Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel Le Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire marked Buñuel's final film. Recounted in flashback to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly details the romantic perils of...
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 lavatories round a dinner table on, occasionally...
Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment.
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.
Forty-two years after it was first released, Luis Buñuel's story of an affluent and frigid housewife who acts out her masochistic sexual fantasies by taking a part- time job at a Paris brothel spending her afternoons exploring...
Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove...
When the governor of an prison island is assassinated, his secretary, Ramón Vasquez, assumes the role of acting governor until a replacement can be appointed. Vasquez, an idealist, exploits this opportunity to improve the lot of...
Nazarín is a priest, attempting to living a pure and honest life strictly according to Christian principles - but others only show him distrust and hatred, apart from the local prostitute...
A sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics, in which a man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church and...
UN CHIEN ANDALOU consists of almost seventeen minutes of bizarre and surreal images that may or may not mean anything. A straight razor seems to be placed by a woman's eye, a small cloud formation obscures the moon, a cow's eye...
Forty-two years after it was first released, Luis Buñuel's story of an affluent and frigid housewife who acts out her masochistic sexual fantasies by taking a part- time job at a Paris brothel spending her afternoons exploring...
A sequence of moral and surrealist aesthetics, in which a man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church and...
UN CHIEN ANDALOU consists of almost seventeen minutes of bizarre and surreal images that may or may not mean anything. A straight razor seems to be placed by a woman's eye, a small cloud formation obscures the moon, a cow's eye...
