175 Films & TV Shows Set In Poland
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Squared Love
🇵🇱 PolandA celebrity journalist and renowned womanizer starts to rethink his life choices after he falls for a mysterious model who leads a double life.
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Vor Zeit
🇵🇱 PolandSilesia: a contested region marked by migrations. Animosities between the peoples have a long tradition here, not only since the Second World War. But the National Socialist tyranny left clear lesions behind. The director’s grandfather comes from this region, was the organist in a church in Krasiejów – a place which was once also called Krascheow and, for a while, Schönhorst.
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The Rhine Flows to the Mediterranean Sea
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇱 PolandIn associative montages of images and conversations with people in Germany, Poland and ultimately in Israel, this film explores persistent traumas, mechanisms of repressing the pain, and attempts at reconciliation. What kind of dialogue is possible between relatives of perpetrators and victims? How does one’s identity or membership in a community mould one’s awareness and perception? With these questions in mind after his return, Avnon also takes a different view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is visibly inscribed in the social space of his home town of Haifa.
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Radioactive
Ohio Nevada 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇷 France 🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sPioneer. Genius. Rebel. — The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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The Hater
🇵🇱 PolandA duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.
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365 Days
🇵🇱 PolandA woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.
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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
🇵🇱 Poland The 1980s The 2010s The 2020sThe movie begins innocently enough - a group of technology addicted teenagers finds themselves in an off-line camp. However hiking in the woods with no smartphone in sight will not go as planned. They will have to fight for their lives against things they never have seen before, even in the darkest reaches of the Internet. Faced against the dangers lurking in the forest, they will find true friendship, love and sacrifice. Will they come out of it in one piece, or in bloody bits?
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Never Gonna Snow Again
🇵🇱 PolandZenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
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Werewolf
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sSummer of 1945. A temporary orphanage is established in an abandoned palace surrounded by forests for the eight children liberated from the Gross-Rosen camp. Hanka, also a former inmate, becomes their guardian. After the atrocities of the camp, the protagonists slowly begin to regain what is left of their childhood but the horror returns quickly. Camp Alsatians roam the forests around. Released by the SS earlier on, they have gone feral and are starving. Looking for food they besiege the palace. The children are terrified and their camp survival instinct is triggered.
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Teefa in Trouble
🇵🇱 Poland 🇵🇰 PakistanTeefa goes to Poland to get Anya to Pakistan to marry Butt gangster's son but lands up in trouble with Anya's gangster father and the Polish police.
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Raised from the Ground
🇵🇱 Poland 🇵🇹 Portugal The 1980sThe place of memories and the struggle against oblivion can take many forms, something that is transversal to these two films and the work of Daniel Blaufuks. In Judenrein, meaning free of Jews, the director examines amateur footage of the 1980s in a small Polish village, rescued to find answers about his story, in a biographical reflection. In Levantados do Chão, a philharmonic band traverses an abandoned hotel in the Azores, and the emptiness left by the ruins thus refers to a past that is still present and prevalent.
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The Zookeeper's Wife
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940s The 1930sThey gave all they had to save all they could — The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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The Last Suit
🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇵🇱 Poland 🇦🇷 ArgentinaCranky, crafty and always immaculately dressed, aged master tailor Abraham Bursztein finds himself facing his winter years in a retirement home after discovering his children have sold his home out from under him. Not one to go quietly, Abraham unexpectedly travels to Poland in order to deliver a suit to a childhood friend who saved his life during the Nazi occupation.
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Breaking the Limits
🇵🇱 Poland The 1980sBased on true events. In 1980s Poland, Jerzy Górski is a young man who finds the determination to struggle against his drug addiction through athletic training, with the aim of competing in the US Ironman Triathlon.
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X-Men: Apocalypse
Ohio Virginia District of Columbia New York 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1980sOnly the strong will survive — After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
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Dark Crimes
🇵🇱 PolandIt takes a dark mind to solve a twisted crime — Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner workings of an unsolved murder.
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The Innocents
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sDeeply moving and emotionally layered. — Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
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All These Sleepless Nights
🇵🇱 Poland The 2010sWhat does it mean to be awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep? Kris and Michal push their experiences of life and love to a breaking point as they restlessly roam the city streets in search of answers, adrift in the euphoria and uncertainty of youth.
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The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland 🇷🇺 RussiaDrinking the tasty Folk Soda puts a spring in the 101 Year Old Man’s step and his next adventure takes him around the World and back to Sweden, during which time he is chased by the CIA, a Balinese debt collector and becomes an executive at a soft drink company.
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Son of Saul
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sIn the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
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Bangistan
🇵🇱 PolandTwo Aspiring Terrorists. One Identical Plan. No Damn Clue! — Two blundering terrorists with lofty ideologies, but ordinary talent, on a mission to change the world.
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The Lure
🇵🇱 Poland The 1980sTwo mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
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Stones for the Rampart
🇵🇱 Poland The 1930sTo be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. Entering adulthood in a very dramatic times, which puts them a choice - to survive at any cost, or to join the fighting for a free homeland, risking everything. The boys brought up in patriotic homes, shaped by the ideals of scouting, they decide to fight. They become soldiers, and although every scrape with death, they can live a full life.
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Warsaw 44
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sLove in the times of the Apocalypse — City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…
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