Mariusz Drężek

Acting

Mariusz Drężek

Born

1972-07-07 (54)

Place of birth

Mikołajki, Poland

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

Known for

Father Matthew poster
5.3

Father Matthew is about the adventures of a Roman Catholic priest who, after returning from a mission to Belarus, is sent to work in a small parish. As a pastor, together with a friendly policeman, he solves mysteries and gives help to his parishioners, as well as all those who are in need.

Father Matthew

2008

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni 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

The Chairman's Ear poster
7.5

The series follows the chairman of the ruling political party in Poland (Mr Chairman). The narrative takes place primarily in his office where, joined by his assistant Mariusz, he hosts numerous visitors, including government officials and other public office holders.

The Chairman's Ear

2017

Pitbull poster
7.5

The 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

In Treatment poster
7.8

Exploring one of the defining features of modern society, therapy, as seen through the eyes of a psychiatrist whose professional and personal life is on the verge of collapse.

In Treatment

2011

Crusade poster
7.3

Detective Mandżaro and his Warsaw crime unit deduce the hidden design linking apparently unrelated crimes, and a city-wide conspiracy is exposed.

Crusade

2022

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Furioza poster
6.3

A policewoman makes her ex-boyfriend an offer he can't refuse: either he infiltrates and informs on a gang of hooligans, or his brother goes to jail.

Furioza

2021

No Pressure poster
5.3

After being tricked into dropping everything to save her grandmother's farm, big-city chef Oliwia falls for a handsome farmer who's hiding a secret.

No Pressure

2024

Off We Go 2 poster
5.8

Senior 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

Letters to Santa 6 poster
6.5

As Christmas approaches, ambitious Mel struggles to host a grand Eve dinner for his “Santa” business and, seeing his younger self in hapless employee Grzesiek, vows to save him from repeating old mistakes. Meanwhile, Karina and Szczepan’s quiet holiday is disrupted by a burst pipe that introduces repairman Lucek and stranded traveler Józek into their home. And Wojciech, fresh from London, plans a serene reunion, until he meets mysterious Ewa, who’s flown in to see an internet love.

Letters to Santa 6

2024

The Sins poster
4.6

Patryk 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

Magnesium poster
4.5

A western, inspired by the likes of Tarantino and Leone, set in the 1920s in the borderland between Poland and the USSR: Twin brothers plan to rob a rival Mafia style family, an instance of female empowerment in that it is run by sisters.

Magnesium

2021

Wyszynski - Revenge or Forgiveness poster
5.1

This film tells the story of lieutenant Stefan Wyszynski (Ksawery Szlenkier) - the future Primate of Poland, unknown to a wider audience. It is 1944, in the heat of war, we meet a young priest Wyszynski, who has recently been appointed chaplain of the branch in the Kampinos Forest. It is also active in the insurgent hospital. Everyone knows him there under the pseudonym "Radwan III". The reality of the war is for Fr. Wyszynski, a forge of character, a fight for hope and love, especially against enemies. How are we to forgive in everyday warfare? The hero asks, turning to the Source of his vocation.

Wyszynski - Revenge or Forgiveness

2021

Powstaniec 1863 poster
5.3

A gripping story about a man who was the terror of the Russian Empire: the legendary figure of a Polish priest, chaplain and general - Father Stanislaw Brzoska.

Powstaniec 1863

2024

Off We Go poster
6.9

A 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

No Place Like Lockdown poster
NR

Piotr has a wonderful family, a beautiful house, and decent earnings. When the world is struck by the pandemic, everything changes. Piotr is required to home quarantine. He isn't worried, as he's feeling great. In fact, he's looking forward to spending two weeks with his family. But his wife – afraid of contracting the virus – takes the children and goes away to stay at her mother's place. Although she leaves the house stocked up on food, she forgets to replenish toilet paper. How will a guy who's never had to use a washing machine cope on his own? Will he realize how much he's taken his family for granted?

No Place Like Lockdown

2022

2010s · 13 titles

Career Girl poster
5.2

Zoska, is an attractive, well-educated and hard working woman who doesn't want to be stereotypically labeled by modern world. When she gets fired her world collapses, now she must realize what she really wants from life.

Career Girl

2016

Floating Skyscrapers poster
5.8

Kuba attends an art opening with his girlfriend of two years and bumps into Mikal. The connection between these two young men is instantaneous and intoxicating, and despite opposition from all sides, he allows Mikal into his life. The results go beyond anything he could have imagined. This intimate and bold second feature from Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski captures the often-complicated consequences of finding love where others do not want it.

Floating Skyscrapers

2013

(Nie)znajomi poster
6.4

A group of seven friends come together for dinner. What starts out as a normal evening, evolves into something else when they decide to play a game and read all text messages aloud and answer all phone calls on speakerphone...

(Nie)znajomi

2019

Disco Polo poster
5.1

Young wannabe musicians from the province decide to write hit song and gain the top of the charts in order to become legends of disco polo

Disco Polo

2015

Festyn poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Festyn

2019

Battle of the Sexes poster
2.9

The story of an unemployed journalist who fights overweight and account shortages more effectively than Bridget Jones, and although she knows a lot about men, finding the right one will require a lot of effort. Especially that her adult daughter not only ruthlessly judges her actions, but also counts on her mother's advice in her love affairs.

Battle of the Sexes

2011

Underdog poster
5.0

Boris "Kos" Kosinski is a top MMA fighter. In the biggest battle of his life with his greatest rival, Denim Takaev, he makes a mistake that destroys his entire career. He loses everything. This failure brings him through a series of ups and downs, but it also pushes him to undertake a titanic effort to fight and win back respect and love

Underdog

2019

Prosta historia o miłości poster
3.0

Arkadiusz Jakubik's directorial debut plays out on many levels. One of them is, as in the title, a simple love story. However, parallel to it and on the same footing is the reality of filmmaking.

Prosta historia o miłości

2010

Warsaw Uprising poster
6.7

It tells the story of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 through the eyes of a US airman, escaper from the Nazi Stalag camp and two young reporters, cameramen for the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Polish Home Army. Their mission: documenting the Uprising by shooting newsreels for the “Palladium” cinema. Looking for the right shots, they go deeper and deeper – literally and figuratively – into the heart of the Uprising. Traumatic truth becomes obvious. Aware of being witnesses of indescribable events, they realize their duties: to document them and preserve the rolls of film at any cost…

Warsaw Uprising

2014

Ixjana poster
2.7

Marek, a young writer, is trying to solve the mystery of the night his friend Arthur died. In the recesses of his memory, Marek finds fragments of past events: a party at the home of an eccentric publisher, his argument with Arthur, the exchange of blows, blood. Afraid that he has killed his friend, Marek suppresses his feelings of fear and guilt in his passionate meetings with a woman who has more to do with Arthur’s disappearance than it seems...

Ixjana

2012

Wyjazd integracyjny poster
3.9

Three 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

Wybraniec poster
NR

The 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

Listy z Rosji poster
NR

The true story of French traveler Astolphe de Custine, who set out for the Russian Empire in 1839. Awarded the Grand Prix at the 2017 Dwa Teatry Festival, the production is an adaptation of a classic literary work that was banned in Russia for many years.

Listy z Rosji

2017

2000s · 6 titles

Frozen Memories poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Frozen Memories

2007

The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God poster
4.9

In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ...

The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God

2003

The General - Attempt at Gibraltar poster
2.7

The film presents the last days of Gen. Sikorski, right before the Gibraltar catastrophe. The commander is accompanied by his daughter Zofia and a group of closest collaborators. They are all guests in the palace of the Governor of Gibraltar, Mason Macfarlane, who is supposed to persuade Sikorski to give back documents on the murder of Polish officers in Katyn. When Sikorski refuses, a plan of attempt on his life comes into action. Who stood behind it? Who executed it and how? Was Zofia on board of Liberator too?

The General - Attempt at Gibraltar

2009

Tulips poster
5.4

The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the others are there for him.

Tulips

2005

Preserve poster
7.3

A young photographer moves to Praga, the most notorious district of Warsaw, known for common crime and alcoholism as well as unique folklore. This experience will have much impact on both his personal and professional life.

Preserve

2007

Arche. Pure Evil poster
NR

Arche means the source that still beats and from it flows the world. Christians can call God by the name of Arche. He is also the one who was in the beginning, from him the world originated and he keeps this world alive. In the Middle Ages, the source was also sought in the philosopher's stone - it, too, was supposed to act as the golden rule and only a side effect of its action was to be transmutation - that is, turning lead into gold. In the film, Arche is a mysterious Source through which time and space can be influenced.

Arche. Pure Evil

2003

Series credits

Father Matthew poster
5.3

Father Matthew is about the adventures of a Roman Catholic priest who, after returning from a mission to Belarus, is sent to work in a small parish. As a pastor, together with a friendly policeman, he solves mysteries and gives help to his parishioners, as well as all those who are in need.

Father Matthew

2008

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni 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

Kryminalni poster
5.7

Kryminalni 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

The Chairman's Ear poster
7.5

The series follows the chairman of the ruling political party in Poland (Mr Chairman). The narrative takes place primarily in his office where, joined by his assistant Mariusz, he hosts numerous visitors, including government officials and other public office holders.

The Chairman's Ear

2017

Pitbull poster
7.5

The 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

In Treatment poster
7.8

Exploring one of the defining features of modern society, therapy, as seen through the eyes of a psychiatrist whose professional and personal life is on the verge of collapse.

In Treatment

2011

Crusade poster
7.3

Detective Mandżaro and his Warsaw crime unit deduce the hidden design linking apparently unrelated crimes, and a city-wide conspiracy is exposed.

Crusade

2022

On the Edge poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

On the Edge

2013

Scene of the Crime Ostrava poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Scene of the Crime Ostrava

2020

Blood for Blood poster
7.7

*Blood for Blood (2012)* follows Job, a methodical Dutch undercover cop whose life shatters when his wife is murdered. Consumed by grief and disillusioned with official justice, he goes rogue. Using his expert skills, he infiltrates Amsterdam's brutal drug underworld alone, not to enforce the law, but to hunt his wife's killers. As he descends, the line between cop and criminal vanishes in this tense thriller about the corrosive, transformative power of vengeance.

Blood for Blood

2012

Officer poster
7.4

Polish crime / drama TV series portraying Warsaw police officers from Central Bureau of Investigations who got on the trail of counterfeit Euro banknotes which involves local gangsters and French crime syndicate.

Officer

2005

House for Happiness poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

House for Happiness

2023

Twisted Fortune poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Twisted Fortune

2011

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mrok

2006