Walerian Borowczyk — Director (20)
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The Beast (1975) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
La Bête
director: Walerian Borowczyk actor: Sirpa Lane / Lisbeth Hummel …
other title: La bestia / O Monstro …
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.
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Immoral Tales (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Contes immoraux
director: Walerian Borowczyk actor: Lise Danvers / Fabrice Luchini …
other title: I racconti immorali di Borowczyk / Contes immoraux …
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 blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.
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Goto, Island of Love (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Goto, l'île d'amour
director: Walerian Borowczyk actor: Pierre Brasseur / Ligia Branice …
other title: Goto, l'isola dell'amore / Goto, l'île d'amour …
A petty thief works his way up the absurd hierarchy of Goto, an archipelago cut off from civilisation by a tumultuous earthquake. His dream is to possess Glossia, a stifled beauty trapped in a loveless marriage to a melancholic dictator.
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The Astronauts (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Les Astronautes
director: Walerian Borowczyk / Chris Marker actor: Michel Boschet / Ligia Branice …
other title: Gli astronauti / Les Astronautes
An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.
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Private Collections (1979) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB
Collections privées
director: Just Jaeckin / Walerian Borowczyk … actor: Roland Blanche / Marie-Catherine Conti …
other title: Collections privées / Coleções privadas …
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 decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed.
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Banner of Youth (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Sztandar Młodych
director: Walerian Borowczyk / Jan Lenica
other title: Sztandar Młodych
A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the complexity of the world in a capsule, the film reflects the new policy of the openness to the West during the Thaw of the late 1950s in Poland.
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School (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Szkoła
director: Walerian Borowczyk
other title: La scuola / Szkoła …
Animated photographs (made with Jan Lenica) with elements of animated cartoon. A display of military drill.
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The Phonograph (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Le phonographe
director: Walerian Borowczyk
other title: Le phonographe
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 quietly affecting about Borowczyk’s final ‘object’ animation.
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The Margin (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La marge
director: Walerian Borowczyk actor: Sylvia Kristel / Joe Dallesandro …
other title: Il margine / Emanuela 77 …
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.
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Immoral Women (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Les héroïnes du mal
director: Walerian Borowczyk actor: Marina Pierro / Gaëlle Legrand …
other title: Tre donne immorali? / Umoralske kvinder …
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, which has a modern-day setting, is the shortest – but also, possibly, the most outrageous: Pascale Christophe is a young married woman who’s abducted on a busy Parisian street by a small-time hood hidden inside a cardboard box!
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The Golden Lotus (1991) [Movie] TMDB
Le lotus d'or
director: Walerian Borowczyk actor: Yoko Tani / Chun-Yan Ning …
other title: Le lotus d'or
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 lackey.
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L'armoire (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
L'armoire
director: Walerian Borowczyk actor: Marie-Catherine Conti / Yves-Marie Maurin
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.
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Emmanuelle 5 (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Emmanuelle 5
director: Walerian Borowczyk actor: Monique Gabrielle / Crofton Hardester …
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.
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Diptych (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Diptyque
director: Walerian Borowczyk actor: Léon Boyer
other title: Diptyque
A short film by Walerian Borowczyk in two parts. The first 'panel' follows the morning routine of Leon Boyer who, despite being almost 100 years old, still farms the land, drives a vintage car, and plays with his two dogs. The second panel shows shots of beautiful flowers and a cat, to a recording of Tino Rossi singing 'La romance de Nadir / Je crois encore entendre' from Bizet's opera 'Les pêcheurs de perles'.
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Tom Thumb (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Le Petit Poucet
director: Walerian Borowczyk
other title: Le Petit Poucet
An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After being abandoned in the woods with no food, a group of children takes refuge in a nearby house. However, the hungry ogre that lives there is about to come home...