175 Films & TV Shows Set In Poland
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Jönssonligans största kupp
🇵🇱 PolandWhen Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry tries to break doctor Busé out of jail, they get Herman Melvin instead...
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Three Colors: White
🇫🇷 France 🇵🇱 PolandPolish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikolah to smuggle him back to their homeland.
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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
🇲🇽 Mexico 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland 🇷🇺 RussiaAfter years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.
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An Impossible Job
England 🇳🇴 Norway 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇮🇹 Italy 🇵🇱 Poland The 1990sDo I Not Like That — A fly-on-the-wall documentary following England manager Graham Taylor and the team through the 18 months leading to the failure to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup
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Schindler's List
🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sWhoever saves one life, saves the world entire. — The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Psy
🇵🇱 Poland The 1990sIn good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side.
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The Double Life of Véronique
🇫🇷 France 🇵🇱 PolandEach of us is matched somewhere in the world, by our exact double - someone who shares our thoughts and dreams. — Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.
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Controlled Conversations
🇵🇱 Poland The 1980sBrilliantly funny comedy finds humor in what was otherwise a terrifying time, the outbreak of Martial Law in Poland in 1981.
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Eminent Domain
🇵🇱 Poland The 1970sThey kidnapped his daughter, drugged his wife and then demanded one last thing... his trust. — A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
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Europa Europa
🇧🇾 Belarus 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sA Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
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Undeclared War
🇵🇱 Poland Guangdong Province 🇭🇰 Hong KongA Hong Kong Special Branch cop and a CIA agent reluctantly team up to bring down a major international terrorist.
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Interrogation
🇵🇱 Poland The 1950sIn Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
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Triumph of the Spirit
🇬🇷 Greece 🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sFact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to fight.
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And the Violins Stopped Playing
🇭🇺 Hungary 🇵🇱 PolandThis is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
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A Short Film About Killing
🇵🇱 PolandJacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
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A Short Film About Love
🇵🇱 Poland19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...
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To Kill a Priest
🇵🇱 PolandA young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sAllied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
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Escape from Sobibor
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sThe true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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The Magnate
🇵🇱 Poland The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sThis Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
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Angry Harvest
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sIn the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
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War and Love
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sThey fought their way out of Hell and found each other. — Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression.
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Pope John Paul II
🇵🇱 Poland The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1940sBio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
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Yentl
🇵🇱 Poland The 1900sIn a time when the world of study belonged only to men, there lived a girl who dared to ask why? — Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith -- so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious school, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
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The Turning Point
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sIn the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.
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