Henryk Modrzewski
Actor · 1897 – 1965 · Kańczuga, Austro-Węgry (obecnie Polska)
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Movie9.0RomanceDramaProfesor Wilczur is a 1938 Polish romantic drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.
Profesor Wilczur
1938 · 3 votes
Movie6.7DramaAn actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Movie7.7FamilyDramaThe film consists of two parts. In the first, the protagonist is Matilda. Her dream is fashionable stockings, which she cannot afford. She becomes the laughing stock of the school when she appears in stockings sewn by her grandmother. The humiliation leads Matilda to take a dramatic step. The second part tells the story of Jadźka, who is an object of derision at her school. Fearing embarrassment, she increasingly misses school and plunges into a world of autistic dreams.
Movie7.1DramaA day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.
Movie6.0DramaHistoryYoung Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
Movie6.8ComedyEwa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Movie5.6DramaRomanceZbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
Movie8.0WarDramaAn unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
1961 · 2 votes
Movie4.7ComedyNikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.
Nikodem Dyzma
1956 · 6 votes
Movie8.0ActionDramaA Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in.
Sprawa pilota Maresza
1956 · 1 votes
Movie6.9ThrillerCrimeKazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
Movie6.7ComedyA young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
Movie7.2WarDramaThe heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.
Movie6.5ComedyMusicWhile visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men
Movie7.0ComedyA series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
Sprawa do załatwienia
1953 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyAn engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
Movie7.2DramaWarThree separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.
Movie6.5DramaA woman learns that her husband has cheated on her and decides to do the same.
Movie5.2AdventureFamilyTwin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
Movie7.5ComedyCrimeA reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals.
Movie7.0HistoryMusicPolish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".
Movie6.0MusicComedyA shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
1958 · 2 votes
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Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
Trzy kobiety
1957 · 1 votes
Movie6.9RomanceComedyWitek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.