Belle de jour / Beauty of the Day (1967)
Drama | Romance
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian
Director: Luis Buñuel
That Obscure Object of Desire / Cet obscur objet du désir (1977)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
Starring: Carole Bouquet, Fernando Rey, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber, Milena Vukotic
Director: Luis Buñuel
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
Comedy
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
Starring: Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran
Director: Luis Buñuel
The Phantom of Liberty / Le fantôme de la liberté (1974)
Comedy
A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Paul Frankeur
Director: Luis Buñuel
Death in the Garden / La mort en ce jardin (1956)
Adventure | Drama
Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, which incites the miners to revolt, but they're defeated. Shark, Father Lizzardi, Castin, his daughter, and Djin, a whore Castin loves, flee into the jungle and fight for their lives.
Starring: Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli, Tito Junco, Michèle Girardon
Director: Luis Buñuel
El Ángel Exterminador / The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room… and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals…
Starring: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico
Director: Luis Buñuel
Viridiana (1961)
Comedy | Drama
Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Moved purely by a sense of obligation, she does so. Her uncle is moved by her resemblance to his late wife to attempt to seduce Viridiana, and tragedy ensues. In the aftermath, Viridiana tries to assuage her guilt by creating a haven for the destitute folk who live around her uncle's estate. But from these good intentions, too, comes little good…
Starring: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano
Director: Luis Buñuel
Simon of the Desert / Simón del desierto (1965)
Comedy | Drama
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him. But Simon recognizes him everytime. So the Devil takes him to a nightclub in New York of the 1960s.
Starring: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Hortensia Santoveña, Francisco Reiguera
Director: Luis Buñuel
Tristana (1970)
Drama
When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope…
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Director: Luis Buñuel
