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Criterion Channel
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81
7.9
/23927/
76
/394/
76
/379/
4.1
/46425/
91
/23/
90
/222/

A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
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Kanopy
75
7.1
/1516/
61
/20/
64
/30/
3.7
/1270/
73
/11/
88
/15/

A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
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72
62
7.3
/4072/
65
/89/
69
/86/
3.7
/3265/
81
/814/

Man of Iron (1981)
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
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74
49
7.5
/2426/
76
/85/
74
/59/
3.6
/1289/

I Hate Mondays (1971)
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
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71
43
7.4
/1403/
61
/32/
69
/24/
3.6
/1312/
82
/293/

Eroica (1958)
Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
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72
31
7.3
/1238/
72
/31/
74
/22/
3.6
/1096/

Hotel Pacific (1975)
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
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68
26
7.0
/363/
62
/13/
60
/18/
3.4
/237/
82
/50/

Giuseppe in Warsaw (1964)
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
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24
6.8
/937/
60
/10/
59
/28/
3.5
/758/

Everything for Sale (1969)
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
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4.9
/28/
10
/1/
40
/1/

Masquerade (1987)
The well-known actor, Michael Barczewski, returns after a long break to the stage. He tells reporter the story of Jack Burda, a young promising actor who took his profession a bit too serious and played his own death...
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60
/2/

Poszukiwacze zaginionej gwiazdki (1992)
Based on a story by Jolanta Hartwig-Sosnowska. At the house of a little girl, preparations for Christmas Eve are underway. The Christmas tree is already dressed, the table is set, the only thing missing is the first star so that you can sit down to dinner. The girl accidentally learns that the Christmas Eve star was hidden by an evil, jealous witch. The search begins, the heroine is helped by her beloved mascot - a teddy bear.
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6.6
/27/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Far Is the Road (1963)
After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
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10
/1/

Yokohama (1982)
An American actress temporarily stops in Warsaw on her way to Japan, where she gets acquainted with the Polish writer.
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7.2
/93/
46
/3/
75
/2/

Zmowa (1990)
Christmas Eve night of 1976. In a village in the newly formed Tarnobrzeg province, a local bus hits a young married couple and a twelve-year-old boy. In the presence of numerous witnesses, the victims are beaten to death with a wheel wrench. In the aftermath of this crime, all the villagers are united by a conspiracy of silence. The dramatic scenario is freely based on the authentic case of the shocking 1976 Polanieck case.
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5.7
/34/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Milion za Laurę (1971)
An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.
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6.2
/9/
10
/1/

Na własną prośbę (1980)
The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.
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5.2
/27/
10
/1/

Cześć kapitanie (1968)
A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.
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6.4
/11/
10
/1/

Siedmiomilowe trampki (1993)
A young cat named Marcel is fed up with living in the old mill and starts his journey. He catches one sneaker while fishing. The flying raven, MSc Plato tells him it's a seven-mile sneaker, judging from the word "7M". Marcel decides to try it out, but it doesn't work. Magister Plato thinks a second sneaker is needed. Marcel therefore intends to devote his journey to the search for the second sneaker.
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10
/1/
60
/1/

The Navy Is a Thing For Men (1967)
"Marynarka..." is a story of a painter who went on a cruise on a navy ship, framed by a musical film. It features Anna German, Piotr Szczepanik and the Szczecin band Filipinki.
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7.0
/44/
20
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Odwrócona góra albo film pod strasznym tytułem (2000)
An adaptation of the book by Jerzy Niemczuk. The protagonists are strange but friendly creatures inhabiting the heart of the forest - Tatun, Mamuna, their child Sonek and grandfather Lesavik. The grandfather's inventions - including a kite, a znikolina and a conusola - save the children trapped in the mighty Marbat castle.
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6.8
/145/
56
/6/
68
/5/

Kornblumenblau (1989)
Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.
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6.5
/81/
10
/1/

Jons und Erdme (1959)
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.
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6.5
/102/
42
/4/
63
/3/

Cooked Doves (1966)
A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.
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6.7
/54/
10
/1/
82
/3/

Childish Questions (1981)
A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
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6.3
/51/
70
/1/
62
/2/

Kazimierz Wielki (1976)
The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
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5.0
/27/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Wniebowstąpienie (1969)
The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.
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7.2
/46/
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/3/
50
/1/

Kidnapping in Tiutiurlistan (1986)
Three friends – a rooster, a cat and a vixen – meet the kidnapped princess on the eve of the war between Balbacja and Tiuturlistan. To prevent a war, they try to bring her to her father's house. They tell each other stories from their lives during a journey full of adventures.
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66
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7.1
/261/
70
/6/
58
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The Gorgon Case (1977)
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
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68
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6.7
/200/
70
/10/
67
/3/
3.5
/280/

The Big Picnic (1981)
Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and decide to go on a rampage through the city.
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70
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7.4
/626/
65
/16/
71
/9/
3.6
/369/

Nights and Days (1975)
A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
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50
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5.4
/734/
55
/26/
41
/23/

Grand Hotel (2008)
Handsome, wealthy neurosurgeon Philip Morawski decides to spend the weekend with a sinful young nurse, Dominica. Unfortunately, these romantic plans could upset his doctor wife, who is also staying at the same hotel on business. But for a man who works daily with a scalpel in his hand, there are no insurmountable obstacles.
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6.2
/93/
26
/3/
57
/6/

The Touch of the Night (1962)
Roman Jacenko, a local photographer tries to turn his fortunes around and rob a bank transport.
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54
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6.1
/140/
45
/4/
61
/6/

The Twenties, the Thirties (1984)
On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.
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6.0
/41/
10
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57
/3/

A Slip-Up (1972)
The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a hit-and-run driver killing a little girl on a sled. He builds up an elaborate trap by putting a doll dressed as a child down the hill in the path of a car. The man hits it and thinking that he hit a child - runs. Marek takes pictures of him and tries to blackmail him to use his car for a week. He wants to use the car to win back the nurse, who could not cope with his humors...
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5.9
/11/
10
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Nagrody i odznaczenia (1974)
1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too.


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