Cinematography: Pawel Edelman

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Pawel Edelman. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Pianist

2002 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Adrien Brody · Thomas Kretschmann · Maureen Lipman · Ed Stoppard

Synopsis The film is adapted from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who detailed his survival during World War II. A composer and a pianist, he played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery...

8.2

149K votes

8.2

149K votes

Ray

2004 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

Direction Taylor Hackford

Cast Jamie Foxx · Kerry Washington · Regina King · Clifton Powell

Synopsis The Life Story of Ray Charles. Soul singer Ray Charles' life transpires on-screen, from his humble beginnings in Georgia, where he went blind at the age of seven, to his pre-fame life touring the South, and on to his career...

7.1

25K votes

7.1

25K votes

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

2011 · Documentary · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Roman Polanski

Synopsis A documentary about Roman Polanski, the man and filmmaker. Roman Polanski speaks about his eventful life story and career in conversation with Andrew Braunsberg, his former business partner, producer, and friend of many years.

7.0

453 votes

7.0

453 votes

Carnage

2011 · Movie · 79 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Kate Winslet · Christoph Waltz · Jodie Foster · John C. Reilly

Synopsis Based on french Yasmina Reza's play, it tells the story of two sets of parents from New York who decide to have a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl.

7.0

43K votes

7.0

43K votes

Venus in Fur

2013 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Mathieu Amalric · Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis Vanda is an unusually talented young actress determined to land the lead in Thomas' new play based on the classic erotic novel, Venus in Fur. Vanda's emotionally charged audition for the gifted but demanding playwright/director becomes an electrifying game of...

6.9

10K votes

6.9

10K votes

An Officer and a Spy

2019 · Movie · 126 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jean Dujardin · Louis Garrel · Emmanuelle Seigner · Grégory Gadebois

Synopsis On 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young promising officer, is degraded for spying for Germany, wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, who is promoted...

6.9

6K votes

6.9

6K votes

The Ghost Writer

2010 · Movie · 128 min. · France

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Ewan McGregor · Pierce Brosnan · Olivia Williams · Kim Cattrall

Synopsis The film, based on Robert Harris' novel of the same name, centers on a ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) who is hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan).

6.8

40K votes

6.8

40K votes

Pigs

1992 · Movie · 104 min. · Poland

Direction Wladyslaw Pasikowski

Cast Boguslaw Linda · Marek Kondrat · Cezary Pazura · Janusz Gajos

Synopsis In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like...

6.6

30 votes

6.6

30 votes

Aftermath

2012 · Movie · 104 min. · Poland

Direction Wladyslaw Pasikowski

Cast Maciej Stuhr · Ireneusz Czop · Danuta Szaflarska · Zuzana Fialová

Synopsis A Polish man who returns home after the death of his father unearths a secret about the now-deceased Jewish residents of his village.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Oliver Twist

2005 · Movie · 130 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Barney Clark · Ben Kingsley · Harry Eden · Jamie Foreman

Synopsis Charles Dickens' classic story of a young orphan boy who gets involved with a gang of boy pickpockets in 19th-century London seems, on the surface, a long way from being children's entertainment. But this can be deceiving.

6.4

20K votes

6.4

20K votes

Afterimage

2016 · Movie · 98 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Boguslaw Linda · Aleksandra Justa · Bronislawa Zamachowska · Jacek Beler

Synopsis The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda returns with this passionate biopic about avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski (brilliantly played by Polish superstar Boguslaw Linda), who battled Stalinist orthodoxy and his own physical impairments to advance his progressive ideas about art.

6.4

411 votes

6.4

411 votes

Big Animal

2000 · Movie · 73 min. · Poland

6.4

29 votes

6.4

29 votes

Lee

2023 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ellen Kuras

Cast Kate Winslet · Josh O'Connor · Andrea Riseborough · Andy Samberg

Synopsis The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.

6.3

215 votes

6.3

215 votes

Katyn

2007 · Movie · 115 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Andrzej Chyra · Magdalena Cielecka · Artur Zmijewski · Danuta Stenka

Synopsis In the spring of 1940, following the invasion of Poland by Russia's Red Army in 1939, up to 20,000 Polish officers and soldiers were executed by Stalin's secret police. The men were imprisoned in three POW camps, one of which...

6.3

4K votes

6.3

4K votes

Edges of the Lord

2001 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Yurek Bogayevicz

Cast Haley Joel Osment · Willem Dafoe · Liam Hess · Richard Banel

Synopsis Polish 12 year-young city Jew Romek gets a crash-course in Catholicsim from his daddy ('stay hanging by your arms till your prayers are perfect') so he can be sent away and escape deportation (Auschwitz?) hiding in the country where the...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

The New Tenants (S)

2009 · Movie · 21 min. · Denmark

Direction Joachim Back

Cast Liane Balaban · Kevin Corrigan · Vincent D'Onofrio · Jamie Harrold

Synopsis A prying neighbor, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta make up the welcome wagon. Set amidst the as-yet-unopened boxes and the hopes for a fresh start of two men on what might...

6.1

50 votes

6.1

50 votes

Corner Office

2022 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Joachim Back

Cast Jon Hamm · Danny Pudi · Christopher Heyerdahl · Allison Riley

Synopsis Orson, a compulsive bureaucrat who discovers a secret room his co-workers deny exists.

5.9

28 votes

5.9

28 votes

All the King's Men

2006 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Steven Zaillian

Cast Sean Penn · Jude Law · Kate Winslet · Patricia Clarkson

Synopsis Remake. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. Steven Zaillian's update features Sean Penn and Patricia Clarkson in the roles of a...

5.9

4K votes

5.9

4K votes

Walesa: Man of Hope

2013 · Movie · 118 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Robert Wieckiewicz · Agnieszka Grochowska · Iwona Bielska · Zbigniew Bielawski

Synopsis The efforts of Noble Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a revolution.

5.8

542 votes

5.8

542 votes

Pan Tadeusz

1999 · Movie · 125 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Boguslaw Linda · Daniel Olbrychski · Andrzej Seweryn · Grazyna Szapolowska

Synopsis Based around a 19th century poem by Adam Mickiewicz, PAN TADEUSZ is set in Lithuania, and details an epic feud between two families. Directed by Andrzej Wajda (HUNTING FLIES) the two families in question are of Polish descent, but living...

5.6

257 votes

5.6

257 votes