Luis Buñuel

Known for: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Luis Buñuel made his first film, Un Chien Andalou (1929), in collaboration with Salvador Dalí, and it remains one of the founding documents of Surrealist art. He worked in Spain, France, and Mexico across a career spanning five decades before his late masterworks — The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) — returned him to Paris. He combined contempt for bourgeois convention and organized religion with a formal rigor that distinguished him from his Surrealist contemporaries.