Cast & creator
Luis Buñuel
Best known for Cinépanorama, Reflets de Cannes, Belle de Jour
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 the Francoist dictatorship. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He then criticized political and social conditions in The Exterminating Angel (1962), and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (1972) the later of which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He also directed Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), and Belle de Jour (1967), as well as his final film That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) the later of which earned the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director. Buñuel earned five Cannes Film Festival prizes, two Berlin International Film Festival prizes, and a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. Buñuel received numerous honors including National Prize for Arts and Sciences for Fine Arts in 1977, the Moscow International Film Festival Contribution to Cinema Prize in 1979, and the Career Golden Lion in 1982. He was nominated once for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Seven of Buñuel's films are included in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time.
Also known as: Luis Buñuel Portolés, 루이스 부뉴엘, 루이스 브뉘엘, 路易斯·布努埃尔, لوئیس بونوئل
136
film credits
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television credits
34
1926–2026 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (139)
Showing 139 of 139 credits
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Reflets de Cannes
Self
1954
Belle de Jour
Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)
1967Belle de Jour
Director
1967Belle de Jour
Screenplay
1967Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1978
That Obscure Object of Desire
Director
1977That Obscure Object of Desire
Screenplay
1977
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Screenplay
1972The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Director
1972The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Sound Effects
1972
The Young One
Director
1960The Young One
Screenplay
1960
The Exterminating Angel
Dialogue
1962The Exterminating Angel
Director
1962The Exterminating Angel
Screenplay
1962
Discovering Buñuel
Self/Archive Footage
2012
The Phantom of Liberty
Condemned Man (uncredited)
1974The Phantom of Liberty
Director
1974The Phantom of Liberty
Writer
1974The Phantom of Liberty
Sound Effects
1974
The Young and the Damned
Screenplay
1950The Young and the Damned
Director
1950
Johnny Got His Gun
Writer
1971
Diary of a Chambermaid
Director
1964Diary of a Chambermaid
Writer
1964Diary of a Chambermaid
Editor
1964
Un Chien Andalou
Man in Prologue (uncredited)
1929Un Chien Andalou
Screenplay
1929Un Chien Andalou
Producer
1929Un Chien Andalou
Editor
1929Un Chien Andalou
Director
1929
Siren of the Tropics
Assistant Director
1927
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Writer
1955The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Director
1955
L'Âge d'or
(uncredited)
1930L'Âge d'or
Director
1930L'Âge d'or
Editor
1930L'Âge d'or
Original Music Composer
1930L'Âge d'or
Screenplay
1930
Viridiana
Screenplay
1962Viridiana
Editor
1962Viridiana
Director
1962
Tristana
Director
1970Tristana
Producer
1970Tristana
Screenplay
1970
The Proud and the Beautiful
Smuggler (uncredited)
1953
Montparnasse
1929
The Monk
Screenplay
1972
Robinson Crusoe
Screenplay
1954Robinson Crusoe
Director
1954
A Woman Without Love
Director
1952A Woman Without Love
Screenplay
1952
Buñuel
Self
1984
Susana
Director
1951Susana
Writer
1951Susana
Editor
1951
Fever Mounts at El Pao
Director
1959Fever Mounts at El Pao
Writer
1959
The Milky Way
(voice) (uncredited)
1969The Milky Way
Director
1969The Milky Way
Writer
1969The Milky Way
Original Music Composer
1969
That Is the Dawn
Director
1956That Is the Dawn
Writer
1956
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2017
Death in the Garden
Director
1956Death in the Garden
Screenplay
1956
Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Director
1954Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Editor
1954
The Brute
Writer
1953The Brute
Director
1953
Daughter of Deceit
Director
1951
Eating Sea Urchins
Director
2000
Simon of the Desert
Director
1965Simon of the Desert
Dialogue
1965Simon of the Desert
Screenplay
1965Simon of the Desert
Story
1965
The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel
Original Story
2017
Si usted no puede, yo sí
Writer
1951
Nazarín
Screenplay
1959Nazarín
Director
1959
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Fall of the House of Usher
Adaptation
1928The Fall of the House of Usher
Writer
1928The Fall of the House of Usher
Assistant Director
1928
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2018
Who Loves Me?
Production Director
1936Who Loves Me?
Screenplay
1936Who Loves Me?
Co-Director
1936
Spain 1936
Screenplay
1937Spain 1936
Producer
1937Espagne 1937
Production Manager
1938
Land Without Bread
Director
1933Land Without Bread
Producer
1933Land Without Bread
Editor
1933Land Without Bread
Screenplay
1933
The River and Death
Writer
1954The River and Death
Director
1954
Belle Toujours
Thanks
2006
Mauprat
Monk / Guardsman
1926Mauprat
Production Assistant
1926
Speaking of Buñuel
Self (archive footage)
2000
Wuthering Heights
Director
1954Wuthering Heights
Adaptation
1954Wuthering Heights
Story
1954
Él
Adaptation
1953Él
Director
1953Él
Screenplay
1953
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Self (archive footage)
1998
Weeping for a Bandit
El verdugo
1964
There Are No Thieves in This Village
1965
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Self (archive footage)
2025
Mexican Bus Ride
Director
1952Mexican Bus Ride
Adaptation
1952
Short Cuts: “The Diary of a Chambermaid” by Luis Buñuel
Original Film Writer
2026
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
2020
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Self
1984
Buñuel in Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2000
A Play About Remembering and Dying
Novel
1984
A Mexican Buñuel
Self (archival)
1997
The Daughter of Juan Simón
Production Director
1935
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Self (archive footage)
2010
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Self (archive footage)
2015
La novia de medianoche
Screenplay
1997
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
Self
1964
The Great Madcap
Director
1949
Fall of a Body
Un invité (uncredited)
1973
Don Quintin the Bitter
Screenplay
1935Don Quintin the Bitter
Producer
1935
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Self
1971
Paco, mi padre
1992
Guard! Alert!
Production Director
1937Guard! Alert!
Co-Director
1937
Gran Casino
Director
1947
Constel·lació Portabella
(archive footage)
2024tvSSFBM EHKL
Himself (archive footage)
2001
Carmen
Contrebandier chez lillas pastia
1926Carmen
Assistant Director
1926