The Thaw 2022

M jak miłość (2000 - 2019)

2.6 /10

M jak miłość is a Polish soap opera, revolving around the multiple generations of the Mostowiak family. The series premiered on November 4, 2000 on TVP2, primarily as a weekly drama, and after one season shifting into a new timeslot and extending to two episodes per week. For the last few years the show has been the most watched drama on Polish television. Its popularity led to a Russian adaptation, entitled Lyubov kak Lyubov. The series is also broadcast on the international channel TVP Polonia with English subtitles.

Average Episode Run Time: 40` . Year(s): 2000 - 2019

Director: Ryszard Chutkowski

Stars: Rafał Mroczek , Teresa Lipowska , Dominika Ostałowska , Małgorzata Pieńkowska , Marcin Mroczek , Katarzyna Cichopek

Na dobre i na złe (1999 - 2019)

3.6 /10

Na dobre i na złe is a Polish television medical drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since November 7, 1999. Currently in its 15th season and with over 520 episodes, it is the longest-running primetime drama on Polish TV. The show revolves around the lives of doctors and patients of a hospital in Leśna Góra near Warsaw. Na dobre i na złe has been very popular among the viewers, despite recent criticism on its lack of originality. It won the "Telekamery" award for the best TV series in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Average Episode Run Time: 50` . Year(s): 1999 - 2019

Director: Agnieszka Krakowiak , Aneta Glowska , Ilona Łepkowska

Stars: Piotr Garlicki , Ewa Wiśniewska , Małgorzata Niemirska , Janusz Chabior , Daniel Olbrychski , Paweł Małaszyński

Przyjaciółki (2012 - 2023)

0 /10

Four thirty-something women who met in highschool continue to maintain a strong friendship despite the passing of time. Although very different, they also have much in common, each earnestly trying to find themselves and their place in the world.

Average Episode Run Time: 41` . Year(s): 2012 - 2023

Stars: Magdalena Stużyńska , Małgorzata Socha , Joanna Liszowska , Anita Sokołowska , Bartek Kasprzykowski , Agnieszka Sienkiewicz

Singielka (2015 - 2016)

6.2 /10

The story of Ela, who decides to find love in 274 days.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 2015 - 2016

Stars: Paulina Chruściel , Julia Kamińska , Mateusz Janicki , Izabela Kuna , Filip Bobek

Julia (2011 - 2012)

8.3 /10

Julia is the Polish soap opera. It is broadcast on weekdays on TVN since Monday, January 2, 2012. The pilot episode was broadcast on Friday, December 23, 2011, after the final episode of Prosto w serce.

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2011 - 2012

Director: Adrian Kręciszewski , Marcin Solarz , Arkadiusz Luboń

Stars: Julia Rosnowska , Krystian Wieczorek , Michał Lewandowski , Bartosz Obuchowicz , Marta Żmuda Trzebiatowska

The Mire (2018 - 2021)

7.1 /10

The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, they start their own investigation.

Average Episode Run Time: 51` . Year(s): 2018 - 2021

Director: Michał Marczak , Jan Holoubek

Stars: Krzysztof Oleksyn , Dawid Ogrodnik , Andrzej Seweryn , Zofia Wichłacz , Ireneusz Czop , Magdalena Różczka

Signs (2018 - 2020)

6.8 /10

When a young woman's murder shows similarities to a decade-old cold case, a new police commander must break the silence permeating an Owl Mountain town.

Average Episode Run Time: 50` . Year(s): 2018 - 2020

Director: Jakub Miszczak , Marcin Ziębiński

Stars: Andrzej Konopka , Helena Sujecka , Andrzej Mastalerz , Michał Czernecki , Magdalena Żak , Mirosław Kropielnicki

Second chance (2015 - 2018)

7.4 /10

The main character is Monika Borecka, TV producer and manager. She is a modern woman of success - strong, attractive, hard-working and self-confident. Seemingly, she's leading a perfect life: she's on the peak of her career, makes money, and has a handsome partner. She loves living in a big city, she is always updated with news. Monika is ambitious and creative. In the world of show-business, she feels like a duck in water. She's going to celebrate her 40th birthday with beloved ones. Suddenly...she loses everything. Without job, friends, rejected by the world of show-biz which was her entire world. Arrested and convicted to social services in hospital. Monika, for the first time in her life is left on the own. Betrayed, humiliated, disillusioned and without hope. Monika faces many problems to find the answer for a question: what is the most important thing in life? Is she able to struggle with hardships of life? How to use a second chance, which is given us by lock to find our true destiny? The series also shows scenes of show business and reveals to the audience the mechanisms governing the world.

Average Episode Run Time: 45` . Year(s): 2015 - 2018

Director: Łukasz Kośmicki , Michał Gazda , Tomasz Szafrański

Stars: Małgorzata Kożuchowska , Katarzyna Herman , Monica Mariotti , Magdalena Berus , Maciej Musiałowski , Wojciech Mecwaldowski

The Defence (2018 - 2022)

0 /10

Three-year-old Nikola Szlezyngier disappears in unexplained circumstances and her parents Angelika and Dawid are the main suspects. Angelika contacts an old friend Joanna Chylka, a brilliant, cynical and successful lawyer to help. With her new apprentice Kordian, Joanna will try to bring the case to a happy close.

Average Episode Run Time: 45` . Year(s): 2018 - 2022

Director: Łukasz Palkowski , Marek Wróbel

Producer: Violetta Furmaniuk-Zaorska , Dorota Chamczyk , Iwo Marciniak

Stars: Magdalena Cielecka , Filip Pławiak , Piotr Żurawski , Jakub Gierszał , Szymon Piotr Warszawski , Artur Żmijewski

Dekalog (1989 - 1990)

9 /10

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.

Average Episode Run Time: 59` . Year(s): 1989 - 1990

Director: Krzysztof Piesiewicz , Krzysztof Kieślowski

Producer: Ryszard Chutkowski , Dariusz Jabłoński

Stars: Olgierd Łukaszewicz , Krzysztof Globisz , Jan Piechociński , Marek Kasprzyk , Maria Gładkowska , Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak

Sexify (2021 - 2023)

0 /10

To build an innovative sex app and win a tech competition, a sexually inexperienced student and her friends must explore the daunting world of intimacy.

Average Episode Run Time: 41` . Year(s): 2021 - 2023

Director: Kalina Alabrudzińska , Jan Kwieciński , Malgorzata Suwala

Stars: Aleksandra Skraba , Sandra Drzymalska , Maria Sobocińska , Zbigniew Zamachowski , Jacek Lenartowicz , Małgorzata Foremniak

Days of Honor (2008 - 2013)

6.8 /10

Days of honor is a Polish World War II television drama series, broadcast on TVP2 since September 7, 2008.

Average Episode Run Time: 50` . Year(s): 2008 - 2013

Director: Michał Rogalski , Grzegorz Kuczeriszka , Waldemar Krzystek

Stars: Jan Wieczorkowski , Jakub Wesołowski , Maciej Zakościelny , Katarzyna Gniewkowska , Ewa Wencel , Magdalena Różczka