The Vault
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
2019 ★ 7.0Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and
Tristana
1970 ★ 7.2As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent ch
Buñuel
1984 ★ 6.0Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain’s renowned Surrealist film maker and iconoclast, Luis Buñuel.
Un Chien Andalou
1929 ★ 7.4Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. Fantasy dreamlike disorienting unse
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972 ★ 7.5In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillia
The Phantom of Liberty
1974 ★ 7.5This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as
Viridiana
1962 ★ 7.7Viridiana 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
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all
The Exterminating Angel
1962 ★ 7.9After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades d
Pierre Clémenti
Pierre Clémenti was a French actor born in Paris on September 28, 1942, and he died on December 27, 1999. He studied drama and began his acting career in the th
Él
1953 ★ 7.7Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath. Drama Thriller jealousy sadness flashback church rage wrath thr
Simon of the Desert
1965 ★ 7.6Simon, 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 t
Susana
1951 ★ 6.8The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily rout
Nazarín
1959 ★ 7.6A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor. Nazarín is a 1959
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
1955 ★ 7.3A 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
The Milky Way
1969 ★ 7.1Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 ★ 7.1Celestine 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,
L'Âge d'or
1930 ★ 6.8The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love.
Weeping for a Bandit
1964 ★ 5.8José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits. T
Robinson Crusoe
1954 ★ 6.4The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learni
A Woman Without Love
1952 ★ 5.4After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with
That Obscure Object of Desire
1977 ★ 7.4After 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 sto
Fantômas
1980 ★ 7.2Master 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,
The Young and the Damned
1950 ★ 8.0A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed