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Belle de Jour (1967) Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, workin

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to

La femme aux bottes rouges (1974) After a chance meeting with avant garde writer Francoise, an elderly millionaire starts to manipulate her life, drawing in equally unsuspecting and happily married Mark. Francoise however ...

Leonor (1975) 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 whe

Tristana (1970) When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable nature, despite his socialistic views about business and religion. But Don Lope's one weakness i

The Young One (1960) Game warden Miller lives on an isolated island off the Carolina coast. The only other inhabitant is Evvie, an naive young girl to whom Miller is attracted. Traver, a black musician on the run from a lynch mob after falsely being accused of rape, lands on the island. Miller wants

The Phantom of Liberty (1974) This surrealist film consists of a series of only vaguely related episodes, most famously the dinner party scene in which people sit on lavatories round a dinner table, occasionally retiring to a small room to eat.

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) Celestine, the chambermaid, has new job on the country. The Monteils, who she works for are a group of strange people. The wife is frigid, her husband is always hunting (both animals and women) and her father is a shoe-fetishist. Joseph, the farm-labourer is a fascist a

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment.

LAge dOr (1930) Bunuel's first feature has more of a plot than Un Chien Andalou (1929), but it's still a pure Surrealist film, so this is only a vague outline. A man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted, by their

Death in the Garden (1956) Chark, an adventurer comes to small village in the near of a gold digger's camp. He is arrested by the local police, who accuse him of having comitted a bank robbery in a neighoured town. The police also confiscate the gold mine for the state, due to this the gold diggers

The Milky Way (1969) Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

Los Olvidados (1950) 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.

El bruto (1953) In the 50's, in a poor community in Mexico, the landlord Andrés Cabrera wants to evict his tenants to demolish the buildings and sell the land by a large amount. However, the leader of the community Carmelo González resists to his attempts. Andrés hires the strong slaughterhouse w

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

Nazarín (1959) Nazarin is a priest, attempting to living a pure and honest life strictly according to Christian principles - but others only show him distrust and hatred, apart from the local prostitute...

El (1953) Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but little by little his passion starts to exhibit disturbi

¡Centinela, alerta! (1937) A girl, left pregnant by a seducer, sets off to look for him when the child is born.

Viridiana 1961 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 Stirred by her resemblance to his late wife, he attempts to seduce her and tragedy ensues In the aftermath, Viridiana tries

Mexican Bus Ride 1952 Ecstatic, a young country boy, Oliverio, cant wait to take his untouched and beautiful newly wed bride to an offshore islet for their honeymoon Instead, the unfortunate groom receives the terrible news that his mother is dying and to further complicate things he must take a lon

Simon of the Desert 1965 The ascetic Simon believes he is a sinner and decides to self inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal in the middle of the desert to be closer to God and resist the temptations of the world His followers are peasants and travelers that believe that

An Andalusian Dog 1929 In a surrealistic film with input from Salvador Dali, director Luis Bunuel presents stark, surrealistic images including the slitting open of a womans eye and a dead horse being pulled along on top of a piano A mysterious film open to interpretations ranging from deep to compl

The Exterminating Angel 1962 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 theyve built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to livi