
Krzysztof Pieczyński
Actor · b. 1957 · Opole, Opolskie, Poland
Movies23
Movie8.4DramaWarThe 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.
The Pianist
2002 · 10K votes
Movie5.8ThrillerActionAt the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the technology and exonerate themselves.
Chain Reaction
1996 · 1.3K votes
Movie6.7ThrillerDramaIn 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
Mr. Jones
2019 · 488 votes
Movie7.2DramaMysteryMoody, dark, and handsome Dominik is terrorized at school, after video footage of his drunken kiss with classmate Aleksandr goes viral. Grappling with public humiliation, Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based "suicide room," where the pink-haired rebel Sylwia consoles him.
Movie6.5DramaHistoryIn 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.
Movie6.2DramaHistoryAssigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 · 170 votes
Movie6.2DramaHistoryAn extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Nightwatching
2007 · 79 votes
Movie7.3DramaWarIrena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009 · 127 votes
Movie6.5DramaHistoryPoland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.
Jack Strong
2014 · 140 votes
Movie3.9HistoryHorrorIn the early Middle Ages, two Christian knights set off to christen a small pagan village hidden deep in the mountains. Despite the differences in their views and perspectives on religion, the two men become travel companions and create a father-son relationship. As they settle into the local community, their faith, belief system and the bond between them are all put to the test. Soon, love is confronted with hate, dialogue with violence, madness with rules and many will have to die.
MovieActionCrimeAfter decoding a ritualistic clue found on a dead MMA fighter, a young, untamed detective infiltrates Brooklyn's underground fight world to unravel a string of murders.
Kings County
2026
Movie5.2DramaAugustine is a two-part, Italian-made mini-series about the influential theologian and church father St. Augustine of Hippo. The piece tells the story of his life from a teenager to his death at the age of 69. Much of the content for the scenes of him as a young and middle-aged man come from his Confessions, which is probably the earliest extant autobiography.
Movie10.0DramaTV MovieA young scientist becomes a victim of his own experiment. Andrzej Majer, a psychiatrist, decides to go to a psychiatric hospital for three months as a patient in order to learn the secrets of his profession.
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The film takes place during the first four days of the Warsaw Uprising. The main character is Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, one of the most outstanding poets of the young war generation. The film is a pseudo-documentary account of the last days of the artist's life. We learn about his earlier life through numerous flashbacks. The film uses a lot of archival material, memorabilia, and eyewitness accounts of the poet's death.
Dzień czwarty
1984 · 3 votes
Movie6.0DramaIn 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
Idol
1985 · 2 votes
Movie4.5ActionThrillerVietnam veteran Billy Ray Lancing, a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that he's helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming, Billy heads to Poland to figure out why -- only to discover that the orphanage that Irina was staying in, which is financed by honest -- and unsuspecting -- good-intentioned Samaritans, is a cover for a human trafficking network.
Out of Reach
2004 · 131 votes
Movie5.5ActionDramaAfter two years in prison, Adam returns home set on revenge against the uncle who betrayed him. En route, he lands a job on a highway construction site near his uncle’s village. Soon, fellow ex-con Tojfel appears and makes a chilling offer: his men will kill the uncle if Adam joins his new criminal schemes. Adam’s silence triggers a violent spiral that threatens everything he holds dear - especially his growing love for young trainee Magda.
Movie6.2DramaWarsaw, 1909. Arthur Herling makes an assassination attempt on a Russian police official and his family. During the action, the officer's daughter is killed and his wife is maimed. The wounded militant is arrested. Tormented by remorse, Herling agrees to cooperate with the tsarist authorities as a provocateur. Into his cell comes Adam Tanski, suspected of having contacts with the wanted conspirator Andrzej Woyda. One day, while being transported in a prison ambulance, Herling kills the guards. Accompanying him, Adam urges him to escape to the mountains.
Movie5.9CrimeThrillerA member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
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Poland under Stalinist rule, 1953. A young nun Anna is brought to a prison where an influential priest is kept in. She discovers the priest is the man she loved a few years before. Communist authorities try to make her spy on him now.
Movie4.8ActionScience FictionNASA and its Soviet-Russian counterpart prepare another mission to the permanent space station.
Fallout
1998 · 5 votes
Movie6.3MysteryThrillerA big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
MovieCrimeDramaA talented young impersonator falls for a mysterious stranger and is slowly lured into assuming the identity of a missing ivy-league student.
Persona
2025
Series19
TV7.6Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyIn his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also trying to get back to their world. Will they ever make it home?
Sliders
1995 · 488 votes
TV5.3DramaAction & AdventureFilmed on location at Santa Monica and Venice Beach, this series focuses on an elite bike cop unit of the LAPD.
Pacific Blue
1996 · 97 votes
TV5.4SoapNa dobre i na złe is a Polish television medical drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since November 7, 1999. Currently in its 15th season and with over 520 episodes, it is the longest-running primetime drama on Polish TV. The show revolves around the lives of doctors and patients of a hospital in Leśna Góra near Warsaw. Na dobre i na złe has been very popular among the viewers, despite recent criticism on its lack of originality. It won the "Telekamery" award for the best TV series in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Na dobre i na złe
1999 · 8 votes
TV6.6Action & AdventureCrimeThrough globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five international cops, headed by Captain Daniel. The team - comprised of individuals who have little in common - must learn to live and work under the most dangerous and potentially deadly conditions. Housed in an unused storage section underneath the ICC, this mismatched team faces bureaucratic, jurisdictional and cultural obstacles while traversing continents in pursuit of justice.
Crossing Lines
2013 · 124 votes
TV5.7DramaLondyńczycy is a Polish TV drama series about Polish immigrants in London, aired on TVP 1 since late 2008. It is currently aired on Community Channel. The title music for the series is the Robbie Williams song "Supreme".
TV7.3DramaThe story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
1980 · 12 votes
TV7.1DramaWar & PoliticsIn the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.
TV6.8CrimeDramaA Polish teacher moves to a provincial town and gets involved in investigating the brutal murder of a high school girl. He learns more and more about the mysteries of this murder, revealing corruption and fraud among local elites.
TV8.5Crime
TV6.1CrimeDrama1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who dreams of taking over Buddy's top spot as King of Warsaw.
TV6.5DramaThe life of the remarkable man who passed away after an extraordinary 26 year reign, and whose papal odyssey encompassed more than 120 countries and earned him the reputation of an international fighter for freedom.
Pope John Paul II
2005 · 13 votes
TV6.1Sci-Fi & FantasyDetective Coyle is trying to solve several bizarre murders and is having no luck finding a suspect. But when his girlfriend turns into a werewolf and gets kidnapped by a vampire, things start to fall into place...
House of Frankenstein
1997 · 9 votes
TV6.4CrimeAction & AdventureA bright, young officer joins General Police Headquarters to investigate one of its lead inspectors and the criminal cases he's working on.
TV7.0DramaDocumentaryMarszałek Piłsudski
2001 · 3 votes
TVDramaAction & AdventureIt's the early 1990s. Frik (Szymon Bobrowski), Kurtz (Przemysław Sadowski), and Piki (Aleksander Semchev) are childhood friends. They started out selling waste paper to collectors, then began searching for new ways to make money. They only began doing real business on the fledgling Polish stock exchange. In the space of a few months, they make their first million. Along the way, they run afoul of Kajzar (Jarosław Gajewski), a prominent underworld figure operating on the stock exchange. The friendship of Frik, Kurtz, and Piki is put to the test, as the former two compete for Dominika (Agnieszka Warchulska), with whom they have had a crush since childhood.
TV5.8CrimeAction & AdventureA story of a group of police officers from Murder Unit in Poland, who deal with unsolved cases. The group tries to solve inexplicable mysteries from the past, which pertain to the Cursed Soldiers, the history of the Recovered Territories and other mysterious cases from the WWII period that have an impact on the present time.
Komisja morderstw
2016 · 5 votes
TV6.1Drama
TV7.0DramaRosa Bernhard, a young journalist, investigates the death of an American tourist named Zofia, who died following a night out at a nightclub called Reaktor.
The Next Level
2025 · 1 votes
TV9.0DramaAdaptation of several autobiographical novels by Zbigniew Uniłowski, a well-known writer of the interwar period: "Common Room", "Recruit Day", "Twenty Years of Life". The first three episodes are a story about the maturation of a teenage boy in a poor urban environment. The next ones show an adult hero who tries to become a writer.
Życie Kamila Kuranta
1983 · 1 votes