Kiss of the Spider Woman

About Kiss of the Spider Woman

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs.

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a 1985 drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. It runs 120 minutes and was released in July 1985.

William Hurt stars as Luis Molina, Raúl Juliá as Valentin Arregui, Sonia Braga as Leni Lamaison, and José Lewgoy as Warden. Written by Leonard Schrader. It was produced by Island Pictures. It is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under male homosexuality, homophobia, LGBT, and gay theme. In the United States it streams on Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV channel, and HBO Max.

Kiss of the Spider Woman, Milk, and The Imitation Game make useful companions to Kiss of the Spider Woman. It scores 7.0 out of 10 from 358 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.