Roman Polanski's Favourite Films

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.

A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.

During World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

A Mexican official and his American wife are targeted in a Texas border town by the crime family he's trying to put behind bars for drug trafficking, as his concern grows over the tactics of the local detective whose cooperation he needs.

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.

A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

Story of youth during the German occupation of Poland in World War II who come to adulthood through love and adversity.

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.