The Exterminating Angel (El angel exterminador) (1962)

Name: The Exterminating Angel (El angel exterminador) (1962)
Duration: 1 h 35 min

1hr 35m

1hr 35m
4.2/5 (13.1K)
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The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. More Details »

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Director:

Luis Buñuel

Producer:

Gustavo Alatriste

Writer:

Luis Alcoriza

Runtime:

1hr 35m

Synopsis

The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.

Cast

Silvia Pinal
Jacqueline Andere
José Baviera
Augusto Benedico
Luis Beristáin
Antonio Bravo
Claudio Brook
César del Campo
Rosa Elena Durgel
Enrique Rambal

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4.2

RATINGS 1.2K FANS

4.2

Jul 22, 2020

The breaking of a basic social contract exacerbates the pretenses of wealth, reason and etiquette and shatters the entire organized, material illusion to reveal the primal cruelty and death that sustains it. "I believe the common people, the lower class people, are less…

1.3K Likes

Josh Lewis

Mar 20, 2022

If I was in this I would simply leave the room. I'm sorry those people got trapped in there but I'm different

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merritt k

Jan 10, 2017

79/100 Offers so much food for thought that it's easy to overlook what a remarkable high-wire act it represents, formally: Buñuel manages to orchestrate the activities of something like 20 people in a single room, for close to 90 minutes, without succumbing to…

675 Likes

Mike D'Angelo
Sep 19, 2017

My favorite Luis Bunuel film, and an all-time favorite in general, sees a group of upper-class elitists affected by a force they can't understand, which keeps them from leaving a fancy dinner party. Over the course of days, they head in a Lord of the Flies direction,…

594 Likes

Tasha Robinson

Aug 2, 2013

Well, I started to watch this movie, but then I got stuck in my chair and...

539 Likes

Sally Jane Black

May 11, 2025

A confusing film. Good, but confusing. It’s pure surrealism, without unnecessary excess. The story is simple, a group of high-society individuals gathers for a dinner and, for some inexplicable reason, can no longer leave the salon. But there’s something in this concept…

452 Likes

noen
Sep 12, 2025

no need to eat the rich; just lock them in a room together and they'll do it themselves.

336 Likes

mary

Mar 19, 2013

The Exterminating Angel was a Kafka-esque movie about a group of bourgeoisies who meet up for a dinner party and find themselve psychologically trapped in one of the large house’s room. Quickly as they realize their entrapment, the refined patrons quickly disseminate…

318 Likes

Ben Sheetz

Oct 9, 2017

i wanna program a film series called 'mother! superior' with good movies mother! wishes it were. this would be the centerpiece.

288 Likes

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Jacob Hall disliked

The Exterminating Angel

I have turned off maybe 7 movies mid-way in my life for being so boring that it's unbearable, and 2 of them were Bunuel movies. I just don't get it. I love surrealism but this kind of surrealism is cheap and boring to me.

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Eye Cinc liked

The Exterminating Angel

Un interesante pero bizarro experimento social que prende al espectador más por enterarse de qué está pasando que por otra cosa. Las actuaciones van de lo regular a algunas buenas, pero no es lo que sobresale.

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yourmom loved

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He visto esto 538 veces intentando entender qué rayos pasa LANSKAKSN nunca lo logro

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Daniella loved

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Just wow. What a trip..

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The Exterminating Angel

me corro tela

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