Krystyna Janda Movies

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mirosław Baka

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Andrzej Seweryn

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Agata Buzek

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Lino Ventura

In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jerzy Stuhr

A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juliette Binoche

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marek Walczewski

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Genre: Romance

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Daddy is the story of a divorced father fighting for the right to raise his 7-year-old daughter. When his marriage falls apart, he decides to kidnap...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bogusław Linda

The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janusz Gajos

In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Friedrich von Thun

The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Marek Kondrat

The Martians have landed and they're not to be feared! Or at least that's what TV personality Iron Idem has been telling people. Soon after their...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Roman Wilhelmi

A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl is 17 years old and lives on the street. As the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jürgen Prochnow

Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for...

Genre: History

Cast: Michal Bajor

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gielgud

The story about the friendship between two women, family problems and difficult childhood.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: India Dudek

In 2059 scientists manage to revive two people after 80 years of suspended animation - a boy Marek Torlewski and a dictator Muanty, who quickly...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Wiktor Grotowicz

Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in...

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Cast: Krystyna Janda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak

Polish musical film with leading Polish rock bands from the '80

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mateusz Damięcki

December, 1981. World-class champion Ewa Jaskólska is looking forward to a cruise around the world with her yacht. At her farewell party, ...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Extensive dialogue and the tight focus of a single apartment setting marks this romantic and politically symbolic drama about Malgorzata, a Polish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Magali Noël

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gabriela Kownacka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hannelore Elsner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mirosław Baka

Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcohol than in the problems of her young yet very...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Friedrich Karl Praetorius

The unusual bond between a blind female writer and an acclaimed poet changes their lives and forms an exceptional creative cooperation, free of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

In Tuscany, Maria's stable family life begins to erode as her relationship with a young immigrant develops against a backdrop of terrorism and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Francois Korb is an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughter Alicja, who learns that she is adopted, decides...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henryk Bista

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Genre: History

Cast: Katarzyna Herman

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Krystyna Janda

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irène Jacob

A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomasz Włosok

An organised arts teacher has only one main problem in life, which is his father – a painter always going from one party to the next. When the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wojciech Mecwaldowski

The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrzej May

Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Agnieszka Mandat

Students from the Faculty of Acting find out that their graduation film will be made by the famous director Gajda. The news is electrifying –...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sebastian Dela

Loosely connected scenes in the life of a young student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marek Frąckowiak