L'Âge d'or

L'Âge d'or (The Golden Age, 1930) is a surrealist provocation by Luis Buñuel that you can watch online on iFILM. Co-written with Salvador Dalí, the film caused an immediate uproar in Paris — within weeks of its premiere, authorities banned screenings and seized prints, locking it away for nearly half a century.

In 60 minutes of sharp, unsettling vignettes, a man and a woman burn with desire for each other and are blocked at every turn — by their families, the Church, and the orderly machinery of bourgeois society. Buñuel isn't building a plot; he's dismantling the polite fictions that keep desire in check, and the result is genuinely uncomfortable even now. Priests, aristocrats, and bureaucrats come off as the real lunatics. A cornerstone of avant-garde cinema, it holds up as one of the sharpest satirical films ever made. Stream L'Âge d'or (1930) online on iFILM.