
Janusz Bukowski
Actor · 1941 – 2005 · Gorzyce, Poland
Movies20
Movie6.8ThrillerMysteryA German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
The Night of the Generals
1967 · 191 votes
Movie6.6ActionRomanceSixteen-year-old Sara's father is a wealthy gangster and has a lot of enemies. Her father makes clear that whoever touches Sara will die and he looks for the right bodyguard to protect her.
Sara
1997 · 94 votes
Movie6.1ComedyHistory"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
Movie6.0DramaA high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Eminent Domain
1991 · 21 votes
Movie7.0ComedyWarSet in 1918, this World War I drama follows a group of Austro-Hungarian soldiers—Czechs, Jews, Italians, and others—confined in a provincial barracks under German officers. Subjected to the cruelty of a sadistic lieutenant, they rebel, humiliate him, and later attempt escape. Disguised as guards for veterinary surgeons in Budapest, the deserters are eventually recaptured and returned for court-martial, forced once more to face their tormentor.
Movie7.0DramaSouth Korean Kim lives alone in Warsaw, Poland, where he teaches taekwondo. His wife and daughter live in Berlin, just six hours away by train, but he's been traveling around Europe for 10 years and hesitates to even send a birthday card to his daughter. One day, he finds the bag of a woman, Yola (Eva Gabriluk), who has been pickpocketed, and the two become close. Another chance encounter with a delinquent young man, Mihau (Pavogiu Bourcik), brings them together, and they become an important part of Kim's life. Through Yola, Kim reconnects with lost feelings of love, and the always-flirtatious and unruly Mihau reminds him of his own restless youth...
Movie9.0DramaBased on a true outbreak of smallpox in Wroclaw. A young doctor picks up a girl and they go to bed, but the night is ruined by the doctor being called to the epidemic. The doctor has to leave, and when it is all over, runs into her with another man.
- Movie5.0Comedy
A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
Liczę na wasze grzechy
1964 · 2 votes
Movie7.1DramaHistoryThe story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Korczak
1990 · 33 votes
- Movie7.5Adventure
A group of kids takes a boat to save a friend
Porwanie
1985 · 2 votes
Movie6.8DramaRomanceA dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Movie3.7DramaHistorySpring of 1968, Warsaw. The fight for influence between top level Communist officials is the background to a developing love story between a young couple who are engaged in student protests. Both the young couple and their parents will pay a high price for their decisions, and their Jewish roots, which up until now seemed to have no meaning, but which will soon determine their fates.
Movie7.4DramaŁukasz, an unemployed geography graduate, is wrongfully arrested for robbery. His alibi is weak, and he is identified during a lineup. The situation gets hopeless when, a few hours later, the alleged victim suddenly dies. The defense lawyer promises to do everything in his power, but Łukasz ends up in custody. He must find his place in a world of harsh prison rules. He chooses the cell of the “grypsujący” (inmates who communicate by coded messages)…
- Movie9.0WarTV Movie
The film is a continuation of the 1984 film I died to live. Leopold Wójcik, faking his own death, returns to the underground. Unlike the previous part, the fate of the heroes is a fiction - a variant of events that could have taken place. The film had a sequel: Born for the Third Time (1989).
Po własnym pogrzebie
1992 · 1 votes
Movie5.9ActionCrimeWhen a nototious gangster murders a senior police officer, the cop's three closest friends embark upon a dangerous quest for answers - and revenge.
- MovieDramaCrime
A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.
Obcy w lesie
1972
Movie5.8DramaComedyA Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
Movie7.3DramaFantasySet at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
Movie7.5ActionThriller1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.
Movie7.1ComedyCrimeAfter a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes.
Konsul
1989 · 18 votes
Series12
TV5.7DramaKryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.
Kryminalni
2004 · 9 votes
TV7.3DramaThe story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
1980 · 13 votes
TV8.0DramaAction & AdventureA series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.
TV7.1Comedy13 posterunek
1997 · 30 votes
TV8.1DramaAction & AdventureOne of the most important action series created during the transition period. It brilliantly and credibly portrays the realities of the 1990s and the work of police officers in a new reality, one in which entirely new criminal groups emerged – drug dealers and warring gangs.
Ekstradycja
1995 · 9 votes
TV6.0DramaKuchnia polska
1993 · 3 votes
TV5.6CrimeAction & AdventureSfora
2002 · 9 votes
TV7.2Action & AdventureJanosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.
Janosik
1974 · 15 votes
TV6.4DramaAction & AdventurePolish Fanfan, the first Polish series from the "cloak and dagger" - written about the "black cloud" in the press of the 70's. Axis of the plot became a dramatic episodes of the struggle for the maintenance of the Polish Prussia. They remained in feudal depending on the Republic from 1525, when Albrecht Hohenzollern secularized religious state and filed in Krakow tribute to the Polish king.
TV8.0A story about the professional and personal struggles of the lawyers at a law firm in a town near Warsaw. In their work, they encounter a wide range of human problems, while often dealing with complicated family lives of their own.
Zespół adwokacki
1994 · 1 votes
TV8.3Action & AdventurePogranicze w ogniu
1992 · 3 votes
TV7.0DramaEngineer Bogdan Zawada moves to the construction of a port on the Baltic Sea. The man tries to arrange his personal and professional life in a new environment.
Znaki szczególne
1977 · 2 votes