Throughout his long and prolific career, he directed such notable films as The Saragossa Manuscript, The Doll and The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (also known as The Sandglass).

[citation needed] "If Wojciech Has had become a painter, he would surely have been a Surrealist," wrote the Polish critic Aleksander Jackiewicz.

Has also created a number of intimate psychological dramas during his career, such as How to Be Loved and Farewells, focusing on damaged individuals who have difficulty settling into life.

Two themes remain evident in Has's output: one being his cinema of psychological analysis, the other his films of visionary form, in which he most often used the motif of a journey.

[6] From 1987 to 1989, Has was artistic director of the Rondo Film Studio and a member of the Polish State Cinema Committee.