Watch movies directed by Walerian Borowczyk

Emmanuelle 5

Emmanuelle, the sexiest woman in the world, endures a streak of bad luck that begins when she's stripped by a mob of adoring fans at an international film festival. Emmanuelle's lousy luck continues when she's abducted from her yacht off the South of France and forced to submit to the erotic desires of an Arab sheik.

NR

5.7

1987 Action 85 min Play

5.7

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

It's the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll and his fiancée, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne, attended by various pillars of Victorian society. But when people are found raped and murdered outside and ultimately inside the house, it becomes clear that a madman has broken in to disrupt the festivities - but who is he? And why does Dr. Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory?

NR

5.7

1981 Horror 92 min Play

5.6

Immoral Women

The first episode – featuring frequent Borowczyk muse Marina Pierro – is the longest and, in a way, most substantial: it’s set in Renaissance Rome, with the lusty (and perpetually nude) leading lady sexually involved with famous painters and church benefactors. The second episode is the most notorious and, consequently, gave the film its controversial poster – featuring a rabbit slowly disappearing under the skirt of a teenage girl (played by Gaelle Legrand). The third and final episode, ...

NR

5.6

1979 Drama 109 min Play

5.4

Behind Convent Walls

A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.

NR

5.4

1978 Drama 95 min Play

6.7

The Margin

A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.

NR

6.7

1976 Drama 88 min Play

5.7

The Beast

The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious 'beast' is stalking the vicinity.

NR

5.7

1975 Drama 98 min Play

5.8

Immoral Tales

Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the ...

NC-17

5.8

1973 Drama 103 min Play

6.8

Goto, Island of Love

In an isolated community on a mythical island, a pompous dictator holds public executions and lets criminals fight in the streets.

NR

6.8

1969 Drama 93 min Play

5.6

The Games of Angels

Animated short. Abstract forms in a setting evocative of a concentration camp created by the universe. Based on a series of paintings by the Polish artists and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk, Les Jeux des Anges takes the viewer into a nightmarish and sinister labyrinth world. With images reminiscent of Bosch and Ernst and an abstract soundtrack the film evoke unspeakable horrors lurking at the heart Borowczyk's masterpiece. Borowczyk described the film himself as "A report on the city of angels."

NR

5.6

1964 Animation 13 min Play

6.7

Renaissance

To the sound of trumpets, a collection of pulverised antique bric-a-brac begins to reassemble itself, revealing a stuffed owl, a cornet, a hamper, books, a doll, a plate - and a bomb...

NR

6.7

1963 Animation 10 min Play

5.1

The Concert

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.

NR

5.1

1962 Animation 7 min Play

5.5

School

Animated photographs (made with Jan Lenica) with elements of animated cartoon. A display of military drill.

NR

5.5

1958 Animation 7 min Play

5.7

Once Upon a Time

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

NR

5.7

1957 Animation 9 min Play