List of the best Andrzej Wajda movies: Kanal(1957), The Promised Land(1975), Korczak(1990), Danton(1982), Man of Iron(1981), Katyn(2007), Afterimage(2016), The Ashes(1965), Landscape After the Battle(1970), Everything for Sale(1968), A Love in Germany(1983), Walesa. Man of Hope(2013) ... ...
7.9/10
Drama
Poland
1957
96 Minutes
Director
Teresa Izewska Tadeusz Janczar Wisczyslaw Glinski Emil Karewicz Vladek Sheybal Tadeusz Gwiazdowski Stanislaw Mikulski
resistance fighter nazi soldier bleak chilling dark tense powerful raw warsaw, poland sewer battlefield world war ii uprising destruction trapped struggle sacrifice fall underdog
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
7.9/10
Drama
Poland
1975
138 Minutes
Director
Daniel Olbrychski Wojciech Pszoniak Andrzej Seweryn Kalina Jedrusik
businessman friend partner rival wife mistress emotional melodramatic poland lodz, poland factory ambition deception romance infidelity friendship business rivalry temptation rise
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a ... See full summary »
7.5/10
Biography
Poland|Germany|UK
1990
115 Minutes
Director
Wojciech Pszoniak Ewa Da?kowska Piotr Kozlowski Marzena Trybala Wojciech Klata Adam Siemion Karolina Czernicka Agnieszka Kruk Aleksander Bardini Robert Atzorn
pediatrician nazi orphan child friend jew bleak disheartening warsaw ghetto poland orphanage street orphans nazi occupation world war ii self-sacrifice holocaust janusz korczak rescue sacrifice
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ... See full summary »
7.5/10
Drama, History
France|Poland
1982
136 Minutes
Director
Gérard Depardieu Wojciech Pszoniak Patrice Chéreau Anne Alvaro Roland Blanche Emmanuelle Debever Krzysztof Globisz Ronald Guttman
leader revolutionary wife robespierre intense fascinating paris france power struggle revolution political coup injustice historical events georges danton fall rivalry 1790s
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
7.4/10
Drama, History
Poland
1981
153 Minutes
Director
Jerzy Radziwilowicz Krystyna Janda Marian Opania Irene Byrska Boguslaw Linda Wieslawa Kosmalska Andrzej Seweryn Krzysztof Janczar Boguslaw Sobczuk Frantiszek Trzeciak
reporter filmmaker laborer political boss striker union boss confident striking gdansk, poland shipyard prison office television studio labor strike communism corruption polish solidarity movement political intrigue pursuit rivalry
A few years after the events of Czlowiek z marmuru (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
7.0/10
Drama
Poland
2007
121 Minutes
Director
Joachim Paul Assböck Waldemar Barwinski Stanislawa Celinska Andrzej Chyra Magdalena Cielecka Maja Ostaszewska
lieutenant wife daughter soldier prisoner of war russian soldier bleak disheartening powerful emotional poland pow camp forest graveyard battlefield world war ii cover-up massacre marriage nazis
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
7.0/10
Biography, Drama, History
Poland
2016
99 Minutes
Director
Boguslaw Linda Aleksandra Justa Bronislawa Zamachowska Zofia Wichlacz Krzysztof Pieczynski Mariusz Bonaszewski Szymon Bobrowski Aleksander Fabisiak Paulina Galazka Irena Melcer Tomasz Chodorowski
The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.
7.0/10
Drama, War
Poland
1965
234 Minutes
Director
Daniel Olbrychski Piotr Wysocki Boguslaw Kierc Beata Tyszkiewicz Pola Raksa Janusz Zakrzenski
nobleman brother aristocrat napoleon bonaparte lover slave dark disturbing profound poland spain italy battlefield forest horrors of war siege rape freedom death massacre
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the 19th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of... See full summary »
6.9/10
Drama, War
Poland
1970
109 Minutes
Director
Daniel Olbrychski Stanislawa Celinska Tadeusz Janczar Mieczyslaw Stoor Zygmunt Malanowicz Leszek Drogosz
poet young woman survivor soldier angry young man jew emotional somber concentration camp refugee camp warsaw, poland holocaust freedom trauma war aftermath theft difficult decision escape love transformation
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are... See full summary »
6.8/10
Drama
Poland
1968
105 Minutes
Director
Beata Tyszkiewicz Elzbieta Czyzewska Andrzej Lapicki Daniel Olbrychski Witold Holtz Malgorzata Potocka Bogumil Kobiela Elzbieta Kepinska
The disappearance of the leading actor from the film's set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor's wife and mistress.
6.6/10
Drama
West Germany|France
1983
107 Minutes
Director
Hanna Schygulla Piotr Lysak Marie-Christine Barrault Armin Mueller-Stahl Elisabeth Trissenaar Daniel Olbrychski Bernhard Wicki
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Biography, Drama
Poland
2013
128 Minutes
Director
Robert Wieckiewicz Agnieszka Grochowska Iwona Bielska Zbigniew Zamachowski Maria Rosaria Omaggio Ewa Kolasinska Miros?aw Baka Michal Czernecki Remigiusz Jankowski Wojciech Kalarus Piotr Probosz
The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.
6.1/10
Drama, War
Poland
1959
85 Minutes
Director
Bozena Kurowska Jerzy Pichelski Jerzy Moes Adam Pawlikowski
Poland, during the World War. Lotna is a magnificent specimen of Arabian horse, the pride of her owner, too old to actually ride her but to whom she remains faithful nevertheless. The ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Drama
Poland|France
1999
125 Minutes
Director
Boguslaw Linda Daniel Olbrychski Andrzej Sewereyn Grazyna Szapolowska Marek Kondrat Michal Zebrowski Alicja Bachleda-Curus Krzysztof Kolberger Sergei Chacourov Jerzy Binczycki Jerzy Gralek
young man beautiful woman teen girl uncle judge emotional melodramatic poland household romance loyalty social change family history feud rivalry discovery 19th century
In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one ... See full summary »
5.9/10
Drama
UK
1993
104 Minutes
Director
Rafal Olbrychski Adrianna Biedrzynska Cezary Pazura Jerzy Kamas Miros?aw Baka Piotr Bajor Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak
A petty crook, in search of the clichéd pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.
5.4/10
Drama
France
1962
113 Minutes
Director
Shintarô Ishihara Marcel Ophüls Eleonora Rossi Drago Koji Furuhata Barbara Lass Jean-Pierre Léaud Marie-France Pisier François Darbon Rosy Varte
single mother lover mistress father teen boy girlfriend passionate engaging emotional touching melodramatic japan france warsaw, poland germany rome unrequited love unconditional love affair generational divide
A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.
1.6/10
Drama
USA
1996
98 Minutes
Director
Anna Wielgucka Anna Mucha Anna Powierza Stanislawa Celinska
Drama
1958
103 Minutes
Director
Zbigniew Cybulski Ewa Krzyzewska Waclaw Zastrzezynsky Adam Pawlikowski Bogumil Kobiela Jan Ciecierski Stanislaw Milski Artur Mlodnicki
assassin soldier commanding officer barmaid son hotel desk clerk dark brooding powerful gripping poland warsaw, poland church tavern ruins world war ii war crime communism independence moral dilemma
A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
6.7/10
Horror, Animation
Poland
2020
88 Minutes
Andrzej Wajda Maja Ostaszewska Krystyna Janda Daniel Olbrychski Magdalena Cielecka Anna Dymna Zbigniew Rybczynski Marek Kondrat
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
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