Adam Pawlikowski Movies

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.

Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right...

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the...

Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable spa resort. The only way to find the criminal is...

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish...

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the...

The People's Guard unit takes a pistol from a German soldier. It is then used as a training weapon and in actions against the occupant.

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

A subtle tale of a confrontation between two lonely people, one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result.

The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7.

Two man and a woman get buried by the snow while on a cave expedition. Tensions rise between the two men, both in love with the woman as they try to find a way out.

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.

Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.

A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.

A woman has difficulty choosing between her husband and her new lover, so she sets up a table tennis game between them.

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.