Nightwatching

2007

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'....

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English   2007   134 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-02-28

Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe

2006

The story of Catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz....

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Polish, German   2006   90 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-04

Karol - The Pope, the Man

2006

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English, Polish   2006   155 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-04-01

Faith: Pope John Paul II

2005

Following the premature death of his mother, Karol Wojtyla is brought up by his father in the Polish city of Krakow during the first half of the 20th century. An outstanding student with a magnetic personality, he dreams of becomi......

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English   2005   201 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-03-19

Skazany na bluesa

2005

The life of Ryszard Riedel, former leader of cult Polish rock-blues band Dzem, including the history of his family relationships, music career and addiction to alcohol and drugs....

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Polish   2005   101 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-03-20

A Few People, a Little Time

2005

The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of politics and the complexities of mundane life....

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Polish   2005   104 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-03-21

Karol, un uomo diventato Papa

2005

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....

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English, Italian, Polish   2005   186 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-02-20

Genghis Khan

2005

Genghis Khan, ruthless leader of the Mongols and sovereign over the vastest empire ever ruled by a single man, was both god and devil - not just in the Middle Ages, but for centuries to come....

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English   2005   58 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-03-09

Mój Nikifor

2004

Story of the last eight years of life of Nikifor Krynicki, famous "naive artist"....

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Polish   2004   97 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-02-13

Kraj urodzenia

2002

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Polish   2002   26 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-01-13

The Pianist

2002

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II....

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English, German, Russian   2002   150 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-10-16

Podroz z artysta

2001

Film portrait of the outstanding artist, Roman Nowotarski. Documentary tells the story of his strong, emotional connection with the Upper Silesia region, that remains his permanent ......

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Polish   2001   24 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-01-24

Marszalek Pilsudski

2001

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Polish   2001   312 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-04-04

The Farewell

2000

It is one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956. Bertolt Brecht (Bierbichler) is about to leave his lakeside house among the tall birches in Brandenburg to return to Berlin for the upcoming theater season. Most o......

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German   2000   97 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-09-14

Benek Blues

2000

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Polish   2000   56 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-09-23

Wojaczek

1999

Episodes from the last few years in the life of iconic Silesian poet Rafal Wojaczek. His provocative and scandalous life as well as tragic premature death made him a true literary legend....

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Polish   1999   90 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-10-07

To wszawe nagie zycie

1998

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N/A   1998   95 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-01-30

Marion du Faouët

1997

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French   1997   205 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-10-29

Our God's Brother

1997

Painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless....

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English   1997   123 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-16

Cicha przystan

1996

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Polish   1996   27 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-03-20

Poznan 56

1996

Two teenage boys witness an anticommunist uprising in Poznan of 1956. The atmosphere and the repercussions of the revolt are experienced by everyone - from common workers to university professors....

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Polish   1996   106 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-14

L'aube à l'envers

1995

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French   1995   10 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-10

Docteur Semmelweis

1995

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French, Polish   1995   95 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-11

Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So...

1995

Director/Writer Krzysztof Kieslowski shares his views on life, people, politics and comments a little about some of his films in a very casual conversation....

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Polish   1995   56 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-13

Faustina: The Apostle of Divine Mercy

1994

The Life of saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska, a Polish Nun....

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Polish   1994   73 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-17

The Case of Bronek Pekosinski

1993

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, ......

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Polish   1993   100 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-07

Wszystko, co najwazniejsze...

1992

When the war breaks out, renowned Polish-Jewish poet Aleksander Wat leaves Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his wife Ola and their son. In Lviv, however, they are arrested by the Russians and separated. Ola and her son are sent to Siberia....

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Russian, Polish   1992   98 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-06

Franz Kafka

1992

Animated scenes from the Kafka's life, as told in his diaries....

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None   1992   16 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2024-02-18

Joseph Conrad

1991

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French   1991   52 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-09-07

Marie Curie, une femme honorable

1991

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French, Polish   1991   90 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-01

Kramarz

1990

The hardships of an ordinary street vendor from his troubled childhood, when he had to work to support his family, to disappointing adulthood, when he lost all the money he had several Times for various reasons....

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Polish   1990   90 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-30

Modrzejewska

1990

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Polish, Russian, French Sign   1990   554 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-08-21

Korczak

1990

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, known also as Janusz Korczak, is a man of hig......

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Polish, German   1990   118 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-02

300 Miles to Heaven

1989

Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denm......

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Polish, Danish   1989   105 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-29

Nocny gosc

1989

Biographical film based on the short story 'A Lodging for the Night' by Robert Louis Stevenson....

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Polish   1989   83 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-30

Oszolomienie

1989

A popular 60-year-old actor falls for a much younger dancer and a cocaine addict. During the Nazi occupation, he needs money for her rehab but artists are prohibited by the undeground government to perform for Germans....

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Polish   1989   96 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-30

Sygnowane Andrzej Wajda

1989

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Polish   1989   60 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-11-20

Na ojczystej ziemi

1988

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Polish   1988   N/A   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-29

And the Violins Stopped Playing

1988

This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust....

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English   1988   116 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-30

Czlowiek srodka

1988

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Polish   1988   12 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-08-21

Prisoner of Rio

1988

The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs....

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Polish, English   1988   90 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-07-01

Gwiazda Piolun

1988

The last days of the avant-garde playwright and painter Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, widely known as Witkacy, following the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939....

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Polish   1988   93 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-28

Kolory kochania

1988

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Polish   1988   97 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-29

Przeznaczenie

1985

Biographical film about Kazimierz Przer-Tetmajer, a leading figure in Polish modernism. A poet that lived 75 years, the last thirty suffering from a progressive mental illness resulting from syphilis infection....

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Polish   1985   93 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-23

Dom swietego Kazimierza

1984

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Polish   1984   99 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-23

Katastrofa w Gibraltarze

1984

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Polish   1984   164 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-23

Danton

1983

In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party....

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French   1983   136 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-21

Boldyn

1982

A psychological movie set in the times of Second World War in occupied Poland. Partisans, commanded by autocratic General Boldyn who becomes unbearable during inactivity, start to submit false reports on sudden moves of German troops...

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Polish   1982   119 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-19

Sladami Tadeusza Makowskiego

1982

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Polish   1982   25 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-08-20

Krakh operatsii Terror

1981

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Russian, Polish   1981   145 min   Biography Movies from Poland   2023-06-19