Movies and TV shows set in warsaw poland – page 4

List of movies set in warsaw poland

Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All (1982)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: 2d animation
Plot: superhero, space opera, flash gordon, world war two, spaceship, air battle, space, emperor, space travel, sword and sorcery, space battle, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1939, 1930s
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
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A Szerencse lányai (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
Style: emotional, realistic, intense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot: prostitution, female protagonist, sacrifice, survival, poverty, mother and daughter, motherhood, social realism, branding iron, moral dilemma, class struggle, resilience ...
Time: 90s
Place: moscow russia, warsaw poland
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 7.3
 4K
Moonlighting (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and ...
Style: political, realistic, tense, bleak, dark comedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: renaissance, culture clash, worker, survival, adaptation, polish, construction worker, state affairs, misfit, society, boss and employee, workplace ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: london, poland, eastern europe, england, europe ...
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 6.4
 187
War Girls (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Three young women join the resistance during German occupation of Poland.
Style: sincere, suspense, rough, thought provoking, touching
Plot: world war two, german occupation, struggle for survival, young woman, female friendship, strong female lead, wartime life, jewish family, jewish girl, hiding place, martial law, wartime ...
Place: warsaw poland
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The Pleasure Principle (2019)
Genre: Crime
Country: Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: Mysterious murders has been committed in four post-communist cities: Warsaw, Prague, Odesa, and Leipzig. The investigations are carried out by three absolutely different in many aspects criminal police officers. Independently of one another, they ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, rough
Plot: serial killer, killer on the loose, police investigation, investigator, police investigator, killing spree, murder, twists and turns, police officer, murder investigation, dishonesty, investigation ...
Place: prague, poland, ukraine, central europe, warsaw poland ...
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 7.0
 6K
Jack Strong (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A spy thriller telling a historically based story of a man who alone dares to challenge Soviets being in the middle of the communistic system himself. Planning the maneuvers of Warsaw Pact forces he discovers that the American plans of nuclear ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: spy, martial law, state affairs, undercover, politics, government agency, political unrest, dishonesty, iron curtain, cold war, chase, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s, 60s
Place: poland, europe, soviet union, warsaw poland, ussr
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 6.1
 2K
Panic Attack (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
Style: tragicomedy, dark comedy, non-linear, neurotic, light ...
Plot: group of friends, husband wife relationship, passive aggressive woman, passive aggressive man, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, comedy of manners, multiple storylines, wedding, dark humor, party, failed expectations, wedding day ...
Place: central europe, poland, warsaw poland
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Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story: The title is Adolf Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall ...
Style: harsh, factual, tense, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, resistance, holocaust, nazi, ss, moral ambiguity, military, moral dilemma, totalitarianism, rescue, against the odds ...
Time: 1940s, year 1966, year 1944
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany, warsaw poland
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The Crown of the Kings (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Polish monarchs Casimir III the Great, the last king of Poland from the Piast Dynasty, and Saint Jadwiga, the first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland. In the background: love, intrigue and difficult relationships between the ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, historical drama
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: royal family, knight, medieval, polish history, love, king, battles, life philosophy, wealthy family, heroes, kids and family, historical character ...
Time: middle ages, 14th century, 12th century, medieval times, 15th century
Place: poland, austria, hungary, vienna, lithuania ...
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Blood of the Innocent (1994)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob.
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: black market, organ, revenge, kidnapping, immigrant, police detective, rivalry, investigation, vengeance, law enforcement, martial arts, murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, poland, europe, usa, warsaw poland
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Colonel Kwiatkowski (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min.
Story: 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.
Style: crying
Plot: pretending to be someone else, russian soldier, spy, world war two, punched in the face, wound, train station, soviet soldier, security guard, sidekick, child, satire ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, year 1945, 20th century
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.
Style: grindhouse, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot: rock band, cowboy, musician, music, religious, dancing, on the road, special agent, friends, lifestyle, musician's life, performer's life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: latin america, russia, coney island brooklyn new york city, siberia, czech republic ...
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Brunet Will Call (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a ...
Style: dark comedy
Plot: gypsy, dead body, satire, suitcase of money, omen, drunk, snow, police, murder, absurdism, social satire, cinema ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: poland, europe, central europe, warsaw poland
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 5.8
 51
The Birthday (1980)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second ...
Plot: world war two, nazi occupation, bird, rebellion, autobiography, bribe, resistance, stepmother stepson relationship, german occupation, coming of age, rich, tragic event ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, 1930s, year 1944, year 1943 ...
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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 6.1
 89
Godzina W (1980)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Tells the story of a very memorable in Warsaw - August 1, 1944. The Germans have been withdrawing for some time, everyone is waiting for the signal of the Polish uprising to start.
Style: bleak, tension, period piece, suspense, patriotic ...
Plot: world war two, german occupation, sacrifice, polish history, resistance movement, desperation, bravery, realism, guerilla warfare, last stand, suicide mission, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s
Place: warsaw poland
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Just Beyond This Forest (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in 1942, The Jewish wife she worked for before the war hires her to take her young daughter to the countryside until the war is over.
Plot: world war two, holocaust, employer employee relationship, friendship, mother daughter relationship, little girl, jewish girl, traitor, forest, old woman, ghetto, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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 6.4
 485
Hunting Flies (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Wlodek is a young man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Wlodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: lover lover relationship, bossy woman, social satire, psychological manipulation, dysfunctional marriage, farce, satire, seductive woman, femme fatale, social climbing, male female relationship, female chauvinism ...
Place: eastern europe, poland, warsaw poland
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 5.8
 221
Angel in Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Giordano, an angel assigned to an orphan in Krakow, is two years into the job when his celestial overseers, citing budget cuts, initiate "Phase Two" without telling him. Some changes are good - they send him a nanny, the enterprising ...
Style: psychotronic, romantic comedy, urban fantasy
Plot: visitor, magic realism, insane asylum, heaven, teleportation, best friend, angel, balloon, therapist, actor, orphan, guardian ...
Place: poland, warsaw poland, central europe, europe
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 5.9
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Eminent Domain (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Israel, Canada, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Style: independent film
Plot: cold war, teenage girl, cold war era, poker, listening device, desertion, death of child, politics, intrigue, friendship, being followed, exile ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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 6.5
 291
Stealth (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lionel is a happy gay man with a great career and an open-minded family that accepts his loyal lover, Serge. But things start to unravel when he meets a pretty Polish immigrant who is about to be deported and decides to marry her.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sincere, sexual ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, gay relationship, immigrant, on the road, pregnancy, self discovery, couples, obsessive quest, love and romance, family life, lovers reunited ...
Place: poland, switzerland, france, europe, warsaw poland
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The Final Solution: The Wannsee Conference (1984)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A real time recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which leading SS and Nazi Party officals gathered to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Led by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, the Wannsee Conference was the ...
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, talky, captivating, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, nazi germany, world war, genocide, racism, anti semitism, nazi officer, nazism, crime against humanity, conference ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, palestine, warsaw poland
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the Warsau Ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith, and one final chance at redemption. Written by legendary 'Twilight Zone' creator, Rod Sterling.
Style: contemplative, emotional, disturbing, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, rabbi, shoah, german soldier, world war, religions or cults, family relations, injustice, danger, against humanity, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
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 5.4
 6K
Salon Kitty (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl ...
Style: sexy, erotic, disturbing, controversial, sexual ...
Plot: exploitation, lust, orgy, world war two, gynecological exam, female orgasm, forbidden love, sex, ss, depravity, third reich, oral sex ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939, 1930s
Place: germany, italy, europe, paris france, naples italy ...
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A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Shortly after WWII an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to USA and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia's mother is sick but would recover by available medicine. ...
Style: contemplative, depressing, gloomy, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, painter, widow, prostitute, language barrier, colonialism, foreign legion, legion, world war, wartime, love ...
Time: post world war two, year 1984, 20th century, 1940s, year 1964 ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, arizona, berlin germany ...
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 6.3
 2K
The Rainbow (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, historical drama ...
Plot: coming of age, women's rights, making love, love, sex, sex scene, sexual awakening, lesbian, bisexual, rainbow, bride and groom, sadist ...
Time: year 1989, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place: england, europe, warsaw poland, poland
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 7.0
 587
Love Stories (1997)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jerzy Stuhr scripted, directed and plays four roles in this Polish comedy about four men -- an army officer, a college instructor, a priest, and a drug dealer -- and their relationships with four females. An attractive student (Dominika Ostalowska) ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, touching
Plot: lost love, accountant, couples, youth, drug dealing, criminal heroes, love and romance, clergy, teachers and students, student life, instructor, judgment ...
Time: 90s
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
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Coup de grâce (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, bleak, political ...
Plot: closeted homosexual, aunt nephew relationship, gay soldier, tragic love, love triangle, betrayal, soldier, evacuation, tragic hero, world war one, political unrest, wartime life ...
Time: year 1976, 1910s, 1920s, year 1919, post world war one
Place: latvia, europe, baltics, prussia, lithuania ...
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The Counterfeiters (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Style: harsh, tense, brutal, bleak, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, counterfeit money, brutality, forgery, counterfeiter, prison, nazi concentration camp, war crime ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1936, year 2008 ...
Place: germany, europe, poland, austria, canada ...
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 8.1
 312K
Before Sunset (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style: philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
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For Those I Loved (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Polish Martin Gray (Michael York) recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife (Brigitte Fossey) and family.
Plot: holocaust, world war two, nazi, holocaust survivor, nazi occupied france, revolutionary war, world war, struggle, revolutionary, revolution, freedom, immigration ...
Place: eastern europe, warsaw poland, usa, europe
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