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Luis Buñuel has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1920s through the 1970s. 6 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Exterminating Angel.
Satyricon
1969
Drama · Fantasy
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 7%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Fall of the House of Usher
1928 · Movie · Writer
Top 11%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Johnny Got His Gun
1971 · Movie · Writer
Top 12%Prime Video · Included
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
1955 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 16%Max · Included
Belle de Jour
1967 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 20%Max · Included
The Milky Way
1969 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 23%Tubi · Free w/ ads
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Claudio Brook
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán, Alfonso Mejía
as Man in Prologue (uncredited) · Director · Writer
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Luis Buñuel
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santoveña
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Jean-Claude Brialy, Adriana Asti, Milena Vukotić
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Allan arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
Dir. Jean Epstein · With Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
Dir. Dalton Trumbo · With Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker
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...
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava, Rita Macedo
A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horacio is doomed.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli
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.
Dir. Luis Buñuel · With Francisco Rabal
