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  • Polanski undergoes medical treatment - 19 October 2009
    -Director Roman Polanski has been removed from a Swiss prison for medical treatment.- -The moviemaker, who fled to France in 1978 as he awaited sentencing for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, has been behind bars since he was arrested in Switzerland while attendi


  • Polanski agreed to pay sex victim £333,300 - 4 October 2009
    -Jailed moviemaker Roman Polanski agreed to pay the girl he had unlawful sex with £333,300 16 years ago, according to newly-released court documents. - -Papers obtained by the Los Angeles Times newspaper suggest the director agreed to pay Samantha Geimer as part


  • Polanski 'agreed to participate' in Ratner's documentary - 30 September 2009
    -Roman Polanski has "agreed to participate" in Brett Ratner's forthcoming sequel to a controversial documentary about the Rosemary'S Baby director.- -Ratner announced on Sunday (27Sep09) he will be producing a sequel to Marina Zenovich's 2008 documentary, Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski - what members say


  • Frantic
  • Frantic review by from LONDON
    Rated - 3 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...  
  • Chinatown
  • Chinatown review by from Beds
    Rated - 2 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...  
  • The Ninth Gate
  • The Ninth Gate review by A customer from lancashire, Blackpool
    Rated - 4 stars depp magic 25 July 2004
    ...s actually quite a good film, little things like the way people glide or look...Roman Polanski, what can you say. If your after pure horror and shock you'll be disappointed, ...  

Roman Polanski - filmography


  • Oliver Twist on DVD (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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 18,152 members
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  • The Pianist on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 40,909 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 8,259 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 565 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 »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 90 members
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  • Bitter Moon on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Peter Coyote,  Emmanuelle Seigner,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,665 member
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  • Frantic on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Betty Buckley,  John Mahoney
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An American heart surgeon is thrust into the adventure of a lifetime when he arrives in Paris for a top convention and his wife vanishes. His search for her leads him into the underworld where he forges an alliance with a beautiful woman who holds the key to the mystery.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,169 members
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  • Pirates (1986)
    Starring: Walter Matthau,  Charlotte Lewis,  David Kelly
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his quick thinking, he rises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the daughter of the governor of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 99 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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,411 member
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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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 23,064 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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 92 members
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  • Macbeth on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Jon Finch,  Francesca Annis,  Martin Shaw
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Shakespeare's immortal play about a Scottish warrior (Jon Finch) whose wife's lust for power transforms him into inhuman monster is given it's rawest, most brutal screen treatment in this version by Roman Polanski (ROSEMARY'S BABY, CHINATOWN). Filmed in suitably bleak locales and imbued with nudity ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,175 member
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  • Cul-De-Sac on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Francoise Dorleac,  Donald Pleasence,  Lionel Stander
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 895 members
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  • Rosemary's Baby on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  John Cassavetes,  Ruth Gordon
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    In Roman Polanski's stylish occult thriller--possibly the director's most famous film and a big box-office success--a young, happily married couple, the waiflike Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and struggling actor Guy (John Cassavetes), move into a spacious apartment in a venerable old building off Central ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 8,410 members
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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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,621 members
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Roman Polanski - watch online


  • Rosemary's Baby to Watch Now (1968)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  John Cassavetes,  Ruth Gordon
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 136 minutes
    Possibly the best horror film ever made, this brilliant adaptation of Ira Levin'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 confusion and fear. Her husband (John ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 109 members
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Roman Polanski facts

5 most recent films

Rush Hour 3 - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Oliver Twist - 3.0 stars
The Pianist - 4.0 stars
Pianist, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Pianist, The - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Pianist, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Pianist, The - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Kanal - 4.0 stars
The Pianist - 4.0 stars
Chinatown - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Back In The USSR - 2.0 stars
What? - 2.5 stars
Pirates - 2.5 stars
The Magic Christian - 3.0 stars
Blood For Dracula - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ed Stoppard - 5 times - show films
Julia Rayner - 5 times - show films
Adrien Brody - 5 times - show films
Jessica Kate Meyer - 5 times - show films
Thomas Kretschmann - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

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