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9.0
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88
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85
/16892/
4.5
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98
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97
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95
/30/
cc age 15+

Schindler's List (1993)
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Amazon Prime Video
87
8.5
/994534/
84
/15499/
83
/9791/
4.4
/1069688/
95
/186/
96
/10821/
85
/40/
cc age 15+

The Pianist (2002)
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/84456/
74
/1416/
74
/1277/
3.8
/139594/
91
/56/
87
/798/
91
/11/

Three Colors: White (1994)
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/56235/
75
/992/
74
/860/
4.1
/118738/
86
/36/
91
/959/
86
/10/

The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.4
/62617/
72
/1449/
72
/1022/
4.0
/88387/
95
/167/
79
/481/
91
/35/
cc age 14+

Ida (2013)
In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
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Amazon Prime Video
81
7.3
/3801/
70
/79/
69
/67/
3.8
/5654/
100
/10/
80
/21/

Moonlighting (1982)
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
poster
Hulu
80
7.0
/118421/
69
/5555/
67
/1226/
3.7
/1024799/
96
/278/
82
/241/
85
/55/
cc age 16+

A Real Pain (2024)
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
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The CW
77
7.5
/56154/
72
/1049/
73
/903/
3.6
/52282/
74
/43/
85
/1219/
68
/9/
cc age 16+

Sophie's Choice (1982)
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
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Kanopy
75
6.8
/2821/
74
/281/
73
/86/
3.5
/3430/
86
/36/
84
/17/
77
/4/

Irena's Vow (2024)
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
6.8
/67662/
69
/1496/
70
/1202/
3.9
/157528/
72
/117/
75
/4266/
73
/25/
cc age 17+

Inland Empire (2006)
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
75
7.8
/8949/
75
/150/
75
/175/
4.1
/17609/
90
/10/
92
/89/

Camera Buff (1979)
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
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Hoopla
74
7.1
/1212/
70
/51/
66
/26/
3.6
/676/
87
/30/
72
/11/
69
/15/

What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy (2015)
Can you imagine what it means to grow up as the child of a mass murderer? Hans Frank and Otto von Wächter were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII. Nazi Governors and consultants to Hitler himself, the two are collectively responsible for thousands of deaths. But what stood out to Philippe Sands were the impressions they left on their sons. While researching the Nuremberg trials, the human rights lawyer came across two men who re-focused his studies: Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter. The men hold polar opposite views on the men who raised them.
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Kanopy
73
7.0
/3511/
69
/97/
65
/82/
3.5
/2875/
86
/43/
75
/5/
75
/14/

Afterimage (2016)
In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.
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Kanopy
71
7.3
/8469/
73
/306/
70
/170/
3.6
/11753/
81
/109/
71
/21/
72
/25/
cc age 18+

The Painted Bird (2019)
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
71
7.4
/10621/
73
/298/
72
/200/
3.5
/3438/
82
/5089/

Escape from Sobibor (1987)
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
poster
Netflix
70
7.6
/8755/
73
/350/
75
/145/
3.9
/39223/
61
/67/
91
/23/
61
/17/

The Peasants (2023)
Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.
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Kanopy
69
6.1
/6436/
58
/303/
58
/144/
3.3
/7907/
92
/74/
54
/50/
80
/19/

Demon (2015)
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
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75
66
7.7
/5127/
71
/90/
70
/84/
3.8
/4022/
75
/8/
85
/40/

Man of Marble (1977)
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
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Criterion Channel
79
66
8.0
/4100/
76
/116/
78
/80/
4.2
/17562/

Talking Heads (1980)
People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
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76
62
7.3
/3137/
74
/79/
69
/91/
3.9
/10570/
88
/394/

The Third Part of the Night (1972)
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes.
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Kanopy
78
61
7.3
/2930/
73
/204/
74
/111/
3.7
/3881/
89
/19/
89
/5/
78
/4/
cc age 15+

Another Day of Life (2018)
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…
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59
5.9
/602/
55
/9/
59
/19/
60
/1/

Eminent Domain (1991)
A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
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59
6.1
/1778/
55
/20/
59
/28/
3.2
/507/
67
/6/
59
/13/

To Kill a Priest (1988)
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
poster
Netflix
63
57
6.0
/6084/
63
/459/
62
/270/
2.8
/5709/
83
/6/
54
/12/
cc age 17+

The Plagues of Breslau (2018)
Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city.
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68
56
6.9
/3436/
71
/164/
67
/75/
3.4
/1801/

I'm a Killer (2016)
Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
55
6.3
/4849/
68
/120/
68
/103/
2.8
/3207/
68
/194/

The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.
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MGM Plus
65
50
6.3
/4880/
68
/86/
63
/76/
3.2
/1144/
68
/56/

Taras Bulba (1962)
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
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Netflix
49
4.9
/15689/
52
/1106/
52
/705/
2.2
/36278/
67
/6/
31
/57/
cc age 16+

Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020)
Addicted to technology, a group of teens attends a rehabilitation camp in the forest, but a sinister force there intends to take them offline forever.
poster
71
49
7.2
/1335/
64
/35/
72
/32/
3.7
/2461/
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.
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62
47
6.5
/3480/
63
/111/
57
/82/
3.3
/1815/
63
/8/
59
/14/

Wałesa: Man of Hope (2013)
How was it possible that a single man influenced contemporary world so significantly? This film is an attempt to capture the phenomenon of a common man’s metamorphosis into a charismatic leader — an attempt to see how a Gdansk shipyard electrician fighting for workers’ rights awakened a hidden desire for freedom in millions of people.
poster
Netflix
66
46
6.5
/3022/
66
/218/
62
/73/
3.3
/2680/
72
/4/
cc age 15+

The Getaway King (2021)
Comedy about Zdzisław Najmrodzki, most famous polish criminal in the times of Polish People Republic, named "the getaway king", known for stealing cars and escaping prison many times, but never hurting anybody.
poster
75
46
8.2
/3190/
73
/50/
74
/35/
3.6
/897/

Tell No One (2019)
Polish documentary directed by Tomasz Sekielski about child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland.
poster
75
45
7.5
/1373/
75
/50/
75
/29/
3.9
/4133/

The Balcony Movie (2021)
Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.
poster
75
44
7.5
/1380/
79
/129/
77
/39/
3.6
/1057/

25 Years of Innocence (2020)
Tomasz Komenda was 23 years old when his normal life was brutally interrupted. Overnight he was arrested, thrown into prison and charged with murder. Subsequent expert opinions confirmed his participation in the crime, and any evidence was against him. For nearly two decades in prison, he was beaten, intimidated, humiliated and on his own. Finally, after 18 years of imprisonment, prosecutors and a policeman appeared on his way, who decided to discover the truth behind the mysterious case of the detainee.
poster
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.
poster
70
42
6.9
/2343/
61
/54/
73
/46/
3.6
/1312/
78
/13/

Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
poster
72
41
6.7
/585/
59
/26/
66
/10/
3.5
/2588/
100
/9/

Woman of... (2024)
Aniela has lived the first half of her life as a man: with an office job, a wife, and two children. But neither her family's opposition nor repression by the government in Poland can stop her from finally becoming the person she's always been.
poster
58
40
6.1
/3905/
62
/94/
55
/58/
3.2
/2915/
52
/6/

The Last Days (1999)
Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for independence in 1810s Lithuania, Tadeusz, the son of a murderer, and Zosia, a young woman, come together for a wedding against a backdrop of changing politics, ancient traditions, and the uncertain future of a country.
poster
60
39
5.5
/1177/
64
/125/
64
/72/
3.0
/1579/

Letters to Santa 3 (2017)
Centered around a group of individuals, who come to experience magical moments over the course of one day. Full of the power of family, love and the spirit of forgiveness. Each individual comes to realize that Christmas, more than any other time of the year, is full of wonder and surprises.
poster
58
32
5.2
/374/
60
/102/
62
/24/
3.0
/271/

The Partisan (2025)
A Polish spy working for the British during World War II is betrayed and compromised in Warsaw, leaving her no other choice but to descend into a dangerous world of treachery and deception in order to survive.
poster
73
32
7.6
/2187/
71
/22/
74
/31/
3.6
/406/

Distant Lights (2003)
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
poster
67
32
6.8
/1146/
71
/99/
66
/22/
3.4
/351/
64
/37/

And Along Come Tourists (2007)
Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his boss Herold, the places manager, does little to help Sven familiarize. But when problems accumulate Sven realises that he already has become involved.
poster
Netflix
55
31
5.5
/885/
56
/39/
47
/26/
3.2
/1225/
57
cc age 15+

Autumn Girl (2021)
Polish film and music icon Kalina Jedrusik, a scandalous free-spirited sex symbol, fights for her independence in the prude society of the 1960s.
poster
54
29
5.6
/2352/
59
/33/
49
/52/
3.0
/303/
49
/34/

1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time (2007)
The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
28
5.6
/865/
67
/60/
67
/43/
3.0
/567/

Legions (2019)
A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarist army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women’s Leage member – Ola, and Tadek, her fiancée, a member of Shooting Team.
poster
Netflix
45
27
4.6
/1494/
57
/168/
54
/117/
2.2
/1313/
25
/5/
cc age 15+

The Taming of the Shrewd (2022)
When a heartbroken scientist moves back home to start over, her scheming brother hires a handsome stranger to convince her to sell their land.
poster
AMC+ Amazon Channel
58
27
5.9
/868/
55
/22/
54
/21/
3.1
/2223/

She-Wolf (1983)
In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.
poster
64
26
6.3
/1030/
64
/86/
65
/26/
3.2
/581/

The Butler (2018)
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, suffers the consequences of the tragedies that will ravage Europe from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the World War II.


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