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Year |
Class |
Time |
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A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful soci...
Chinatown (1974)
Roman Polanski
Faye Dunaway,Burt Young,John Hillerman,John Huston,Perry Lopez,Jack Nicholson
Drama,Crime,General Thriller,Mystery,Suspense & Thriller,Action & Adventure
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1974 |
M |
125 min |
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Sit back and enjoy this lavish and bawdy tale of adventure on the high seas. Directed by acclaimed film-maker Roman Polanski, the Academy Award nominated PIRATES is the tale of the infamous British buccaneer Pirate Red (Walter Matthau). Red and his first ...
Pirates (1986)
Roman Polanski
Damien Thomas,Richard Pearson,Olu Jacobs,Walter Matthau
General Adventure,General Action,Action & Adventure
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1986 |
PG |
124 min |
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Harrison Ford and filmmaker Roman Polanski count thrillers among their best work. Frantic teams, USA Today's Mike Clark wrote, "an imaginatively cast superstar and the greatest living suspense director in fine form." Ford plays an American d...
Frantic (1988)
Roman Polanski
Emmanuelle Seigner,Betty Buckley,John Mahoney,Harrison Ford
Suspense & Thriller,Crime,General Thriller,Drama,Action & Adventure
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1988 |
M |
115 min |
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Possibly the best horror film ever made, this brilliant adaptation of Ira Lervin's best-selling novel is the story of a loving young New York City couple who are expecting their first child. Like most first-time mothers, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) experiences ...
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Roman Polanski
Maurice Evans,Mia Farrow,Ralph Bellamy,John Cassavetes,Sidney Blackmore,Charles Grodin,Ruth Gordon
Horror, Romance, Sci-fi, Suspense & Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, General Thriller, General Romance, General Horror
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1968 |
M |
131 min |
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Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and winner of 3 The Pianist stars Oscar winner Adrien Brody in the true-life story of brilliant pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the most acclaimed young musician of his time until his promis...
The Pianist (2002)
Roman Polanski
Frank Finlay,julia Rayner,Ed Stoppard,Thomas Kretschmann,Jessica Kate Meyer,Maureen Lipman,Emma Fox,Adrien Brody
Drama,General Drama,Military & War,Action & Adventure
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2002 |
MA |
142 min |
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Repulsion marked Polanski's move from predominantly Absurdist influences to an aesthetic more closely related to Surrealism and psychoanalysis. Filmed in England in 1965, it was co-written by Roman Polanksi and long time collaborator Gerard Brach. The fil...
Repulsion (1965)
Roman Polanski
Yvonne Furneaux,Patrick Wymark,John Fraser,Ian Hendry,Catherine Deneuve
General Horror,General Drama,General Thriller,Suspense & Thriller,Horror,Drama
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1965 |
M |
105 min |
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Described by Polanski himself as his best film, Cul-de-Sac draws heavily on the traditions of the Theatre of the Absurd and echoes of Beckett?s Waiting for Godot in both it?s themes and visual style. George (Donald Pleasence) and Teresa's (Francoise Dorle...
Cul De Sac (1966)
Roman Polanski
Lionel Stander,Geoffrey Summer,Francoise Dorleac,Renne Houston,Iain Quarrier,Jack MacGowran,Donald Pleasence,Jacqueline Bisset
General Drama,General Thriller,Suspense & Thriller,Drama
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1966 |
M |
107 min |
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A married couple on their way to a sailing weekend invite a young hitchhiker to join thenm. In the confined space of the small yacht, macho rivalry and sexual tension soon turn to hostility and eventually violence....
Knife in the Water (1962)
Roman Polanski
Jolanta Umecka,Leon Niemczyk,Zygmunt Malanowicz
General Drama,Drama
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1962 |
G |
94 min |
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An apartment with an unhappy past, in a building filled with faintly sinister residents, sets the stage for filmmaker Roman Polanski's riveting thriller THE TENANT. Polanski plays Trelkovsky, a quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life becomes incr...
The Tenant (1976)
Roman Polanski
Melvyn Douglas,Bernard Fresson,Lila Kedrova,Jo Van Fleet,Isabelle Adjani,Shelley Winters
Mystery,Psychological,General Thriller,General Horror,General Suspense,Suspense & Thriller,Horror
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1976 |
M |
120 min |
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Directed by recently exiled Polish-American director Roman Polanski, this lushly photographed Franco-British production of the Thomas Hardy novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, is a stunning portrayal of an innocent adrift in a hostile, chaotic world that ea...
Tess (1979)
Roman Polanski
Peter Firth,John Collin,carolyn Pickles,Leigh Lawson,Nastassja Kinski
Romantic Drama,General Drama,General Romance,Romance,Drama
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1979 |
PG |
165 min |
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