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Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. As of 2023, Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's fourth largest city. Łódź first appears in records in 14th-century. It was granted town rights in 1423 by the Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and it remained a private town of the Kuyavian bishops and clergy until the late 18th century. In the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź was annexed to Prussia before becoming part of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw; the city joined Congress Poland, a Russian client state, at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. The Second Industrial Revolution (from 1870) brought rapid growth in textile manufacturing and in population owing to the inflow of migrants, notably Germans and Jews. Ever since the industrialization of the area, the city has been multinational and struggled with social inequalities, as documented in the novel The Promised Land by Nobel Prize–winning author Władysław Reymont. The contrasts greatly reflected on the architecture of the city, where luxurious mansions coexisted with red-brick factories and dilapidated tenement houses. The industrial development and demographic surge made �... ()

Other filming locations in this country: Gdańsk | Kraków | Poznań | Warsaw


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Inland Empire(2006)

R
| 3h | Mystery, Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 493 votes)

An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

Jakob the Liar(1999)

PG-13
| 2h | Comedy, Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 150 votes)

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

Ida(2013)

PG-13
| 1h 22min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 426 votes)

Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

Porno(1990)

3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

In Darkness(2011)

R
| 2h 25min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 79 votes)

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland).

Blind Chance(1987)

2h 3min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 76 votes)

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

The Promised Land(1975)

2h 50min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

Vabank(1982)

1h 44min | Crime, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 44 votes)

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.

House(2008)

R
| 1h 41min | Horror, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 31 votes)

Trying to recover from the nearly marriage-breaking stress following the death of their child, Jack (Reynaldo Rosales) and Stephanie (Heidi Dippold) spontaneously take off on a road trip. But when their car breaks down in a remote area, they find themselves in a horrific nightmare. Seeking shelter in a house, they soon realize that more danger lurks inside than outside in this spine-chiller based on Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti's best-seller.

Thr3e(2006)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Horror, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 35 votes)

Innocent lives hang on the whim of an elusive psychopathic murderer whose strange riddles and impossible timelines force three people into a mission to end the game before one or all of them die.

Knights of the Teutonic Order(1960)

2h 46min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

King Size(1988)

1h 45min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 33 votes)

A comedy. The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.

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Nothing Funny(1996)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.

Baby sa jakies inne(2011)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Two middle-aged male friends are travelling together by car and expressing their thoughts and emotions connected with women.

General Nil(2009)

2h 5min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Generał Nil is a Polish historical film, based on the life of general Emil August Fieldorf, pseudonym "Nil". The film was directed by Ryszard Bugajski and was released in 2009.

Edi(2002)

1h 37min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

The film tells a story of two scrap pickers - the title hero Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is wrongly accused of having raped the girl whose brothers have got the control over one of the city areas. Edi is severely punished for that but he accepts his fate taking care of the girl's child.

Kroll(1991)

1h 41min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

A Man Thing(2001)

26min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannized by his soccer coach, the boy finds his only friend in an old dying stray dog.

Directed by Sławomir Fabicki

Courage(2011)

1h 25min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Alfred and Jerzy take part in a brutal incident: during a train ride, a couple of hooligans harass a young woman. Jerzy stands in her defense. Alfred hesitates and becomes a helpless bystander as his younger brother is thrown off the moving train. 'Courage' is about people whose lives get disturbed by a violent act, which forces them to reveal who they really are.

Forbidden Songs(1947)

1h 37min | Music, War
3.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

Citizen(2014)

1h 44min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation that lived through all the stages of that system and made it to democracy. Throughout his life, the film's protagonist has always tried to be active, but something always got in his way, either through an absurd coincidence, as a result of his own lack of ability, or due to the unpredictable nature of certain events in our recent history.

Kalosze szczęścia(1958)

1h 33min | Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Antoni Bohdziewicz - With Czesław Roszkowski, Zygmunt Zintel, Tadeusz Fijewski, Maria Gella, Teofila Koronkiewicz, Wacław Kowalski, ...

Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema(1990)

1h 32min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

In the cinema "Liberty" there takes place a screening of the film "Daybreak". The screening is interrupted by an unusual event. Actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur...

Ajlawju(1999)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Warsaw: Year 5703(1992)

1h 50min | War, Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.

From the City of Lodz(1969)

18min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the older, more conservative residents, many of whom lived through World War II and are confused and somewhat resentful at the changes they're seeing.

Inner Life(1987)

1h 26min | Drama
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrel over dinner, garbage, neighbours, elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell, he imposes on himself.

Directed by Marek Koterski - With Wojciech Wysocki, Joanna Sienkiewicz, Maria Probosz, Jolanta Nowak, Antonina Gordon-Górecka, Henryk Bista, ...

Moje pieczone kurczaki(2012)

1h 3min

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Iwona Siekierzyńska - With Agata Kulesza

Flying machines versus Mr. Samochodzik(1991)

Mr. Samochodzik with his friend Joanna and her son Piotr are going on vacation to a mountain village. Peter dreams of adventures, and his imagination is focused on discovering weirdness. Here he eavesdrops on a conversation which shows that a man and a woman are planning a murder. It turns out, however, that the mysterious man is the author of crime novels Mr. Arizona, who uses the advice and ideas of his servant Sophia. The mistake is explained, Mr. Samochodzik, Joanna and Piotr gain new friends and thanks to them they meet the Italian film crew making the film in this area. Unfortunately, a real misfortune falls on the filmmakers: the main role star - beautiful Diana - mysteriously disappears. There is a break in shooting. The producer of the film seems distraught, but Mr. Arizona suspects that the actress's disappearance is an advertising gimmick. The friends start investigating on their own.

Directed by Janusz Kidawa - With Piotr Krukowski, Bronisław Cieślak, Jan Hencz, Piotr Pręgowski, Kazimierz Czapla, Włodzimierz Adamski, ...

Aleja gówniarzy(2007)

1h 27min
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Piotr Szczepanski - With Marcin Brzozowski, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Bartosz Picher, Grzegorz Stosz