Direction: Luis Buñuel
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Luis Buñuel. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Young and the Damned
1950 · Movie · 88 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Alfonso Mejía · Roberto Cobo · Estela Inda · Miguel Inclán
Plot El Jaibo is a teenager who escapes from a reformatory institution and joins his friends in the neighborhood. After a couple of days, el Jaibo kills, with the presence of...
8.3
14K votes
8.3
14K votes
The Exterminating Angel
1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Silvia Pinal · Enrique Rambal · Jacqueline Andere · José Baviera
Plot High society guests find themselves unable to leave the dining room after a posh dinner party. The uncomfortable situation extends far beyond the limits of their patience and survival instincts...
8.1
25K votes
8.1
25K votes
Viridiana
1961 · Movie · 90 min. · Spain
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Silvia Pinal · Fernando Rey · Francisco Rabal · Margarita Lozano
Plot Viridiana is a virtuous young woman living in a convent in Spain and about to take her vows as a nun, when she is urged by her superior to visit...
8.1
28K votes
8.1
28K votes
El (This Strange Passion)
1953 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Arturo de Córdova · Delia Garcés · Aurora Walker · Carlos Martínez Baena
Plot Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she...
8.0
6K votes
8.0
6K votes
Nazarin
1959 · Movie · 92 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Francisco Rabal · Marga López · Rita Macedo · Ignacio López Tarso
Plot Indigent village priest, Father Nazario is prepared to completely sacrifice himself in order to show the villagers the radically giving, humble, selfless way of life that he believes is the...
7.7
4K votes
7.7
4K votes
Tristana
1970 · Movie · 98 min. · Spain
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Fernando Rey · Franco Nero · Lola Gaos
Plot Orphaned as a young woman, Tristana is taken in by well-respected, yet impoverished aristocrat Don Lope. It's not long before Tristana's entry into his life awakens desires and he takes...
7.6
8K votes
7.6
8K votes
Belle de jour
1967 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean Sorel · Michel Piccoli · Francisco Rabal
Plot Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid,...
7.6
11K votes
7.6
11K votes
Simon of the Desert
1965 · Movie · 43 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Claudio Brook · Silvia Pinal · Hortensia Santoveña · Jesus Fernandez
7.6
8K votes
7.6
8K votes
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
1955 · Movie · 91 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Ernesto Alonso · Miroslava · Ariadne Welter · Rita Macedo
Plot The delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime.
7.6
5K votes
7.6
5K votes
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Fernando Rey · Paul Frankeur · Delphine Seyrig · Jean-Pierre Cassel
Plot Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of...
7.5
9K votes
7.5
9K votes
That Obscure Object of Desire
1977 · Movie · 103 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Fernando Rey · Ángela Molina · Carole Bouquet · Julien Bertheau
Plot Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next...
7.4
5K votes
7.4
5K votes
Land Without Bread
1933 · Documentary · 30 min. · Spain
Direction Luis Buñuel
Plot Short documentary about the poverty in the thirties. Directed by master Luis Buñuel, it was set in a poor region in Spain.
7.4
7K votes
7.4
7K votes
An Andalusian Dog (S)
1929 · Movie · 21 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Pierre Batcheff · Simone Mareuil · Salvador Dalí
Plot Un Chien Andalou is Bunuel's first film and collaboration with Salvador Dali, a surreal exploration of desire and passion. L'Age D'or is another collaboration with Dali, a surrealist dissection of...
7.4
27K votes
7.4
27K votes
The Phantom of Liberty
1974 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Michel Piccoli · Jean Rochefort · Michael Lonsdale · Monica Vitti
Plot One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on...
7.3
3K votes
7.3
3K votes
L'Âge d'or
1930 · Movie · 62 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Gaston Modot · Lya Lys · Max Ernst · Pierre Prévert
Plot Luis Buñuel's second film is a surreal attack on bourgeios ideals that incited a riot when first released and still retains its power to shock. Buñuel began the film as...
7.2
4K votes
7.2
4K votes
The Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 · Movie · 97 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Jeanne Moreau · Michel Piccoli · Georges Géret · Françoise Lugagne
Plot The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a woman who comes...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
The Brute
1952 · Movie · 81 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Pedro Armendáriz · Katy Jurado · Rosa Arenas · Andrés Soler
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Young One
1960 · Movie · 91 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Zachary Scott · Bernie Hamilton · Key Meersman · Crahan Denton
Plot A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and a 13-year-old girl whose grandfather recently died.
6.9
961 votes
6.9
961 votes
The Milky Way
1969 · Movie · 98 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Paul Frankeur · Laurent Terzieff · Alain Cuny · Edith Scob
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...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
Susana (The Devil and the Flesh)
1951 · Movie · 82 min. · Mexico
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Rosita Quintana · Fernando Soler · Víctor Manuel Mendoza · Matilde Palou
Plot Bunuel brings his fresh and inventive eye to this impish drama which focuses on a beautiful woman whose overt sexuality causes havoc among a group of men -- revealing the...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes