Roman Polanski — Actor (30)
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A Generation (1955)
Pokolenie
Andrzej Wajda actor: Tadeusz Łomnicki / Urszula Modrzyńska …
other title: Generazione / Uma Geração …
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives.
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Snuff (1978)
The Evolution of Snuff IMDb TMDB
Andrzej Kostenko / Karl Martine … actor: Claudia Fielers / Roman Polanski …
other title: The Evolution of Snuff
Mockumentary über ein Pornofilmsternchen, das während der Dreharbeiten zu einem Dokumentarfilm über das Pornofilmgeschäft Selbstmord begeht, was zur Entdeckung eines Snuff-Films führt.
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Speed (1959)
Lotna WikiData IMDb TMDB
Andrzej Wajda actor: Jerzy Pichelski / Adam Pawlikowski …
other title: Lotna / La flecha blanca …
1959 film by Andrzej Wajda
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Ciao, Federico! (1970)
Ciao, Federico! WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gideon Bachmann actor: Federico Fellini / Gideon Bachmann …
other title: Ciao Federico! Fellini Directs Satyricon / Ciao Federico !
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
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Weekend of a Champion (1972)
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Frank Simon / Roman Polanski actor: Roman Polanski / Jackie Stewart …
other title: Weekend eines Champion
Filmmaker Roman Polanski spends a weekend with world champion driver Jackie Stewart as he attempts to win the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix, offering an extraordinarily rare glimpse into the life of a gifted athlete at the height of his powers.
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The Fat and the Lean (1961)
Le gros et le maigre WikiData IMDb TMDB
Roman Polanski actor: André Katelbach / Roman Polanski
other title: Der Dicke und der Dünne / Le gros et le maigre …
A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps like a madman, wipes his master's brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella and holds a urinal for him.
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The Magic Christian (1969)
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Joseph McGrath actor: Peter Sellers / Ringo Starr …
other title: Le incredibili avventure del signor Grand col complesso del miliardo e il pallino della truffa / Magic Christian …
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
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When Angels Fall (1959)
Gdy spadają anioły WikiData IMDb TMDB
Roman Polanski actor: Barbara Lass / Roman Polanski …
other title: La caduta degli angeli / Wenn Engel fallen …
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 the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.
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The New Cinema (1968)
The New Cinema IMDb TMDB
Gary Young actor: Francis Ford Coppola / Edith Evans …
Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia. New Hollywood had arrived with Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, and already by 1968 it was changing how Hollywood thought and acted. The student film scene was getting ready to explode, and it knew it.
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The Lamp (1959)
Lampa IMDb TMDB
Roman Polanski actor: Roman Polanski
other title: Die Lampe / La lámpara …
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 him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens?
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A Pure Formality (1994)
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Giuseppe Tornatore actor: Gérard Depardieu / Romek …
other title: Uma Simples Formalidade / Eine reine Formalität …
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
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Frantic (1988)
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Romek actor: Harrison Ford / Emmanuelle Seigner …
other title: Frenético
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
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What? (1972)
Che? IMDb TMDB
Roman Polanski actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Sydne Rome …
other title: Che? / Was? …
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
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Kanal (1957)
Kanał
Andrzej Wajda actor: Teresa Iżewska / Tadeusz Janczar …
other title: I dannati di Varsavia / Der Kanal …
During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.
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Blood for Dracula (1974)
Blood for Dracula
Paul Morrissey actor: Udo Kier / Joe Dallesandro …
other title: Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!! / Grev Dracula …
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.