Elsa Daniel

Acting

Elsa Daniel

Born 1936-11-13 · San Lorenzo, Santa Fe, Argentina

Elsa Daniel, born Elsa Nilda Gómez Scapatti (1936-2017), was an Argentine film actress. She is best remembered for being the protagonist in almost all of director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's series of gothic films. Alongside María Vaner, she was the female face of Argentina's cinematic renovation during the 60s.

Acting credits

La caída poster
6.6

A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave what he refers to as "that lunatic asylum."

La caída

1959

Los inconstantes poster
6.5

Stories about a group of young people who spend a week at a coastal resort.

Los inconstantes

1963

The Furies poster
7.5

Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion.

The Furies

1960

Comedia rota poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Comedia rota

1978

La novia poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La novia

1961

Comandos azules poster
6.5

A parallel police group attends a scientific conference and goes into action. Their mission: disrupt a gang of criminals that rob a memory bank.

Comandos azules

1980

Vida nocturna poster
8.5

A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.

Vida nocturna

1955

Cosquín, amor y folklore poster
8.0

In a couple who travel to Córdoba for their honeymoon, the folklore enchants her and bores him.

Cosquín, amor y folklore

1965

Enough with Sex! poster
9.5

An intelligent look at the absurdity of love, prostitution and money.

Enough with Sex!

1968

Los chantas poster
9.0

Several losers living together in a Buenos Aires boarding house try to make a living while dreaming of a big life-changing score.

Los chantas

1975

The Hand in the Trap poster
6.5

This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.

The Hand in the Trap

1961

The Games Men Play poster
4.3

The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.

The Games Men Play

1963

Psexoanálisis poster
6.0

A profiteer pretends to be a psychoanalyst to conquer women with sexual trauma.

Psexoanálisis

1968

Graciela poster
8.3

A small town girl arrives in the city to study literature and philosophy, she stays in a house inhabited by a family in decline.

Graciela

1956

The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca poster
6.3

Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.

The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca

1967

El abuelo poster
7.0

Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.

El abuelo

1954

Luna Park poster
NR

A boxer's dream of fighting in the Luna Park stadium and the interests surrounding this sport.

Luna Park

1960

La balada del regreso poster
8.0

A military from Salta returns with unitary troops to his province and must surround the stay of a federal supporter

La balada del regreso

1974

Isla brava poster
4.5

A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.

Isla brava

1958

El juramento de Lagardere poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

El juramento de Lagardere

1955

Primero yo poster
7.5

A charming racecar driver is visited by his 20-year-old son who is nothing like his father. Solemn and introverted, the boy is shown the ways of sensual pleasure by his father's mistress, but he falls in love with another young woman. Intending to marry the girl, the young man takes the relationship very seriously. His father, however, believes the boy should have a more carefree lifestyle and decides to intervene by seducing his own son's fiance. This action proves to be a tremendous mistake.

Primero yo

1963

Viaje de una noche de verano poster
8.0

A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.

Viaje de una noche de verano

1965

The House of the Angel poster
7.2

A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forcibly kept innocent of the sexual nuances of some adult relationships, she is not too clear on her rights, his intentions, or the consequences when her father's best friend starts to lust after her.

The House of the Angel

1957

Un momento muy largo poster
8.0

The romance between a nuclear physicist and a translator for the United Nations.

Un momento muy largo

1964