Underplayed Gems

La madre muerta (1993)

La madre muerta poster
Directed by
Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Genre
drama film, thriller film
Country
Spain
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
18
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A mentally unstable woman is kidnapped by a man after he kills her mother. The kidnapper tries to control her while she struggles to understand what happened.

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What happens

The Dead Mother (Spanish: La madre muerta) is a 1993 Spanish drama film directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa which stars Karra Elejalde and Ana Álvarez alongside Lio and Silvia Marsó. Together with Bajo Ulloa's debut feature Butterfly Wings (1991), it contributed to the creation of an aura of cult auteur around the director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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