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Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel

Director · Born 1900-02-22 · Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, España

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Biography

Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Buñuel's work was known for its avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary and social satire. Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel made films from the 1920s through the 1970s. He collaborated with prolific surrealist painter Salvador Dali creating the films Un Chien Andalou (1929), which was made in the silent era and L'Age d'Or (1930). The two films are seen as the birth of Cinematic surrealism. From 1947 to 1960 he developed his skills as a director filming in Mexico making grounded and human melodramas such as Gran Casino (1947), Los Olvidados (1950), and Él (1953). Here is where he gained the fundamentals of storytelling. Buñuel than transitioned into making artful, unconventional, surrealist, and political satirical films. He earned acclaim with the morally complex arthouse drama film Viridiana (1961) which criticized…

Directed

  1. Un Chien Andalou (1929) — Director
  2. Belle de Jour (1967) — Director
  3. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) — Director
  4. The Exterminating Angel (1962) — Director
  5. Viridiana (1962) — Director
  6. The Young and the Damned (1950) — Director
  7. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) — Director
  8. L'Âge d'or (1930) — Director
  9. The Phantom of Liberty (1974) — Director
  10. Tristana (1970) — Director
  11. Simon of the Desert (1965) — Director
  12. Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) — Director
  13. The Milky Way (1969) — Director
  14. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) — Director
  15. Land Without Bread (1933) — Director
  16. Nazarín (1959) — Director
  17. Él (1953) — Director
  18. Robinson Crusoe (1954) — Director
  19. Death in the Garden (1956) — Director
  20. The Brute (1953) — Director
  21. The Young One (1960) — Director
  22. Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954) — Director
  23. Susana (1951) — Director
  24. The Great Madcap (1949) — Director
  25. Wuthering Heights (1954) — Director
  26. Mexican Bus Ride (1952) — Director
  27. Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959) — Director
  28. That Is the Dawn (1956) — Director
  29. Daughter of Deceit (1951) — Director
  30. The River and Death (1954) — Director
  31. Gran Casino (1947) — Director
  32. A Woman Without Love (1952) — Director
  33. Eating Sea Urchins (2000) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Un Chien Andalou (1929) — Man in Prologue (uncredited)
  2. Belle de Jour (1967) — Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)
  3. L'Âge d'or (1930) — (uncredited)
  4. The Phantom of Liberty (1974) — Condemned Man (uncredited)
  5. The Milky Way (1969) — (voice) (uncredited)
  6. The Proud and the Beautiful (1953) — Smuggler (uncredited)
  7. Montparnasse (1929)
  8. Speaking of Buñuel (2000) — Self (archive footage)
  9. Mauprat (1926) — Monk / Guardsman
  10. Carmen (1926) — Contrebandier chez lillas pastia
  11. Weeping for a Bandit (1964) — El verdugo
  12. Fall of a Body (1973) — Un invité (uncredited)
  13. There Are No Thieves in This Village (1965)
  14. A Mexican Buñuel (1997) — Self (archival)
  15. Buñuel (1984) — Self
  16. Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps (1964) — Self
  17. Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit (2018) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  18. The Incredible Mr. Piccoli (2017) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  19. Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là (2010) — Self (archive footage)
  20. Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015) — Self (archive footage)
  21. Deneuve, la reine Catherine (2022) — Self (archive footage)
  22. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self
  23. The Castaway on the Street of Providence (1971) — Self
  24. tvSSFBM EHKL (2001) — Himself (archive footage)
  25. Buñuel in Hollywood (2000) — Self (archive footage)
  26. Reflets de Cannes (1954) — Self
  27. Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (2020) — Self (archive footage)
  28. The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel (1984) — Self
  29. Les paradoxes de Buñuel (1998) — Self (archive footage)
  30. Paco, mi padre (1992)
  31. Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) — Self (archive footage)
  32. Discovering Buñuel (2012) — Self/Archive Footage
  33. Memoria de Los Olvidados (2025) — Self (archive footage)
  34. Constel·lació Portabella (2024) — (archive footage)