May 3, 1971
Release Date

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The Glass Ceiling (1971)

Name: The Glass Ceiling
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1971-05-03

1h 32m

Running Time

May 3, 1971
Release Date

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Plot.

A lonely housewife hears a man’s footsteps in the apartment above her late at night. The upstairs neighbor insists it is her husband who has returned from business but her explanations are soon contradicted. The woman begins to think her neighbor has murdered her husband.

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Details.

Release Date
May 3, 1971

Original Name
El techo de cristal

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 32m

Genres
Horror Mystery Thriller

Last updated: 2025-02-10

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Wiki.

The Glass Ceiling (Spanish:El techo de cristal) is a 1971 psychological thriller film, written and directed by Eloy de la Iglesia. It stars Carmen Sevilla, Dean Selmier and Patty Shepard.

The plot follows a bored housewife who begins to suspect that her upstairs neighbor killed her invalid husband. Sevilla won a major award in her home country (the Cinema Writers Circle Award) for this performance.

The film is somewhat inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) and the paranoia classic George Cukor's Gaslight (1944). The film was a commercial success.