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Secret Ceremony (1968)

Secret Ceremony poster
Directed by
Joseph Losey
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 68 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A poor prostitute meets a peculiar young woman who believes she is her mother. The two form a strange bond in an isolated house.

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What happens

Secret Ceremony is a 1968 British psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum. Based on the 1960 novel Ceremonia secreta by Argentine author Marco Denevi, the film follows an indigent prostitute who meets a strange young girl who insists that she is her long-lost mother. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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