Luis Buñuel Portolés — Director (31)
Viridiana (1962) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Viridiana
8.0 (7 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.
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.
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.
The Exterminating Angel (1962) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
El ángel exterminador
8.0 (5 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel Portolés 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.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Skybridge
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
7.4 (20 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel Portolés actor: Fernando Rey / Delphine Claire Belriane 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.
The Phantom of Liberty (1974) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB Melon Log WikiData IMDb Skybridge
Le Fantôme de la liberté
9.4 (5 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel Portolés 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.
Simon of the Desert (1965) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
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.
Belle de Jour (1967) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData Skybridge TMDB
Belle de jour
6.8 (10 ratings) director: Luis Buñuel Portolés 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.