You are a movie fan and you like the Polish cinema? Here’s some good news for you! There is now an interesting collection of Polish movies with English subtitles available on youtube on the official channel of Studio Filmowe TOR. You can watch classics and learn Polish at the same time.
So, here are the movies! But how good are they? Maybe ratings will help you a little. In square brackets after each title there is the user-generated rating [our of 10], taken from filmweb.pl, which is the most popular Polish website about the cinema and movies. On the left side you have the movie poster and on the right there is the whole movie on youtube ready to watch.
How to watch with subtitles? In the movie settings just turn on the subtitles, and voila!
1. Rejs
English Title: The Cruise
Rating : 7.6
Year: 1970
An absolute classic. Considered as a masterpiece by many and as the earliest cult film in Polish cinema. Shot in a quasi-documentary style, with a cast featuring not more than two or three professional actors, the absurd plot parodies life in the People’s Republic of Poland, reducing a weekend river cruise to a hilarious parody of the entire communist system.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
2. Boisko Bezdomnych
English Title: The Offsiders
Rating: 7.2
Year: 2008
Unfulfilled footballer and a current homeless inhabitant of the Central Station prepares homeless people to participate in the world championship.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
3. Zaklęte rewiry
English Title: The Enchanted Districts (our translation)
Rating: 7.8
Year: 1975
A teenage country boy starts working in a restaurant of the famous Pacific Hotel in the 1930s. He soon discovers that to get promoted one needs to conform and sacrifice his dignity.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
4. 300 mil do nieba
English Title: 300 Miles to Heaven
Rating: 7.5
Year: 1989
Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland to Sweden, hidden under a truck
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
5. Ucieczka z kina Wolność
English Title: Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema
Rating: 7.5
Year: 1990
During the screening of the film “Daybreak” at the Liberty Cinema, movie characters suddenly come alive and begin to talk to the viewers. The situation surprises communist authorities who send a censor to the theatre.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
6. Boże skrawki
English Title: Edges of the Lord
Rating: 7.5
Year: 2001
A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
7. Amator
English Title: Camera Buff
Rating: 8.0
Year: 1979
Filip buys an eight-millimetre movie camera when his first child is born. Because it’s the first camera in town, he’s named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen…
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
8. Constans
English Title: The Constant Factor
Rating: 7.3
Year: 1980
A young man is facing death of his mother. A petty corruption at his job leads to him being framed and robbed of his only desire to climb mountains in Himalayas, as his father did and where he died.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
9. Dreszcze
English Title: Shivers
Rating: 7.5
Year: 1981
Thirteen year-old Tomek goes to a scout camp, where he is subjected to communist indoctrination.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
10. Persona non Grata
English Title: Persona non Grata
Rating: 6.8
Year: 2005
Wiktor, Polish ambassador to Uruguay, comes back home to attend his wife’s funeral and face his old Russian friend, suspected of having an affair with Wiktor’s deceased spouse.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
11. Krótki film o miłości
English Title: A Short Film about Love
Rating: 7.9
Year: 1988
An innocent virgin spies on his frontal neighbour and falls in love with her, then starts using tricks on her which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
12. Suplement
English Title: The Supplement
Rating: 6.2
Year: 2002
An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
13. Magnat
English Title: Magnat
Rating: 7.4
Year: 1986
Film traces the fascinating saga of princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
14. Weiser
English Title: Weiser
Rating: 6.8
Year: 2000
Paweł Heller arrives after years to his hometown, where he tries to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of his school friend.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
15. Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową
English Title: Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Rating: 7.4
Year: 2000
A cynical doctor, who is dying of cancer, would like to know the meaning of his life. He has to fight for it or just get ready for death.
-> Watch a full movie on Youtube
Do you know any other Polish movies with subtitles online?
Please let us know in the comments!
