Ogrodowa Street in Lódz - just opposite a crowded shopping center, a state-of-the-art museum and a posh hotel - is where some of the city's poorest live, completely forgotten by the world. A heart-warming and funny portrait of people excluded from the mainstream of social life; people who might be more capable of sacrifice and love than those who pushed them to the sidelines of society.
The second part of adventures of Mr. Blot and the students of his magic school.
Edyta is forty and in the midst of a crisis. She has left her family, her husband and son and their house on the Baltic Sea behind her. She spends her nights in a Warsaw hotel room and her days driving around the unfamiliar city. When she runs out of cash, she hatches a plan: An ad in the newspaper – sex for money. Edyta never lets things get that far though, as she drugs her clients and then uses their apartments as a refuge for the night. Then she meets an artist, Patryk. A smidgen of luck and Edyta can no longer maintain her dismissive attitude. In this enthralling character study, Tomasz Wasilewski uses filmic minimalism to ensure that glances and gestures say more than words. He portrays a lonely woman in both fragility and strength, using precise image composition.
Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.
Two writers comment on the situation of Poland in the period of political transformation.
Longing for sun, breath and exotic thrills, Kasia and Tomek set off on a dream trip to the island of Bali in Indonesia. Lying on a paradise beach, their thoughts are very far from their duties resulting from working for large corporations. They both want to have a baby very much, but they also know that before that happens, they must deal with each other and work through their conflicts. One day they decide to go on a trip towards the volcano on the island and the jungle around it. There they meet by chance a mysterious man who invites them to his home. The couple decide to follow in the footsteps of the stranger. The atmosphere thickens minute by minute, and the disturbing aura becomes more and more infiltrated by the Polish couple. Soon there will be events that will lead Kasia and Tomek to a huge internal transformation. Nothing will ever be the way it was. They will both remember this trip to Bali forever.
The screenplay is based on an authentic story of a robbery of a branch of the National Bank of Poland in Wolow. The thing took place in 1962, 12 million zlotys were stolen. For some time the perpetrators remained at large. Soon, however, the police came across their trail and the criminals were soon captured. And then the real bomb went off. It turned out that the thieves were not people listed in the police annals or even in contact with the criminal world. All the robbers had a reputation as "respectable citizens", by no means suffering from a lack of cash.
When Gośka meets Grzesiek online, she's sure he's her Mr. Right. Grzesiek is crazy about her, showers her with flowers, and proposes in Venice, but soon enough, the picture perfect romance starts to crumble, revealing a darker side.
Ania and Bartek, two stuttering teenagers undergoing speech therapy, are learning to like themselves and stop being afraid.
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.
A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father.
A commune built around the pursuit of spiritual perfection through the occult begins to see its prophecies come true.
Cezary still lives with his mother at 22 years old. He is in desperately in love with Emilia, a 20 year-old carefree rock singer. But he also has a dark secret. What will happen to Cezary, his mother and Emilia when they encounter the curse of the mythical nymph Ondine?
A morality tale that starts from answering a mysterious passenger's mobile phone left on a train, and intertwines the lives of student Bartek, who leads an immoral life, and several strangers.
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.
When a heart breaks, the gap spreads along the weakest and most receptive parts of the enclosing world. ‘Fading Snow’ presents one night from the life of 35-year-old Mania who leaves her safe place – the theatre – and sets off to find her way back to home in a broken city of Warsaw.
The story of a doctor who is about to retire.
Roman Jacenko, a local photographer tries to turn his fortunes around and rob a bank transport.
A sensitive idealist, a noble and righteous man, he dreams of a true, great love. Despite turning 40, he is still looking for 'the one'. Before fate unexpectedly turns out to be favorable, he experiences various emotional adversities. Reflective story of the unchanging human longing for goodness and honesty.
Shot in Polish-British co-production series of short stories based on themes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "father" of the world's most famous detective: Sherlock Holmes.
Four Ukrainian women from different walks of life move to Poland with empty wallets and pockets full of dreams to start new chapters in their lives.
Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma.
The series follows the story of the Szczygłów family's removal firm, starting from New Year's Eve 1899. It seems that every time they do a removal, an object gets lost. Each episode is centred around this object. The series was intended to follow the Szczygłów family right up to the year 2000. Series 1 gets as far as 1941.
In these eight tales set across Europe, singles navigate love's complexities via an online dating site, from marital games to elderly romance.
In which the participants, accustomed to the comforts and charms of big city life, will have to survive in conditions they have not known before. to grow and sleep only when their duties allow it. In addition, duels for survival, as well as tasks that will require them to make difficult decisions, not always in accordance with their nature. In order to survive and win the program, the inhabitants of the Farm will have to cooperate with each other, test your survival instinct and strength of character. I will be alliances, quarrels, intrigues, but also friendships, and maybe even love? Every week one participant will say goodbye to the Farm, and ultimately only one will win the title of Super Farmer and 100,000 zlotys! Marcelina Zawadzka and Ilona Krawczyńska will set off on an adventure full of challenges, who from the very first day will try to help Farmers on their way to victory!
