Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. He’s a graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź. In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his film “Le départ”. He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.

  • Title: Jerzy Skolimowski
  • Popularity: 12.646
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1938-05-05
  • Place of Birth: Łódź, Poland
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  • Also Known As: Γιέρζι Σκολιμόφσκι, J. Skolimowski, Ежи Сколимовский, 예지 스콜리모프스키, Єжи Сколімовський
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Jerzy Skolimowski Movies

  • 2007
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    Eastern Promises

    Eastern Promises

    7.363 2007 HD

    A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent...

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  • 2012
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.718 2012 HD

    When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as...

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  • 1990
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    Skolimowski à la table

    Skolimowski à la table

    1 1990 HD

    André S. Labarthe invites Jerzy Skolimowski to the editing table, to analyze his film Walkower shot by shot. Episode of the TV program...

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  • 1985
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    White Nights

    White Nights

    6.7 1985 HD

    After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch...

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  • 1981
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    Circle of Deceit

    Circle of Deceit

    6.1 1981 HD

    Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.

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  • 1960
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    Innocent Sorcerers

    Innocent Sorcerers

    7.15 1960 HD

    A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals...

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  • 1966
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    Sposób bycia

    Sposób bycia

    3.5 1966 HD

    A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.

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  • 1987
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    Big Shots

    Big Shots

    6.3 1987 HD

    Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a...

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  • 1982
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    Moonlighting

    Moonlighting

    7 1982 HD

    A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to...

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  • 1991
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    30 Door Key

    30 Door Key

    5.6 1991 HD

    A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous...

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  • 1999
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    Operacja Samum

    Operacja Samum

    5.944 1999 HD

    The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the...

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  • 1985
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    Hands Up!

    Hands Up!

    5.8 1985 HD

    The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

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  • 1966
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    Barrier

    Barrier

    6.8 1966 HD

    A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

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  • 1989
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    Torrents of Spring

    Torrents of Spring

    5.7 1989 HD

    In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful...

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  • 1999
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    L.A. Without a Map

    L.A. Without a Map

    5.92 1999 HD

    An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries...

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  • 2000
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    Before Night Falls

    Before Night Falls

    6.638 2000 HD

    Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was...

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  • 1972
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    King, Queen, Knave

    King, Queen, Knave

    4.4 1972 HD

    Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who...

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  • 2012
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    Day of the Siege

    Day of the Siege

    4.3 2012 HD

    In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is...

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  • 2011
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    Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End

    Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End

    9 2011 HD

    A fascinating and absorbing documentary about the making of Jerzy Skolimowski's cult favourite, DEEP END, which was shot in 1970 as a US-German...

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  • 2011
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    Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life

    Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life

    6.5 2011 HD

    Krzysztof Komeda was a jazz pianist and film composer. With compositions like the lullaby for Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski, Komeda...

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  • 1965
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    Identification Marks: None

    Identification Marks: None

    6.5 1965 HD

    The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of...

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  • 2018
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    The Stolen Caravaggio

    The Stolen Caravaggio

    6.029 2018 HD

    Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she...

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  • 2018
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    Julius

    Julius

    5.5 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Walkover

    Walkover

    6.1 1965 HD

    Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily...

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  • 2011
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    'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes

    'Deep End': Remembering the Deleted Scenes

    1 2011 HD

    Short documentary about sequences removed from the film.

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  • 1972
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    A Slip-Up

    A Slip-Up

    5.7 1972 HD

    The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They...

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  • 1996
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    Mars Attacks!

    Mars Attacks!

    6.408 1996 HD

    A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they...

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  • 1970
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    Deep End

    Deep End

    6.963 1970 HD

    London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an...

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  • 1962
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    Knife in the Water

    Knife in the Water

    7.305 1962 HD

    On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the...

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  • 1962
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    Knife in the Water

    Knife in the Water

    7.305 1962 HD

    On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the...

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  • 1965
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    Identification Marks: None

    Identification Marks: None

    6.5 1965 HD

    The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of...

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  • 1982
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    Moonlighting

    Moonlighting

    7 1982 HD

    A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to...

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  • 2008
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    Four Nights with Anna

    Four Nights with Anna

    6.2 2008 HD

    Leon falls in love with a nurse and obsessively tries to get close to her.

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  • 2008
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    Four Nights with Anna

    Four Nights with Anna

    6.2 2008 HD

    Leon falls in love with a nurse and obsessively tries to get close to her.

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  • 2023
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    The Palace

    The Palace

    5.3 2023 HD

    A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them...

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  • 1989
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    Torrents of Spring

    Torrents of Spring

    5.7 1989 HD

    In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful...

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  • 2010
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    Essential Killing

    Essential Killing

    5.802 2010 HD

    A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

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  • 2010
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    Essential Killing

    Essential Killing

    5.802 2010 HD

    A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

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  • 1985
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    The Lightship

    The Lightship

    5.263 1985 HD

    A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.

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  • 1960
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    Innocent Sorcerers

    Innocent Sorcerers

    7.15 1960 HD

    A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals...

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  • 1985
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    Mesmerized

    Mesmerized

    5 1985 HD

    An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.

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  • 1961
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    Boxing

    Boxing

    1 1961 HD

    School study, variation on the theme of art, by Jerzy Skolimowski.

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  • 1962
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    The Nude

    The Nude

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1968
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    Dialogue 20-40-60

    Dialogue 20-40-60

    5.3 1968 HD

    "Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak...

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  • 1970
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    The Adventures of Gerard

    The Adventures of Gerard

    6.4 1970 HD

    Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic...

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  • 1984
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    Success Is the Best Revenge

    Success Is the Best Revenge

    5.5 1984 HD

    Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the...

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  • 1989
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    Torrents of Spring

    Torrents of Spring

    5.7 1989 HD

    In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful...

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  • 1972
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    A Slip-Up

    A Slip-Up

    5.7 1972 HD

    The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They...

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  • 1982
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    Moonlighting

    Moonlighting

    7 1982 HD

    A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to...

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  • 1984
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    Success Is the Best Revenge

    Success Is the Best Revenge

    5.5 1984 HD

    Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the...

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  • 1993
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    The Hollow Men

    The Hollow Men

    2 1993 HD

    Matthew comes to a seaside town to see a performance of his play, although even his brother Marc, who plays the role of Napoleon, does not know that...

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  • 1961
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    Boxing

    Boxing

    1 1961 HD

    School study, variation on the theme of art, by Jerzy Skolimowski.

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  • 1962
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    Night Fare

    Night Fare

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1962
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    Night Fare

    Night Fare

    1 1962 HD

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  • 2019
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    A Man in Love

    A Man in Love

    7 2019 HD

    Middle age divorced man in Tokyo falls in love with Hostess club girl and his assistant.

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  • 2013
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    Ida

    Ida

    7.242 2013 HD

    Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German...

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  • 2022
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    EO

    EO

    6.505 2022 HD

    The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his...

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  • 2022
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    EO

    EO

    6.505 2022 HD

    The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his...

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  • 2022
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    EO

    EO

    6.505 2022 HD

    The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his...

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  • 1970
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    Deep End

    Deep End

    6.963 1970 HD

    London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an...

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  • 1991
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    30 Door Key

    30 Door Key

    5.6 1991 HD

    A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous...

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  • 1966
    imgMovies

    Barrier

    Barrier

    6.8 1966 HD

    A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Hands Up!

    Hands Up!

    5.8 1985 HD

    The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

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  • 1965
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    Identification Marks: None

    Identification Marks: None

    6.5 1965 HD

    The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of...

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  • 1967
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    The Departure

    The Departure

    6.5 1967 HD

    A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his nearing debut race and meets a girl in the same...

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  • 1965
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    Walkover

    Walkover

    6.1 1965 HD

    Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily...

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  • 1984
    imgMovies

    Success Is the Best Revenge

    Success Is the Best Revenge

    5.5 1984 HD

    Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the...

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  • 1972
    imgMovies

    King, Queen, Knave

    King, Queen, Knave

    4.4 1972 HD

    Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who...

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  • 1970
    imgMovies

    Deep End

    Deep End

    6.963 1970 HD

    London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an...

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  • 1970
    imgMovies

    The Adventures of Gerard

    The Adventures of Gerard

    6.4 1970 HD

    Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic...

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  • 1968
    imgMovies

    Dialogue 20-40-60

    Dialogue 20-40-60

    5.3 1968 HD

    "Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak...

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  • 1960
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    Little Hamlet

    Little Hamlet

    5.1 1960 HD

    Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide...

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  • 1961
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    Erotique

    Erotique

    5.333 1961 HD

    A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid.

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  • 1960
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    The Menacing Eye

    The Menacing Eye

    4.583 1960 HD

    A knife thrower practices on a target girl.

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  • 1960
    imgMovies

    The Menacing Eye

    The Menacing Eye

    4.583 1960 HD

    A knife thrower practices on a target girl.

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  • 2015
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    11 Minutes

    11 Minutes

    5.658 2015 HD

    The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.

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  • 2015
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    11 Minutes

    11 Minutes

    5.658 2015 HD

    The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.

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  • 1961
    imgMovies

    Your Money or Your Life

    Your Money or Your Life

    4.714 1961 HD

    A short crime film set in a fairground.

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  • 2015
    imgMovies

    11 Minutes

    11 Minutes

    5.658 2015 HD

    The lives of urbanites intertwine in a world where anything can happen at any time.

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  • 1982
    imgMovies

    Moonlighting

    Moonlighting

    7 1982 HD

    A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to...

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  • 1961
    imgMovies

    Your Money or Your Life

    Your Money or Your Life

    4.714 1961 HD

    A short crime film set in a fairground.

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  • 1965
    imgMovies

    Identification Marks: None

    Identification Marks: None

    6.5 1965 HD

    The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of...

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  • 1965
    imgMovies

    Walkover

    Walkover

    6.1 1965 HD

    Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily...

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  • 1965
    imgMovies

    The Friend

    The Friend

    5 1965 HD

    Engineer Ijon Tichy is called in to help with a malfunctioning electronic brain.

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  • 1966
    imgMovies

    Barrier

    Barrier

    6.8 1966 HD

    A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

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  • 1967
    imgMovies

    The Departure

    The Departure

    6.5 1967 HD

    A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his nearing debut race and meets a girl in the same...

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  • 2010
    imgMovies

    Essential Killing

    Essential Killing

    5.802 2010 HD

    A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

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  • 2008
    imgMovies

    Four Nights with Anna

    Four Nights with Anna

    6.2 2008 HD

    Leon falls in love with a nurse and obsessively tries to get close to her.

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    30 Door Key

    30 Door Key

    5.6 1991 HD

    A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous...

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    30 Door Key

    30 Door Key

    5.6 1991 HD

    A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous...

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  • 2012
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    Ixjana

    Ixjana

    2 2012 HD

    Marek, a young writer, is trying to solve the mystery of the night his friend Arthur died. In the recesses of his memory, Marek finds fragments of...

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  • 2023
    imgMovies

    The Palace

    The Palace

    5.3 2023 HD

    A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them...

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  • 1960
    imgMovies

    Little Hamlet

    Little Hamlet

    5.1 1960 HD

    Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide...

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  • 1962
    imgMovies

    Beautiful

    Beautiful

    1 1962 HD

    Student film by Skolimowski abot a street ironically called Beautiful.

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  • 1972
    imgMovies

    A Slip-Up

    A Slip-Up

    5.7 1972 HD

    The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They...

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  • 1978
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    The Shout

    The Shout

    5.9 1978 HD

    A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has...

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  • 1978
    imgMovies

    The Shout

    The Shout

    5.9 1978 HD

    A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has...

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  • 2020
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    It's Not Us

    It's Not Us

    7 2020 HD

    Part of HBO Europe's Polish at Home series. Jerzy Skolimowski was in Sicily when the pandemic hit, where he was supposed to shoot his next film,...

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  • 1985
    imgMovies

    Hands Up!

    Hands Up!

    5.8 1985 HD

    The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

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  • 1961
    imgMovies

    Erotique

    Erotique

    5.333 1961 HD

    A girl wipes the mirror and suddenly notices the reflection of a man who then speaks to her. The girl backs away, afraid.

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  • 2009
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    Naznaczony

    Naznaczony

    5.2 2009 HD

    The life of a math teacher and his loved ones turns into hell when a mysterious man reminds him of his former sin. What would you do, if you could...

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  • 1951
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    Deutscher Filmpreis

    Deutscher Filmpreis

    6 1951 HD

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  • 2023
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    Still Here

    Still Here

    5.6 2023 HD

    Polish drama series which follows the tragicomic adventures of a 40-year-old urban legend in Warsaw. He is a deeply complex character, an...

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  • 1970
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    Porządny człowiek

    Porządny człowiek

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Porządny człowiek

    Porządny człowiek

    1 1970 HD

    Spring 2020, Poland. 16 filmmakers create 14 short films about unexpected experience of isolation caused by pandemic.

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