Best Polish drama series

Absolute Beginners (2023)

Two childhood best friends enjoying their final seaside summer as they prepare for film school meet an aspiring athlete who ignites unfamiliar desires.

The Woods (2020)

A Warsaw prosecutor's hopes rise when a body is found and linked to his sister's disappearance 25 years earlier.

Open Your Eyes (2021)

After a tragic accident, an amnesiac teen tries to rebuild her life at a memory disorders center but becomes suspicious of her unconventional treatment.

Control (2018)

Polish webseries that follows the relationship between two women, Natalia and Majka.

Infamy (2023)

Caught between her Roma roots and pressure from her friends, a 17-year-old girl aspires to become a hip-hop musician despite her parents' strict rules.

High Water (2022)

In 1997, scientists and local government officials in Wrocław face life-and-death decisions when a destructive flood wave threatens the city.

A Girl and an Astronaut (2023)

An astronaut's return after a 30-year disappearance rekindles a lost love and sparks interest from a corporation determined to learn why he hasn't aged.

The Crown of the Kings (2018)

"Crown of Kings" is a first Polish Television's series, which is devoted to medieval history of Poland. The action of the new historic soap opera, produced by TVP, begins in 1333. The king Władysław I the Elbow-high dies after the reunion of the district-divided Poland. The throne is taken by his only living son - Casimir, who is being played by Mateusz Król. In the background of love, courtly intrigue, bad relations with his wife Anna (Marta Bryła) and his mother (Halina Łabonarska), betrayal and fight for incomes.

Dekalog (1989)

Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.

The Doll (1978)

The story of Stanisław Wokulski, a wealthy merchant who falls in love with a haughty aristocrat, Izabela Łęcka.

To be Miss (2001)

A Decent Man (2025)

Paweł is a decent man - a devoted husband, father, and skilled heart surgeon. One hasty decision alters the course of his perfect life forever.

Doppelganger. The Double (2024)

The story of a special service agent who steals another man's identity. Posing as someone he is not, he builds a successful undercover career

Biała odwaga (2024)

Little Black Mirror (2018)

A Polish spin-off of the series "Black Mirror". A series of webisodes, titled Little Black Mirror (Polish: Czarne Lusterko), was produced for Netflix Polska by Jacek Ambrosiewicz, in collaboration with Polish YouTubers. Released on 19 January 2018, the four shorts vary between eight and twenty-one minutes in length.

Our Century (2019)

The saga of the Winny family through 100 years. The action begins on the eve of World War I in 1914 and ends in modern times.

Mistrz i Małgorzata (1990)

#BringBackAlice (2023)

After missing social media influencer Alicja Stec returns with no memory of the past year, the drug-dealing brother of another missing teen sets out to prove the cases are connected… and unravel the truth behind his sister’s disappearance.

1920. War and Love (2010)

Three soldiers who met while each was serving a different partition of Poland form a friendship that lasts after their homeland regains independence.

Our Century (2005)

The History of the 20th Century.

Ludzie i bogowie (2020)

Triage (2023)

Queen (2022)

After a decades-long absence, a renowned Parisian tailor and drag queen returns to his hometown in Poland to make amends with his daughter.

Magda M. (2005)

Magda M. was a Polish soap opera.

Medics (2012)

Medics, also known under the original title Lekarze, is a Polish medical drama which premiered on 3 September 2012 on TVN.

Pati (2023)

Pati has just found out that in the apartment she lives with her two younger siblings and her mother, the electricity has been cut off again and they are in arrears with the rent. Unfortunately, Julita, Pati's mother, runs away from responsibility in alcohol and drugs, spending time in bars and on the dance floor. Unlike her, Pati has ambitions. She applied to the culinary school in Sopot and is nervously waiting for a decision on whether she will be accepted. Sony, the local drug dealer, starts harassing Pati. He wants her to pay off her mother's debts. Pati discovers that Julita was trying to earn money by dealing drugs. She repays her mother's debt to the dealer with the help of Krystian, who has a crush on Pati. Julita goes to Sony again for drugs.

Glitter (2022)

In 1976 Sopot, Poland, three determined women navigate social and political changes as they strive to find independence, financial freedom and love.

Anna German (2013)

The story of a singer who, at the height of her fame found herself confined to a hospital bed because of a car accident. For 12 days the rising star Anna German did not regain consciousness. In those days she had to relive the tragic events of her childhood - the arrest of her father, accused of espionage, the wandering of their orphaned family in Central Asia, the death of a little brother, the war and escape to Poland in the hope of hiding from pursuers from the NKVD ... The first love and the first success…None of the doctors believed she would survive. And even if she did, they predicted complete immobility for the rest of her life. However, after 12 days of coma, heaven gave her a chance to start her life again. And she did the impossible, becoming the "white angel" of Soviet pop music...

25 Years Of Innocence. The Case of Tomek Komenda (2021)

Diagnosis (2017)

Sometimes, a single unexpected event can irreversibly alter one's life. What would happen, if one day you were to wake up and discover, that you don't know who you are, who you love or care about? Is fate cruel enough to take everything, including your identity and memories? How can you piece together your new life, when you're missing the building elements of who you are?