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1970s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

The Tenant (1976)

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In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors.

1960s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

Cul-de-sac (1966)

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Cul-de-sac movie storyline. With the taste of failure in his mouth; on the run from the police, and with a dying accomplice in his hands, the wounded brute gangster, Dickie, will eventually discover the perfect hideout: a magnificent and seemingly deserted castle by the sea, now home of the feeble ex-factory owner, George, and his frivolous French wife, Teresa.

1950s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

A Generation (1955)

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A Generation movie storyline. 1942 in Nazi occupied Poland. Stach lives with his mother in a shanty town outside Warsaw. When he starts working as an apprentice in a small workshop in the nearby suburb, a middle-aged craftsman approaches him. The man is a secret Communist leader, known as Comrade Sekula.

1960s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

Repulsion (1965)

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Repulsion movie storyline. In London, Belgian immigrant Carol Ledoux shares an apartment with her older sister Helen, and works as a manicurist at a beauty salon. Helen uses the word “sensitive” to describe Carol’s overall demeanor, which is almost like she walks around in a daze, rarely speaking up about anything.

1960s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

Knife in the Water (1962)

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Knife in the Water movie storyline. Well off Andrzej and Krystyna’s marriage is at a stage where familiarity breeds contempt, that contempt which is outwardly shown only behind closed doors and only when an incident of some sort sets off one or the other.

1970s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

Blood for Dracula (1974)

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Blood for Dracula storyline. Count Dracula knows that if he fails to drink a required amount of pure virgin’s blood, it’s time to move into a permanent coffin.

1970s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

Tess (1979)

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Tess is pulled between what she was sent to accomplish for her family against her general disdain for Alec, who will give her anything she wants in return for sexual favors.

1960s Movies

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

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Rosemary’s Baby movie storyline. Desirous of starting a family, the young Catholic housewife Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford.

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Chinatown (1974)

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Chinatown movie storyline. In 1937 Los Angeles, private investigator Jake ‘J.J.’ Gittes specializes in cheating-spouse cases. His current target is Hollis Mulwray, high-profile chief engineer.

1960s Movies / Roman Polanski Movies

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

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Rosemary’s Baby storyline. Rosemary Woodhouse, a young Catholic housewife, and her husband, move into the Bramford, a New York building with an unpleasant history of obscure dwellers.