Movies by Roman Polanski
As part of the cast:
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A Special Day (2012)
Cast: Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen …
Directed by: Gilles Jacob
On Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary, 34 acclaimed filmmakers were invited to present their complete bodies of work. Everyone from Gus van Sant to Roman Polanski, Jane Campion and…
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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2011)
Cast: Roman Polanski
Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau
Filmed while Roman Polanski was under house arrest in Switzerland, this intimate documentary relates the struggles and triumphs of the director's life. Produced by colleague Andrew…
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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
Cast: Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer, Robert Towne …
Directed by: Marina Zenovich
This penetrating documentary explores the tumultuous events of director Roman Polanski's personal life, including the murder of his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and the controversial sex…
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Rush Hour 3 (2007)
Cast: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Vinnie Jones …
Directed by: Brett Ratner
Quick-fisted Det. Lee and loudmouthed Det. Carter team up again and head to Paris to protect a tattooed Frenchwoman who knows too much about an assassination plot. Along the way, Lee…
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Revenge (2002)
Cast: Janusz Gajos, Andrzej Seweryn, Roman Polanski …
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
Adapted from a classic stage farce by Aleksander Fredro, this lighthearted tale follows a pair of 17th-century patrician families who, because of their falling fortunes, are forced to share a…
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Dead Tired (1994)
Cast: Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret …
Directed by: Michel Blanc
What happens when a major movie star (Michel Blanc) discovers one day that his life and work have been co-opted by someone else entirely -- someone who looks exactly like him? Blanc also…
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The Tenant (1976)
Cast: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski stars as Trelkovsky, a timid file clerk who moves into a run-down apartment with a disturbing history: The previous occupant jumped to her death from the dismal room's…
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Chinatown (1974)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
With a suspicious, porcelain-skinned femme fatale (Faye Dunaway) bankrolling his snooping, private eye J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) uncovers intricate dirty dealings in the Los Angeles…
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Blood for Dracula (1974)
Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Arno Juerging …
Directed by: Antonio Margheriti, Paul Morrissey
Paul Morrissey directs and Udo Kier stars (as the Count) in Andy Warhol's high-camp adaptation of the timeless Dracula tale. When the blood supply in Romania dries up, the ever-thirsty…
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The Magic Christian (1969)
Cast: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans …
Directed by: Joseph McGrath
In this adaptation of Terry Southern's offbeat novel, an eccentric millionaire stumbles upon a down-and-out vagrant in the park and decides to adopt him as his son. The pair embark on a…
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The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Cast: Roman Polanski, Jack MacGowran, Alfie Bass …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Professor Ambronsius (Jack MacGowran), an eccentric old academic, and his bumbling assistant, Alfred (Roman Polanski, who also directs), travel to a Transylvanian town that's been…
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Innocent Sorcerers (1960)
Cast: Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Tadeusz Lomnicki …
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
In this cynical masterpiece of disaffected Polish youth, a world-weary playboy doctor (Tadeusz Lomnicki) tires of his endless parade of one-night stands and seeks more substance in his life.…
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A Generation (1955)
Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Janusz Paluszkiewicz, Urszula Modrzynska …
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda
While apprenticing for a woodworker in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, young Stach (Tadeusz Lomnicki) befriends the older Sekula (Janusz Paluszkiewicz), a Communist organizer who introduces the teen to…
As a director:
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Carnage (2011)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
In this comic drama from director Roman Polanski, two sets of parents meet in the aftermath of an incident in which one of their children bullied the other. As the evening progresses, the…
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The Ghost Writer (2010)
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
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…
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Oliver Twist (2005)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Jamie Foreman …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
In this faithful retelling of the Charles Dickens classic, doe-eyed orphan Oliver Twist finds a surrogate family of sorts after he flees the confines of a grimy workhouse to live among…
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The Pianist (2002)
Cast: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Famed Polish concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody, in an Oscar-winning role) struggles to survive the onslaught of Nazi tyranny during World War II in this Roman Polanski-directed…
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The Ninth Gate (1999)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
An international search for a rare copy of a demonic tome, "The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom," brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and Satanic…
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Death and the Maiden (1994)
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Paulina Escobar (Sigourney Weaver) is a former political activist and torture victim. Her husband, Gerardo (Stuart Wilson), has just been appointed to head a commission on human rights…
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Bitter Moon (1992)
Cast: Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Uptight British couple Nigel and Fiona encounter American expatriate Oscar and his wife, Mimi, on a cruise. Sensing Nigel's fascination with Mimi, Oscar recounts the tale of their love…
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Frantic (1988)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Several years into his exile from Hollywood, director Roman Polanski hits his stride again with this dread-filled suspense thriller. Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Sondra…
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Tess (1979)
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
In a star-making performance, Nastassja Kinski plays the title character, an impoverished country girl sent to live with distant relatives at their palatial estate -- where the family's…
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The Tenant (1976)
Cast: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski stars as Trelkovsky, a timid file clerk who moves into a run-down apartment with a disturbing history: The previous occupant jumped to her death from the dismal room's…
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Chinatown (1974)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
With a suspicious, porcelain-skinned femme fatale (Faye Dunaway) bankrolling his snooping, private eye J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) uncovers intricate dirty dealings in the Los Angeles…
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Macbeth (1971)
Cast: Jon Finch, Martin Shaw, Nicholas Selby …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Jon Finch stars as the Thane of Cawdor -- and Francesca Annis matches him step for conniving step as the scheming Lady Macbeth -- in director Roman Polanski's evocative 1971 adaptation…
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Cast: Ralph Bellamy, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow), the young wife of a struggling actor (John Cassavetes), is thrilled to find out she's pregnant. But the larger her belly grows, the more certain she…
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The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Cast: Roman Polanski, Jack MacGowran, Alfie Bass …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Professor Ambronsius (Jack MacGowran), an eccentric old academic, and his bumbling assistant, Alfred (Roman Polanski, who also directs), travel to a Transylvanian town that's been…
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Cul-De-Sac (1966)
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski directs this tense, dark comedic thriller about two wounded criminals, Dickie (Lionel Stander) and Albie (Jack MacGowran), who hole up at a secluded seaside castle belonging to…
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Repulsion (1965)
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski directs this truly chilling film that tracks the descent into madness of a fragile, sexually confused beauty parlor worker named Carol (Catherine Deneuve) who succumbs to…
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Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Michele Marcier, Anna Karina …
Directed by: Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Roman Polanski …
Four short caper stories set in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Paris and Naples -- including entries from Jean-Luc Godard and Roman Polanski -- depict a gallery of female temptresses working their charms…
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Knife in the Water (1962)
Cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Director Roman Polanski ratchets up the suspense with a story that takes place almost entirely within the confined setting of a sailboat owned by a wealthy journalist and his much younger…