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- DirectorJanusz MajewskiStarsMarek KondratRoman WilhelmiRoman SkameneA teenage country boy starts working in a restaurant of the famous Pacific Hotel in the 1930s. He soon discovers that to get promoted one needs to conform and sacrifice his dignity.
- DirectorJerzy KawalerowiczStarsLucyna WinnickaMieczyslaw VoitAnna CiepielewskaA priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsZbigniew CybulskiEwa KrzyzewskaWaclaw ZastrzezynskiAs World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
- DirectorJerzy AntczakStarsJadwiga BaranskaJerzy BinczyckiEmir BuczackiAn epic saga of the Niechcic family, told from a woman's perspective. In 1914 in the war-torn Kaliniec, Barbara Niechcic remembers her youthful love, marriage hardships, family life in the countryside and finally her husband's death.
- DirectorAleksander FordStarsSonja ZiemannZbigniew CybulskiBarbara PolomskaA young couple in love hopes to have some privacy but the widespread housing problems don't allow them to find any place to stay.
- DirectorTadeusz ChmielewskiStarsBarbara LassStanislaw MikulskiStefan BartikA young female student arrives in a new city, and finds herself in a confusing situation: there is no place for her for sleeping. An incredible odyssey through the endless maze of night streets is ahead.
- DirectorAleksander FordStarsAleksandra SlaskaTadeusz JanczarAndrzej KozakIn war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
- DirectorJanusz MorgensternStarsAndrzej LapickiTadeusz LomnickiEwa WisniewskaThree idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsMalgorzata BraunekLeszek TeleszynskiJan NowickiSet during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The husband decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting the Gestapo kills his go-between and chases him. During his escape he gets into the apartment of a pregnant woman in labor and helps her with the childbirth. He works in the typhus center where he is a guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end the misery of a man mistaken as him and tortured. He seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.
- DirectorMaciej WojtyszkoStarsPatrycja SolimanMarcin DorocinskiKinga PreisA young girl living in her own fantasy world and a gangster on psychiatric observation meet and fall in love in a mental asylum.
- DirectorWojciech WójcikStarsJanusz GajosJan FryczOlaf LubaszenkoIn the mid-1960s, a respected surgeon dreams of leaving Poland to see his wife and daughter in England. To get the money for his escape, he needs to consider taking part in a bank robbery.
- DirectorJanusz MajewskiStarsEwa DalkowskaAleksander BardiniMariusz DmochowskiOne of the most talked-about trials in 1930s Polish press. Housekeeper Rita Gorgon, who has an affair with her employer, is accused of murdering his teenage daughter.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykStarsGrazyna DlugoleckaJerzy ZelnikOlgierd LukaszewiczA beautiful Polish girl traveling around Europe in search of her lover suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
- DirectorJerzy DomaradzkiAgnieszka HollandPawel KedzierskiStarsDaria TrafankowskaAndrzej PieczynskiMiroslawa MarchelukA film about a film being made by a group of young directors. Story is divided into three parts. The first follows Anka, a girl from a working- class family. She finishes school, plans to attend screen tests, and has her first love affair during the summer holidays. Her experience with a boy who wants to pass her to his buddy leaves an emotional scar. In the second segment the film follows Pawel, who leaves the children's home and wants to become a theatre actor. He joins a provincial amateur production where he has an affair with a married woman, the wife of his employer. In the final piece the two are found at the screen tests. They make to the final list and have an affair together. During the last screen test they are asked to improvise a scene, and Anka repeats exchanged between them the night before. That angers Pawel and he leaves.
- 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.
- DirectorJanusz MorgensternStarsJadwiga Jankowska-CieslakAndrzej MalecWladyslaw KowalskiThe 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.
- DirectorJanusz NasfeterStarsElzbieta CzyzewskaJanusz GuttnerWlodzimierz BorunskiThe story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsPiotr GarlickiZbigniew ZapasiewiczChristine PaulA group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. There is a confrontation from the beginning when Jaroslaw allows to attend the seminar a student who presents the views not according to the official line. In the end, a jury prize is given to mediocre paper, while the suspected school of thought still draws a recommendation. Finally the deputy rector arrives for the closing ceremonies, and since he disfavors the line of thought awarded by the recommendation the tensions rise. They climax when student in question bites the rector in the ear while receiving recommendation. The confrontation results in a scandal and the police is called in.
- DirectorMarek PiwowskiStarsStanislaw TymJolanta LotheWanda Stanislawska-LotheA stowaway on a cruise ship is mistaken for an entertainment director.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsBoguslaw LindaTadeusz LomnickiZbigniew ZapasiewiczWitek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
- DirectorAndrzej MunkStarsBogumil KobielaMaria CiesielskaHelena DabrowskaThe story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.
- DirectorJerzy KawalerowiczStarsLucyna WinnickaLeon NiemczykTeresa SzmigielównaJerzy enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something - as does the strange woman with whom he must share a sleeping compartment.
- StarsArtur BarcisOlgierd LukaszewiczOlaf LubaszenkoTen television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.
- DirectorZygmunt HübnerStarsHanna WolskaTomasz FicnerKrystyna BorowiczTeenagers Ania and Tomek's relationship is put to test when not only do both of their families disapprove of it, but Ania is also introduced to all-night parties that soon turn disastrous.
- DirectorJerzy DomaradzkiStarsGrazyna TrelaJerzy StuhrHenryk BistaMaryska Miechowska's husband departs to the front. Upon hearing news of his death, she engages in successive romances.