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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: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After a court order sends him to work at a hospice, an ex-criminal strikes up a friendship with a compassionate priest who changes his life.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
second chance, chance, empathy, humanity, redemption, transformation, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, relationship problems, forgiveness, life changing ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style:
breathtaking, realistic, captivating, tense, inspirational ...
Audience:
manly, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, friendship, nazi, combat, army, machine gun ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, year 2013 ...
Place:
normandy, france, germany, poland, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
surgeon, love, long lost daughter, amnesia, surgery, healer, memory loss, new identity, father daughter reunion, jealousy, trial, double wedding ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style:
sexy, rough, detective, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, missing child, sexual abuse, child molestation, sex slavery, slavery, child rape, rescue, child molester, forced prostitution, humiliation ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, mexico city, poland, texas, el paso texas ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970.
Style:
tense, historical drama, disturbing, captivating, grim ...
Plot:
militia, tragedy, repression, political protest, authoritarianism, fight, historical event, military, soldier, military life, battles, cold war ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has ...
Style:
art house, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
coming of age, youth, first love, character study, working class, loss of innocence, relationships, betrayal, ambition, unrequited love, intimacy, realism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, intense, educational ...
Plot:
working class, violence, civil unrest, character study, cold war era, social realism, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, renaissance, political party, government, clerk ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Drama directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, melancholic, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
anti semitism, exile, emigration, youth, political persecution, moral dilemma, identity crisis, political oppression, cold war, escape, family conflict, nationalism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. They all have something to deal with, and their paths eventually intertwine.
Style:
captivating, realistic, melancholic, reflective, poignant
Plot:
city life, big city, winter, escapades, relationships, male female relationship, social relations, society, intimate, slice of life, self discovery, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young photographer moves to Praga, the most notorious district of Warsaw, known for common crime and alcoholism as well as unique folklore. This experience will have much impact on both his personal and professional life.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, crime drama, independent film, tension ...
Plot:
photographer, photograph, neighborhood, urban, alcoholism, working class, everyday life, urban decay, social realism, character study, community, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France, Belgium, Ukraine
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, emotional, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
insurrection, moral dilemma, moral ambiguity, russian empire, identity crisis, nationalism, forbidden love, occupation, loss of innocence, betrayal, coming of age, tragic romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, ...
Style:
suspenseful, dark, suspense, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, swamp, small town, investigative journalism, journalism, investigation, life is a bitch, danger, organized crime, society, violence, police ...
Time:
80s
Place:
poland
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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: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, suspense, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cons and scams, polish, vengeance, betrayal, thief, one last job, friends, criminal heroes, caper, revenge, theft, city ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 224 min.
Story:
How I unleashed World War II is a Polish feature film made in 1969, based on Kazimierz Sławiński's novel "Przygody kanoniera Dolasa" (The adventures of Dolas the cannoneer). The film was divided into three parts: Ucieczka (The ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, foreign legion, military, soldier, military life, war, polish, military hospital, love letter, coincidence, mistaken identity, wartime life ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
poland, africa, europe, italy, england
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Teefa goes to Poland to get Anya to Pakistan to marry Butt gangster's son but lands up in trouble with Anya's gangster father and the Polish police.
Style:
entertaining, semi serious, disturbing, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
forced marriage, police, gangster, organized crime, bandit, criminal, relationship problems, running from police, gang, fight, fight scenes, fish out of water ...
Place:
poland, pakistan
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
epic, realistic, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
cossack, political unrest, rebelliousness, battles, forbidden love, parent child relationship, sword fight, state affairs, medieval, heroes, father son relationship, betrayal ...
Time:
16th century, medieval times, 17th century, middle ages
Place:
poland, ukraine, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Taking place in a 1982 Poland a translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Style:
retro, depressing, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
hypnotist, grandmother grandson relationship, trial, communism, loss of husband, love, existentialism, dialogue, totalitarian regime, magic realism, law, nude girl ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, homeless, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, pregnancy, drifter, destiny, false accusation ...
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style:
realistic, serious, biting, epic, crying ...
Plot:
capitalist, renaissance, revolution, friendship, cuckolded husband, nobleman, peasant, capitalism, victorian england, time machine, identity, revolt ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, berlin germany, middle east, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style:
gloomy, touching, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, renaissance, holocaust survivor, world war, female nudity, nazi, male nudity, fascism, wartime, terrorism, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw 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: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
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 prime ministers and presidents. The action takes place in ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, period piece, historical drama, thrilling ...
Plot:
biopic, polish history, conspiracy, friends, historical event, political conspiracy, friendship, intrigue, assassination plot, teamwork, police officer, nationalism ...
Time:
victorian era, turn of the century, edwardian era
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years.
Style:
sexy, captivating, contemplative, tense, unusual plot structure
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, political corruption, media manipulation, government corruption, corruption, priest, church, lgbt, politics, gay couple, gay lead character ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, twisted ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, police, police detective, revenge, uncover truth, danger, twists and turns, violence, masked killer, burned at the stake ...
Time:
2010s, 18th century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Mateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz’s protected world is ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, compassionate, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
cerebral palsy, longing, physical disability, disabled child, handicapped, family relations, faith, parents and children, life is a bitch, childhood, training, love ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 2000s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He converts the country lanes outside his door into a racing track and bombs down them in his little car. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his ...
Style:
tragicomedy, uplifting, compassionate, ironic, social ...
Plot:
identity crisis, family relations, disfigured face, social misfits, adaptation, heavy metal, broken heart, hopes, christianity, life is a bitch, religion, nationalism ...
Place:
poland, central europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
Style:
psychological, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure, crying ...
Plot:
adultery, marriage, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, infidelity, violence, winter, polish, racism, police corruption, snow, racial discrimination ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
artist, painter, art, womanizer, biopic, love triangle, infidelity, art history, character study, mistress, physical abuse, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s, year 1996, 50s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, france, paris france, europe, provence ...
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