Roman Polanski: Best Horror Films

Rosemary's Baby and Repulsion made paranoia and apartment-bound dread an art form. Best known for Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Ninth Gate.

1. 

   Rosemary's Baby (1968)

   Rated 7.8 on TMDB

   A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

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2. 

   Chinatown (1974)

   Rated 7.9 on TMDB

   Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California.

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3. 

   The Ninth Gate (1999)

   Rated 6.5 on TMDB

   A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning…

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4. 

   The Ghost Writer (2010)

   Rated 6.8 on TMDB

   A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a…

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5. 

   An Officer and a Spy (2019)

   Rated 7.1 on TMDB

   In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

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   The Tenant (1976)

   Rated 7.6 on TMDB

   A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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7. 

   Frantic (1988)

   Rated 6.7 on TMDB

   The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant,…

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8. 

   Repulsion (1965)

   Rated 7.4 on TMDB

   Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men).

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9. 

   Bitter Moon (1992)

   Rated 7.1 on TMDB

   A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

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10. 

    The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

    Rated 6.9 on TMDB

    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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11. 

    Death and the Maiden (1994)

    Rated 7.1 on TMDB

    A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

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12. 

    Based on a True Story (2017)

    Rated 5.7 on TMDB

    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…

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13. 

    Knife in the Water (1962)

    Rated 7.3 on TMDB

    On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker.

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14. 

    Cul-de-sac (1966)

    Rated 6.7 on TMDB

    On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

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