Luis Buñuel Portolés — Director (29)
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Belle de Jour (1967) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Belle de jour
6.4 (8 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel actor: Catherine Deneuve / Jean Sorel …
other title: Bella di giorno / Dagens Skønhed …
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
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Simon of the Desert (1965) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Simón del desierto
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Claudio Brook / Silvia Pinal …
other title: Simon del deserto / Simon i ørkenen …
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB Melon Log WikiData IMDb
Le Fantôme de la liberté
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Adriana Asti / Milena Vukotić …
other title: Il fantasma della libertà / O Fantasma da Liberdade …
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
7.6 (16 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel actor: Fernando Rey / Delphine Seyrig …
other title: Il fascino discreto della borghesia / O Charme Discreto da Burguesia …
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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The Exterminating Angel (1962) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
El ángel exterminador
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Silvia Pinal / Enrique Rambal …
other title: L'angelo sterminatore / O Anjo Exterminador …
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
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The Young and the Damned (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
Los olvidados
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Estela Inda / Miguel Inclán …
other title: I figli della violenza / Fortabt ungdom …
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
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Susana (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Susana
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Fernando Soler / Rosita Quintana …
other title: Adolescenza torbida / Susanna - Tochter des Lasters …
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
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That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Cet obscur objet du désir
director: Luis Buñuel actor: Fernando Rey / Carole Bouquet …
other title: Quell'oscuro oggetto del desiderio / Cet obscur objet du désir …
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
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Viridiana (1962) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Viridiana
7.8 (5 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel actor: Silvia Pinal / Francisco Rabal …
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
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Él (1953) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb
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.
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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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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Wuthering Heights (1954) [Movie] TMDB
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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Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959) [Movie] 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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The Milky Way (1969) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
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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Land Without Bread (1933) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban Melon Log
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) [Movie] 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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Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
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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L’Age d’Or (1930) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
L'Âge d'or
director: Luis Buñuel 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.