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The Pianist(2002)

R
| 2h 30min | Drama, War
4.2/5 (with 4,313 votes)

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox, Udo Kroschwald, Maureen Lipman, ...
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Water for Elephants(2011)

PG-13
| 2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1,204 votes)

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

Directed by Francis Lawrence - With Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Hal Holbrook, Jim Norton, Paul Schneider, ...
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The Tin Drum(1979)

R
| 2h 42min | Drama, History, War
3.5/5 (with 189 votes)

Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, a boy refuses to grow older after his third birthday.

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff - With David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach, Charles Aznavour, ...
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The White Ribbon(2009)

R
| 2h 24min | Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 439 votes)

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

Directed by Michael Haneke - With Ulrich Tukur, Josef Bierbichler, Susanne Lothar, Ursina Lardi, Janina Fautz, Christian Friedel, ...
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A Night to Remember(1958)

NR
| 2h 3min | Drama, Action, History
3.8/5 (with 103 votes)

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker - With Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, ...
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The Coldest Game(2019)

1h 43min | Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 137 votes)

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

Directed by Łukasz Kośmicki - With Bill Pullman, Lotte Verbeek, Robert Więckiewicz, Aleksei Serebryakov, Corey Johnson, Nicholas Farrell, ...
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The Shrine(2010)

1h 25min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 93 votes)

A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.

Directed by Jon Knautz - With Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson, Meghan Heffern, Trevor Matthews

Karol: A Man Who Became Pope(2005)

2h 35min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 61 votes)

The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.

Directed by Giacomo Battiato - With Piotr Adamczyk, Małgosia Bela, Raoul Bova, Lech Mackiewicz, Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Violante Placido, ...

Margo the Mouse(1976-1983)

TV-PG
| Kids & Family, Animation

It is the story and adventures of Margo, a little mouse who lives in a large tree made chalet. Small Margo has as neighbors Eliana, a squirrel who lives on the top floor; and Dennis, a dormouse that lives in the basement. However, all is not happiness for Margo. The little mouse must deal with some enemies. One day, Eliana goes to visit her mother because she is sick and Margo must look after the house. Then, at night, a sullen owl settles in Eliana's house illegally. So Margo seek ways to take the owl out of the house of her friend. On another occasion, Margo prevents a beggar rat from occupying her home without her permission. Like while hiking should avoid being eaten by a stork. Although Margo has good friends like Anna, a sparrow; or Christophe, a cricket who likes to play the violin. With her friends, Margo lives many adventures.

Directed by Eugeniusz Kotowski

Somers Town(2008)

1h 11min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.

Directed by Shane Meadows - With Thomas Turgoose, Perry Benson, Kate Dickie

Moonlighting(1982)

1h 37min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski - With Jeremy Irons, David Calder, Eugene Lipinski

Turn Left, Turn Right(2003)

1h 36min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

An aspiring violinist and a professional translator live parallel lives and appear to be perfect for each other, but somehow fate seems to keep them apart. Living in different units of the same apartment building, they never meet, because when they leave, one turns left, and one turns right.

Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai - With Takeshi Kaneshiro, Gigi Leung, Edmund Chen, Terri Kwan
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Mac(1992)

1h 57min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and helps put his brothers on the job. When they can no longer take working for Polowski, who does shoddy work and is abusive to his staff, Mac and his brothers set up their own company. Together, Vitelli Brothers Construction builds houses with pride and care. But Mac turns out to be an overbearing workaholic, with obsessive concern about the quality of their work and incredible attention to detail. His intensity and driven ambition precludes a happy family life and begins to drive his brothers away.

Directed by John Turturro - With Nicholas Turturro, Dennis Farina, Ellen Barkin, John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Aleksander Krupa, ...

Seoul Train(2004)

54min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Seoul Train is a 2005 documentary that deals with the dangerous journeys of North Korean defectors fleeing through or to China. These journeys are both dangerous and daring, since if caught, they face forced repatriation, torture and possible execution. Seoul Train has been broadcast on television around the world, including on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. In January 2007, "Seoul Train" was awarded the Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism. In April 2007, "Seoul Train" was named runner-up in the National Journalism Awards. The film was produced, directed and filmed by Jim Butterworth, a technology entrepreneur in Colorado in the U.S., and Lisa Sleeth of Incite Productions. It was co-directed and edited by Aaron Lubarsky, an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker in New York.

Directed by Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky - With Norbert Vollertsen, Sam Brownback

The Conductor(1980)

1h 41min | Drama, Music
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons.

Directed by Andrzej Wajda - With John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn, Janusz Gajos, Andrzej Seweryn, Marek Dąbrowski, ...

Legend of the White Horse(1987)

1h 29min | Adventure
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A satire of Cold war politics, where Red bureaucrats meet U.S. corporate greed - and a witch and a dragon.

Directed by Jerzy Domaradzki, Janusz Morgenstern - With Christopher Lloyd, Dee Wallace, Soon-Tek Oh, Stephan Szpak-Fleet, Allison Balson, Kazimierz Kaczor, ...

Nad Niemnem(1987)

3h 35min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Adaptation of novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa. The film is set in 1886 in Lithuania, is spins around a conflict between Bohatyrowicz family and aristocrat family in Korczyn. Against the background of the social and family disputes was shown topic of love between Justyna Orzelska, niece of Benedykt Korczyński, and Jan Bohatyrowicz. Will their love be strong enough to break the mental barrier that separates the world of Bohatyrowicz from the world of Korczyński?

Directed by Zbigniew Kuźmiński - With Janusz Zakrzeński, Jacek Chmielnik, Edmund Fetting, Iwona Katarzyna Pawlak, Adam Marjański, Marta Lipińska, ...

Remember Your Name(1974)

1h 37min | War, Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Beginning of WWII. Zinaida, a Russian woman, is taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp together with several other women. She is imprisoned with her baby son, Gena, who is learning to walk and takes his first steps in the snow, in the concentration camp. They spend a few years together in the camp until they are separated, first within Auschwitz itself, then, for good, when the Germans are losing the war and decide to evacuate.

Directed by Sergey Kolosov - With Lyudmila Kasatkina, Tadeusz Borowski, Lyudmila Ivanova

Alex Is Lovesick(1986)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young hustlers dreaming of nude girls, his schoolmaster is a nervous Russian immigrant. The street speech is full of Polish, Russian, and Farsi slang, full of the small talk that had later entered the everyday speech. The soundtrack, which is quite remarkable, is built solely on the American music of the period. Everyone in the feature finds one's love and happiness.

Directed by Boaz Davidson - With Uri Kabiri, Avi Kushnir

The Winner(2011)

1h 51min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Oliver (Pawel Szajda) is a talented young pianist of Polish American heritage. After breaking off his European tournée, he is forced to repay the tour organizers 250 thousand Euros. On his journey, he meets the very colorful character of (Janusz Gajos) a retired high school math teacher and a great enthusiast of the horse races. He dreams of returning to America as a somebody, but can only do so after wining a momentous prize. From then on the two friends endeavor to gain success. They discover true friendship. Together they fulfill Franks dream of winning at the horse races, which in turn allows Oliver to buy back his personal freedom. Having recovered from a dramatically ended marriage, the young man is able to open up to a new love.

Directed by Wiesław Saniewski - With Pawel Szajda, Janusz Gajos, Wojciech Pszoniak

Hands Up!(1981)

1h 16min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski - With Jerzy Skolimowski, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Bogumił Kobiela

The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova(2018)

1h 42min | Drama, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

This is a remarkable Canadian black comedy that leans towards the themes of the international and the familial. Sarah and Aaron are related, but their live paths have diverged a long time ago. While still solving their personal problems, they have to work together to fulfill the last wish of their Jewish grandmother, who got into a concentration camp aged 15 and has miraculously survived the Holocaust. They have to somehow find the remains of her favorite childhood pet – a dog that could dance on her hind legs, but is long dead and is buried somewhere in Poland. This is a well-formed film that refuses to employ sentimentality just for show.

Prussian Culture(1908)

8min
2.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Film about politically motivated violence in the Kingdom of Prussia.

Zero Killed(2012)

1h 21min | Crime, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

People talk about their murder fantasies and stage them as short films.

Directed by Michal Kosakowski

Margo the Mouse(1986)

1h 18min | Animation, Adventure
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Compilation of several episodes of the original animated TV series 'Przygody Myszki', Margo is a little mouse that lives quietly in a tree. It is her house, where she cooks, she sleeps, she plays the piano. In the tree where she lives. Little Margo has neighbors: Eliana, a squirrel that lives in the upper floor of the tree or Dennis, a dormouse that lives in the back floor. Life in the tree runs smoothly, but there are people who are not willing to make life easy for Margo. The little mouse will have problems of the day to day with cats, beggars or owls. However, in each experience, Margo will learn various values about life, about friendship, about love, respect and independence. With her friends, Margo will live many adventures.

Nocna Zmiana(1995)

1h 12min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Jacek Kurski - With Maciej Jankowski
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