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- During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
- Teenage girl Ada ends up in mysterious Kleks Academy where crossing to the world of fairy tales and reaching boundaries of imagination is possible. She also discovers a way to find out her most hidden family secret.
- The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
- Young journalist Julita Wójcicka investigates a TV celebrity's mysterious death she believes was a planned crime, not an accident. Each step closer to the truth puts her life at risk.
- The main character is the manager of a sport club, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a tournament - somebody has torn out a few pages from his passport. It occurs to him that perhaps his ex-wife has done so to get her hands on their joint account in a London bank. Therefore, he has to get to London as soon as possible in order to transfer the money to a different bank. The solution is a movie, made by his friend. The script requires a double role, thus the search for a character is announced. The double has to apply for the passport, and that is solved through a girlfriend who agrees to play dope's new fiancée. At the engagement party he is slipped a drug, and Teddy Bear runs off to the airport with the false passport. On the plane, however, he meets his ex-wife...
- The early career of cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa. Despite the harsh reality of 1980s Poland, he successfully leads a team of doctors to the country's first human heart transplantation.
- A government agent enlists his girlfriend to spy on a professor.
- In the start of the 1990s, the British government decided to send prisoners with short sentences to serve abroad. Some went to Romania, to serve in schools, orphanages, and hospitals. Some were brutal beasts.
- Story of youth during the German occupation of Poland in World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity.
- Polish film and music icon Kalina Jedrusik, a scandalous free-spirited sex symbol, fights for her independence in the prude society of the 1960s.
- Despite turning 40 years old, engineer Stefan Karwowski's life, both professional and personal, is still full of challenges and surprises.
- Franz Maurer is released after 25 years in prison and finds a completely changed Poland.
- A new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city's streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment. Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep.
- A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secret can be concealed. Successive admirers arrive at the pre-war tenement where the women live, but Sabina is interested in none of them. One day, appearing out of nowhere, comes the charming, intelligent, and terribly good-looking Bronislaw. His presence will spark off a series of unexpected events revealing the darker side of the women's nature.
- Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.
- An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
- Just as three high-school graduates get to the brink of adulthood, the outbreak of World War II destroys all their dreams and plans.
- After finding out her business partner and his fiance bet that she can't find love, an offbeat entrepreneur does what it takes to prove them wrong.
- Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France. Despite being tortured, they refuse to divulge their knowledge of the Enigma to the Germans.
- In the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
- A young resistance fighter tries to deal with the harsh reality of post-war Poland, where Communists have come to power.
- During a tour of a group of Israeli Jews of Polish origin, the bus in which Riwka is located breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz.
- The tumultuous life of General August Emil Fieldorf aka "Nil", who commanded the underground Home Army against the Nazis and was killed after WW2 by communists.
- Poland under Stalinist rule, 1953. A young nun Anna is brought to a prison where an influential priest is kept in. She discovers the priest is the man she loved a few years before. Communist authorities try to make her spy on him now.
- World War II as seen through the eyes of soldiers and ordinary people in German occupied Poland. It begins in September 1939 when young Ensign Niwinski is ordered to protect a mysterious transport; in four parts.
- The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which takes her from Berlin to Romania via Vienna and Warsaw - about losing one's homeland and discovering oneself, about hope and responsibility.
- A bourgeois married couple of 12 years are going through an existential crisis. Both spouses have lovers and their relationship seems to be falling apart.
- Young 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.
- Staszek Popiel is the star of the Polish cycling team. Unfortunately, he pays more attention to his own career than to team fights. The athlete hides his injury from his friends and, as a result, the Polish team does not do very well in an important race. As part of his strategy, the cyclist intends to damage the bike of his most dangerous rival, a Hungarian named Haranda.
- Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train hard to take part in the world championship.
- Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress.
- Charge into battle alongside Polish insurgents in one of many true stories from the Warsaw Uprising.
- Stefcia Rudecka starts working as a governess in an aristocratic house. Waldemar, the young heir, falls in love with her but his well-off family is not eager to accept the woman he loves.
- Between 5 and 7 August 1944, the Nazis killed in the Wola and burned about 60 000 people. Film is based on a series of interviews with contemporary witnesses to the will of those in prison camp in Pruszków archival materials and unique film tells the story of the nameless heroes of the uprising. In 1945, the ashes were collected from the streets of people murdered and burned in action at will. There were 12 tonnes.
- Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
- Jerzy Zamiejski is a locksmith in a suburban workshop and an amateur aviator. He builds makeshift planes, he has great ideas to revolutionize aviation, but he lacks the funds to implement them. By chance, she meets Tomasz Kotlica, a Pole who made his fortune in Brazil. He falls in love with his daughter, Janina, but leaves her as a result of an intrigue plotted by Witold. Witold envies Jerzy not only for Janina's favor, but also for his talent in the field of aviation. Thanks to Kotlica's help, Jerzy graduates from the aviation school and the polytechnic. Kotlica urges influential Brazilian Poles to set up a transport company and launch a Poland-Brazil airline. He employs Jerzy as an aircraft designer and constructor. Soon, Jerzy sets off on his first test flight from Warsaw to Rio de Janeiro. On the eve of his departure, Janina visits him and the young people gather again. During the flight, the radio and the entire navigation system break down. The reason turns out to be an oversight by Witold, who also worked on the construction of the plane. The world is convinced of the tragedy - the plane did not arrive on time and probably ran out of fuel. Tormented by remorse, Witold commits suicide. However, Jerzy manages to reach his destination. Polish businessmen in Rio establish a Polish-Brazilian partnership, and Jerzy returns to Janina.
- When renowned revolutionary Ludwik Warynski is visited in his prison cell by a Tsarist general, he starts reminiscing his tumultuous past.
- The documentary director's reminiscences of his past protagonists, themes and inspirations as well as meetings with old friends and colleagues.
- Documentary about the lives of three generations of residents of Warsaw's Wola district.