Walerian Borowczyk Movies

A short news reel documentary about poster art.

Semi-documentary exposé of scandalous hunting practices in the Sologne, a wooded area south of Orléans where he shared a house at the...

A man seeks for satisfaction from a prostitute working in a revue. He pays for the whole night and discovers a saddening truth about her.

Lucrezia Borgia, accompanied by her husband Giovanni Sforza visits his father, Pope Alexander VI, and his brother, Cardinal Cesare Borgia. The...

Ximen Qing, a rich mandarin, deserts his wives to play with the courtesans. One of his young spouses, tired of languishing, consoles herself with a...

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...

Countess Erzsébet Báthory, accompanied by her page, visits the villages and hamlets of her county of Nyitra in Hungary.

This six-minute short from director Daniel Bird takes a look at the silent cinema pioneers that influenced the work of Walterian Borowczyk. We take a...

Camera operator Noël Véry provides a commentary on footage shot during the making of The Beast.

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

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

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

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...

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk

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...

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...

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

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