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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Shark! 1969  PG, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
aka: Maneater
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Barry Sullivan, Arthur Kennedy, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Lucero, Carlos Beriochoa, Manuel Alvarado, Emilia Stuart, Francisco Reiguera, Carlos Barry, Jose Chavez
On the run from soldiers after pilfering weapons, gunrunner Caine (Burt Reynolds) finds refuge in a small Sudan town. His benefactors Mallare and Anna (Barry Sullivan and Silvia Pinal) talk him into going on an expedition to gather ocean fish specimens. They are really after buried treasure, which they find. Anna sics the sharks onto the two water-borne men, and Mallare is killed. Caine survives, but problems still lie ahead for him.
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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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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. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
aka: El Angel Exterminador
2. Guns for San Sebastian (1968)
3. Shark! (1969)
aka: Maneater
4. Simon of the Desert (1965)
5. Viridiana (1961)
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