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
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
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
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
Leonor (1975)
A female vampire rises from her crypt every night in search of children as her victims
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style
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
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
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
During World War I, a patriotic young American 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 life
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
Los Olvidados (1950)
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
The delirious journey of a mentally disordered man, who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime
The Monk (1972)
Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monks robes
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
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
¡Centinela, alerta! (1937)
A girl, left pregnant by a seducer, sets off to look for him when the child is born
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
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,
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
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
The guests at an upper class dinner party find themselves unable to leave
An Andalusian Dog (1929)
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery