Hands Up!

Hands Up! 1985

5.80

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

1985

Jowita

Jowita 1967

6.81

Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed with her, even when he finds seemingly true love in Agnieszka.

1967

A Cure for Love

A Cure for Love 1966

7.30

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.

1966

Walkover

Walkover 1965

6.10

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.

1965

Ewa Wants to Sleep

Ewa Wants to Sleep 1958

6.77

Ewa 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.

1958

Then There Will Be Silence

Then There Will Be Silence 1966

3.00

Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans.

1966

The Two Who Stole the Moon

The Two Who Stole the Moon 1962

5.00

Twin 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.

1962

Ściana czarownic

Ściana czarownic 1967

1

A brilliant but undisclipined ski jumper prepares for an event while also trying to win a beautiful singer's heart.

1967

Wiano

Wiano 1964

1

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

1964

Polar Bear

Polar Bear 1959

7.00

A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.

1959

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem 1962

1

Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.

1962

Skinny and Others

Skinny and Others 1967

6.75

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

1967

Farewells

Farewells 1958

5.46

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.

1958

Back to Life Again

Back to Life Again 1965

5.00

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.

1965

Mansarda

Mansarda 1963

1

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

1963