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- This retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen classic fairy tale has the digit-sized heroine evading the clutches of various toads, moles, and beetles before she can proceed with her courtship with her dream lover, Prince Cornelius.
- A model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.
- After his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.
- A thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining a lover or is asleep. One morning, Crow sees a chubby, cherubic child hugged by both parents as the father leaves for work. When the toddler is left alone, Crow lifts her through the fence and kidnaps her. That day, Crow tries to mother the child, alternately playing with and scolding her, taking her to the beach, leaving shore in a boat, pushing her into the sea in a pique, and eventually carrying the sleeping child back home. Crow returns to her own mother and asks for affection.
- The film is a biblical soap-opera whose action unfolds in the Californian desert. Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart. As a civil servant he hears Wes confession. However he isn't able to help him. The omnipotent eye of television glitters above the desert - that raw allegory of America where neither the white nor the black have it good. If Samuel Beckett and Joan Collins had a romance, then their child would look like this film.
- A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob.
- An aged and powerful magnate is dying. He offers Laura, his young and beautiful mistress, a birthday gift; a sophisticated display of virtual reality in which he will "come to life" for her after his death. But Laura much prefers that her mother, the Duchess, who has taken her place in the magnate's heart and bed, dies instead.
- The Life of saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska, a Polish Nun.
- Franz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by the New, his fellow-policeman. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. Wolf and William, two high rank officers, come to Poland in order to organize a network selling and smuggling arms to Yugoslavia by way of Albania. They seek experienced and loyal partners. Franz is not only amenable to the scheme, but he even draws his former partner into the deal. However, security agents are circling them like buzzards...
- A free adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic novel "The Idiot". Here, two Japanese actors perform the key roles of a man in love with a woman who chooses the love of another man. In another sketch, the two male friends are united to discuss the issue.
- Disappointed with being a housewife and annoyed by her cheating husband, Maria decides to abandon her family, move to Warsaw and get a well-paid job.
- Tomasz Siwek unexpectedly changes from an obedient communist party member into an opposition activist. And all that happens during a Solidarity rally where he was sent to spy on the protesters.
- The violence and high drama of this film is taken directly from recent Polish history. On December 13, 1981 national security forces swoop down on unsuspecting workers of the Wujek mine and arrest a Solidarity leader. Pushed to the limits, the miners call a massive strike, which is specifically forbidden under the martial law. A battle between the heavily armed police and the outnumbered miners ensues, and nine miners are killed.
- A story about reckless Irenka Borowska takes place in the thirties. Quite suddenly, her family experiences numerous misfortunes: sale of the family estate at auction, rejection of their request for help from some wealthy relatives, death of a father, and finally impoverished existence in a provincial town of Kuropatki. Under those circumstances a little lady takes all the responsibility for her family's future. In the course of her search for a rich aunt who might save the family from a total downfall, Irenka encounters Zbyszek. Much to her disappointment, a young student is completely in love with Greta Garbo, so he doesn't pay any attention to the girl. However, reversal of fortune is coming when the aunt gets impressed with Irenka and changes her attitude to poor cousins. The Borowskis resume possession of their estate, and the very first innocent love flourishes between Irenka and Zbyszek.
- A group of backyard friends in a small town near Warsaw grows into a gang, and soon rules the whole town.
- "Bye Bye America" is the story of an unusual journey, generated from discussions director Jan Schütte had with émigrés he met while walking along the boardwalk in Brighton Beach. The film depicts characters whose fate is to search for a homeland, with no great fuss about it but with laconic humour and an often fairy-tale ambience. Isaak, his friend Moshe, and Moshe's wife, Genovefa, leave New York and set off for Poland. The three of them are all in the same boat, get stranded in Germany, celebrate Christmas in Berlin, and finally end up in Poland...
- Three teenage boys from unprivileged Silesian families spend their time wandering around, stealing and then selling the stolen stuff. One day they get the chance to take part in a big heist.
- Jacek, young violinist, loses consciousness after an accident and in his dreams he experiences extraordinary adventures while searching for beautiful Ania, his love.
- Polish drama centering on the mystique, power and ultimately the danger of religious fervor in an isolated village.
- Berlin 1990: soon after the collapse of the wall, in the atmosphere of the approaching reunion of Germany. Invited by his friends-actors who have been living abroad for years now, Max, a Polish stage director, arrives in Berlin. Working together they try to carry out their dream: to stage a performance suspended by the martial law ten years earlier. The way they raise the money - moonlighting, selling pieces of the historical wall, coping with the soulless, inflexible machine of bureaucracy - constitutes the central, often humorous, plot of the film. In their efforts the four protagonists are allied by Regina, an interpreter familiar with the local habits and practices.
- The title Radio Romans is a private radio station operating in Gdansk. Its founders and bosses are Wanda and Andrzej Kreft (Dorota Kolak and Krzysztof Stelmaszyk). Basia and Marek Zwolinscy (Beata Scibakówna and Igor Michalski), poet Antoni Wereszczaka (Miroslaw Baka) and young, ambitious journalists Darek Igielski and Stefan Chocholak, as well as secretary Bozenka have been working in the company from the beginning. Their personal lives, often complicated, are inseparably intertwined with their professional work.
- Ewa, the heroine of the film, tired from her everyday life in Paris, goes back to Poland in order to find her ex-husband Jacob. She finds out that Jacob, who withdrew from the world's life, lives together with his friend and spiritual father Nicholas in a reclusion. After Ewa's arrival, her new romance with Jacob begins, as well as the magical triangle among the three persons.
- She is a scientist, he is a lawyer. They decide to start up their own business. After that they experience a lot of funny ups and downs...
- Sonia is pregnant with her lover Mirek. Alfred, an elderly Swiss businessman, married to Sonia, does not like the situation. He orders two tough guys to persuade the two lovers.
- The documentary tries to zoom in on the last months of his life, and also reveals the backstory of the accident in which composer and jazzman Krzysztof Komeda died.