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A Taste for Women (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Aimez-vous les femmes ?
director: Jean Léon actor: Sophie Daumier / Guy Bedos …
other title: Aimez-vous les femmes ? / Jungfrau reich garniert …
A writer discovers a link between a vegetarian restaurant and a series of mysterious deaths.
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When Angels Fall (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gdy spadają anioły
director: 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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A Toothful Smile (1957) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Uśmiech zębiczny
director: Roman Polanski actor: Nikola Todorow
other title: Zahnlächeln / Una sonrisa …
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 passes a small window that's about eye high. He ventures to look in, and there a young woman stands at a washbasin, drying her hair,
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The Lamp (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Lampa
director: 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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Based on a True Story (2017) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
D'après une histoire vraie
director: Romek actor: Emmanuelle Seigner / Eva Green …
other title: Quello che non so di lei / A Partir de Uma História Verdadeira …
Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the promotional tour, just when she feels out of place, paralyzed by the idea of having to start writing again, she meets Elle, a young, attractive, intelligent, intuitive woman who seems to understand her better than anyone.
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What? (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Che?
director: 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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Macbeth (1971) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Macbeth
director: Roman Polanski actor: Jon Finch / Francesca Annis …
other title: Macbeth: un hombre frente al rey
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
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A Therapy (2012) [Movie] Douban
A Therapy
director: 罗曼·波兰斯基 actor: 海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 / 本·金斯利
other title: 一次心理治疗
这是一间考究典雅、大气内敛的诊所，不苟言笑的心理医生（本·金斯利 Ben Kingsley 饰）端坐书桌前奋笔疾书。这时门铃响起，医生不慌不忙起身打开房门。接下来一名穿着华贵的女人（海伦娜·邦汉·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰）走进房间，她默不作声脱下自己的名贵皮草，挂在衣架上。随后脱下皮鞋，躺到长椅之上。仿佛闸口被打开一般，女人滔滔不绝讲述自上一次心理疏导之后的感受与想法。医生起先端坐旁边认真倾听病人的碎碎念，可是他的注意力很快被吸引到了另一边，终于他按捺不住站起身来……
本片为导演应某品牌之邀拍摄的广告短片，并首邀参加2012年戛纳电影节。
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Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dwaj ludzie z szafą
director: Roman Polanski actor: Jakub Goldberg / Henryk Kluba …
other title: Due uomini e un armadio / Dois Homens e um Armário …
The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town.
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Morderstwo (1957) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Morderstwo
director: 罗曼·波兰斯基
other title: 杀人者 / Mord …
The Short Films of Roman Polanski -
(1957) Morderstwo (A Murderer)
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 trench coat. He approaches a bed in the room, where a shirtless man sleeps. The intruder takes out a knife. His movements are without haste, but deliberate and efficient. Will his sleeping victim awake in time to offer resistance?
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Tess (1979) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Tess
6.1 (7 ratings) director: Roman Polanski actor: Nastassja Kinski / Peter Firth …
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.
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The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb
The Fearless Vampire Killers
director: Roman Polanski actor: Jack MacGowran / Roman Polanski …
other title: Per favore, non mordermi sul collo! / Vampyrernes nat …
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
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Carnage (2011) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Carnage
6.2 (8 ratings) director: Roman Polanski actor: Jodie Foster / Kate Winslet …
other title: O Deus da Carnificina / Der Gott des Gemetzels …
Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.
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The Ninth Gate (1999) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB
The Ninth Gate
5.5 (6 ratings) director: 罗曼·波兰斯基 actor: 约翰尼·德普 / 弗兰克·兰格拉 …
other title: La nona porta / A Nona Porta …
An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and Satanic worship.
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Repulsion (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Repulsion
director: Roman Polanski actor: Catherine Deneuve / Ian Hendry …
other title: Repulsione / Chok …
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
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Knife in the Water (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Nóż w wodzie
director: Roman Polanski actor: Leon Niemczyk / Jolanta Umecka …
other title: Il coltello nell'acqua / Faca na Água …
On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.