What is The House of Flowers about?
A wealthy matriarch tries to maintain her family's facade of perfection after her husband's mistress exposes their dirty secrets.
The House of Flowers (2018)
A wealthy matriarch battles to uphold her family's perfect facade amidst darkly comic, intimate chaos.
Melancholy and campy, with dark satire. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Netflix.
The House of Flowers parents guide
Moderate sex and nudity, and some violence, about what a TV-MA should carry.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Cast and crew
Created byManolo Caro
StarringAislinn Derbez, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Arturo Ríos, Paco León, Cecilia Suárez, Juan Pablo Medina
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