Jerzy Skolimowski

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Dir. David Cronenberg · With Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel

On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz

London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.

Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski · With Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

Dir. Taylor Hackford · With Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski · With Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt

A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski · With Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, David L. Price

The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.

Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski · With Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.

Dir. Roberto Andò · With Micaela Ramazzotti, Renato Carpentieri, Laura Morante

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.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant, John Cleese