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 Originally made for Polish television, 'Dekalog' focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face...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
Dekalog 2: Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord Thy God in Vain (TV)
1990 · Movie · 57 min. · Poland
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
Direction Andrzej Wajda
Cast John Gielgud · Krystyna Janda · Andrzej Seweryn · Jan Ciecierski
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
Direction Yves Boisset
Cast Lino Ventura · Michel Piccoli · Bruno Cremer · Bernard Fresson
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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