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A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.
Sep 2010
A 19-year-old criminal, Tommy, is kidnapped and forced into a rehabilitation process by a dysfunctional couple, Chris and Kathryn, who try to make him a "good boy." Tommy must find a way to escape.
Mar 2026
A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Sep 2011
A mysterious car accident changes Maciek's life completely. His wife Janina dies in the incident. Most likely, the woman committed suicide. However, Maciej has no idea why the accident happened near Mragowo, since Janina said she was going on a business trip to Krakow. She made a mistake? Or was she lying? A distraught man embarks on a journey to solve the mystery of her death. Soon he finds himself on the trail of a certain Wojnar - an actor whom he suspects of having an affair with his late wife. From that moment, questions begin to multiply, and the tragedy turns into a complicated mystery. Maciej comes to the conclusion that perhaps he did not know the woman he married at all.
Mar 2023
A single mobile phone links disparate lives as mishaps take it from a tabloid journalist, to a rehab facility, a war veteran — and beyond.
Nov 2009
Two broken, police, destruction of property by arson with an explosive charge, stealing a car. Not bad for one night! Such is the balance of Alex's eighteenth birthday - the main hero of the film.
Aug 1999
A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.
Sep 2006
Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an amateur camera. The thief turns out to Benedict Weber, gallery owner and art connoisseur. Francis comes to his gallery. Blackmails him, that will provide police record, unless the image in three days back in place.
Sep 2007
The story of a WWII tragedy in a Polish village mixed with the story of a wedding taking place in the same place 80 years later. A bitter look at a xenophobic community that forgets its own history.
Oct 2021
Whizzy is a little mouse, Whitebelly is a fox. They are naturally mortal enemies. One day, after an unfortunate accident, both meet in animal heaven. Together, they will embark on a fantastic journey and discover friendship can overcome everything.
Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner - they decide to take revenge. Preparations take many months, but the action ends differently than it was planned.
Aug 1997
Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.
Oct 2023
Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Franz Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna.
Sep 2025
Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a very risky trick.
Oct 2007
Monday 1978. Little Szymon, playing with his friends, becomes the perpetrator of a car accident in which the parents of a little girl, Magda, die. She herself comes out of the catastrophe unscathed. This event has an indelible mark on the boy's psyche. Twenty years pass. Szymon is a railwayman, Magda works at a cosmetics company. She doesn't remember anything about her childhood, and her life passes between work and disco. Her granddaughter Ola is looked after by her grandmother. During one of the crazy games, a young woman meets Szymon. This is not an accidental meeting, because the man - tormented by guilt - has long tried to find out something about her. Magda initially rejects Szymon's courtship. Over time, however, the mysterious admirer begins to fascinate her.
Oct 2001
The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha, along with her daughter Eugenia. The legend associated with the monastery bode revelation in him a saint in the near future. Despite initial reluctance, Natasha starts the maintenance of the image stored there. The secrets of the monastery are unraveled: the unhappy lovers bodies placed in the catacombs, the secret elixir of love, created with the smell of the monks.
Jun 2006
Adam Horn, a young Polish scientist, is conducting research to discover a substance that makes personality swapping possible. Appearing before a committee granting funds for further research, he presents a somewhat "stilted" achievement, demonstrating on his experimental pet the personality swap of a dog with a goat Matilda. The fame of his research reaches the former KGB, which sends him an agent committed to intercepting the research results.
Mar 2000
A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for someone to fix it. The constant presence of a stranger invades the couple's idea of safety and starts a chain of events, which makes them act instinctively and irrationally, heading to the darkest place in their relationship.
Aug 2022
When the ex-racing driver's teenage daughter is brutally raped, her father seeks justice on his own.
Sep 1999
A picture of the broken world at the end of the century. A couple of contemporary young Polish intellectuals, artistic souls. They are sensitive beyond mediocrity, hence the daily hustle and bustle is not an excuse for them to live: they want to give it a meaning and shape of their own choosing. They search for their "roots", only to find out once again that, apart from natural tenderness, they have nothing in common with their families. There is no question of rebellion, of generational strife. Today's 30-year-olds face only technical, not sentimental, obstacles; childhood memories of parents not seen every day sink in, the image of a child living apart indifferently.
Nov 2001