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6.8

♡ 54

61%

63%

Roman Polanski Director

Ophelia Lovibond as Bet

Ben Kingsley as Fagin

Mark Strong as Toby Crackit

Richard Durden as Unkind Board Member

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.

Death and the Maiden

1994

7.2

♡ 30

84%

81%

based on play or musical

Roman Polanski Director

Ben Kingsley as Dr. Roberto Miranda

Karen Strassman as Elena Galvin

Stuart Wilson as Gerardo Escobar

Sigourney Weaver as Paulina Escobar

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

When Angels Fall

1959

Polish

6.8

♡ 4

Roman Polanski Director

Henryk Kluba as

Barbara Lass as (as Barbara Kwiatkowski)

Roman Polanski as Old woman

Andrzej Kostenko as (uncredited)

The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.

Le gros et le maigre

1961

6.2

♡ 2

Comedy

Music

Roman Polanski Director

André Katelbach as The fat

Roman Polanski as The lean

A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps like a madman, wipes his master's brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella and holds a urinal for him.

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

1964

5.6

♡ 5

Comedy

Crime

Roman Polanski Director

Charles Denner as Counterfeiter

Mie Hama as Geisha

Jean Seberg as Patricia Leacock

Catherine Deneuve as Swindler

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

Bitter Moon

1992

7.2

♡ 49

63%

Roman Polanski Director

Stockard Channing as Beverly

Kristin Scott Thomas as Fiona

Hugh Grant as Nigel

Peter Coyote as Oscar

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

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967

7.0

♡ 27

73%

Roman Polanski Director

Vladek Sheybal as Herbert

Sharon Tate as Sarah Shagal

Alfie Bass as Shagal, the Inn-Keeper

Ronald Lacey as Village Idiot

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

The Ninth Gate

1999

6.7

♡ 130

44%

Roman Polanski Director

Rebecca Pauly as Daughter-In-Law

Johnny Depp as Dean Corso

Lena Olin as Liana Telfer

Allen Garfield as Witkin

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.

Venus in Fur

2013

7.1

♡ 15

88%

Roman Polanski Director

Mathieu Amalric as Thomas

Emmanuelle Seigner as Vanda

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

The Ghost Writer

2010

7.2

♡ 75

84%

70%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Roman Polanski Director

Pierce Brosnan as Adam Lang

Robert Pugh as Richard Rycart

Jon Bernthal as Rick Ricardelli

Ewan McGregor as The Ghost

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.

Pirates

1986

6.0

♡ 25

27%

Roman Polanski Director

Roy Kinnear as Dutch

Daniel Emilfork as Hendrik

Richard Pearson as Padre

Michael Elphick as Sentry

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

The Tenant

1976

7.5

♡ 40

84%

Roman Polanski Director

Melvyn Douglas as Monsieur Zy

Albert Delpy as Neighbor

Bernard Fresson as Scope

Isabelle Adjani as Stella

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

An Officer and a Spy

2019

7.2

♡ 28

78%

83%

based on a true story

Roman Polanski Director

Christophe Maratier as Adjudant dégradation

Louis Garrel as Alfred Dreyfus

Nicolas de Lavergne as Auguste Dutrieux

Jean Dujardin as Picquart

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

The Pianist

2002

8.5

♡ 411

95%

Roman Polanski Director

Axel Prahl as German Soldier - Rummage Bags

Cezary Kosinski as Lednicki

Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman

Joanna Brodzik as Woman Shot in the Head

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.

Chinatown

1974

8.1

♡ 178

98%

Roman Polanski Director

Noble Willingham as Councilman

Perry Lopez as Escobar

Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Mulwray

Roy Jenson as Mulvihill

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.

Frantic

1988

husband wife relationship

6.8

♡ 59

77%

Roman Polanski Director

Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Walker

Angela Featherstone as Extra

Bruce Johnson as Marine Guard

David Huddleston as Peter

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.

Carnage

2011

7.1

♡ 73

71%

66%

based on play or musical

Roman Polanski Director

Christoph Waltz as Alan Cowan

John C. Reilly as Michael Longstreet

Kate Winslet as Nancy Cowan

Jodie Foster as Penelope Longstreet

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.

Tess

1979

7.3

♡ 25

81%

77%

Roman Polanski Director

Peter Firth as Angel Clare

Patsy Smart as Housekeeper

Nastassja Kinski as Tess

Richard Pearson as Vicar of Marlott

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.

Macbeth

1971

7.4

♡ 26

78%

73%

11th century