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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
Style:
suspense, period piece, art house
Plot:
revenge, grudge, character study, female empowerment, confrontation, female rivalry, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, social realism, oppression, polish history, justice ...
Time:
80s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Comedy about Zdzisław Najmrodzki, most famous polish criminal in the times of Polish People Republic, named "the getaway king", known for stealing cars and escaping prison many times, but never hurting anybody.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, disturbing, satirical
Plot:
criminal, fleeing, love, car thief, lifestyle change, love affair, bandit, love interest, satire, love story, romantic relationship, prison ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
poland
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18K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Style:
disturbing, sentimental, heartbreaking, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, war crime, ethnic conflict, polish history, nazism, survival, propaganda, holocaust, massacre, occupation, oppression, murder ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1940, post world war two
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, russia, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the ...
Style:
tension, poignant, grim, bleak, black and white ...
Plot:
world war two, children, orphanage, brutality, fear, hiding, occupation, concentration camp, soldier, trauma, loss, realism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe, central europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Poland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, period drama
Plot:
world war two, jew persecution, nazism, female protagonist, holocaust, jewish history, wartime, problem, nazi germany, wartime life, jewish life, social problems ...
Time:
1940s, year 1939
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Plot:
surrealism, underground movement, love, prison, conspiracy, priest, male female relationship, resistance, patriotism, exorcism, poet, exile ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
This is really season 7 of Days Of Honor, though the timings are out as some of the events in this series pre-date season 6. More about Polish resistance to the Nazis during WWII
Style:
epic, intense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, tragedy, counter intelligence, courage, survival, moral dilemma, bravery, soldier, wartime, war, life & death, military officer ...
Place:
warsaw poland
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187
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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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The saga of the Winny family through 100 years. The action begins on the eve of World War I in 1914 and ends in modern times.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, suspense, uplifting, disturbing ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
family history, mother daughter relationship, orphan, wisdom of life, world war two, life is a bitch, boy, family drama, hopes, single mother, childhood, relatives ...
Time:
20th century, post world war one, 1920s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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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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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two energetic TV reporters investigate the 1977 murder of a student who was a prominent member of the anti-communist opposition.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, neo noir, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political scandal, murder mystery, investigative journalism, cameraman, corruption, conspiracy, cold case, political repression, secret police, surveillance, underground movement, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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572
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The ...
Style:
political
Plot:
coming of age, love letter, renaissance, little boy, exploitation, boy, indoctrination, polish history, police officer, prisoner of war camp, death, politics ...
Time:
1950s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in her cellar for five years. She gets pregnant with his child and has the baby out of the wedlock. ...
Style:
period piece
Plot:
death, persecution, polish history, lovers, chase, basement, nurse, pneumonia, escape, secret life, doctor, hiding place ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland, Italy
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.
Style:
realistic, serious, factual, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
catholic, saint, faith, christian, vatican, world war two, clergy, religion, bishop, pope, catholic church, politics ...
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIES CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, working class, labor union, rebellion, fighting the system, human spirit, ambition, injustice, life is a bitch, legal, rebelliousness, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Russia
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An epic tale of Poles, Ukrainians, Jews who are deported to Russia. Their fate is shown from the perspective of a young boy Staszek, who goes to Siberia with his family and neighbors from a small village in the eastern Polish borderlands. Together ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, touching, thought provoking, rough
Plot:
fall in love, world war two, amnesty, cruelty, jewish family, hard labor, death of mother, death of wife, stupidity, getting home, suppression, cold weather ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
siberia, poland
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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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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In the war-torn countryside, an orphan and his young friend use all their skills to defend their home and people from opposing forces.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, anime, patriotic
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
siege, military, patriotism, polish, russian history, protector, teamwork, friends, soldier, friendship, protection, butt ...
Time:
17th century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Style:
factual, costume drama, rough, sad, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
holocaust, zoo, nazi, world war two, marriage, hiding place, shoah, nazi occupied poland, women, zookeeper, world war, biopic ...
Time:
1930s, year 2017, 1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, germany, central europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor ...
Style:
rough, realistic, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
wartime life, world war two, farm, soldier, countryside, military, danger, occupation, sexual abuse, german woman, household, holocaust ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Days of honor is a Polish World War II television drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since September 7, 2008.
Style:
suspense, captivating, exciting
Plot:
world war two, resistance, resistance movement, wartime, battles, soldier, military life, power struggle, wartime life, class struggle, military, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
genocide, world war two, war atrocity, murder, massacre, brutality, wedding, cheating wife, homicide, hanged woman, childbirth, nazi occupation ...
Time:
year 1943, year 1939, 1940s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot:
friendship, holocaust, concentration camp, haunted by the past, elderly, obsession, memory, war crime, civil servant, holocaust survivor, new love, sibling relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, brussels
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A movie about the power of thousands, the courage of hundreds and friendship of a few, thanks to whom a change of fate of millions became possible. Poland, lower Silesia, the beginning of a very cold winter 1981. After a series of entrapments by the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
martial law, labor union, fighting the system, idealism, hopes, society, government agency, undercover, friendship, politics, communism, conflict ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
poland
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