Best Polish fantasy movies

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.

Half a Century of Poetry Later (2019)

Quarter the century after the Rivian Pogrom (the very last events from the Witcher Saga) Kaer Morhen, an old keep of the witchers from the school of the Wolf, is being attacked. Leader of the assault is a mighty warrior - Agaius. A few years later from Aretuza, newly rebuilt school of the sorceress, runs Ornella, who has been suspected of finding the legendary Alzur's Almanac. In pursuit comes Triss Merigold, with help of an old bard, Dandelion, his bastard son Julian and Lambert, the last monster slayer, seeking for revenge.

Devilish Education (1995)

Gosia is a beautiful and innocent young maid on the catholic countryside tending the cattle. One summer day she is having a bath in the river naked as god created her. On the next day a stranger appears painting and painting all day long. As they talk the black dressed suddenly shows her a picture showing her naked in the river. At first she is very ashamed, but then she begins to forget her shyness.

Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)

The screening of a movie "Daybreak" at the "Liberty" Cinema is interrupted by an unusual event - actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur.

Magnates and Wizards (2021)

An independent no-budget film created by a group of fantasy enthusiasts.

She-Wolf (1983)

In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.

The Dybbuk (1937)

In a Polish shtetl, two young men who have grown up together betrothe their unborn children, ignoring the advice of a mysterious traveler not to pledge the lives of future generations. Soon after, one of them dies, and the wife of the other dies in childbirth. The children grow up in different towns, without ever knowing of the betrothal, but the power of the vow leads them to meet each other when they are marriageable. The young woman, Leah, is promised to another man, but Channon, the son of the father who died, is a practitioner of mysticism, and seeks to win his bride through sorcery.

Weiser (2001)

The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of mystery story of a group of children, fascinated by the figure of a man named David Weiser.

Mr. Twardowski (1936)

A young nobleman, pursued by Satan since childhood, yields and signs a pact for his soul in exchange for marriage to a woman he loves who is in love with another.

Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach (1970)

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.

Magic World of Ania (2017)

A series of short films that look into the world of a missing girl.

Wet Monday (2024)

Fifteen-year-old Klara is raped by a masked boy during Wet Monday. A year later, just before the first anniversary of the incident, she becomes paralyzed by a fear of water. Looking for support and understanding, Klara turns to her new, somewhat esoteric friend.

In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles (1985)

In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon - her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lifes. Anastasia has a posthumous son Tadeusz, "born" by clambering out of the tree trunk. Anastasia seduces him too, and drives another men so crazy that they kill her another couple of times. Finally, Tadeusz, the arch-rebel, leads a mob on a raid of the old manor.

The Master and Margarita (1990)

The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Mistrz tańca (1969)

A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death.

Fin del mundo? (2024)

Waldi and his three sisters live in an old villa outside the city, and their 100-year-old parents, who died a few years ago, live in the basement. The whole family enjoys shared breakfasts and warm air, so Waldi does not discover supernatural powers in himself. Then unexpected guests draw the family into a secret plan, forcing their deceased parents to launch their connections in the afterlife.

Memoirs of a Sinner (1986)

A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.

The Changing of the Guard (1959)

A stop-motion animation short dealing with matchboxes.

The Roe's Room (1997)

Bound to a suffocating existence, a young man embarks on a marvelous journey of the imagination, transforming ordinary details of his room into fantastic images of natural beauty, where the cycles of life mysteriously play themselves out.

Hobby (1968)

A woman takes a break from her knitting to snare hapless winged men and deposit them in oversized birdcages.

Checkmate! (1967)

Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life because of his passion for chess.

Twoja stara. Baśń (2012)

The Egg (1984)

It tells a story of a bird-monster from South America originally treated as god by Incas. Long believed to be extinct, due to genetical experiment gone awry its egg fossil hatches and the monster starts to search for females to impregnate.

O dwóch takich co ukradli księżyc (1984)

Zapomniany diabeł (1985)

The Passage (2021)

A storm causes damage to a bridge that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. For this reason, the information about Maria’s own death reaches her with delay.

Alchemik (1989)

An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.

The Horse Tail (2024)

The ponytail is a dumpster version of the Oedipus myth. Diana, a prostitute from Vienna, returns to the city. She has a trace, memory gaps, and milk started flowing from her breasts. Twenty-year-old orphan-outcast May suspects that she may be its author. Diana's return coincides with one made in the neighboring forest. May is arrested for being violent on police officer Max's wife.

Piggate (1990)

The esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig.

Carmilla (1980)

Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.