Strangers () is a 1999 Spanish psychological drama film directed by Imanol Uribe starring Carmelo Gómez, MarÃÂa Casal, and Ingrid Rubio.
Private investigator Goya Lamarca is hired to investigate SofÃÂa's behaviour by the latter's husband after the disclosure of the suicide note of SofÃÂa's mother.
Strangers is loosely based on the novel La soledad era esto by Juan José Millás. As the script revisions increasingly diverged from the original work, Millás asked not to be credited in the film. The film was produced by Enrique Cerezo PC and it had the participation of TVE. worked as set decorator.
Distributed by United International Pictures (UIP), the film was released theatrically in Spain on 9 April 1999.
Jonathan Holland of Variety assessed that the "initially intriguing psychodrama" "falls apart after an hour when labyrinthine mind games start to swamp the action".