He directed Forty films between 1946 & 1988.

His early films were surreal animations, some simply two or three seconds hanker, including many comical abecedaria. Major works of this time include a bloodcurdling Jeux des Anges (1964) & a stop motion film Renaissance (1963), which uses reverse motion to depict various ruined objects (the prayerbook, the stuffed toy, etc.) re-assembling themselves, lone to exist as destroyed once again whenever the previous object (a bomb) is complete.

Borowczyk get into survive-action feature film with Goto, Isle of Love (1968) and Blanche (1971), each tales of destruct love thwarted by jealous hubby, & two starring his have married woman, Ligia Branice. His late act, including A Animal (1975), Immoral Tales (1974) & Rites of Love (1988) hwhen been controversial, lauded by occasionally for its unique surrealist vision & derided by others as contentless pornography. Inside 1981 he processed Docteur Jekyll et les femmes, known inside English when Blood of Dr Jekyll, the version of the Jekyll and Hyde story starring Udo Kier and Patrick Magee and depicting Jekyll's transformation as a violent rebellion against a hypocrisy and sexual repression of Victorian Britain. Within his 1988 book Nightmare Film, (ISBN 0517573660) Kim Newman described the film when "dark, misanthropic and interestingly offensive".

Numbers of of Borowczyk's films apply historical settings, including A Art of Love (1983), placed in the instance of Ovid (and featuring a poet as a character); Blanche, placed around a period of the Middle Ages; & leash of the iv episodes in Immoral Tales, placed severally in a nineteenth century, a sixteenth century & the Borgia papacy.

The total of his films (Immoral Tales & a 1976 La Marge) were according to stories by André Pieyre de Mandiargues.