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Browse 24 movies from Skorpion Art
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
Young man frustrated with his life and pointless job becomes one of the suspects in serial killer investigation, but he suspects someone else...
Apr 1995
Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.
Dec 1993
In the wilderness amongst industrial debris lives a boy Kid. All round Kids house there is a vast, ruined plant covered with wild growth. Boys father was killed in a mine accident so Kid lives alone with his mother. There are rumors that a hyena settled in the bushes close to boys house. The beast is carnivorous and attacks people. Each time Kid goes to school he must overcome terrible fear. Whats more people started to disappear in the neighborhood. Kid suspects that mysterious, hiding man has something to do with it.
Jul 2007
A story about the life of a woman, two men of her life and her son, Janek Garbus, seen through the eyes of the latter - "conceived by an NKVD uncle on the night after the Soviet army entered".
Apr 1994
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Mar 2002
Bogus Kowalski is such a radical 17-year-old rebel that he even decides to have a "F*ck Off" tattoo on his forehead. His anger and frustration cannot be diminished by anyone, including his mother, Polish teacher and priest.
May 2010
Agatha is reaching her 40s, but despite her many romances she has not started a family. She lives as if everything could still happen. She works at Polish Radio, has published several volumes of poetry and is still ready to meet a great love. Boris, whom she met at the wedding of her young friend Sabina, is an architect, has a wife and two sons. He has never cheated on his wife and tries to be a good husband and father.
Jan 1996
A film based on real events about the art of passing, goodness and mercy... The titular Little Brother is based on Alojzy Kosiba, "Alojzeczek" - a fundraiser and almoner who lived in the years 1855-1939. A monk approaching the end of his days wants to save a young boy's life before his earthly farewell.
Apr 2007
A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her dead body and bringing back memories from their past.
Nov 1996
A look at the 1990s generation of cynical and selfish young Varsovians who managed to achieve financial success. But at what cost?
Nov 2000
Marek Kossot, a special forces soldier, discovers that his niece Monica is a drug addict. Wanting to cut the girl off from the source of the goods, he tries to intimidate her dealer and also her boyfriend, a certain Coke. The drug bosses are alarmed by Mark's action and send their men against him. The brutal intervention proves effective only up to a point. When Monica collapses after an overdose, she organizes a good squad from her former charges and starts a war against the drug mafia....
Feb 1997
Christmas is coming. Little Ania dreams of a doll she saw in a shop window.
May 1996
Multiple recidivist Tadeusz Wilk out of jail thanks to an amnesty. He has no idea where to go and what to do with themselves. Post lays down back behind bars. Wolf meets Celine and tells the woman that she is his mother. Mysterious, strangely behaving stranger arouses more and more anxious new parents
Sep 1992
The protagonist of the story is Rysiek, who, after serving a prison sentence in the Nysa Penitentiary, returns to his hometown with the intention of starting a new life. He wants to run the farm taken over from his deceased parents and win back his ex-girlfriend, Agata, who, in his absence, married his older brother, Jarek. The situation is further complicated by the person of Tadek. As it turns out, Rysiek and Tadek are not only connected by former criminal activity, but also by Agata...
Sep 2004
Set in a small Polish town coming-of-age story of Marcin, a 21-year-old with a penchant for James Dean and The Smiths. After the death of his father, Marcin must contend with the funeral arrangements while hosting his buffoonish out-of-town relatives who disparage his small town life as a mechanic in his father's garage. In addition, Marcin must face the news that his lifelong girlfriend has decided to leave Poland to live in the U.S. If he doesn't act quickly, he may never see her again.
Oct 2002
On their wedding day in occupied Poland, poet Tadeusz brings Sarah, the Jewish woman he rescued from a Gestapo officer, to the celebration, only for her captor Cieślik to crash the party and force her into an impossible choice: become his lover or betray her to the Nazis. Filip Zylber’s debut uses Tomasz Stańko’s music and expanded characterizations to breathe new poetic life into Borowski’s terse wartime tale.
Agnieszka is the daughter of a famous opera singer. However, her mother gives up her career in order to devote more time to her daughter. She cannot live without music, though. After some time, she returns to the stage, but then it turns out that her daughter is seriously ill...
Jan 1992
A grotesque story about a polluted area where gas leaking from a swamp causes noses to drop off.
Jun 1995
During the Cold War, a local Polish officer and a young Soviet woman wedded to a Soviet officer are drawn together by music.
Nov 2008