Dark Habits
1983 · Movie · NR · 100 min · ★ 6.6 · 64% critics
After her boyfriend dies from a drug overdose, a cabaret singer goes on the run and hides from the authorities in a convent that shelters women with troubled pasts. As she tries to stay out of sight, she must adapt to an unusual new refuge and the people who live there.
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Details
- Original title
- Entre tinieblas
- Years
- 1983
- Release date
- 1983-10-03
- Language
- Spanish
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Critic score
- 64/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (209 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a strange, darkly comic story about someone hiding out in an unexpected place, with a bold, eccentric vibe like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown or Kika; Not for you if you want a straightforward drama.
Pros: offbeat premise; darkly funny moments; unusual setting | Cons: odd tone shifts; bleak subject matter; not very subtle
Themes
- madrid, spain
- nun
- drug addiction
- drugs
- monastery
- roman catholic church
Cast & crew
Cristina Sánchez Pascual
as Yolanda Bel
Will More
as Jorge
Laura Cepeda
as Lina
Miguel Zúñiga
as Madero
Julieta Serrano
as Abadesa Julia
Marisa Paredes
as Sor Estiércol
Mary Carrillo
as Marquesa
Carmen Maura
as Sor Perdida
Lina Canalejas
as Sor Víbora
Manuel Zarzo
as Cura
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar