Luis Buñuel Portolés — Director (31)
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Daughter of Deceit (1951)
La hija del engaño
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Fernando Soler / Alicia Caro …
other title: La figlia dell'inganno / Don Quintin l'amer …
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
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Mexican Bus Ride (1952)
Subida al cielo
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Esteban Márquez / Lilia Prado …
other title: Salita al cielo / Der Weg, der zum Himmel führt …
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
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Eating Sea Urchins (2000) TMDB
Menjant Garotes
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Catalina Domènech
other title: Menjant Garotes
A surrealist home movie, filmed by Luis Buñuel in Cadaqués in 1930, focusing on Salvador Dalí's father and his wife.
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The Young One (1960)
La joven
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Zachary Scott / Bernie Hamilton …
other title: Violenza per una giovane / A Jovem …
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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The River and Death (1954)
El río y la muerte
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Columba Domínguez / Miguel Torruco …
other title: Il fiume e la morte / Le Fleuve de la mort …
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this Mexican village. Men, sons, have killed each other for generations, for a so-called conception of honor in a revenge that never ends since it is also triggered by people of the village. Now, today, there are only two sons left, one in each family. One has become a doctor in the big city and his culture is modern. The other last one - of the other family - hasn't left the village and is waiting for the doctor to come "home" as he plans to kill him, to settle this war on this matter of honor once and for all. And the people of the village want blood.
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The Great Madcap (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
El gran calavera
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Fernando Soler / Rosario Granados …
other title: Il grande teschio / Der große Lebemann …
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.
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El (1953) NeoDB
El
director: 路易斯·布努埃尔 actor: 阿图罗·德·科尔多瓦 / 德利娅·加尔塞斯 …
other title: 他 / 奇异的激情
一次偶然中，弗朗西斯科（阿图罗·德·科尔多瓦 Arturo de Córdova 饰）邂逅了名为格劳莉亚（戴丽亚·加尔塞斯 Delia Garcés 饰）的女子，两人一见钟情。尽管格劳莉亚已经是劳尔（路易斯·贝里斯坦 Luis Beristáin 饰）的未婚妻了，但最终格劳莉亚还是选择了和弗朗西斯科走到了一起。
两人踏上了充满了爱意的蜜月旅程，然而，这段旅程带给他们的却只有无尽的争吵和痛苦。弗朗西斯科有着远远异于常人的控制欲和嫉妒心，这带给格劳莉亚十分巨大的压力。蜜月结束之后，两人回到了西班牙，他们之间的关系因为弗朗西斯科的神经质而进一步恶化，格劳莉亚过着几乎被囚禁的生活。
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Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Jeanne Moreau / Georges Géret …
other title: Il diario di una cameriera / Diário de Uma Criada de Quarto …
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
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Nazarin (1959) IMDb TMDB
Nazarín
director: Luis Buñuel Portolés actor: Marga López / Francisco Rabal …
other title: Nazarín
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
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L’Age d’Or (1930)
L'Âge d'or
director: Luis Buñuel Portolés actor: Gaston Modot / Lya Lys …
other title: A Idade do Ouro / Das goldene Zeitalter …
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
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Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
La ilusión viaja en tranvía
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Lilia Prado / Carlos Navarro …
other title: L'illusione viaggia in tranvai / Die Illusion fährt mit der Straßenbahn …
Confronted with the unfortunate news that their favorite Streetcar, no. 133, is going to be decommissioned, two Municipal Transit workers get drunk and decide to "take 'er for one last spin," as it were. Unfortunately, the "one last spin" ends up being an all-night and all-day scramble to stay out of trouble, as they are confronted with situation after sometimes bizarre situation that prevents them from returning the "borrowed" Streetcar!
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The Milky Way (1969) NeoDB
La voie lactée
director: 路易斯·布努埃尔 actor: 保罗·弗朗克尔 / 洛朗·特兹弗 …
other title: 银河 / La voie lactée
皮埃尔（保罗·弗兰克尔Paul Frankeur 饰）和吉恩（劳伦特·特兹弗 Laurent Terzieff 饰）是两个从巴黎出发，沿圣雅各伯之路步行前往西班牙圣地亚哥-德孔波斯特拉古城的朝圣者。刚一出发，他们就遇到了一个披黑斗篷的奇怪男人（阿兰·克尼 Alain Cuny 饰），预言二人将会与一妓女有染，并诞下子嗣。一路上，皮埃尔和吉恩穿越不同时空，遇到了形形色色的天主教异教徒，目睹了普里西利安（让-克劳德·卡里尔Jean-Claude Carrière 饰）的神秘林中仪式，及耶稣会成员与詹森派成员的决斗。到达西班牙后，二人同意为路遇的两名年轻人看守驴子与货物。这二人因公然挑战三位一体的教条而被追捕，其中一人当晚却亲见圣母马利亚（爱迪丝·斯考博 Edith Scob 饰）显灵。
本片灵感来自《西班牙异教史》一书，获1969年柏林电影节国际联盟奖（Interfilm Award）。
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Land Without Bread (1933)
Las Hurdes
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Francisco Rabal
other title: Terra senza pane / As Hurdes: Terra Sem Pão …
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.
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The Milky Way (1969) IMDb TMDB Douban
La Voie lactée
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Paul Frankeur / Laurent Terzieff …
other title: La via lattea / La Voie lactée …
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
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Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959) TMDB
La fièvre monte à El Pao
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Gérard Philipe / María Félix …
other title: L'isola che scotta / La fièvre monte à El Pao …
Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
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Wuthering Heights (1954)
Abismos de pasión
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Irasema Dilián / Jorge Mistral …
other title: Abissi di passione / Abismos de pasión …
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves, to find her married to the wealthy and effete Eduardo.
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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
Ensayo de un crimen
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Ernesto Alonso / Miroslava …
other title: Estasi di un delitto / Ensayo de un crimen …
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
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Él (1953) IMDb TMDB Douban
Él
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Arturo de Córdova / Delia Garcés …
other title: Lui / Er …
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.