Walerian Borowczyk Movies

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

From Boccaccio's "La précaution inutile". Jean, a rich old merchant, is blessed with a young and beautiful wife. Although Bianca is absolutely...

An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world.

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

Two bored dwarves fight over a cushion.

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

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...

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk's own collection of vintage erotica. Originally intended as part of his 'Contes immoraux', it was...

Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk

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...

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...