 Belle de jour 1967  R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Genevieve Page, Pierre Clementi, Francisco Rabal, Francoise Fabian, Maria Latour, Georges Marchal, Macha Meril, Muni, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan, Bernard Musson, Francois Maistre
Young Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a Parisian housewife who is bored with her husband Pierre (Jean Sorel). After a gang rapes her, Severine takes a job as a prostitute in a house of ill repute working only in the afternoons and returning home to the unsuspecting Pierre at night. But, is Severine's double life a reality, or is it only a sexual daydream?
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The Brute 1952  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Pedro Armendariz, Katy Jurado, Andres Soler, Rosa Arenas, Roberto Meyer, Beatriz Ramos, Paco Martinez, Gloria Mestre, Paz Villegas, Jose Munoz, Diana Ochoa, Ignacio Villabajo
Slaughterhouse worker Pedro (Pedro Armendariz), called "The Brute" due to his exceptional strength, is also slow of mind. When his landlord hires him to frighten evicted tenants into leaving, Pedro accidentally kills the leader of the tenants who are fighting to stay. Meanwhile, he has been having an affair with the landlord's wife (Katy Jurado). When Pedro is injured during a fight, he is nursed back to health by a young woman who, unknown to her, is the daughter of the man he killed.
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 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Fernando Rey, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Bernard Musson, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Milena Vukotic, Maria Gabriella Maione, Claude Pieplu
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is a satirical look at the bourgeoisie following the activities of upper-middle-class friends. Don Raphael (Fernando Rey), Francois Thevenot (Paul Frankeur), Simone (Delphine Seyrig), Florence (Bulle Ogier), Henri Senechal (Jean-Pierre Cassel), and Alice (Stephane Audran) try, again and again, to spend an evening together. But, no matter how many times they try, and fail, to have dinner together, their plans are frustrated by events over which they have no control. The obstacles are bizarre–ranging from a mixed- up date for the dinner, to army maneuvers, to a dead body, to a stage play in which they are characters. Good entertainment.
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The Exterminating Angel 1962 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
aka: El Angel Exterminador
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Enrique Rambal, Lucy Gallardo, Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Enrique Rambal, Antonio Bravo, Cesar del Campo, Rosa Elena Durgel, Lucy Gallardo, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Ofelia Guilmain, Nadia Haro Oliva
While attending a dinner party, the guests are entranced by their host's music room and then find that, for reasons unknown to them, they are trapped in the room. As the days pass, they are reduced to living like savages. Russell (Antonio Bravo) dies, and the other guests put his body in a cupboard. More guests die, and the situation deteriorates until it is suggested that they sacrifice Nobile (Enrique Rambal). Then Letitia (Sylvia Pinal) recommends that they retrace their actions of the last days, and they find themselves freed from the room. Celebrating their freedom, the guests attend mass at a cathedral–only to find that they, along with the priest and congregation, are now trapped inside the cathedral.
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 The Phantom of Liberty 1974  R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Specter of Freedom
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Milena Vukotic, Michael Lonsdale, Anne-Marie Deschott, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Adolfo Celi
Talk about bizarre! At age 75, Luis Bunuel still had the knack for innovative filmmaking. This surrealistic comedy is a collection of barely related sketches that include a group of patriots in the Napoleonic era egging on a firing squad to shoot them, a missing girl helping police fill out a missing person report on her, and the well-known scene of an elegantly dressed group sitting on toilets around a dinner table until hunger strikes, when they retire to stalls in a separate room to eat. And that's just a sample.
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Robinson Crusoe 1954 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
aka: The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernandez, Felipe de Alba, Chel Lopez, Jose Chavez, Emilio Garibay
Robinson Crusoe (Dan O'Herlihy), along with his dog Felix and cat Sam, is shipwrecked on a deserted island. After 18 years of solitude living in a cave, he meets Friday (Jaime Fernandez). Crusoe saves Friday's life when Friday's band of natives plans to kill and eat him. The two develop a strong bond as they spend 10 years together on the island before Crusoe is rescued by a ship's crew and returns to civilization.
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Simon of the Desert 1965 N/R, 45 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santovena, Enrique Alvarez Felix, Enrique del Castillo, Jesus Fernandez, Luis Aceves Castaneda, Antonio Bravo, Francisco Reiguera, Enrique Garcia Alvarez, Eduardo MacGregor
Simon (Claudio Brook) is an extremely religious man in the fifth century who has been standing on a tall column in a desert for over six-and-a-half years. Crowds gather as he dispenses healing to the deserving or hands out punishment as needed. Meanwhile, the Devil (Silvia Pinal andk Francisco Reiguera) shows up in several forms to entice Simon off the column, but he recognizes her each time. She finally gets him off, and takes him to a disco in 1960s Manhattan. The film stopped abruptly when Bunuel ran out of money, but he still made his anti-Christian point.
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That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina, Julien Bertheau, Andre Weber, Milena Vukotic, Maria Asquerino, Ellen Bahl, Valerie Blanco, Pierre Pieral
Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a middle-aged man, fantasizes about the woman of his dreams: Conchita. Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina alternate in the role of "Conchita." This wryly sophisticated film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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Viridiana 1961  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Margarita Lozano, Victoria Zinny, Teresa Rabal, Jose Calvo, Jose Manuel Martin, Luis Heredia, Joaquin Roa, Lola Gaos, Maria Isbert, Teresa Rabal
Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) makes a last visit to her wealthy uncle, Don Jaime (Fernando Rey), before taking her vows to become a nun in the Catholic Church. When Don Jaime realizes that Viridiana closely resembles his wife who had died years ago on their wedding night, he drugs Viridiana and tries to rape her. Later, Don Jaime confesses but then hangs himself. Viridiana inherits his estate and invites homeless beggars to the estate for food and comfort. Her plans go awry when the beggars stage an orgy, which proves to be a pivotal point in Viridiana's life, and she finds that she must make choices.
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| 1. Belle de jour (1967)
2. The Brute (1952)
3. Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
5. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
aka: El Angel Exterminador
6. Los Olvidados (1950)
aka: The Young and the Damned
7. Nazarin (1958)
8. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
aka: The Specter of Freedom
9. Robinson Crusoe (1954)
aka: The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
10. Simon of the Desert (1965)
11. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
12. Tristana (1970)
13. Un Chien Andalou (1928)
14. Viridiana (1961)
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