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- This children's fantasy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evil shark and an eel.
- "Life, Love, Death" was made before the abolition of capital punishment in France. Its central message is the inhumanity of the guillotine. The film, which is shot somewhat in a cinema verite style, divides roughly into three acts. In Act One, there is a series of murders of prostitutes in Paris. An obviously deeply disturbed man is hiring these prostitutes and then strangling them. Suspicion falls on François (Amidou), a married man with a child. The police put him under surveillance. (Viewers will recognize the inspector in charge of the team as Marcel Bozzuffi, who would play Popeye Doyle's nemesis in The French Connection a couple of years later.) Ironically, François is experiencing spiritual healing and renewal through the power of love---not with his wife, of course, this being a French film, but through an affair with a beautiful young woman he has met (not a prostitute). But just as this is happening and François seems to have lost the need to commit violent crimes, he is arrested. Act Two is the arraignment, trial and exposition of François's life and history. His recent transformation, of course, makes no impression on the court, and he is sentenced to death by guillotine. Act Three is a documentary-style record of François's last days in prison and his execution. The last scene in the film is an image of the guillotine's blade beginning its descent; it slows and freezes and there is a fade to black, as a voiceover issues a passionate plea for abolition of the guillotine.
- A World War II drama where people, many of whom opposed to Nazism, get on board a train from France that could lead them to freedom.
- The dangerous thug Pif-Paf escapes from prison. Bolek and Lolek bravely chase after him.
- Set in Europe during WWI, a doctor and lawyer have converted a musty old mansion into a ritzy hotel and health spa. The chateau is inhabited by an eccentric collection of characters from whom the proprietors go to great lengths to hide the endless parade of dying men coming back from battle. Despite the owner's efforts, people in the hotel begin to die mysteriously as events become a surreal meditation on death, disease, and hypocracy.
- Polish schoolboy Janek and his fellow traveler, the Russian girl Tanya, are on the journey to South America. The plane they are flying on is hijacked by a gang of drug dealers led by a former Nazi criminal.
- Adaptation of a series of short stories about Oz by F. L. Baum. He tells about the adventures of little Dorota and her friends: Scarecrow, Tin Woodcutter and Cowardly Lion. A series made in the technique of a semi-flat doll, with dialogues and songs.
- The English architect, together with his daughter Susan, comes to a horse stud run by a friend. A little Englishwoman meets a girl and a boy there, and they spend time together in the nearby forests. The boy persuades everyone that he has seen tarpans in these forests, but because no one believes him, he invites Susan to go search with him. The circus, belonging to an eccentric American, buys horses at the stud. The invited children realize that one of the trainers and the vet are hiding a secret. During an accidental balloon flight over the old fort, they see tarpans and circus containers. In this way, the children discover wild animal smugglers who use the circus as a veil for their evil deeds. Now the little heroes just have to get out of the fort as quickly as possible to notify the police before the circus goes with the animals to America.
- The young heroes of the series come from a provincial town and now study in Warsaw. Malgosia is a first-year chemistry student at the Warsaw University of Technology and lives in a student dormitory. Raised in the so-called good home, she rarely felt happy there. Her mother monitored her at every step, sometimes even checking the contents of her purse and making a fuss about every late return home. Her father treated his only daughter with greater tenderness and tolerance, but he was often away on business, so she had no support from him either. Andrzej is finishing his studies at the Faculty of Animal Science of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), and he lives with his aunt. After his mother's death, his father raised him alone, but they could never find a common language.