The Brute (Spanish: El Bruto) is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and starring Pedro Armendáriz and Katy Jurado.

Impoverished tenants are being evicted from their block of flats by their elderly landlord, Cabrera, who wants to build a house on the site for himself.

The tenants refuse to leave, so the landlord, at the prompting of his young wife, Paloma, tells his strongest slaughterhouse worker, Pedro, known as El Bruto, to get rid of the ringleaders.

Starting the campaign, Pedro punches one of the ringleaders, the father of Meche, and kills the sick man unintentionally.

He falls in love with her despite her initial rejection, and faces divided loyalties as the landlord treats him like a son.