Ryszard Kotys

Story of youths during the German occupation of Poland in the World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity. (imdb)

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart. (imdb)

An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything, including throwing mud at his best friend, to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career.

Ricky is an escapee from a reform school. Julian escaped the anger of a voluntarily fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. They team together in Warsaw. In search for food they break into a villa and Ricky discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They decide to go on a rampage through the city.

This pessimistic Polish film stars Tomasz Hudziec as a boy whose father is arrested by the Stalinist police. To quell Hudziec's potential rebelliousness, the authorities ship him off to a Pioneer Camp, where he will be "re-educated." Camp life is horrible, but Hudziec goes with the program in order to impress a counselor with whom he has become smitten. Eventually he becomes an ardent Stalinist, so much so that he is barely recognizable to his own father... (NY Times)

Michal, 34, is leading a prosperous, well-rounded life with his wife and son, a nice apartment, and a job in a large accounting office. Unexpectedly, Michal is sent by his employer to his home town to pick up a car imported from the USA. Michal picks up the car, but before leaving town he visits his father, with whom he's been in bitter conflict for years. After this visit, Michal gets into the car. His plans of a quick return are thwarted on the spot, however. Things take a different turn. (imdb)

A middle-aged pair of newly weds is still without a child after two years of marriage. It's an embarassment so they decide to adopt a child. This takes time, however, and they cannot wait. The solution is to fake a pregnancy and make a deal with a young girl expecting an illegitimate child, who in turn does not want give the baby up to the adoption home. The deal is made, pregnancy faked and then the middle aged wife suddenly finds herself pregnant. (imdb)

TV show about stereotypical polish family and their neighbours living in one of the tenement houses in Wroclaw. (imdb)

Michal, a man who had been in prison in the past, is employed as a manager at a trucking company, where he undertakes a fight against abuse and corruption. Soon, with the help of Jadwiga, the company's secretary, he manages to thwart a cement robbery. Since then his life changes... (filmaffinity.com)

The film deals with the clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish-German lieutenant is added to the staff of a prison camp. He sees a Pole, the acknowledged leader of the Polish prisoners, against whom he had competed during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He asks the Pole to train with him but is refused; the Pole points out that he is a prisoner and nothing more... (Polish Cinema Database)

A young doctor at a rural mental hospital struggles to uphold humane standards and deal with the staff, including aloof doctors, an eccentric poet, and a cynic with whom he falls in love. Their troubled sanctuary then faces even harder decisions—and a real dystopia—with the arrival of the Nazis. (mubi.com)