List of the best Jerzy Skolimowski movies: Moonlighting(1982), Deep End(1970), The Shout(1978), The Lightship(1985), Essential Killing(2010), Success Is the Best Revenge(1984), Torrents of Spring(1989), 11 Minutes(2015), 30 Door Key(1991), The Adventures of Gerard(1970), Four Nights With Anna(2008), Circle of Deceit(1981) ... ...
Drama
UK
1982
95 Minutes
Director
Jeremy Irons Eugene Lipinski Jirí Stanislav Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz Edward Arthur Denis Holmes Renu Setna David Calder
construction worker government official girl foreman amusing uneasy london warsaw apartment grocery store polish solidarity movement immigration employment escape 1980s
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as ... See full summary »
Drama
UK|West Germany
1970
90 Minutes
Director
boy love interest lady fiancé coach emotional offbeat shocking bathhouse cinema swimming pool london obsession sexual advances jealousy business scheme stalking unrequited love love growing up
15-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan.
Drama
UK
1978
87 Minutes
Director
Alan Bates Susannah York John Hurt Robert Stephens Tim Curry Carol Drinkwater
stranger husband wife composer tense uneasy england countryside mental institution mysticism music isolation strange happenings supernatural mental illness discovery escape 1970s
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Sci-Fi
USA
1985
89 Minutes
Director
Robert Duvall Klaus Maria Brandauer Tom Bower Robert Costanzo Badja Djola William Forsythe Arliss Howard Michael Lyndon Tim Phillips
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
Mystery & Thriller, War
Poland|Norway|Ireland|Hungary|France
2010
84 Minutes
Director
Vincent Gallo Emmanuelle Seigner Zach Cohen Iftach Ophir Nicolai Cleve Broch Stig Frode Henriksen David Price Tracy Spencer Shipp Phillip Goss
political prisoner captive soldier suspenseful gripping afghanistan woods border escape survival escape 2000s
An Afghan POW attempts his escape.
Drama
France|UK
1984
90 Minutes
Director
Michael York Michael Lyndon Maureen Bennett Suzan Crowley Felicity Dean Hilary Drake John Hurt Claude Le Sache Jane Asher Michel Piccoli Mike Sarne
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
Drama
UK|France|Italy
1989
98 Minutes
Director
Timothy Hutton Nastassja Kinski Valeria Golino Francesca De Sapio William Forsythe Urbano Barberini Jacques Herlin
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
Poland|Ireland
2015
81 Minutes
Director
Grazyna Blecka-Kolska Anna Maria Buczek Agata Buzek Janusz Chabior Paulina Chapko Andrzej Chyra Marta Dabrowska Richard Dormer
The lives of several Varsovians are intertwined for just 11 minutes. These minutes turn out to be crucial for their ultimate fate.
Drama
Poland|UK|France
1991
90 Minutes
Director
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II.
Adventure
UK|Switzerland
1970
91 Minutes
Director
Peter McEnery Claudia Cardinale Eli Wallach Jack Hawkins John Neville Mark Burns Norman Rossington Paolo Stoppa Ivan Desny
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2008
87 Minutes
Director
Artur Steranko Kinga Preis Urszula Bartos-Gesikowska Malgorzata Buczkowska Jerzy Fedorowicz Marcin Jedrzejewski Redbad Klynstra Barbara Kolodziejska
Drama
West Germany|France
1981
110 Minutes
Hoffmann
Bruno Ganz Hanna Schygulla Jean Carmet Jerzy Skolimowski Gila von Weitershausen
foreign correspondent photographer lover wife journalist sniper intense spirited gutsy fiery beirut hotel west germany bedroom orphanage lebanese civil war israeli-palestinian conflict journalism ethics moral dilemma
Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2018
110 Minutes
Jerzy Kunze
Laura Morante Alessandro Gassman Micaela Ramazzotti Jerzy Skolimowski Silvia Calderoni Renato Scarpa Renato Carpentieri Antonio Catania Gaetano Bruno Marco Foschi Michele Di Mauro
A screenwriter without inspiration turns to a ghostwriter who, in turn, is inspired by a mysterious stranger who tells her a story about the Sicilian mafia's involvement in the case of a famous stolen painting.
Drama, History
2012
114 Minutes
Jan III Sobieski King of Poland
F. Murray Abraham Enrico Lo Verso Alicja Bachleda-Curus Jerzy Skolimowski Piotr Adamczyk Cristina Serafini Marius Chivu Antonio Cupo Giorgio Lupano Yorgo Voyagis Daniel Olbrychski
grand vizier sultan prophet dark vienna rome siege ottoman empire battle quest 17th century
In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to Vienna. On Sept. 11, the main battle between Polish cavalry and the Turks began.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK|Canada|USA
2007
100 Minutes
Stepan
Viggo Mortensen Naomi Watts Vincent Cassel Armin Mueller-Stahl Sinead Cusack Donald Sumpter Jerzy Skolimowski Josef Altin Raza Jaffrey Mike Sarne Tereza Srbova
midwife prostitute slave mobster assassin uncle suspenseful gritty london restaurant hospital apartment mafia prostitution organized crime murder death deception discovery rise
A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA|Mexico
2000
132 Minutes
Javier Bardem Olivier Martinez Andrea Di Stefano Johnny Depp Sean Penn Michael Wincott Najwa Nimri Hector Babenco Olatz Lopez Garmendia Vito Maria Schnabel Jerzy Skolimowski
poet rebel lover gay/lesbian dark gritty cuba prison new york city revolution exile poverty revenge homosexuality communism discovery fall 1970s
The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.
Comedy
USA
1996
103 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Glenn Close Annette Bening Pierce Brosnan Danny DeVito Martin Short Sarah Jessica Parker Michael J. Fox Rod Steiger Lukas Haas Natalie Portman
u.s. president first lady congressman scientist military officer alien campy unrestrained playful creative washington, d.c. new york city nevada las vegas kansas alien invasion first contact nuclear war apocalypse world superpowers
Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.