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Quinto patio

1950 · 113 min

A somber, slow-moving melodrama of poverty and moral decline, played earnestly and staged with the gravity of mid-century social cinema.

Overview
Model son/employee/student is frustrated by poverty and surrenders to the temptations of a criminal lifestyle... in the same gang that twenty years earlier murdered his father OMG. Meanwhile his sister. Meanwhile his mother.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • crime
    • politics
    • corruption
    • family
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action3
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance3
    Tension5
    Darkness6
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Directed by
    Raphael J. Sevilla
    Written by
    Pedro de Urdimalas, Raphael J. Sevilla, Carlos Villatoro
    Starring
    Emilio Tuero, Emilia Guiú, Carlos López Moctezuma, Chula Prieto, Dalia Íñiguez, Bárbara Gil, José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla', Jorge Casanova
    Music
    Gonzalo Curiel
    Cinematography
    Enrique Wallace
    Runtime
    113 min
    Country
    Mexico
    Languages
    Spanish

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