Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "pole-the-person"

1. 2 Broke Girls (2011–2017)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

Two young women waitressing at a greasy spoon diner strike up an unlikely friendship in the hopes of launching a successful business - if only they can raise the cash.

Stars: Kat Dennings, Beth Behrs, Garrett Morris, Jonathan Kite

Votes: 105,119

2. A Bridge Too Far (1977)

PG | 175 min | Drama, History, War

Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier

Votes: 61,716 | Gross: $50.80M

3. Three Colors: Blue (1993)

R | 94 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Benoît Régent

Votes: 110,752 | Gross: $1.32M

4. Quo Vadis (1951)

Not Rated | 171 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov

Votes: 16,801 | Gross: $24.29M

5. Army of Shadows (1969)

Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, War

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

Votes: 25,954 | Gross: $0.74M

6. Europa Europa (1990)

R | 112 min | Drama, History, War

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms

Votes: 17,514 | Gross: $5.58M

7. Mission of Honor (II) (2018)

Not Rated | 107 min | Action, Drama, War

The exploits of 303 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain. The squadron consisted of Polish pilots, many of whom were veterans of the air battles involved in Germany's invasion of Poland.

Director: David Blair | Stars: Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson, Stefanie Martini, Krystof Hádek

Votes: 5,528

8. Stormy Monday (1988)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot.

Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean

Votes: 4,447 | Gross: $1.79M

9. The Avengers: United They Stand (1999–2000)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The adventures of the Marvel Comics Universe's greatest general membership superhero team.

Stars: Linda Ballantyne, Tony Daniels, Ron Rubin, Martin Roach

Votes: 1,104

10. Edge of Darkness (1943)

Passed | 119 min | Drama, War

After two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman

Votes: 3,025

11. Strangler vs. Strangler (1984)

96 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A mentally-disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a killer.

Director: Slobodan Sijan | Stars: Tasko Nacic, Nikola Simic, Srdjan Saper, Sonja Savic

Votes: 4,371

12. Oxygen (1999)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two guys kidnap the wife of a rich man and bury her in a box with 24 hours of oxygen. Tough NYPD Detective Maddy and others get the case. Will they get to her in time?

Director: Richard Shepard | Stars: Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, James Naughton, Laila Robins

Votes: 4,708

13. Madame Curie (1943)

Passed | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.

Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Albert Lewin | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann

Votes: 3,197

14. Murder on the Home Front (2013 TV Movie)

91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Set during the London Blitz of 1940, this is a world where people live life in the moment. It is also a world where criminals can use the blackout and devastation to hide their darkest activities.

Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Patrick Kennedy, Tamzin Merchant, Emerald Fennell, James Fleet

Votes: 2,195

15. Close to Eden (1991)

PG | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Baoyinhexige

Votes: 3,850

16. Deborah (1995)

98 min | Drama, Romance, War

Poland, 1939. Painter Marek Wawrowski lives in a small town with his wife and son. He meets young, beautiful Jewish girl, Deborah, immediately falls in love with her and they start a passionate affair. Then the World War II breaks out.

Director: Ryszard Brylski | Stars: Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Renata Dancewicz, Maria Pakulnis, Jerzy Zelnik

Votes: 38

17. Yellow Canary (1943)

Approved | 84 min | Drama, Thriller

A woman wrongfully accused of being a Nazi sympathizer is forced to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam, Albert Lieven

Votes: 747

18. Suicide Squadron (1941)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance, War

During World War II, an American newswoman falls for a Polish piano virtuoso...who wants to go back and fight.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Sally Gray, Derrick De Marney, Cecil Parker

Votes: 513

19. Karol, un uomo diventato Papa (2005 TV Movie)

186 min | Biography, Drama

The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.

Director: Giacomo Battiato | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Malgorzata Bela, Ken Duken, Hristo Shopov

Votes: 2,824

20. The Suitor (1962)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy

Pierre is a shy man whose sole focus in life is studying astrology in solitude, which is often difficult since he still lives at and studies in his parents' house. His parent's would rather... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: France Arnel, Pierre Étaix, Laurence Lignières, Claude Massot

Votes: 1,073

21. Landscape After Battle (1970)

109 min | Drama, History, Romance

The film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are ... See full summary »

Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar

Votes: 888

22. Karol - The Pope, the Man (2006 TV Movie)

155 min | Biography, Drama

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Director: Giacomo Battiato | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Dariusz Kwasnik, Michele Placido, Alberto Cracco

Votes: 1,218

23. The Last Farm (2004)

TV-PG | 17 min | Short, Drama

In a remote, windswept valley somewhere in the rugged landscapes of Iceland, a solitary elderly couple prepares for the forthcoming winter. However, the urge to work in such feverish haste remains unknown.

Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson | Stars: Jón Sigurbjörnsson, Kristjana Vagnsdottir, Kjartan Bjargmundsson, Arnheiður Steinþórsdóttir

Votes: 1,316

24. Dr. Petiot (1990)

102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Based on the real life of Dr. Marcel Petiot: During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France ... See full summary »

Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Michel Serrault, Pierre Romans, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Zbigniew Horoks

Votes: 800

25. Hajka (1977)

104 min | War

After issued Chetniks and destruction to make an agreement between the Partisans and the Chetniks, a partisan unit angry about betrayal, deception is being broken. A one broken group of ... See full summary »

Director: Zivojin Pavlovic | Stars: Rade Serbedzija, Barbara Nielsen, Pavle Vuisic, Lazar Ristovski

Votes: 249

26. Double Trouble (2018 TV Movie)

81 min | Comedy

Marek lives alternately with two women. He tells them both that he works in another city for part of the week. In reality, he stays in the same and moves from apartment to apartment. This ... See full summary »

Director: Jakub Sommer | Stars: Jan Plouhar, Hana Vagnerová, Veronika Khek Kubarová, Jirí Hána

Votes: 112

27. Naked Among Wolves (1963)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War

In the last weeks of World War II, inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp hide a Polish child from the SS guards, hoping that the advance of the American forces will set them free.

Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Krystyn Wójcik, Fred Delmare

Votes: 837

28. Birth Certificate (1961)

99 min | Drama, War

Three episodes dealing with the harsh situation of children at the time of war. They stay at orphanages, wait for their parents to come back, help the soldiers, hide in the forests and do their best to survive.

Director: Stanislaw Rózewicz | Stars: Henryk Hryniewicz, Beata Barszczewska, Andrzej Banaszewski, Edward Mincer

Votes: 422

29. Joanna (2010)

110 min | Drama, War

During the Nazi occupation, a young woman whose husband disappeared at the war decides to keep hiding a small Jewish girl. To save the child, she gets into an affair with a German.

Director: Feliks Falk | Stars: Urszula Grabowska, Sara Knothe, Stanislawa Celinska, Kinga Preis

Votes: 491

30. Our Lady of Lourdes (2013)

17 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

Lourdes, a university student, is grateful to Bernard, the town drunk, when he comes to her aid in an uncomfortable situation. But when she offers to buy him a hot meal, she ends up getting involved in far more than she bargained for.

Director: Peter Szewczyk | Stars: Naomi Scott, Lech Dyblik, Nick Moran, Krystian Mucha

Votes: 116

31. Men at Lunch (2012)

Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Mystery

The story of "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," the iconic photograph taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Director: Seán Ó Cualáin | Stars: Fionnula Flanagan, Peter Quinn, Ric Burns, Christine Roussel

Votes: 351 | Gross: $0.00M

32. Samson (1961)

117 min | Drama, Romance, War

During the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.

Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Serge Merlin, Alina Janowska, Elzbieta Kepinska, Jan Ciecierski

Votes: 240

33. The Brave Fighters: Resistance Stories Near Hitler's Ukrainian Headquarters (2010)

60 min | Documentary, Action, History

During World War II, ordinary citizens rescued many lives near Hitler's Headquarters in Ukraine. These are their stories.

Director: Edward Halitsky | Stars: Roxanne Halitsky, Steve Halitsky

Votes: 11

34. Operation Auschwitz

Action, Biography, Crime | Announced

A Polish Army Officer volunteers to be imprisoned at Auschwitz. Once inside the barbed wire, he forms an inmate resistance network and smuggles information out to the Allies.

35. Operation Dunaj (2009)

104 min | Comedy, Drama

Enemies evolve into allies under unusual circumstances.

Director: Jacek Glomb | Stars: Magdalena Bieganska, Przemyslaw Bluszcz, Jan Budar, Jaroslav Dusek

Votes: 410

36. Organ (1965)

99 min | Drama

A young Polish deserter and gifted organist finds shelter from the fascists in a Slovak Franciscan monastery. He gets into a conflict with the local organist and choir leader, a man limited in his world views and spiritual values.

Director: Stefan Uher | Stars: Frantisek Bubik, Alexandr Brezina, Kamil Marek, Irma Bárdyová

Votes: 157

37. 20 Years Too Soon: Superstar Billy Graham (2006 Video)

90 min | Sport

At one point officially the strongest man in the world "Superstar" Billy Graham is legendary in the world of wrestling memorable for his costumes and attitude as much as for his astounding ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Matt Anoai, John Cena, Ric Flair, Billy Graham

Votes: 82

38. Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness (2012)

Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Short

A documentary film that explores the complicated relationship of Arab and Slavic immigrants to American notions of whiteness.

Directors: Stephen Combs, Jamil Khoury | Stars: Jamil Khoury, Roxane Assaf, Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Dominic Pacyga

39. Children of the Night (1999)

18 min | Documentary, Short

Black and white images of children, in lines, fill the screen while a woman's voice challenges us to look at them, some of the one million children who died during the Holocaust. Some look ... See full summary »

Director: Jolanta Dylewska

Votes: 25

40. Eurovision Song Contest Tel Aviv 2019: First Semi-Final (2019 TV Special)

133 min | Music

The first semifinal to determine the finalists for Eurovision Song Contest Tel Aviv 2019 (2019).

Director: Sivan Magazanik | Stars: Erez Tal, Bar Refaeli, Assi Azar, Lucy Ayoub

Votes: 68

41. Elementarz (1976)

8 min | Documentary, Short

From the alphabet to the patriotic children's poem, an allegorical vision of social consciousness of 1970s Poland unravels and haunts us with a crowd of sad people in depressing surroundings.

Director: Wojciech Wiszniewski

Votes: 159

42. I Am an American (1944)

Approved | 16 min | Short, History

A hypothetical married Polish couple arrives in New York in the early 1840's and walks to Ohio where they settle and prosper and raise children. The man loses an arm in the Civil war, and ... See full summary »

Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Gary Gray, Gordon Hart, Dick Haymes

Votes: 126

43. Powrót Agnieszki H. (2013)

70 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Agnieszha Holland takes Jacek Petrycki on a journey to the places of her youth; she tells him stories of experiences of the past. It is a dialogue of a famous director with the camera, behind which, there is her true friend.

Directors: Krystyna Krauze, Jacek Petrycki | Stars: Agnieszka Holland, Jacek Petrycki, Andrzej Koszyk, Andrzej Zajaczkowski

Votes: 31

44. The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972)

28 min | Short, Drama, Family

A family of Polish immigrants has a difficult time adjusting to life in the United States. The story centers on the son, named Janek, who has trouble fitting in at school and with his family.

Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: John Kowalczyck, Thomas Kubiak, Joan Kendall, Jane McCloud

Votes: 19

45. Deadly Venom: The Best of Sting (1993 Video)

30 min | Short, Action, Sport

Sting battles "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff in a Russian Chain Match, struggles to overcome injury as he defends the WCW United States Heavyweight Title against "Ravishing" Rick ... See full summary »

Stars: Arn Anderson, Steve Austin, Richard Blood, Steve Borden

Votes: 14

46. Slawomir Mrozek Presents (1997)

48 min | Documentary, Biography

Writer Slawomir Mrozek recalls his past as he prepares himself to move out from Mexico and resettle in his native Poland. He discusses his youth, career and emigration, while walking down his vast Mexican ranch La Epifania.

Director: Pawel Lozinski | Star: Slawomir Mrozek

47. The Polish Americans (1998 TV Movie)

Documentary, History, Music

A celebration of the history, culture, and accomplishments of the Polish-American community in the United States.

Stars: Casey Siemaszko, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Barbara Mikulski, Stefanie Powers

Votes: 7

48. The Decalogue (1989–1990)
Episode: Dekalog, osiem (1989)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama

A researcher meets a professor and reveals herself as the child to whom she refused to shelter during World War II.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Maria Koscialkowska, Teresa Marczewska, Artur Barcis, Tadeusz Lomnicki

Votes: 3,678

49. Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode: Breaking the Broker (1994)

TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Frustrated by his failure to get evidence on a Polish smuggler, D.S. Pulver frames Tinker in order to coerce Lovejoy into helping him run a sting.

Director: Alex Kirby | Stars: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Caroline Langrishe, Diane Parish

Votes: 44

50. A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode: Dancing in the Dark (2004)

TV-14 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Frost must deal with a corpse found in a recycling dump and a smuggling ring of white slavers specializing in young Polish girls.

Director: Roy Battersby | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, Nicholas Burns, John Lyons

Votes: 281