Cast: Krystyna Janda

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Krystyna Janda. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Dekalog: The Ten Commandments (TV Miniseries)

1988 · Series · 572 min. · Poland

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Artur Barcis · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Olaf Lubaszenko · Piotr Machalica

Plot TV Mini-Series (1989-1990). 10 Episodes. Originally made for Polish television, 'Dekalog' focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face...

8.4

2K votes

8.4

2K votes

A Short Film About Killing

1988 · Movie · 85 min. · Poland

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Miroslaw Baka · Krzysztof Globisz · Jan Tesarz · Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Plot A youth randomly, and brutally, murders a taxi-driver. Piotr has just passed his law exams and been admitted to the bar. He is to defend Jacek, the young murderer. There...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Interrogation

1982 · Movie · 118 min. · Poland

Direction Ryszard Bugajski

Cast Krystyna Janda · Adam Ferency · Janusz Gajos · Agnieszka Holland

Plot Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not...

7.4

226 votes

7.4

226 votes

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Krystyna Janda · Aleksander Bardini · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Artur Barcis

Plot "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain". An elderly doctor is approached by a woman with a complicated request. Her husband is gravely ill...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Mephisto

1981 · Movie · 135 min. · Hungary

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Ildikó Bánsági · Rolf Hoppe · Krystyna Janda

Plot In MEPHISTO, an ambitious and talented actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) on the verge of success marries the daughter of an important official in pre-World War II Germany in order to...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Man of Marble

1977 · Movie · 164 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Krystyna Janda · Tadeusz Lomnicki · Michal Tarkowski

Plot Student filmmaker determined to make her diploma film about a 1950s national hero, charms her way among his surviving contemporaries to uncover the truth about his achievements.

7.0

621 votes

7.0

621 votes

Man of Iron

1981 · Movie · 152 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Krystyna Janda · Marian Opania · Boguslaw Linda

Plot MAN OF IRON, Andrzej Wajda's account of the events at the Gdansk shipyard in the summer of 1980, stars Marian Opania as Winkiel, a burned-out, alcoholic journalist who's assigned to...

7.0

924 votes

7.0

924 votes

The Orchestra Conductor

1980 · Movie · 101 min. · Poland

6.9

156 votes

6.9

156 votes

Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease

2000 · Movie · 105 min. · Poland

Direction Krzysztof Zanussi

Cast Zbigniew Zapasiewicz · Krystyna Janda · Tadeusz Bradecki · Monika Krzywkowska

Plot 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.

6.7

80 votes

6.7

80 votes

Without Anesthesia

1978 · Movie · 113 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Andrzej Seweryn · Emilia Krakowska · Ewa Dalkowska · Krystyna Janda

Plot A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world...

6.7

73 votes

6.7

73 votes

O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization

1985 · Movie · 85 min. · Poland

Direction Piotr Szulkin

Cast Jerzy Stuhr · Krystyna Janda · Kalina Jedrusik · Mariusz Dmochowski

Plot Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait...

6.6

194 votes

6.6

194 votes

Espion, lève-toi

1982 · Movie · 98 min. · France

6.6

50 votes

6.6

50 votes

On the Silver Globe

1987 · Movie · 166 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Zulawski

Cast Andrzej Seweryn · Jerzy Trela · Grazyna Dylag · Waldemar Kownacki

Plot A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end...

6.6

457 votes

6.6

457 votes

Reverse

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · Poland

Direction Borys Lankosz

Cast Agata Buzek · Marcin Dorocinski · Krystyna Janda · Anna Polony

Plot A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a...

6.4

147 votes

6.4

147 votes

Golem

1980 · Movie · 92 min. · Poland

Direction Piotr Szulkin

Cast Henryk Bak · Mariusz Dmochowski · Wieslaw Drzewicz · Krystyna Janda

Plot The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human...

6.4

123 votes

6.4

123 votes

The War of the World: Next Century

1981 · Movie · 96 min. · Poland

Direction Piotr Szulkin

Cast Roman Wilhelmi · Krystyna Janda · Mariusz Dmochowski · Jerzy Stuhr

Plot Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after...

6.0

51 votes

6.0

51 votes

Dolce Fine Giornata

2019 · Movie · 92 min. · Poland

Direction Jacek Borcuch

Cast Krystyna Janda · Antonio Catania · Lorenzo de Moor · Robin Renucci

Plot Maria Linde, a free-spirited, Jewish Polish Nobel Prize winner, lives in Tuscany surrounded by warmth and chaos in her family’s villa. A loving mother and grandmother, she also fosters a...

5.6

408 votes

5.6

408 votes

Sweet Rush

2009 · Movie · 85 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Krystyna Janda · Pawel Szajda · Jan Englert · Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak

Plot On one level, Andrzej Wajda’s film tells a story of Marta, a middle-aged woman married to a small town doctor. Marta searches for happiness in the arms of a much...

5.4

112 votes

5.4

112 votes

How I Fell in Love with a Gangster

2022 · Movie · 179 min. · Poland

Direction Maciej Kawulski

Cast Tomasz Wlosok · Aleks Kurdzielewicz · Antoni Królikowski · Agnieszka Grochowska

Plot A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikos" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history.

5.3

220 votes

5.3

220 votes

An Air So Pure

1997 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Yves Angelo

Cast Fabrice Luchini · André Dussollier · Marie Gillain · Redjep Mitrovitsa

Plot Set in Europe during WWI, a doctor and lawyer have converted a musty old mansion into a ritzy hotel and health spa. The chateau is inhabited by an eccentric collection...

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