Roman Polanski
1) Oliver Twist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Director Roman Polanski offers a slightly darker version of the classic Charles Dickens tale. After living in poor conditions, Oliver runs away to the streets of London. There he meets a gang of pickpockets and soon Oliver's life is changed forever.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When a gifted ghostwriter is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration's harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician's past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever.
4) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A private detective finds himself in over his head as he takes on a case involving the most rich and powerful people in Chinatown. Bonus features include interviews, featurettes, and more.
5) Chinatown
Series
Paramount centennial collection volume 10
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
A private detective finds himself in over his head when he takes on a case involving the richest and most powerful people in Chinatown. Bonus features include commentary, featurettes, a trailer, and more.
6) The tenant
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1976
Description
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 tenant, a beautiful young woman, jumped from the window in a suicide attempt, Trelkovsky begins obsessing over the dead woman. Growing increasingly paranoid,...
7) The pianist
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Appears on list
Description
A young couple moves in to an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife (Mia Farrow) becomes pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life. Winner of the Best Actress in a Supporting Role Award (Ruth Gordon) at the **Academy Awards** and the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Actress (Mia Farrow) at the **BAFTA Awards.** *"One of the finest horror movies ever made."...
9) Carnage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
11) Frantic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1988
Description
When the wife of an American cardiologist is kidnapped in Paris, he sets out to find her but encounters a web of language, locale, and bureaucracy.
12) Tess
Series
Criterion collection volume 697
Formats
Description
In this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romance, Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant in late 19th century England, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives. Although Tess rejects the advances of the D'Urberville's son Alex, he forcibly seduces her, leaving her pregnant and alone. After her sickly baby dies, Tess falls in love with Angel, a parson's son, who abandons her on their...
13) Chinatown
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is 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 for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
14) The ninth gate
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
A rare book dealer is hired to locate the remaining copies of a demonic manuscript that can summon the devil.
15) The pianist
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2002
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
17) Rosemary's baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 630
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays "a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her over-friendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby."
18) The ninth gate
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c1999
Description
An unscrupulous rare-book dealer is hired to locate the last remaining copies of a demonic manuscript that can summond the devil.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In a Parisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for the play he is preparing to direct, Thomas is distraught that none has what it takes to play the lead female character. He is getting ready to leave when Vanda appears: an unbridled and brazen whirlwind of energy. Vanda embodies everything Thomas hates. She is crude, idiotic, and will stop at nothing to get the part. But when Thomas finds himself backed into a corner and lets her try her...
20) Repulsion
Series
Criterion collection volume 483
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.