Roman Polanski

The true story of pianist Władysław 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 in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay

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 is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon

A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz

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 in a mysterious accident.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall

Famous writer Onoff is now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.

Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Sergio Rubini

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser

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

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass

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

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner

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

On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Lionel Stander, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac

An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric

Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw

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

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson

After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop them. Once more, Lee and Carter must fight their way through dangerous gangsters; however, this time, the past has come back to haunt Lee. Will the boys get the job done once and for all?

Dir. Brett Ratner · With Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada

The wife of an American doctor 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, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

Dir. Michael Cimino, Luc Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Chen Kaige, Manoel de Oliveira, Bille August, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Walter Salles, Tsai Ming-liang, Theo Angelopoulos, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Olivier Assayas, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Roman Polanski, Gus Van Sant, Abbas Kiarostami, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Jane Campion, Raymond Depardon, Amos Gitai, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Elia Suleiman, Aki Kaurismäki, Raúl Ruiz, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, Youssef Chahine, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Zhang Yimou · With Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

Dir. Paul Morrissey · With Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Vittorio De Sica

Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place, paralyzed by the idea of having to start writing again, she meets Elle, a young, attractive, intelligent, intuitive woman who seems to understand her better than anyone.

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green, Vincent Perez

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

Dir. Roman Polanski · With Marcello Mastroianni, Sydne Rome, Hugh Griffith

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