Roman Polanski
1) Venus in Fur
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
A mysterious, sexy actress seduces and dominates an unsuspecting theater director in Roman Polanski's erotic, kinky comedy. Adapted from the Tony Award-winning play.
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Desperate for virgin blood, Count Dracula – Udo Kier in the performance Flavorwire calls “one of cinema’s Top 5 best Draculas” – journeys to an Italian villa only to discover the family’s three young daughters are also coveted by the estate’s Marxist stud (Joe Dallesandro). Stefania Casini and Bicycle Thieves director Vittorio De Sica co-star – with an unforgettable cameo by Roman Polanski – in “one of the most unique vampire films...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
Français
Description
Onoff (Gérard Depardieu) is a famed author who has become a recluse in recent years, publishing nothing. One night, he is picked up by police officers, who find him running across the French countryside in the rain, breathless and apparently suffering from short-term memory loss. A murder has been committed in the nearby woods, and suspecting Onoff's involvement, the authorities detain him at a leaky, dark command post to await the arrival of an...
6) The Tenant
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
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) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, 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 socialite (Faye Dunaway) 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....
8) Chinatown
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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.
9) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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.
10) Rosemary's baby
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
After unwittingly becoming friendly with a coven of witches and warlocks, a young wife is impregnated by the Devil.
11) The ghost writer
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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.
12) The Ninth gate
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.
13) The pianist
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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.
