Luis Buñuel — Director (31)

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Viridiana (1962)
Viridiana
★ 8.0 7 ratings
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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That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
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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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Susana (1951)
Susana
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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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
★ 7.4 21 ratings
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 Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Le Fantôme de la liberté
★ 9.4 5 ratings
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.

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Simon of the Desert (1965)
Simón del desierto
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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Belle de Jour (1967)
Belle de jour
★ 7.1 11 ratings
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.