Deep Crimson (1996)

Original title

Profundo carmesí

Directed by

Arturo Ripstein

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

18

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 48 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A lonely, overweight nurse falls for a con man who seduces women through lonely hearts ads. Together they rob and kill the women he charms.

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What happens

Deep Crimson (Spanish: Profundo carmesí) is a 1996 Mexican crime film directed by Arturo Ripstein, written by Paz Alicia Garciadiego and starring Regina Orozco and Daniel Giménez Cacho. Like The Honeymoon Killers before it, the film is a dramatization of the story of "Lonely Hearts Killers", Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who committed a string of murders of women in the 1940s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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