Screenplay: Jerzy Skolimowski

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jerzy Skolimowski. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Deep End

1970 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Jane Asher · John Moulder-Brown · Karl Michael Vogler · Christopher Sandford

Plot A boy from lower class has just finished school. Because he cannot find other work he takes a job in one of the public bathes in the suburbs of London....

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Knife in the Water

1962 · Movie · 94 min. · Poland

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Leon Niemczyk · Jolanta Umecka · Zygmunt Malanowicz

Plot An attractive young woman, Christine, takes the wheel of a car belonging to her partner Andrzej, a sports columnist. While he criticizes her driving skills, a reckless student leaps out...

Max

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Moonlighting

1982 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Jeremy Irons · Eugene Lipinski · Jiri Stanislav · Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz

Plot A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project...

6.6

443 votes

6.6

443 votes

Innocent Sorcerers

1960 · Movie · 87 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Tadeusz Lomnicki · Krystyna Stypulkowska · Wanda Koczeska · Kalina Jedrusik

Plot A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals...

6.6

100 votes

6.6

100 votes

Walkower

1965 · Movie · 77 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Jerzy Skolimowski · Aleksandra Zawieruszanka · Krzysztof Chamiec · Andrzej Herder

Plot Two old acquaintances meet by accident. Both are about to fight against tough opponents, his is a boxing fight, hers is a struggle to have her original project implemented at...

6.5

69 votes

6.5

69 votes

6.5

210 votes

The Departure

1967 · Movie · 93 min. · Belgium

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Catherine-Isabelle Duport · Jacqueline Bir · Paul Roland

Plot A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche under him for his nearing debut...

6.4

120 votes

6.4

120 votes

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1965 · Movie · 80 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Jerzy Skolimowski · Elzbieta Czyzewska · Tadeusz Minc · Andrzej Zarnecki

Plot In this drama, a budding ichthyologist studies at a university to try to avoid the draft. At the last moment he then relents and enlists. He has only a few...

6.3

37 votes

6.3

37 votes

Barrier

1966 · Movie · 77 min. · Poland

6.3

135 votes

6.3

135 votes

EO

2022 · Movie · 88 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Sandra Drzymalska · Lorenzo Zurzolo · Mateusz Kosciukiewicz · Isabelle Huppert

Plot Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.

Max

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

The Shout

1978 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Alan Bates · Susannah York · John Hurt · Robert Stephens

Plot An enigmatic wanderer (Alan Bates), who claims to have the ability to kill people by shouting, shatters the domestic life of a young couple (John Hurt and Susannah York)...

6.0

763 votes

6.0

763 votes

Essential Killing

2010 · Movie · 83 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Vincent Gallo · Emmanuelle Seigner · Nicolai Cleve Broch · Phillip Goss

Plot An Afghanistan soldier (Vincent Gallo) is captured by US forces and sent to a Guantanamo-like detention center in an unspecified eastern European country. But he manages to escape and run...

5.8

804 votes

5.8

804 votes

11 Minutes

2015 · Movie · 81 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Richard Dormer · Agata Buzek · Andrzej Chyra · Dawid Ogrodnik

Plot A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student...

5.7

211 votes

5.7

211 votes

Torrents of Spring

1989 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Timothy Hutton · Nastassja Kinski · Valeria Golino · William Forsythe

Plot In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma...

5.5

118 votes

5.5

118 votes

Hands Up!

1981 · Movie · 90 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Jerzy Skolimowski · Joanna Szczerbic · Tadeusz Lomnicki · Adam Hanuszkiewicz

Plot Censored by the Polish authorities, this film was reedited and new footage added. It begins with a sci-fi motif: abstract images and electronic music take the viewer from ruins of...

5.5

33 votes

5.5

33 votes

Erotique (S)

1960 · Movie · 3 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Elzbieta Czyzewska · Gustaw Holoubek

Plot Let the vampires are not reflected in the mirror, but it may come from someone not less intimidating. And wants to do something. And then you have to run away...

5.2

68 votes

5.2

68 votes

The Palace

2023 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Oliver Masucci · Fanny Ardant · John Cleese · Joaquim de Almeida

Plot The Palace Hotel is an extraordinary castle designed at the beginning of the twentieth century and located right in the middle of a snow-covered valley in Switzerland. Every year it...

4.9

156 votes

4.9

156 votes

Your Money or Your Life (S)

1961 · Movie · 4 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Stanislaw Dygat · Bohdan Lazuka · Stefan Wiechecki

Plot Fair, bravura MUSIC, carousel. In the event absurdist sketch rotated so that the villain becomes a hero, and a coward - a daredevil.

4.6

28 votes

4.6

28 votes

Mesmerized

1985 · Movie · 94 min. · Australia

4.5

71 votes

4.5

71 votes

Oko wykol (S)

1960 · Movie · 3 min. · Poland

4.5

145 votes

4.5

145 votes