Nóz w wodzie / Knife in the Water (1962)
Drama | Thriller
On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.
Starring: Zygmunt Malanowicz, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Roman Polanski
Director: Roman Polanski
Death and the Maiden (1994)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Krystia Mova, Jonathan Vega, Rodolphe Vega
Director: Roman Polanski
Le locataire / The Tenant (1976)
Drama | Thriller
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters, Lila Kedrova, Jo Van Fleet
Director: Roman Polanski
Che? / What? (1972)
Comedy
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right. Her visit becomes an absurd, decadent, oversexed version of "Alice in Wonderland", with Marcello Mastroianni as the maddest of mad hatters and Roman Polanski a kinky March hare.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith, Sydne Rome, Roman Polanski
Director: Roman Polanski
Chinatown (1974)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Set in drought-ridden '30s L.A., a divorce specializing private detective gets his nose rearranged after sticking it into the connivings of a family-loving mogul and his mysterious daughter.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling
Director: Roman Polanski
The Tragedy of Macbeth / Macbeth (1971)
Drama | History | War
In Roman Polanski's bloody and disturbing adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Jon Finch plays the Scottish nobleman who is persuaded to usurp the kingship by three prophesying witches and his ambitious wife. As one murder follows another, his own doom beckons.
Starring: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, Nicholas Selby, Richard Pearson
Director: Roman Polanski
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Mystery | Thriller
After his predecessor perishes under mysterious circumstances, a ghostwriter agrees to help a former British prime minister finish his memoirs, but the author but finds himself in danger when he uncovers a web of secrets and corruption.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jon Bernthal, Kim Cattrall, Pierce Brosnan, James Belushi, Olivia Williams
Director: Roman Polanski
Venus in Fur / La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)
Drama
An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.
Starring: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric
Director: Roman Polanski
Bitter Moon (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Nigel Dobson is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona. On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar, in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi.
Starring: Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Roman Polanski
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Drama | Horror | Mystery
A young couple move into a new apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins controlling her life.
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Patsy Kelly
Director: Roman Polanski
Cul-de-sac (1966)
Comedy | Drama | Thriller
A retired businessman and his young, vivacious wife are living quietly on small British Island until two gangsters on the run stumble into their home and into their lives.
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, Iain Quarrier
Director: Roman Polanski
Tess (1979)
Drama | Romance
Peasant girl Tess Durbeyfield is sent to live with the wealthy d'Urbervilles by her father after he learns that they are distantly related. However, the d'Urbervilles are not relatives, they're just a family that bought the noble line's name.
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin, Tony Church
Director: Roman Polanski
Oliver Twist (2005)
Crime | Drama | Family
Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist is forced to live in a workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr. Bumble, who cheats the boys of their meager rations. Desperate yet determined, Oliver makes his escape to the streets of London. Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the sinister Fagin — the mastermind of a gang of pint-sized pickpockets. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr. Brownlow is only the beginning of a series of adventures that lead him to the promise of a better life.
Starring: Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift, Jamie Foreman, Edward Hardwicke, Mark Strong
Director: Roman Polanski
Niewinni czarodzieje / Innocent Sorcerers (1960)
Drama | Music | Romance
A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her .
Starring: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczeska, Kalina Jedrusik, Teresa Szmigielówna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Roman Polanski, Andrzej Nowakowski
Director: Andrzej Wajda
The Fearless Vampire Killers / Dance of the Vampires (1967)
Comedy | Horror
The elderly bat researcher, professor Abronsius and his assistant, Alfred, go to a remote Transylvanian village looking for vampires. Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper's young daughter Sarah. However, she has been spotted by the mysterious count Krolock who lives in a dark and creepy castle outside the village…
Starring: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins, Sharon Tate, Ferdy Mayne, Iain Quarrier
Director: Roman Polanski
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The Pianist (2002)
Biography | Drama | War
An adaptation based on the autobiography of the acclaimed Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who detailed his survival during World War II, and narrowly escaped a roundup that sent his family to a death camp. A composer and pianist, Szpilman played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. There, in Poland, Szpilman struggled to stay alive–even when cast away from those he loved. He spent the duration of the war hiding in the ruins of Warsaw and scavenging for food and shelter. Szpilman eventually reclaimed his artistic gifts, and confronted his fears–with aid from the unlikeliest of sources.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard
Director: Roman Polanski
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Dean Corso is highly skilled at his work, a position which requires dexterity, cultural expertise, nerves of steel… and few scruples. Known for locating rare books for wealthy collectors, Corso is hired by eminent book-lover and scholar of demonology, Boris Balkan. Corson's mission: to find the last two volumes of legendary manual of satanic invocation "The Ninth Gates of the Shadow Kingdom," compare them Balkan's first volume, supposedly the only one of its kind, and ascertain the authenticity of the series. Corso accepts the challenge. From New York to Toledo, Paris to Cintra, he immerses himself in a labyrinth full of pitfalls and temptations, disturbing encounters, violence and mysterious deaths. Protected by an angelic creature and guided by a force more powerful than himself, Corso solves one by one the mysteries of the dreaded Book and discovers the real purpose of his mission.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford
Director: Roman Polanski
Frantic (1988)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Richard Walker is heart surgeon from the U.S. vacationing in Paris with his wife. She suddenly disappears and he decides to report the incident. But neither the French police nor the US embassy offer much help or even appear particularly interested in his dilemma. Desperate, Walker decides to embark on an investigation himself, aided by Michelle, a carefree, seductive gamine who is also mixed up in the case, as he discovers after tracing back to her a mysterious piece of switched luggage that he suspects his wife's kidnappers are after.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Roman Polanski
Carnage (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Two sets of parents meet to discuss their sons' involvement in a schoolyard fight. The meeting quickly becomes an argument in which the parents attack each other's parenting skills and expose problems in their marriages.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Director: Roman Polanski
Repulsion (1965)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis, starring Catherine Deneuve as Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, Carol is haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent pitch. Thanks to its unforgettable attention to disturbing detail and Polanski's unparalleled adeptness at turning claustrophobic space into an emotional minefield, Repulsion remains one of cinema's most shocking psychological thrillers.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Patrick Wymark, Yvonne Furneaux
Director: Roman Polanski
