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poster
Criterion Channel
82
81
7.9
/24044/
76
/399/
76
/385/
4.1
/48061/
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
73
7.7
/12143/
73
/240/
75
/234/
4.0
/20753/
73
/11/
86
/123/

Blind Chance (1987)
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
poster
76
58
7.2
/1918/
68
/48/
70
/49/
3.8
/5681/
95
/53/

The Structure of Crystal (1969)
Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths.
poster
75
53
7.5
/3919/
73
/115/
70
/74/
3.5
/2715/
88
/12/

The Cruise (1970)
A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
50
6.6
/2366/
67
/34/
64
/40/
3.4
/2843/
86
/7/
68
/15/

The Scar (1976)
When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.
poster
71
49
7.2
/1342/
64
/35/
72
/32/
3.7
/2508/
75

The Constant Factor (1980)
A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he searches quixotically for a steadfast moral code by which to live, he suffers from the knowledge of human frailty and our darker inclinations to do harm.
poster
72
31
7.3
/1249/
72
/32/
74
/22/
3.6
/1208/

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.
poster
60
29
6.2
/826/
52
/14/
62
/21/
3.2
/2051/

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach (1970)
A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
poster
61
28
6.8
/746/
62
/20/
55
/13/
3.5
/1379/
50

Family Life (1971)
A young industrial designer named Wit reluctantly returns to his family home to look after his gravely ill father. Upon entering the dark confines of a house he has not visited in six years, Wit once again finds himself exposed to the idiosyncratic pathologies of his father, sister, and aunt.
poster
67
20
6.9
/1048/
54
/14/
65
/21/
3.6
/927/
80
/2/

The Birch Wood (1970)
A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl.
poster
63
19
6.7
/605/
54
/13/
65
/14/
3.4
/927/

Personnel (1976)
Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague, Sowa, is pressured to make a costume for an overbearing soloist.
poster
67
17
6.9
/571/
50
/16/
64
/24/
3.6
/642/
83
/1/

Shivers (1981)
A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.
poster
66
17
6.6
/547/
64
/11/
67
/13/
3.5
/678/

The Spiral (1978)
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
poster
67
15
7.3
/473/
66
/8/
59
/14/
3.7
/575/

Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)
Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation.
poster
63
14
6.4
/331/
48
/6/
68
/10/
3.7
/638/

The Lynx (1982)
Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator.
poster
66
12
6.8
/435/
66
/22/
64
/8/
3.4
/523/
Popcorn
67
/4/

Short Working Day (1995)
A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party.
poster
64
10
6.7
/314/
57
/4/
62
/13/
3.5
/209/

Nightmares (1979)
Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.
poster
56
?
6.0
/98/
30
/2/
70
/6/
3.4
/224/

Bewitching Eyes (1977)
A Polish folktale set in the Middle Ages, tells the story of a man, whose eyes, or the gaze of them, brings upon death.
poster
?
6.6
/57/
36
/3/
50
/1/

Wherever You Are, Mr. President (1978)
Stefan Starzyński, the mayor of Warsaw, organizes life in the capital in September 1939 and lift the inhabitants' spirits via radio announcements. After the surrender, he does not use his last chance to escape.
poster
54
?
6.8
/252/
44
/5/
50
/10/

The Contract (1982)
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
poster
64
?
6.8
/189/
61
/5/
63
/7/

Aria for an Athlete (1979)
Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. The wrestler goes on to fame, performing in the world's top arenas, and one day is serenaded by a tenor from the crowd. Fame brings him women and admirers but he is uncompromising on his profession. He has his revenge on one of his tormentors defeating him in the ring. One day, attending a game in a tuxedo, he is challenged by another of the brothers and drawn into a brutal game, in course of which he kills his opponent. Thus his career ends.
poster
?
5.9
/79/
10
/1/
53
/3/

Alchemik (1989)
An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.
poster
45
?
7.4
/150/
10
/1/
51
/7/

The Wicket Gate (1974)
Accomplished playwright supervises the stage rehearsals for his new play away from home. He rents a room at a private house, which is owned by mother and daughter. Wiktor gets entangled in the two women's bizarre relationship.
poster
59
?
6.4
/153/
40
/1/
3.7
/457/

Lesson of a Dead Language (1979)
An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.


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