Acting
Grażyna Szapołowska
Born September 19, 1953 · Bydgoszcz, Poland (age 72)
Grażyna Szapołowska (Polish pronunciation: [ɡraˈʐɨna ʂapɔˈwɔfska]; born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress. After passing the baccalauréat she joined at Wroclaw Theatre of Pantomime. In 1977 she graduated from The Theatre Art School in Warsaw. From 1977 until 1984 she was in the theatrical company of the National Theatre, Warsaw. She is best known for starring in A Short Fil…
Known For
365 Days · 2020365 Days
★ 7.02020
MovieRomanceDrama
A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.
Three Colors: White · 1994Three Colors: White
★ 7.41994
MovieComedyDrama
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 Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
King of Dope · 2026King of Dope
★ 7.02026
MovieThrillerCrime
Dawid is an ordinary boy who builds a legal drug empire and becomes an overnight millionaire. Sudden fame, beautiful women, fast cars, endless partying, confrontations with gangsters, and dealings at the highest levels of power—this is his new world, where the line between legal and illegal is as thin as the line in a mirror. When an ethical cop arrives, everything is at stake. Will Dawid be able to stop him before it's too late? Will love save him from ultimate collapse?
Custody · 1985Custody
★ 4.51985
MovieDrama
A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
The Conviction · 1991The Conviction
★ 5.51991
MovieDrama
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then she sues the professor for rape. The professor will have to prove his innocence.
A Short Film About Love · 1988A Short Film About Love
★ 7.81988
MovieDramaRomance
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...
Taboo · 1988Taboo
★ 5.81988
MovieDrama
Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.
Medium · 1985Medium
★ 5.61985
MovieHorrorMystery
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
Movies
365 Days · 2020365 Days
★ 7.02020
MovieRomanceDrama
A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.
Three Colors: White · 1994Three Colors: White
★ 7.41994
MovieComedyDrama
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 Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
King of Dope · 2026King of Dope
★ 7.02026
MovieThrillerCrime
Dawid is an ordinary boy who builds a legal drug empire and becomes an overnight millionaire. Sudden fame, beautiful women, fast cars, endless partying, confrontations with gangsters, and dealings at the highest levels of power—this is his new world, where the line between legal and illegal is as thin as the line in a mirror. When an ethical cop arrives, everything is at stake. Will Dawid be able to stop him before it's too late? Will love save him from ultimate collapse?
Custody · 1985Custody
★ 4.51985
MovieDrama
A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
The Conviction · 1991The Conviction
★ 5.51991
MovieDrama
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then she sues the professor for rape. The professor will have to prove his innocence.
A Short Film About Love · 1988A Short Film About Love
★ 7.81988
MovieDramaRomance
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...
Taboo · 1988Taboo
★ 5.81988
MovieDrama
Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.
Medium · 1985Medium
★ 5.61985
MovieHorrorMystery
Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier.
Trick · 2010Trick
★ 5.42010
MovieComedyCrime
Kidnappers demand six million in ransom, but the United Nations does not negotiate with terrorist. One of the best counterfeiters is serving a lengthy prison term and the agent who arrested him needs his help.
Botoxx · 2017Botoxx
★ 4.02017
MovieActionDrama
"Botoks" is intended to be a record of the authentic history of strong, determined and expressive physicians who struggle with life's decisions and problems: discrimination, maternity pressures, the pursuit of youth, the fight for the right to free choice and own views.
Battle of Warsaw 1920 · 2011Battle of Warsaw 1920
★ 4.62011
MovieDramaWar
Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while he is a cavalry officer and poet who believes in socialist ideals
The Dogcatcher · 2015The Dogcatcher
2015
MovieComedy
A man with OCD is paid to find dogs.
Run Boy Run · 2014Run Boy Run
★ 7.12014
MovieDramaWar
A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan.
The Last Days · 1999The Last Days
★ 5.51999
MovieDramaRomance
Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for independence in 1810s Lithuania, Tadeusz, the son of a murderer, and Zosia, a young woman, come together for a wedding against a backdrop of changing politics, ancient traditions, and the uncertain future of a country.
Little Rose · 2010Little Rose
★ 6.92010
MovieHistoryDrama
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.
Polnische Ostern · 2011Polnische Ostern
★ 7.02011
MovieComedy
Grumpy baker Grabosch can't bear the thought that his granddaughter, now that her mother has died, will live with her Polish father. He must get Mathilda back, by all means.
Abissinia · 1993Abissinia
★ 10.01993
MovieDrama
Antonio (Enrico Salimbeni) may not have been the most energetic waiter in the most popular restaurant in this unfashionable Adriatic tourist town, but that is no reason for his boss not to pay him. When he takes the wages that he is owed out of the till, not only does the owner throw him out, but he has him beaten up, to boot. Enzo (Mario Adorf), the owner of a restaurant so far off the beaten track it is widely known as Abissinia rather than being called by its true name, takes him in. The leisurely pace of everything that is done at the restaurant leaves Antonio with plenty of time to put together the story of its owner and the love of his life, and how he, too, fell from culinary glory to his present obscurity.
Lava · 1989Lava
★ 5.61989
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Nachbarinnen · 2005Nachbarinnen
★ 3.52005
MovieDrama
The single package-delivery woman Dora lives a somewhat reclusive life in a high-rise in Leipzig and gets through everyday life with her dry sense of humor. But her quiet, well-ordered life spins out of control when she has to hide her mysteriously fascinating Polish neighbor Jola – who believes to have accidentally killed someone. Dora is hesitant at first to take her in, but she cannot seem to shake her fascination with Jola. Dora's trust in the direct, impulsive woman grows – Jola seems to ask exactly those questions no one else dares to ask. When Dora finds out that the accusations against Jola have been lifted, she lies about the status of the police investigation in order to keep her Polish neighbor for herself.
Karol: A Man Who Became Pope · 2005Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
★ 7.02005
MovieDramaHistory
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.
Hotel klasy lux · 1979Hotel klasy lux
★ 10.01979
MovieDrama
The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its opening.
In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles · 1985In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles
★ 7.01985
MovieFantasyDrama
In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon - her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lifes. Anastasia has a posthumous son Tadeusz, "born" by clambering out of the tree trunk. Anastasia seduces him too, and drives another men so crazy that they kill her another couple of times. Finally, Tadeusz, the arch-rebel, leads a mob on a raid of the old manor.
No End · 1985No End
★ 7.01985
MovieDrama
1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.
Flowers of Reverie · 1985Flowers of Reverie
★ 5.81985
MovieDramaHistory
The seeming hopelessness of combatting an all-powerful government that will not tolerate political dissension is the focus of this excellent historical drama set in the mid-19th century in Hungary. In the opening scenes, Hungary has just lost its bid for independence from Austria and a Magyar officer, unable to bear the tragedy of defeat and what it means, says an affectionate good-bye to his beloved horse and then shoots the animal and himself. Two years later, Ferenc (Gyorgy Cserhalmi) is trying to eke out a living for his wife and her family -- and at the same time avoid any hint of sympathy for Hungarian independence because the Secret Police are everywhere. Just as life seems to be going well, Ferenc's former commanding officer (Lajos Oze) arrives and begins discussing revolution again -- a futile pursuit at this point in time. The next day, Ferenc is thrown into an insane asylum and everyone else is arrested as well.
TV Shows
The Crown of the Kings · 2018The Crown of the Kings
★ 6.82018
SeriesDrama
Piasts' reign is coming to end on Casimir the Great, who have no sons. Polish throne comes to Anjous. Thanks to the marriage of Saint Jadwiga of Poland with Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila, an alliance is made and a new dynasty - Jagiellons, who rule Poland for next two hundred years
Dekalog · 1989Dekalog
★ 8.51989
SeriesDrama
The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieslowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
The Green Glove Gang · 2022The Green Glove Gang
★ 7.22022
SeriesCrimeComedy
When their latest heist goes wrong, three older female burglars evade officials by hiding out in a nursing home — where they uncover a sinister secret.
Pan Mama · 2025Pan Mama
★ 8.02025
SeriesComedy
Calling 07 · 1976Calling 07
★ 7.51976
SeriesDramaCrime
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
Con Artist Parade · 1977Con Artist Parade
★ 8.01977
SeriesComedy
A gripping cycle of Polish crime thrillers featuring a stellar cast. Each episode presents a sophisticated story of con artists from different parts of the world. The series is known for its suspenseful action and unexpected endings.
Magda gotuje internet · 2025Magda gotuje internet
2025
Series
My Agent · 2022My Agent
★ 7.02022
SeriesComedy
Układ Warszawski · 2011Układ Warszawski
★ 6.52011
SeriesDramaComedy
Marek Oporny, who is a police analyst, is transferred to the police station in Czerniaków as a punishment. His new colleagues are not favorable to him. Marek will have to get along with new colleagues. "Criminal old stagers”: Kosa, Sikorek and his commissioner partner Zuza Szarek.
Biała wizytówka · 1989Biała wizytówka
★ 8.01989
SeriesDrama
The series evokes the events of 1900-35 - from the reign of Emperor Wilhelm II, through World War I, the birth of the Independent Poland, the Silesian Uprisings, to the increasingly turbulent period of the rising tide of fascism. The action takes place mainly in the palace of the Dukes of Pszczyna, where the last great descendant of the von Teuss family resides. Prince Hans Fredrich marries the beautiful Englishwoman, Princess Daisy, and has three sons with her. Their fate, the choice of completely different life paths and even different nationalities reflect the enormously complicated mutual relations between the Polish and German elements in the border areas.