Movies about Poland

Movies about Poland
List of the best movies about Poland, selected by visitors to our site: Defiance, Europa Europa, Aftermath, A Woman in Berlin, X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Crimes, The Immigrant, The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, Surviving Picasso, The Devil's Arithmetic.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:17

Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, military, history
CountryGermany, France, Poland
Duration01:52

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryPoland, Russia, Netherlands
Duration01:47

Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryGermany, Poland
Duration02:11

A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. She is in her early 30s, a patriotic journalist with international credentials; her husband, Gerd, a writer, is an officer at the Russian front. She speaks Russian and, for a day or two after the invasion, keeps herself safe, but then the rapes begin. She resolves to control her fate

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

    After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Poland, United Kingdom

    Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner workings of an unsolved murder.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, military, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Hannah Stern, an American-born Jewish adolescent, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives; however, Hannah begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There, she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, military
    CountryFrance, Hungary, USA, Germany
    Duration01:55

    In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Poland, USA
    Duration03:00

    An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
    Duration02:23

    The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, military
    CountryWest Germany, United Kingdom, Germany, Republic of Ireland, USA
    Duration00:16

    A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:57

    A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, cartoon, short
    CountryAustralia, USA, New Zealand
    Duration00:23

    The odd biography of Harvie Krumpet, a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck - but still optimistically lives own way and enjoys the small things life has to offer.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second largest diamond ever mined was used during World War II to buy a Jewish woman freedom from a prison camp. Only trouble is it disappeared after the war and now everyone is after it, including the Russians, former Nazis, gangsters, and the original owner. Somehow, the story that the journalist originally wrote about a camp survivor is believed to have leads to the diamond.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryPoland
    Duration02:00

    Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, history
    CountryPoland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium
    Duration02:02

    A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryPoland

    A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime. Meanwhile, a conflict between local gangster groups escalates.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, military
    CountryPoland

    Young couple living in the old house suddenly discover an elevator which takes them directly to year 1939.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryPoland

    After taking control of the capital, Nanny's gang prepares for the biggest smuggling action in the history of Poland.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryPoland
    Duration01:52

    Dominik is an ordinary boy. He's got loads of friends, the hottest girl in school, rich parents and money to spend on brand-name clothes. But one innocent kiss with a mate changes everything. He begins to isolate himself from the outside world, spending all his time on his computer. He meets an anonymous girl who introduces him to the "suicide room", a place from which there is no escape. Caught in a trap woven of his own emotions, Dominik becomes entangled in a web of intrigue and gradually loses what he cherishes most.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryPoland, Denmark

    Days before the end of the school year, Liliana gives Janek an ultimatum, giving him 24 hours to either prove his love for her or forget about her altogether.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryPoland, Sweden

    Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an immigrant in Sweden. When a Swedish social worker visits their home, she witnesses Ula’s everyday reality, as seen from the perspective of the local culture. Ula is then taken away from her parents and placed in foster care. Will Basia and Marek stick together and fight for Ula? Will they succeed in rebuilding their bond and their family?

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA, Poland
    Duration01:36

    This story is about a freelance agent (Seagal) who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller
    CountryPoland

    The film is set in the Tricity in 2003, ten years after the end of communism in Poland. The plot, apparently based on the real-life experiences of Kraków businessmen Lech Jerzorny and Paweł Rey, is about three young, talented businessmen who open a high-tech factory. This comes to the attention of the local state ‘mafia’, the local Prosecutor, played by Janusz Gajos, and tax office boss, played by Kasimierz Kaczor, who are both jealous and would like to make money for themselves. We are in Poland, so success must be punished.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama
    CountryPoland, Sweden
    Duration01:43

    Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryPoland

    Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel Rozek enlists his sexy but naive girlfriend, Kamila, to insinuate herself into the distinguished older man's life and report on his every move. Not particularly interested in serving communism but eager to please her domineering lover, Kamila accepts the mission, reporting under the code name "Little Rose." As quick scenes contrast Kamila's crude pleasures with Rozek and her more refined experiences with Warczewski, it becomes clear that the more time the unschooled young woman spends with the professor, the more she comes to have true feelings for him.

    Markimdb: 6.6

    Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation in Warsaw's gay community, an officer in 1980s communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genredrama, military
    CountryPoland, United Kingdom

    After the fall of the September Campaign of 1939, two Polish pilots are forced to fight for their nation in foreign battlefronts.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, cartoon
    CountryCzech Republic, Germany
    Duration01:24

    A train dispatcher encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland. The end of the eighties in the twentieth century. Alois Nebel works as a dis­patcher at the small railway station in Bílý Potok, a remote village on the Czech–Polish border. He's a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the loneliness of the station tranquil – except when the fog rolls in. Then he hallucinates, sees trains from the last hundred years pass through the station. They bring ghosts and shadows from the dark past of Central Eu­rope. Alois can’t get rid of these nightmares and eventually ends up in sanatorium. In the sanatorium, he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. No one knows why he came to Bílý Potok or who he’s looking for, but it is his past that propels Alois on his journey…

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryPoland, Czech Republic, Slovakia

    Karol, an ordinary young man, runs into a much older man, whom he believes to be a Red Spider, the terrifying serial killer, prowling the streets of Cracow in 1960s. Karol becomes obsessed with the man and spies on him.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryPoland
    Duration01:36

    The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:37

    Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
    CountryPoland
    Duration02:08

    Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:25

    A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkomando Jews – who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow-Jews – find themselves in a moral grey zone.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryPoland, Denmark
    Duration01:22

    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 occupation.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, documentary
    CountryPoland

    69-year-old Jola puts on elaborate make-up, while her husband spouts casual abuse in the background, how she never had much in her head and is basically worthless when it comes down to it. So Jola leaves Italy on a train bound for her native Poland. There, on the beach, she takes a trip down memory lane with her girlfriends: how she married the young man who got her pregnant, swore to care for him “in good times and in bad”, raised her six children and put up with punches, put-downs and her husband’s drinking problem. And now? Now she dresses elegantly, and takes singing and dance lessons. In the process, she meets a gentleman her age, Wojtek, and the two strike up a friendship. But divorce, at her age? What will her family, her friends or the church say? Of course, one can just leave, everyone is free to choose, but is it the right move?

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama
    CountryPoland
    Duration01:52

    Mateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz’s protected world is shattered when circumstances place him in an institution where he is misunderstood and mistreated. Featuring an astonishing, virtuoso lead performance, Life Feels Good beautifully recounts the true story of one man’s extraordinary efforts to endure in the face of impossible odds.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genremilitary, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In the frozen, war torn landscape of occupied Poland during World War II, a crack team of allied commandos are sent on a deadly mission behind enemy lines to extract a rocket scientist from the hands of the Nazis.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryPoland
    Duration01:29

    Kuba attends an art opening with his girlfriend of two years and bumps into Mikal. The connection between these two young men is instantaneous and intoxicating, and despite opposition from all sides, he allows Mikal into his life. The results go beyond anything he could have imagined. This intimate and bold second feature from Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski captures the often-complicated consequences of finding love where others do not want it.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryYugoslavia, USA
    Duration02:02

    Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance

    Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated abroad, she accepts, to everyone's surprise, to go to India in order to hold on to her job. Accompanied by two colleagues, she sets out on a perilous road trip to the other side of the world.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryPoland, France
    Duration01:48

    Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his father's picture on the cover of a Polish tabloid newspaper. The headline "traitor" is written next to his name. Zygmunt is a genuine hero of the struggle against totalitarianism and a recognized member of the "Solidarnosc" labor movement of the 80s. But now, Zygmunt is suddenly accused by the paper of having acted as a secret informer called THE MOLE by the communist regime.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama
    CountryPoland

    The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective, music
    CountryFrance, Poland, Luxembourg
    Duration01:28

    Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikolah to smuggle him back to their homeland.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.




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