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Mia Farrow in Roman Polanski's 'Rosemary's Baby'

The original ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, DVD, Essential Viewing, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, National Film Registry, Paramount+, suspense, SVOD, thriller 08/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes star in Roman Polanski’s American directing debut, an urban horror classic and a master class in paranoia.

Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac. Lionel Stander, and Jack MacGowran star in the 1966 film by Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski’s ‘Cul-De-Sac’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, satire, suspense, SVOD, thriller 10/20/2021 Sean Axmaker

Donald Pleasance, Françoise Dorléac, and Lionel Stander star in this sly little character piece set in an isolated medieval castle on the barren British coast, which Polanski claimed as his personal favorite of his films.

‘The Pianist’ – the devastating Oscar-winning drama

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a true story, drama, DVD, historical, Last chance, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 09/27/2021 Sean Axmaker

Adrien Brody stars in Roman Polanski’s film of the true story of Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman, which won three Academy Awards.

Ewan McGregor is 'The Ghost Writer' in Roman Polanski's superb thriller.

Last chance: Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost Writer’ on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, Last chance, Mystery, Politics, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 05/22/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ewan McGregor is The Ghost Writer (2010), a scribe-for-hire in the celebrity autobiography business who is contracted to rewrite the dry memoirs of a former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan), in the smart, gripping, subtly Hitchcockian thriller from director Roman Polanski and author Robert Harris. The writer has no other name in the film—he introduces […]

Johnny Depp and Frank Langella in the 1999 thriller directed by Roman Polanski

Johnny Depp searches for ‘The Ninth Gate’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, DVD, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, suspense, SVOD, thriller 06/13/2020 Sean Axmaker

The horror of Roman Polanski is not about spectacle and shock, but a goose-pimply sense of something evil lurking just outside the frame and hidden behind the faces of its slightly unsettling characters. At times The Ninth Gate (1999), adapted from the novel The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte, recaptures the beautiful uneasiness of such […]

Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric star in 'Venus in Fur,' directed by Roman Polanski

‘Venus in Fur’ on Hulu

!Featured, Hulu, International Cinema 11/15/2016 Sean Axmaker

Venus in Fur (France, 2013), adapted by Roman Polanski with playwright David Ives from his Tony Award-winning play, is Polanksi’s second theater piece in a row. This is a two-hander between a playwright (Mathieu Amalric) auditioning actresses for his adaptation of the novel by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and an actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) who arrives late […]