Luis Buñuel Portolés — Playwright (22)
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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 Monk (1972) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Le Moine
director: Adonis Kyrou actor: Franco Nero / Nathalie Delon …
other title: Il monaco / Der Mönch und die Frauen …
Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes. After he has committed numerous crimes, it appears that he will be caught and punished by the Inquisition. Instead, he signs up on the Devil's team and wins his freedom.. and eventually, the papacy.
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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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The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
La Chute de la maison Usher
director: Jean Epstein actor: Jean Debucourt / Marguerite Gance …
other title: La caduta della casa Usher / La Chute de la maison Usher …
A stranger called Allan goes to the House of Usher. He is the sole friend of Roderick Usher, who lives in the eerie house with his sick wife Madeleine. When she dies, Roderick does not accept her death, and in the dark night, Madeleine returns.
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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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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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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.
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Viridiana (1962)
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.
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That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
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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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
★ 7.4 (21 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.
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
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.