Krystyna Janda

Ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments. (imdb)

In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer... (imdb)

A worker becomes a "man of iron" forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love... (imdb)

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance... (imdb)

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra... (imdb)

Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of. (imdb)

The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future - but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse. (imdb)

Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders. Then the chaos breaks out: the Martians and police mistreat the populace; things become violent. (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)

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. (Polish Cinema Database)

A melancholic story, set during a joyous Christmas season, follows an older man's hopeful attempt to repair his history of relationships damaged by his drinking. The yellow scarf, a magical gift from his mother, reveals the outcome of this man's struggle to overcome the grip of alcoholism.

As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.

The story of a divorced couple's fierce custody battle over their 7 daughter, and the prejudice against men that is often found in these cases. When his marriage falls apart, Michal decides to kidnap his daughter rather than let the court award custody to his mentally ill wife. As he finds out, it is easier to be a real man than it is to be a real father.

The title of this film -- taken from graffiti on a wall near director Krzysztof Zanussi's home -- provides ironic commentary on its subject, which revolves around a doctor's questioning of his beliefs when he is confronted with terminal illness. (movies.nytimes.com)

Touching film about a mother and son who, despite problems with alcohol and financial starajaą to go through life. Mother seeks the support of their lovers, but her greatest love is her son, for which it is able to do everything.

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secret can be concealed. (imdb)

19-years old Alice finds out that she is adopted. She is looking for her biological mother. Alice meets her, but she is unfulfilled singer, alcoholic, unstable emotionally. Daughter tries to help her. The other mother wants to rebuilt relationship with Alice.

Gdansk, 1989. He is German, born in Gdansk, she is Polish. The two discover they have much in common, but the forces of capitalism and new political situation overwhelm the pair's good intentions. It is satiric tale of love, mortality and politics in a changing Eastern Europe, based on novel by Gunter Grass.

The story of a Polish young man who wants to return to his parents' homeland from the Soviet Union. It was at this time when Poland was still part of Russia. Then World War I happens, he joins the war and serves his country. Poland was not the wonderful homeland that his father had promised him. (imdb)

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. (imdb)

Summer 1967 in Poland. For 12-year-olds Pawel, Piotr, Szymek and Elka, this will prove the most extraordinary summer of their lives. They meet a mysterious Jewish boy called Dawid Weiser. Dawid, a highly imaginative child, has discovered an old munitions camp. Dawid is planning something rather special. Using the old munitions, he treats his friends to a series of demonstrations of explosions. (movies.yahoo.com)

Sébastien Grenier,a secret agent eliminates all his rivals in order to decipher who has killed some of his associates. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by his assilant, who fear he will testify against them. Marek finds shelter with a girlfriend/bagwoman who supposedly was once queen of Paris boulevards. Marek regains his memory just as the villains are to get him. He eventually returns to his house only to find out that his mother died and his brother left. (Polish Cinema Database)

Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he's got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her family history joins Rainer in his research. Their discoveries will take them back to the past full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever. The Dulski family have much on their conscience... (cineuropa.org)

About a psychotherapist and his relationships with his patients and his family. (imdb)

A woman's stable family life begins to fall apart as she develops a relationship with a young immigrant. (imdb)

A story inspired by the life of Nikodem Skotarczak "Nikoś", played by Tomaszłosok. It is a story about the male world as seen through the eyes of women. Nikoś is a boy with an unbridled appetite for success, who specializes in the illegal import of cars to Poland. Gigantic money, building a car empire, a spectacular break from prison... His life is a constant ride without a handlebars, and his story shows how to fight for yourself and how much you have to sacrifice to be able to remain yourself.

Malgorzata and Paul have a rendezvous in West Berlin to spend some time together before she has to go back to Warsaw and he returns to his wife and daughter. The two talk, disagree, argue, make-up, quarrel and talk some more.