Merette (1982)

A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.

Edyta is forty and in the midst of a crisis. She has left her family, her husband and son and their house on the Baltic Sea behind her. She spends her nights in a Warsaw hotel room and her days driving around the unfamiliar city. When she runs out of cash, she hatches a plan: An ad in the newspaper – sex for money. Edyta never lets things get that far though, as she drugs her clients and then uses their apartments as a refuge for the night. Then she meets an artist, Patryk. A smidgen of luck and Edyta can no longer maintain her dismissive attitude. In this enthralling character study, Tomasz Wasilewski uses filmic minimalism to ensure that glances and gestures say more than words. He portrays a lonely woman in both fragility and strength, using precise image composition.

Pavel, um jovem estudante que vive em Praga em 1942, esconde uma rapariga judia no sótão do seu apartamento. Por entre a brutalidade do exército ocupante alemão, o amor floresce entre os dois. Ele é seu único elo com o mundo exterior. Então os dois são descobertos pela mãe de Pavel, que obriga os moradores do prédio a decidir se Hana pode permanecer.

Residents of a big city, each of whom has their own sexual problems and desires, secret and, most often, shameful from the point of view of society, need to solve them. Each of the characters tries to solve their problems in their own way: someone sublimates them, someone turns to a psychotherapist for help, someone rushes into experiments... but sooner or later they all return to where they started, and they have to overcome themselves again and again to get at least a little, even a millimeter closer to their happiness.

Polônia, 1990. O país vive uma onda eufórica de liberdade e futuro incerto. Quatro mulheres aparentemente infelizes decidem que é hora de mudar suas vidas, lutar por felicidade e realizar os seus desejos. Agata é uma jovem mãe cansada do casamento, que busca refúgio em um relacionamento impossível. Renata é uma professora experiente e solitária, obcecada por sua vizinha Marzena – ex miss também solitária, já que seu marido trabalha na Alemanha. Iza, irmã de Marzena, é a diretora do colégio em que Renata trabalha, e está apaixonada pelo pai de uma aluna recém viúvo.

Stefano, um pintor, viaja até um vilarejo para restaurar uma pintura de São Sebastião sendo torturado. Depois de um tempo no vilarejo, Stefano descobre que algo não está certo. Ele descobre que o pintor do quadro era um insano que tentava capturar os últimos momentos da morte nas telas.

Judge Gwen Warwick becomes involved in the murder trial she has been assigned. Her marriage is on the rocks and the murder victim is an old friend, who rumour has it, had an affair with her.

An alcoholic artist, who may in fact have been driven to murder, seeks inspiration from a mannequin.

Hanka is a young woman who suddenly abandons her stable life for no obvious reason, and undertakes a trip without any clear destination, meeting strangers on her way. At the same time, her boyfriend desperately tries to find her.

Um dia na vida do estudante Andrzej que, entre a manhã e o fim da tarde, desiste dos estudos, termina seu relacionamento e decide entrar para o exército. Antes de partir, Andrzej tenta endireitar sua vida e encontra Barbara, que considera ser a mulher por quem sempre esperou.

Jan Saudek, o fotógrafo vivo mais famoso da República Tcheca é o tema dessa biografia caleidoscópia e muitas vezes chocante feita por seu amigo e colega Adolf Zika.

A dashing young Italian in Poland finds himself caught between two women — a novitiate nun and a ruthless corporate ladder-climber — in this lacerating vision of contemporary Poland from master filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi.

"I am" tells the story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a second time by his alcoholic mother, who had earlier abandoned him, the resolute 11-year-old finds a "home" on a deserted old barge on the outskirts of his hometown. He is still an outcast, but he is an outcast on his own terms, rejecting both patronizing charitable gestures and coercion by local thugs. In the process he makes one true friend, a girl from an affluent family who is also an outcast, despite living in material comfort.

A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years.

Rússia, início do século XX. Um médico militar usa uma dose letal de éter e acidentalmente mata uma paciente por quem estava apaixonado. Exilado em uma fortaleza e convencido de que seus experimentos vão alterar a resistência dos soldados, ele logo se encontrará no centro de uma trama de espionagem.

Ele tem a família perfeita e o trabalho dos sonhos, mas Michael não pode deixar de lado seu passado, que ameaça destruir tudo. Para proteger sua esposa e seu filho, ele recorre a um velho amigo. Será ele seu salvador ou sua perdição?

My Flesh and Blood is a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Karsh chronicling a year in the life of the Tom family. The Tom family is notable as the mother, Susan, adopted eleven children, most of whom had serious disabilities or diseases. The film itself is notable for handling the sensitive subject matter in an unsentimental way that is more uplifting than one might expect.

After spending some time in a hospital, Ewa returns to her Polish village to work on a wild rose plantation. Her family situation gets increasingly complicated, however, as her husband returns home from abroad, while it is revealed that Ewa has had an affair with a high-school-aged boy. Meanwhile, her relationship with her two children is strained, in particular with the headstrong Marysia, who is approaching her first communion. As things pile up for Ewa, she starts to realize that the time has come to make some difficult decisions.

Um romance visionário baseado numa leitura contemporânea de Dante.