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After being abandoned by his wife, a Polish hairdresser seeks revenge and plots to get rich by faking his own death.

The Tenant is a psychological thriller about a man who becomes increasingly paranoid and delusional after moving into an apartment in Paris. As he becomes more obsessed with the identity of the previous tenant, his psychological state deteriorates, leading to a shocking and disturbing climax.

In this movie, the plot revolves around the trial of Goldman, a left-wing revolutionary from France. He gets convicted of multiple robberies, but soon after, he is found dead under mysterious circumstances.

Sole follows the story of a lawyer who pretends to be someone's boyfriend in order to help a childless couple. As the lawyer delves deeper into this charade, he becomes entangled in a web of gambling addiction, petty crime, and the complexities of surrogate motherhood. Set in Italy, the film explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the lengths people will go to create a family.

Set Me Free is a coming-of-age drama set in 1960s Quebec. It follows Hanna, a 13-year-old girl, as she navigates her dysfunctional family life and explores her sexuality. With a backdrop of societal changes and personal struggles, Hanna's journey is one of self-discovery and acceptance.

A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.

Ada is an American journalist of Polish origin. She has just moved to Hamburg with her partner and is struggling to find her way in the new reality. One day, a mysterious package arrives at the editorial office where she works.

Dr. Jekyll takes on the werewolf in a terrifying battle that involves murder, lycanthropy, and a female mad scientist.

Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.

Wojtek is a mysterious new student at school. This is why he is a prey designated for Thomas and Philippe, two students in search of entertainment. Not finding the words in front of his assailants, Wojtek will go back to his physical education course to express the substance of his thoughts.

1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stéphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the French Reds with very real scars and word of Stalin's anti-Semitism.

Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.

Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially, Claude's father hopes his son will take over the fur shop, but he later gives in to Claude's desire to become involved in filmmaking.

In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.

El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!

Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North America at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art Basel. It explores the influence curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and musician/poet Patti Smith had on the 1970s art scene in New York City.

Misplaced is a heartfelt drama that follows the journey of a Polish woman who immigrates to a new country. In her search for a better life, she faces separation from her homeland and the challenges of a new culture. Through this journey of discovery, she learns to navigate the complexities of immigration and finds new possibilities for herself.

Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative, and blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, whose trip under the polar ice pack was one of the great adventure stories of the 1950s. Later, Rickover built the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier and the first commercial nuclear power plant at Shippingport, PA. Rickover's achievements made him into a national celebrity, and he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Many wonder whether America can maintain its technological pre-eminence and whether we can still build and manage large-scale projects. To understand these issues, Rickover considers the story of the man who created the nuclear Navy as well as the civilian nuclear power industry: Hyman G. Rickover.

Based on a true story, 'The Man Who Would Be Polka King' follows Jan Lewan, a Polish immigrant who rises to fame as a polka sensation. However, behind the scenes, Jan leads a fraudulent financial scheme that ultimately lands him in jail.