Here we've displayed a list of the best Poland films : Shoah(1985), To Be or Not to Be(1942), The Promised Land(1975), Blind Chance(1987), The Double Life of Veronique(1991), Hatred(2016), Europa, Europa(1990), Cold War(2018), Korczak(1990), The Tin Drum(1979), Knife in the Water(1962), Ida(2013) ... ...
Documentary, War, Drama, History
France|UK
1985
561 Minutes
Simon Srebnik Michael Podchlebnik Richard Glazar Rudolf Vrba Inge Deutschkron Filip Müller
victim survivor nazi bystander guard brooding shocking disturbing auschwitz germany ghetto poland holocaust nazism horrors of war concentration camp fall discovery 1980s
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Comedy
USA
1942
99 Minutes
Carole Lombard Jack Benny Robert Stack Felix Bressart Lionel Atwill Stanley Ridges Sig Ruman Tom Dugan Charles Halton Peter Caldwell Helmut Dantine
actor actress lieutenant spy nazi madcap hilarious suspenseful poland warsaw love triangle adolf hitler impersonation resistance world war ii adventure 1940s
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Drama
Poland
1975
138 Minutes
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 »
Drama
Poland
1987
122 Minutes
Boguslaw Linda Tadeusz Lomnicki Zbigniew Zapasiewicz Boguslawa Pawelec Marzena Trybala Jacek Borowski Monika Gozdzik
medical student communist homeless person security guard lover brash creative profound train station poland train hospital airplane fate political activism love medical profession trial communism adventure
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Mystery & Thriller
France|Poland|Norway
1991
97 Minutes
Irène Jacob Philippe Volter Claude Duneton Guillaume De Tonquedec W?adys?aw Kowalski Halina Gryglaszewska Kalina Jedrusik Aleksander Bardini Jerzy Gudejko Janusz Sterninski Sandrine Dumas
beautiful woman singer doppelganger boyfriend puppeteer emotional fascinating france poland paris krakow, poland street apartment double life existential crisis aspirations performance romance identity discovery
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
War, Drama
Poland
2016
150 Minutes
Michalina Labacz Arkadiusz Jakubik Wasyl Wasylik Adrian Zaremba Izabela Kuna Jacek Braciak Maria Sobocinska Oleksandr Zbarazkyi
young woman young man widower sister father villager dark disturbing emotional gripping intense village poland wedding market world war ii young love ethnic tension war crimes massacre
Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
War, Drama, History
Germany|France|Poland
1990
115 Minutes
Marco Hofschneider Julie Delpy André Wilms Ashley Wanninger Hanns Zischler Klaus Kowatsch Halina Labonarska Delphine Forest René Hofschneider Jorg Schnass Nathalie Schmidt
teenager nazi girlfriend father bleak emotional suspenseful germany poland russia orphanage nazism holocaust world war ii survival deception growing up forbidden love 1940s
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Romance, Drama, History
Poland|UK|France|Belgium
2018
88 Minutes
Joanna Kulig Tomasz Kot Borys Szyc Agata Kulesza Adam Woronowicz Cédric Kahn Jeanne Balibar Adam Ferency
musician director sultry brooding cool passionate poland yugoslavia france paris prison camp music hall music romance cold war fall love rescue sacrifice 1960s
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Biography
Poland|Germany|UK
1990
115 Minutes
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 »
Drama
West Germany|France|Poland|Yugoslavia
1979
142 Minutes
David Bennent Angela Winkler Mario Adorf Daniel Olbrychski Katharina Thalbach Heinz Bennent Andréa Ferréol Charles Aznavour
child mother father doctor little person brash disturbing quirky family home poland horrors of war childhood nazism growing up revenge 1930s
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Drama
Poland
1962
94 Minutes
Leon Niemczyk Jolanta Umecka Zygmunt Malanowicz
hitchhiker husband wife cool calm disturbing boat car highway marina lake poland love triangle class distinctions rivalry temptation 1960s
A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitable.
Drama
Poland|Denmark|France|UK
2013
80 Minutes
Agata Trzebuchowska Agata Kulesza Joanna Kulig Dawid Ogrodnik Adam Szyszkowski Jerzy Trela Halina Skoczynska
novice aunt musician judge family emotional intense moving powerful poland convent small town countryside nazi occupation ancestry religion nazi collaboration discovery quest love
A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.
Drama, History
France|Poland
2016
115 Minutes
Lou de Laâge Agata Buzek Agata Kulesza Vincent Macaigne Joanna Kulig Eliza Rycembel Anna Prochniak Katarzyna Dabrowska Helena Sujecka Dorota Kuduk Klara Bielawka
nun nurse intern survivor frenchwoman moving emotional shocking camp poland hospital convent world war ii survival repatriation life beliefs faith pregnancy abuse
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Drama
Poland|Soviet Union
1969
160 Minutes
Tadeusz Lomnicki Magda Zawaszka Daniel Olbrychski Jan Nowicki Mariusz Dmochowski Barbara Brylska
colonel soldier invader orphan love interest monk thrilling rousing patriotic emotional poland battlefield monastery border town invasion military grief love triangle religion
In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Drama
Czech Republic|UK|Germany|Denmark|Italy|France|USA
2001
115 Minutes
Ondrej Vetchý Krystof Hádek Tara Fitzgerald Oldrich Kaiser Hans-Jorg Assmann Charles Dance Anna Massey
pilot soldier mentor love interest father friend emotional england czechoslovakia train poland friendship love triangle military nazism explosion exile love escape sacrifice
The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.
Comedy, Drama
East Germany|Czechoslovakia
1974
100 Minutes
Vlastimil Brodský Erwin Geschonneck Manuela Simon Henry Hübchen Blanche Kommerell Deszo Garas Zsuzsa Gordon Friedrich Richter Margit Bara Reimar-Johannes Baur
jew military officer nazi friend bleak witty poland ghetto holocaust hope judaism nazism deception survival discovery underdog 1940s
A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ... See full summary »
War, Drama, History
USA
2008
136 Minutes
Daniel Craig Liev Schreiber Jamie Bell Alexa Davalos Allan Corduner Mark Feuerstein Tomas Arana Jodhi May Iddo Goldberg Iben Hjejle Martin Hancock
brother jewish man nazi refugee powerful profound brutal poland forest world war ii persecution survival nazis escape quest revenge 1940s
Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
Drama, History
France|Germany|Romania
2002
132 Minutes
Ulrich Tukur Mathieu Kassovitz Ulrich Mühe Michel Duchaussoy Ion Caramitru Marcel Iures Friedrich von Thun Antje Schmidt Hanns Zischler
chemist pope pius xii priest nazi diplomat son incredible disheartening somber moving germany vatican concentration camp poland italy holocaust kurt gerstein guilt religion politics
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Drama
Poland|France|Belgium
1999
105 Minutes
Shulamit Adar Liliane Rovère Esther Gorintin Nathan Cogan Mosko Alkalai Maurice Chevit
old woman father husband cousin widow holocaust survivor somber profound emotional touching poland paris lithuania moscow israel bus holocaust memory family history culture clash
During a tour of a group of Israeli Jews of Polish origin, the bus in which Riwka is located breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz.
Drama, War
Poland
1965
234 Minutes
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 »
Drama
Poland
2007
121 Minutes
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.
Documentary
USA
1943
44 Minutes
adolf hitler soldier winston churchill civilian intense gripping patriotic germany poland england france world war ii nazism invasion world domination propaganda discovery rise wretched excess 1930s
The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.
Biography, Drama, History
Czech Republic|UK|USA
2017
125 Minutes
Jessica Chastain Johan Heldenbergh Michael McElhatton Daniel Brühl Iddo Goldberg Anna Rust Brian Caspe Goran Kostic Shira Haas Efrat Dor
zookeeper wife polish man nazi zoologist fugitive emotional intense fascinating poland zoo basement concentration camp warsaw ghetto office helping others world war ii fugitives nazis extermination
Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.
Drama
UK|USA
1962
116 Minutes
Dirk Bogarde Maria Perschy Alfred Lynch Nigel Stock Reginald Beckwith Richard Marner Ed Devereaux Lewis Fiander George Mikell Richard Carpenter Margaret Whiting
british soldier sergeant german soldier nazi prisoner of war leader charming hilarious patriotic playful prison camp germany united kingdom poland train station charles coward prison break sabotage world war ii bravery
British N.C.O. Sergeant Major Charles Coward (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes from the Stalag VIII-B P.O.W. camp, and is mistakenly awarded with the Iron Cross by the Germans.
Biography
USA
1945
113 Minutes
Paul Muni Merle Oberon Cornel Wilde Stephen Bekassy Nina Foch George Coulouris Sig Arno Howard Freeman George Macready Claire DuBrey Frank Puglia
composer soldier musician doctor writer creative bleak fascinating poland paris war illness music political repression frédéric chopin affair love rise 1840s
Biography of Frederic Chopin.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Italy|West Germany|USA
1977
126 Minutes
Sophia Loren Richard Harris Ava Gardner Burt Lancaster Martin Sheen Ingrid Thulin Lee Strasberg John Phillip Law Ann Turkel O.J. Simpson Lionel Stander
lover terrorist military officer doctor beautiful woman ex-husband suspenseful gripping intense train poland europe bridge terrorism disease runaway train smuggling impersonation isolation pursuit
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
Drama, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Lithuania|Poland
2018
120 Minutes
Konstantin Khabensky Christopher Lambert Felice Jankell Dainius Kazlauskas Sergey Godin Roman Ageev
prisoner of war soviet soldier concentration camp survivor lieutenant nazi sergeant dark chilling intense disturbing frightening raw poland concentration camp survival nazis prisoners of war world war ii concentration camp uprising
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
Drama
Germany|Canada|Poland|USA
2002
118 Minutes
Miranda Otto William Fichtner Lothaire Bluteau Ryan Smith Bianca Crudo Jerzy Nowak Boguslawa Schubert Maciej Stuhr Maria Seweryn
faith healer mother husband twin son mistress tender sad emotional heartwarming canada ski resort family home poland cancer healing infidelity faith marriage mother/child relationship
Her son dying of cancer and her relationship falling apart, Julie flees to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also ... See full summary »
Drama
Poland|France
1999
125 Minutes
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 »