The Ninth Gate
(1999) [MA]

Based on the book The Dumas Club, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its...  More

Repulsion
(1965) [M]

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...  More

Chinatown
(1974) [M]

A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's 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...  More

Frantic
(1988) [M]

Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes while the couple is visiting Paris. To recover her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops and triplicate-form bureaucrats. Ultimately - and reluctantly - he must try a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more...  More

The Tragedy of Macbeth
(1971) [PG]

Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt and the dead king's son conspires to attack MacBeth and expose him for the murderer he is.  More

The Fearless Vampire Killers
(1967) [PG]

The Fearless Vampire Killers is a clever comedy-horror directed by and starring Roman Polanski. An expert on bats, Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and his dim-witted assistant, Alfred (Roman Polanski), travel to Transylvania to find and destroy vampires, where Alfred falls for the vampire's...  More

Knife In The Water
(1962) [M]

A couple driving along a deserted road to a lake almost run over a young man, a student, who flags down the car almost too closely. The driver is a self absorbed husband, the woman his pretty, irritated wife. They take him along and the husband, out of the sheer patronizing will, invites him to...  More

Bitter Moon
(1992) [R]

Roman Polanksi explores the uttermost depths of sexual perversion and experimentation in this erotic drama with more than a hint of black comedy. Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott-Thomas), a repressed English couple eager to rekindle their fading marriage by taking a luxury cruise, get...  More

Rosemary's Baby
(1968) [M]

Rosemary and her new husband, Guy, move into a new apartment in New York, befriending an elderly couple who live near by. When another girl in the block commits suicide, Rosemary starts getting more attention than she desires, from all the wrong people. When Rosemary become mysteriously pregnant,...  More

Death And The Maiden
(1994) [R]

Paulina Escobar is the housewife to a prominent lawyer in an unnamed third World country. 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...  More