Essential polish cinema

This list is limited to 100 positions to ensure it remains manageable for anyone wishing to familiarise themselves with Polish cinema from scratch.

A bulk of this list consists of entries by recognized and well regarded auteurs like Kieslowski, Wajda, Zanussi and Zulawski — directors responsible for award winning and internationally relevant films.
These positions will be familiar to most cinephiles.
Instead of including all these titles or indeed an overwhelming number of classic and contemporary examples of the cinema of moral anxiety that defined polish cinematic output for the majority of foreign audiences,...