La promesa (2004)

Director
Héctor Carré

Main cast
Carmen Maura; Ana Fernández; Juan Margallo; Santiago Barón; Evaristo Calvo

Genres
Horror, Thriller

Description
A psychological thriller about an obsessive compulsive, deeply religious woman who flees her abusive husband and accepts a nanny position for a weatlhy family in a different town. The woman's state of mind is extremely fragile, and is made worse by her visits to a Gothic church where things are not as they seem


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