Movies and TV shows set in poland
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in poland ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological, bleak and gloomy films and TV shows about / with husband wife relationship, love, female nudity, society, polish, death, renaissance, love and romance, family relations and couples plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in Poland, France, West Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as poland: The Zone of Interest (2023), The Christening (2010), The Reverse (2009), United States of Love (2016), Camouflage (1977), The Dark House (2009), Sweet Rush (2009), Pornography (2003), Ida (2013), Rose (2011).
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List of movies set in poland
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Poland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Style:
captivating, psychological, experimental, crying, period drama
Plot:
garden, auschwitz, holocaust, world war two, ss officer, nazi germany, husband wife relationship, concentration camp, swimming pool, nazi, genocide, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, year 1944, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place:
poland, berlin germany, hungary
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Michal has what he always dreamed of: a beautiful wife named Magda, a newborn son, his own firm. He chooses an old friend, Janek, to be the godfather of his child. This is just the beginning of Michal's plan, who asks his friend to take an ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy, bleak
Plot:
going straight, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, one more chance, friends, godparent, husband wife relationship, passionate sex, criminal heroes, reform, friendship between men, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The ...
Style:
humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, romantic comedy, offbeat ...
Plot:
undercover, looking for love, opposites attract, fall in love, couples, family relations, dark humor, human nature, love and romance, couple relations, wooing, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
Style:
psychological, tense, touching, contemplative, social ...
Plot:
sex scene, lesbian, unhappy marriage, married woman, female protagonist, couples, family relations, love and romance, husband wife relationship, love, male pubic hair, female pubic hair ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, future
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, biting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
renaissance, campus, father son relationship, male nudity, sex, skinny dipping, nude girl, summer, satire, intrigue, manipulation, summer camp ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story takes place in two parallel time planes. The first plot follows the events of one autumn night in 1978. Edward Srodon, a zootechnician, makes an accidental stopover in a farmhouse of Dziabas family in the remote area of Bieszczady ...
Style:
captivating, serious, action thriller, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
martial law, murder, who done it, law enforcement, crime scene, winter, multiple storylines, gay, alcoholism, haunted, snow, countryside ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 2009, 70s
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
mature woman, dying, small town, love and romance, love affair, tragic love, couple relations, dishonesty, dealing with death, couples, infidelity, older younger relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, emotional, biting ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, world war two, nazi occupation, soldier, countryside, social differences, life is a bitch, obsession, teenage life, haunted by the past, wartime life, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Style:
art house, emotional, visually stunning, cerebral, melancholic ...
Plot:
nun, family secret, faith, world war two, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, suicide, character study, confronting the past, orphan ...
Time:
60s, post world war two, 2010s, year 2016, 90s ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, israel, europe, denmark
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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: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists ...
Style:
emotional, dark comedy, witty, cerebral, art house ...
Plot:
divorce, marriage, obsession, revenge, hairdresser, vengeance, humiliation, ex husband ex wife relationship, rags to riches, relationships, love story, sexual frustration ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
poland, paris france, france, warsaw poland, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History
Country: Poland, Serbia, Lithuania
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.
Style:
adult animation, captivating, entertaining, atmospheric, historical drama ...
Plot:
woman, patriarchy, marriage of convenience, marriage, village, relationships, rich man, rural setting, rich and poor, husband wife relationship, villager, rich ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.
Style:
serious, psychological, sincere, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay interest, church, homosexuality, male male relationship, lgbtq, youth, teenage life, clergy, gay lead character, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Russia, Netherlands, Slovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.
Style:
tense, serious, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
holocaust, homecoming, life is a bitch, world war two, dishonesty, uncover truth, under the surface, supernatural, village life, european, consciousness, european history ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that setting a chain of events in motion will help him get closer to his father who left his mother. His sister helps him bribe fate with small sacrifices, but things go wrong and then Stefek tries a ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, brother sister relationship, family relations, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, siblings relations, small town, single parent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, aids, little boy ...
Place:
poland, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when ...
Style:
sexual, cerebral, enigmatic, heartbreaking, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
unfulfilled love, voyeurism, passion, loneliness, true love, relationships, infatuation, stalking, amor, destructive relationship, passionate interest, voyeur ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
poland, eastern europe, warsaw poland, europe
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Decalogue is a 1989 Polish television drama series directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the Ten Commandments. ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, breathtaking, cerebral, depressing ...
Plot:
philosophy, morality, christianity, spirituality, christian, love, depression, death, ten commandments, renaissance, religious, catholic ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place:
poland, eastern europe, iraq, syria, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, thinking, controversial ...
Plot:
prison, communism, false accusation, anti communist, cell, humiliation, hopelessness, forced confession, injustice, society, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time:
1950s, post world war two, year 1982, 80s
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, ...
Style:
sexy, tense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden love, communism, university professor, anti communist, political activist, love triangle, secret service, espionage, gain trust, undercover, disgraced, working undercover ...
Time:
20th century, year 2010, 60s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hannah Stern, an American-born Jewish adolescent, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives; however, Hannah begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot:
concentration camp, holocaust, world war two, nazi occupation, time travel, anti semitism, nazi, world war, human spirit, against humanity, hopes, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she ...
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, stylized, surreal, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
virtual reality, technology, obsession, fantasy world, distopia, transformation, lone hero, battles, dystopian future, contests and competitions, gang, addiction ...
Time:
future, middle ages, near future, year 2001, 2000s
Place:
poland, japan, europe, latin america
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland, West Germany, East Germany
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
Style:
family saga
Plot:
renaissance, nazism, monarchy, dynasty, female nudity, nazi, aristocracy, brotherhood, mine, palace, incest, man in a wheelchair ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, pre world war two, 1920s, 1910s ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation in Warsaw's gay community, an officer in 1980s communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth.
Style:
suspense, erotic, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
gay, sexual tension, bisexual man, gay interest, gay cruising, communist, police, lgbt, gay sex, bare chested male, male nudity, homosexuality ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Veronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Veronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with ...
Style:
sexy, cerebral, philosophical, surreal, visual ...
Plot:
doppelganger, music, music teacher, female protagonist, photograph, opera singer, puppeteer, self discovery, love story, heart disease, lookalikes, encounter ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, year 1990
Place:
poland, france, paris france, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Piłsudski. The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Piłsudski is ...
Style:
political, historical drama, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
revolution, biopic, independence, political prisoner, underground movement, revolutionary, wartime life, wartime, life is a bitch, political unrest, nationalism, leadership ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, pre world war one
Place:
poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A film about a man with a breakthrough history of Poland in the background. Edward Gierek is one of the most important figures of the 20th century in the collective memory of Polish people.
Style:
serious, dramatic, art film, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
politics, biopic, polish history, husband wife relationship, family relations, relationships, famous, couples, politician, society, love, political leader ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Style:
cerebral, political, philosophical, anthology, surreal ...
Plot:
train, politics, butterfly effect, philosophy, dialogue, art, existentialism, destiny, time travel, communism, female nudity, love ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, near future, 70s
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, libya, california ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with ...
Style:
existential, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
reminiscence, renaissance, uncle nephew relationship, family relations, female nudity, sister sister relationship, passion, electricity, nude girl, first love, love letter, immortality ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
redemption, debt collector, lovers reunited, self discovery, moral dilemma, collector, life is a bitch, debt, ex girlfriend, rivalry, society, desperation ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
poland, europe
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