Search results for "Roman Polański"
The Palace

The Palace

The Palace
IMDb: 5.4
100

A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
An Officer and a Spy

An Officer and a Spy

An Officer and a Spy
IMDb: 7.2
132

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil’s Island.

Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden
IMDb: 7.2
103

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

Carnage

Carnage

Carnage
IMDb: 7.2
80

After 11-year-old Zachary Cowan strikes his classmate across the face with a stick after an argument, the victim’s parents invite Zachary’s parents to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Pianist

The Pianist

The Pianist
IMDb: 8.5
150

The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman’s experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing…

Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon

Bitter Moon
IMDb: 7.2
139

An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot….

Frantic

Frantic

Frantic
IMDb: 6.9
120

Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant,…

Chinatown

Chinatown

Chinatown
IMDb: 8.2
130

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband’s extra-marital affair, Gittes…

Pirates

Pirates

Pirates
IMDb: 6.1
124

Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon,…

Macbeth

Macbeth

Macbeth
IMDb: 7.5
140

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord siezes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist
IMDb: 6.9
130

Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Family
Dance of the Vampires

Dance of the Vampires

Dance of the Vampires
IMDb: 7.2
108

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

Genre: Comedy, Horror
Repulsion

Repulsion

Repulsion
IMDb: 7.8
105

In Roman Polanski’s first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat…

La Vénus à la fourrure

La Vénus à la fourrure

La Vénus à la fourrure
IMDb: 7.2
96

An enigmatic actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer’s (Mathieu Amalric) play.

Genre: Drama
The Ghost Writer

The Ghost Writer

The Ghost Writer
IMDb: 7.2
128

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician’s assistant drowns…

The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate
IMDb: 6.7
133

An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, ‘The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom’ brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing…

Tess

Tess

Tess
IMDb: 7.3
171

This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Knife in the Water

Knife in the Water

Knife in the Water
IMDb: 7.6
94

On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
What?

What?

What?
IMDb: 5.8
114

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right.

Genre: Comedy
Rosemary’s Baby

Rosemary’s Baby

Rosemary’s Baby
IMDb: 8.0
136

A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn’t safe around their…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Cul-De-Sac

Cul-De-Sac

Cul-De-Sac
IMDb: 7.2
113

A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling…

The Tenant

The Tenant

The Tenant
IMDb: 7.8
125

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him…