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,...

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7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K 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.

Max

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

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