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1) In darkness
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi-occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
3) EO
Series
Publisher
Criterion Channel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Polish
Description
Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Polish
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Description
After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, twenty-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. While in prison, he found Christ and aspires to join the clergy, but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for the town's new priest,...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Polish
Description
"Emilia, a Polish widow and her ailing mother manage to eke out a living, and it is while she has a rare moment for her only enjoyment - painting - that she meets Norman, an American soldier involved in war-crime investigations. both their lives have been disrupted by the war. Norman has seen too much to be able to return home easily but he feels he has found a woman who could be his partner for life, although hthey have no common language and can...
6) The lure
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Polish
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Description
Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", in which the girls' bond is tested and...
Publisher
MGE
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Polish
Description
While in prison, a small-time cheat nicknamed "Lawstorant" is planning the perfect heist in order to ensure his wealth. Upon getting out of prison, he teams up with "Fragler," a risk taker, prostitute Monika, and a drunk to set up a phony warehouse. Their plans for success are altered due to a plethora of women, intrigues, organized crime, and greed.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Polish
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Description
On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, Zhenia, a masseur from the East, enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. Using hypnotic, almost magical techniques to get a residence permit, he starts working. The well-to-do residents in their cookie-cutter homes seemingly have it all, but they all suffer from an inner sadness, some unexplained longing. The attractive and mysterious newcomer's hands heal, and Zhenia's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 215
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Polish
Description
The suspenseful story of three people isolated for 24 hours aboard a yacht.
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Polish
Description
After Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. Along with best friend Michal, handsome and wide-eyed, they roam the metropolis at night, floating from party to party, dancing until dawn in makeshift clubs and city squares. With only instinct and desire as their guides, big ideas intermingle with drugs and sex and one thing seamlessly gives way to another.
11) Katyn
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Polish
Description
Four officers and their families uncover the truth about what happened to 22,000 men in the Katyn Forest, when they were killed on orders of Joseph Stalin after Germany's invasion of Poland. Bonus features include interview with director Andrzej Wajda.
12) In the name of
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014], 2013.
Language
Polish
Description
Adam is a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21. He now lives in a village in rural Poland where he works with teenagers with behavioral problems who fight and yell abuse. He declines the advances of a young blonde named Ewa, saying he is already spoken for. However, celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows that he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Polish
Description
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and those dear to him are alive. Over the years, a city grown in his imagination. One day, literary heroes and cartoon childhood idols, who in the consciousness of the successive generations are forever young and wearing short pants, come to live there, uninvited. When our hero discovers they have all grown old and that eternal...
15) Demon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Polish
Description
Newly arrived from England to marry his fiancee Zaneta, Peter has been given a gift of her family's ramshackle country house in rural Poland. It's a total fixer-upper, and while inspecting the premises on the eve of the wedding, he falls into a pile of human remains. The ceremony proceeds, but strange things begin to happen.
16) Ida
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Polish
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
17) Nina
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
NiNA and Wotjek are a married (but mismatched) couple; They're eager to have a child, but NiNA can't conceive. When a chance encounter introduces them to Magda, Wotjek believes they may have found a suitable surrogate. But meeting the fiercely independent, single-minded Magda awakens a repressed desire in NiNA, causing events to spiral out of everyone's control.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center for Creative Leadership
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Polish
Description
If your team isn't getting results, you may think the problem starts with a failure in leadership. While the person in charge may have issues, a leadership problem doesn't necessarily mean you have a "leader" problem. Leadership is not just about the people at the top, but is a social process, enabling individuals to work together as a cohesive group to produce collective results. This book will show you how to diagnose problems in your team by focusing...
20) In Touch
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
The story of people from a little Polish village called Stare Juchy (in Polish: Old Blood). The village is located in Masuria, area often referred as ''The Land of Thousand Lakes''. Around 400 people from this village have emigrated to Iceland since the 80's and nobody has returned. Those who stayed behind - most of them from the older generation - are hoping for the reunion. But by now their children and grandchildren are settling into new lives...
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