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- In Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.
- Two scientists are placed into a 3-year hibernation, but when they wake up, it turns out to have been 50 years, and they are the only two males in a new underground society composed exclusively of women.
- During World War Two, Janka is hiding a young Jewish girl named Ester, and an unusual bond is created between them.
- Monte Cassino film follows Jedrek, a Russian ex-gulag orphan joining Allied II Corps. His meeting Pola, a nurse, transforms him as they experience the Battle of Monte Cassino, crucial for the Italian campaign and Jedrek's destiny.
- Film opens on December 28, 1999, three 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. Idem's own wife is kidnapped and it seems somebody is trying to reduce his effectiveness as a reporter. Idem decides to fight back: he illegally broadcasts a message during a rock concert, but nobody believes him anymore.
- A satirical look at the gangsters of Poland and some teens who accidentally get involved with them.
- The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
- Tells the story of the Frank family and paints a portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
- MEP Joanna Warczewska, daughter of an outstanding writer, is at the peak of her life. Her thriving political career and family happiness are instantly destroyed by a terrorist attack in which her beloved husband is killed. When fate gives her a new chance in life, another blow hits her. Someone sends her photos and documents undermining her family ties and suggesting that her mother has collaborated with the Security Service in the past. Joanna decides to conduct a historical investigation on her own and unravel the mystery that casts a shadow on her family. What she discovers not only makes her look at her mother in a completely different way, but will also make her find her own identity. Joanna will be forced to face the blackmailer herself and make a choice that will change her life forever.
- Grzegorz, diagnosed as an autistic child, lives in his hermetic world, unable to establish contact with others. When he turns fourteen, it turns out that the cause of isolation is not autism, but hearing loss, which hides great musical talent. Thanks to the auditory implant, Grzegorz begins to learn sounds, words and music with which he falls in love. He wants to become a pianist and perform at the philharmonic hall. Nobody but himself and his closest family believes that a deaf boy - although supported by modern technology - will make his dream come true.
- The story of the investigation to unravel the mysterious death of a beautiful young woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She is not Krystyna Holzer, as stated in her kennkarte (German-issued identity document), but a Jewess kept hidden by a Pole - a polonized Saxon - attorney Karol Karlzer. Before the outbreak of war, the woman was his student as well as the object of his unrequited love. The case is assigned to Detective Chief Inspector Rafal Król, an officer of the so- -called Blue Police under the control of the German occupiers, but also a soldier of the Polish underground, sworn to execute his orders. It is a suspenseful story set in the faithfully-recreated reality of occupied Warsaw and Zakopane.
- People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
- After several years of serving his sentence, Cuma - a notorious art thief is released from prison due to his poor health. It was all arranged by dealer Gruby who plans a heist of the famous 'Lady with an Ermine' by Leonardo da Vinci. Cuma is contracted to steal the painting. He invites his former partner Julian to join the team, not knowing that his best friend is now a policeman and will do anything to prevent the heist. Julian seeks cooperation with an old forger Hagen and a beautiful young art student Magda.
- Andreas arrives on a remote Greek island to sell a plot of land inherited from his uncle. But who would buy a barren, rocky field with a stone hut? In order to sell the plot Andreas has to pay off a debt his uncle ran up with Yiannis, a local farmer. But Andreas has no money. Stuck in the valley, he waits every morning for Yiannis' granddaughter, Lena, to bring him bread and cheese. He falls in love with her. A good reason to work on Yiannis' field to pay back the money. Andreas starts to feel settled there. At this point he does not sense the danger hanging over the valley and the nearby village. An experience of death and misfortune will soon open his eyes to the fragility of this small world.
- Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns: His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation that attends his psychological meltdown.
- A government agent enlists his girlfriend to spy on a professor.
- After another failed relationship, Sophie takes a journey to her previous relationships to understand what went wrong.
- Biography of Simona Kossak, a scientist and ecologist.
- Marta is a romantic and a victim of fate. She shares a room with her sister Kasia and their grandmother, who tells her granddaughters insurgent stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, their parents Tadek and Elzbieta live their married life. He is an intellect, constantly humiliated by the system, who silently envies his prosperous brother-in-law. She is the president of the company's "Solidarity" with the need for freedom and a dream to finally break out of Poland. However, the real emotions for the whole family start when the dream orange toddler stands under the block. This will be an unexpected catapult to the big world: the family will go to Lake Balaton with a toddler with luggage on the roof. Ela and Tadek will discover a vocation to trade and travel abroad, and Marta will fall in love again.
- Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, jealousy, shame. Adas Miauczynski returns to his childhood, when - like most of us - he had a big problem with naming the accompanying emotions. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that not-as it turns out-carefree period to learn to experience the seven basic feelings. This extremely unpredictable journey to the past abounds in a series of hilarious, even comic situations, but it also carries the power of emotion and reflection.
- Year 2004, operation Iraqi freedom. Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr, launched an insurgency. Karbala City Hall is cut off, leaving inside 40 Poles and 40 Bulgarian soldiers with supplies of food and ammo to 24h fight.
- The sisters struggle with their own bodies. One, driven by ambition, seeks the limits of his possibilities, for the other, the body is a prison. One believes that ballet will save her from her memories. The other watches the world from the balcony with such attention that she sees and hears more. Their father runs away to the only place where he feels like he is truly alive. Each of them tames the past and tames the present. The film is an adaptation of the novel by Jakub Malecki.
- The year 1975. After a few years of forced immigration, the young director Andrzej Zulawski returns to Poland. His situation in Poland is uncertain. What's worse, his family disintegrates: his wife Malgorzata Braunek files for divorce. To strengthen his position Zulawski takes on a titanic task: he plans to make On the Silver Globe, a science fiction epic and the biggest film in the history of the Polish cinema. If he succeeds, he'll win his place in the pantheon of the Polish directors. If he fails, his career in Poland will be over.
- After she learns that she has cancer of the larynx, Claudia decides to spend her days in Venice. Her obsession with Bosch leads the two to make a garden's visions real through sensual close-ups.
- The Pateroks are a loving, multi-generational family. Their lives are peaceful and humorous. Suddenly a crack appears in this harmonious reality: Grandpa Gerard begins to act strangely, breaking social conventions and norms. It turns out that these are the first symptoms of Alzheimer's. How will the heroes of the film deal with this diagnosis? Gerard's worsening disease puts family relations to a great test, and makes the hidden tensions, secrets and grudges come to light.
- Shopping malls are today's places of creating desires with the best jewelry, clothes and shoes. Unaffordable to young girls who decide to "work" to get themselves sponsors for new items.
- "Ether" is a story of a military medical doctor experimenting with science at the beginning of the 20th century in order to get power over other people.
- Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the German occupation.
- We look at three women. The 40-year-old prosecutor Dorota, the young student Magda and a distinguished surgeon, Teresa. They have something in common, an alcohol addiction.
- Before resettlement, the Kargul and Pawlak struggle to survive in Borderlands until forced relocation to Recovered Territories.
- Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.
- A psychological portrait of Budny - an secret service officer who surveilled Karol Wojtyla for twenty years. A special bond develops between the man and the bishop, who is unaware of his existence (they have never faced each other): one-sided, obsessive and pathological.
- A story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence and sex and surprising secrets which we learn within these strange twenty four hours.
- A young German girl jumps off a Wroclaw church tower. She is a member of a Women's Gregorian Choir.
- Grodno, an Eastern borderland of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bombard the city. One of the bomb hits the school of Leos, Ewelina and Tadek. Their world of innocent and care-free childhood, playing and first loves ends literally and figuratively. Leos is 12. He is a Jewish boy fascinated with the Polish independence movement tradition. On September 17, 1939, according to the Soviet and German pact the Red Army invades Poland and plans to capture Grodno. The city begins a hopeless fight against the occupants. The small troops are supported by civilians, mainly schoolchildren. The children and adolescents are the ones who heroically defend the city and fall victims of exceptional cruelty of the occupants.
- The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.
- Through the window, Dawid watches a new neighbour move into a house next door. The girl is more or less his age. She's wearing a strange skirt. Later on, Dawid finds out it's a Hawaiian hula skirt and the girl's name is Monika. Most probably, he also learns why Monika's grandma has gone away to Hawaii. Most probably, he's going to tell her that his sister is a cat now. For sure, the boy and the girl will be brought closer together by their strength in order to save their precious memories about the loved ones who departed this life. The mad Time Hopper will help them cross the gate in an old clock that leads to a place where time rules are completely different. Yet, in order to pay him, is chocolate enough?
- A commune built around the pursuit of spiritual perfection through the occult begins to see its prophecies come true.
- The story about the magical world of children's imagination, growing up and improving the world lightly reflects the most important treasures of Janusz Korczak's philosophy: every child should be loved, respected for their boundaries and allowed to dream. I guess every child wants to have magical powers. What if this dream comes true? Kajtek, a teenage boy with an exceptionally rebellious temperament, grows up with his father and grandmother. The class prankster one day discovers supernatural abilities. An unusual talent combined with the boy's unruly character mean big problems not only for the school, but also for the entire city. Magical powers take control over Kajtek's life, and from now on he deals with both the disliked teachers and the entire school community, gaining sympathy and fame among his peers. The situation begins to get complicated when the forces of good and evil begin to compete for the boy with magical abilities. Which way will the young wizard go?
- A story about the tragic fate of a Jewish political activist who committed suicide in London on May 12, 1943. His act was to be a protest against the world's inaction in the face of the tragedy of the Holocaust. A story told from the perspective of a young British journalist who, like most contemporary people of the Western world, was unaware of the scale of the crime taking place in eastern Europe at that time.
- A portrait of the Warsaw Central Railway Station, a flagship development of PZPR in the seventies.
- A factory night watchman, who is a fanatic of total control, shares his opinions on various topics.
- What makes life meaningful: success or love? This dilemma is faced by Joachim, a fulfilled man approaching the end of his life, and a young mathematical genius, David. This film is a return to the central themes of the director's work. The answers he gives this time are perverse and not obvious.
- Petty thief Czarek takes part in a TV reality show to escape from the mafia. He is sent to a house on a desert island with 9 other contestants. Even the death of one of them does not stop the show.
- A seasoned commissioner teams up with a young, rookie cop to solve the mysterious murder of a global bone marrow transplant specialist.
- 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. Successive admirers arrive at the pre-war tenement where the women live, but Sabina is interested in none of them. One day, appearing out of nowhere, comes the charming, intelligent, and terribly good-looking Bronislaw. His presence will spark off a series of unexpected events revealing the darker side of the women's nature.
- A bricklayer and former communist party official looks back at his life, while taking part in a parade of May 1st.
- The story follows complicated relation between Adas Miauczynski "Cezary Pazura" and Gosia "Katarzyna Figura".