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Prayers for the Stolen

Prayers for the Stolen

7,6 /10 (190 Votes)
2021 ES 110 min

Overview

Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.

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Release date

16/09/2021

Votes

190

Popularity

1.2

Find the light in the darkness.

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Status

Released

Original title

Noche de fuego

Language

ES

Runtime

110 min

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badelf

2023-02-12

⭐ 7

It seems like the English title was created just to pull at the heart strings - That was totally unnecessary. The acting is really impressive. We've spent a huge amount of time in Mexico (due to the pandemic). This story is a truth in some areas of Mexico. It is a heart-breaking, real-life, horror story. It is a fact that some villagers do not escape this horror.

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-04-16

⭐ 7

Yikes but this is quite a difficult film to watch. It's centred around three teenage girls who live amidst the poppy fields of Mexico. "Ana" (Maria Membreño) "Paula" (Alejandro Camacho) and "Maria" (Giselle Barrera Sánchez) try to live their lives as normally as they can, but the fact that their school teacher is leaving because he won't pay protection money to the drug pedlars gives us some indication of the society in which they live. Indeed, it's this teacher who raises the issue of a missing girl - and that enlightens us to the fact that once they reach a certain age, these young women hav…

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