Films
- 1970 Viva la muerte; A co-production of Isabel-Films (Paris) and S.A.T.P.E.C. (Tunis), starring Nuria Espert, Ivan Henriques, and Anouk Ferjac.
- 1972 J'irai comme un cheval fou, (I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse); produced by the Société Générale de Production – Babylone Films, starring Emmanuelle Riva, Hachemi Marzouk, and George Shannon.
- 1975 L'arbre de Guernica, (The Guernica Tree); produced by C.V.C. Communication, Federico Mueller, and Harry N. Blum; starring Maria Angela Melato and Ron Faber.
- 1980 L'odyssée de la Pacific (Pacific Odyssey), produced by Babylone Films, starring Mickey Rooney and Monique Leclerc.
- 1981 Le cimetière des voitures (The Automobile Graveyard), a co-production of Antenne 2 and Babylone Films, starring Alain Bashung and Juliette Berto.
- 1992 Adieu, Babylone! (Farewell, Babylon!) a production of Antenne 2-Cinecim, starring Lélia Fischer and Spike Lee.
- 1998 Jorge Luis Borges: Una vida de poesía, (Borges, a Life in Poetry) a production of Alphaville/Spirali (Italy), starring Lélia Fischer and Alessandro Atti.
In 2005 a 3-DVD box set of Arrabal’s most renowned films was released by Cult Epics including Viva la muerte, I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse, and The Guernica Tree. Fernando Arrabal (who has been awarded the Premio Pier Paolo Pasolini for his contributions to cinema) has written and directed seven feature-length films (released on DVD by Cult Epics and Wanda Films).
Several of Fernando Arrabal’s plays have been adapted for the screen, including Le Grand Cérémonial (directed by Pierre-Alain Jolivet); El triciclo (directed by Luis Argueta); El ladrón de sueños (directed by Arroyo), Pique-nique (directed by Louis Sénéchal), Guernica (directed by Peter Lilienthal), Fando et Lis (directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky), etc.
- “‘Viva la muerte’ is an absolute masterpiece, one of the most astonishing I have seen in my lifetime” (André Pieyre de Mandiargues); “Arrabal is ferociously original” (John Parrack, “Rolling Stone”); “An audacious, paroxistic, and artistically successful work” (Amos Vogel, “Village Voice”); “I prefer Arrabal to Fellini or Ingmar Bergman... he is to cinema what Rimbaud is to poetry.” (Raymond-Léopold Bruckberger, “Le Monde”).
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