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  • Polanski: The Highs and Lows - 30 January 2012
    auto; } .title_frame_copy p{ margin-bottom:0; } .fleft{ width:600px; float:left; } - - -Here he comes again: Roman Polanski has a new film out this week, and although he hasn’t set foot in the United States since he fled from a prison term on ch


  • Winslet thrilled to star in Polanski movie - 2 September 2011
    -Kate Winslet jumped at the chance to star in Roman Polanski's new comedy Carnage - because she's always been a fan of the legendary director.-The movie, based on the hit Broadway play God of Carnage, stars Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz as tw


  • Polanski shuns Venice Film Festival - 1 September 2011
    -Roman Polanski has turned down an invitation to the Venice Film Festival, where his new movie Carnage will have its world premiere.-The moviemaker worked on the script for Carnage, an adaptation of the comedy play God of Carnage, during his house arrest in Switzerland

Roman Polanski - what members say


  • Frantic
  • Frantic review by from LONDON
    Rated - 3.0 stars 24 December 2003
    ...becomes quite baffling. Nonetheless Frantic marks a major return to form for Roman Polanski, who only made one other film during his eighties exile, after major triumphs i...   Read customer review
  • Chinatown
  • Chinatown review by from Beds
    Rated - 2.0 stars What's so special about it 19 July 2004
    ...I don't think I've ever seen a 'good' Roman Polanski film; but this is probably the closest. It's a watchable Chandleresque detective story but I'm genuinely puzzled why it's...   Read customer review
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Rosemary's Baby review by from Milton Keynes, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Watch this, you won't regret it. 13 April 2004
    ...Quite simply, they don't make them like this anymore. Roman Polanski achieves what many modern day horror film makers don't. A sense of tension that grips you from start to f...   Read customer review

Roman Polanski - filmography


  • Carnage (2011)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Kate Winslet,  Christoph Waltz
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A drama follows the story of two couples (Foster and Reilly, Winslet and Waltz) who come together one evening to discuss the behaviour of their children, only for things to quickly become heated... Carnage is based on Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning drama.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 92 members
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  • Carnage - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Kate Winslet,  Christoph Waltz
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A drama follows the story of two couples (Foster and Reilly, Winslet and Waltz) who come together one evening to discuss the behaviour of their children, only for things to quickly become heated... Carnage is based on Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning drama.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 13 members
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  • Rush Hour 3 on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jackie Chan,  Chris Tucker,  Vinnie Jones
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    While in Paris, Chief Inspector Lee's (Jackie Chan) latest assignment is to escort and to protect Chinese Ambassador Han as he delivers a major address before the World Criminal Court Summit in Los Angeles. While delivering his announcement, he is shot and nearly killed. Meanwhile, former LAPD ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 30,926 members
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  • Oliver Twist (2005)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Jamie Foreman,  Barney Clark
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Acclaimed director Roman Polanski turns a dark eye toward the classic Charles Dickens novel OLIVER TWIST, about a charming orphan boy (Barney Clark) whose life seems to depend solely on the whims of fate. Abandoned early in life, Oliver first seems doomed to life in a workhouse, where he is farmed ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 18,720 members
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  • The Pianist on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living in Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 47,147 members
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  • The Pianist - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 1,285 member
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  • The Pianist - HD (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 614 members
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  • The Ninth Gate on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Lena Olin,  Frank Langella
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on a novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte (THE CLUB DUMAS) and coscripted by director Roman Polanski, THE NINTH GATE was Polanski's first feature after a long break following the release of 1995's DEATH AND THE MAIDEN--in between, there was an aborted project that faltered when designated star John ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 10,097 members
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  • A Pure Formality (1994)
    Starring: Gerard Depardieu,  Roman Polanski
    Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two legendary screen talents go head-to-head in this intriguing, utterly original psychological thriller, described by one critic as "Colombo meets Kafka." Gerard Depardieu stars as Onaff, a famed French novelist who is arrested in a small provincial town when he is found breathless and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 612 members
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  • Back In The USSR on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Frank Whaley,  Natalya Negoda,  Roman Polanski
    Director: Deran Sarafian
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a young American in Moscow meets a sultry beauty with an attitude, his Russian tour turns unexpectedly chaotic. Apparently, the beauty has stolen a priceless work of art, and as events spin out of control, the tourist finds himself without a passport, accused of murder, hunted by police, and ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 99 members
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  • Bitter Moon on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Peter Coyote,  Emmanuelle Seigner,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    On a cruise to Istanbul in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,265 members
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  • Frantic on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Betty Buckley,  John Mahoney
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Following the disastrous Pirates (1986), director Roman Polanski got back on creative track with this finely-wrought thriller that, while failing to impress at the box office, was nevertheless his most critically well-received film of the decade. Harrison Ford stars as Richard Walker, an American ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,912 members
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  • Pirates (1986)
    Starring: Walter Matthau,  Charlotte Lewis,  David Kelly
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Pirates follows the high seas adventures of the infamous British buccaneer pirate Red. Red and his first mate are shipwrecked and set adrift on a makeshift raft. On the verge of starvation, fate puts them in the path of a grand Spanish galleon, whose cargo includes the legendary Capatiec Hanoccac, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 119 members
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  • Tess on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Nastassja Kinski,  Peter Firth,  Leigh Lawson
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on Thomas Hardy's tragic 1891 novel TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, TESS follows the hard life of a beautiful young Wessex peasant girl, who seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives. Tess's tragic fate is sealed the moment the manipulative ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,719 member
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  • The Tenant on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Roman Polanski,  Isabelle Adjani,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors -- mostly old recluses -- eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,132 members
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  • Chinatown on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Faye Dunaway,  John Huston
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Roman Polanski's neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) runs a detective agency specializing in matrimonial strife and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 27,492 members
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  • What? on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Sydney Rome,  Marcello Mastroianni,  Hugh Griffith
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    More than three decades after its controversial release, it remains the most butchered, debated and least-seen film of the Oscar-winning director's entire career. What?, a surreal comedy based loosely on the story of Alice In Wonderland, follows the exploits of a young woman who tries to hitchhike ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 196 members
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  • Macbeth on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Jon Finch,  Francesca Annis,  Francesca Annis
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" - but the bodies keep piling up today, from the opening battle, to the beheading of the traitor Cawdor, to the - onscreen - murder of Duncan, to the electrifying final duel to the death (at each clash of metal on metal, and flesh on stone wall, Polanski cut a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,431 member
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  • The Magic Christian on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Richard Attenborough,  Peter Sellers,  Laurence Harvey
    Director: Joseph McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 436 members
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  • Rosemary's Baby on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  John Cassavetes,  Ruth Gordon
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 10,513 members
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  • The Fearless Vampire Killers on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Jack MacGowran,  Sharon Tate,  Alfie Bass
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A pair of bumbling vampire-hunters attempts to destroy an undead nobleman and his cronies and rescue a buxom maiden in actor/director Roman Polanski's playful update of the venerable vampire genre. Bat expert and vampire obsessive Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) barely survives his journey ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,663 member
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  • Cul-De-Sac on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Francoise Dorleac,  Donald Pleasence,  Lionel Stander
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A somewhat surreal black comedy directed and co-scripted by Roman Polanski, CUL-DE-SAC is the tale of a mismatched married couple, George and Teresa (Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac), living in an 11th-century castle on an isolated island whose home is invaded by two gangsters on the run ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,114 member
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  • Repulsion on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Catherine Deneuve,  Ian Hendry,  John Fraser
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    REPULSION, starring the incomparable Catherine Deneuve, was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English. It chronicles the descent into schizophrenia of a sexually confused, isolated young woman named Carol who works at a beauty parlor and shares an apartment with her sister Helen (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,351 members
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  • Knife In The Water on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Leon Niemczyk,  Jolanta Umecka,  Zygmunt Malanowicz
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Roman Polanski's first feature-length film is a suspenseful three-person chamber drama reminiscent of the work of Ingmar Bergman. The action takes place almost entirely within the confined setting of a sailboat owned by a wealthy journalist (Leon Niemczyk) and his much younger wife (Jolanta Umecka)...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,626 member
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  • Kanal on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Tadeusz Gwiazdowski,  Wienczyslaw Glinski,  Teresa Izewska
    Director: Andrzej Wajda,  Andrzej Wajda
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Set in war-torn Warsaw during World War II, this drama tells the story of a group of soldiers and patriots attempting to flee the grasp of the Nazis by escaping through the city's maze of underground sewers.
    3.5 stars out of 5 75% from 345 members
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Roman Polanski facts

5 most recent films

Carnage - 3.5 stars
Carnage - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Ghost - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Ghost - 3.5 stars
Rush Hour 3 - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Pianist - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Pianist - HD - 4.0 stars
The Pianist - 4.0 stars
Kanal - 3.5 stars
Chinatown - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Carnage - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Back In The USSR - 2.0 stars
What? - 2.5 stars
Pirates - 3.0 stars
The Magic Christian - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Julia Rayner - 7 times - show films
Maureen Lipman - 7 times - show films
Jessica Kate Meyer - 7 times - show films
Ed Stoppard - 7 times - show films
Thomas Kretschmann - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Andrzej Wajda - 6 times - show films
Andrzej Wajda - 4 times - show films
Brett Ratner - 4 times - show films
Joseph McGrath - 2 times - show films
Deran Sarafian - 1 times - show films