Alfred and Jerzy take part in a brutal incident: during a train ride, a couple of hooligans harass a young woman. Jerzy stands in her defense. Alfred hesitates and becomes a helpless bystander as his younger brother is thrown off the moving train. 'Courage' is about people whose lives get disturbed by a violent act, which forces them to reveal who they really are.
Fed up with forced cheer, twelve-dish feasts and predictable gifts, one person rejects the usual Christmas ritual and flees to the unknown, finally doing what they truly desire instead of what they must. This holiday, nothing will be the same: the world turns upside down and even the wildest dreams may come true.
Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories.
Ela is a rebellious artist struggling with the deep gray everyday life of Poland in the 1980's, including family problems and personal demons originating in bipolar disorder.
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising?
In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure buried by the participants of the ceremony. The film, completed in 1972 was shelved by the censors and believed lost until it was found and finally released in 2009.
A young mother returns to her village after a hospital stay and is forced to deal with an emotionally distant husband and her own simmering guilt.
Three men, one place and one event that will change the life of each one of them.
Poland, 1945. Crowds of repatriates are traveling from east to west in search of new homes and loved ones lost during the war. At one of the train stations, a young woman, Hanna Powiłańska, sits among the crowd of displaced persons. The girl recalls a story of turbulent love. Before the war, at a carnival ball, she met the handsome Lech Oleszkiewicz. In September, war broke out. Hanna meets the engineer again and spends the night with him. In the morning, the man tells her that he is married. Hanna breaks off the relationship.
In this documentary, Andrzej Wajda presents a biography of the famous filmmaker and his long-time collaborator, Edward Klosinski. He was an outstanding cinematographer. Among others, his wife Krystyna Janda and closest friends, as well as the director himself, talk about his extraordinary work. The film also uses excerpts from many major productions that Klosinski took part in creating.
Cuma, a retired master thief living peacefully on Spain’s Andalusian coast, rejects one last job, until rival Chudy, Cuma’s former partner turned adversary, plots a massive heist in Kraków with a ruthless new crew and no place for him. Driven by pride and the need to reclaim his title as the world’s greatest burglar, Cuma returns, reunites old allies, assembles a fresh team, and prepares to face Chudy on his own terms.
An unemployed actor, suffering from a mental block, is offered to play a tragicomic part in his own life. In return for a flat, he is meant to pick up a girl and then “transfer” her to his employer.
Sanju is an immigrant from India. He currently works as a food delivery man and shares a cramped apartment with his colleagues. However, he has big dreams and the ambition to fulfill them. The most important of these? Getting close to the girl across the street. Peeping at her through binoculars, learning her habits, he figures out how to achieve this. He'll be helped by cleverness, a supplier's job and.... a pair of racists in a big SUV. However, an overzealous friend, cultural differences and his own impulsive nature will stand in his way. Will he manage to overcome the obstacles?
An adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s tale The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether, transposed to a contemporary setting. A couple visits a remote asylum where the woman knows the staff, only to discover that the institution is overrun and the lines between doctors and patients have collapsed.
A chance meeting at a dinner table reveals the culprit of an old thought-to-be-solved murder.
A village in Mazowsze, 1943. Two teenage boys, Janek and Staszek, find two young Jews hiding on a farm. They soon realize that the boys, Abram and Chaim, are their age and are the sons of a respected pharmacist who lived in a nearby town before the war. They were the only survivors of the anti-Jewish pogrom led by the Germans in the nearby forest. In spite of the deadly threat, Janek and Staszek decide to hide the boys and keep it a secret.
Cacau is an engaging saga of family secrets, clandestine loves and sacrifices, all sweetened by the irresistible taste of chocolate and the magic of cocoa plantations.
Dancin' Days is a Portuguese soap opera which began airing on SIC in June 2012.
Rosa Fogo is a Portuguese soap opera that aired on SIC from September 2011 to June 2012.
After losing your memory, who can you trust? Frozen Memories tells the story of Rosa, who suffers from retrograde amnesia, and Narcisa, who tries to take advantage of her sister's accident to keep all the wealth she built in the last decade. It also tells the story of Daniel, Rosa's husband who becomes a total stranger to her overnight. Daniel ends up losing her to Marcelo, the doctor who saves Rosa's life after the accident. It comes as such a shock to Rosa that it triggers flashbacks and old memories that will make her realize she was fooled. From here on, she will have to fight to get her old life back. Reconquer her empire and try to win back the real love of her life, Daniel, who has moved forward in a new relationship.
What side is love on? Vera and Rodrigo are absolutely passionate about each other and get married, having João as the product of their love. But, like any other marriage, their relationship has its ups and downs between intense passion and their differing life views. Vera is a up and coming lawyer and Rodrigo an agronomy engineer. She's an urban woman who doesn’t do well in a rural environment while he loves the country and bulls, not too keen on city life. To make things worse, along comes Eduardo, Vera's boss and a brilliant but vicious lawyer. He hopes to prevent any possibility of reconciliation between Vera and Rodrigo and ensure that Vera keeps full custody of their son João. He wants this because, when he was deployed in Angola as a military, Eduardo swore to Rodrigo’s father João Maria, that he’d have his revenge.
A man and a woman with no apparent connection are involved in a bizarre bank robbery, resulting in their death. Their children (Lara and Simão), faced with the impasse in the police investigation, decide to unravel the mystery that led to the tragedy. What they discover is just the tip of the skein. Other deaths follow, all unrelated to view and entangled in a mysterious web that seems to have no end. What will be the next target?
