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1962
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Polish language film set on a boat.
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Knife in the Water
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1965
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Catherine Deneuve as a belgian woman, slowly losing her mind.
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Repulsion
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1966
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Two gangsters on the run seek shelter in a castle.
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Cul-de-Sac
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1967
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Musical about vampires, which also marks his only collaboration with his then wife Sharon Tate.
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The Fearless Vampire Killers
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1968
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Mia Farrow and her husband John Cassavetes move into an apartment, where the neighbors are devil worshippers. Btw. I wonder if Polanski can relate to Cassavetes' character.
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Rosemary's Baby
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1971
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An adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most iconic plays.
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MacBeth
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1972
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Marcello Mastroianni and Sydne Rome in a comedy. Polanski's only Italian language film.
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What?
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1974
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Jack Nicholson playing a private detective in a brilliant neo noir film. Which also involves the rape of an under aged girl. That's Polanski for you.
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Chinatown
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1976
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Roman Polanski himself in a horror film, where he rents an apartment in Paris.
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The Tenant
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1979
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Nastassja Kinski whom Polanski described as "stimulating" in an interview. God damn it Roman. Are you even trying to hide your pedophilia.
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Tess
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1986
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Walter Matthau as a pirate captain.
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Pirates
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1988
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Harrison Ford in a Hitchcockian thriller set in Paris, where yells "MY WIFE!" a lot. Seriously you can make a drinking game out of this.
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Frantic
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1992
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Hugh Grant has an affair on a cruise ship. And they have some very weird erotic stuff going on. Including having Polanski's own 30 year younger wife splash splashing her naked breasts with milk. God this guy needs some therapy.
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Bitter Moon
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1994
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Sigourney Weaver has a visitor in her house and wants him to confess, being certain, that he once tortured and raped her. I would now say that it was probably Polanski himself, but I think Weaver's a bit too old for him.
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Death and the Maiden
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1999
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Johnny Depp plays as a book dealer who searches for a satanic book written by Polanski, uhm... I mean the devil himself.
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The Ninth Gate
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2002
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Adrien Brody in a World War II Holocaust drama.
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The Pianist
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2005
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Charles Dickens adaptation involving a lot of little boys. Polanski likes that :) Although does he like boys or only little girls? I don't know.
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Oliver Twist
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2010
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Ewan McGregor in a Robert Harris adapted political thriller, which involves a former british prime minister, who hides away in antoher country for fear of being arrested for past crimes. Can you relate to that Roman? :)
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The Ghost Writer
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2011
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Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly, Jodie Foster and Christoph Waltz playing four parents arguing in a dark comedy set primarily in one apartment in Brooklyn. Of course not shot on location, because Polanski cannot go there :)
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Carnage
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2013
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Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Seigner in an erotic thriller. God; he really cast his 30 year younger wife in this film. This man has some issues...
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Venus in Fur
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2017
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Emmanuelle Seigner and Eva Green in a thriller about an author, who begins a relationship with a fan.
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Based on a True Story
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2019
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Jean Dujardin in a historical drama about the Dreyfuss affair, where Polanski is comparing himself to a man that got wrongfully accused and convicted.
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An Officer and a Spy
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