Luis Buneul, an influential director from Spain, made great films. Sometimes they are shown on cable, and are not to be missed. Many of his best were filmed in Mexico. He started making them in the 1920's, and continued through the late 1970's with That Discreet Object of Desire. He could work with avante garde, was the fouder of surrealism in film, still tell great stories, and more all in the same film.

The German expressionist films, from the 1920's and even before, were a big influence on Buneul - and also worth checking out.