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- Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The husband decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting the Gestapo kills his go-between and chases him. During his escape he gets into the apartment of a pregnant woman in labor and helps her with the childbirth. He works in the typhus center where he is a guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end the misery of a man mistaken as him and tortured. He seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.
- "Theatre Macabre" was a horror movie anthology series hosted by Christopher Lee; made in Poland; with stories from various classic authors.
- Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero whose name is As.
- A young engineer is called back home, which he had left years before. The house is a crumbling, old mansion in which his father still works, illegally distilling vodka, much of which he drinks himself. He is alcoholic and unhappy. His sister is cynical and disturbed, had attempted suicide. His aunt is tired and sour. Their purpose to bring him there is to play on his sympathies and eventually make stay, to make him work and take care of them. He refuses and returns back to the city.
- This five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.
- Stalin orders to hasten the Vistula-Oder offensive in order to relieve the Allies. Karl Wolff is sent to negotiate with the Americans. Zhukov rejects Stavka's order to take Berlin, the Soviets and the Poles storm the Tiergarten.
- An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
- A young doctor moves to work in a small town in eastern Poland. Although it seems rather sleepy, the human dramas and conflicts between its residents gradually come to light.
- Filip and Danka are soulmates. They have enough of their homes and school so they run away to live on an uninhabited island on the river. But one day girl's father comes and takes her back. Does that mean the end for them?
- Two Austrians are killed on a mountain road at Zakopane. It is like an ordinary accident, and yet the young police lieutenant is under suspicion, as this incident may be related to a gang of smugglers of precious stones.
- An intimate drama taking place in a small house lost in the forest, inhabited by two people: a woman suffering from anxiety neurosis and persecution mania and a powerless husband against her terrible illness.
- Krzysztof Kieslowski follows the bureaucratic and troubled daily routine of a Polish factory under the reigning Communism regime of the period. The documentary follows procedures, meetings with management and employees trying to find ways to improve their goals, observing everything that goes through the difficult working relations they faced at the time.
- The film is set in the 1960s. Three young boys, Franek, Andrzej and Jacek, spend their holidays near the ruins of the former Teutonic castle, where archaeological works are underway. Fascinated by history, they decide to visit the castle on their own. Driving a vehicle they have constructed, they fall into the castle's dungeons. Then, unexpectedly, they move to the year 1406 to the same castle where the real Teutonic Knights live. They are attacked by them, but manage to escape. They find themselves at the court of Prince Janusz Mazowiecki, where the props they bring from the future, such as a telephone or a car, arouse admiration and disbelief. --A_A--
- Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, whose entire life is dedicated to study and advancement to full professorship. Anna is an unsuccesful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion in a critical moment of mental confusion and nervous exhaustion. Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his defences. Affrayed by her ultimate plea for an embrace, he escapes to his own quarters. In the end Anna makes an unsuccesful suicide attempt and he visits her in the hospital.
- Blind war veterans tell stories about loss, war, will to live and their dreams.
- The final stages of alcohol addiction are juxtaposed with the official attitude of Polish authorities towards the success of the ever-growing national alcohol industry.
- A sociologist, ruled by his sporty wife, is trying to take advantage of her few day long absence...
- The story of Jewish boy Tadek Raniecki who befriends a German guard in a Nazi concentration camp. The guard wants to adopt the boy provided that he forgets his parents and Jewish culture.
- Jacek, the postal officer, devotes himself to his passion - fishing at every free moment. When one day he is fishing by the river, a motocross competition is taking place nearby. A strange coincidence makes him get on a motorcycle and win the competition. He becomes a pro-biker with a motor club, and Jacek also wins the heart of his beloved girl.