The Milky Way
(1969)

Two men making a religious pilgrimage through France form the basis for string of Luis Bunuel `jokes', parables, and surrealistic visions. Heretical, funny and haunting. French dialogue with subtitles. *MR  More

Phantom Of Liberty
(1974) [M]

Luis Bunuel's dreamlike comedy of irony, composed of surreal, randomly connected anecdotes. Highlights include a dinner party in which the openness of eating and the privacy of defecating are reversed and adults fretting over a young girl's disappearance - even though she's present all along....  More

Belle De Jour
(1967) [M]

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, working in a brothel in...  More

The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
(1972) [M]

"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" was Bunuel's most successful film; it made more money even than his famous "Belle de Jour" (1967), won the Oscar as best foreign film and was named the year's best by the National Society of Film Critics. It was released in a year when social unrest was at...  More

Tristana
(1970) [PG]

An orphaned girl is taken into the care of a rich local man. But she discovers that his intentions are not entirely honourable. French dialogue *MR  More

Diary Of A Chambermaid
(1963) [PG]

Luis Bunuel's sharp, unrelenting remake of Jean Renoir's 1946 film concerns fascism in 1939 France and how the bourgeoisie are viewed by maid Celestine played by Jeanne Moreau who stirs the desires of her new household and neighbours. French dialogue with English subtitles.*MR  More

That Obscure Object Of Desire
(1977) [M]

Luis Bunuel's last film is as just audacious as any of his classics. Wealthy sadomasochist Fernando Rey falls hard for a young maid and she's only too happy to make him suffer. Bunuel's bizarre stroke is having Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina alternate playing the maid! French dialogue with...  More

Un Chien Andalou (2 disc set)
(1929) [M]

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s unfathomable short from 1929 is a masterpiece of filmmaking guile and audacity, a shocking celluloid dreamscape that destroyed film convention with bizarre images that still resonate today.

The film opens with a young Buñuel sharpening a knife, a...  More

The Exterminating Angel
(1962) [M]

A dinner party finds a group of well-behaved guests unable to leave. As the days pass their behaviour becomes more animal-like. Eventually they are able to gain entrance to the local church where once again their freedom is denied them. Spanish dialogue with subtitles.  More

Viridiana
(1961) [M]

After 25 years' exile, Luis Bunuel was invited to his native Spain to direct Viridiana -- only to have the Spanish government suppress the film on the grounds of blasphemy and obscenity. Regarded by many as Bunuel's crowning achievement, the film centers on an idealistic young nun named Viridiana...  More