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1. Immoral Tales (1973)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
An erotic collection of short stories, an anthology comprised of tantalizing tales about sexual desire and its diverse manifestations.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Lise Danvers, Fabrice Luchini, Charlotte Alexandra, Paloma Picasso
Votes: 5,429
2. The Beast (1975)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti
Votes: 5,323
3. Behind Convent Walls (1978)
95 min | Drama, Romance
On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Ligia Branice, Howard Ross, Marina Pierro, Gabriella Giacobbe
Votes: 1,335
4. Immoral Women (1979)
114 min | Drama
Three women and three erotic tales. 1- Margherita: Did the great Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio die because of the cold he took in the ruins of Rome? Or was it out of pleasure? Only one... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Marina Pierro, Gaëlle Legrand, Pascale Christophe, François Guétary
Votes: 836
5. La marge (1976)
88 min | Drama
Sigismond (Joe Dallesandro) is a man lost in an erotic haze which clouds his judgment. Early in the film, it is evident that the man has a physically passionate relationship with his wife, ... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Joe Dallesandro, André Falcon, Mireille Audibert
Votes: 879
6. Emmanuelle 5 (1987)
R | 85 min | Action, Drama
Emmanuelle has a streak of bad luck that starts when she is stripped by a mob of adoring fans at the Cannes Film Festival. Her rotten luck continues when the dictator of a banana republic ... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Monique Gabrielle, Crofton Hardester, Dana Burns Westburg, Yaseen Khan
Votes: 1,130
7. Love Rites (1987)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery
Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is delighted to learn she is a prostitute and has no idea she has more in mind than Hugo bargained for.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Marina Pierro, Mathieu Carrière, Josy Bernard, Isabelle Tinard
Votes: 547
8. The Story of Sin (1975)
R | 130 min | Drama
A beautiful Polish girl traveling around Europe in search of her lover suffers a variety of tragic adventures as the men around her try to fit her into their own selfish schemes.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Grazyna Dlugolecka, Jerzy Zelnik, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Roman Wilhelmi
Votes: 878
9. Lulu (1980)
86 min | Drama
The story of a sexually enticing young dancer who rises up in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack 'the Ripper'.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Anne Bennent, Michele Placido, Jean-Jacques Delbo, Hans-Jürgen Schatz
Votes: 272
10. Blanche (1971)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, History
Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Michel Simon, Georges Wilson, Jacques Perrin, Ligia Branice
Votes: 1,001
11. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee, Gérard Zalcberg
Votes: 1,477
12. Softly from Paris (1986–1991)
TV-MA | 26 min | Comedy
An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.
Stars: Anne Fontaine, Lucienne Bruinooge, Witold Heretynski, Thierry Bearzatto
Votes: 159
13. Ferozz: The Wild Red Riding Hood (2010)
70 min | Fantasy, Horror
A young, attractive widow is protected from her vicious mother-in-law, by a male relative who practices Satanism, and lusts after the old woman's sexy adolescent granddaughter.
Director: Jorge Molina | Stars: Dayana Legrá, Roberto Perdomo, Ana Silvia Machado, Francisco García
Votes: 209
14. Art of Love (1983)
92 min | Drama, Fantasy
Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy happens again in a few centuries
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Marina Pierro, Michele Placido, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti
Votes: 314
15. Collections privées (1979)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He ... See full summary »
Directors: Walerian Borowczyk, Just Jaeckin, Shûji Terayama | Stars: Roland Blanche, Laura Gemser, Catherine Gandois, Marpessa Djian
Votes: 403
16. Goto, l'île d'amour (1969)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A simpleton thief on Goto, an isolated island ruled by a barbaric dictator, climbs ranks from criminal to fly-catcher, dog-keeper and boot polisher, while himself and other islanders get ... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Ligia Branice, Jean-Pierre Andréani, Ginette Leclerc
Votes: 950
17. The Greatest Love of All Times (1977)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A portrait of Serbia's erotic surrealist painter Popovic Ljuba, with Richard Wagner's Tannhauser on the sound track
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Star: Ljubomir Popovic
Votes: 264
18. Rosalie (1966)
15 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A haunting, minimalist short that mostly consists of a monologue to camera by the young Rosalie, on trial for the murder of her new-born infant.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Star: Ligia Branice
Votes: 432
19. Théâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal (1967)
Not Rated | 77 min | Animation, Comedy
A dark and grotesque story of a married couple the wife, a mechanical monster made up of iron bits and her henpecked husband.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Louisette Rousseau, Pierre Collet, Louis Jojot, Renata Astruc
Votes: 325
20. A Private Collection (1973)
Not Rated | 14 min | Documentary, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Star: André Pieyre de Mandiargues
Votes: 317
21. Venus on the Half-Shell (1975)
Not Rated | 5 min | Documentary, Short
Featuring Bona Tibertelli De Pisis's excellent erotic graphic works - wife of writer André Pieyre de Mandiargues while working in her atelier, together with fragments of her graphic works inspired by one of Remy de Gourmont's writings.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Star: Bona Tibertelli de Pisis
Votes: 354
22. The Games of Angels (1964)
Not Rated | 13 min | Animation, Short
A bizarre, semi-abstract animated film, based around the theme of angels being processed by a nightmarish factory. It has been interpreted as an allegory of the concentration camp ... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 816
23. The Phonograph (1969)
6 min | Animation, Short
An old phonograph assembles itself, plays songs on wax drums before self destructing. In many ways The Phonograph is a companion piece to Renaissance, there is nevertheless something ... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 218
24. Renaissance (1963)
10 min | Animation, Short
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...
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 611
25. Scherzo Infernal (1984)
6 min | Animation, Short
Big-breasted tailed demoness and demons whose tails are phalluses strut, rut, reproduce, nurse, and generally show off amidst the flames.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Star: Yves Robert
Votes: 339
26. Les astronautes (1959)
14 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
Concerns a scientist's flight into outer space.
Directors: Walerian Borowczyk, Chris Marker | Stars: Michel Boschet, Ligia Branice, Anatole Dauman, Philippe Lifchitz
Votes: 968
27. Le concert de M. et Mme. Kabal (1963)
6 min | Animation, Short
Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round and unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's actually a cover for their frequent attempts at causing each other extreme physical harm...
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 389
28. Dom (1959)
12 min | Animation, Short
A short film in which a woman living alone in an apartment has a series of bizarre hallucinations.
Directors: Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica | Star: Ligia Branice
Votes: 493
29. Gavotte (1968)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The title for this sadomasochistic musical short subject in which several period dwarves perform a skit, comes from a medium paced dance popular in 18th century France.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Roberto, Ludo
Votes: 172
30. Le dictionnaire de Joachim (1966)
9 min | Animation, Short
A light-hearted animated romp through the alphabet (in French), with each letter indentified by both a word and a visual interpretation of that word, by the crudely-drawn Joachim.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 215
31. Once There Was (1957)
9 min | Animation, Short
The misadventures of two strange creatures in a background that mixes childish hand drawn images and collage pictures.
Directors: Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
Votes: 173
32. Nagrodzone uczucie (1958)
9 min | Animation, Short
Borowczyk and Lenica's second collaboration is a politically correct romance told through the paintings of Jan Plaskocinski. Playful, witty, and ironic, Rewarded Feelings is augmented by a ... See full summary »
Directors: Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
Votes: 95
33. Letter from Paris (1975)
40 min | Documentary, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 121
34. Szkola (1958)
7 min | Animation, Short
A Polish soldier is drilled in front of the camera.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Star: Bronislaw Stefanik
Votes: 161
35. Gas Guzzling Ghoulie (2009)
17 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
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.
Director: Alexi Carpentieri | Stars: Nikeisha Andersson, Jonas Bacelis, Apollos Fallos, Engla Famne
Votes: 34
36. Diptych (1967)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Borowczyk presents two seemingly distinct 'volets'. In the first we see an old farmer and his dog shot in stark black and white. The second features a succession of tableaux vivant in startling colour featuring houseplants and kittens.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Star: Léon Boyer
Votes: 198
37. L'encyclopedie de grand-maman en 13 volumes (1963)
6 min | Animation, Short
The first three letters of the alphabet, brought to life through the animation of cutouts from a Victorian-era reference book.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 253
38. L'armoire (1979)
29 min | Short, Drama
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.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Marie-Catherine Conti, Yves-Marie Maurin
Votes: 30
40. Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk (2013)
75 min | Documentary
During a hospital stay in 2001, the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk compiled a handwritten list of the objects and animals that were featured in his films. While ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Bird | Star: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 21
46. Strip-Tease (1957)
2 min | Animation, Short
Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature.
Directors: Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica
47. Vingt mille ans à la française (1967)
80 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Director: Jacques Forgeot
50. Jouet joyeux (1979)
3 min | Short
A short colour animated film with musical accompaniment and no dialog. The images used are in the style of late 19th or early 20th century.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 62