FILM DIRECTOR

Luis Buñuel

1900 - 1983

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Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish and Mexican 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Buñuel has received more than 2,773,942 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Luis Buñuel is the 14th most popular film director (up from 15th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Spain (down from 37th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Film Director.

Luis Buñuel is most famous for his surrealist films, including L'Age d'Or (1930), Un Chien Andalou (1929), and La Belle et la Bête (1946).

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Luis Buñuels by language

Over the past year Luis Buñuel has had the most page views in the with 301,941 views, followed by Spanish (194,791), and French (91,126). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (107.98%), Cornish (97.93%), and Cantonese (91.81%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Luis Buñuel ranks 14 out of 2,041. Before him are Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Sergei Eisenstein. After him are Andrei Tarkovsky, Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, Luchino Visconti, François Truffaut, and Sergio Leone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Luis Buñuel ranks 6. Before him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Heinrich Himmler, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Erich Fromm, and Martin Bormann. After him are Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Heinrich Müller, and Adolf Dassler. Among people deceased in 1983, Luis Buñuel ranks 5. Before him are Louis de Funès, Joan Miró, Garrincha, and Leopold III of Belgium. After him are Umberto II of Italy, Hergé, Idris of Libya, Jon Brower Minnoch, Felix Bloch, Tennessee Williams, and Meyer Lansky.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Luis Buñuel ranks 39 out of 3,355. Before him are Philip III of Spain (1578), Anne of Austria (1601), Saint Dominic (1170), Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476), Isidore of Seville (560), and Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886). After him are Charles III of Spain (1716), Pope Callixtus III (1379), Joan Fuster (1922), Montserrat Caballé (1933), Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100), and Arcadius (377).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Spain

Among film directors born in Spain, Luis Buñuel ranks 1. After him are Pedro Almodóvar (1949), Carlos Saura (1932), Jesús Franco (1930), Víctor Erice (1940), Bigas Luna (1946), Juan Antonio Bardem (1922), Vicente Aranda (1926), Néstor Almendros (1930), Luis García Berlanga (1921), Segundo de Chomón (1871), and Fernando Trueba (1955).

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Filmography

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Director
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Sep 15o 19727.543 / 10
Belle de Jour
Director
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
May 24o 19677.403 / 10
Un Chien Andalou
Director
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Jun 5o 19297.47 / 10