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 ... Read more
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, ... Read more
A simple priest tries to live by Christian precepts in one of Luis Bunuel's best films.
"I am very much attached to Nazarin," said Bunuel. "He is a priest. He could as well be a hairdresser or a ... Read more
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others... Read more
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 ... Read more
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister (Libertad Lamarque) arrives from ... Read more
Luis Buñuel's last film is as just audacious as any of his classics. Wealthy sadomasochist Fernando Rey falls hard for a young maid and she's only too happy to make him suffer. Buñuel's bizarre ... Read more
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 Bunuel. The film ... Read more