I happened on this 2011 Spanish film while browsing the zillions of films under various "If you liked that, you might like these" headings that Netflix/Prime Video/AppleTV/etc. now feature.
You could spend your whole evening just virtually wandering through all those TV movie and show listings.
Anyway, I added the movie to "My Stuff" and decided to have a look last night.
One great thing about streaming is that you don't feel obliged to sit there and watch the whole thing like in the old days when you bought a ticket at the theater and paid $5 for a box of Whoppers guaranteed to make you wish you'd instead bought Raisinets or Nonpareils (oops, I'm dating myself).
Even if you paid to rent the film, it's not all that painful to abandon it after 10-15 minutes when you're sitting at home all comfy, because you can just go back into the listings and try something else.
Long story short: I rented "The Hidden Face" on Prime Video for $3.99 (same price on YouTube) and it turned out to be very good.
In Spanish with English subtitles, featuring three excellent Spanish actors none of whom I'd ever seen nor heard of and — bonus: 97 minutes long!
The joy when movies are around an hour and half long compared to the increasingly common drawn out contemporary releases that go over two hours, sometimes over two and a half hours... get an editor!
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