Possession (1981)

Possession rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.2/10· 56K votes

Rotten Tomatoes87%

Metacritic75%

TMDb7.327/10· 1K votes

With 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.2/10 on IMDb and 75/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Possession

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Cast of Possession

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  Isabelle Adjani

  as Anna / Helen

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  Sam Neill

  as Mark

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  Margit Carstensen

  as Margit Gluckmeister

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  Heinz Bennent

  as Heinrich

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  Johanna Hofer

  as Heinrich's Mother

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  Carl Duering

  as Private Detective

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  Shaun Lawton

  as Zimmermann

• M

  Michael Hogben

  as Bob

• M

  Maximilian Rüthlein

  as Man with Pink Socks

• T

  Thomas Frey

  as Pink Sock's Acolyte

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  Leslie Malton

  as Sara

• G

  Gerd Neubert

  as Subway Drunk

Possession facts

Budget

$2.4M

Box office

$1.2M