
Acting
Elsa Daniel
Born — Died
1936-11-13 — 2017-06-25
Place of birth
San Lorenzo, Santa Fe, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
26 titles
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.
Known for
7.5Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion.
The Furies
1960
6.5A 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Comedia rota
1978
6.5Stories about a group of young people who spend a week at a coastal resort.
Los inconstantes
1963
8.5A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Vida nocturna
1955
6.5A woman uncovers the secret of her aunt's withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.
The Hand in the Trap
1961
Film credits
1970s · 4 titles
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Comedia rota
1978
9.0Several 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
7.7Some years from the life of a neighborhood tough in Buenos Aires around 1915.
Amalio Reyes, un hombre
1970
8.0A military from Salta returns with unitary troops to his province and must surround the stay of a federal supporter
La balada del regreso
1974
1960s · 13 titles
7.5Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion.
The Furies
1960
6.5Stories about a group of young people who spend a week at a coastal resort.
Los inconstantes
1963
6.5A woman uncovers the secret of her aunt's withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her.
The Hand in the Trap
1961
9.5An intelligent look at the absurdity of love, prostitution and money.
Enough with Sex!
1968
4.3The 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
8.0In a couple who travel to Córdoba for their honeymoon, the folklore enchants her and bores him.
Cosquín, amor y folklore
1965
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La novia
1961
NRA boxer's dream of fighting in the Luna Park stadium and the interests surrounding this sport.
Luna Park
1960
8.0A group of tourists travel Buenos Aires by bus.
Viaje de una noche de verano
1965
8.0The romance between a nuclear physicist and a translator for the United Nations.
Un momento muy largo
1964
6.3Aniceto 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
7.5A 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
6.0A profiteer pretends to be a psychoanalyst to conquer women with sexual trauma.
Psexoanálisis
1968
1950s · 8 titles
8.5A cabaret in Buenos Aires on Christmas night.
Vida nocturna
1955
7.0No synopsis available yet.
El juramento de Lagardere
1955
7.2A 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
9.0A girl teenager pretends to be a woman to conquer a drunk french actor.
Un centavo de mujer
1958
6.6A 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
7.0Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.
El abuelo
1954
8.3A 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
4.5A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.
Isla brava
1958
