Return of the Pied Piper 1989

The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.

Bermuda Triangle 1988

Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.

Porcelain in an Elephant's Shop 1988

An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.

The Mother of the Kings 1987

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.

Zamach stanu 1981

Milioner 1977

Bicz Boży 1967

A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw.

Don Gabriel 1966

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.

A Cure for Love 1966

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.

The Saragossa Manuscript 1965

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

No More Divorces 1964

Three short segments about love.

Teenager 1963

A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.

Gold Dreams 1962

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

Farewells 1958

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.

Ewa Wants to Sleep 1958

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.

Farewell to the Devil 1957

A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside.

Cellulose 1954

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.

Three Stories 1953

The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.