Acting

Borys Szyc

Born September 4, 1978 · Łódź, Poland (age 48)

Borys Michał Szyc-Michalak is a Polish film and theatre actor and musician. In 2010, he received the Polish Academy Award for Best Actor. He achieved nationwide popularity by starring in such films as Vinci (2004), Testosteron (2007), Mole (2011), The Secret of Westerplatte (2013), Persona Non Grata (2015), Spoor (2017) and Cold War (2018). Apart from his film career he appeared in numerous popula…

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The Pianist

The Pianist · 2002

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Cold War

Cold War · 2018

MovieRomanceMusic

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.

The American

The American · 2023

American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.

The Green Dinosaur

The Green Dinosaur · 2024

The Green Dinosaur

MovieAnimationFamily

When the world around him is mysteriously erased, a little green dinosaur named Diplodocus must travel through the pages of a comic book and adventure through time to bring color back to his land. Alongside a wizard and two scientists, Diplo’s plans go awry as he learns that there may be a dimension to his world that he never considered.

Kreskostoria Polski

Kreskostoria Polski · 2012

Kreskostoria Polski

MovieAnimationHistory

Kreskostoria Polski is a fact based history of Poland told in a completely unexpected way. Sick of dry lessons and emotionless textbook summaries? Curious who first yelled “Where’s the cross?” in Polish? Ready to uncover wild, little-known chapters of Polish history?

The Doll

The Doll · 2026

MovieRomanceDrama

Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. His unfulfilled love leads to many foolish decisions sealing his fate.

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 · 2012

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

MovieHistoryAdventure

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 the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.

The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka

The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka · 2017

The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka

MovieDramaComedy

Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.

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The Pianist

The Pianist · 2002

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Young Gestapo (uncredited)

Cold War

Cold War · 2018

MovieRomanceMusic

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.

Lech Kaczmarek

The American

The American · 2023

American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.

Andrei Vadys

The Green Dinosaur

The Green Dinosaur · 2024

The Green Dinosaur

MovieAnimationFamily

When the world around him is mysteriously erased, a little green dinosaur named Diplodocus must travel through the pages of a comic book and adventure through time to bring color back to his land. Alongside a wizard and two scientists, Diplo’s plans go awry as he learns that there may be a dimension to his world that he never considered.

Hokus Pokus / Hokus Pokus' Father (voice)

Kreskostoria Polski

Kreskostoria Polski · 2012

Kreskostoria Polski

MovieAnimationHistory

Kreskostoria Polski is a fact based history of Poland told in a completely unexpected way. Sick of dry lessons and emotionless textbook summaries? Curious who first yelled “Where’s the cross?” in Polish? Ready to uncover wild, little-known chapters of Polish history?

Zakała (voice)

The Doll

The Doll · 2026

MovieRomanceDrama

Wealthy merchant Stanislaw Wokulski falls tragically in love with beautiful yet vain Izabela Lecka. His unfulfilled love leads to many foolish decisions sealing his fate.

Baron Krzeszowski

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 · 2012

The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683

MovieHistoryAdventure

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 the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.

Mikołaj Adam Sieniawski

The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka

The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka · 2017

The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka

MovieDramaComedy

Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.

szef wydawnictwa

Spoor

MovieCrimeMystery

A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

Wnetrzak

You Should Not Exist

You Should Not Exist · 2023

You Should Not Exist

MovieDramaComedy

Seventeen-year-old Marianna tries to meet the challenge of finding her place in the world of her father, with whom she has had no contact for a long time. The two work to get to know each other again and rebuild their neglected relationship.

Michał

Autumn Girl

Autumn Girl · 2021

MovieDramaHistory

Polish film and music icon Kalina Jedrusik, a scandalous free-spirited sex symbol, fights for her independence in the prude society of the 1960s.

Kazimierz Kutz

Smartie and Me

Smartie and Me · 2026

MovieFamilyAdventure

Battle of Warsaw 1920

Battle of Warsaw 1920 · 2011

Battle of Warsaw 1920

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

Jan Krynicki

Wild

MovieDramaHistory

The story of WILD transports viewers to a world where myth intertwines with history – the mysterious, majestic 17th-century Carpathians. At the center of the story is a half-wild, mute warrior – raised by both animals and mountain people. His fate intertwines with the brutal mission of an imperial inquisitor who, under the pretext of recovering stolen papal insignia, unleashes a bloody revenge. Against the backdrop of monumental mountains, a duel between two worlds unfolds – nature and civilization, freedom and fanaticism, instinct and power.

South by North

South by North · 2007

MovieDramaRomance

Julia, 21, with a past she wants to forget, and Jacob, 29, going outside the monastery walls for the first time after 10 years. They meet at a bus stop. Seemingly quite inadequate couple goes together to the sea piechot. Neither of them is in a hurry. The young, arrogant girl and the balanced monk together share the hardships of the journey, confronting their two different worlds, two quite different views of reality. They are different, but are able to find a common language....

Jakub

Tears of Neon

Tears of Neon · 2026

MovieDramaHistory

At the age of five, Chris, a young village boy meets his mother, Czesława, who is at the cusp of conquering entertainment industry by adopting a new persona — Violetta Villas. An unbelievably talented, ambitious mother and a sensitive child go on a decades long journey through Warsaw, Paris and Las Vegas.

Too Old for Fairy Tales 3

Too Old for Fairy Tales 3 · 2026

Too Old for Fairy Tales 3

MovieFamilyDrama

Bird Talk

Bird Talk · 2019

Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.

Jakubiec

King Size

King Size · 1988

The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.

Dwarf (uncredited)

Big Love

Big Love · 2012

MovieRomanceThriller

Emilka meets the slightly-older Maciek out at a club one night. He shows Emilka—who was brought up by a single mom—a whole new world filled with desire, passion, restlessness and rebellion. The girl moves in with him and at first everything seems just perfect, but gradually Emilka discovers her separate identity, and starts to grow apart from him. When her dream of becoming a singer comes true, Maciek feels threatened. A toxic love game begins, full of lust and jealousy.

prisoner

The Welts

The Welts · 2004

Following the death of his mother in '80s Poland, 12-year-old Wojciech has taken the brunt of his stressed father's frustrations with him; the boy frequently gets punished via belt. Wojciech's father occasionally tries to, instead, bond with him, but soon snaps back to his short-fused habits. Apart from Wojciech's friend Bartek, no one does anything to help. Jump to present day, Wojciech is a furrow-browed journalist who spends most of his spare time spelunking alone. Just like his father, he has serious anger management issues. Fellow caver Tania feels inexplicably attracted to him, but the love of a good woman may not be enough.

Bartosz

The Station

The Station · 2001

MovieCrimeDrama

A seriously wounded gangster with a bag full of money stops at a deserted gas station.

Tomek

Simona Kossak

Simona Kossak · 2024

MovieDramaHistory

Simona Kossak - daughter of the painter Jerzy Kossak and granddaughter of Wojciech - deprived of the talent that has defined her family for generations, grows up without knowing the warmth of her despotic mother. When, after graduation, she leaves everything - home, tradition, social conventions - and takes up a job as a scientist in Białowieża, she starts life on her own terms.

Batura

1939 Battle of Westerplatte

1939 Battle of Westerplatte · 2013

1939 Battle of Westerplatte

MovieDramaHistory

September 1st, 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland.

Stefan Ludwik Grodecki

Furia

SeriesDramaCrime

Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.

Ziminov

Rodzina zastępcza

Rodzina zastępcza · 1999

Rodzina zastępcza

Rodzina zastępcza was a popular Polish primetime comedy series broadcast on Polsat from February 23, 1999 to December 20, 2009. In 2004 the title was changed to Rodzina zastępcza plus and the series got longer episodes, as well as more regular characters and locations. The series told the story of the Kwiatkowski family, Anka and Jacek, their biological children Majka and Filip, as well as three children they adopted one day - Eliza, Zosia and Romek.

The Pact

The Pact · 2015

SeriesMysteryCrime

Piotr Grodecki is an investigative journalist uncovering corruption and scandals at the highest levels of government.

Łukasz Seidler

Into the Night

Into the Night · 2020

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.

Łom

Recipe for Life

Recipe for Life · 2011

Recipe for Life

SeriesComedyDrama

Przepis na życie is a Polish Comedy drama television series produced by Akson Studio for the TVN network. The series was created and written by Polish actress Agnieszka Pilaszewska. The main character is a middle-aged woman whose life changes when her husband leaves her and she loses her job. The only activity that can make her feel better is cooking. This is her passion. The storyline follows her fate, as well as her daughter's and ex-husband's who is now with another woman.

cook Jerzy Knape

Ekipa

Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma.

neonazista Ludwik Bodry-Barański

Detective Forst

Detective Forst · 2024

Detective Forst

SeriesCrimeDrama

Atop a Polish mountain, a gruff detective with unusual methods investigates the bizarre murder of an unpopular professor.

Producer

The Border

The Border · 2014

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

After a bombing attack at the Poland–Ukraine border which killed his friends from the Border Guard, Captain Wiktor Rebrow tries to unravel the mystery and figure out what happened and who is behind it all.

Pułkownik Kuczer

Heweliusz

Heweliusz · 2025

SeriesDramaMystery

After a catastrophic ferry disaster, the off-duty captain seeks answers and justice for those who lost their lives — and those they left behind.

Andrzej Ułasiewicz

The King of Warsaw

The King of Warsaw · 2020

The King of Warsaw

SeriesCrimeDrama

1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who dreams of taking over Buddy's top spot as King of Warsaw.

Janusz Radziwiłek

Officer

Officer · 2005

SeriesDramaCrime

Polish crime / drama TV series portraying Warsaw police officers from Central Bureau of Investigations who got on the trail of counterfeit Euro banknotes which involves local gangsters and French crime syndicate.

podkomisarz Tomasz Kruszyński "Kruszon"

Trzeci oficer

Trzeci oficer · 2008

SeriesDramaCrime

komisarz Tomasz Kruszyński "Kruszon"

Still Here

Still Here · 2023

SeriesDramaComedy

Polish drama series which follows the tragicomic adventures of a 40-year-old urban legend in Warsaw. He is a deeply complex character, an irresponsible party animal, a serial lothario and everyone’s friend at the same time. Behind the veneer he is tormented and self-loathing, trapped by his parents and shackled by the culture and the times that shaped him.

Franciszek 'Czuły' Czułkowski

Oficerowie

Oficerowie · 2006

SeriesDramaCrime

podkomisarz Tomasz Kruszyński "Kruszon"

Women's Hell

Women's Hell · 2026

SeriesDramaCrime

Follow a woman's fight for justice for victims of sexual assault – and her own autonomy – in pre-WWII Poland.

Wiktor Denar

Tajemnica Twierdzy Szyfrów

Tajemnica Twierdzy Szyfrów · 2007

Tajemnica Twierdzy Szyfrów

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Untersturmführer Matheas Beer

Sfora

SeriesCrimeAction & Adventure

"Glut", złodziej samochodów

Days of Honor - Powstanie

Days of Honor - Powstanie · 2014

Days of Honor - Powstanie

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

This is really season 7 of Days Of Honor, though the timings are out as some of the events in this series pre-date season 6. More about Polish resistance to the Nazis during WWII

major Heinrich Pabst

Defekt

Zwierzak

SeriesDramaCrime

Kryptonim: Polska

Kryptonim: Polska · 2022

Kryptonim: Polska

Roman