Luis Buñuel Filmography

Born:: February 22, 1900 in Calanda, Aragon, Spain
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Sent off for a Jesuit education by his prosperous Spanish parents, Luis Buñuel went on to attend the University of Madrid, where he first became interested in the burgeoning European film industry. Upon graduating from Paris' Academie du Cinema, his first movie job was as an assistant to...Read More

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Grandes Directores

Actors: Luis Buñuel, Emilio "El Indio" Fernández

2004
A propósito de Buñuel

Actors: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: Surrealist master Luis Bunuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently Read More

2000
That Obscure Object of Desire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber

Synopsis: Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is the 30th and final film from the great Luis Buñuel. Recounted in flashback to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly details the romantic perils of Mathieu (Buñuel favorite Fernando Rey), a Read More

1977
The Phantom of Liberty

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur, Paul Le Person, François Maistre, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic, Michel Piccoli, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau

Synopsis: One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them "pornographic." A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passersby. A "missing" child helps Read More

9/11/74
Le Moine

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Natalie Delon, Nicol Williamson, Nadja Tiller

Synopsis: Adapting the Gothic novel The Monk, by Matthew G. Lewis, Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière wrote the screenplay for this French film, directed by Buñuel's friend, Ado Kyrou. In the story, Ambrosio (Franco Nero) is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in Read More

11/2/72
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society. Buñuel applies his surrealist touch to a mundane event: a dinner party that may never come to pass. A group of well-to-do friends attempt to gather for a social evening, but Read More

9/15/72
Tristana

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos, Jesus Fernandez

Synopsis: Luis Buñuel's Tristana is a surreal criticism of Catholicism and the modern world, told through the story of the title character, who is portrayed by Catherine Deneuve. Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), the protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don Read More

8/27/70
La Voie Lactée

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Paul Frankeur, Alain Cuny, Delphine Seyrig, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: While arch surrealist Luis Bunuel never made a secret of his skepticism about the existence of God, he was also raised as a strict Spanish Catholic and remained fascinated with the church's teaching throughout his life, and his obsessions with both faith and the contradictions of dogma provided Read More

2/28/69
Belle de Jour

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Macha Meril, Pierre Clémenti

Synopsis: Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a Read More

5/23/67
Simon del Desierto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena, Enrique Alvarez Felix

Synopsis: Forty minutes is more than enough screen time for Spanish director Luis Buñuel to state his case in Simon of the Desert. Claudio Brook portrays fifth-century Christian Simon (later St. Simon Stylites) who dispenses religious sagacity while standing on a tall column in the middle of the desert. Read More

1965
En Este Pueblo No Hay Ladrones

Actors: Julian Pastor, Luis Buñuel

Synopsis: When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making Read More

1965
Diary of a Chambermaid

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret, Francoise Lugagne, Daniel Ivernel, Jean Ozenne

Synopsis: 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 to work in the 1930s for a Normandy estate occupied by Monsieur Rabour (Jean Ozenne), his daughter (Francoise Lugagne Read More

3/4/64
The Exterminating Angel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristain

Synopsis: The great screen surrealist Luis Buñuel co-wrote and directed this dark, bitterly witty satire. A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have Read More

1962
Viridiana

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Margarita Lozano, Victoria Zinny

Synopsis: After 25 years' exile, Luis Buñuel was invited to his native Spain to direct Viridiana -- only to have the Spanish government suppress the film on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. Regarded by many as Buñuel's crowning achievement, the film centers on an idealistic young nun named Viridiana (Silvia Pinal Read More

1961
La Joven

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Zachary Scott, Kay Meersman, Bernie Hamilton, Graham Denton, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: Luis Buñuel and Hugo Butler (under the pseudonym "H.B. Addis") adapted Peter Matthiessen's story Travelin' Man for this drama about a black jazz musician, on the run from a false accusation of raping a white woman. Miller (Zachary Scott) is a middle aged handyman on a small island off the Read More

1960
La Fièvre Monte à El Pao

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Maria Felix, Jean Servais, Miguel Angel Ferriz

Synopsis: A moral decay leading to revolution is paralleled to the illness that is consuming the hero in this emotive tale by renowned director Luis Buñuel. Set on a fictional Latin American island, the action starts when Gov. Vargas (Miguel Angle Ferriz) is assassinated. His executive secretary Ramon Read More

1959
Nazarin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Marga Lopez, Rita Macedo, Jesus Fernandez, Ignacio Tarso

Synopsis: Acclaimed director Luis Buñuel displays several of his trademark interests in this drama about a priest who leaves his order. The director's disdain for organized religion and the establishment, as well as his tendency to shock through visual imagery, are both apparent. Nazarin (Francisco Rabal) Read More

1958
Cela S'Appelle L'Aurore

Crew: Director

Actors: Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosé, Gianni Esposito, Nelly Borgeaud

Synopsis: Luis Buñuel's Cela S'Appelle L'Aurore was briefly released in English-speaking countries as That is the Dawn. The story concerns a humane doctor (Georges Marchal) who is aghast at how the residents of a small Island near Corsica are being exploited by a cruel factory owner. Unfortunately, the Read More

5/9/56
La Mort En Ce Jardin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simone Signoret, Charles Vanel, Georges Marchal, Michel Piccoli, Michéle Girardon

Synopsis: Recharging his creative batteries with a "commercial" venture, director Luis Bunuel came up with the stylish if undistinguished La Mort en ce Jardin (Death in This Garden). Set in a steaming jungle, the film concerns a disparate group of refugees from a despotic military regime. Among these Read More

1956
Ensayo de un Crimen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ernesto Alonso, Ariadne Welter, Miroslava Stern, Rita Macedo, Rodolfo Landa

Synopsis: This Mexican-filmed black comedy (distributed in the U.S. seven years after its initial 1955 release date) is one of the minor but no less characteristic works of director Luis Buñuel. The film begins with Archibaldo (Ernesto Alonso) being triggered by a music box into a lengthy reminiscence of Read More

1955
El Rio y la Muerte

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

Actors: Victor Alcocer, Humberto Almazan, Joaquin Cordero, Columba Dominguez

1954
Robinson Crusoe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernandez, Felipe de Alba, Chel Lopez, José Chavez

Synopsis: Exiled from his Spanish homeland, director Luis Bunuel set up shop in Mexico. Here he made his only American-financed film, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. This is a reasonably reliable version of the Daniel Defoe's novel about a 17th century shipwreck victim (Dan O'Herlihy) and his "Man Read More

1953
Abismos de Pasion

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Irasema Dilian, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso

Synopsis: Director Luis Buñuel constructs this 1954 motion picture on the foundation of Emily Bronte's Gothic novel set in England. However, Buñuel substitutes a Mexican setting for the English one and Spanish names for the novel's central characters. He also alters the plot to heighten tension and maximize Read More

1953
La Ilusion Viaja en Tranvia

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Seldom has there been a more descriptive and succinct film title than Illusion Travels by Streetcar. Luis Bunuel offers us nothing more or less than a series of hallucinatory images, experienced by two senior citizens while taking their last ride on the Mexico City public transit system. One of Read More

1953
El Bruto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Andres Solér, Rosita Arenas

Synopsis: A Bunuel melodrama about a man conned into harassing tenants that his boss wants evicted. Other complications along the line are his seduction by the boss's mistress and his falling in love with a girl whose father he has accidentally murdered. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1952
El

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Arturo de Cordova, Delia Garces, Luis Beristain, Manuel Donde, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena

Synopsis: In El, it is director Luis Bunuel's contention that uncontrollable insanity can grow within even the most rational of men. Spanish aristocratic Arturo de Cordova, outwardly the picture of courtly charm, marries lovely Delia Garces, who is much younger than he. From the honeymoon onward, Cordova Read More

1952
Susana

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Having recently escaped from a reformatory for troubled, a voluptuous young delinquent is taken in by a wealthy Spanish family and methodically proceeds to undermine their conservative religious household through seduction and intimidation. Acclaimed Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel directs this Read More

1951
Una Mujer Sin Amor

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Julio Villareal, Rosario Granados, Tito Junco, Sr., Javier Loya, Joaquin Cordero

Synopsis: A comparatively conventional Luis Bunuel effort, the Mexican Woman Without Love is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Rosario Granados plays a young wife, Rosario Montero. Ignored by her wealthy art dealer husband, Don Carlos (Julio Villarreal) -- who is many years her senior -- Rosario Read More

1951
Si usted no puede, yo sí

Crew: Screenwriter

1951
Subida Al Cielo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Esteban Marquez, Lilia Prado

Synopsis: Better known as Ascent to Heaven, Luis Bunuel's Mexican Bus Ride is a genial surrealistic comedy with many of the earmarks but little of the elegant cruelty of Bunuel's later works. Esteban Marquez plays a young bridegroom who is called away from the altar. Marquez's mother is dying, necessitating Read More

1951
La Hija del Engaño

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her. He begins looking for her. He finds that she has grown up to Read More

1951
Los Olvidados

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclan, Efrain Arauz, Alma Delia Fuentes

Synopsis: The winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards, Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (aka The Forgotten Ones and The Young and the Damned) was the director's first international box-office success. Yet Buñuel showed no signs of curbing the outrageous iconoclasm that made him famous in Europe and South Read More

1950
El Gran Calavera

Crew: Director

Synopsis: El Gran Calavera a dark comedy directed by Luis Buñuel deals with a family's attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo (Luis Alconira). The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone. He discovers Read More

1949
Gran Casino

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Two great Latin singing stars team up in this musical melodrama directed by the innovative Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel. Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Demetrio (Julio Villarreal) are a pair of footloose cowboys in turn-of-the-century Mexico who are looking for work after escaping from Read More

1947
Centinela, Alerta!

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

1936
Quién Me Quiere a Mi?

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

1936
Las Hurdes

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: "Do you see this wonderful valley?" director Luis Buñuel asked his crew as they began filming this documentary; "well, this is where Hell begins." Buñuel had long displayed a love/hate relationship with his native Spain, and his bitterness rarely flowed with greater force than in Las Hurdes. Read More

1932
L'Âge d'Or

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst, Pierre Prevert, Lionel Salem, Jose Artigas

Synopsis: L'Âge d'Or begins as a documentary about the habits of scorpions, utilizing library footage and silent-style intertitles. Amid the rocks of an inlet, archbishops are seen chanting by a beggar-soldier (Max Ernst), who then makes a long journey back to his hideout. He informs his fellow Read More

1930
Un Chien Andalou

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali

Synopsis: Fledging director Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali create this ultimate surrealist film, which is essentially a barrage of striking and irrational images designed to shock and provoke. During the course of the film, we witness a close-up of a woman's eye being slashed open with a razor; a man Read More

1928

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