Roman Polanski Movies

A feature-length documentary on the life and work of jazz musician and composer Krzysztof Komeda.

Andrzej Munk was one of the leading directors in Polish cinema. Friends and collaborators share their memories about this stunning artist and his...

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the...

An interview with film director Roman Polanski, recorded for BBC TV in 1967.

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he...

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by...

The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American...

A man walks down the exterior staircase of building of flats; he's dressed to go out, taking care to wrap a scarf around his neck. He pauses as he...

G.G. Passion is a successful pop star whose life is a whirlwind of adoring fans, beautiful women and expensive cars. But while he enjoys the fruits...

Roman Polanski hasn't given an interview for many years. However, in the conversation from 2006 with the author Pierre-André Boutang,...

The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which...

The camera shows us a door handle and the door's striker plate; from this angle, they form a cross. The door opens and in steps someone in a dark...

The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in...

Documentary about Roman Polanski's film adaptation of the 1891 novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy.

The hero of the story is the writer Vladimír Tůma, who is invited to spend a month studying in a neighbouring country. There, the foreign...

An unfinished student short by Roman Polanski. Due to a mix-up in the laboratory, only part of the film was processed and returned to Polanski; the...

"Waiting for Godot" on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it's a man, pulling a small sleigh on...

Television documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film, Tess.

Two intertwined families who have made half a century of cinema. La Grande Bouffe, We won’t grow old together, Tchao Pantin, Apocalypse Now,...

In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding...