The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
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.
Genres
Comedy
Studio
Greenwich Film Production
Language
fr
Status
Released
How The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie performed
Budget
$800,000
Worldwide Gross
$103,230
Gross Profit
−$696,770
Return
0.1× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$15K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Don Rafael
Fernando Rey
Don Rafael
Simone Thévenot
Delphine Seyrig
Simone Thévenot
François Thévenot
Paul Frankeur
François Thévenot
Alice Sénéchal
Stéphane Audran
Alice Sénéchal
Florence
Bulle Ogier
Florence
Henri Sénéchal
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Henri Sénéchal
Monsignor Dufour
Julien Bertheau
Monsignor Dufour
Colonel
Claude Piéplu
Colonel
Interior Minister
Michel Piccoli
Interior Minister
Inspector Delecluze
François Maistre
Inspector Delecluze
Police Sergeant
Pierre Maguelon
Police Sergeant
Sergeant Recounting Dream
Maxence Mailfort
Sergeant Recounting Dream
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