Juan Luis Buñuel

Henry & June

While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.

Release Date1990-09-28

Charactersd Publisher

Vote Count201

Money Money Money

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.

Release Date1972-05-04

Charactersd Ernesto Juarez

Vote Count175

The Milky Life

Retired billionaire, Rooney, feels his family loves only his money and not him. He plans to live as an adult baby with his wet nurse, Sagebrecht. When thieves break into his mansion and hit him on the head, he starts to grow younger.

Release Date1993-02-23

Charactersd Dr. Davis

Vote Count3

Familiarities

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

Release Date1969-01-01

Charactersd Dávalos

Vote Count8

Buñuel in Hollywood

This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Aragonese filmmaker stays in the U.S., the characters he met, the films he made and he could never do. The program also includes new material-unpublished until 2012 - the Aragonese director filmed in the U.S. in the early 1940s and where he can be seen playing one of their children or enjoying a short holiday in a cottage.

Release Date2000-02-22

Charactersd Self

The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel

A loosely chronological visual “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Luis Buñuel.

Release Date2008-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

Buñuel

Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain’s renowned Surrealist film maker and iconoclast, Luis Buñuel. Using photographs, film excerpts, and numerous interviews with Bunuel, the video chronicles his early friendships with Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, the stormy reactions to many of his groundbreaking films, and the influence he has had on international cinema. Among those interviewed are directors Federico Fellini, John Huston, and Jose L. Saenz De Heredia; Buñuel’s wife, Jeanne Rucar, and son Juan; actor Francisco Rabal; and Octavio Paz.

Release Date1984-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count4

Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves

Based on unpublished interviews with the family, Jean-Claude Carrière, his writer and biographer, family archives, mini-fictions that dramatize the memories evoked and in constant echo with the upcoming films whose images seem to crystallize over the narrative, we wish to reinterpret Luis Buñuel's work through these decisive years, revealing hidden coherence, originality and beauty.

Release Date2018-03-10

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Los chicos de la foto

Release Date2014-05-24

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote

Release Date2000-11-05

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Softly from Paris

An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.

Release Date1986-11-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

Fantômas

Master criminal Fantomas kills an ambassador, has an affair with the dead man's wife, sneaks into a rich woman's house handing out vanishing-ink business cards, is arrested and sentenced to death but switches with an actor, who goes to the guillotine.

Release Date1980-05-03

DepartmentArt

JobArt Direction

Episode Count4

Vote Count5

Haute tension

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Release Date1988-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

That Obscure Object of Desire

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 question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.

Release Date1977-08-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count410

Viridiana

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 secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Release Date1962-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count523

Diary of a Chambermaid

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 Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Release Date1964-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count208

Fever Mounts at El Pao

Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.

Release Date1959-12-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count29

Viva Maria!

An IRA operative escapes to the Americas and teams up with a circus singer to create a popular vaudeville act. When the singer falls for a rebel, they leave the circus behind to become fierce revolutionaries.

Release Date1965-11-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count95

Traffic Jam

A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.

Release Date1979-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Unit Director

Vote Count73

The Thief of Paris

In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the fiancé's family jewels, reveling in the thrill, and sets off on a lifelong path of burglary.

Release Date1967-02-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count79

Leonor

Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.

Release Date1975-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count25

Belle Toujours

38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night at a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and then takes a slow revenge on her.

Release Date2006-09-08

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count18

The Woman with Red Boots

An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.

Release Date1974-12-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

The Immoral Moment

Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...

Release Date1962-07-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Vote Count7

At the Meeting with Joyous Death

The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the paranormal phenomena

Release Date1973-01-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count18

The Orinoco Dam

After the accidental death of her husband, Dominique Vallorie agrees to take over the construction of an important dam on the Orinoco River. She does not know that by accepting to go to Venezuela, her life as a woman and engineer will change. Through a great love story she will assert herself despite all the pitfalls on the way.

Release Date1996-09-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

The French Game

Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend François to act as an intermediary.

Release Date1960-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Vote Count8

La rebelión de los colgados

The drama of the Indians of tropical Mexico in the early twentieth century. The Rebellion of the Hanged is the intense story of the rise of the oppressed pawns and their struggle to achieve freedom and independence.

Release Date1986-11-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Calanda

"A film by Juan-Luis Buñuel shot in 1964 documenting Calanda, the Spanish town where his father Luis Buñuel was born. The people of Calanda, during the Easter week, play the drums without cease for twenty-four hours." - Luis Buñuel Film Institute

Release Date1967-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

A Slice of Buñuel

The documentary feature containing an interview with Bunuel's son: Juan-Luis.

Release Date2014-12-26

Vote Count1