If you loved Ángeles con caras sucias, try El suplicio de una madre
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Michael Curtiz, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Ángeles con caras sucias, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What El suplicio de una madre is
You bake pies for the rich by day and cry into the dough at night. Your daughter wants more than the diner serves. Then a detective leaves roses on your wet apron.
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