Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 10 films on Boxlist

Known for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Exterminating Angel and The Young and the Damned.

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Directed by Luis Buñuel

  1. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

    1972 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

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  2. The Exterminating Angel

    The Exterminating Angel

    1962 · Film

    8.0/10 · TMDB

    After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.

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  3. The Young and the Damned

    The Young and the Damned

    1950 · Film

    8.1/10 · TMDB

    A group of juvenile delinquents lives a criminal, violent life in the festering slums of Mexico City, among them the young Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

  4. Viridiana

    Viridiana

    1961 · Film

    7.7/10 · TMDB

    Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has...

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  5. Un Chien Andalou

    Un Chien Andalou

    1929 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

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  6. That Obscure Object of Desire

    That Obscure Object of Desire

    1977 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in...

  7. Belle de Jour

    Belle de Jour

    1967 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais...

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  8. The Phantom of Liberty

    The Phantom of Liberty

    1974 · Film

    7.7/10 · TMDB

    This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without...

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  9. Diary of a Chambermaid

    Diary of a Chambermaid

    1964 · Film

    7.2/10 · TMDB

    Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the...

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  10. L'Âge d'Or

    L'Âge d'Or

    1930 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their...

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