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His surrealist films like 'Viridiana' and 'The Milky Way' obsessively deconstruct religious hypocrisy and critique the Catholic Church through darkly comedic and provocative imagery.

His austere masterpieces 'Vampyr' and 'Gertrud' explore spiritual torment and faith with profound visual austerity, while 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' examines clergy and institutional religion with devastating emotional depth.

His films like 'The Canterbury Tales' and 'Arabian Nights' blend religious symbolism with transgressive content, while 'Teorema' uses a mysterious visitor to interrogate faith, morality, and the clergy's spiritual authority.