Movies: Aleksander Ford

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights...

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quar...

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fig...

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better li...

Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history....

Movie filmed directly after the liberation of the concentration camp at Majdanek....

A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River....

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss....

When in a small village appears a little boy named Olek, the life of its inhabitants change. Olek senses danger....

A serious Swiss melodrama/documentary about abortion, marketed as a sexy exploitation movie in the US. The film contains real medical footage....

The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn...

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One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium, an institution that stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking cont...

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The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion....

Józek enters a cycling race to win a bike, which he needs to deliver newspapers and pay for his mother's surgery....

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Describe the harsh reality attempts of establishing a Jewish settlement in Israel and the efforts of the Arab to prevent it. The film is considered as the first talking film in Palestine Israel....

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Feliks Promienski inherits from his aunt a small clay figurine representing a pagan god and from that moment happiness begins to favor him. Lost film....