Juan Luis Buñuel

Directing

Juan Luis Buñuel

Born 1934-11-09 · Paris, France

Juan Luis Buñuel (9 November 1934, Paris – 6 December 2017, Paris) was a film and television director, screenwriter, and actor. His films include Expulsion of the Devil (Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse, 1973) and La Femme aux bottes rouges (1974). Buñuel was the son of the filmmaker Luis Buñuel. Buñuel's son Diego also became a filmmaker. After his career in film, he tried out sculpting. Source: Article "Juan Luis Buñuel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Henry & June poster
6.0

While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.

Henry & June

1990

Buñuel poster
6.0

Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain’s renowned Surrealist film maker and iconoclast, Luis Buñuel. Using photographs, film excerpts, and numerous interviews with Bunuel, the video chronicles his early friendships with Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca, the stormy reactions to many of his groundbreaking films, and the influence he has had on international cinema. Among those interviewed are directors Federico Fellini, John Huston, and Jose L. Saenz De Heredia; Buñuel’s wife, Jeanne Rucar, and son Juan; actor Francisco Rabal; and Octavio Paz.

Buñuel

1984

The Milky Life poster
3.6

Retired billionaire, Rooney, feels his family loves only his money and not him. He plans to live as an adult baby with his wet nurse, Sagebrecht. When thieves break into his mansion and hit him on the head, he starts to grow younger.

The Milky Life

1993

Money Money Money poster
6.7

When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.

Money Money Money

1972

Buñuel in Hollywood poster
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This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Aragonese filmmaker stays in the U.S., the characters he met, the films he made and he could never do. The program also includes new material-unpublished until 2012 - the Aragonese director filmed in the U.S. in the early 1940s and where he can be seen playing one of their children or enjoying a short holiday in a cottage.

Buñuel in Hollywood

2000

Familiarities poster
6.7

Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.

Familiarities

1969

The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel poster
5.7

A loosely chronological visual “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Luis Buñuel.

The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel

2008

Los chicos de la foto poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Los chicos de la foto

2014

Les paradoxes de Buñuel poster
9.0

Famed film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is the subject of this French documentary, with anecdotal interviews edited thematically into sections highlighting Bunuel's contradictions --"Surrealist and Moralist," "Iconoclast and Traditionalist," "Sadist and Sentimentalist."

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

1998

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote

2000

Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves poster
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Based on unpublished interviews with the family, Jean-Claude Carrière, his writer and biographer, family archives, mini-fictions that dramatize the memories evoked and in constant echo with the upcoming films whose images seem to crystallize over the narrative, we wish to reinterpret Luis Buñuel's work through these decisive years, revealing hidden coherence, originality and beauty.

Luis Buñuel, la transgression des rêves

2018

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10.0

The documentary feature containing an interview with Bunuel's son: Juan-Luis.

A Slice of Buñuel

2014

Behind the camera

La rebelión de los colgados poster
6.5

The drama of the Indians of tropical Mexico in the early twentieth century. The Rebellion of the Hanged is the intense story of the rise of the oppressed pawns and their struggle to achieve freedom and independence.

La rebelión de los colgados

1986

The Woman with Red Boots poster
5.6

An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.

The Woman with Red Boots

1974

The Woman with Red Boots poster
5.6

An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.

The Woman with Red Boots

1974

Leonor poster
5.7

Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.

Leonor

1975

Leonor poster
5.7

Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.

Leonor

1975

At the Meeting with Joyous Death poster
5.3

The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the paranormal phenomena

At the Meeting with Joyous Death

1973

At the Meeting with Joyous Death poster
5.3

The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the paranormal phenomena

At the Meeting with Joyous Death

1973

The Orinoco Dam poster
6.7

After the accidental death of her husband, Dominique Vallorie agrees to take over the construction of an important dam on the Orinoco River. She does not know that by accepting to go to Venezuela, her life as a woman and engineer will change. Through a great love story she will assert herself despite all the pitfalls on the way.

The Orinoco Dam

1996

Les paradoxes de Buñuel poster
9.0

Famed film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) is the subject of this French documentary, with anecdotal interviews edited thematically into sections highlighting Bunuel's contradictions --"Surrealist and Moralist," "Iconoclast and Traditionalist," "Sadist and Sentimentalist."

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

1998

No artwork available
7.0

"A film by Juan-Luis Buñuel shot in 1964 documenting Calanda, the Spanish town where his father Luis Buñuel was born. The people of Calanda, during the Easter week, play the drums without cease for twenty-four hours." - Luis Buñuel Film Institute

Calanda

1967