Belle de Jour (1967)
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen year old former chambermaid Conchita
La femme aux bottes rouges (1974)
After a chance meeting with avant garde writer Francoise, an elderly millionaire starts to manipulate her life, drawing in equally unsuspecting and happily married Mark Francoise however is able to recall visions of the past and to
Leonor (1975)
A female vampire rises from her crypt every night in search of children as her victims
Tristana (1970)
Shortly after her mothers death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances
The Young One (1960)
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
A sophisticated and self assured woman from Paris joins a middle class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together
LAge dOr (1930)
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
In this tragic, dark, anti war satire, a patriotic young American in WW1 is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack Trapped in whats left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his
The Monk (1972)
Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monks robes
Death in the Garden (1956)
Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond miners camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town The police also confiscate the diamond mine for the state, whi
The Milky Way (1969)
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages
Nazarín (1959)
A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor
Los Olvidados (1950)
A group of juvenile delinquents lives a violent and crime filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others
El bruto (1953)
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
The delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime
El (1953)
A husbands suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums
¡Centinela, alerta! (1937)
A girl, left pregnant by a seducer, sets off to look for him when the child is born
Viridiana (1961)
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior
Mexican Bus Ride (1952)
A newly wed country boy receives the terrible news that his mother is dying, and takes a long and dangerous bus trip to the city to contact a notary for her last will and testament Will he resist temptation and do the right thing
Simon of the Desert (1965)
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column The Devil wants him to come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him
An Andalusian Dog (1929)
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery