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The Lost City (1955)

The Lost City poster
Original title
La ciudad perdida
Directed by
Rafael María Torrecilla, Margarita Alexandre
Genre
drama film
Country
Spain
Runtime
1h 03m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Spanish woman becomes entangled with a group of terrorists in Madrid. She must navigate danger and moral choices as her life is turned upside down.

dramaticmelancholicgrittysuspensefultensevisually stark

What happens

The Lost City (Spanish: La ciudad perdida, or Terrorists in Madrid, Italian: Terroristi a Madrid) is a 1955 Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Margarita Alexandre and Rafael María Torrecilla and starring Cosetta Greco, Fausto Tozzi and María Dolores Pradera. It is an adaptation of La ciudad perdida (1953) by Spanish author Mercedes Formica. The film's sets were designed by Enrique Alarcón. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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