story, told in flashback of a Russian woman sent to Auschwitz during WWII, and later separated from her son, is one of the first Soviet films to acknowledge the Nazi concentration camps.
- Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student uderground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
- Loosely based on a biography of a famous Polish singer from the 1930's, Hanka Ordonowna. It opens in the Egyptian desert during African campaign in World War II where Hanka's husband is with First Polish Army of General Anders. She is now a nurse working with children and reminisces on her former career.
- A single mother, blinded by the love for her trouble-making son Januszek, makes more and more sacrifices for him.
- Acting abilities help a middle-aged married man to succeed both at work as a supply manager and at leisure as a playboy.
- A Polish journalist, Maj, who collaborates with a Parisian economic magazine similar to the UN press agencies, finds a trace of the activities of the secret organization "W", established by Nazi criminals who remained at large. The activities of this organization boil down to sabotage, attempts to obtain weapons of mass destruction, murder or drug smuggling. After the first contact in Vienna and Budapest with the activities of the "W" organization, May continues its trail, discovering new connections and carefully prepared actions. The titles of individual episodes are the names of the cities around which the action described in a given episode focuses.
- During the cruel German occupation of Warsaw young boys join the resistance movement and soon take part in the upcoming uprising.
- A story of a young schoolboy who, with his classmates, has pledged to defend his country. In September of 1939 he goes to war on his own in the spirit of cadets during the insurrection of 1831. He is trying to protect his classmate, a 12-year old girl, in search of her mother during the war confusion.
- A historical film based on real events, it tells story of three scouts, Tadeusz Zawadzki "Zoska", Jan Bytnar "Rudy" and Maciej Dawidowski "Alek".
- A young country woman emigrates to Canada in order to help her beloved son buy a house in the city.
- Filip and Danka are soulmates. They have enough of their homes and school so they run away to live on an uninhabited island on the river. But one day girl's father comes and takes her back. Does that mean the end for them?
- A man kills an antique dealer during an attempted robbery. A shadowy figure, who seems to know everything about the man and his problems, suddenly appears. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- A fledgling surgeon comes to work in a small town hospital, where he gradually learns the specifics of the local community.
- Nazi-friendly authorities try to bring order to a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of inhabitants.
- In 1370, as he feels the end of his life is coming, one of Poland's greatest kings, Casimir the Great, reflects on his past. He looks back on the memories of his youth, when he was crowned after the death of his father Ladislaus the Short.
- Pensioner Wladyslaw Sypniewski needs to face an unusual task of taking the lives of unwanted kittens.
- Polish countryside, 1970s. Life of young Józek turns upside down after he wins substantial amount of money in the lottery.
- The gloomy life in a giant concrete block of flats, full of architectural defects, is a real nightmare for its inhabitants.
- An intimate drama taking place in a small house lost in the forest, inhabited by two people: a woman suffering from anxiety neurosis and persecution mania and a powerless husband against her terrible illness.
- A carter from Bieszczady Mountains is summoned to the local police station, where he has to tell about what had happened last Saturday.
- The first days in the so-called Recovered Lands abound in conflicts between the local Silesians and the immigrants. Former resistance fighter Captain Sowinski tries hard to reduce the tensions.
- The story is set in 1830s, shortly after the November Uprising in Poland. Julian, a young man with artistic interests, comes back home from abroad, where he studied history of art and anatomy. He wants to visit his father and meet his new wife, Katarzyna. Julian's mother died 6 years ago and although her husband promised her that he will never get married again, he broke this oath. The woman's ghost has not abandoned the house and is waiting for the punishment for her unfaithful spouse. It also influences Julian, who falls for his attractive stepmother. The doomed events constantly lead to a tragedy, which is about to happen...
- Three teenagers spend their holidays in Frombork and start their first relationships there.
- In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common and his old flame is married to another man.
- Epic about the Battle of Kolberg on the Eastern Front in 1945, where Polish soldiers united with the Soviet army to battle the Germans.
- The story of Ewelina Hanska's affair with Honoré de Balzak, which was happening in the nineteenth century.