Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Spanish
Director
Luis Bua±uel
Writer
Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur
Plot
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Spain | French, Spanish
Director
Luis Bua±uel
Writer
Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Pierre Loua¿s
Cast
Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, angela Molina
Plot
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Luis Bua±uel, Rafael Sa¡nchez Ventura, Pierre Unik
Cast
Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Plot
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique alvarez Felix
Plot
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 to come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
A husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.
Julio Alejandro, Luis Bua±uel, Benito Perez Galdas
Cast
Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Plot
Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
Octave Mirbeau, Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Jeanne Moreau, Georges Geret, Michel Piccoli
Plot
A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Italian
Director
Luis Bua±uel
Writer
Luis Bua±uel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Cast
Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny
Plot
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
A tough young man who helps to evict poor people from their houses falls in love with a girl who lives with her father in a building that's about to be demolished.
Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Vactor Manuel Mendoza
Plot
An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for seriously wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the mem...
Movie | Adventure, Crime | France, Mexico | French
Director
Luis Bua±uel
Writer
Luis Alcoriza, Luis Bua±uel, Raymond Queneau
Cast
Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel
Plot
Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, ...
Mauricio de la Serna, Jose Revueltas, Luis Alcoriza
Cast
Lilia Prado, Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto
Plot
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".
Manuel Altolaguirre, Luis Bua±uel, Juan de la Cabada
Cast
Lilia Prado, Carmelita Gonza¡lez, Esteban Mayo
Plot
A newly-wed country boy receives the terrible news that his mother is dying, and takes a long and dangerous bus trip to the city to contact a notary for her last will and testament. Will he resist temptation and do the right thing?
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 gover...
Luis Alcoriza, Luis Bua±uel, Miguel alvarez Acosta
Cast
Columba Domanguez, Miguel Torruco, Joaquan Cordero
Plot
In a backward village where members of two rival families have kept killing each other for generations, a young doctor is expected to avenge his father.
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, the...
After discovering he's being cheated on by his wife MarÃa, Quintin kicks her out of the house. Upon leaving, his wife confesses that their daughter Martha is actually not Quintin'd daughter. Quintin abandons the child in front of ...
