poland
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Action opens in November of 1793 with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety under Robespierres incitement has begun a series of massive executions The Terror. Confident in the peoples support Danton clashes with his former ally but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers tries them before a...
Director: Mike Cockayne
Stars: Martin Maloney, Chris Tordoff, Owen Colgan
Eddie Durkan the self-proclaimed leader of the Bucks is dreading spending another summer bored out of his skull. Ireland has qualified for the Euros in Poland but with no money and apathetic mates the task falls to Eddie to get them out of Castletown and onto the road in search of football and the...
Director: Leszek Dawid
Stars: Marcin Kowalczyk, Dawid Ogrodnik, Tomasz Schuchardt
The process of creating Polish hip-hop group Paktofonika its highs and lows and very last days of life of its frontman and co-founder Piotr Magik...
Director: Marcin Solarz
Stars: Katarzyna Herman, Artur Zmijewski, Karolina Chapko
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Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy
The first part of Kieslowskis trilogy on Frances national motto: Liberty Equality and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband an acclaimed composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The films theme of liberty is manifested in Julies attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments belongings grief or love. She intends to numb herself by withdrawing...
Director: Suzie Templeton
Stars:
An animated retelling set to Prokofievs suite. Peter is a slight lad solitary locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather his only friend a duck. In town hes bullied. When a wolf menaces the duck - as well as grandfathers fat cat and an ill-flying bird that Peter has befriended - Peter bravely tries to tree the wolf. Grandfather the townspeople and the hunters who have...
Director: Jacek Borcuch
Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Olga Frycz, Jakub Gierszal
Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country Janek and Staszek the sons of a navy man the rebellious Kazik and the affluent Diabel gel as a band but their disparate lives are touched by social turmoil and outside...
Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Colin Farrell, Mark Strong, Saoirse Ronan, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Gustaf Skarsgård, Alexandru Potocean, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Dragos Bucur, Zahary Baharov
Storyline: In 1941 three men reach India from Tibet having walked 4000 miles after escaping a Siberian gulag. The film tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them and a teenage girl who joins them in flight. The groups natural leader is Janusz a Pole condemned by accusations secured by torturing his wife; he knows how to live in the wilds. They escape under cover of a...
Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Storyline: A couple lose their young son when he falls out of a window while they are having sex in another room. The mothers grief consigns her to hospital but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods Eden where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four...
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Stars: Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Dariusz Biskupski, Bartlomiej Swiderski, Katarzyna Bargielowska, Alicja Sapryk, Michal Breitenwald, Zuzanna Kasz, Adam Szyszkowski, Krzysztof Szczerbinski, Marek Stawinski, Jaroslaw Budnik, Andrzej
Storyline: In a future world young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal and potentially deadly battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash a star player hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level will she ever be able to come back to...
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik, Aleksander Bardini, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Janusz Sterninski, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Dumas, Louis Ducreux, Claude Duneton, Lorraine Evanoff, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Storyline: Veronika lives in Poland. Veronique lives in Paris. They dont know each other. Veronika gets a place in a music school works hard but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point Veroniques life seems to take a turn and she decides not to be a...
Director: Andrew Adamson
Stars: Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Sergio Castellitto, Peter Dinklage, Warwick Davis, Vincent Grass
Storyline: The four Pevensie children return to Narnia only to discover that hundreds of years have passed since they ruled there and the evil King Miraz has taken charge. With the help of a heroic mouse called Reepicheep and the exiled heir to the throne Prince Caspian they set out to overthrow the King once again with Aslans...
Director: Po-Chih Leong
Stars: Steven Seagal, Ida Nowakowska, Agnieszka Wagner, Matt Schulze, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Robbie Gee
Storyline: Vietnam veteran Billy Ray Lancing a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that hes helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming Billy heads to Poland to figure out why -- only to discover that the orphanage that Irena...