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1. Pharaoh (1966)

180 min | Adventure, Drama, History

7.3

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Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska, Krystyna Mikolajewska

Votes: 2,304

2. Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

7.5

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A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska, Maria Chwalibóg

Votes: 4,320

3. Maddalena (1971)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance

5.3

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Maddalena is a sensuous woman who desperately tries to seduce a tormented priest.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lisa Gastoni, Eric Woofe, Ivo Garrani, Paolo Gozlino

Votes: 198

4. Night Train (1959)

99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

7.7

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Jerzy enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something - as does the strange woman with whom he must share a sleeping compartment.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna, Zbigniew Cybulski

Votes: 3,628

5. Quo vadis (2001)

165 min | Drama, History, Romance

5.7

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67 Metascore

Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her bodyguard, catches Marcus. ... See full summary »

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Pavel Delong, Magdalena Mielcarz, Boguslaw Linda, Michal Bajor

Votes: 2,287

6. The Last Stage (1948)

110 min | Drama, History, War

7.3

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Female prisoners of various ethnic background struggle to survive the hardships of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

Director: Wanda Jakubowska | Stars: Wanda Bartówna, Huguette Faget, Tatyana Guretskaya, Antonina Gordon-Górecka

Votes: 763

7. Austeria (1982)

109 min | Drama, War

6.8

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During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Szurmiej, Ewa Domanska

Votes: 660

8. Death of a President (1977)

144 min | Drama, History

7.3

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Set at the historic moment of rebirth of Poland after World War I. The newly organized National Assembly elected Gabriel Narutowicz, a professor returning home from Switzerland to enter ... See full summary »

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Zdzislaw Mrozewski, Marek Walczewski, Henryk Bista, Czeslaw Byszewski

Votes: 275

9. Zakazane piosenki (1947)

97 min | Drama, Music, War

7.0

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A Polish musician tells a young soldier about his wartime activity - setting up a street orchestra and taking part in the anti-German resistance movement.

Director: Leonard Buczkowski | Stars: Danuta Szaflarska, Janina Ordezanka, Jerzy Duszynski, Jan Swiderski

Votes: 543

10. Jeniec Europy (1989)

124 min | Drama

6.3

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On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Roland Blanche, Vernon Dobtcheff, François Berléand, Didier Flamand

Votes: 63

11. Cien (1956)

98 min | Action, Drama

6.8

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A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World ... See full summary »

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Zygmunt Kestowicz, Adolf Chronicki, Tadeusz Jurasz, Antoni Jurasz

Votes: 211

12. Celuloza (1954)

120 min | Drama

6.1

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A common worker tells a communist activist the story of his turbulent life - from the extreme poverty in the countryside to becoming a conscious worker's activist.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Józef Nowak, Stanislaw Milski, Zbigniew Skowronski, Teresa Szmigielówna

Votes: 116

13. Bronstein's Children (1991)

90 min | Drama

6.9

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Hans Bronstein is about to finish secondary school and needs to decide what to do next with his life. He has a girlfriend, Martha Lepschitz, who is an actress and whose parents seems to ... See full summary »

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Matthias Paul, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Angela Winkler, Katharina Abt

Votes: 27

14. Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny (1957)

89 min | Drama

6.8

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Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Roland Glowacki, Andrzej Szalawski, Janina Sokolowska

Votes: 112

15. Za co? (1996)

103 min | Drama, Romance

6.7

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Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Magdalena Wójcik, Artur Zmijewski, Emilia Krakowska, Dorota Sadowska

Votes: 37

16. Spotkanie na Atlantyku (1980)

120 min | Drama

6.3

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Takes place on an ocean liner from Canada to Poland. It is a story of several people with pasts and problems stemming from uncomfortable confrontations. The main confrontation is between a ... See full summary »

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Malgorzata Niemirska, Ignacy Gogolewski, Marek Walczewski

Votes: 41

17. Pod gwiazda frygijska (1954)

111 min | Drama

6.3

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Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Józef Nowak, Lucyna Winnicka, Halina Przybylska, Stanislaw Jasiukiewicz

Votes: 42

18. Gra (1969)

91 min | Drama

6.4

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A bourgeois married couple of 12 years are going through an existential crisis. Both spouses have lovers and their relationship seems to be falling apart.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Lucyna Winnicka, Gustaw Holoubek, Helena Bystrzanowska, Wieslaw Golas

Votes: 67

19. Gromada (1952)

105 min | Drama

5.4

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The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Stars: Ludwik Benoit, Marian Lupa, Mieczyslaw Pawlikowski, Karol Podgórski

Votes: 31

20. Stalowe serca (1948)

69 min | Drama, War

4.7

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In occupied Silesia, resistance is organizing. In close contact with the miners and led by an engineer, a group of partisans prepare the sabotage of the steel combine. The going will be ... See full summary »

Director: Stanislaw Urbanowicz | Stars: Irena Laskowska, Helena Buczynska, Wladyslaw Hancza, Mieczyslaw Serwinski

Votes: 11

21. Czarci zleb (1950)

98 min | Action, Adventure

6.3

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Directors: Tadeusz Kanski, Aldo Vergano | Stars: Tadeusz Schmidt, Alina Janowska, Wladyslaw Kaczmarski, Tadeusz Kanski

Votes: 31

22. Sodankylä Forever (2010)

270 min | Documentary

7.6

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Sodankyla film festival started at 1986 and was created by Finnish directors Anssi Manttari, Aki and Mika Kaurismaki, along with Peter Von Bagh.

Sodankyla Forever is a great documentary ... See full synopsis »

Stars: Peter von Bagh, Robert Parrish, Roy Ward Baker, Víctor Erice

Votes: 73