Building on early success directing documentaries such as Paris la Nuit (1955) Baratier scored an international festival hit with the French-Tunisian co-production Goha (1958). His other, very diverse, body of work includes films such as La Poupée (1962), Dragées au Poivre (1963) L’Or du Duc (1965) and La Ville-bidon (1973).