Jan P. Matuszyński

Leave No Traces

In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.

Release Date2021-09-24

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JobDirector

Charactersd SB Officer

Vote Count65

Król: Pierwsza scena

Release Date2020-11-13

Charactersd Self (uncredited)

Second chance

The main character is Monika Borecka, TV producer and manager. She is a modern woman of success - strong, attractive, hard-working and self-confident. Seemingly, she's leading a perfect life: she's on the peak of her career, makes money, and has a handsome partner. She loves living in a big city, she is always updated with news. Monika is ambitious and creative. In the world of show-business, she feels like a duck in water. She's going to celebrate her 40th birthday with beloved ones. Suddenly...she loses everything. Without job, friends, rejected by the world of show-biz which was her entire world. Arrested and convicted to social services in hospital. Monika, for the first time in her life is left on the own. Betrayed, humiliated, disillusioned and without hope. Monika faces many problems to find the answer for a question: what is the most important thing in life? Is she able to struggle with hardships of life? How to use a second chance, which is given us by lock to find our true destiny? The series also shows scenes of show business and reveals to the audience the mechanisms governing the world.

Release Date2016-02-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count9

Vote Count5

The Eastern Gate

Ewa Oginiec wants to leave the secret service and start over after a personal tragedy but things take a turn when her partner, also an agent, is exposed by Russian intelligence and mysteriously disappears.

Release Date2025-01-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count30

The Border

After a bombing attack at the Poland–Ukraine border which killed his friends from the Border Guard, Captain Wiktor Rebrow tries to unravel the mystery and figure out what happened and who is behind it all.

Release Date2014-10-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count49

Minghun

After the loss of his daughter, Jurek, together with his father-in-law Ben, decides to perform the Chinese minghun ritual.

Release Date2024-11-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

The Last Family

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals...

Release Date2016-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count102

The King of Warsaw

1937 Warsaw, Poland. The Jewish mafia rules the city. Head honcho is gangster socialist, Buddy Kaplica. His right-hand man, boxer, Jakub Szapiro who dreams of taking over Buddy's top spot as King of Warsaw.

Release Date2020-11-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count15

Talking Heads 2021

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.

Release Date2021-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Illegals

Konrad Wolski, head of the Q department, an elite Polish intelligence unit, taking over a Belarusian arms dealer in Istanbul, learns about a terrorist attack planned in Sweden. The weapon to be used in the attack is to come from the Soviet arsenal hidden in Belarus. Konrad immediately contact with Travis, a Polish spy secreted in the Minsk KGB, to obtain intelligence information that will defeat the terrorist plan. The matter is complicated by the fact that Travis has just been exposed by one of the Belarusian KGB officers. He's financial blackmail, will not remain in his position for a long time. Sara - an officer of the Polish Intelligence Agency is sent to Minsk with the mission of his immediate evacuation. At the same time, a retired general of Belarusian services in Warsaw is blackmailing the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.

Release Date2018-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count5

Deep Love

Janusz, a self-confident 60-year old, an incredibly active person and an accomplished diver, suffers a stroke which leaves him paralyzed. Rehabilitation and assistance of his partner Asia help him regain mobility and improve his functions. He is still struggling with speech and the only person who understands what he says is Asia who interprets him for the world. What keeps Janusz going and motivates to carry on is his big dream - he would like to dive again, despite major hazard for his health and life. His goal is to travel to beautiful but perilous Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt which poses a challenge even to fit divers.

Release Date2013-09-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

I Know Who Did It

Action drama. Bartek has just completed his military service. He goes home by train. He gets off the train, looks around to find his girlfriend, Karolina. She was supposed to collect him from the station, but she's not there…

Release Date2008-07-30

DepartmentDirecting

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Vote Count1

Afterparty

"When pain is unbearable, when love is unconditional, when chance dictates the unfolding of events, anything is possible..."

Release Date2009-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

At Home - Poland

Spring 2020, Poland. 16 filmmakers create 14 short films about unexpected experience of isolation caused by pandemic.

Release Date2020-07-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

The Carwash

Andrzej, a great fan of speedway racing, can’t go back home where his beloved woman as well as a the world cup TV broadcast are waiting for him, because he has to fill in for his indisposed colleague at a night shift in the carwash. It was another quiet night, as he expected. Until a yellow Wartburg drove into the carwash... ‘People have been trying to create tragedies for ages, yet what comes out is just a comedy’ – this is the motto by Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, which opens this film, full of suspense and comedy.

Release Date2007-07-29

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Vote Count1

15 lat milczenia

Iza, a former actress, organizes a reunion of the graduates of the mime study. She wants to settle a painful past in this way.

Release Date2007-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Offline

Release Date2012-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Together

Intimate story about how much we need another man. Peter and Olga meet at a time when everything seems to be over. They decide together take their last journey.

Release Date2006-07-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Święty

The story of a man who is released from prison years later and must exact a revenge that is not obvious.

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JobDirector