Luis Buñuel

Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)

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Lived 1900–1983, aged 83Spain

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#58
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Era
1900–1983
Aged 83

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Updated 2026-05-29

Surrealist filmmaker who spent decades between France, Mexico, and Spain making films that scrambled reality and politics in equal measure. Buñuel's avant-garde work shaped how cinema could be genuinely strange and genuinely pointed at once.

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Luis Buñuel Portolés 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 works are known for their avant-garde surrealism which was also infused with political commentary.

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