Elżbieta Czyżewska

In a seemingly idyllic village, a teenager has to struggle with the problems of growing up. His situation is especially difficult, as he is half boy, half fish.

What if you could buy happiness?

The protagonist, Franz, copies the paintings of old masters. He slowly loses his sense of reality, resulting in angst-ridden fantasies and a desire for self-destruction. Franz has an uphill battle with the loss of values and spread of capitalism around him. He rejects advertising to the point of destroying its manifestations.

Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.

Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures.

Daisy, una joven estudiante judía que asiste a una elitista escuela privada de Manhattan, no acaba de encontrar su sitio. Al mismo tiempo intenta ocultar su origen judío por miedo a ser rechazada.

A Polish immigrant go-go dancer dreams of Hollywood. A man living in his car dreams of redemption. They meet. A comical, at times brutal look at the American dream.

Jonathan Corliss es un joven atractivo y ambicioso que ve una oportunidad de oro para ascender socialmente cuando seduce a Dorothy Carlsson, la hija de un rico y poderoso empresario. Pero como la chica se queda embarazada, y él teme que su padre la desherede, decide matarla y hacer que parezca un suicidio. Algún tiempo después, Corliss seduce tambien a Ellen, la hermana gemela de Dorothy, que no lo conoce, pues las hermanas vivían en ciudades distintas. A pesar de todo, Ellen, convencida de que su hermana no se suicidó, sigue investigando por su cuenta. (FILMAFFINITY)

Joey O'Brian es un eficiente vendedor de coches neoyorquino con una vida repleta de mujeres: su exigente amante Joy, su extrovertida amiga Lila, su ex esposa Tina, su alocada hija adolescente y una madre a la que cuidar. Las muchas mujeres a las que llega a mantener le obligan a sostener un elevadísimo nivel de vida, pero todo su mundo se desmorona cuando el número de ventas baja y Joel tiene tan solo un día para demostrar que su puesto de trabajo es necesario. Todo marcha bien hasta que aparece en la exposición el marido celoso de su joven y bella secretaria Donna, convencido de que es allí donde se encuentra su amante.

Karl has a childlike innocence and naive purity. In spite of making false friends and enemies, he retains his decency in New York which remains a foreign city for him.

Mike Laszlo, un inmigrante húngaro que lleva viviendo pacíficamente en los Estados Unidos desde hace más de 40 años, se ve implicado en un proceso en el que se le acusa de haber sido un criminal nazi durante la II Guerra Mundial. La hija de Mike, Ann, una exitosa abogada, se encargará de defender a su padre con todas sus fuerzas. Mike asegura que es víctima de un complot comunista, pero a medida que avance el proceso, las dudas irán asaltando a Ann.

La historia de una mujer polaca que emigra con su hijo a Estados Unidos para poder ofrecerle un entorno en el que pueda desarrollar el gran talento musical que posee.

En los años sesenta, dos hippies se esconden en la jungla huyendo del FBI. Cuando vuelven a Nueva York en los años ochenta, sus compañeros y amigos hippies resulta que se han convertido en ricos yuppies.

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.

Un matrimonio esconde un oscuro pasado: durante su juventud en los años 60 fueron militantes de un grupo radical violento. Un atentado con bomba, que causó varios heridos graves, los ha obligado a vivir clandestinamente y a cambiar continuamente de domicilio y de nombres para evitar ser localizados por el FBI.

Two old friends meet at a mountain shelter and remember their teenage years. Midroń and Świdrycki are mature, intelligent men, experiencing a crisis of faith in the meaning of life, in their abilities, as well as fear of death. The next day, their wives join them. Although they have not had the opportunity to get to know each other so far, they become friends very quickly.

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.

Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive brother who likes literature, Andrzej is the daredevil with no intellectual bent, and between the two of them, they steal the German consul's Daimler-Benz limousine, on a lark. When they are caught by the police, the German consul unexpectedly forgives them their prank -- but in the meantime, the episode has put the brothers in touch with a Nazi underground group who want to prepare the way for the pending German invasion (set to occur within a matter of days). Andrej helps the group kill the German consul and then they blame the death on the Poles -- giving the Germans an excuse to cross the border. Not only the consul, but "artistic" types like Michal are also killed for the same reasons. After these murders, Michal realizes his brother is no better than the group he joined, and decides to set his own course in the face of the rising threat of invasion.

The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.

Małżeństwo z rozsądku ("Marriage of Convenience") is a Polish musical comedy from 1966 directed by Stanisław Bareja.

The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.

The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of freedom. A slacker before there was a word for it, Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himself) drifts through a series of open-ended encounters with women following a wake-up argument with his pouting wife, and a long-delayed military physical (the film’s title derives from one of the questions). Skolimowski hoarded four years’ worth of the annual film footage allotment from his Lódz film school in order to create this first feature marked by compositional bravado and a trademark air of the absurd. -Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center

To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

Durante el asedio a Zaragoza, un general francés descubre un extraño manuscrito que, al ser leído, le transporta a una España surrealista en la que los espíritus de unos bandidos ahorcados, bajo la apariencia de hermosas huríes, se dedican a seducir y atrapar en los laberintos del tiempo a todo viajero extraviado que ose adentrarse en sus dominios.

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front, during World War II (in 1943), has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of funny events, Giuseppe falls in love, and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.

Robert Wolanski came from Australia to Poland, to find a wife. He meet one girl from famous dance group "Mazowsze" and fall in love. But she says "I'm not loving you". Robert decided to kidnap her.

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

Waclaw Orzeszko is unlucky soldier. Nobody from the platoon likes him. One day he decided to go away from platoon. At the castle he meet Russian soldier Marusia. At this time German forces came at the castle. They must hide. But there is also second problem. Waclaw's platoon had to find deserter. Polish Soldier close to the castle.

A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.

Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.

Instead of coming to her own engagement party, Joanna throws herself into New Year's Eve partying. Her fiancé follows her lead.

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.

Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives.

A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid.

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

Songs and sketches of the legendary Student Satirical Club, established in 1954 in Warsaw.