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1. Warsaw '44 (2014)
130 min | Drama, History, Romance
A story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
Director: Jan Komasa | Stars: Józef Pawlowski, Zofia Wichlacz, Anna Próchniak, Antoni Królikowski
Votes: 6,716
2. The Last Witness (2018)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, History
An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of twenty-two thousand Polish officers during World War II. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years.
Director: Piotr Szkopiak | Stars: Alex Pettyfer, Robert Wieckiewicz, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon
Votes: 2,044
3. Katyn (2007)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, History, War
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 17,414 | Gross: $0.12M
5. Katyn: Slaughter and Silence (1991)
History
This film is the story of the cold and calculated slaughter of 22,000 Polish Army Officers and civilian professionals at the hands of the Soviet NKVD, predecessor of the dreaded KGB ... the... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Sikora
Votes: 7
6. Kraniet fra Katyn (2006 TV Movie)
Documentary
About the discovery of a mass grave with Polish officers in Katyn in Russia in 1943 and the identification of the skull that the Danish doctor Helge Tramsen took home
Director: Lisbeth Jessen | Star: Lisbeth Jessen
Votes: 9
7. Marszalek Pilsudski (2001– )
312 min | Biography, War
Stars: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Marek Kondrat, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
Votes: 21
8. Battle of Warsaw 1920 (2011)
115 min | Drama, History, Romance
Different strata of Polish society oppose communist aggression from Soviet Russia. Love lives on a par with war.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Natasza Urbanska, Borys Szyc, Jerzy Bonczak
Votes: 2,096
9. Enigma (2001)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam
Votes: 21,920 | Gross: $4.30M
10. A sangre y fuego (1990)
78 min | Action
Director: Gilberto de Anda | Stars: Valentín Trujillo, Jorge Reynoso, Juan Peláez, Wolf Ruvinskis
Votes: 18
11. Hatred (2016)
150 min | Drama, War
Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski | Stars: Michalina Labacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Wasyl Wasylik, Adrian Zaremba
Votes: 6,800
12. Schindler's List (1993)
R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Votes: 1,451,453 | Gross: $96.90M
13. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,559 | Gross: $0.02M
14. Pilsudski (2019)
108 min | Biography, History
The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Pilsudski (Borys Szyc). The Polish underground independence movement is ... See full summary »
Director: Michal Rosa | Stars: Borys Szyc, Magdalena Boczarska, Jan Marczewski, Maria Debska
Votes: 519
15. Conspirators (2019– )
45 min | Biography, Drama, History
The series is about a group of conspirators fighting against Tsarism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The main character is young Józef Pilsudski and his closest friends - later ... See full summary »
Stars: Grzegorz Otrebski, Mariusz Kiljan, Radoslaw Poplonikowski, Zuzanna Zielinska
Votes: 32
16. Europa Europa (1990)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, War
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms
Votes: 17,483 | Gross: $5.58M
17. To Kill A Priest (1988)
R | 117 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joss Ackland, Tim Roth
Votes: 1,685
18. Popieluszko. Wolnosc jest w nas (2009)
148 min | Biography, Drama, History
Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.
Director: Rafal Wieczynski | Stars: Adam Woronowicz, Artur Balczynski, Stanislaw Banasiuk, Adam Biedrzycki
Votes: 616
19. I'm a Killer (2016)
117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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'.
Director: Maciej Pieprzyca | Stars: Miroslaw Haniszewski, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Agata Kulesza, Magdalena Poplawska
Votes: 3,260
20. Jestem morderca... (1998 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary
Janusz Jasinski, a young lieutenant of the Citizens' Militia is appointed the head of the investigation the brutal killings of women. He works day and night to catch the serial killer.
Director: Maciej Pieprzyca | Stars: Boleslaw Andrysiak, Pawel Brzozowski, Andrzej Gass, Barbara Glogowska
Votes: 25
21. The Innocents (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Votes: 11,610 | Gross: $1.06M
22. The Mire (2018– )
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In an early-'80s Polish town, a prostitute and a youth leader are found killed, but the police's handling of the case makes two journalists suspicious.
Stars: Dawid Ogrodnik, Andrzej Seweryn, Zofia Wichlacz, Magdalena Rózczka
Votes: 5,731
23. Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
127 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Robert Wieckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Iwona Bielska, Zbigniew Zamachowski
Votes: 3,334
24. Pan Tadeusz (1999)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Grazyna Szapolowska, Andrzej Seweryn
Votes: 3,715
25. Wszystko, co kocham (2009)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent ... See full summary »
Director: Jacek Borcuch | Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Olga Frycz, Jakub Gierszal, Andrzej Chyra
Votes: 1,876
26. Man of Iron (1981)
PG | 156 min | Drama, History
A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Wieslawa Kosmalska
Votes: 3,796
27. Man of Marble (1977)
160 min | Drama
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.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki
Votes: 4,780
28. The Promised Land (1975)
Not Rated | 170 min | Drama
Three friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Anna Nehrebecka
Votes: 4,029
29. Landscape After Battle (1970)
109 min | Drama, History, Romance
The film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar
Votes: 886
30. Lotna (1959)
90 min | Drama, War
Poland, during the World War. Lotna is a magnificent specimen of Arabian horse, the pride of her owner, too old to actually ride her but to whom she remains faithful nevertheless. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Jerzy Pichelski, Adam Pawlikowski, Jerzy Moes, Mieczyslaw Loza
Votes: 472
31. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Romance, War
As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Votes: 13,473
32. General Nil (2009)
125 min | Biography, Drama, History
The tumultuous life of General August Emil Fieldorf aka "Nil", who commanded the underground Home Army against the Nazis and was killed after WW2 by communists.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Alicja Jachiewicz, Magdalena Emilianowicz, Anna Cieslak
Votes: 883
33. Historia Roja (2016)
133 min | Drama, History, War
In the spring of 1945, the commanding officer of the National Armed Forces in Mazowsze and older brother of 20-year-old Mieczyslaw Dziemieszkiewicz, is assassinated by Soviet soldiers. ... See full summary »
Director: Jerzy Zalewski | Stars: Krzysztof Zalewski, Wojciech Zoladkowicz, Piotr Nowak, Mariusz Bonaszewski
Votes: 435
34. The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka (2017)
121 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.
Director: Maria Sadowska | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Magdalena Boczarska, Karolina Gruszka, Tomasz Kot
Votes: 4,235
35. Taras Bulba (1962)
Approved | 122 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Tony Curtis, Yul Brynner, Christine Kaufmann, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 4,477 | Gross: $7.41M
36. Taras Bulba (2009)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Drama, History
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
Director: Vladimir Bortko | Stars: Bogdan Stupka, Igor Petrenko, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Magdalena Mielcarz
Votes: 3,409
37. The Mongols (1961)
105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest.
Directors: André De Toth, Leopoldo Savona, Riccardo Freda | Stars: Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Antonella Lualdi, Franco Silva
Votes: 363
38. Battle of Britain (1969)
G | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens
Votes: 24,525 | Gross: $4.36M
39. Mission of Honor (II) (2018)
Not Rated | 107 min | Action, Drama, War
The exploits of 303 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain. The squadron consisted of Polish pilots, many of whom were veterans of the air battles involved in Germany's invasion of Poland.
Director: David Blair | Stars: Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson, Stefanie Martini, Krystof Hádek
Votes: 5,517
40. Squadron 303 (2018)
104 min | Drama, War
This is the story of the highly regarded fighter squadron, in which served mainly airmen from Poland, in the history of aerial combat and their heroic defence of England during WW2, Battle ... See full summary »
Director: Denis Delic | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Kirk Barker, Gabriela Calun, Maciej Cymorek
Votes: 2,439
41. Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960)
166 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In the 15th century the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is facing a hard struggle against the neighboring Teutonic Order.Frequent clashes between the two powers finally culminate in 1410 with the Battle of Grunwald.
Director: Aleksander Ford | Stars: Urszula Modrzynska, Grazyna Staniszewska, Andrzej Szalawski, Henryk Borowski
Votes: 2,183
42. Uprising (2001 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 177 min | Drama, War
Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight
Votes: 5,122
43. The Pianist (2002)
R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, Music
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox
Votes: 912,779 | Gross: $32.57M
44. Jakob the Liar (1999)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, War
During World War II, an ordinary inhabitant of a ghetto fakes news about Allied offensives to inspire hope for other victims of the Nazi regime.
Director: Peter Kassovitz | Stars: Robin Williams, Hannah Taylor Gordon, Éva Igó, István Bálint
Votes: 18,000 | Gross: $4.96M
45. Holocaust (1978)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance
The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth
Votes: 5,505
46. Sophie's Choice (1982)
R | 150 min | Drama, Romance
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
Votes: 52,791 | Gross: $30.04M
47. Sobibor (2018)
TV-MA | 118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Felice Jankell, Dainius Kazlauskas
Votes: 5,769
48. Escape from Sobibor (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, War
German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker
Votes: 9,830
49. The Counterfeiters (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach
Votes: 47,182 | Gross: $5.48M
50. Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, History, War
A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Yehuda Lerner, Francine Kaufmann, Claude Lanzmann
Votes: 598 | Gross: $0.03M
51. Revolt in Sobibor (1990)
140 min | Documentary
Movie about successful escape from helling destruction camp sobibor.
Directors: Pavel Kogan, Lily van den Bergh | Stars: Samuel Lerer, Aleksandr Petsjerski, Jules Schelvis, Stanislaw 'Shlomo' Szmajzner
Votes: 16
52. Sobibor: The Plan, the Revolt, the Escape (2010)
19 min | Documentary, Short, History
The survivor accounts of the planning, the revolt and the escape from any Nazi concentration/death camp resulting one month later in the camp's destruction by the humiliated Nazis.
Directors: Karen Lynne Bloom, Richard Bloom | Stars: Philip Bialowitz, Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt, Chaim Engel, Selma Engel-Wijnberg
53. Treblinka (2016)
TV-14 | 61 min | Drama, History
Interviews with two survivors of the death camp Treblinka recalling the horrors and their miraculous escape
Director: Sérgio Tréfaut | Stars: Isabel Ruth, Kiril Kashlikov
Votes: 77
54. Treblinka's Last Witness (2012 TV Movie)
Documentary
Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, the last two survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, recount the horrors they experienced during the war and talk about their lives after ... See full summary »
Directors: Dollan Cannell, Spike Geilinger | Stars: Richard Lintern, Kalman Teigman, David Cesarani, Samuel Willenberg
Votes: 102
55. Treblinka Inside Hitler's Secret Death Camp (2013 TV Movie)
46 min | Documentary
British archaeologists who have been granted access to excavate & investigate one of Hitler's most notorious extermination camps, 50 years after it was dismantled.
Director: Alex Nikolic-Dunlop | Star: Caroline Sturdy Colls
Votes: 87
56. Strike (2006)
104 min | Drama
A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra, Wojciech Solarz
Votes: 491 | Gross: $0.01M
57. General. Zamach na Gibraltarze (2009)
90 min | Biography, History, War
The film presents the last days of Gen. Sikorski, right before the Gibraltar catastrophe. The commander is accompanied by his daughter Zofia and a group of closest collaborators. They are ... See full summary »
Director: Anna Jadowska | Stars: Christoph Pieczynski, Kamilla Baar, Jerzy Gralek, Tomasz Sobczak
Votes: 155
58. Janosik. Prawdziwa historia (2009)
140 min | Drama, Romance, Adventure
Janosik, an 18th century outlaw living on the Slovak-Polish border, becomes a popular folk hero.
Directors: Kasia Adamik, Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Václav Jirácek, Ivan Martinka, Michal Zebrowski, Sarah Zoe Canner
Votes: 856
59. Hrabina Cosel (1968)
139 min | Biography, History, Romance
"The Countess Cosel" is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia von Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector ... See full summary »
Director: Jerzy Antczak | Stars: Jadwiga Baranska, Mariusz Dmochowski, Stanislaw Jasiukiewicz, Daniel Olbrychski
Votes: 88
60. Boris Godunov (1986)
130 min | Drama, History
Based on the Alexander Pushkin's play, epic story about Tsar Boris Godunov, who reigned over Russia between 1598 and 1605.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Alyona Bondarchuk, Gennadi Mitrofanov, Valeriy Storozhik
Votes: 288
61. The White Mazurka (1979)
153 min | Biography, Drama, History
When renowned revolutionary Ludwik Warynski is visited in his prison cell by a Tsarist general, he starts reminiscing his tumultuous past.
Director: Wanda Jakubowska | Stars: Tomasz Grochoczynski, Anna Chodakowska, Aldona Grochal, Wojciech Alaborski
62. Boleslaw Smialy (1972)
97 min | Drama, History
Director: Witold Lesiewicz | Stars: Ignacy Gogolewski, Jerzy Kaliszewski, Maria Ciesielska, Aleksandra Slaska
Votes: 38
63. Copernicus (1973)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
The life and work of the astronomer Nicolas Copernicus are shown by means of images of his writings and drawings and places he was associated with.
Directors: Charles Eames, Ray Eames | Star: John S. Ragin
Votes: 18
64. The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 (2012)
R | 114 min | Drama, History, War
In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe. On September 11. was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the Turks.
Director: Renzo Martinelli | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Andrea Iaia, Enrico Lo Verso, Jerzy Skolimowski
Votes: 2,224
65. Desperacja (1989)
106 min | Action, Drama, History
Director: Zbigniew Kuzminski | Stars: Krzysztof Ibisz, Lidia Korsakówna, Maria Mielnikow-Krawczyk, Robert Rozmus
Votes: 13
66. The Devil (1972)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Horror
During the Prussian army's invasion of Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman, Jakub, is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of his fellow ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Leszek Teleszynski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Malgorzata Braunek, Iga Mayr
Votes: 2,849
67. Siberian Exile (2013)
125 min | Drama, History, Romance
Mass deportations to Siberia of the 1940s as seen through eyes of a young boy called Staszek Dolina. His family members are among the 2 million Polish citizens, who are sent to the cruel Siberian work camps.
Director: Janusz Zaorski | Stars: Adam Woronowicz, Sonia Bohosiewicz, Andrii Zhurba, Pawel Krucz
Votes: 354
68. Hubal (1973)
126 min | Drama, War
Based on a true story. After Poland is overrun by Axis forces in 1939, an officer and his remaining men decide to continue fighting the invaders alone, thereby becoming the first guerrillas of World War II.
Director: Bohdan Poreba | Stars: Ryszard Filipski, Malgorzata Potocka, Tadeusz Janczar, Emil Karewicz
Votes: 293
69. Gniazdo (1974)
94 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set in the year 972 AD the history of prince Mieszko I and his efforts to build strong christian nation - the beginning of Poland.
Director: Jan Rybkowski | Stars: Wojciech Pszoniak, Marek Bargielowski, Wanda Neumann, Franciszek Pieczka
Votes: 78
70. Jaroslaw Dabrowski (1976)
181 min | Biography, History
Director: Bohdan Poreba | Stars: Zygmunt Malanowicz, Malgorzata Potocka, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Viktor Avdyushko
Votes: 24
71. Kazimierz Wielki (1976)
153 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1370, as he feels the end of his life is coming, one of Poland's greatest kings, Casimir the Great, reflects on his past. He looks back on the memories of his youth, when he was crowned after the death of his father Ladislaus the Short.
Directors: Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski, Romuald Drobaczynski, Bohdan Wielecki | Stars: Krzysztof Chamiec, Zofia Saretok, Wladyslaw Hancza, Wieslaw Golas
Votes: 44
72. Zamach stanu (1980)
158 min | Drama, History
Reconstruction of dramatic events in Poland between years 1926 and 1933, when Marshall Pilsudski took the reins of power into his own hands.
Director: Ryszard Filipski | Stars: Ryszard Filipski, Ignacy Gogolewski, Andrzej Hrydzewicz, Jerzy Sagan
Votes: 45
73. Young Chopin (1952)
Approved | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
A story of the formative years in Chopin's life between 1825 and 1831, a time of social unrest throughout Europe, of rising nationalism, and of cries for reform. Chopin, an outstanding ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksander Ford | Stars: Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, Józef Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski
Votes: 82
74. Republika nadziei (1988)
156 min | Drama, History
Director: Zbigniew Kuzminski | Stars: Andrzej Szczytko, Jolanta Grusznic, Zbigniew Bogdanski, Ryszard Dembinski
Votes: 10
75. Year 1863 (1922)
93 min | Drama, History, Romance
Director: Edward Puchalski | Stars: Ryszard Sobiszewski, Stanislawa Chrzanowska, Maria Hryniewicz, Helena Marcello-Palinska
Votes: 32
76. Polonia restituta (1981)
219 min | Drama, History, War
A historical reconstruction of dramatic events leading to creation of Polish state. Covers the First World War and the postwar period up to the Treaty of Versailles.
Director: Bohdan Poreba | Stars: Krzysztof Chamiec, Edmund Fetting, Józef Fryzlewicz, Ignacy Gogolewski
Votes: 21
78. Polonia Restituta (1983)
50 min | Drama, History
The film is about events related to Poland regaining independence after years of partitions - from the creation of Legions in Krakow by Jozef Pilsudski in 1914, to discussions and decisions... See full summary »
Stars: Janusz Zakrzenski, Krzysztof Chamiec, Józef Fryzlewicz, Jerzy Kaliszewski
79. Poznan 56 (1996)
106 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Two teenage boys witness an anticommunist uprising in Poznan of 1956. The atmosphere and the repercussions of the revolt are experienced by everyone - from common workers to university professors.
Director: Filip Bajon | Stars: Michal Zebrowski, Tadeusz Szymków, Mateusz Hornung, Arkadiusz Walkowiak
Votes: 116
80. Chlopi (1973)
166 min | Drama
A beautiful girl makes a rich farmer and his son fall in love with her, causing considerable confusion in the village.
Director: Jan Rybkowski | Stars: Wladyslaw Hancza, Emilia Krakowska, Krystyna Królówna, Krystyna Kolodziejczyk
Votes: 97
81. Chlopi (1972– )
653 min | Drama
About the Boryna family and other villagers in the region of Mazovia in Poland at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. The Borynas are farmers, and their son is expected to follow the family tradition.
Stars: Emilia Krakowska, Krystyna Królówna, Bronislaw Pawlik, Magdalena Wollejko
Votes: 188
82. Pulkownik Kwiatkowski (1995)
123 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
In 1945, military doctor Andrzej Kwiatkowski pretends to be a communist army colonel in order to save innocent people from Stalinist imprisonment and to get the heart of the girl he's in love with.
Director: Kazimierz Kutz | Stars: Marek Kondrat, Renata Dancewicz, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Adam Ferency
Votes: 946
83. The Deluge (1974)
287 min | Adventure, History, Romance
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kazimierz Wichniarz
Votes: 3,185
84. Kanal (1957)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, War
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski
Votes: 8,041
85. Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska, Maria Chwalibóg
Votes: 4,314
86. Interrogation (1989)
TV-MA | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos, Agnieszka Holland
Votes: 3,684
87. The Devil Next Door (2019)
TV-MA | 46 min | Documentary, Crime, History
A Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous German death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
Stars: Yoram Sheftel, Eli Gabay, Michael Shaked, Eli Rosenbaum
Votes: 15,088
88. Aftermath (2012)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A Polish man who returns home after the death of his father unearths a secret about the now-deceased Jewish residents of his village.
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Ireneusz Czop, Jerzy Szymkiewi, Wojciech Walasik, Zbigniew Zamachowski
Votes: 4,242 | Gross: $0.00M
89. The Road to Gdansk (1983 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
The politics of Poland and her history.
Director: Maxim Ford
Votes: 6
90. Willy-nilly Hero
85 min | Adventure, History | Pre-production
The Ukrainian batiar (Lviv's subculture) from Lviv falls in love with the daughter of a Polish noble. To save her he joins the Polish uprising against Austria in Lviv in 1848. In the result he becomes a hero of the revolution.
Directors: Aleksandr Alyoshechkin, Vyacheslav Alyoshechkin
91. Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)
160 min | Adventure, History, War
In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Magdalena Zawadzka, Mieczyslaw Pawlikowski, Hanka Bielicka
Votes: 1,784
92. Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020 TV Movie)
97 min | Documentary, History
The Soviet Union commanded the killing of 22 000 Polish prisoners in 1940. 4500 of them were killed in the Katyn forest, in Russia. This sheds light on the paranoid and cruel Soviet top ranks that made it happen.
Director: Cédric Tourbe | Stars: Lavrenti Beria, Wassili Michailowitsch Blochin, Winston Churchill, Józef Czapski
Votes: 115
93. The Immigrant (2013)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk
Votes: 33,796 | Gross: $2.01M
94.
Television Theater (1953– )
Episode:
Smierc rotmistrza Pileckiego
(2006)
85 min | Drama
The main hero is a historical personage Witold Pilecki, a cavalry Captain, who voluntarily entered German Concentration Camp Auschwitz, organized resistance there and a channel of ... See full summary »
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Marek Probosz, Marek Kalita, Andrzej Niemirski, Jacek Rozenek
Votes: 52
95. Mala matura 1947 (2010)
109 min | Drama
Ludwik moves with his parents to Cracow and starts studying in a new school. The boy shows rebellion against the surrounding post-war reality.
Director: Janusz Majewski | Stars: Maciej Antoniak, Dagmara Bak, Sonia Bak, Stanislaw Banas
Votes: 203
96. 1920. Wojna i milosc (2011– )
45 min | Action, History, Romance
An historical drama centered around the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1920 and three Polish soldiers when Poland stood up in defense of its borders and of the entire European civilization threatened by the communist Soviet Russia.
Stars: Tomasz Borkowski, Wojciech Zielinski, Michal Zurawski, Jakub Wesolowski
Votes: 84
97. The Resistance Fighter (2019)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Drama, History
Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Philippe Tlokinski, Julie Engelbrecht, Bradley James, Martin Butzke
Votes: 1,731
98. Jack Strong (2014)
Not Rated | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri Bilov
Votes: 5,359
99. Legions (2019)
140 min | Drama, History, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Dariusz Gajewski | Stars: Sebastian Fabijanski, Bartosz Gelner, Wiktoria Wolanska, Miroslaw Baka
Votes: 765
100. Kim jest ten czlowiek? (1985)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, War
The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his ... See full summary »
Directors: Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Henryk Talar, Ewa Szykulska, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Krzysztof Chamiec
Votes: 34
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