The wife of a physician who diligently cares for the poor, grows weary of their dull South France factory town Read More »
Tag Archives: Luis Buñuel
Nazarín (1959) Luis Buñuel, Marga López, Francisco Rabal, Rita Macedo
Nazarin is a priest, attempting to living a pure and honest life strictly according Read More »
Mexican Bus Ride AKA Subida al cielo (1952) Luis Buñuel, Lilia Prado, Esteban Márquez, Luis Aceves Castañeda
A young man and woman’s honeymoon is cut short when the man learns Read More »
The Milky Way AKA La voie lactée (1969) Luis Buñuel, Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Read More »
Wuthering Heights AKA Abismos de pasión (1954) Luis Buñuel, Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado
Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister Read More »
The River and Death (1954) Luis Buñuel, Columba Domínguez, Miguel Torruco, Joaquín Cordero
A useless and bloody vendetta has been going on for ages between two families in this mexican village. Read More »
Susana (1951) Luis Buñuel, Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza
An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Read More »
Gran Casino (1947) Luis Buñuel, Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Negrete, Meche Barba
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) assumes the business management. Read More »
Guard! Alert! (1937) Jean Grémillon, Luis Buñuel, Ana María Custodio, Ángel Sampedro ‘Angelillo’, José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
A girl, left pregnant by a seducer, sets off to look for him when the child is born. Read More »
An Andalusian Dog (1929) Luis Buñuel, Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Short, Fantasy, Horror
In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open–juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction Read More »
Simon of the Desert (1965) Luis Buñuel, Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Short, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The ascetic Simón believes he is a sinner and decides to self-inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal Read More »
This Strange Passion (1953) Luis Buñuel, Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Drama, Romance
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. Read More »
Tristana (1970) Luis Buñuel, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Drama
When the young woman Tristana’s mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Read More »
Viridiana (1961) Luis Buñuel, Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, Comedy, Drama
Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Read More »
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) Luis Buñuel, Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli, Crime, Drama
Celestine, the chambermaid, has new occupation around the nation. The Monteils, that works for are a bunch of odd men and women. Read More »