Roman Polanski
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- Generation, A (Pokolenie) (1954)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Roman Polanski
- Fast–moving account of the Polish Resistance during WWII, as a scrappy young recruit falls in love with his unit leader. Depicts the spirited,…
- Knife in the Water (1962)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
- The old adage 'three is a crowd' is chillingly played out in Polanski's directing debut about a couple's troubled yachting weekend with a…
- Repulsion (1965)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Catherine Deneuve
- Polanski's tour–de–force of urban sexual paranoia. Catherine Deneuve has an obsessive fear of men which slowly descends her into madness.…
- Cul-de-Sac (1966)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Donald Pleasence
- Polanski's influential, absurdist comedy concerns an eccentric couple taken captive by a pair of old gangsters in their Northumbrian castle. Stars…
- Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate
- Typically twisted spoof oddity on vampire movies, with Polanski's then wife Sharon Tate.
- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Mia Farrow
- First major film to deal with the occult as subject matter has lost little of its potency. The trauma of pregnancy is heightened for Mia Farrow as…
- Magic Christian, The (1969)
- Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough…
- From Terry Southern's novel, a wildly loopy satire about an eccentric multi–millionaire (Peter Sellers) who adopts a destitute son (Ringo…
- Macbeth (1971)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jon Finch, Francesca Annis
- This version of violent tragedy benefits from Polanski's fine sense of storytelling. Bloodythirsty and geniunely eerie, it comes…
- Weekend of a Champion (1972)
- Dir. Frank Simon
Feat. Roman Polanski
- A fascinating cinéma vérité project filmed during Formula One's heydays, which eavesdrops on a series of conversations and hang outs between…
- Chinatown (1974)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, John Huston…
- Classic detective thriller in the Hammett–Chandler tradition, with Jack Nicholson as P.I. Jake Gittes, whose simple case leads to murder and…