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- Set during the World War I in a prison cell. A newspaper satirist, a safecracker and a clerical murderer have been loaded into a common cell until the investigation into their supposed crimes has been finished. The journalist takes copious notes on the situation hoping to publish them later as a novel. The writer catches typhus and in his feverish delirium is no longer able to distinguish between the reality and fantasy of his writing.
- In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Middle-aged Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her sensitive artist stepson Jezory so openly that her old husband Dyapanazego 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 lives. She has a posthumous son Tadeusz, "born" by clambering out of the tree trunk. She seduces him too, and drives other men so crazy that they kill her a couple of times.
- A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.
- The growing up of four teenagers is connected with the songs of the Beatles.
- A dream-like odyssey of a young man across plague-ridden 16th century Germany.
- A young woman is bitten by the acting bug after seeing Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot". She patterns herself after MM and after finishing high school goes for screen tests to the Film Academy. Rejected because of her crooked teeth she takes a job of selling beer on a train and starts writing to Billy Wilder, trying to be casted in his next movie. At the trains station she meets a would-be cinematographer who is color blind. They become friends sharing their dreams of going to Hollywood. One day she finds a goldfish trapped in a beer bottle: she sets her free and makes three wishes, not for herself but for her friends. To her surprise all of them come true. As a reward she gets a long awaited call from Billy Wilder.
- Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
- A popular 60-year-old actor falls for a much younger dancer and a cocaine addict. During the Nazi occupation, he needs money for her rehab but artists are prohibited by the undeground government to perform for Germans.
- A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office. Just when it appears that he is going to be arrested, the aunt appears alive and well from her trip. This time though, he decides to go for it.
- The last days of the avant-garde playwright and painter Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, widely known as Witkacy, following the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939.
- High school student Marek dreams of getting into the Legia professional football team, in spite of numerous obstacles and personal problems.