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51. Five from Barska Street (1954)
108 min | Drama
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Director: Aleksander Ford | Stars: Aleksandra Slaska, Tadeusz Janczar, Andrzej Kozak, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Votes: 119
52. Samson (1961)
117 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Elzbieta Kepinska, Jan Ciecierski
Votes: 240
53. Pierscionek z orlem w koronie (1992)
104 min | Drama, War
A young resistance fighter tries to deal with the harsh reality of post-war Poland, where Communists have come to power.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Rafal Królikowski, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Cezary Pazura, Jerzy Kamas
Votes: 327
54. Dead Class (1977 TV Movie)
72 min | Documentary
Dead Class is one of the most innovative and influencing works of 20th century Theatre. The first version of the production, acclaimed by critics but only rarely represented outside Poland, was documented in this film by A. Wajda.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Tadeusz Kantor, Maria Kantor, Zofia Kalinska, Andrzej Welminski
Votes: 93
55. Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2006– )
Talk-Show
The principle of "Ce Soir (Ou Jamais!)" is to present live and in public "the news seen by culture". The program brought together guests with very varied profiles, around specific topical ... See full summary »
Stars: Frédéric Taddeï, Emmanuel Todd, Jean-Didier Vincent, Michel Maffesoli
Votes: 69
56. Wyrok na Franciszka Klosa (2000 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, War
Based on the true story of Franciszek Klos, a policeman who collaborated with the Germans. Klos not only catches criminals, but also tracks down Polish conspirators and hiding Jews.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Miroslaw Baka, Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Maja Komorowska, Katarzyna Bosacka
Votes: 129
57. Lotna (1959)
90 min | Drama, War
Poland, during the World War. Lotna is a magnificent specimen of Arabian horse, the pride of her owner, too old to actually ride her but to whom she remains faithful nevertheless. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Jerzy Pichelski, Adam Pawlikowski, Jerzy Moes, Mieczyslaw Loza
Votes: 473
58. Trzy opowiesci (1953)
99 min | Action, Drama
Film divided into three different episodes. In the first one, a saboteur damages the water pipes, which causes flooding of a cement stock. It turns out that the perpetrator is a member of ... See full summary »
Directors: Konrad Nalecki, Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski | Stars: Marian Rulka, Zygmunt Listkiewicz, Adam Kwiatkowski, Ignacy Gogolewski
Votes: 40
59. Solidarity, Solidarity (2005)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Thirteen short segments made for the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. Each of them tries to examine the meaning of solidarity today.
Directors: Filip Bajon, Jacek Bromski, Ryszard Bugajski, Jerzy Domaradzki, Feliks Falk, Robert Glinski, Andrzej Jakimowski, Jan Jakub Kolski, Juliusz Machulski, Malgorzata Szumowska, Piotr Trzaskalski, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Katarzyna Herman, Marek Kondrat, Robert Wieckiewicz, Masakazu Miyanaga
Votes: 126
60. Jan Nowak-Jezioranski. Kurier z Warszawy. 60 lat pózniej 1944-2004 (2004)
28 min | Documentary, Short, War
Directors: Andrzej Kotkowski, Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, Andrzej Wajda
61. Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018)
72 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a maker of erotic movies. Love Express ... See full summary »
Director: Kuba Mikurda | Stars: Thierry Bazin, Bertrand Bonello, Walerian Borowczyk, Peter Bradshaw
Votes: 127
62. Marek Edelman... And There Was Love in the Ghetto (2019)
79 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A Holocaust survivor remembers love as experienced in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Directors: Andrzej Wajda, Jolanta Dylewska | Stars: Marek Edelman, Aleksandra Poplawska, Marek Kalita, Grzegorz Artman
Votes: 35
63. Aktorka (2015)
72 min | Documentary, Biography
Directors: Kinga Debska, Maria Konwicka, Zuzanna Szamocka | Stars: Robert Brustein, Joanna Rostropowicz Clark, Krystyna Czubówna, John Guare
Votes: 38
64. Makbet (1969)
106 min | Fantasy
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Magdalena Zawadzka
65. Wonderwall (I) (2018)
7 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Alexander Denysenko | Stars: Vasily Pimenov, Oksana Slyzhuk
66. Zweiter Weltkrieg (2014– )
87 min | Documentary, History, War
English title: The Invasion: The Outbreak of WW2. This 90 minute documentary (broken into 2 parts in Australia) is a detailed look at what happened in Poland during WW2. Featuring ... See full summary »
Stars: Roman Polanski, Budzimira Wojtalewicz, Andrzej Wajda, Sönke Neitzel
Votes: 24
67. Wajda by Wajda (2016 TV Movie)
95 min | Documentary
The life & work of polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda.
Director: Andrzej Wolski | Stars: Sean Connery, Zbigniew Cybulski, Gérard Depardieu, Krystyna Janda
Votes: 62
68. Schuld und Sühne (1992 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Describes the fictional Rodion Raskolnikov's life, from the murder of a pawnbroker and her sister, through spiritual regeneration with the help and love of the hooker Sonya, to his sentence in Siberia.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Stephan Bissmeier, Jutta Lampe, Bernd Ludwig, Dirk Nawrocki
69. Kobieta i kobieta (1980)
95 min | Drama
A story of a female production manager in a garment factory discovering that an award is being given to the wrong person on purpose. She stands up the injustice. Her best friend backs her ... See full summary »
Directors: Ryszard Bugajski, Janusz Dymek | Stars: Anna Romantowska, Halina Labonarska, Stefan Szmidt, Jerzy Zelnik
Votes: 13
70. Wielki tydzien (1995)
97 min | Drama, War
An investigation of the history of anti Semitism in Poland.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Beata Fudalej, Wojciech Malajkat, Jakub Przebindowski, Magdalena Warzecha
Votes: 226
71. Bains de minuit (1987–1988)
Stars: Thierry Ardisson, Guy Cuevas, Philippe Guérin, Sylvain Bergère
72. Biesy po latach (2013)
53 min | Documentary
At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the unique play that went on uninterrupted for 10 years despite opposition from the authorities.
Director: Andrzej Wajda
73. Przekladaniec (1968 TV Short)
35 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The story of a racing car driver who undergoes so many transplants that it can no longer be determined which people have contributed to his make-up.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Bogumil Kobiela, Ryszard Filipski, Anna Prucnal, Jerzy Zelnik
Votes: 386
74. Étoiles et toiles (1982–1986)
Documentary
Stars: Frédéric Mitterrand, Jean-Luc Godard, Clint Eastwood, Raoul Coutard
Votes: 107
75. Andrzej Wajda: On Ashes and Diamonds (2005 Video)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Director Andrzej Wajda discusses his work Popiól i diament (1958) [Ashes and Diamonds (1958)].
Director: Izabela Frank | Stars: Janusz Morgenstern, Jerzy Plazewski, Andrzej Wajda
Votes: 23
76. Lekcja polskiego kina (2002)
71 min | Documentary
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Star: Andrzej Wajda
Votes: 38
77. In the Shadow of Hollywood (2000)
112 min | Documentary
Director: Sylvie Groulx | Stars: Élise Bertrand, Denys Arcand, Anne-Marie Bidaud, Luciana Castellina
Votes: 105
78. Joseph Czapski (1990)
63 min | Documentary
Director: Emmanuel Dufour Kowalski | Stars: Józef Czapski, Jeanne Hersch, Emmanuel Dufour Kowalski, Andrzej Wajda
79. Almost... Everything (2015)
74 min | Documentary
Director: Valeriy Krisenko | Stars: Vladislav Ikonomov, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Wajda, Krystyna Zachwatowicz
80. Andrzej Wajda oglada 'Popiól i diament' (2008 TV Movie)
29 min | Documentary
Documentary feature of an unusual conversation with Andrzej Wajda, recorded exactly half a century after the premiere of the film "Ashes and Diamonds". In a narrative full of anecdotes, the director reveals the backstage of the film.
Directors: Marcin Borchardt, Jerzy Rados | Star: Andrzej Wajda
81. The Fabulous Picture Show (2006–2011)
History, Talk-Show
Stars: Amanda Palmer, Cherien Dabis, Scandar Copti, Mohamed Al Daradji
Votes: 43
82. Zaproszenie do wnetrza (1978)
55 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Star: Ludwig Zimmerer
Votes: 8
83. Ide do slonca (1955)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Star: Xawery Dunikowski
Votes: 58
84. Der Sommer 1939 (2009 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, History
The literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (then 19), the film director Andrzej Wajda (then 13), the then ten-year-old Janine Phillips and the politician Wladislaw Bartoszewski (then 17) talk about the threatening summer of 1939 in Poland.
Directors: Mathias Haentjes, Nina Koshofer | Stars: Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Pierre Daix, Hans Keilson, Pavel Kohout
Votes: 30
85. First Love (1971 TV Movie)
25 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Sylwester Checinski | Stars: Zbigniew Horawa, Andrzej Hrydzewicz, Tadeusz Kamberski, Ryszard Kotys
Votes: 17
86. Andrzej Wajda: On Kanal (2005 Video)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Izabela Frank, Izabella Muchlinski | Stars: Janusz Morgenstern, Andrzej Wajda
Votes: 17
87. Vive l'histoire! (1981)
52 min | History
Stars: Jean-Claude Bringuier, Mona Ozouf, Alain Schnapp, Antoine Prost
88. Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life (2010)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda succeeded in writing his own chapter in the ... See full summary »
Director: Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy | Stars: Krzysztof Komeda, Noam Buthenhoff, Henning Carlsen, Simon Großmann
Votes: 61
89. Red Roofs (2021)
100 min | Documentary
Red Roofs is about the Czechoslovakian, Polish and Hungarian cinema from 1950 until 1990 and its political and social impact.
Director: Zuzka Markova | Stars: Ryszard Bugajski, Milos Forman, Agnieszka Holland, Juraj Jakubisko
90. Wróblewski wedlug Wajdy (2016)
42 min | Documentary, Short
Andrzej Wajda mentions Andrzej Wróblewski as a painter and friend. It tells about a man facing the challenges of the epoch and dramatically searching for his space. Wróblewski, seen through... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda
91. Lustra Leszka Madzika (2015)
Documentary
Director: Natasza Ziólkowska-Kurczuk | Stars: Ewa Biala, Urszula Dudziak, Krzysztof Hejke, Zygmunt Konieczny
92. Andrzej Wajda - A portrait (1989)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, Biography
The camera turns inward in this intense look at the renowned Polish director.
Director: Andrzej Brzozowski | Star: Andrzej Wajda
93. Krec! Jak kochasz, to krec! (2010)
46 min | Documentary
A posthumous homage to the great Polish cinematographer Edward Klosinski, who worked with such luminaries of Polish cinema as Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kieslowski and the film's director Andrzej Wajda.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Edward Klosinski, Krystyna Janda, Kurt Weber
Votes: 11
95. Andrzej Wajda: My Inspirations (2017)
60 min | Documentary
Directors: Marek Brodzki, Andrzej Wajda | Star: Andrzej Wajda
96. Z Gliwic do Paryza. Wojtek Pszoniak (2011)
55 min | Documentary, Biography
A fictionalized documentary about the artistic path of Wojciech Pszoniak. The journey through the life of one of the most outstanding Polish actors begins with the hero of the film himself,... See full summary »
Director: Krzysztof Korwin-Piotrowski | Stars: Wojciech Pszoniak, Barbara Pszoniak, Marek Balata, Malgorzata Braunek
97. The 2016 European Film Awards (2016 TV Special)
The European Film Awards, presented jointly by the European Film Academy and EFA Productions, honour the greatest achievements in European cinema. The members of the European Film Academy -... See full synopsis »
Directors: Maria von Heland, Nadja Zonsarowa | Stars: Lenny Abrahamson, Numan Acar, Maren Ade, Agustín Almodóvar
98. Ostatnie zdjecia (2000 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary
Andrzej Munk was one of the leading directors in Polish cinema. Friends and collaborators share their memories about this stunning artist and his premature tragic death.
Director: Andrzej Brzozowski | Stars: Andrzej Brzozowski, Anna Ciepielewska, Anna Dyrka, Andrzej Munk
Votes: 17
99. Bareizm (1997)
57 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Agnieszka Arnold | Stars: Jan Bareja, Maria Bninska, Jerzy Bonczak, Zofia Czerwinska
Votes: 17
100. S. M. Eizenshtein: Uroki montazha (1990)
Documentary
Director: Vadim Chubasov | Stars: Anatoliy Borsyuk, Sergei Eisenstein, Marlen Khutsiev, István Szabó