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The Headless Woman

2008·1h 27m·Unrated
DramaMysteryThriller
IMDb Rating
★ 6.5/10
6,230 votes
Metascore
81
Metacritic

After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.

The Headless Woman is a 2008 drama mystery movie directed by Lucrecia Martel, starring César Bordón, María Onetto, Claudia Cantero. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.5/10 from 6,230 votes and runs 1h 27m.

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Director
Lucrecia Martel
Stars
César Bordón
María Onetto
Claudia Cantero
Daniel Genoud
Creators
Lucrecia Martel
Details
2008-08-21
87 min
Movie
Unrated
★ Argentina, France, Italy, Spain
★ Spanish
Keywords
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