Jan Nowicki Movies

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

Fresh out of prison, a seasoned poker hustler finds himself teaching the trade to a young cab driver chasing his first big win.

1894. The mortal remains of Lajos Kossuth are brought home from abroad, the railways are lined with people with their hats in hand, and among them...

Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens...

Olive is the daughter of a millionaire, spoiled by her loving dad, who fulfills her every whim. Deep down she dreams of true romantic love. Her best...

A sophisticated conman starts a foundation helping the victims of drunk drivers. In reality, all the money goes to his own pocket.

Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a...

Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of...

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel...

Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a camera/microscope-enhanced set of poems with...

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

The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under...

A film adaptation of six short stories by Marek Nowakowski from the collection Mizerykordia.

In 1776 Vienna, imperial counselor Henryk Klein investigates allegations that the charismatic Jewish nobleman Jakub Frank is a fraud whose sect has...

Polish teleplay based on Ephraim Kishon's play, concerning the characters of Romeo and Juliet and their alternate fate had they survived the events...

The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong,...

The law student Caroline and the assistant professor Tom are husband and wife, but they keep their marriage a secret. While Caroline is afraid of...

Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema.

The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of...

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist...