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Rosemary's Baby ( Blu-ray ) (1968)
8/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: John Cassavetes, Mia Farrow, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Mauric...
Horrifying and darkly comic, "Rosemarys Baby" was Roman Polanski's Hollywood debut. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira L... Read more
The Ninth Gate (1999)
6.7/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Johnny Depp, Barbara Jefford, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner
In Roman Polanksi's haunting thriller, Johnny Depp is a rare book dealer hired by wealthy collector Frank Langella, owner of a strange 17th century oc... Read more
The Ghost Writer (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: David Rintoul, Eli Wallach, Ewan McGregor, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Pierce...
Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan star in this thriller that was co-written and directed by Roman Polanski. The film is based on Robert Harris' novel T... Read more
Chinatown ( Blu-ray ) (1974)
8.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Burt Young, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Huston, John Hillerman, Perry Lop...
Roman Polanski's classic detective yarn sees murder and scandal emerge from the drought of 1930s Southern California. Private Eye Jake Gittes (Jack Ni... Read more
Pirates (1986)
6.1/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Walter Matthau, Richard Pearson, Damien Thomas, Cris Campion, Charlotte Lewis, R...
Comic-adventure film about buccaneers who take on a Spanish galleon filled with Aztec gold. Polanski is said to have spent $30 million on the film, of... Read more
Death and the Maiden (1995)
7.3/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson
Roman Polanski's intense film of Ariel Dorfman's play stars Sigourney Weaver as a South American woman who believes that her lawyer husband's associat... Read more
Knife in the Water (1962)
7.6/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
An absorbing drama that grows out of the tensions created when a couple off for a sailing weekend pick up a student hitchhiker. Polanski's first featu... Read more
Repulsion (1965)
7.8/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Renee Houston, Patrick Wymark, Yvonn...
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough "Knife in the Water" with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve... Read more
Tess (1979)
7.3/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: John Bett, Peter Firth, Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson
Winner of three Academy Awards, Polanski's interpretation of Thomas Hardy's novel is a beautiful and timeless masterwork destined to be a classic. Nas... Read more
Chinatown (1974)
8.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, John Huston, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Burt You...
Roman Polanski's classic detective yarn sees murder and scandal emerge from the drought of 1930s Southern California. Private Eye Jake Gittes (Jack Ni... Read more
Cul-de-sac (1966)
7.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stander, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Mac...
A distinctly macabre comedy/thriller in which two gangsters (Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran) are on the run, and seek refuge at an island castle of... Read more
Macbeth (Polanski) (1971)
6.6/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw
Aka "The Tragedy of Macbeth". Roman Polanski's violent retelling of Shakespeare's story of the Scottish war hero, prompted by supernatural prophecy an... Read more
The Pianist (2002)
8.5/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Roman Polanski directs this award-winning testament to the power of the human spirit, based on the true-life story... Read more
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
8/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: John Cassavetes, Mia Farrow, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Mauric...
Horrifying and darkly comic, "Rosemarys Baby" was Roman Polanski's Hollywood debut. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira L... Read more
Roman Polanski Collection: Knife in the Water / Repulsion / Cul-de-Sac (1962)
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Donald Pleasence, Francoise Dorleac, Ian Hendry, Jolanta Umec...
'Knife in the Water' (90 mins): An absorbing drama that grows out of the tensions created when a couple off for a sailing weekend pick up a student hi... Read more
The Tenant (1976)
7.7/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters
Polanski's most autobiographical film is, like "Repulsion", a journey through the distorted realm of the human mind. Polanski himself plays Trelkovsky... Read more
Bitter Moon (1992)
7.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Peter Coyote, Victor Baner...
Roman Polanski's ultra-kinky drama centers on the bizarre interaction of four passengers on an ocean liner bound for India. A repressed British couple... Read more
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
7.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Alfie Bass, Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate
AKA: 'Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck' or 'Dance of the Vampires'. Polanski's near brilliant mixture of humour and horror. Professor Abronsiu... Read more
Frantic (1988)
6.9/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney
Roman Polanski directs this thriller set in Paris, which finds Harrison Ford more than reasonably concerned when his wife Betty Buckley disappears. A... Read more
Oliver Twist (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Barney Clark, Harry Eden, Jamie Foreman, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift, Edward Hard...
A dynamic, though faithful interpretation of one of Dicken's best-loved stories is Polanski's follow-up to his Oscar-winning, 'The Pianist'. Barney C... Read more
Venus in Fur (2013)
7.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric
Welcome to Roman Polanskis hall of mirrors. David Ive's play Venus in Fur is a two-hander, set in a theatre, about a director auditioning an actress... Read more
Carnage (2011)
7.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jodie Foster, John C Reilly, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz
After a playground scuffle between two boys results in one losing some teeth, the injured lad's parents (Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly) invite the othe... Read more
Cul-de-sac (Blu-ray) (1966)
7/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stander, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Mac...
A distinctly macabre comedy/thriller in which two gangsters (Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran) are on the run, and seek refuge at an island castle of... Read more
Chacun Son Cinema ( To Each His Own Cinema ) (2007)
6.8/10
Director: Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou
Starring: Georges Babluani, Josh Brolin, Farini Cheung, David Cronenberg, Emilie Dequenne,...
33 renowned directors from around the world (many of them Palme d'Or winners) contributed to this anthology of short films to commemmorate the 60th an... Read more