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3) Roseville
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On the night of November 18, 1985, four dead bodies are found in a desolate home in the Roseville mountains. One man, Vasil, went missing, never to be found. Flash forward three decades: a cold case police unit goes searching for the horrific truth of what happened that night, and where Vasil is today.
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A touching story about the strength of family ties in a situation of imminent danger. Marta (Agata Kulesza) is a renowned actress, a star of popular series. In spite of her fame and money she still can't find her way in life. In contrast to her strong and dominating elder sister, Kasia (Gabriela Muskala) is sensitive and has a tendency towards exaltation. Her marriage is far from perfect, her husband is a loser constantly trying to find a job. There...
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A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of a young Polish boy's struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and maintain his Jewish faith through his intrepid will and the kindness of others. Escaping the Warsaw ghetto at the behest of his father, nine-year old Srulik (movingly portrayed by twin child actors Andrzej and Kamil Tkacz) flees to the woods. There, he learns to hide from SS patrols and scour...
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Catholic priest Adam lives in rural Poland, where he works with teenagers otherwise forgotten by their community. He succeeds in declining the advances of a local woman, as his embrace of the priesthood has become a flight from facing the truth of his own sexuality. When he meets the taciturn son of a simple rural family, his self-imposed abstinence becomes a heavy burden.
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After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, 20-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. Over the course of his incarceration he has found Christ, and aspires to join the clergy - but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for...
10) Afterimage
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The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda returns with this passionate biopic about avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski (brilliantly played by Polish superstar Boguslaw Linda), who battled Stalinist orthodoxy and his own physical impairments to advance his progressive ideas about art.
11) A Cat with a Dog
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Andrzej (Olgard Lukaszewicz) and Janusz (Robert Wieckiewicz) are both acclaimed film directors who have long since gone their separate ways. When Andrzej suffers a serious cerebral hemorrage, his subsequent paralysis is too much for his long-time partner Iga (Aleksandra Konieczna) to handle. She calls his brother Janusz, who with the help of his wife Beata (Bozena Stachura) decide to take him to live with them. A bittersweet tale about setting aside...
12) Demon
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Peter arrives from England in a small town in rural Poland to marry his fiancé. After falling into a pit of human remains in the yard, Peter becomes undone as strange forces possess him at his reception and reveal the town's secret past.
13) Leave No Traces
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In 1983 Communist Poland, a high school student named Grzegorz Przemyk is beaten to death by the police. The only witness to the tragedy becomes the number one enemy of the state. (149 characters)
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Two brothers uncover a dark secret that forces them to confront the history of their family, their village and their nation. A tense and gripping thriller inspired by actual events, Aftermath caused controversy in its native Poland due to its present-day reckoning with a dark period in that country's history.
16) A Grain of Truth
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A maverick prosecutor finds himself dragged into the investigation of a string of ritual killings rooted in Poland's anti-Semitic past in the suspenseful detective thriller A GRAIN OF TRUTH. Based on the bestselling novel by Polish author Zygmunt Miłoszewski and directed by Borys Lankosz, A GRAIN OF TRUTH is a masterfully constructed whodunit that pits the forces of enlightenment against monstrous primeval superstitions.
17) In the Shadow
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In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
18) Sweet Rush
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An older woman finds new youth in this award-winning drama. Trapped in a marriage to a doctor who has no time for her, Marta's life is turning lonely. When she meets a young friend, Marta forges a bond that gives her a second chance at living.
19) Playground
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Final day of school in a small Polish town. It's the very last chance for 12-Year-Old Gabrysia to tell her classmate that she had fallen in love with him. She sets up a secret meeting and blackmails her love interest to show up. But what was supposed to be an intimate talk spins out of control and this seemingly normal day in life of three ordinary elementary school students culminates in shocking and terrifying events.
20) Ida
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From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes Ida, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation. Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.