Nazarin

Luis Bunuel's NAZARIN is a stunning work of philosophy and theology about the downfall of a selfless priest who tries to live strictly according to the precepts of Christ. The film won the Palme d'or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1900 Mexico, a Roman Catholic priest named Nazario (Francisco Rabal) lives and works in a slum house, surviving on alms. He befriends a woman named Beatriz (Marga Lopez), who tried to hang herself after her lover, El Pinto (Noe Murayama), left her, and a prostitute named Andara (Rita Macedo), who hides out with Nazario after she kills another prostitute in a knife fight. When another tenant informs the police that Nazario is hidi...