Movies: Walerian Borowczyk

A monster, the Beast of Gévaudan, is spreading terror in France, in the Massif Central....

Kamar, who just arrived at Bassra, falls in love with the young wife of the old Obeid. But, until now, nobody has survived to be able to praise himself for obtaining favors from this beautiful, capricious woman....

Lucrezia Borgia, accompanied by her husband Giovanni Sforza visits his father, Pope Alexander VI, and his brother, Cardinal Cesare Borgia. The Dominican Hyeronimo Savonarola denounces the dissolute life of the ecclesiastical environment....

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's actually a cover for their frequent attempts at causing each other extreme physical harm....

About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man....

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company....

Julie, my cousin, was sixteen, I was twenty, and this small age difference made her docile to my commands....

Three youths are abandoned on a road by their crazy mother. Suddenly appears a strange woman carrying a placard saying she's a guide. The guide brings the youths with her on an journey in the woods. A journey they will never forget....

This short film by Walerian Borowczyk was made in 1979 but is so little known that when it was rediscovered in 2014 it had not been included in any of his filmographies. Of all Borowczyk's films, this is the one that most clearly shows his love of ea...

An animated film made by Walerian Borowczyk for W.D. & H.O. Wills. A very pompous cigar smoker reminisces about the good old days when the lower classes knew their place and stayed away from cigars meant only for the privileged. However, after he and...

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk's own collection of vintage erotica. Originally intended as part of his 'Contes immoraux', it was released first as a separate short, and is therefore marks the turning-point between Borowczyk's career a...

An advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After everybody has left the museum, the paintings can finally come alive and help themselves to some pasta for dinner....

Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature....

A portrait of Serb erotic surrealist painter Ljubomir "Ljuba" Popović....

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The inhabitants of our region demand the beatification of Thérèse Fl., the pious young girl shamefully raped by a vagabond....

Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human activity. People and flowers attempt to survive in a city that seems ready to explode from an over-heated mix...

Two bored dwarves fight over a cushion....

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk...