Las pirañas

Las pirañas

1967 · 98 min · ★ 6.4 · Comedy

Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife Carmen, an attractive housewife without children, feels ignored by him and seeks solace from her mother, who proposes Carmen a change in the way she acts in order to not permanently lose her husband or fall into madness.

Directed by Luis García Berlanga · Written by Luis García Berlanga

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