"The brute" in question is a working-class tough (Pedro Armendariz) hired by a Mexico City slumlord to keep the victimized tenants in line. Though effective in his methods, the intimidating enforcer goes soft for his boss's wife, complicating his job and his loyalties. This insightful drama by master filmmaker Luis Bunuel also stars Andres Soler, Katy Jurado. 83 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Spanish; Subtitles: English. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Rarely seen Luis Bunuel effort mixes "Wages of Fear"-styled thrills with the director's darkly satiric outlook on religion and human nature. After fleeing a diamond field in the Amazon, a group of misfits comes to depend on each other for survival in the jungle. The discovery of a crashed airplane sends them back to their greedy, violent ways. Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli star. AKA: "Diamond Hunters." 100 min. Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; interviews. In French with English subtitles.

Irony is written on every page of the script in Bunuel's sharply satiric drama. After would-be nun Sylvia Pinal is raped by uncle Fernando Rey, who then kills himself, she turns his estate over to a horde of derelicts, but in Bunuel's world no good deed goes unpunished. 90 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; interviews; theatrical trailer. In Spanish with English subtitles.

One of director Luis Bunuel's greatest triumphs, this daring, absurdist satire of class consciousness centers on an upper-crust dinner party whose guests discover they are unable to leave, and how the situation devolves into chaos. Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal star. 93 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; documentary; interviews; theatrical trailer. In Spanish with English subtitles. Two-disc set.

Luis Bunuel's wickedly funny satire on the mores and morals of the bourgeoisie, as seen through the eyes of a lovely servant drawn into her employers' decadent ways at their rural estate in '30s France. With Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli. 98 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; interviews; theatrical trailer. In French with English subtitles.

Luis Bunuel's acerbic featurette follows a devout Mexican who emulates St. Simon Stylites by standing atop a pillar in the desert for over six years in order to be closer to God. Satan arrives to tempt Simon, appearing as a nubile schoolgirl and Jesus, then finally taking him dancing in a 1960s discotheque. Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal star. 45 min. Standard; Soundtrack: Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; documentary; interview. In Spanish with English subtitles.

This unseen-for-years masterwork from Luis Bunuel stars Catherine Deneuve as the bourgeois wife of a surgeon who seeks a way out of her dull life through kinky fantasies and by becoming a prostitute at a local brothel. Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli and Genevieve Page co-star. 102 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers. In French with English subtitles.

Two pilgrims en route to a Spanish religious shrine take a bizarre journey through time and space, meeting such figures as Christ, the Angel of Death, and the Marquis de Sade. Though many of the people they meet have visions and revelations aplenty, their capacity for basic human decency appears sorely lacking. Luis Bunuel's surrealistic satire of religious devotion and hypocrisy stars Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff. 101 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; interview; documentary; theatrical trailer. In French with English subtitles.

Luis Bunuel's classic satire is filled with savage wit and some of the director's most surrealistic images. Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig and Stephane Audran star in this incredibly bizarre look at an elegant dinner party with a mysteriously absent host. Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Film. 101 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: French Dolby Digital stereo, Dolby Digital mono; Subtitle s: English; "making of" featurette; documentary; theatrical trailer; filmography. In French with English subtitles. Two-disc set.

Luis Bunuel's most surrealistic film, a crazy mix of vignettes that somehow mesh perfectly together with all the "logic" of a dream. Stops include a firing squad during Napoleonic times, a poker game played by monks and a nurse and a police station where a girl fills out her own missing persons report. With Michel Piccoli, Jean Rochefort and Monica Vitti. 104 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; theatrical trailer. In French with English subtitles.

Luis Bunuel's last film is a compelling, surrealist drama of a middle-aged man (Fernando Rey) and his bizarre sadomasochistic affair with a young maid whose fickle nature is depicted by having two actresses (Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina) in the role. 104 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: French Dolby Digital mono, English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; interview; theatrical trailer ; reprinted Bunuel interview; excerpts from "La Femme et le Pantin" (1929). In French with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.