
Acting
Małgorzata Rożniatowska
Born
1950-04-29 (76)
Place of birth
Warsaw, Poland
Known for
Acting
Credits
44 titles
Known for
5.7Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.
Kryminalni
2004
6.5Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
1983
2018
8.3The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
Dekalog
1989
7.2When their latest heist goes wrong, three older female burglars evade officials by hiding out in a nursing home — where they uncover a sinister secret.
The Green Glove Gang
2022
7.5The dark world of crime: murders, racketeering, drugs, kidnappings. There are no rules here. Working in this world makes cops cynical and ruthless. There is a fine line between them and criminals - will any of them cross it? The main characters are officers from the Department for Counteracting Criminal Terror and Homicides. The action of the series is an extension of the threads that appear in the feature film. It presents in a realistic way the brutal and dark world of crime that officers encounter on a daily basis. They're not just tracking down murderers. They fight racketeering, kidnapping, drug trafficking while struggling with their own day to day life and problems.
Pitbull
2005
6.0A young woman haunted by her past joins a mysterious professor and his group of gifted students who investigate paranormal activity — and fight demons.
Cracow Monsters
2022
Film credits
2020s · 7 titles
5.8Senior couple Józef and Elżbieta Gugulak plan to marry after decades together. When the bride vanishes, wedding prep becomes a journey through family history, testing their love while younger relatives face romantic challenges of their own.
Off We Go 2
2026
4.6Patryk doesn't miss the occasion when his wife Renata leaves for a few days. He fills the void of love with the company of Sandra, who connects him with the puffer Alfi. A mysterious package and a pair of gangsters are on her trail.
The Sins
2022
6.5The story of a shy vampire, Monia, who has one night to convince Mirek, a suicidal vampire she created and accidentally sentenced to eternal life, to immortality. She is helped by Czarek, a totally mortal boy who loves life very much.
Life for Beginners
2025
3.8A small-time thief and his best friend get hired to rob a wealthy businessman, but things start to go sideways once the job is done.
Krime Story. Love Story
2022
4.5Agnieszka and Marcin's love is blooming, just like Kasia and professor Wolanski. Grandma Solska only dreams of the wedding of her only grandchild - However, his former lover, Bozenka, stands in the way of the happiness of young Zawada. Mrs. Wolanska decides to radically change her life and disappears in mysterious circumstances. Peace of Piotr and Marlenka is disturbed by the unexpected visit of his mother from overseas – And some very compromising photos trigger an avalanche of events. The real end of the world is underway.
The End of the World, or Egg Nogg 4
2022
6.9A humorous and emotional story of a family as unpredictable as a tornado. Their life gains momentum when the seniors - Józiek and Ela - decide to set off on a journey through Poland. They want to experience this trip on their own terms: to laugh, to take risk and love as if they were 20. And since their son has no intention to let them go, feisty seniors starts with stealing the iconic car Nysa...
Off We Go
2025
3.8Piotruś – together with his wife, mother-in-law and Leopold – moves to a new home: a historic manor house. And Marlenka decides to find a suitable ancestor for her family – one that will fit into the elegant residence… Agnieszka, in turn, is pursuing a career at the university, but right after defending her PHD, she suddenly discovers that she is pregnant. And when little Kuba is born… problems begin! Piotruś accompanies his sister during childbirth and begins to dream of a child himself – to Marlenka’s horror. Marcin, a new father, panics and suddenly disappears. In addition, a mysterious pregnant girl appears in Brzózki and she is looking for Zawada…
Baby Boom, or Egg Nogg 5
2024
2010s · 6 titles
5.7Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
United States of Love
2016
7.7The true story of rapper Tomasz Chada, a block‐born poet whose raw, brutally honest lyrics mirror his talent for falling into serious trouble. His life, defined by music as both passion and refuge, ends in unexplained circumstances, shocking his fans and the girlfriend he loved.
Proceder
2019
4.8Kasia still lives in the village of Brzozki and fights off her unwanted suitor Staszek. Unexpectedly, her son Marcin returns to Poland and immediately runs into trouble. The boy has an idea for an unusual business. At this time, a crisis breaks out in Warsaw in the Wolanski family, Wolanska publishes a controversial book, her husband and daughter Agnieszka - rebel and run away from home. They first decide to visit Piotr, who today leads a comfortable life with his wife Marlena. Then they set off into the unknown, and this trip will become legendary again.
Mishmash, or Egg Nogg 3
2019
Adult Robert is forced to live with his overprotective mother and her two sisters. It quickly becomes apparent that all three are crazed murderers.
Three Sisters T
2012
3.9Three guys and a beautiful girl. Their fate will combine the integration leaving the title that is out of control and become a true Recreational apocalypse.
Wyjazd integracyjny
2011
NRThe main character is a young playboy, never cared about money - first claimed by his mother, now makes it a rich wife. In such a case it is the best material for a husband and father? How far a desperate woman to give birth to a child and that the ideal hero will cope with the challenges of fatherhood?
Wybraniec
2013
2000s · 4 titles
7.6Myriam, a survivor of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, is a filmmaker and journalist who has spent many years living abroad. She takes part in a memorial event at the town hall in Paris commemorating the liberation of the camp, where she wins a flight to Cracow. At first she refuses to accept the prize, then decides to go.
The Birch-Tree Meadow
2003
6.7The protagonist of the film is a 50-year-old businessman, Tomasz Adamczyk, who wants to give up running his winery business and devote himself to his lifelong passion for philosophy. This idea does not appeal to his business partner. On top of all this, Tomasz has an accident and is taken hostage by enthusiasts of the wine he produces.
Money Is Not Everything
2001
7.1An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta Szaflarska stars as Aniela, who lives in a massive yet rapidly-deteriorating wooden house, filled with souvenirs and treasures of eras gone by. Aniela runs into conflict in her dealings with others, particularly a nasty neighbor who sees her property as an eyesore and wants to do everything in his reach to buy it up and tear it down, and her married adult son, who - though kindly - triggers paranoia within Aniela (she cannot help but believe that he is scheming and planning to wheedle the property away from her). Driven aback by these individuals, Aniela finds one of her only sources of comfort and reassurance in her daily talks with her dog, Fila - and develops a great affinity for spying on the neighbors' doings whenever boredom creeps in.
Time to Die
2007
6.6Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her.
Hi, Tereska
2001
1990s · 13 titles
6.4Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.
The Ogre
1996
7.0Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan. Then one of them runs into a former flat neighbour who offers to lend them the money. The guy turns out to be a thug and starts to extort them. Their life goes downhill from there.
The Debt
1999
6.5A period film, set in 19th century China in the Polish community who are there building the railway. A woman enters into an extramarital affair with a painter.
Na koniec świata
1999
5.5Alex is a young boy who grew up without the warmth of a family home. He is lonely and lacks money. He is in love with his college friend, Maja, without reciprocity. However, the girl decided to get involved with a wealthy man from the criminal world. Meanwhile, as part of his student internship, Alex takes care of a former employee of the Security Office, Franciszek Kozar. The elderly and sick man suffers greatly. His only desire is euthanasia. For some time, Kozar has been persuading his guardian to help him commit suicide for a few thousand dollars. Finally, Alex agrees. His financial situation improves significantly. With the money he earns, he rents a luxury apartment and changes his lifestyle. From then on, he decides to provide services to people who want to end their lives but are unable to do it themselves...
Egzekutor
1999
Vasyl follows his wife, who escaped to an Orthodox clergyman who is to heal her of infertility.
Historia o proroku Eliaszu z Wierszalina
1997
7.0The year is 1989, and the country's first free elections in a long time are approaching. A man in a cycling cap organizes a chain of clean hands, using it as a tool in his election campaign. In the queue outside the passport office, people chat, make plans, and ponder what's worth selling abroad. Writers observe the world around them. One of them is applying for a passport. In Dzierżyński Square, the monument to Feliks Edmundowicz is being dismantled. Two drunk men sleep on a bench, and behind them is a sign reading: "All is well." The two writers observe the ongoing transformation of the political system.
At the End of the World
1994
A journalist from "Gazeta Wyborcza" recalls his investigative reports and the consequences he suffered while trying to reveal the truth.
Tu stoję...
1994
4.7In the life of Ula, a twenty-year-old very pretty girl, nothing good has happened so far. Poverty, her father an alcoholic abuser to his family, finally an illegitimate child, raised alone ...
Prostitutes
1998
18-year-old Anna finds out she's terminally ill and has only a few years left. Fragile girl changes her mindset, starts living out the remaining time as intensively as possible and marries Piotr, a student whom she just met in sanatorium.
Like a Drug
1999
5.8The story of six Polish emigrants living in New York City, who try to live their American Dream and cope with the realities of the Big Apple.
Happy New York
1997
7.1Emotional adventures of a 40-year-old Warsaw businesswoman whose life lacks nothing but a man. One day, the protagonist, busy running a large advertising agency, faces a life choice: her ex-husband, who returns from the US after ten years, her current lover, an architect, or her former love from school...
Children and Fish
1996
The story of famous Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.
Doctor Semmelweis
1995
A TV movie based on the television series "Złotopolscy", concerning a Christmas Eve for the familes of Złotopolscy.
Gwiazdka w Złotopolicach
1999
1980s · 3 titles
8.0A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred.
Decalogue VI
1989
6.9Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.
300 Miles to Heaven
1989
7.9A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.
The Scream
1983
1970s · 2 titles
7.0After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to convince the people to modernize.
Promotion
1975
A contemporary drama about the problem of adaptation of people from rural areas to the urban environment, which is characteristic of our civilization. A father and son arrive in Warsaw and find themselves on a large construction site of a modern thoroughfare, Trasa Łazienkowska.
Chleba naszego powszedniego
1974
Series credits
5.7Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 until May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in Poland: each week it had an audience of 4 million.
Kryminalni
2004
6.5Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
1983
2018
8.3The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
Dekalog
1989
7.2When their latest heist goes wrong, three older female burglars evade officials by hiding out in a nursing home — where they uncover a sinister secret.
The Green Glove Gang
2022
7.5The dark world of crime: murders, racketeering, drugs, kidnappings. There are no rules here. Working in this world makes cops cynical and ruthless. There is a fine line between them and criminals - will any of them cross it? The main characters are officers from the Department for Counteracting Criminal Terror and Homicides. The action of the series is an extension of the threads that appear in the feature film. It presents in a realistic way the brutal and dark world of crime that officers encounter on a daily basis. They're not just tracking down murderers. They fight racketeering, kidnapping, drug trafficking while struggling with their own day to day life and problems.
Pitbull
2005
6.0A young woman haunted by her past joins a mysterious professor and his group of gifted students who investigate paranormal activity — and fight demons.
Cracow Monsters
2022
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The In-laws
2023
6.0An epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events.
Panny i wdowy
1992
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Przypadki Cezarego P.
2015
